New what?

Richard Dawkins finds the title ‘New Atheist’ laughable, and so do I. What the hell is a New Atheist? Am I a New Atheist or an Old Atheist? Are New Atheists trendier, better looking or richer? According to the Dilbert Blog, New Atheists are now also New Gays. This is getting absurd. Dawkins compared the plight of atheists in the US to that of gays thirty or so years ago, so giving birth to another crazy nickname. Atheists are accused by the religious of being religious themselves (the line ‘you believe there is no god’, so oft-repeated, suggests that Atheism is itself a faith position), so all in all, I might be part of some weird new religion called the New Gays. I don’t want to be a New anything. There’s a time limit on being New unless you’re watching the News, and look how New Labour turned out.

Possibly related posts:

• Underground Dawkins
• Atheism is a dirty word
• Being religious is not the default position
• Religion and never-ending arguments
• The Atheist Bus Campaign