Let’s Stop Calling New Atheism, “Atheism,” and Start Calling it What it is: Anti-Theism

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You are aware that prayer and meditation can both be mapped neurologically? I'd also like a cite on the claim that love can be detected chemically.

How are mainstream believers legitimizing fundies when they frequently denounce them and their views? I suspect your answer is going to be some variation of simply by belonging to the same religion. That would be a case of artificially limiting the possible answers to produce only the one you want. That's essentially the same as claiming all Democrats are racist bigots because the Dixiecrats were.

Catholic church: I'm neither a Catholic nor even a Christian. I'll happily agree that the anti-abortion, anti-woman, homophobic laws passed and attitudes held are a disgrace. Not sure the RCC does that more than protestant fundies. I suspect that deciding which side is worse would rather miss the point though.

I look at this forum and see a bunch of privileged theists post thread after thread about how awful atheists are, and when it's turned back on them they get outraged.

And that's simply not true. There are a great deal more posts in the Religion group about how awful religion is or how great atheism is than there have ever been about how awful atheists are. While believers are privileged in the US/UK culture, here on DU that is reversed and theists are attacked vastly more often than they do the attacking.

And yes, many believers do hero-worship the Pope. That doesn't cancel out the fact that many atheists hero-worship Hitchens, Dawkins, et al. This isn't a zero-sum game where pointing out one cancels out the other.