I love this blogger.

[chibi_evil]

http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2008/12/how-to-be-an-ally-with-atheists.html

she puts words on the page in funny and informative order.  And says stuff that needs to be shouted from the

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[passer_hedera]

...There are bad atheists, and unless you're going to start denying those people the right to call themselves atheists and reject the validity of their belief system under atheism (which you'd have a very hard time doing, all things considered), it might be better if things got a little divided. Because while the systematic oppression of non-belief in our society is absolutely wrong, you don't fix it in any way by claiming that you can't distinguish between atheists in terms of positive and negatives at the same time that you argue that they're all different. Having a term like "fundamentalist" used might make you feel uncomfortably associated with religion, but it is a valid term in some very specific instances (unless you are really going to argue that atheism is without definition--which they utterly undermine by their statements as to what it's not, which is a way to define something, albeit more open than the other way--that definition is subject to fundamental interpretations, just like any other

[passer_hedera]

You have the right to call anybody anything you want. there are very few people who would dispute your ability as well

erm. i forgot to sign in.

[chibi_evil]

i think we're haing our own little debate here. hiya!

[passer_hedera]

From the point #6 (and I might be drawing more in from the 10 Myths article she linked to--I realize I could be crossing them) it seemed very clear that she was telling me not to

[chibi_evil]

heh. that could be the case. I'm pretty entrenched in the atheist blogosphere, so i'm a bad judge of where to begin--especially since i don't come from a place of ever having been religious. i'll take your word that she's not a good starting point. or this blog post isn't, at least.

I kinda wish someone would make a Aheism 101 blog similar to the Feminism101 blog. I'm not the person to do it--I happily admit that i come from a place of VERY little understanding of a relgious worldview. it confuses me. friendlyatheist might be better, but again. i have no idea.