So people who don’t believe in God have no capacity to accept people who do believe in God, no respect, no tolerance for Christianity, because they don’t believe it. They seem to tolerate other religions, but Christianity is the singular religion that drives them to obsessively post about how God isn’t real/isn’t all powerful/is all powerful but evil, etc. Being so outraged and outspoken about an entity you don’t believe exists is utterly ridiculous. Also, the people posting here aren’t atheists, they’re antitheists. They hide who they are and pretend to be atheists, but they’re the toxic, hateful, antitheists who have made it their life goal to rage against religion. They are as harmful and hateful as any fundamentalist. They are antiAmerican, because American ideals are based on freedom of religion. They don’t say: “I don’t believe in God and I am not religious, but my fellow Americans have the right to practice their religion as I have the right to not practice religion. That’s a unique and hard fought freedom Americans fought for and cherish.”
No, they slink about in the shadows, making atheists look bad, being intolerant and disrespectful, insisting God doesn’t exist, insulting anyone who believes in God. They argue the same points over incessantly in their quest to debate Christianity. They mock other people’s faith with glee, like the good little antitheists they are. Antitheists are unAmerican and their ideals are incompatible with true American ideals. |
As for some kind of special prejudice against Christianity: Completely false. Atheists don't believe in any religion. The reason you think yours is being singled out is because you think that is the only one that is true. The irony flies right past you and it is shocking you can't see it. I have many posts in this thread and not once did I specify which god did or didn't create pediatric cancer, or which god did not likely exist. Because the answer is "all of them". |
Monotheists are atheistic about all of the hundreds of gods except 1. Atheists take it a tiny step further. |
I am paraphrasing because it is the theme throughout all the comments. That is how theme works.
I don't get this. This is a democracy (sort of) and people can make decisions based on whatever worldview they hold. You are making policy/voting decisions on atheism. Some people are making decisions based on whatever huge corporations are telling/selling them. Why single religion out? In a democracy all ideas are subject to debate in the public forum. No religion is physically forcing anything on anyone. For that, go to a sharia law country.
No one is claiming to understand it completely.
I still have yet to hear any secular position aside from it being random. Random that universe came to be, random that life emerged, random that we evolved in a certain way, random that some are born rich and powerful and others born weak and poor. Random when illness strikes, random when kids die of cancer. Just bad luck.
Not how I see it. Religious belief in general is a dimension of human life, one shared by all religious from the caveman down to Christians today. Christianity is just the full truth and fulfillment of all those human strivings for transcendence. Atheists deny this whole dimension of humanity. |
I do not know where you got that cockamamie idea, but no it is not. Do not paraphrase, use the quote button (which you demonstrated you know how) and DON'T change people's statements. It's very rude and shows you have no position in response to the actual statement so you straw man into something that is easier for you.
Thanks for admitting you are a dominionist. Like most you have also not read the constitution which literally prohibits legislation from a particular religion. You are so wrong on this it is hard to believe you are real.
Do you need me to go back and copy and paste all the "god does this because..." statements?
Another effing lie from you, and a ridiculous one, because people who believe in science know it is a result of flawed natural processes, and you are the one who thinks it is all part of some grand design.
Lol, no more BS. You don't believe in Xenu. Others do. That makes you an atheist WRT Xenu. You don't believe in Vishnu. You don't believe in Zeus, or Leprechauns, or any other thing than your thing.
Nope wrong one more time! (this has to be a record). Atheists don't believe in a god or gods. End period. It has nothing do do with any "dimension of humanity". Oh, and did you know that is a Taoist phrase? You don't believe in that either! |
What is your evidence for that assertion? If we have learned anything over the last few decades of field studies of animal behavior as well as neuroscience studies on animals, it is that most of what we thought we knew about animal behaviors and capacities is plain wrong. Sperm whales have brains 6x larger than ours. Do you really think all of that capacity is wasted and useless? Isn't it much more likely that we just don't know (yet) how to communicate with these animals? |
You sure do love your fiction. You even fabricate it yourself. |
I am not antitheist, I am an atheist who is passionate about the separation of church and state and deeply alarmed by the degree to which the evangelical Christian movement has become intertwined with politics in America during my lifetime and how much they are trying to control the freedoms of other people according to the strictures of their religious beliefs. You can believe whatever you want and live your life by those beliefs, so long as that doesn't tread into my life or any other nonbeliever or different beliefs holder in any form or fashion. If I lived in Afghanistan I would feel the same way about the Taliban trying to impose their insane belief systems on the entire populace. It's not a particular hatred of Christianity I hold, it is a universal contempt for theocracy which I hold. |
+1. Also an atheist and in only depressed by the fundamentalists that are hurting others as we speak. In so many ways..some of which are affecting my family in tangible ways . |
Is that a sign of some sort of mental decline? |
wow you are really triggered. If you don't know what themes mean, then I can't help you. And no religion is trying to prohibit anything. Believers in those religions are voting (and encouraged by their churches) to vote according to their personal beliefs. Is that not how everyone votes? And your statement: "people who believe in science know it is a result of flawed natural processes"...another long way of saying, random. A random flaw happened. |
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Right, you deny belief in anything beyond this material world. That is a whole dimension of the human experience you are denying. It is beyond debate that every culture across space and time has had some belief in the spiritual world. It is really one of the things that distinguishes humans. That is what you are denying. |
I also wonder (quite often actually) what could have been or could be accomplished if even only half the amount of hours spent reading the same book over and over again, worshipping a diety, etc, had been spent in REALITY and finding solutions to making less cancer and making the world a better place. Instead of the absurd amount of wasted time that has taken place while children ARE dying of cancer for example. Not to mention maybe many people would not even consider searching for Those solutions because they think this life is meaningless in comparison to the “life to come”. Beliefs have consequences. |
Oh, I know what it means, and I also know what it means TO YOU: An excuse the straw man and change people's statements. Dishonest, and you should be ashamed.
Laughably false, you dominionist anti-constitution anti-american creep.
Again you show your massive ignorance. Something can't be flawed AND random, dumbass. Yes I have resorted to name calling because you don't read don't listen don't care. You are a dishonest interlocutor. |