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cosmik debris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 01:18 PM Original message |
How many "New Atheists" are there? |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 01:20 PM Response to Original message |
1. I'm just the plain old Secular Humanist Atheist |
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cosmik debris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 01:24 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. As far as I can tell |
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dbonds (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 01:20 PM Response to Original message |
2. It's neo-atheist, thank you. |
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frebrd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 01:29 PM Response to Original message |
4. Lifelong atheist here, but "new atheist" sounds to me...... |
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cosmik debris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 01:34 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Actually Dawkins wrote a book with that term in the title |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 01:36 PM Response to Original message |
6. I do know a few newly minted atheists |
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frebrd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 01:45 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. "they feel horribly threatened by people who don't believe it at all." |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 02:14 PM Response to Original message |
8. Like musketeers, it seems to have started at 3, and expanded to 4 |
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cosmik debris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 02:34 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Thanks for that |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 02:20 PM Response to Original message |
9. I'm a paleo-athiest, I guess... |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 02:21 PM Response to Original message |
10. What is a "New Atheist"? |
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cosmik debris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 02:35 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Search Amazon.com, google or |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 02:45 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Funny link. I have not written an anti-religious book, so no, I am not a new atheist. |
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elshiva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 08:15 PM Response to Original message |
14. I am "new" atheist only because I became an atheist as of |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 08:38 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Gold star for you! n/t |
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elshiva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 08:45 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Thanks, trotsky. |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 08:47 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Hey, is that a "new atheist" fistbump? |
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elshiva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 09:20 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Heehee. |
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Marrah_G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-15-08 08:37 AM Response to Original message |
19. I've never heard of it before. |
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Meshuga (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-15-08 08:53 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Same in my circle |
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Dorian Gray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-16-08 03:31 PM Response to Reply #20 |
28. Same with me |
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Jokerman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-15-08 09:21 AM Response to Original message |
21. I was a "new" atheist the day I was born. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-15-08 10:36 AM Response to Original message |
22. I could probably be called a "New Atheist," though I don't use the term myself. |
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cosmik debris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-15-08 11:24 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Is that your understanding of the term? |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-15-08 01:15 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Yes, AFAIK. n/t. |
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dmallind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-15-08 03:40 PM Response to Original message |
25. I'm about 25 years new I guess. |
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cosmik debris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-15-08 03:49 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. That makes sense too. |
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Evoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-17-08 04:12 AM Response to Reply #26 |
29. Maybe? |
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sakabatou (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-15-08 07:52 PM Response to Original message |
27. I'm an atheist... and a Jew |
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Evoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-17-08 04:14 AM Response to Original message |
30. It's a stupid term used by stupid people. |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-17-08 08:44 AM Response to Reply #30 |
31. Kinda like "fundamentalist atheist" in that regard, huh? n/t |
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Evoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-17-08 02:16 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Fundie atheist has it's place. At least it's fun to use, and a convenient way of |
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EvilAL (357 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 12:54 AM Response to Original message |
33. I'm just tired of being labelled |
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PassingFair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 09:46 PM Response to Original message |
34. A "new atheist" is an atheist who admits to being an atheist...in public. |
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