Is American atheism heading for a schism?

[MyshkinCommaPrince]

78. I think it may be a case of bad framing...?

I'm not the clearest thinker around, and I'm often mistaken about things. But an atheist movement, whatever it supports, seems like it cedes the ideological playing field to religion. It seems to me that the point should be that Theism is a worldview which posits unnecessary and unprovable theories about the reality in which we dwell. I'm all for any organization which promotes progressive causes, but here it seems to me that atheists would be working against themselves because of the way the ideas end up being packaged.

Atheism shouldn't necessarily support science or empiricism. I guess you're right in that. I think about activist atheism and I think about Richard Dawkins and his battle of science against religion. But I think atheists might do best to emphasize that we all dwell in the same reality, while religions are ultimately arbitrary and can be anything at all. A grounding in reality perhaps implies a connection to science. Perhaps not. As I say, I'm not the brightest bulb.