Here’s a 20-minute video in which Brian Dalton (formerly “Mr. Deity”) debunks the old canard that passionate atheists are as bad as religious fundamentalists. At about 3:30, he disposes of the similar claim that atheists always interpret scriptures more literally than do believers. He later argues that religious moderates rather than fundamentalists are the believers who really “pervert the faith.”

Dalton’s bit about the baby and the bathwater at about 12:30 is nice, and don’t miss the powerful summing-up beginning at 19:15.

Of course Dalton’s vigorous defense of anti-theism and criticism of religion is certainly going to brand him as a “fundamentalist atheist.” For in the Thesaurus of Accommodationism and Faitheism, “fundamentalist” is another word for “passionate.”

h/t: Robin