“Christopher Orlet, writing in the opinion pages of The Wall Street Journal, observes that there's now a sectarian split among... atheists. There are 'soft atheists,' he explains, those who want to quietly, inoffensively not believe; and 'fundamentalist atheists,' those who are 'passionately antireligious' and want to let everyone know it.”
Ed Cognoski responds:Atheism will never be organized, let alone unified. Atheism is defined not by what a person believes, but by what he does not believe. It makes no more sense to organize a church of atheism than it would to organize a church of non-believers of unicorns or leprechauns or the tooth fairy or the flying spaghetti monster. There would be an infinite number of such churches for the non-believers to join. Why set up a special one for non-believers in omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent supreme beings who care deeply and personally about my sex life?
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