The Atheist Obsession with Insulting Christians

[Minimalist]

Ok ya'll, I get that you guys don't agree with the way Randy presents himself and his views around here, but this is just getting painful to watch. Ganging up on someone and calling them nasty names is never warranted, imho. A few of these posts are just getting to the point of being character assassination. This is a real person here, with a wife and kids, and other loved ones. Let's not forget that.

So don't watch.  He's constantly pulling the same shit I suspect because he thinks it makes him some kind of martyr.

Let's get something straight about him, C/L.  He's a cherry-picking asshole.  He loves to trot out a line from Ehrman but I have yet to see him address Ehrman's conclusion to his bullshit resurrection gibberish.

So too with the resurrection of Jesus. Historians can, in theory, examine aspects of the tradition. In theory, for example, a historian could look into the question of whether Jesus really was buried in a known tomb and whether three days later that same tomb was found to be empty, with no body in it. What the historian cannot conclude, as a historian, is that God therefore must have raised the body and taken it up to heaven. The historian has no access to information like that, and that conclusion requires a set of theological presuppositions that not all historians share. Moreover, it is possible to come up with perfectly sensible other solutions as to why a once-occupied tomb may have become empty: someone stole the body; someone innocently decided to move the body to another tomb; the whole story was in fact a legend, that is, the burial and discovery of an empty tomb were tales that later Christians invented to persuade others that the resurrection indeed happened.

Of course....whether or not the tomb was ever "occupied" is solely dependent on the same book of bullshit which Ehrman has spent a career trashing but for now it is enough to make the point.

[The Valkyrie]

Personally, I'd rather insult religion than religious people.

Saying that, some people are worthy of mockery as well. We have had, and still have, a number of people here who are worthy of mockery. Others, such as CL, fit in extremely well.

I understand the need of some people who feel the need to come to an atheist forum and try to prosletyse/push/justify their beliefs - hell, when I was more militant, I did the same thing on one particular Christian forum - but it's when they repeat the same arguments that I get annoyed and start mocking.

[Minimalist]

Conversely, do you have the stones to take your pathetic arguments AGAINST theism to CAF?

How long would any of us last before they were banned by the sanctimonious shits who run those boards?  You might dwell on that...if you ever dwell on anything...considering your still active status here.

For myself, I do not go to religious boards because then I would be a scum-of-the-earth, miserable troll.....like you.  And I don't ever want to be like you.

[Huggy Bear]

Glad to see you are still a shithead, huggy.  Stalin was a militant communist.  Try to sort out the difference in that pea brain of yours.

Are you disputing the fact that he was also an athiest?

[Losty]

Glad to see you are still a shithead, huggy.  Stalin was a militant communist.  Try to sort out the difference in that pea brain of yours.

Are you disputing the fact that he was also an athiest?

Pretty sure he was disputing that he was a militant atheist.

[Huggy Bear]

Are you disputing the fact that he was also an athiest?

Pretty sure he was disputing that he was a militant atheist.

How does Stalin (who WAS atheist) NOT fall under the definition of a "militant atheist"?

[TheRocketSurgeon]

Glad to see you are still a shithead, huggy.  Stalin was a militant communist.  Try to sort out the difference in that pea brain of yours.

Are you disputing the fact that he was also an athiest?

He was not doing the things he was doing because he was an atheist. Atheism is just one of the things that is an underlying philosophy communists like to promote. Stalin killed church clergy and members who opposed his unfettered power, not because he disliked their faith. He was perfectly willing to buddy up with the church during WW2 to help inspire people to fight for Mother Russia.

Saying that Stalin is an example of "militant atheism" would require that he did it because of his atheist beliefs. He did not, and it is not fair to say so. Using Stalin's atheism as an example like that is no better than people who point to a black guy who commits a crime and says, "See? Black thugs!"

[Nine]

I don't know about being militant but personally I find it funny to make fun of stupid and bizarre ideas. If the people who believe them feel insulted then that's twice the fun

[vorlon13]

Like magic underwear ??

[Reforged]

Yes. What about branding an entire sub-section of people angry could possibly make them angry?