Reply #32: Well one big difference [View All]

[dmallind]

In this society only one set of those you name has actually been successful in imposing their beliefs on others. Remember too that Dawkins et al call for the VOLUNTARY elimination of religion, not enforcing dogma on those who diagree (unlike teh religious right). If you consider them even vaguely comparable risks to free society I have no problam calling you deluded or intentionally polemic.

NOBODY I am even vaguely aware of in atheism is calling for people not to be able to believe as they wish, only for them to no longer have the right to force the wishes of their invisible friend on secular society. On the other hand plenty of fundamentalist believers want to enforce not only dogma and religious trappings on the rest of us, but even want to mandate belief (or a simulacrum thereof) itself.