RE: Converting to Atheism?
May 31, 2015 at 4:18 am
(This post was last modified: May 31, 2015 at 4:26 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
(May 30, 2015 at 11:18 pm)BrimmingIntellectual Wrote:(May 30, 2015 at 6:36 pm)Faith No More Wrote: The post was meant to be factual, not creative. I was just pointing out that self-righteous twats, such as yourself, "attempting" to incite hostility through mockery are a dime a dozen here. It's the same old tired routine of spouting way over-used tropes, because you trolls can't come up with an original idea on your own. In fact, we're so threatend by your unoriginality that we're more interested in talking about rock crushers.
Or more accurately, rock sorters pretending to be crushers.
Yeesh, look at those defense mechanisms turning, you're a touchy fella aren't you? I already told you I apologize if my simple questions don't entertain you, I am used to the real world in which you just ask questions and have them answered, I didn't expect critiques on their creativity. But I now understand that this community is special, so don't fret I will definitely try to get my questions to meet your standards next time. Although, I urge you not to get carried away next time; I assure you I'm not some dragon for you to slay, I don't mean any harm.
Actually it was obvious that you were trying to be satirical. The problem is though that you need to understand your target in order for satire to be effective. It can be possible to write very effective satire pretending that atheism is a religion in order to point out the failings of real religion. Your original post came closer to achieving this than what you actually intended. Which is why I helped it along.
Your flaw though was that many theists dismiss atheism as just another religion, which I find rather ironic really because by doing so they are effectively admitting that their own religion can be easily dismissed as well. If you had focused on the accusations of condescension and group think you may have been able to write some satire that hit its target. This is because atheists don't believe what they have been told to believe without questioning, yet every group of people, no matter who or what they believe are still vulnerable to condescension and group-think. If an atheist had written their version of your original post it would have been far more effective.