It isn't about faith, IMO. It's about their infinite capacity to get "offended" by the fact that atheists think their religions are bullshit.
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Atheists are mentally ill
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I agree, but this one appears to be offended by the studies saying atheists are smarter, which shouldn't be a problem if he is on the side of the one true god.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
(August 14, 2013 at 10:17 pm)Faith No More Wrote: I agree, but this one appears to be offended by the studies saying atheists are smarter, which shouldn't be a problem if he is on the side of the one true god. Hard to speculate as to what goes on in a mind like that. Reasoning is definitely not his forte. As crazy and inaccurate this article is, I doubt anything is going to happen because atheists tend not to take these things seriously. If he'd written about a religion, or even tweeted, the reaction would've been disproportionate.
Actually I'm convinced.
After all, this bloke is an authority, being a "novelist, journalist and travel writer". And surely the Torygraph wouldn't publish something that wasn't true? Then just look at all that "obviously", "literally" and "vital" stuff. With all that certainty it's gotta be true! But the final clincher is that only someone who was "smarter" would know the evidence that shows otherwise was wrong enough for them to say they were smarter. I think.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
All right.
All religious people are nuts. Fuck off, cat! BTW, the note above cites Baylor University and in case our European cousins do not realize it. Quote:Baylor University, a private Christian university And, oh yeah... it's in fucking Texas. RE: Atheists are mentally ill
August 15, 2013 at 1:13 am
(This post was last modified: August 15, 2013 at 1:14 am by orogenicman.)
We are hardwired for a lot of things. All that means is that we've evolved that way. Yeah, you know, like when you've killed all who oppose your genocidal religion, the only ones left standing are the ones who think like you do. So yeah, we are hardwired. That doesn't mean that it is normal.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens "I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations". - Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) "In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! " - Dr. Donald Prothero (August 15, 2013 at 1:13 am)orogenicman Wrote: We are hardwired for a lot of things. All that means is that we've evolved that way. Yeah, you know, like when you've killed all who oppose your genocidal religion, the only ones left standing are the ones who think like you do. So yeah, we are hardwired. That doesn't mean that it is normal. The interesting thing about that evolutionary argument is that accepting it kind of puts a bunch of holes in the creation account that the writer is clearly angling toward claiming is true. Maybe faith is hardwired, but that doesn't make it true, and you know you're in trouble when accepting a central premise of your argument requires invalidating your larger premise. Also, our spines are technically hardwired for hunched over quadrupedal movement, but I doubt the writer would be a proponent of that. What we've been evolved for isn't the same thing as what's healthy for us.
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I do not see any evidence of atheism being a mental illness in that article. Furthermore, there seems to be a theist virus going around whereby the religious people are ironically referring to themselves as logical and reasonable because they believe in a god whereas nonbelievers are illogical and unreasonable because they refuse to believe in a god. The silliness that comes from theists when they are confronted with being incapable of accepting the senselessness of their beliefs is absurd.
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