This for me is what it means to be human and atheist.
On Sunday, in the Wall Street Journal online, writer Dave Shiflett penned an opinion piece about the upcoming American Atheists convention in Salt Lake City, Utah — on Thursday, in fact: “
Where Atheists Meet to Evangelize: Telling believers they are rubes may not be the best recruitment strategy
.”
Frankly, I’m still not sure what to make of it. I don’t know what Mr. Shiflett’s personal religious views are, but his article contains a number of mordant jabs. “… deity-dissing group,” he calls American Atheists at one point.
“… suggesting that the uninitiated are delusional and feeble-minded might not be the wisest way to expand your brand.”
I’m reminded of what Julia Sweeney reports in Letting Go of God, what her mother says in a phone call after Julia is accidentally outed to them: “Everyone knows that there are those fewpeople out there who don’t believe in God, but they…
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