My Thoughts On Militant Atheism

[Celestine]

Make me. Give me a reason to, and I'll reassess. Otherwise you're all bluster and guilty of perpetrating the very behaviour you claim to be trying to prevent.

I am not here to make you do anything, but if you desire a reason I shall give you one. Religion has thousands of years of moral philosophies that all could benefit from, some are in error and should be discounted, others are thoughtful and should be reflected on.

I've been an atheist since day 1. I've never had a concept of a god, whatever that is.

Then how can you hope to understand what faith is? How can you hope to gently nudge people out of their faith in what they would otherwise refuse by force and insults?

Yeah, there's no way you're serious. That statement is utter horseshit. So the guys who bomb abortion clinics and murder OB/GYN's because they claim it's their Christian duty, have nothing to do with Christianity? You're a joke.

I am saying Christianity is not the culprit, no where in the bible does it say to bomb abortion clinics. The person who did such was clearly a misguided ignorant individual with violent tendencies, his religion only played a part in where he would commit his crime, otherwise he might have just tried to take out a subway.

Trick question! There aren't any pillars of atheism. Some atheist you turned out to be.,

You haven't read very much of the Quran if that's what you think it contains.

Religion gives humans an imprimatur to do evil, creates the infrastructure and does the brainwashing for the dumb sheep.

Why yes I have dear. Islam is a vile, foul, perverse idealogy. I know more than enough. It seems however, that you do not, if you think there is nothing naughty in the Quran.

I think you will find most of us are anything but ignorant. After all, knowledge if the main self-defense tool we use against religious bat-shittery.

So far I've read about 50 pages of the Quran, which I think is a lot more than you have. Also you must be careful not to confuse the Quran with Hadiths.

Humans will do evil regardless of religion. Why do people who are atheists commit crimes? It is time for you to accept that some people are just naturally horrible people.

I have not read all of the Quran yet, but I will be honest if I ever come to a point in it that is morally disagreeable with me. Wisdom is far more powerful than knowledge, you can be quite knowledgeable but still be a fool, and a fool is easily taken advantage of.

The change from theism to atheism is a gradual one from my experience.

I must have missed something. Have you experienced the transition yourself?

I have, when I was 13 I gradually began to lose my faith, when I was 15 I became an agnostic and when I was 16 or a few months before I turned 16 I was a full blown atheist. It took an entirety of 3 years for me to become an atheist, I unlike some people did not have the benefit of the internet or people who I could engage in dialogue with and ponder the existence of a god. When I became an atheist I thought I was the only one in the entire world, such was my isolation, I became an atheist entirely on my own. With only a handful of scientific theories and my own philosophical inquiries.