My Thoughts On Militant Atheism

[Mister Agenda]

I don't care what the pillars of atheism are.

Hint: There aren't any. Your frothing is interfering with your ability to detect sarcasm.

You understand that the United States and Russia have been vying for control in th Middle East since the start of the Cold War right?

Yep. Are you talking about the atheists in Russia? Because the atheists in the USA have virtually no influence.

When Russia gained prominence, the United States funded and trained rebel groups to fight against the Russians and vice versa, all across the world. There was little talk of religious wars here, these were pure secular wars fought for control of the resources and power. All wars are thus.

So why was your diatribe about atheists?

Try reading the Quran you'll understand that the actions taken by ISIS are actually quite against its teachings. (At least in what I've read so far)

I'm not anti-Muslim as some here seem to be, but scriptures are like prisoners: they'll say anything if you torture them enough.

Ah the classical blame religion for all the problems in the world, the perfect scapegoat isn't it? After all how could humans ever be capable being of such malicious character by their own natural ignorance and stupidity?

They certainly can, but surely extra encouragement and justification helps them be worse.

Learn about Islam, talk with Muslims, before you presume to know about them. Have you done this?

I have, though I realize I'm not the one who hit your ISIS hot button, since you failed to make any distinctions before ranting about us, I'm comfortable being included among the great unwashed atheists to whom you feel yourself so superior.

OR do you believe whatever the news tells you about these foreign people who live thousands of miles away from you whom you don't know anything about?

That's a bit of a false dichotomy, isn't it? I could be ignorant of direct experience of Muslims and also not believe what the news tells me. I keep in mind that news focuses on the newsworthy and it's a mistake to think that news story about some minority within a minority is representative of the whole minority.

You're very narrow minded from what I can see, perhaps I am wrong, but at least I am not surprised or suffer from disappointment. After all... this is what I expected from my fellow atheists, pure ignorance.

Did you ever hear the story about the guy who asks the farmer what people are like in the area, and the farmer asks back 'What are they like where you're from?' The guy says, 'Mostly pretty nice, friendly, and helpful; with a few bad eggs'. The farmer tells him, 'You'll find people around here are mostly like that, too'.

Another guy ask the same farmer the same question and gets the same question back from the farmer. The guy says, 'Mostly pretty rude, fault-finding, and unhelpful; with a few good eggs'. The farmer tells him, 'You'll find people around here are mostly like that, too'.

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The difference between a murderer and a religious person is that one harms someone and the other doesn't. If a person is a murderer their religion should not be attached to them even if they claim they took such measures for their religion. The mindset of a murderer is different than a non-murderer they are deluded people and regardless of their beliefs they must face the consequences of their actions, atheist or theist.

So if their motives are explicitly religious, we are to dismiss their religion as a motive? Kind of assumes the conclusion you want to reach, doesn't it?

Your fiancee and other atheists proved it to themselves, and were likely already unsure about their beliefs. The change from theism to atheism is a gradual one from my experience. Faith based queries come before evidence based ones.

You think your own experience is so universal that if someone else claims to have a different experience, they must be lying or deluded?