In the news today...

[catsittingstill]

This is what militant means. And this is what militant means also.  And a little more here, if it's still not clear.

So when you find an atheist shooting someone he's been hired to guard, and then being showered with rose petals by fellow atheists, while major atheist organizations declare that no one should attend the funeral of the murder victim, you'll know you've found some militant atheists.

It trivializes the concept to pin the label on people who simply criticize religious ideas.

Comments

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

It strikes me, just thinking about the language, that militant as a noun is a quite different word from militant as an adjective, and it's just unfortunate that they're spelled and pronounced the same. (Without bothering to research it, I suspect that militant as a noun, as in 'Islamic militant', is a recent development which makes prescriptivists howl.)

[smallship1.livejournal.com]

But very very quietly, in case we upset someone.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

See above about Wikipedia's page for "militant" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militant)