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Why are Atheist on Sodahead such HATE filled Ranters?

Uranos7 2012/05/26 23:18:48
Atheist are too stupid to realize they are destroying themselves.
Atheist just enjoy hating everyone including themselves they don't care about consequences.
Atheist belive in nothing, that they will be nothing, so nothing matters, including them.
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You can tell that atheism is in trouble because it
is becoming increasingly intolerant. In the past, atheists (or secular
humanists or freethinkers) were often condescendingly tolerant of their
less-enlightened fellow citizens. While they disdained religion, they
treated their religious neighbors as good-hearted, if misguided.


But now key activists are urging a less civil approach.
At a recent forum sponsored by the Science Network at the Salk Institute
in La Jolla, California, the tone of intolerance reached such a peak
that anthropologist Melvin J. Konner commented: "The viewpoints have run
the gamut from A to B. Should we bash religion with a crowbar or only
with a baseball bat?"


This newly aggressive mood (Dawkins calls religious
education "brainwashing" and "child abuse") is in danger of undermining
civil society.


CT columnist David Aikman recently sounded a warning in a
commentary for the Trinity Forum. Sam Harris, he noted, not only
advocates a shift from viewing religion as harmless to treating it as
dangerous, but he also wants to suppress religion. Aikman evoked images
of Mao's China and Stalin's Russia as the future of America—if liberals
ever abandon true liberalism.


Make no mistake; it is that potential abandonment of
liberalism that Harris and Dawkins are calling for. Dawkins told the
forum in La Jolla, "I am utterly fed up with the respect that we—all of
us, including the secular among us—are brainwashed into bestowing on
religion." In a blog post cited by Aikman, Harris wrote that he is as
"wary" of his fellow liberals as he is of "demagogues on the Christian
Right."

Christians have long disdained what Eagleton calls the
"mealy-mouthed liberalism which believes that one has to respect other
people's silly or obnoxious ideas just because they are other people's."
But we have also understood it to be a safeguard in civil society.
Despite its vapid quality, such liberalism has been a blessing. The
antitheistic rhetoric that erodes the ethos of respect is a clear and
present danger. Atheists may be a minority (from 8 percent to 27 percent
of the American population, depending on the poll and the questions
asked), but they tend to dominate elite institutions.


The new atheistic rhetoric betrays panic, another sign
of weakness. Atheism knows that it is losing both arguments and the
global tide. Stories of the global vibrancy of religion are everywhere
trumping the grand narrative of evolutionary progress. And the best
philosophers are still taking the God-hypothesis seriously.


Christians should learn from the confident work of apologists who frame for our time arguments for God's existence.

Atheism's current upswing in intolerance and aggressiveness is a sign of desperation and will lead to it's downfall. They are becoming the oppressors they claim to be working against and the backlash will be devastating for them.
Atheist are trying to portray all religions as evil and aggressively attacking them. Historically when people see aggression like this they do not run away from the one being targeted as the atheist hope but to the side powerful enough to protect them. Since atheist not only do not have organized power behind them but actually disdain it, that means that religions which are organized hold the power to protect the people.
So the aggressive tactics currently employed by the atheist will drive more people to join religion rather than drive them away, creating stronger and larger bodies of religion and smaller and more isolated pockets of atheism.

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  • **Starz... Guru_T_... 2012/06/02 01:59:47
    **StarzAbove**
    The love of your friends and families isn't going to get you to heaven, but if you don't believe in heaven or God, then that probably doesn't matter to you.
  • Guru_T_... **Starz... 2012/06/02 04:38:45
    Guru_T_Firefly
    +1
    Since I don't believe in your invisible sky-god and there's no heaven or hell to go to, I'll guess just have to be good all on my own. The love of my family and friends is far more pleasing, rewarding and worthwhile than wasting one's life serving a narcissistic, non-resident landlord of a deity who supposedly creates imperfect beings, then punishes those beings for being imperfect.

    Eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions god's infinite love. -- Bill Hicks
  • **Starz... Guru_T_... 2012/06/02 14:29:33
    **StarzAbove**
    I feel very sorry for you, enjoy Hell!
  • Guru_T_... **Starz... 2012/06/02 15:20:08
    Guru_T_Firefly
    +1
    There is no hell to enjoy, just as there is no god with the ability to create one.
  • **Starz... Guru_T_... 2012/06/02 15:24:11 (edited)
    **StarzAbove**
    Right, hell is not an enjoyable place. And you'll find that out someday.
  • Guru_T_... **Starz... 2012/06/03 03:53:12
    Guru_T_Firefly
    +2
    So... you've been there, heh? Do they validate parking?

    I'm just kidding.

    We atheists should invent a magic place that we can condemn militant Christians to. We could just call it "reality" and for all eternity anyone who believed in a deity without physical proof would be not-prayed to and not-blessed until they're forced to admit that their beliefs are just as probable or improbable as anyone else's. Then, and only then, might we finally be able to experience that arrogant sense of smugness and false superiority that is commonly wielded by the most-delusional religious fanatics.
  • **Starz... Guru_T_... 2012/06/03 11:57:38
    **StarzAbove**
    It's not smugness or arrogance. It's reality. It's only smugness or arrogrance when you make fun of it. And I'm not a religious fanatic, I'm a believer. But you've made your decision, now you have to live with it.
  • Guru_T_... **Starz... 2012/06/03 12:20:17
    Guru_T_Firefly
    +1
    Making a statement like that without proof can only be defined as smugness and arrogance. You'll have to live with that.
  • Jeff Vader 2012/05/27 01:12:48
    Who cares?
    Jeff Vader
    +2
    hyp·o·crite
    noun \ˈhi-pə-ˌkrit\
    Definition of HYPOCRITE
    1: a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion
    2: a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings
    — hypocrite adjective
    And Jesus said "Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged." (Matthew 7:1)
  • Zuggi 2012/05/27 00:01:35
  • 666_Maggots~PassionForGlory... 2012/05/26 23:47:22
    Who cares?
    666_Maggots~PassionForGlory BN-1
    +9
    Christians are worse. I get told I'm going to hell, I'm retarded, and emotionally unstable. I once got threatened to be crucified by a Christian on here. To be honest, Atheists are much nicer to Satanist such as
    I. 95% of the Christians I ever came across were pure jackasses.
  • Uranos7 666_Mag... 2012/05/26 23:56:13
    Uranos7
    You are a Satanist you chose to be the enemy of christianity, so it is not only natural but expected for them to be intolerant of you.
    Plus I have seen how you attack them on other threads, so most likely it was self-defense.
  • 666_Mag... Uranos7 2012/05/26 23:57:48
    666_Maggots~PassionForGlory BN-1
    +6
    I attack none. They bother me first, I return the favor, honey. Or I speak my opinion. That's not attacking, that's debating.
  • Uranos7 666_Mag... 2012/06/18 12:42:06
    Uranos7
    I have seen otherwise.
  • 666_Mag... Uranos7 2012/06/18 16:44:22
    666_Maggots~PassionForGlory BN-1
    I speak my opinion. Problem? Just because I'm not a Christian doesn't mean I'm hate filled. If I was Christian you probably wouldn't be saying this. Hypocrite.
  • Radical Ed Uranos7 2012/05/27 10:05:32
    Radical Ed
    +4
    Because he believes in satan it is expected for Christians to be intolerant of him? They 'must' be intolerant of a satanist? what tom foolery is this.
  • Uranos7 Radical Ed 2012/06/18 12:41:39
    Uranos7
    Satan is the declared enemy of God. Thus his supporters are the declared enemy of the supporters of God.
  • Radical Ed Uranos7 2012/06/18 12:56:16
    Radical Ed
    then that is foolish and only breeds hatred.
  • 666_Mag... Uranos7 2012/06/18 16:47:09
    666_Maggots~PassionForGlory BN-1
    I thought the bible said thou shall not judge? Maybe you should listen to it.
  • 666_Mag... Radical Ed 2012/06/18 16:47:46
    666_Maggots~PassionForGlory BN-1
    .. He? K...... O_o
  • Radical Ed 666_Mag... 2012/06/18 21:05:27
    Radical Ed
    soz, i don't look at peoples profiles hehe.
  • Curmudgeon Uranos7 2012/05/27 18:54:15
    Curmudgeon
    +4
    The problem with calling a non believer a satanist is it doesn't 't make sense. People that reject the idea of gods are not going to believe in a god just for the fact he opposes the god(s) they don't believe in. Does make any sense at all.

