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Is there such a thing as "traditional atheist views"? Does anyone find themselves inside it or is it a cathegory defined to describe others?

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by A swedish kind of death on Sat Dec 29th, 2007 at 05:21:19 PM EST
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I guess "traditional atheist views" are either (1) views of atheists publicly speaking out against religion, probably on a positivist and humanist basis; (2) caricatures drawn by the dominant religious group and internalised from local community at an early age.

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by DoDo on Sat Dec 29th, 2007 at 05:47:40 PM EST
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Perhaps it is an unfair categorization.

On the other hand perhaps it refers to the view that people who engage in religious activities are at best misguided and the whole world wold be better if only everyone were atheists - sort of like John Lennon's song Imagine.

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by edwin (eeeeeeee222222rrrrreeeeeaaaaadddddd@@@@yyyyaaaaaaa) on Sat Dec 29th, 2007 at 07:28:40 PM EST
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I usually refer to that as missionary atheism. And I suspect that a minority of atheists (depending on definition) are missionary. Though the silent atheists do not get much press.

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by A swedish kind of death on Sat Dec 29th, 2007 at 07:40:15 PM EST
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In that case, I have made an unfair categorization, and I retract it.

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by edwin (eeeeeeee222222rrrrreeeeeaaaaadddddd@@@@yyyyaaaaaaa) on Sat Dec 29th, 2007 at 07:46:00 PM EST
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