[ExI] Aggressive Atheism, by Pat Condell

[Stefano Vaj]

2009/12/5 Shannon <shannonvyff at yahoo.com>:
> Thank you for your illustration of empathy and the proper way to treat a
> religious friend or family member. One thing I've seen in the older kids I
> taught in Sunday School in Austin (the middle school aged kids) was that a
> few of them where very mad at religious kids in their schools, they wanted
> to debate them and basically show them how silly they were.

The modern Western culture is quite sold on the idea of "objective
Truth" - which in turn has monotheistic roots, but easily extends to
some kinds of atheism - and evades the idea of identities, worldviews
and fundamental choices.

This in turn makes for a status of "obviousness" of one's own ideas
and values, and a radical lack of perspective.

In this respect, I think that reading Nietzsche's Antichrist is a much
more fascinating experience for a young christian than watching a film
like Religolous, with its much eye-rotating and politically correct
scandal and mock suprise face to monotheistic beliefs that only preach
to the choir (and probably bore to death even the latter).

-- 
Stefano Vaj