Here are links to the things I’m reading from on today’s episode of The Atheist Experience:
- Trying to Understand Angry Atheists written by Rabbi Gelman, a big jerk who makes me angry.
- Angry Rabbi Tries to Understand Angry Atheists, a commentary on the above.
- The latest front in culture wars: Atheists attack
- How dare you call me a fundamentalist by Richard Dawkins
- American Atheists interview with the late Douglas Adams
- Russell
3 comments
Steve
June 25, 2007 at 10:03 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Nice, looking forward to downloading it, whenever it gets added.
arensb
June 26, 2007 at 6:58 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
The first two links (“Trying to Understand Angry Atheists” and “Angry Rabbi Tries to Understand Angry Atheists”) are the same. I think the first one was supposed to behttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12498143/site/newsweek/
Jason
June 26, 2007 at 8:47 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Whenever this topic is discussed, it seems inevitable that one of most powerful statements about “anger” fails to be mentioned (and this makes me angry). All Abrahamic religious texts take the time to share some thoughts about nonbelievers. I’m just going along minding my own business, doing a little reading and all of sudden I’m being told that as a nonbeliever I should at best be viewed as a second class citizen and more disturbingly, that I should be killed. When someone throws an unprovoked swing like that, it’s only natural to be upset, angry if you will. I find that starting off with this point often is the best approach. Then other factors (like those discussed on the show) can be layered on to really drive home the point. Not only did they throw the first punch, but they continue to keep swinging. And we’re supposed to take it lying down!? Not anymore.