Comment Re:Maybe... (Score 1) 1121
On the bright side, I do love the irony of athiests letting themselves get drawn into a holy war...
I think this is where a lot of the dispute between atheism is/is not a religion comes from. Non-interested third parties see the rabid fringe of atheists behave as zealous in their proselytizing as any religious zealot, and naturally lump them together as having some agenda around god that they are pushing. When you behave just like the rabid religious zealots, the small detail that your agenda is "No god" rather than "My god" is no more than a technicality to me. The leopard might find his spots to be extremely different than the tiger's stripes, but I'm overwhelmingly more concerned with the similarities between their teeth and their claws.
I think this is where a lot of the dispute between atheism is/is not a religion comes from. Non-interested third parties see the rabid fringe of atheists behave as zealous in their proselytizing as any religious zealot, and naturally lump them together as having some agenda around god that they are pushing. When you behave just like the rabid religious zealots, the small detail that your agenda is "No god" rather than "My god" is no more than a technicality to me. The leopard might find his spots to be extremely different than the tiger's stripes, but I'm overwhelmingly more concerned with the similarities between their teeth and their claws.