Atheism and Purpose

[TheDarkestOfAngels]

To the people who think I'm an idiot and incapable of critical thinking. I hope you don't expect me to respond to your questions from here on out. I find your insults hypocritical to say the least, as you have begged me to be hyper-respectful of you and your opinions and your beliefs.

No, but we do expect you to engage in open discourse, including defending your positions on matters of faith and your opinions such as the ones you've stated on this thread.
Feigning persecution instead of challenging us or considering your own position isn't going to do you any good.

Actually, I fully expect to be banned. I don't know why you'd want me in here anyway. It used to be all about debate, there were MSN groups like atheists vs. God, etc., and it was all about the argument. As the years have gone by, it seems more and more that popular atheism, or neo-atheism has become like a religion and a church all on its own. It even has mega-pastors like Richard Dawkins, Bill Maher and the like. Even this group takes in donations now. It used to be about the debate, but the dogmatic nature of neo-atheism, the intollerance, the anger, the attacks, the cause, and even the basically left-wing morality has become a kind of fundamentalism.

It only seems dogmatic because facts tend to persist better than even the most stringent of fantasy. Atheism is not any kind of fundementalism, if anything, it is its opposite.

The Christian Church is losing it's grip on society. I mean, really, for the most part it has no authority over anyone anymore. And it deserves to go extinct. But in its wake it produces all kinds of alternate religions to fill the vacuum, and one of those is the religion that forms in opposition to the Church--atheism.

Atheism is neither a church nor a philosophy in the sense of being a kind of religion.

I can't get into a Christian forum anymore with my ideas. They ban me instantly--no question. Over the years, the atheists have become less and less tolerant as well.

I hear this all the time from people trying to push intelligent design into science, spouting persecution for their supposedly scientiic ideas when the rejection stems from intelligent design not actually being scientific according to the experts the religious are trying to push it on to. The problem with your ideas isn't the ideas themselves, but rather the methodology in which you bring them with no option for honest discourse. Your statements in this thread have already proven that you have already chosen not to listen to any criticism of your ideas.