Posted: Jul 04, 2017 2:19 pm
Fenrir wrote:Animavore wrote:What is this dogma atheists are holding to? It's not explained.
I'm also not sure what is wrong with intolerance of contradiction, especially if one has an evidenced based worldview. If someone has a view opposed to the facts, like creationists or climate denialism, they're simply wrong. End of story. I don't feel obliged to entertain that.
Or am I misunderstanding what is meant here?
Maybe missing an equivocation between tolerating unevidenced bullshit and tolerating people. I can quite happily tolerate someones right to believe bullshit while calling out said bullshit and decrying the negative effect of said bullshit on society.
Hard to tell without getting behind that paywall and caring enough to dig into the paper.
It is something to consider alright. You often hear of multi-faith discussions, which atheists are never invited to, where the religious come up with ways they more or less agree they believe in the same God through different paths.
Viewed this way, the religious would look open-minded and receptive to each other's wooly ideas, while an atheist would appear hostile to all of them.