(January 29, 2016 at 11:40 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(January 29, 2016 at 11:33 am)Old Baby Wrote: "...was not a very pleasant man by his own admission. He was an avowed atheist and very hostile to every form of religion and those who practiced it. He would often use rage to control everyone around him and he didn't find joy in anything..."
That's not the description of a regular joe who just concludes that there's no rational reason to believe in God. This describes someone who was hostile to the very notion of a supernatural deity and toward everyone who disagreed with him. This is often how Christians who convert from "atheism" describe themselves. He sounds more like a person who was either afraid/in denial or someone who hated religion because of something from their past.
What??
Lol, from my experience, most atheists here are absolutely hostile to religion. Many are hostile to religious people. I have noticed that you are not one of them, and I have appreciated that.
Anyway, I don't think it would go over too well if you told all of these members that they are emotional and not rational atheists...
I have not found most atheists here to be hostile, certainly not to the point that Storm describes himself. People here seem to have varying degrees of tolerance for bullshit, but that's different than being hostile to the people themselves. I have run into many an atheist who I would call hostile, but none so far on this forum.
