RE: Ex-theists are often like ex-smokers, sanctimonious and insufferable.
July 22, 2015 at 12:34 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?
This is true of anything.
The most annoying Christian is the one who has just been "re-born".
Can't shut the fuckers up.
Oh and some people who have just got hooked on game of thrones going around saying what a dick joffrey is...."just you wait" I think "just you wait"
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
