Advice for atheists? : Pharyngula
Total ownage. Here is an excerpt. Read the whole thing.
Look, you start an argument, you don’t get to whine at your opponent to be humble about his ideas before you’ve even taken a stab at criticizing them. Show me a reason not to be smug about atheism, and reason, and science, and the superiority of our beliefs over that pile of superstitious dogma you call faith. Don’t simply instruct me to stop regarding atheism as possibly not superior to your cultish apologetics.
Christians also don’t get to play the humility card, anyway. People who believe they have privileged access to mysterious information direct from the brain of a cosmos-spanning super-intelligence, and who believe everyone else is damned to eternal torment, aren’t exactly poster-children for modesty.
And personally, I think it's pretty damn whiny to be one of the "big three" religions and feel the need to bag on us atheists. I mean, really, do you even need to defend yourself from a group as tiny as atheists?? You must have some serious, just-under-the-skin doubts about your faith or why would you feel threatened by a bunch of science nerds?
Lighten up, kids! We atheists aren't going to ban churches!
Hit up the link in the excerpt title for more pro-no-god fun...
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