@StrawAtheist of course. The previous atheist I was tweeting with which prompted my tweet was claiming that it wasn’t

@StrawAtheist they also tend to troll “believers” or critics or people who dare to classigy them as “religious” in any way

@StrawAtheist “New Atheism” is applied to atheists who have a particular zeal to “unconvert” the “converted”

“New Atheism” is applied to atheists who have a particular zeal to “unconvert” the “converted”

@StrawAtheist not on twitter, unless you want a series of tweets, which I’m willing to do

@StrawAtheist well, we aren’t defining any particular ideology, but what constitutes ideological as a behavior or stance

@StrawAtheist google “New Atheism” and see, There’s even a Wikipedia entry for it.

@StrawAtheist when one searches Twitter 4 instances of “atheism” & then present their pre-fab arg, I call that “ideological”(& religious)

@StrawAtheist like quoting one of the leading voices in the school of thought now identified as “New Atheism” & denying it is ideological

Funniest thing about the New Atheists is their insistence they aren’t an “ideology”, and argue that in a way indistinguishable from ideology

@RussellTpot no, atheism as it is expressed (esp. by Sam Harris, since he IS one of those “New Athiests) IS very much an ideology.

@RussellTpot think you jumped in on my arg’ only on my last tweet that referenced atheism. That was actually using that arg’ to illustrate

@RussellTpot so the “obvious answer” I am implying is that it isn’t “atherism”‘s doing any more than ISIS/AlQueida is the tendency of Islam

@RussellTpot but a certain school of atheists usually jump to blame religion for most evils, as they do Islam for Osama & ISIS (New Atheism)

@RussellTpot (2 of 2) I’m arguing that it isn’t “Islam” that is behind these terrorists, just as it wasn’t “atheism” behind certain regimes