I had seen this picture on my Stumble travels before and had been hoping to find it again at some point.
Yes indeed, atheism is extremely strong at the moment. It seems a new atheist website or group is being formed every day... and more power to them. If you don't believe in God or in any form of deity, then you should be just as free to be a practicing atheist as you should be free to practice your religious beliefs.
Atheists while being fairly unkind about the beliefs of devout religious groups at least accept that those who 'get' religion are free to do so. That said, they don't believe that that means religion is afforded some sort of special protection from criticism or satirical targeting.
I had thought that this would be the last post on religion etc for a while, but I'd read a while back that MySpace had deleted the Atheist and Agnostic alliance, which was just a MySpace group.... this had a something of a cultural impact though, because this group was massive; It was the largest collection of organised atheists in the world; It had its own wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheist_and_Agnostic_Group. There cannot have been any way for MySpace to think that they could do this and not kick up a massive furore. Which it did.
The group has been restored, however, the 35,000 odd users are now no longer part of it and will have to sign up to it again. There was content lost that will never be recovered.
I just find it amusing that people call atheists intolerant.
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