I recently listened to a discussion about science and religion in which a panelist made the point that militant atheism is not going to persuade many fundamentalists; only moderate believers are likely to achieve that. Of course, the speaker was a moderate believers and was at the time criticising militant atheists, but actually this might be a good point. That is assuming that anything at all can persuade a fundamentalist. Unfortunately I don't see many moderate believers leading the charge - perhaps they're all being too nice and reasonable about everything, or perhaps they still see atheism as a bigger enemy than their own extremists.
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Date: 2007-01-04 11:18 pm (UTC)(FWIW, the discussion happened during the panel session of the University of Edinburgh's Enlightenment Lecture - see http://henry-the-cow.livejournal.com/22783.html).