Essay: Favorite quotes of atheists
Below are some of my favorite quotes of atheists:
1. "Once again, Nugent, a great piece. While I’m starting to agree with Rawlinson that there are huge swathes of the online atheist community that simply can not be reasoned with, your work here is still valuable." - Atheist commenting at atheist Michael Nugent's website[1]
2. "The problem, as identified by almost every mainstream outsider-looking-in, is sexism; it’s harassment of women; it’s the tacit support of this by many of high profile figures in atheism; and it’s the awful comments by Dawkins on twitter regarding rape, disability and feminism. This has discredited the Atheist movement, likely for good. It’s over. Mention of Dawkins in public now induces a pained cringe at best." - Atheist commenting at atheist Michael Nugent's website[2]
3. "Did anyone on Dawkins AMA ask how he feels about singlehandedly destroying the atheist movement with the Dear Muslima yet?"[3] - Atheist activist and blogger Jen McCreight post at Twitter on November 26, 2013
On September 27, 2014 in a blog post entitled The Atheist Disillusionment, the prominent atheist PZ Myers declared:
| “ | I will make a prediction, right here and now.... The number of people identifying as atheists will stagnate or even shrink, because organized atheism is happily in the process of destroying itself with regressive social attitudes, scandals, and their bizarre focus on irrelevant metaphysical differences that don’t help people...
Unless we change. I don’t know that we can.[4] |
” |
4. "These days, barely a week passes without the emergence of yet more evidence that atheists are the most irritating people on Earth." - the atheist Brendan O'Neill, The Telegraph, How atheists became the most colossally smug and annoying people on the planet, August 14th, 2013[5]
5. "You seem to regard Michael Nugent as an asset, whereas he is steadily proving himself to be a liability. Not just to atheism (a lost cause) but also (and especially) to humanism." Atheist commenting at atheist Michael Nugent's website[6]
6. "I actually like it when folks post simple comments such as “atheism is a lost cause” because it tells me much more than their longer and jargon-filled posts. It also makes me feel good, as it suggests that at least one person who has been trying to hijack atheism for some unrelated purpose might soon be leaving. And, finally, on the off chance that I subsequently regain any respect for them, it tell me what to get them for their birthday: a dictionary." - An atheist comment about the article [7]
See also
Notes
- ↑ An atheist comment about the article PZ Myers’ unfair and hurtful misrepresentations of Richard Dawkins’ comments about being abused as a child by Michael Nugent on September 25, 2014
- ↑ An atheist comment about the article PZ Myers’ unfair and hurtful misrepresentations of Richard Dawkins’ comments about being abused as a child by Michael Nugent on September 25, 2014
- ↑ Jennifer McCreight on the Twitter about the Elevatorgate scandal
- ↑ The Atheist Disillusionment - PZ Myers]], September 27, 2014
- ↑ Brendan O'Neill, The Telegraph, How atheists became the most colossally smug and annoying people on the planet, August 14th, 2013
- ↑ - An atheist comment about the article PZ Myers’ unfair and hurtful misrepresentations of Richard Dawkins’ comments about being abused as a child by Michael Nugent on September 25, 2014
- ↑ PZ Myers’ unfair and hurtful misrepresentations of Richard Dawkins’ comments about being abused as a child by Michael Nugent on September 25, 2014
