Militant atheism has become a religion

[muriel_volestrangler]

17. By the time you reposted here, the title and subtitle on Salon had changed

It now reads:

"Has militant atheism become a religion?"

"Can the gap between the religious and the non-religious be bridged, when the debate itself is so attention-getting? "

which is good, because the original headline was a bald, not to say dumb, assertion; and the subtitle was another bald assertion which wasn't really made in the article, and also contained an accusation of doing it for money, which wasn't touched on in the article at all. The Salon subeditor ought to have been ashamed of themselves, trying to drum up controversy like that. Or maybe they just hate atheists.

I'd like to see an example of someone calling for 'a militant atheism'. Normally, it's a phrase used by others, about atheists they want to criticise. So the 'sleeping furiously' is just a sign that the critics of atheists are dumb.