LISTEN, CHRISTIANS!

[Randy Carson]

There are some angry people here. Some are angry at Christians like me who say things they don't like hearing. Others are angry at their parents or a former pastor who mistreated them or threatened them, etc. Some are just angry because of all the bad stuff which they attribute to religion rightly or wrongly. And some are angry at God because they know He has called them and they do not want to answer.

I'm not going to discuss it further because it makes you angry. But I did think her OP was poorly stated. That's all. Out.

I'm not angry, dude, I'm just perplexed, and I suspect that you can't answer the question I'm actually asking you, which is why you're being so remarkably evasive over it. I asked you how you know there are people here who are angry at god, and your response, where it addresses that question at all, is simply a restatement: "Some are angry at god." How do you know that?

Do I KNOW with 100% certitude? Heck no. But I read what they write, and they sound pretty pissed off to me - not just the tone or the language...there is some real deep hate in some folks, I think, and it comes across in their posts. That's not normal, is it? Cause I don't hate anybody or anything.

Let's use one of y'all favorite images. Suppose a person who believed in unicorns showed up in the forum like I did, and started posting arguments for the existence of unicorns. Do you think that person would be the recipient of the vile memes, videos, language and blasphemy that were and are thrown at me on a daily basis?

Nope. Because no one is mad at unicorns, and they aren't mad at unicornists. But they ARE mad at Theos and theists, aren't they?

There are people here who can't even bring themselves to type the word "Bible" - it has to be "buy-bull". And it's not God - it's "sky-daddy". And those are the family-friendly examples. Or look at the subjects of some of the threads that have been started in the forum in the past few days. Do these sound like the kinds of things that healthy, happy and well-balanced people normally say? The kind of rage that causes people to go out to YouTube and look for some of the sick, twisted stuff that is posted here is something I cannot fathom. But I know its source. And you know what I mean.

Honestly, it's a simple question, and I asked it for a reason, which is that a lot of the time, these common theistic talking points about atheists don't have a lot behind them. Every time I ask one of you guys about this it seems like it's difficult for you to properly vocalize your thinking on this point; if you actually have a reason for believing that then great, that seems like something worth talking about that's in keeping with the purpose of this thread. If you don't, then it'd be nice if you'd just admit it, because watching you so obviously avoiding the question just makes you look increasingly shifty and frankly, there's no reason to bring up an argument based on nothing but fantasy when there's real conversations that could be had instead.

Why do you think this is a common talking point among Christians about atheists? Personally, I've never spoken to another Christian about this subject, so you must be getting that from somewhere else.