Not all atheists are alike [View all]
[font size=4]Not all atheists use their disbelief to excuse imperialism and oppression, writes veteran socialist Eamonn McCann, in an article for the Irish Times.[/font]
It's as wrong to lump all atheists together as it is to associate all Muslims with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria or all Jews with Zionism. There are 50 shades of godlessness. The community includes dour and humorless dogmatists such as Richard Dawkins and genial chaps like Stephen Fry. True, there are some who will have been hurt by Fry's recent description of God as a maniacal monster. But he'd been sorely provoked by Gay Byrne.
Another thing in Fry's favor is that he gives the lie to the rote-learned answer once expected of us, at risk of a rap on the knuckles from a ruler, when Sister Xavier paused in her patrolling of the passage between the desks and snapped, "Where is God?"
"As he is God, he is everywhere," we'd chorus. Fry may not be literally everywhere, but he is everywhere on television, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, which these days amounts to much the same thing. Which, in turn, reminds me of the wider role of the Derry Diocesan Catechism in propelling me on to the atheist path.
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