(November 13, 2015 at 9:31 am)Whateverist the White Wrote: Penn Jillette and Lawrence Krausse. Both of them lean into you intellectually. They are bullies as willing to win a point through intimidation as through sound argument. Each undeniably also has his upside.
Anyone in the atheist community rub you the wrong way? (Other than me if I just pissed on one of your heroes?)
One of my friends who moved away and I fell out of touch with became an atheist in the past year and won't shut up about it on facebook. Not about being an atheist (though she does that too, that part doesn't bother me), but about how "bad" Christians are. She posts ridiculous memes and sometimes random news articles (some from years ago) about the most extreme, isolated, nut job cases which I've never even heard of before, to somehow prove that all Christians are bad people. And then she turns around and posts about how Christians think all atheists are bad, but that they're not all bad and that we need to stop generalizing lol. Which is funny because not a single Christian facebook friend of mine posts nasty stuff about atheists being bad people. The only one posting hateful stuff, is her.
I try not to let it annoy me too much because I know she's bi polar and has other mental illnesses and has suffered from hallucinations/etc in the past, but sheesh, pipe down woman.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
