ant wrote:Its willingness to continually anthropomorphize god is a cathartic attempt at alleviating existential angst.
The atheist anthropomorphizes god?
Genesis 1:27 "So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them."
Certainly in a timeless infinite universe where everything you see came from absolutely Nothing, a God can exist in all this magical something/nothingness.
Why are neo atheists so fearful of that?
Anger is fear.
Why be angry about it as well?
You're still not getting it ant. Anything can exist in a timeless, infinite universe. Anything. An infinite number of things beyond our imagining. So it's not about what might exist, it's about what we have evidence to show exists. There is nothing showing a god exists, yet people like Brother Bob claim they have proof, meanwhile rejecting the entirety of human knowledge.
It isn't anger or fear, although I understand why you want to believe that. It's not in your interest to accept the real motive; the search for truth. The desire to teach people critical thinking, to see the change come over them as they realize they've been relying on heuristics rather than tried and true methods.
Is it because neo atheists want evolution accepted without reservation?
Is tbat all it really is?
Not without reservation. I wouldn't accept the existence of the titanic right in front of me without reservation. It's about perspective. The amount of evidence showing evolution to be true is so massive, from so many different fields converging on the same conclusion, that it's a titanic sitting in front of us. Yet it's rejected for a book written by men. You can't tell me you don't see the irony here. Come up with all the atheist motives you want to make yourself feel better, but you'll be missing the point and creating straw men the entire time. I'm telling you the motive. I guarantee you'll ignore me and some point in the future create another straw man.