How To Write About Gnu Atheists - A Guide

[onager]

Gnu atheists should be presented as uncivil, strident, aggressive, arrogant proselytizers and rigid fundamentalists. Don’t worry about finding concrete examples to support these generalizations...

You’re also safe presenting gnu atheists as cold, hyper-rational, solitary automatons who lack an appreciation of beauty or sense of wonder. Pay no attention to those who are artists, writers, or musicians...

In fact, the analysis of gnu atheism not as a position concerning reality but a symptom of something larger, an expression of a (post)modern spiritual malaise, will vault your article right up into the top intellectual ranks, all the more so if you can present this spiritual condition as the root of many contemporary problems. This lends a profound, dare I say existential, element to your writing, and people will take you very, very seriously...

If you need to talk about atheism in the past, Stalinism is a great fallback, but be sure to leave it vague!

...Remember: this is about gnu atheists. The focus should be on them. Questions concerning the existence of deities or the epistemic status of religious beliefs are vulgar and hurtful.

http://saltycurrent.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-to-write-about-gnu-atheists-guide.html

[Mumble]

1. One good thing about them is....

..they have enough sense not to believe in any fairytale book written by unknown sheepherder authors.

[Cleobulus]

2. Question, now that we are Gnu Atheists, does this mean we are free as in free speech or free as in..

free beer? Also do we fork often, or not at all, who's running this operation anyways, and what type of tools do we have?

[pokerfan]

3. GNU?

GNU's Not Unitarianism?

[Name removed]

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[onager]

5. Welcome to DU. And in this forum...

...you'll see Communism brought up frequently. Like whenever atheism is mentioned.

Oh, that should be...MILITANT ATHEISM!!! (Repeat ad infinitum.)

It's a lot of fun for us atheists, though. Sometimes reading R/T is like watching Glenn Beck, minus all of his intellectualism and tolerance.