WTF Atheists!?

[Brian37]

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.

Honestly I don't buy this bit at all, it is apeal to emotion and nothing more. If you had some theist friends or other pc liberals complain to you what I do in that case is simply say "if you don't want your claims criticized then don't make absurd claims".

Do you really think life is always about coddling the insceurities of others? If that were the case than the nuts in the Muslims ranks are right in threating the west for dissing Allah.

I think it is totally reasonable to use the word "bullshit" for example, if someone claimed that the Redskins won the Superbowl last year when that is clearly false.

So if you expect me to stop saying magic babies don't exist, sorry, that would be like DGalileo coddling the insecurities of the church when he told them the truth about the nature of our relationship to the sun.

It isn a "hipster" movement. I don't know where you get that from. I don't go out of my way to be a minority I am and for anyone passive in that minority or anyone in that majority that thinks we should be silent is dead wrong and that isn't going to happen. So it all boils down to personal comfort level. So go do your own thing and don't speak for me or any other atheist. WE are all still ultimately individuals.

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Ignoring religion in the hope it will eventually go away as the OP suggests is hardly an option. It may not be that religion is trying to take over the world necessarily, but like any parasitical fungus, left unchecked that's precisely what will happen.

Lets be realistic here, you are not going to get rid of religion, but you can contain it with secular concepts like the Constitution, well, at least the founders intent ant not the rivized bullshit theist sell.

But you are right, anything ANYTHING can go off the rails if left unchecked, that can be religion, but it also can be political parties of any stripe, or even a business climate(IE) like the one that fucked us all over. Everything needs some sort of checks and oversight based on consent, otherwise fascism surely is to rise.