RE: Just Curious
August 8, 2013 at 6:16 am
(This post was last modified: August 8, 2013 at 6:18 am by Cyberman.)
I can't in all honesty say I hate Xtianity, or individual xtians for that matter, except inasmuch as it teaches people to be satisfied with the lowest common denominator in terms of critical thinking and seeking answers to even the simplest questions. However it's not unique in that. I have a particular distaste for smug, superior condescension, but again religion isn't necessary for that; it just seems to make it easier somehow.
I just find it irritating the way religion finds the shortest path to bring out the worst in people, the while pretending to be this great force for morality, plus the built-in martyr complex that kicks in the instant someone pokes their beliefs instead of simply swallowing them unquestionably. That only demonstrates that all too often faith is as substantial as smoke and mirrors.
If I had to pick just one trait I find the most annoying, it would have to be the Argument From Sheer Volume: the religious insistence that I as an atheist will find their pet god one day - I just haven't heard enough about it yet.
I just find it irritating the way religion finds the shortest path to bring out the worst in people, the while pretending to be this great force for morality, plus the built-in martyr complex that kicks in the instant someone pokes their beliefs instead of simply swallowing them unquestionably. That only demonstrates that all too often faith is as substantial as smoke and mirrors.
If I had to pick just one trait I find the most annoying, it would have to be the Argument From Sheer Volume: the religious insistence that I as an atheist will find their pet god one day - I just haven't heard enough about it yet.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
