BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
I'm confused, isn't he grouping all atheists under the '-ism' they identify with and all the preconceived notions that suffix brings with it just like he was rallying against at the beginning, thereby disallowing an open conversation with them that he claims to want?
Quite right.
As an aside.... The most audience-ingratiating answer to "Is there a god" was stated in the mythology of the Buddha. As the story goes, when asked that question, he said nothing at all. It was an attractive, subversive answer to those who were believers, those who were non-believers, and those who toe the line of either side. To this day there are people who think that answer made him an atheist, or a theist, or was some kind of deeper riddle or something to reorient the listener's mind. I think he just wanted to cut through the bullshit so people of all types might listen to his ideas