3:04 PM -:- Posted by Allen    

Why We Lose, Part Two

What we have here is a failure to communicate!

It is a grave mistake to assume that because I am not a garden-variety Christian, or that I am critical of church-fostered stupidity, or that because I oppose junking up a topical list with off-topic religion, I must be an atheist.

Were I even slightly lesser a man, I would take great offense at someone referring to me as an atheist. So would my atheist friends, in that they would very likely be disgusted at being positioned with me.

It's really a failure to differentiate.

It's a truly lazy unthinking process called Either-Or that allows people to make what are, in all truth, proactively ignorant suppositions about each other: if you're not A, you must be Z; never mind that some people think there are 24 leters in between.

I'll pick this up later, with an on-topic discussion about the generalized failure to differentiate and how it cripples our movement and the world at large.

For now, I just wanted to dispose of the idiotic assumption that I am an atheist. Anyone with half a brian cell who had even tried to read my past writings with anything resembling a clear mind would know that I am a religious fanatic.

I just don't look like the ones you see in the movies, and my religion doesn't look like yours (whoever you may be, odds are this is true). So I'm invisible to people who don't bother to look at reality for themselves.

Have I made myself clear?