Being An Atheist Doesn't Make You A Good Person

[Astonished]

So this will be more of a rant than anything else but still I wanted to talk to someone about it that wasn't a Christian that would silently judge all atheists.

I've had to unfollow two atheist pages on Facebook because both were bringing politics into the devastation that is Hurricane Harvey. One said Texas deserved it because 'we' voted republican as a state. I flipped a lid on this one. First off Houston is kin to Austin apparently since we are both blue cities in a swarm of red so I inquired why they deserved to be destroyed. This yahoo said it's because the state as a whole voted republican. I honestly don't get why this plays any part but he was being very aggressive and rude. I was done with him after that.

The second one thought it was funny that Texas voted for Trump and now we get this hurricane. He acted like it was karma for voting badly. I say fuck you and unfollowed him without argument.

Now I know simply having a lack of belief in gods doesn't make us all best friends nor does it make someone respect humanity but geebus fuck these two make us really look like dick heads.

I know most of us here are pretty compassionate people for the most part so it just baffles me that someone who 'rags' on the religious for being intolerant and inhumane could turn around and say someone deserved to lose everything they own (and their lives for 60 people) simply because the place they lived voted opposite from how they did.

Am I being childish to be so upset over this?

to be good is not just being kind to people that love you. its loving people that dont like you. its giving to the poor without feeling it as a burden.

This is where logic demands that we draw the line. I cannot love someone who sits down on a crowded bus and pushes a button that causes their bomb vest to detonate and kill everyone on that vehicle. I cannot (not 'will' not, CAN NOT) love someone who believes that someone who does that is good or righteous or correct or any other positive adjective. I cannot love someone who brainwashes their children to believe in nonsense and perpetuates the madness that leads to the aforementioned atrocity or others like homophobia, among other things.

If you are a believer in the god of the bible, you have absolutely no business believing in any of that anyway. Yahweh is a bloodthirsty psychopath and ethnic cleanser who would never tolerate loving someone who didn't believe in him or didn't follow his will exactly as dictated (so much for free will, eh?) so you refusing to take stones to each and every one of us is an offense against him. You have no high horse to get off of here because you're just dead wrong, kid.

I'd also say giving to the poor without feeling it's a burden is idiotic depending on your circumstances; I'm not exactly skirting homelessness like I have in the past but I'm in no position to be giving charitably myself, so even if I could afford it, that would be a huge burden. Maybe rethink that a bit too; but then, the bible has never, EVER been good at subtlety and nuance. Kind of detracts from god being clever, let alone omniscient.