(April 5, 2015 at 11:20 pm)Polaris Wrote: Our views of stereotypical atheists are people who lack intelligence...mind you, this is the stereotypical atheist who proclaims they are an atheist and doesn't apply to the atheists who keep their mouth shut in public about their atheism. The assumption among Christians is that people only make anti-religious claims so that they appear smarter since there are a lot of studies that show the average nonbeliever is more educated (they also don't seem to care about their lack of belief...they're just atheist because they're atheist) than the average theist....kind of like jumping on the bandwagon to overcompensate for feeling inadequate especially when they compare themselves next to people from that WBC.
One can be elitist and uneducated. Even though Brian Griffin is just a cartoon character, he would be a good example of that stereotype. Portrays himself as intelligent, but doesn't really have a solid foundation to stand upon when it comes to academic conversation.
Mind you, these are just stereotypes and I have never once met a nonbeliever (I have family members who I can tell are atheists) who exemplified those traits. Then again, only met one theist who talked about the Earth not being older than 6,000 years.
So the stereotypical christian view of atheists in the US are that people calling themselves atheists are stupid because atheists are smart and stupid people want to seem smarter.
They have found a way to feel superior and inferior at the same time.
Fascinating.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
