appalling
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Wow, you added the edit after I started crafting my reply, but just before I hit "post."
I don't think peanut butter is a good analogy. No one is claiming peanut butter is dripping poison into a movement which is, to many, extremely important, and refers to just some minor thing like the meaning of life and, because of religion's tendency to wage war, sect against sect, about the survival of life on Earth.
I was just responding to your "If they won't defend themselves from my arguments on this forum, they must be afraid to and know they're wrong." argument. Tying that argument to the very survival of life on earth is very exciting. I'm going to call it exciting.
I agree the schoolyard is a good analogy. The Atheism Plus clique is like the girl cliques I remember from 8th grade: defensive, exclusive, narcissistic, and dehumanizing outsiders.
It's a shame to see a vital intellectual pursuit (Atheism) splinter off a sophomoric, erotophobic cult of magical thinkers (the Plussers), now a gift to our Theist critics.
Oh they sound simply awful. And you say they're like girls? Horrid creatures.
Atheism is probably robust enough to survive this fracture of our limited resources.