Comments on: Suck it, Charlotte Allen http://tacomaatheists.com/archives/1443 Guided by reason, informed by science, motivated by compassion Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:07:56 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: cognitive dissident http://tacomaatheists.com/archives/1443/comment-page-1#comment-60 cognitive dissident Wed, 20 May 2009 03:11:01 +0000 http://www.tacomaatheists.com/?p=1443#comment-60 Yeah, that was one of the worst op-eds I've read in a long time. I took here opening comments about "My problem with atheists is their tiresome — and way old — insistence that they are being oppressed and their fixation with the fine points of Christianity." and responded: Well...I guess we're even, then. My problem with theists is their tiresome--and way old--persecution complex and their fixation on the fine points of everyone else's lives. Allen complains about "the obsessively tiny range of topics around which atheists circle like water in a drain," but that sounds suspiciously like the projection of a writer whose co-religionists get violently obsessive over women's reproductive choices and LGBT civil rights. There's plenty more snark here, if you're interested: http://www.cognitivedissident.org/2009/05/theists_no_gods_no_reason_just.html Yeah, that was one of the worst op-eds I’ve read in a long time. I took here opening comments about “My problem with atheists is their tiresome — and way old — insistence that they are being oppressed and their fixation with the fine points of Christianity.” and responded:

Well…I guess we’re even, then. My problem with theists is their tiresome–and way old–persecution complex and their fixation on the fine points of everyone else’s lives. Allen complains about “the obsessively tiny range of topics around which atheists circle like water in a drain,” but that sounds suspiciously like the projection of a writer whose co-religionists get violently obsessive over women’s reproductive choices and LGBT civil rights.

There’s plenty more snark here, if you’re interested:

http://www.cognitivedissident.org/2009/05/theists_no_gods_no_reason_just.html

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