What does it take to be a "fundy" atheist??

Answer 1

I'd imagine someone who wouldn't accept the existence of God if God showed up on their front door with a box of custom-made miracles.

I don't fit into any of the other "fundy" atheist things, really...too many weird ideas of my own.

Answer 2

Are you asking "What does it take to be a Fundamentalist atheist?", or "What does it take to be a Fundamentalist, atheist(s)?"

1) Atheism doesn't have the possibility of really becoming an fundamentalist belief system. Atheism has no set of 'core' beliefs which must be accepted by all atheists. The only thing all atheists share in common is that we don't believe in God. We may take different stances on many different issues, such as abortion, war, et cetera.

Answer 3

Fundamentalists presume a perfect kind of knowledge based on some external source from themselves, which is also perfect. This idea fits with religion and its needs for dogmatic texts. But atheists by definition reject that. They/we know that evidence and truth are never fixed, cannot be fixed, and we must constantly strive to find something close to truth based on what we can verify. Most of us who have read Darwin closely know perfectly well that it is a work of late natural theology with many flaws, but that since his time evolutionary thinking has been augmented with powerful and insurmountable evidence.

The kind of athest you are talking about would be held in little regard by other atheists for exactly the same reason we hold fundamentalist theists in low regard: they are unwilling to consider evidence or challenges to their position. We would reject fundamentalism in all guises. It is no use in any set of beliefs.
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Answer 4

It takes a certain amount of charisma. You must be a motivational speaker at least. You must have fervor.
And you must be able to talk up evolution among the best of them, and have all the scientific facts at your disposal...sort of.
You cannot simply say that God does not necessarily exist, that is too weak.
Above all, you cannot shy away from telling church people how goofy they are. Tell them straight, they are GOOFY and spell it out, don't just leave it to the imagination, and talk about all of God's temper tantrums in the Old Testament.
So you feel it is time for you to advance, and become a fundamental atheist... Lord have mercy.

Answer 5

I'm not sure there's a such thing seeing as how there are no atheist "churches" etc. We each go about our days as usual. We don't get together and go from door-to-door saying "convert to atheism".

Answer 6

As long as people try to explain or solve the world's problems with faith and superstitions instead of reason, religion will be given fuel. Science needs to advance much further, and then the flame of religion will burn out completely once and for all.

Peace is always the product of reason - never of faith.

Answer 7

I try to avoid "fundies" of all beliefs ;)

Answer 8

There is only one fundamental in atheism that we all agree on, there is no evidence of a god or gods.
That's it, we like to keep our dogma simple.

Answer 9

an open mind and basic commonsense

Answer 10

David T do you know that looks like a damn bomb?