Atheist convention. Coulter’s editorial.

The danger of getting together with like-minded people to pat yourself on the back is that you start thinking you’ve got all the answers, and that everyone who disagrees with you is either mad, bad or both. Fundamentalism, in other words

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What needs to emerge from this, and hasn’t as yet, is a serious discussion of why some people are atheists and others aren’t. The same evidence is available to every one of us, so why do we reach such radically different conclusions? Such a discussion isn’t going to get everyone agreeing, but it will lead to a much greater understanding and, hopefully, respect.

From “Atheism: the good, the bad and the ugly” MICHAEL COULTER – The Age