christine3 wrote:... I wouldn't dismiss believers. They have a strong feeling that it is possible a man in first century Jerusalem was doing things that nobody else could, and I don't doubt that at all. .....
There are many smart people within Christianity that are going back to the man that was doing those things and was a theistic humanist. They aren't making much progress in changing the institution that depends on keeping people dumb and believing in the God man, but they are becoming a significant minority in both Catholic and Protestant Christianity. They are still theistic, the meme of something more encompassing than the individual whether it be Gaia or God is well ingrained in the modern psyche.
Perhaps working with rather than against humanistic theists would be a better strategy for atheists.
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