I've been reading the responses to my recent posts and must say that asking atheists to present a positive argument on behalf of atheism must constitute a request for atheists to perform an impossible thing. The atheists who have responded have represented atheism in the worst possible manner.
I suppose that the atheists are attempting to upset or offend me but that is a very difficult thing to do because I spend my time thinking about more positive things:
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I couldn't live in this manner if I was at all concerned about the unhappiness and misery which humankind perpetually self-inflicts upon itself. Happiness and peace are uncommon on the Earth because humankind chooses to live in a sorrowful and violent manner.
I must remind the atheists that at the outset of this discussion my criticism of atheism was provoked by the prejudice and bigotry of atheists against Muslims which the intellectual leaders of atheism exploited for the sake of promoting irrational fear and warfare in alliance with the George W. Bush administration , an alliance of such great sincerity that these same atheists continue to act as advocates and apologists for the George W. Bush administration to this day.
I documented the prejudice-pandering, fearmongering and warmongering of atheism's intellectual leaders and the atheists objected since they claimed that the intellectual atheists don't speak for atheism.
However, since that time, I have subjected atheism to extremely mild criticism and this has provoked a barrage of hate-speech, prejudice, bigotry and anger from the non-intellectual atheists who have responded.
So I have demonstrated the following:
The prejudice and bigotry expressed by atheism's intellectual leaders are parroted by atheism's non-intellectual followers.
I would go so far to say:
Prejudice and bigotry are as vital to atheism as it is to fundamentalist Christianity.
Which is to say:
The fundamentalist Christian hatred of Islam is equivalent in many respects to the hatred of Islam among the atheists.
In other words:
Atheists and fundamentalist Christians were united in their prejudice, bigotry, fearmongering and warmongering against (essentially) the world's entire population of Muslims after 9/11.
Leading to the conclusion:
Atheism's leaders could (and did) support the George W. Bush administration because both shared a common goal and a common hatred.
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Here are my questions for the atheists:
Is there such a thing as atheism without prejudice & bigotry?
Is there such a thing as positive atheism?
And, finally ...
Don't atheism use mocking, prejudice and bigotry for the same reason as the fundamentalist Christians, i.e. evangelism, proselytizing and conversion?
Because it would seem to me that every single time an atheist motivates a religious person to lose his or her faith that atheist has won a convert. Therefore atheist hate speech is nothing more than pure evangelicalism.
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I do hope that the atheists who respond are aware of how their language, emotions and anger might serve as corroborating evidence for the accusations made above.
If the atheists want to exonerate atheism from these accusations they will have to avoid prejudice, bigotry, anger and hate altogether. Such would be possible if atheism possessed a positive message ... which explains why it is impossible.
David Mathews
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