This atheist screed got posted on Digg the other day. Why atheists are angry? Is it because they are almost invariably boorish assholes? How about we turn it around and say why Christians should be angry at atheists, even though many of us are merely saddened by their inability to believe:
- Communist atheists murdered by some estimates as many as
150,000,000 people in the 20th century. Atheists in the communist
movement, in one century, murdered at least as many people as had been
murdered officially in the name of every world religion combined in the
prior 4,900+ years of human civilization. - In light of that
fact, the majority of atheists insist that they are as lilly white as
fresh snow because "not all atheists are communists." The same people
draw no such nuanced distinctions when it comes to organized religion,
especially Christianity. To them, any evil committed by a Christian, or
someone who claims to be a Christian, is almost axiomatically
attributable to Christianity. - They tend to demonize us as
irrational fools, while simultaneously treating all religions as
equally capable of tearing apart society, and creating deranged,
violent lunatics purely on the basis that they consider religion to be
dangerously irrational, regardless of what it teaches. This is despite
the fact that there are easily observed differences in the teachings of
said religions, and the outcomes of those differences can be seen by
anyone who cares to juxtapose them. - Many of them making
wildly illogical statements like blaming the Roman Catholic Church's
teachings on birth control for the spread of AIDS in Africa, as opposed
to blaming such practices as raping virgin girls in order to "cure AIDS" and engaging in sexual
promiscuity in areas known to be heavily infected with AIDS. - As
a sort of corollary to the previous point, they will not acknowledge
the fact that even if there is no spiritual basis to the Roman Catholic
Church's teachings, that if most Africans followed its teachings on
marriage, sex and birth control, AIDS would not be a particularly
serious issue in Africa. - Many of them tend to have a near
religious devotion to science, and will defend the latest scientific
theory of origins as vigorously as any religious true believer. For
people who claim to be defenders of science and reason, many atheists
are completely close-minded to any debate on the flaws in what they
believe. However, they entirely expect the religious to be open to
having every perceived flaw in their beliefs shoved in their face with
impunity. - Many, perhaps most, atheists will repeat pure
rubbish like "religion is the cause of most wars." When asked to
explain that statement, they generally can name only the crusades and a
few other conflicts. On top of that, they cannot even guess as to how
many of the crusades had official church sanction, nor for that matter
are most of them willing to even hear that the Spanish Inquisition was
started by the Spanish government, against the wishes of the Pope.
You will note that I used generalizations in there such as many, the majority of, and most. I have to point that out now because if I don't, I know that at some point I will probably get some atheist who insists that I am saying that "all theists are like X." However, given the ability of many of the shrill idiots to read for comprehension and pick up on such a not-so-subtle trend in the entire post, I may be expecting a bit too much.
I just loved this one:
"As an atheist, I find myself wanting to kill every religious I see every time I think of the sheer misery caused by religion. I know I don't have the right to do it, and I know that it won't do any good. However, that anger, that desire to grab a non-existent God by the throat and kill him -- just to show his followers how worthless and weak their god really is -- doesn't go away.
DEATH TO ALL RELIGIONS!!"
What's more irrational, believing in a "nonexistent" God or wanting to kill someone you know doesn't exist?
Ironically, while "atheism" doesn't give anyone the right to kill, it also doesn't proscribe killing.
I think she's missing the irony of the first six letters in her last name.
She needs to take a pill.
Or maybe find Jesus. That would be even better.
She is also missing the irony that if she could grab a god by the throat and slay him, then that wouldn't be a god.
I'm not going to read their drivel, because I'm having a decent morning so far (and have probably read most of their talking points before) - but I did find your post to be very entertaining! Too true, too true...
How can she expect to get Christ out of society if she can't even get him out of her own name? Now that's irony.
"Many of them tend to have a near religious devotion to science, and will defend the latest scientific theory of origins as vigorously as any religious true believer. For people who claim to be defenders of science and reason, many atheists are completely close-minded to any debate on the flaws in what they believe. However, they entirely expect the religious to be open to having every perceived flaw in their beliefs shoved in their face with impunity."
Too bad you can't differentiate between our love for science and your devotion to religion. We don't worship science. But we trust science to come up with correct answers most of the time as it always has.
And what has religion ever proved to be correct? Is it after-life, the G-d, the heaven and hell, the satan, and the whole plethora of superstitious nonsense? Please cut this rubbish.
Believe it or not, science is our only hope for finding the real answers to all the mysteries of our universe. All your scriptures are capable of doing is concoct fairy-tales about Go-ds and angles and insist that we shove it down our throats without questioning the absurdity of such claims.
In that case, evolution, it would not be a love of the scientific method. It would be a love of naturalism. You missed the point, as I fully expected that someone like you would. The fact that most atheists take any serious questioning of evolution as an attack on **science** is precisely the sort of behavior that is expected out of a religious zealot. It is fundamentalist thinking, as it is identical to the idea of saying that "if one part of the X scripture is false, then all of it is in danger."
The fact that "the serious questioning" comes from the religious fundamentalists who criticize evolution because it contradicts their scriptural teachings, is enough for me to dismiss their criticism as invalid. And yes, most of their criticism is full of rubbish and has been debunked countless times.
Science is NOT something that should be handed over to the layman for approval or dismissal. The scientific community knows what to do with the 'theories' and facts and how to handle the scientific challenges. Religious people has always been intrigued to take the pure scientific subjects to the layman arena and give their worthless opinion about the validity of science. And what's their motive for that? Of course it's not the acquisition of knowledge, it's their mindless following of religion that is threatened by the advancements of science.