"Atheists are as bad as religious fundamentalists"?

Question

What do people mean when they make this claim? Bad in what way?

Answer 1

It's a desperate attempt to ignore the obvious, and of course more moral relativism gone mad.

Answer 2

I think that most people are generalizing way to much when they make statements like that. In saying that Atheists are as bad, they're saying that all religious fundamentalists are bad in whatever way and that all Atheists are just as bad. See the problem? ALL religious fundamentalists aren't "bad" and neither are ALL Atheists. Both groups are just like other people. There are those who live their lives and are content to let others do the same and there are those rotten apples.

Basically, what I'm saying is that the sentence should read: Atheists CAN be as bad as religious fundamentalists. Ah, the difference one little word can make.

Answer 3

I assume that they mean some atheists are as aggressive and unpleasant about their beliefs as some fundamentalists. That would include the individuals on both sides of the faith issue whose belief systems have no room for compromise or change.

A fanatic can be on either end of the spectrum, but when they use their beliefs/philosophies to hurt others and bludgeon them into agreeing with their views, that's just plain wrong.

Answer 4

Both are "resisting" something they BELIEVE is harmful, but in so doing they miss the truth entirely.

While God may not be the "daddy in the sky" the fundamentalists believe in, there is a relationship between being and reality - the core truth in religion - that can be mastered through a psychological process of transcending one's conditioned ego identity. Reality mirrors the contents of consciousness.

Answer 5

I wouldn't use the word "bad" but both are kind of extreme views. I'm the furthest thing from a fundamentalist, but atheism never made much sense to me either because to me it's like they've somehow made a final decision on the matter and stopped thinking about it.

Answer 6

I think they are referring to the fact that on here, some of these atheists act as fanatical about making everyone believe God doesn't exist as some fundamentalists act about making everyone believe he does. There are militants in each group... each group has some good and some bad.

Kind of a stupid argument in my opinion... atheists don't seem to do much harm to anyone, but fundamentalists have in the past and probably will in the future.

Answer 7

I don't find this to be true. Religious fundamentalists often require that others believe as they do and go to much effort to convert, war is not out of the question for them. The Mormons and JW for example will go to door to door to convert well aware of the fact that anyone they are disturbing has already made a choice. Atheists rarely require that others believe as they do, they seem comfortable enough with their beliefs that they don't need support from others in the form of belief.

Answer 8

Many atheists are just as rabid about converting people to their beliefs (i.e., there is no God) as fundamentalists are to converting people to their beliefs.

Rabid atheists are just as dangerous as rabid theists. You just need to look at the mass murders and genocides committed by atheist dictators.

The 2 million murdered Cambodians and 7 million Ukranians starved to death by atheist governements are just two examples of beind "as bad as religous fundamentalists."

Answer 9

Those are the same kind of people who use terms like "evangelical atheist". They equate the large-scale spreading of unsupported claims with any large-scale request for evidence. In other words, they're saying that it's just as bad to tell a lot of people that god does not exist as it is to tell them that god does exist. There is, however, a serious flaw in that logic.

Answer 10

I disagree!
Atheists stick to the point! They don't believe in any deities! Plain and simple! What is so hard to understand about that??

Fundamentalist, cherry pick through the bible, and choose what flavor of the day they want. Homosexuality, abortion. sexual freedoms! ECT!!!!
But always judgmental!

Should be fundajudgmentalists

son of man
LDS are NOT fundamentalists!!

Answer 11

I'm not an athiest but I do find that most of the ones i know mind their own business and leave others to their own beliefs

Religious fundamentalists and also the religious right are always trying to shove their belifes down everyones throat


give me a good old athiest anyday


at least they won't start a war over anything like religion