WTF Atheists!?

[thesummerqueen]

It seems like Atheism is turning into a hispter thing on the internet and it's really pissing me of. Everywhere I read shit about Atheists it's all about how clever they are, how much they know about everyone and lots of "clever" comments dissing each other. The more clever your comment is, the more scenepoints you score. Really? Is that what Atheism is turning into? The worse thing is that they are actually pissing me of more then most of the relegious people at the moment. No need to go on about it. A true Atheist doesn't need to disprove shit to other people. If you really want relegion to go away, stop fucking talking about it. Isn't that the whole point?
Now I'm not attacking this forum obveously. At least there is some people with brains on here that I like to read threads from.

I'd like to come back to this with a slightly more serious comment.

I *LOVE* the atheist group I hang out with locally. That's the Charlotte Atheists and Agnostic, if you ever care to look them up. They are a special bunch of people. We do NOT gather up monthly, bimonthly, weekly or any night we can (I met my boyfriend through them. ) to prove how clever we are or gain "scenepoints" (wtf is this shit? I feel old and not 'up on the lingo'). We don't talk about how to destroy religion except in rare moments. A typical gathering talks about these things, not in this order:

Childcare (many are parents)
Jobs
Homebrewing (we have several brewers in the group)
Scotch (the president loves scotch and frequently recommends different brands)
Food (we have vegans, vegetarians, health nuts, and foodies in the group)
Plants (someone's always asking me some question or other)
Science (latest news - we like playing "what if?" games)
Books we've been reading - bios, science, history and philosophy
Movies
Transhumanism/our future robot overlords
Events we'd like to attend - secular or otherwise
Charities we're working on
Theme parties we'd like to hold

and so on.

We're pretty fucking normal, if you ask me. It's rare that we get heated about anything, except when we're fired up about having equal respect and rights from the religious and a separation of church and state.

So again...stop hanging out in these places? They sound like dick gatherings. If you're having a problem with a subset of people...find another subset to hang around.

Do you see us trying to be "clever" to one another and put each other down outside of a playful context?