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Modern atheism increasingly looks more like a personality disorder than an intellectual movement. Unlike the secular philosophers of old, who at least bothered to grasp the fundamentals of the religion they rejected, many today have little to no grasp of the basics at best, frequently site contorted or distorted \u2018facts\u2019 to justify their beliefs at worst. Add to this the type of evangelistic zeal that, when practiced by fundamentalists of a religious nature, is immediately condemned with scorn and ridicule, and you have a group of people guaranteed to make your average flower wilt from the weight of their lack of self righteousness. Not that there aren\u2019t good, thoughtful, insightful atheists. There are. They just don\u2019t have the best selling books and, lacking the hatred for the right religions to hate, fail to get the appropriate media attention. Nonetheless, when you read about atheists trying figure out in a calm manner just how obnoxious they should be<\/a>, it must be clear that we\u2019re dealing with a group that sounds great to itself, and stunningly unaware of itself to everyone else.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Modern atheism increasingly looks more like a personality disorder than an intellectual movement. Unlike the secular philosophers of old, who at least bothered to grasp the fundamentals of the religion they rejected, many today have little to no grasp of the basics at best, frequently site contorted or distorted \u2018facts\u2019 to justify their beliefs at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nAtheist fundamentalists on how to proselytize<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Modern atheism increasingly looks more like a personality disorder than an intellectual movement. 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