I’ve been poking around some atheist sites today. It has been interesting.

Anyone who has read about “Me” knows that I am likely to be one of the last to find fault with apostasy, and let me say at the outset that I do not. What I do find interesting, however, is a seeming need on the part of some folks to beat a dead horse.

Most of the sites I visited — and I will not insult the doubtless well-meaning habitués thereof by naming the sites themselves — are populated by people who seem not to be satisfied with freedom from their god-ridden states but, rather, compelled to restate their theses over and over again while being patted on the back by their peers.

In some cases — Oh, rapture! — a theistic apologist will wander onto the stage and want to debate. Despite the fact that debating logically with a theist amounts to taunting a cripple to throw down his crutches and walk (and is just as pointless) they readily rise to the bait.

Isn’t that Old Time Religion jerking their strings just as it always did?  It seems to me that all this amounts to making a 180° turn and charging back down the same old ruts, beating a dying dogma all the while. Why not strike off on a new course and leave the pathology in the dust? I suggest that is the healthier way to go.