This is really valuable. I get sick of people throwing the word “Fundamentalist” around whenever someone is confident and uncompromising in their beliefs. Fundamentalism is a specific, term, with a specific meaning, and that meaning is not “people who say things loudly, that I disagree with.” An atheist, no matter how vocal, how uncompromising, and how assertive they may be, can never be accurately described as a fundamentalist.

And so, the Blakes Law (reproduced in case you’re too lazy to follow the link):

1. In any discussion of atheism (skepticism, etc.), the probability that someone will compare a vocal atheist to religious fundamentalists increases to one.
2. The person who makes this comparison will be considered to have lost the argument.