woo

[dreamer_easy]

Discovered the term "woo" at a particularly smug militant atheist blog this morning. Can't quite work out if it refers to falsifiable superstition and/or divisive OTWism, or to all forms of spirituality. These things are always confusing when you're a naturalist freethinker up to your elbows in gods. Require advice.

(Also need advice on an alternative term for "militant atheists" so as not to piss off majority of atheists who are not ignorant evangelising twerps. In the meantime here's something we can both enjoy: Fred Nile nosedives after distributing Islamophobic "survey". OWAG.)

ETA: By a circuitous route, however, that annoying blog did lead me to Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers About the Heathen.

Comments

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

I've always used 'woo-woo' to describe pseudoscience -- Nibiru, ear-candling, Reaganesque astrology, etc. -- but as an atheist I group religion in a different place. That said, I remind myself that stuff like astrology and certain magic(k) related things are part of someone's religion somewhere.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Had to go look up Nibiru. As a kid I was quite worried that Pluto and Neptune would crash into each other.

wtf where's my science icon