The Mystery of Dogmatic Atheism

I read this article today, which basically makes the case for the idea that consciousness is an illusion, and reasonably interesting. However one quote in partiular grabbed by attention, and it was this:

"The biology of consciousness offers a sounder basis for morality than the unprovable dogma of an immortal soul."

I found it ironically funny more than anything else, as it's essentially a dogmatic statement. This is something about the current vogue for an empirical atheism: It often descends into the very dogma that it declares itself opposed to, and so articles on the subject really become attack ads rather than actual debates.

Dogmatic atheism is becoming more and more a reactionary movement rather than a progressive one, and I dislike that every bit as much as reactionary conservatism. Both have one shared trait, which is an absolute refusal to debate on open terms, and instead resort very quickly to pejorative terms and dismissive frames of reference, and so waste everyone's time in a shouting match.