Opinion of The Amazing Atheist

[afleitch]

A poll on this? Again?

[afleitch]

Dude, Marokai, even Hockeydude can tell this guy's a chode.

This is really not the hill you want to die on.

When did I deny that he's a chode? Depicting me as furiously running defense for him and "dying on this hill" is a fairly disingenuous depiction of my posts in this thread; though this has never stopped you before. Dude's a dick, I just enjoy his show.

He's the only atheist that certain posters can think of so they keep running posts about him (but 'omgjesuswonderful'), thinking anyone really gives a sh-t. Terry Pratchett died and wrote some of the most eloquent statements of humanism or non-belief you can find, but you'll never find anyone ever put him and his ethical system to a vote. No; you'll get TheAmazingAtheist, Harris, Hitchens and Dawkins on a perpetual loop.

[afleitch]

Uh, no?  Of course I know Pratchett and he is wonderful, as are many other atheists. There's a certain subset of folks who think their "so edgy" atheism gives them license to be sexists and bigots and all-around assholes, and that is a trend which is worth countering.  My impression is that it's a trend that Pratchett himself would wish to counter, in fact!  It's a total strawman to say that the folks who criticize these people do so because of religion, many of them are humanists themselves and do so out of deeply humanist impulses.

What point did you think I was making when I wrote that? I didn't know who on earth the 'Amazing Atheist' was until he kept being mentioned on here as either a straw man or straw poll. People plucking him out of their ass as opposed to countless thousands of other people who actually matter, time after time again in here is boring as f-ck.

[afleitch]

He was polled last year and the year before. Do a quick forum search. I'm baffled as to why people obsess over him on here whenever someone mentions him.