Are most New Atheists former fundamentalists?

I became an atheist five years ago while New Atheism was in its ascendancy though I always regarded myself as simply
atheist and nothing else. I was however initially very literal and binary in my thinking but have since graduated to a more
nuanced position. I am now an apatheist which is a subset of atheism. But one that is entirely accepting of the possibility
of God existing without actually thinking he exists. My more general philosophical world view is existential nihilism which
has been arrived at through my understanding of cosmology rather than of religion. Although in so far as religion itself is
concerned I do not really care what anyone thinks or believes long as they do not harm others as a consequence of that

 

No, you really can't take any of them two ways. The only way you can take them is the way the original audience was meant to take them, and that takes some study. Most people are too lazy or too bigoted to do that, mostly bigoted.

 

I am a non-believer and in my past I was a Christian. I can't say I was a fundamentalist. I can say I was influenced by fundamentalism but I can't never look back and say I was a fundamentalist. My questions/doubts back then and my actions prove that I was never a fundamentalist.

The best I can say is the New Atheist movement has the exact same amount of problem with the non-literal mythological theists as they do the fundamentalist especially since the atheist proposition goes against the non-literal theists just as well. The talking points against the non-literal theists just don't make for discussions to be media worthy.

 

I made bold a grammar correction. Sorry SpaceCricket79. I didn't hit the backspace key enough in my original response when I was editing the sentence.

 

Nope, since the modern followers believe in these books or use them for their faith either they are literal or fables, regardless of the text.

 

Really? And how is it that you happen to know this?

 

Okay take the Torah, Jewish people who are religious don't use these books in their faith. Muslims don't use the Koran in Islam. Christians don't reference the gospels at all?

If modern believes in a faith don't reference the books of the faith at all in some form either literally or as fables and moral tales your the one that needs to demonstrate that is common.