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

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

"Iconoclast" is no good - when our cousin converted from Paganism to Orthodox Judaism, he smashed all his idols!

[hiraethin.livejournal.com]

They were his idols, though. (I know the definition of iconoclast isn't specific as to ownership, but still.) Actually, the definition I was thinking of was "a person who attacks cherished beliefs, traditional institutions etc."