Tony Blair Calls Believers to Unite Against Atheists

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Permalink Reply by Louis Davout on October 10, 2009 at 1:59pm

"Tony Blair equated atheists to religious extremists"

That's right. I just order my bomb vest today. I know where you live Tony :)

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Permalink Reply by The Nerd on October 10, 2009 at 2:17pm

The stupidity is astounding. "I'm going to kill you all in the name of atheism, so that after I die I will be rewarded by... oh, wait..."

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Permalink Reply by Jared Lardo on October 10, 2009 at 4:06pm

loal

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Permalink Reply by Bruce Long on October 21, 2009 at 4:34am

Isn't he preaching to the choir just a little? Is he running for office again?
Last time I looked, all of the vilification, demonisation and denigration of atheists that Christians will ever need is already built into the big three judeo Christian doctrines - including the mostly fictional text of their 'loving' god character. Hyper-pragmatic syncretic religious meme-shoving Christians like Blair prove their real motivations when they speak of uniting with theists of other 'faiths' whom they would normally malign: it's all about power and influence for Mr Blair. The refrain attributed to Seneca never made more sense:

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful." - Seneca (ca. 4 BC –AD 65)

He tries on the old equivocation of atheism and religious nuttiness routine, which ignoramuses (and politicians) have been pedalling to other ignoramuses for decades:

""Arguing that there was “no hope” from atheists who scorn God, he said the best way to confront the secularist agenda was for all faiths to unite against it.

He said: “Those who scorn God and those who do violence in God’s name, both represent views of religion. But both offer no hope for faith in the twenty first century.” " (source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6864775.ece)

Every good reality-as-truth loving atheist person needs to stand against devisive, delusive, annihilatory, bigotted, demeaning, arrogant, patronising fools like Mr Blair, who just like all religionists, are happy to sell people a problem disguised as a solution if he thinks it will control them and give his kind power.

Seriously - yet another world leader who goes home and talks to his imaginary friend?

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Permalink Reply by Joseph Brauer on October 23, 2009 at 10:24am

that really upsets me to know that someone of his stature doesn't understand what an Atheist actually is. It really shows how far we really need to go.

We as Atheists, need to be more outspoken about our beliefs and take stands against this type of talk among Theists.

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