Atheist thumper

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*[[James Randi]] all-round troublemaking skeptic.
 
*[[James Randi]] all-round troublemaking skeptic.
 
*[[Christopher Hitchens]] wrote "god is Not GREAT".
 
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*[[John Lennon|John "we're bigger than Jesus" Lennon]] tried to debauch the world's youth by exhorting them to "imagine no religion"
  
 
==Hives of Thumpery==
 
==Hives of Thumpery==

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Atheist thumper is a usually pejorative term used to describe "fundamentalist atheists"[1], or anyone perceived as aggressively pushing their disbelief in fairy tales upon the faithful. It is a play on the the phrase "bible thumper", which is a reference to the tendency of holy rollers to thump their Bible while preaching to the faithful and heathens alike. What exactly the atheist thumper is supposed to be thumping remains undefined.

As an insult, its target domain is broad and can often extend to anyone engaged in a public show secular humanism or anyone in the insulter's eye seen to be wielding science as a weapon against their religion.

Contents

Thumpin' Atheists Everyone Knows

Notable individuals that have been or could be accused of as being atheist thumpers include:

Hives of Thumpery

Places they tend to congregate to organize their thumping include:

A Joke One Person Likes

Some at RW think "atheist Thumper" describes a famous bunny rabbit after his friend Bambi was shot, but this statement is likewise unsupported by any "facts".

External Links

If you think we are pulling your leg with this one, just google it - it's been all over the blogs for years!

References

  1. It is often argued that there can be no such thing as a "fundamentalist atheist" anymore than there can be a fundamentalist "Anti-Flying Spaghetti Monsterist".
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