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There is certainly a brand of atheist who is really only the flipside of a fundamentalist. One reads scripture literally in order to find it infallible, the oth
by Erik816 7y ago
There is certainly a brand of atheist who is really only the flipside of a fundamentalist. One reads scripture literally in order to find it infallible, the other reads scripture literally in order to find it impossible.
- rootusrootus 7y agoI don't really like that definition too much, it feels a little off. It feels almost like the tolerance/intolerance debate, in a way. But I get it. I choose not to call myself an atheist, since it seems to have connotations beyond the simple definition. If asked for a label, I call myself ignostic. It has the upside of being easily mistaken for agnostic, therefore it sails under the radar when the topic of religion comes up. So I can be accurate without getting into what amounts to a political debate.
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- __david__ 7y agoI just seems like a misunderstanding of the term "atheist" to apply the word "dogma" to it, or liken it to fundamentalism. There's no authority structure or writings to be dogmatic about…