On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 05:46:21PM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> Bong!
Bong didn't write the post that you're replying to, Paul did.
By the way, someone made a mistaken conflation between atheist (meaning
no-gods) and
agnostic (meaning no-knowledge).
>
> The below implies that atheists ("they") are a group that meets and gets
> together and makes joint decisions. I suppose there is an atheist society
> somewhere, but very few atheists belong to it.
>
> It also implies that secularists ("they") are such a group as well. You
> night relook up the definition for secular.
>
> It's like that ubiquitous "they" used in bad reporting.
>
> HTH, Marnie aka Doe :-)
>
> In a message dated 4/10/2013 1:35:00 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> [email protected] writes:
> >> A simplistic reading of the situation. Of course atheism and
> >> secularism are different. I'm not confusing them, but atheists are
> >> generally secularists. Many atheists and the secularists, which are
> >> indeed different, have in their fervor developed belief systems and
> >> become angry when others express religious beliefs. They have made
> >> their belief system a rallying point and effectively a substitute for
> >> religion.
>
>
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