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In reply to the discussion: Dominant Male Atheist Leaders Seem to Have a Problem with Women [View all]procon
(15,805 posts)The sloppy logic fails:
1). Many male atheist leaders have sexist ideas. Therefore the many men with sexist ideas must be atheists.
I don't know why people think that atheists are somehow a magnet for their silly, stupid and irrational personal foibles. The author is trying to tar the rest of us by dropping some celebrity names in an attempt to bolster the notion that somehow atheists must be "bad", straining any reasonable person's modest critical thinking abilities.
Its more likely that we atheists are quite opposed to concepts like misogyny, racism and most of the other prejudices that dominate the sacred texts of fundamentalist beliefs found in the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, so maybe its just another example of conservative projection.