    Instead I would look at your peers as your attend church, as Satanists have more in common with them, as like you they are believers as well. I would start there if you want to find people that believe in red pitch fork holding demons.
  • Uranos7 Curmudgeon 2012/06/18 12:38:04
    Uranos7
    666 maggots is a declared satanist it is in her profile, and declared to all by her screen name. Her profile also list Charles Manson, Hitler, and other serial killers as her heroes.
  • 666_Mag... Uranos7 2012/06/18 16:45:43
    666_Maggots~PassionForGlory BN-1
    You took those seriously... Wow...
  • 666_Mag... Curmudgeon 2012/06/18 16:46:28
    666_Maggots~PassionForGlory BN-1
    LeVayans, such as myself. Don't believe in god nor Satan. Just to let you know.
  • Seiryuu Uranos7 2012/06/02 00:41:18
  • Apollo ~PHAET 2012/05/26 23:24:15
    Who cares?
    Apollo ~PHAET
    +12
    I've seen some pretty hateful things come from people of many beliefs and non-beliefs here. Not simply the Atheist. It's disappointing to me when I see some fellow Christian's using their Faith as a tool to attack others. Anyone is capable of being hateful, it really goes down to what's in their minds and hearts. A sweeping generalization of people is wrong.
  • Uranos7 Apollo ... 2012/05/26 23:32:25
    Uranos7
    That is exactly my point here.
    That and by useing hate filled rants they become what they despise. [ both cases ]
  • Apollo ... Uranos7 2012/05/26 23:35:18
    Apollo ~PHAET
    +5
    You're making a full on sweeping statement about people and that's wrong. When we cannot rise above these fights, and only add to them, what progress can be made? The answer is none.
  • Uranos7 Apollo ... 2012/05/26 23:50:16
    Uranos7
    Actually I am not, but sometimes it takes giving someone a spoonful of their own medicine for them to realize how bitter the product is they are selling.
  • Apollo ... Uranos7 2012/05/26 23:51:33
    Apollo ~PHAET
    +6
    Yes you are, and you continue to.
  • Uranos7 Apollo ... 2012/06/18 12:43:26
    Uranos7
    Rolling over and playing dead will not stop a bully, for they respect only strength.
  • Apollo ... Uranos7 2012/06/19 05:42:17
    Apollo ~PHAET
    +1
    What the hell are you talking about...lol
  • BattleBattlerBenji (PHAET) 2012/05/26 23:21:21
    Who cares?
    BattleBattlerBenji (PHAET)
    +10
    Ironic you go on about hate filled rants when a fine example of such a thing is evident in this question.
  • Uranos7 BattleB... 2012/05/26 23:36:46
    Uranos7
    That is the point.
    Count the number of atheist rant threads talking about the intolerance of christians then the ones of christians targeting atheist.
    Atheist rants outnumber christian ones 10 to 1 this thread is to show them where that is leading, and how they are becoming what they protest against.
  • BattleB... Uranos7 2012/05/27 00:10:03
    BattleBattlerBenji (PHAET)
    +5
    Might want to read your own post then.
  • Uranos7 2012/05/26 23:20:34
    All of the above
    Uranos7
    In response to all the atheist hate religion threads here is one showing you where that will get you.
  • BattleB... Uranos7 2012/05/26 23:22:19
    BattleBattlerBenji (PHAET)
    +2
    mmhmm, whatever rocks your boat buddy. All I can see is hypocrisy.
  • Uranos7 BattleB... 2012/05/26 23:40:08 (edited)
    Uranos7
    Of course you do your an atheist and are so jaded that you cannot see your own hypocrisy.
  • BattleB... Uranos7 2012/05/27 00:09:11
    BattleBattlerBenji (PHAET)
    +2
    Find a post of mine thats ranted against christianity please

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