Emotional resilience and Philistinery

[Get me Rex Kramer!]

I'm selfish because I don't already agree with you? Fascist!

Liberal egalitarian, actually. But don't worry if you don't understand what that is what with all your philosophy qualifications and what not.

But thanks for playing, trolly troll you're selfish because you're disingenuous, and to be fair, not that smart (intellectually and, seemingly, politically). I mean, you joined an atheist forum with the aim of telling atheists that they're wrong/terrible people etc etc. sound like something a smart person would do, or a person who wanted their views to be considered and debated? Schmuck.

DERAIL

I have a class of 16 year olds who can refute liberal egalitarianism.
I tell you you're a bad person because you are an insulting pig. I joined the forum for a reason unrelated to anything about you (you're not a very interesting atheist, but then arrogant fascists usually aren't very interesting at much). Guess what? I had no idea who you are when I joined the forum and I'm not here for you specifically! But I can get on your case if you like.

Want to tell me something about how you interpret egalitarianism?

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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').

So, should theists be out and proud and scream from the top of their lungs all the mythology they come up with, but atheists can't poke wholes in the fallacies of these people?
Is that it?
Free speech, to hell, if it's against an established ideology?
Can't go disturbing people's delusions... they're happy with them... keep them that way!

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.

You are aware that very educated and smart people remain theists, are you not?
It so happens that it's the uneducated that become more vocal... which is sad...

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.

Reality does not care about what people think.

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.

Smarter as in... playing along with the theists and never saying anything that may offend them and their view of the afterlife? Is that it?
Atheists have to be silent, alone and cower in fear of what may ensue if they open their mouths? Is that it?!

F***, no!

The world has been under the influence of these con-men for far too long. The time for change is now. Atheists will not shut up.
We're not being smug (though I admit some may come of like that), we're simply explaining our own realizations about the world, life, the universe and everything. Science is helping by reducing all gods to their insignificant gaps, while helping us understand the reality of what's around us.

The Universe is a beautiful place and reducing it to the fancy of some make belief entity is just delusional.
Sure, some people will fight to keep their delusion. Some people will shrug their shoulders and not bother. Some people will see the delusion for what it is. Some people will never get to know the delusion.

Atheists are simply saying things as they seem to be, with no desire to harm anyone in the process, just provide information to think. The delusional ones who wish to fight this are the dangerous ones, not the atheists.

When we were australopithecus, there was no belief in gods... then some schmuck came along and messed up the whole thing... now it's time to get back on track.
It'll take generations upon generations, but it'll get there.

So you don't mind upsetting people because it's fair retaliation? What about being the bigger person? I'd like to think that atheism isn't just one side of a petty squabble.

"The Universe is a beautiful place and reducing it to the fancy of some make belief entity is just delusional."

If you'd have said 'ugly', which seems to be natural since you said 'beautiful', that could be the start of a good exposition. So belief in a God makes the universe more ugly and less full of wonder and surprise... that sounds ok. Next step I guess is cashing that out. There's the beauty of simplicity thing in science, but that's not it I guess... what do you think?