(October 2, 2015 at 9:07 am)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: You really need to do something about the hate in your heart, Chad. I don't want to see you end up like this guy who shot at Christians, in the other direction.
I'm sure his bigotry was the cause as well as a symptom. When you turn those who disagree with you into caricatures of themselves, in order to demonize them, you become like him. For all that you constantly accuse us of being hateful toward Christians (a few of us are, I grant), most of us are just annoyed at assholery, which is typically directed at us by Christians, and we react to it. When you come here constantly mischaracterizing us in the worst way, and in the worst rhetoric you can manage, it tells me you have very deep-seated problems in your psyche with regard to those who do not share your faith-view.
For most of us here, the animus toward Christianity is a symptom of a lifetime of abuse and derision from the Christian majority, which we return in contempt, derision, and sometimes hostility. But for the person who stands in the clear majority, who could go his whole life comfortably without having to deal with one single atheists's intervention in his life (provided he does not try to impose religion on another, which an atheist feels compelled to intervene to stop), it is simple bigotry and dominionism.
This guy was a strange fellow who dabbled in the occult and in Nazi ideology. He is in no way similar to us. That you even suggest so tells me that you may be closer to him than any of us will ever be. I am a little sad for you-- for a while there, you were showing signs of letting go of your hatred and anger, and I thought you might turn out to be a decent guy after all.
Chad thinks we should just bend over and take it. He thinks he and Christians like him can tell us we're immoral and deserve to burn in hell without us wanting to fight back. It's no surprise that he has jumped all over this to mischaracterize atheists as a whole and equate the posts here with the views of a mass murderer. Bending the truth to fit a narrative seems to be his M.O.
Fuck this asshole shooter, and fuck anyone that tries to equate the sometimes hostile reaction atheists have to being marginalized and the views of a heartless killer.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
