"Richard Dawkins has lost it: ignorant sexism gives atheists a bad name"

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5. Adam Lee does this a lot.

He's had a Dawkins hate-on for some time now. And I refuse to link to any of his other, similar crap. It's easily searchable.

Dawkins reminds me of a whale moving majestically thru the sea, attacked by hordes of toothless piranhas. Or something like that.

He isn't the only one. Some very ugly allegations have been leveled against many prominent atheists/skeptics in the past few years.

Just my opinion - some of this is purely opportunism and self-marketing:

"Hey, atheism needs new leaders to replace these tired old guys! So I will modestly step forward and appoint myself your new leader. Thank you!"

Right. As I've said before, go and get yourself a track record comparable to a Dawkins, a Hitchens, a Shermer, etc. and I'll listen. Otherwise you are just trying to promote yourself far beyond your pay-grade.

And some of it is an attempt to hijack atheism/skepticism to specific political ideals. Which IMO is never going to work.

I actually know some atheists who are conservatives and Republicans. They will probably never become Democratic Party liberals, though some will cross party lines and support Dems. Especially when their candidate is a theocratic loon. e.g., Todd "Real Rape" Akin in Missouri.

Some of them have seen this "Dear Leader" stuff going on in the internet atheist community. So far they just scratch their heads in bafflement and go right on being atheists.