AB Editor
The article you cite is a particularly repugnant one written by Jim Goad. In this piece, he appears to have only a passing understanding of atheism and history. It purports to be a balanced work - it is anything but. I'm not going to dissect the article piece by piece because I simply can't be bothered but a couple of things should be noted.
Jim seems to be under the impression that 6 million Jews were killed in WW2 by an atheist Nazi regime. He seems to be unaware that the Nazis in general and Hitler in particular were Roman Catholics. I find it hard to believe that an author such as he would make such a silly error unless of course he was trying to be controversial. Perish the thought.
Jim also has this to say, “... What I find most loathsome about them [“pushy” atheists] —besides their personalities and, in extreme cases, their personal hygiene—is that despite all their chest-thumping about being rational skeptics, rare is the neo-atheist who dares question one pubic hair upon the corpus of our dominant cultural dogma, AKA the Cult of Equality. Almost down to the very last soulless soul, every one of these alleged “skeptics” gullibly gulps down every dumb, implausible, impossible, and unscientific tenet of liberal creationism. There is nothing remotely reasonable about blank-slate equality, but they treat anyone who dares challenge it as a heretic...”
Make of that drivel what you will. Personally, I think that such a stupidly blinkered and patronising article should be given the contempt it deserves.