Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?

[Angrboda]

Any Christian who seeks out a specifically atheist forum to hang out in is bound to have an agenda. Mine is mainly to enjoy other peoples perspectives, however most people prefer to try to press their own.

As always, the most vocal in a group are not generally representative.

Even the moderates, intelligent or not, harden their hearts when you confront them with the absurdity of their belief. Few have the ability to transcend their own certitude. Most become quite churlish when challenged. True, the sieve of the internet tends to strain out the pathetic and the unworthy and deliver them to the doorstep; yet even the worthy demonstrate themselves lacking in worthwhile attributes when their faith and certitude is challenged. I was posting a bunch of quotes from "Things creationists must hate," quoting the things, like gravity, that they must deny to maintain their fictions. This "moderate" liberal Christian, of considerable intelligence and possessed of good judgement, proceeded to go on the war path against me on account of my "hating on Christians." I believe there are few innocents in this polarity. I am regularly dismissed as a religious person on account of my being reasonable about things. Perhaps that's a self-fulfilling stereotype; those that are reasonable are discounted as being legitimate examples of the faith. Even in conversations I'm participating in here, people will refer to staff member Rayaan as an example of a reasonable religious person, passing over the example that I represent, while I'm effectively standing right there. My suspicions are, that moderates like you and Rayaan, choose your stances in order to fly under the radar, to gain acceptance, while dissembling from your true feelings. Rayaan has already dismembered you for a bunch of double-talk which appeared aimed at gaining you acceptance, all the while not appearing to be true to what you believe. In a nutshell, I think you and Rayaan pander to atheists, because you want to be accepted by them. If this is the case - and I stress the 'if', because I cannot know for certain - if you are just pandering in order to achieve social acceptance, I consider that unethical and lacking in virtue. You I'm not sure about. I'm relatively confident that Rayaan is a schmoozer who presents himself in sheep's clothing intentionally. I suspect he wouldn't know authenticity if it crawled up his leg and bit him in the ass. I do not trust either of you.

"Remain pure all your life, guard your own honour and never transgress the honour of others. Be very tranquil, but when necessary harden your heart."
~ Bhuvaneshwari Devi, mother of Swami Vivekananda