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edhopper

(33,556 posts)
19. Inventing a schism where none exists.
Mon Apr 16, 2012, 09:40 AM
Apr 2012

And can he be more insulting:
"But there was far more agreement than disagreement, especially with their common distaste for religious and atheist fundamentalism. 'I find fanaticism hard to take,' said O'Collins. Adams mentioned with a degree of pride: 'I've fallen out of favour with many Australian atheists because I'm not sufficiently Dawkinsonian.'

In view of the natural bond between Adams and O'Collins, it seems there could also be an affinity between the one-eyed Dawkinsonians at the Global Atheist Convention and fundamentalist believers of all religious faiths. It's a pity that they are more likely to engage in fistfights than dialogue. Or maybe not."

And he quotes another insulting, ridiculous article from someone who prejudges this convention to back him up.

He lauds the respect one atheist gave to a theologian who wrote a book about the proof of Jesus' resurrection (an assumption that should be vigorously challenged) and then shows a complete absence of repsct for atheist.

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