Angry Atheists and Anti-Theists

[The Grand Nudger]

Religion doesn't pollute any more good people than fantasy football does. It might justify already "off" people or have a tendency to attract the morally and intellectually weak, but very few religions preach hatred from the pulpit. Hatred breeds hatred and intolerance breeds intolerance, to the OP, anti-theists (while I'm sure perfectly justified or not) just feed fuel to the fire.

Beg to differ.  Here you are, after all. 

The very notion that anti-theists "feed fuel to the fire" is both...

A; an implication of their having been polluted...but by what? Religion.
and
B; an instance of religion having polluted you to make such an implication in the first place.

Or, you know, maybe you got some fundamental bit of that wrong? Religion actually does pollute people and anti-theists seek to douse...not fuel, the fire. What would I know, I'm just an anti-theist, lol. Constantly reminding people that they're telling us about the magic book and the great fairy, stealing their thunder..and just generally making them feel conscious of the fact that their theistic beliefs are endemic to dipshits the world over...fucking with people. If there were no theism in the world....would there even be a term for folks with a position like mine?

Every abrahamic religion preaches hatred from the pulpit...but, conveniently, they redefine what hatred is...and so here you are, arguing to the contrary. I argue that you have to hate a motherfucker just to do that...and that's before we even get into the specifics of what hateful things the faithful gleefully look forward to in future. Theistic belief was one of humanity's greatest mistakes...and it's not that I can't point out some theist or some brand of theism with Good Stuff™..I can, more easily than theists can, even..due to their unique predilections..it's that the simple act of opening pandaoras box inexorably led to the worst examples. It was always going to end up like this...theistic belief is a particularly bloody instance of water seeking it's level. It's completely impossible for a person to assert that the notion that god intervenes is credible without allowing that same assertion in the case of some asshole describing why The Bad Thing™ happened or will happened to some other person. Every believer in the various princes of peace granted that same credibility to bloodgods...often, themselves, conceptualized as princes of peace.