Reply #17: "Dogmatic atheist?"

[Warpy]

It seems you're engaging in exactly the same fallacious and derogatory attack described in the OP.

After all, what is atheist dogma? Where is it written? Where are the priests to enforce its adherence?

Aren't you complaining rather that atheists refuse to be put into a box and to suffer attempts at proselytizing silently and with a smile? Aren't you really annoyed that atheists refuse to give you lip service so you can be more comfortable in your set of beliefs?

There is no such thing as a dogmatic atheist, it's just one more variation on the theme of fundamentalist or evangelical atheists--another ad hominem.

Perhaps referring to the anger of the newly minted atheist might be more in order, anger that comes from feeling one has been misled from childhood by people who were supposed to be trustworthy. Those of us who were raised in religious households all experienced that anger at some point and were probably rather unpleasant at the time. It passed, though.

However, we still had no dogma to cling to, no savior to evangelize, and no holy writ to give us fundamentals.

Please reconsider such incendiary and demeaning language.