As an atheist, what angers you?

[Skeptimus Signus]

"We should be offended when children are told they will spend an eternity in hell" - Richard Dawkins

As an atheist you know what really grinds my gears?
Allot of things. So I think I'll make a small list.

1. It seems you have to be a Christian in order to run for any office in the United States.
This gets me so angry it makes my blood boil.
Would you hire a technician based on his/her worldview?
Of course not.
So why don't people in the United States trust atheists in positions of government?

2. Christians who are against seperation of church and state.
Jesus Christ, I hate people like this.
Anyone who puts the Bible or any religious text over the Constitution and uses it to justify unconstituational laws SHOULD NOT be in any office.
Have we not learned already that the lack of seperation of church and state is a bad thing?
The Inquisition and the unjustice done under sharia law are both examples of what happens when the principle of seperation of church and state is not enforced.

3. The existence of religious private schools.
As someone who has gone to multiple religious private school all his life, I will say that in religious private schools they hardly if at all talk about evolution.
Now here I am a Senior, and I want 12 years of my life back so can get a proper education.
This pisses me off.

As an atheist what gets you angry?

[robvalue]

All those things make me angry.

Indoctrination really pisses me off the most I think. It's the only way a particular religion can survive, and it's disgusting.

The idea that "faith" is anything other than wishful thinking.

[abaris]

Being considered member of some group, club or hive mind. I'm me and atheism isn't what defines me. It's only the smal part of not believing. What makes me as a person is an entirely different matter.

[Ivan Denisovich]

In short? Catholics in my country.

[robvalue]

Being considered member of some group, club or hive mind. I'm me and atheism isn't what defines me. It's only the smal part of not believing. What makes me as a person is an entirely different matter.

Totally agree. This happens so often round here it needs its own special name.

Religionising atheism?

[abaris]

In short? Catholics in my country.

The most rabid ones Europe has to offer right now.

[Ivan Denisovich]

In short? Catholics in my country.

The most rabid ones Europe has to offer right now.

That's the truth. Sadly.

But it is not new phenomenon catholicism was on the rise since transformation one could say. Clergy worked fast which is evidenced by signing concordat in 1993.

[abaris]

But it is not new phenomenon catholicism was on the rise since transformation one could say. Clergy worked fast which is evidenced by signing concordat in 1993.

I'm aware of that. I consider that a backclash from the days when religion was the forbidden fruit and one of the few ways to show disagreement with the regime.

[vorlon13]

Angers ?

The seeming correlation between the less talent a religious fraud has and the greater the success they experience. Smith, Robertson, Smith, Swaggart, Robertson, Smith, Bakker, Smith, Meyers, Dollar, and that Mormon idiot, Smith spring to mind.

Oh, yeah, Joe Smith, too.

[Losty]

As an atheist I am angered by these things:

Stubbing a toe, pisses me right off
Terrible drivers
Abusive parents (of human and animal children)
Lack of coffee
Servers who have the audacity to attempt to add cream or sugar to my coffee
Being required to wear panty hose for any reason
Breaking a nail


There are probably more things