Atheists are mentally ill

[pineapplebunnybounce]

It isn't about faith, IMO. It's about their infinite capacity to get "offended" by the fact that atheists think their religions are bullshit.

[Faith No More]

I agree, but this one appears to be offended by the studies saying atheists are smarter, which shouldn't be a problem if he is on the side of the one true god.

[Rayaan]

Edit: Sorry, didn't mean to insinuate that all religious people are nuts.

OK. I'll do it.

[pineapplebunnybounce]

I agree, but this one appears to be offended by the studies saying atheists are smarter, which shouldn't be a problem if he is on the side of the one true god.

Hard to speculate as to what goes on in a mind like that. Reasoning is definitely not his forte.

As crazy and inaccurate this article is, I doubt anything is going to happen because atheists tend not to take these things seriously. If he'd written about a religion, or even tweeted, the reaction would've been disproportionate.

[Cyberman]

Actually I'm convinced.

After all, this bloke is an authority, being a "novelist, journalist and travel writer". And surely the Torygraph wouldn't publish something that wasn't true?

Then just look at all that "obviously", "literally" and "vital" stuff. With all that certainty it's gotta be true!

But the final clincher is that only someone who was "smarter" would know the evidence that shows otherwise was wrong enough for them to say they were smarter. I think.

[Minimalist]

All right.

All religious people are nuts.


Fuck off, cat!


BTW, the note above cites Baylor University and in case our European cousins do not realize it.

Baylor University, a private Christian university

And, oh yeah... it's in fucking Texas.

[Rayaan]

Fuck off, cat!

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[orogenicman]

We are hardwired for a lot of things. All that means is that we've evolved that way. Yeah, you know, like when you've killed all who oppose your genocidal religion, the only ones left standing are the ones who think like you do. So yeah, we are hardwired. That doesn't mean that it is normal.

[Esquilax]

We are hardwired for a lot of things. All that means is that we've evolved that way. Yeah, you know, like when you've killed all who oppose your genocidal religion, the only ones left standing are the ones who think like you do. So yeah, we are hardwired. That doesn't mean that it is normal.

The interesting thing about that evolutionary argument is that accepting it kind of puts a bunch of holes in the creation account that the writer is clearly angling toward claiming is true. Maybe faith is hardwired, but that doesn't make it true, and you know you're in trouble when accepting a central premise of your argument requires invalidating your larger premise.

Also, our spines are technically hardwired for hunched over quadrupedal movement, but I doubt the writer would be a proponent of that. What we've been evolved for isn't the same thing as what's healthy for us.

[Foxaèr]

I do not see any evidence of atheism being a mental illness in that article. Furthermore, there seems to be a theist virus going around whereby the religious people are ironically referring to themselves as logical and reasonable because they believe in a god whereas nonbelievers are illogical and unreasonable because they refuse to believe in a god. The silliness that comes from theists when they are confronted with being incapable of accepting the senselessness of their beliefs is absurd.