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

[MellowDem]

179. OTOH, your post is a non-sequiter...

Reza Aslan is an apologist for powerful, privileged, misogynistic belief systems, one of which he identifies with, disclaiming all the nasty parts while claiming the privileges of being a believer, the ultimate religious privilege and hypocrisy.

In this piece, Reza Aslan is trying to change the definition of atheism to exclude actual atheists just because he disagrees with them or because they're assholes sometimes. This is similar to how all asshole Muslims aren't "true Muslims" to Reza. It's base dishonesty. I suppose he doesn't think Stalin was an atheist either? And what Reza really doesn't get is that atheism has nothing to do with being an asshole or not, while religion definitely can. He wants atheism to be an ideology so bad, just like the religious right, and he wants to define atheism as only that which conforms to his worldview. It's the ultimate exercise of privilege, defining a minority group in a way that conforms to the status quo of serving the majority.