I have to rant.
August 30, 2011 at 3:24 am
(This post was last modified: August 30, 2011 at 3:25 am by Aegrus.)
Hello, I need to vent for a few minutes.
I don't know why I read any non-atheistic forums, because most Americans, it seems, are just complete idiots. I keep reading about world news and random internet forums, and I just keep getting surer and surer that humanity is doomed to spiral into some kind of neo-dark age.
Case one. A while ago, I stumbled across a forum online which was claiming, with a straight face, that unicorns and dragons are not around today because the dragons ate the unicorns and choked on their horns. I have never hoped so hard that someone was trolling.
Oh, and then you have the morons who dwell all over in my shitty small town. I was sitting in my High school U.S history class last year. (I was 17 then)
The class's teacher had spent all week talking about current politics, throwing all kinds of terms- democrat, republican, liberal, conservative, fundamentalist- you name it- around. At the end of probably the fourth day of that, a complete moron asked what a democrat was. Then he said that he never watches the news. Ever.
About sixty percent of my class, it turned out, never watched the news, and had no idea what the teacher had been talking about for days, and it had taken them about a week to ask. When I said I was an Atheist on a separate occasion, they asked what it was. Then they used the "why are there still monkeys if evolution is true" argument on me.
When I did a report on gay rights, some of them argued that god hates homosexuals. When I said "No, the bible says that homosexuals should be put to death, do you really want to go down that road?", they started saying that we should indeed kill homosexuals, after a momentary and silent period of contemplation.
When my brother argued that a just god wouldn't have let the holocaust happen, christians in my class said that the jews were happier tortured and dead than alive without the true god.
Most of them were eighteen. The rest were seventeen. Easily old enough to know how the world works. All. . . just. . . pathetic.
I don't even live in the bible belt- I live in Wisconsin.
Yet, when told that China was economically passing America, they made all kinds of "ching chong" comments, and laughed about the stupid chinese sludge pits and fish ponds which they somehow believe make up the majority of the Chinese economy.
I wanted to scream at them. I couldn't even believe it. I don't understand how there are so many idiots in America. I really, really don't get it. You'd think that they would have to pick up on what a democrat is, even if they only watched Glenn Beck.
There is a generation of complete and utter idiots in our classrooms right now. Creationists put "Down With Evolution, we Want Revolution" signs on every single person's locker, and when I put up one pro-atheist demotivational poster on my locker, it got taken down in less than forty-five minutes. I put up another, and it lasted a day.
Look, sorry about this rant, but I just get incredibly angry with anyone who says that the holocaust was the best thing for jews.
I don't know why I read any non-atheistic forums, because most Americans, it seems, are just complete idiots. I keep reading about world news and random internet forums, and I just keep getting surer and surer that humanity is doomed to spiral into some kind of neo-dark age.
Case one. A while ago, I stumbled across a forum online which was claiming, with a straight face, that unicorns and dragons are not around today because the dragons ate the unicorns and choked on their horns. I have never hoped so hard that someone was trolling.
Oh, and then you have the morons who dwell all over in my shitty small town. I was sitting in my High school U.S history class last year. (I was 17 then)
The class's teacher had spent all week talking about current politics, throwing all kinds of terms- democrat, republican, liberal, conservative, fundamentalist- you name it- around. At the end of probably the fourth day of that, a complete moron asked what a democrat was. Then he said that he never watches the news. Ever.
About sixty percent of my class, it turned out, never watched the news, and had no idea what the teacher had been talking about for days, and it had taken them about a week to ask. When I said I was an Atheist on a separate occasion, they asked what it was. Then they used the "why are there still monkeys if evolution is true" argument on me.
When I did a report on gay rights, some of them argued that god hates homosexuals. When I said "No, the bible says that homosexuals should be put to death, do you really want to go down that road?", they started saying that we should indeed kill homosexuals, after a momentary and silent period of contemplation.
When my brother argued that a just god wouldn't have let the holocaust happen, christians in my class said that the jews were happier tortured and dead than alive without the true god.
Most of them were eighteen. The rest were seventeen. Easily old enough to know how the world works. All. . . just. . . pathetic.
I don't even live in the bible belt- I live in Wisconsin.
Yet, when told that China was economically passing America, they made all kinds of "ching chong" comments, and laughed about the stupid chinese sludge pits and fish ponds which they somehow believe make up the majority of the Chinese economy.
I wanted to scream at them. I couldn't even believe it. I don't understand how there are so many idiots in America. I really, really don't get it. You'd think that they would have to pick up on what a democrat is, even if they only watched Glenn Beck.
There is a generation of complete and utter idiots in our classrooms right now. Creationists put "Down With Evolution, we Want Revolution" signs on every single person's locker, and when I put up one pro-atheist demotivational poster on my locker, it got taken down in less than forty-five minutes. I put up another, and it lasted a day.
Look, sorry about this rant, but I just get incredibly angry with anyone who says that the holocaust was the best thing for jews.
What falls away is always, and is near.
Also, I am not pretending to be female, this profile picture is my wonderful girlfriend. XD
