RE: The Incredible Lightness Of Being An Atheist
November 26, 2011 at 3:15 pm
(This post was last modified: November 26, 2011 at 4:10 pm by little_monkey.)
(November 26, 2011 at 2:46 pm)Rwandrall Wrote: First, as long as it does not affect me, i don't see why the hell i would give a crap what someone else believes.
If you look at the Christian right trying to get creationism/ID to be taught in a science class, or portraying that global warming is a hoax, or getting prayers into class, or their fight against abortions, gay rights, and many other issues, it is no longer a question that theists are keeping their beliefs to themselves, but that they are tryng to impose it to all of society. Perhaps you are indifferent to that, but I'm not. It affects me.
Quote:Second, some people only make it through the day thanks to their belief in God.
Yeah you can call them weak, but some people have nothing real to hold on to.
But they do more than that as I indicated above.
Quote:Thirdly, we are all irrational: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority is an example of that. So judging someone else for being MORE irrational is simply hypocritical.
We all have feelings and prone to be irrational. But to place one's own beliefs on an irrational basis is not going to be very productive.
Quote:Finally, this article seems to claim that the religious are blind fools who can't know how liberating it is to be an atheist, and that is a HUGE generalization full of condescension and ignorance of the millions of believers who ONLY use religious for a moral support, never bothering to read the Bible or spend even a second worrying about any divine rules, and are as rational as you and me their whole lives.
Hitler and Stalin were also rational (Godwin's law, you win,
). Atheists and Theists can both be rational. However, it is not just a question of being rational, but what is your premise you start from. And the article makes that distinction.Quote:Implying, as the article does, that every religious person would look up to the sky and think "forgive me Jesus" before downloading a movie illegally is just laughably wrong.
It was one of many things the author quotes as being free from. And why shouldn't he celebrate his freedom from religion?
