Richard Dawkins to atheist rally: 'Show contempt' for faith

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125. I'm enjoying

this discussion and agree this is a crucial one.

"Inquisition" was not by any means any generalisation about atheist, but the psychological power game of who gets to make the questions and who is subjected to answering. It's a tactic that can be used regardless of belief system, and I've seen lots of discussions to degenerate on that level also in this group. I don't like Dawkins because from my point of view he acts like a cult leader - his atheism is not the reason but how he speaks and advices others to speak.

And as for generalisations about atheists, there are many kinds of atheists here, also those saying that what is great about atheism is that others can't speak for you, not organized atheism nor "angry atheists" with victim syndrome - his words, not mine. So I do my best to avoid generalisations about atheists and respect each individual atheist point of view - as long as it respects my point of view. And I hope you can do the same and not pose as spokesperson for atheists, even if you are active in an atheist movement that does not give you the right to speak for all atheists as there are atheists who don't belong to that movement nor share it's views and tactics.

Because of the reasons stated above, also I feel passionate about cults and cultish behaviour and invasive belief systems that see no value in plurality of view points but want to put all the eggs in the same basket.

And as for my own ethical criteria for plausibility arguments are that I prefer belief systems and theories that open up potential new fields of experience to those shutting down and limiting what can be experienced.