10 egregious myths the religious perpetuate about atheists, debunked

[beam me up scottie]

9. These are great.

#3 is spot on, desperate anti-atheists created the straw man "New Atheism" because they needed an easy target.

They've been burning it in effigy for over a decade now but their efforts to malign atheism and atheists are failing. The shrill outrage that follows every perceived slight against religion just alienates more people.


#4 is pretty good too:

4) Atheism is a white dude thing. It’s easy if atheism makes you uncomfortable to write off atheism as the hobbyhorse of a tiny minority of men with overly high opinions of their own intelligence. That men such as Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins get most of the media attention devoted to atheism only reinforces this myth. If you scratch the surface, however, you’ll see that the ranks of outspoken atheists have far more women that the media would let on. Atheist blogger Jen McCreight grew so tired of this myth that she compiled an extensive list of prominent female atheists such as Susan Jacoby, Rebecca Watson and Lori Lipman Brown. Greta Christina followed up with a list of prominent atheists of color, such as Debbie Goddard, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Hemant Mehta. Women are specially targeted for religious oppression around the world, so of course, many of us will be open to arguments against the legitimacy of religion.

Atheists aren't the ones oppressing women and most of us are intelligent enough to realize that. The apologists who insult women by trying to convince us that atheism has a misogyny problem are especially vile.

Sorry honey, we're not that stupid.