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Dawkins doesn't bother me any more than any other atheist I've read.

It is worth noting as well, that Chomsky is an avowed atheist, and believes that life is meaningless.

As an atheist, I think it's pretty clear from your post that hatred and bigotry is alive and well outside of religion.

100%.And yet RMS was and continues to be a sort of software demi-god to me. I'm an atheist, but I'm expressing it with religious terms, so I don't use those terms lightly.

It's totally okay to be an atheist today, but we need just one extra little step to be anarchists and it's so, so, so complicated.

Uruguayans are not religious and the state is officially atheist.\n\nBut Uruguay's not perfect.

I don't know why so many people keep missing the extra clues, including in this past weekend's skeptic/atheist brouhaha over Richard Dawkins being ignorant.

You could get a Catholic dogmatist, an atheist Marxist professor, and a hard-core libertarian together in a room, and they'd all call that evil.

I'm an atheist and I still think porn may be a valueless, happiness destroying exploitation of the way the human brain works in a way that makes zynga appear to be an angel of virtue.

You'd think the Lord himself would get bored of this after a couple of billion years"...So, wishing him in heaven from another atheist as you say you are is really saying you don't know much of his work and life.

But that's another discussion...I write that preface to provide some context on what my real concern is with regards to Dawkins and the legions of young enthusiastic atheists that I run into, in person and on the web: the absolute philosophical illiteracy of so many naively confident advocates of reductionist science and the silly caricatures of faith they hold to.