A pastor is trying to frame atheists as fundamentalists:
Wrote Pastor Prather: “Atheists remain a tiny minority, but they’re far more vocal and combative than they used to be, an approach advocated by [Richard] Dawkins and others. They have every right to state their views. The irony is that this current brand of aggressive atheism is just another form of fundamentalism. These particular atheists are zealots on the subject of faith who see no shadings of gray, only black and white. They’re dead-set against religion but weirdly obsessed with it.”
What Prather has done here, as theists often do, is confuse fundamentalism with passion. While I'm not going to argue on whether Dawkins/Hitchens/Harris/Dennet's everything about religion is bad view is right, I will say that calling them fundamentalists is off the mark.
A fundamentalist applies to those of faith you hold views that contradict all known evidence and reason. I am strongly passionate and vocal about my atheism but the moment there is evidence to prove god I am going to be a theist. On the other side though you have theists who would likely still believe in god even if we could manage to disprove his existence.
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