This is a decent article. He starts out with a pretty good assessment of what a fanatic is and wants, but then he suddenly changes gears to talk about literature and humor. Kind of caught me off guard, but if you read the tagline he tells you he's gonna do that. Worth the long read. 



He has some good observations:

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Is myth more comforting than reality?

 

by Quinn O'Neill

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Atheism on the upswing in America



by Greg Paul



Some years back Washington Post Magazine ran a then-rare story on a strange and scarce species. A kind of person most Americans are so bigoted against that they refuse to vote for them, marry them, or even allow them into the…

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I can't say that I'm always 100% sold on these types of psychological studies, but I'm no expert in the field. However, this certainly seems right.  - Dallas

 

Death anxiety linked to acceptance of intelligent design: study



Research conducted at the University of British Columbia and Union College found that people's death anxiety was associated with support of intelligent design and rejection…

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Can an atheist be a fundamentalist?



by AC Grayling



It is time to put to rest the mistakes and assumptions that lie behind a phrase used by some religious people when talking of those who are plain-spoken about their disbelief in any religious claims: the phrase "fundamentalist atheist". What would a non-fundamentalist atheist be? Would he be someone who believed only somewhat that there are no supernatural entities in the universe - perhaps that there is… Continue