The goals of atheist activism

[deacon_sephiroth]

3. that's a hell of a statement

I'll give you that people certainly seem prone to wish-thinking, delusion and make-belive, that we are pattern seeking animals, and would often rather be TOLD what to think rather than think for ourselves, but what reason would be have to advocate any of that?

Just because we're easily given to such vices doesn't mean they shouldn't be discouraged. There's a great many things that seem innate to human nature that must be shunned by society, controlled by the individual and overcome as a species in generations to come. I list dogmatism and irrationalism among them, personally.