RE: Ex-theists are often like ex-smokers, sanctimonious and insufferable.
July 21, 2015 at 3:40 pm
(July 21, 2015 at 1:47 pm)Whateverist the White Wrote: Don't get me wrong, I still don't like inhaling tobacco smoke. Not one bit. But on the whole I may just prefer the company of smokers to the zealot nazis some become once they escape the habit. Especially to people who still smoke of course. Having finally conquered that one life challenge really brings out the condescending cunt in lots of people. Same goes for some ex-alcoholics and some ex-druggies of course.
Now we spend a lot of time around here discussing the nuances of being a non-theist vs being an anti-theist. But then where do ex-theists fall? Do they merely have no belief in god like a non-smoker has no desire to smoke? Clearly not. The ex-theist is at war with himself and gawd help you if he decides you represent the shadow he wishes to project outside himself. The ex-theist resents those who are weaker than themselves a lot, hates them really .. nearly as much as they hated being too weak to stop sooner themselves.
The non-theist merely has no theist in them. That can't be said of the theist hating, ex-theist. You can get them to recognize all the easier absurdities of theist beliefs but it is much harder to get them to recognize the more obnoxious attitudes of the theist. Just as so many smug, self-satisfied Christians just have to 'witness' every where he goes, you know, throwing his net wide in the hopes of bringing even just one more lost soul to God, so the ex-theist just has to do his best at all times to pull the head of even one more theist up out of sands of ignorance.
No one said atheism would be easy, especially for theists. But please, if you're going to attempt it for god's sake stay the course and finish the job. Get out all the theism or maybe it would be better to just remain one?
As some who has quit both let me tell you, quitting smoking is nothing like quiting christianity. Quiting smoking is hard and takes conscious effort, were as quiiting theism (for me atleast) Happened even though I didn't want it to at the time. It was just a undeniable conclusion from what I had read in the bible. So now, I still like vaping and cigars, but I could care less about jesus.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
