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On 30/04/2020 06:04, Rafal wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 12:51 AM
Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat <<a
href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org"
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px
0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi
Keith. I think atheism is, as you say, "a lack of religion
rather<br>
than a religion" in non-militant atheists. But in those militant<br>
atheists who passionately want to convert others, and even more
so in<br>
those militant atheists who discriminate against believers in
academy,<br>
culture, media etc., atheism becomes a religion, and of the
worst<br>
kind.</blockquote>
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<div>### Militant atheism might fill up the god-shaped hole some
people have in their minds, thus taking the place of religion as
a focus of social and organized activity, but it still is not a
religion. Same with communism, environmentalism or social
justice - they are mental constructs that organize the activity
of many people, just like religions, but although they may
replace religion in their minds, they are not religions
themselves.</div>
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Could anyone who feels the desire to use the term 'militant
atheist/atheism', please at least read this before they do so?<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Militant_atheism">https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Militant_atheism</a><br>
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In particular, the part about the term promoting a double-standard?<br>
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Derogation is fair enough, but I do object to misrepresentation.<br>
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Being outspoken is not militancy. If it were, every church and
religious apologist would be a militant, and it would be more
difficult to distinguish between people who talk a lot about their
convictions, and people who shoot (and bomb, and behead, etc.) a lot
about them.<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Ben Zaiboc</pre>
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