RE: Emotional resilience and Philistinery
January 3, 2014 at 10:50 am
(This post was last modified: January 3, 2014 at 10:54 am by Get me Rex Kramer!.)
Quote: no... atheism is only harmful because there are many theists who will persecute and harm atheists...
The guy in the video was really distressed wasn't he? I mean, to the point of smugness.
While there are legitimate problems with atheists being persecuted, this isn't an example of it - quite the opposite, and actually serves to prove my point. When atheists are 'out and proud' they actually piss people off quite a lot, and enjoy the idea of being persecuted ('what, for being rational? chucklechuckle gaffaw').
Again. Atheism is often harmful because the worldviews most atheists mess with (in 'defending' or 'explaining' their 'position') - in their size 10 shoes - are sometimes delicate and sometimes necessary. To think 'well if you're not smart enough/educated enough' is just reckless.
Quote:Atheists simply point out that, lacking belief, god is just a concept.
This is not meant to be helpful to anyone... unless you're about to blow yourself for some belief.... or you want to keep knowledge or research away from the people by imposing some policies.... or something stupid like that...
God is not just a concept. It is just a concept to you, but not to others. This is extremely important, and until you accept it you are in denial.
Realising the difference does not have to mean social policies holding back smart people (from expressing how smart they are), it simply means that smart people have to be smarter - legitimately smarter, intellectually, not as a political cop out.
So there.
(January 3, 2014 at 10:29 am)Mister Agenda Wrote:(January 3, 2014 at 7:23 am)Get me Rex Kramer! Wrote: That's it! Atheists are the new Jews! ... Wait what? Do you mean to say that atheists are sensitive human beings just like religious people are, and subject to dehumanisation and so on? Well then does it work the other way too? Is it dehumanising to denegrate someone's worldview? You tell me.
No it isn't. Bad ideas exist to be destroyed, good ideas can withstand criticism. However, you've chosen to focus on denegrating people.
I have chosen, for the record, to defend people who cannot defend themselves.
"Bad ideas exist to be destroyed"? Really? In attacking religion you can destroy people, not ideas, that's the point big guy.
