(June 6, 2015 at 5:03 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:(June 6, 2015 at 3:10 pm)francismjenkins Wrote: I so hate the "angry at god" crap that we're so often accused of ... I mean, if the obvious contradiction of being angry at something that we don't think exists isn't enough, how about this. Why would a god have to be benevolent? I mean, that doesn't seems to be an argument against the existence of god (although it may be an argument against the reasonableness of worshiping such a being). Surely, a malevolent god is just as plausible as a benevolent god, in fact I would say more so. If we were created in god's image, then it would stand to reason that god is just as selfish, violent, and self-interested as we are (and when I read the buy-bull ... that is precisely my impression)
But I'm just as skeptical when it comes to new age (peace and love) type religiosity as I am with conventional religion. Bullshit is bullshit, whether pleasant and dressed up with swirling lollipops and flowers or not.
Let's be clear, okay?
I have never said that ALL atheists are angry at God. Some are living immorally and don't want to give up the sex, drugs, pornography, etc. Some are simply unconvinced by the evidence (which they claim is a lack thereof). Some are simply indifferent.
There are stong atheists, weak atheists, strong agnostics, weak agnostics, apatheists and Jesus Mythers. Who knows what other subcategories might exist?
However, despite the fact that I am ROUTINELY lumped in with all manner of fundies and whack jobs simply because I am a Christian (by folks who wouldn't know the difference between a Seventh Day Adventist and a Jehovah's Witness if one rang their doorbell), I do not lump all atheists together.
(June 6, 2015 at 4:57 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Sure! But that's run by atheists. You've already stated that you know more about atheists that you've never met than atheists do! I'd rather hear what somebody who doesn't know any of us has to say about what we think; obviously it'd be so much more accurate than our own accounts of the things in our minds!
Could you please reference the post # in which I claimed to know more about atheism than atheists do?
I'd like to check what I wrote in context. Thanks.
From your other thread:
"There are no atheists in foxholes."
https://atheistforums.org/post-959270.html#pid959270
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.