RE: Ecstasy
March 11, 2013 at 11:11 pm
(This post was last modified: March 11, 2013 at 11:13 pm by jstrodel.)
Atheists mock religion as a tool to keep their rank and file stirred up and their hearts free from any still lingering sense of obligation to Christian ethics. They used non rational persuasion techniques in order to command adherance to beliefs that they themselves typically have no direct experience of.
For the atheist, mocking and ridicule is the great weapon that can be used against the reason of the theologians. Atheists don't typically deal with Christian theologians or philosophers, however, they would prefer to focus on the mistakes of the fundamentalist movement makes, and when they do deal with theologians and philosophers, it is usually more done through ridicule (see William Lane Craig) and group think propaganda exercises than actually engaging the arguments.
The ratio of mocking to legitimate arguments in atheist circles tends to be 3 to 1 or 2 to 1. For the atheist, the way to prove ones intellectual courage is to demonstrate, in the company of other atheists, that the person has no problem with disrespecting God. Instead of rebuking this sort of petty attitude, older and wiser atheists shrug it off, turn their eye, knowing that the greatest weapon the atheist have isn't disciplined reasoning or love (as the Christian church has taught) but is relying on the psychological mechanisms of respect and peoples sense of sanctity and rely on sexual images to try and remove any remaining hindrance to acceptance of religious belief.
The atheist is truly a thinker, par excellence.
For the atheist, mocking and ridicule is the great weapon that can be used against the reason of the theologians. Atheists don't typically deal with Christian theologians or philosophers, however, they would prefer to focus on the mistakes of the fundamentalist movement makes, and when they do deal with theologians and philosophers, it is usually more done through ridicule (see William Lane Craig) and group think propaganda exercises than actually engaging the arguments.
The ratio of mocking to legitimate arguments in atheist circles tends to be 3 to 1 or 2 to 1. For the atheist, the way to prove ones intellectual courage is to demonstrate, in the company of other atheists, that the person has no problem with disrespecting God. Instead of rebuking this sort of petty attitude, older and wiser atheists shrug it off, turn their eye, knowing that the greatest weapon the atheist have isn't disciplined reasoning or love (as the Christian church has taught) but is relying on the psychological mechanisms of respect and peoples sense of sanctity and rely on sexual images to try and remove any remaining hindrance to acceptance of religious belief.
The atheist is truly a thinker, par excellence.
