Atheist Proletyzers?!?!

[TheDarkestOfAngels]

[lrh9]

I don't see anything wrong with militarism considering the most powerful organizations in the world don't want atheists to exist, and barring that don't want us living our lives the way we want to.

[Minimalist]

Never be surprised by the depth of stupidity shown by believers.

[Entropist]

When this hit the news the other day I was waiting for the other shoe to drop and I knew this is what would happen: ATHEIST TERRERISTS DARWINDAWKINSCOMMIEBASTARDS ARE UNAMERICUN!!!1!! etc etc ad nauseum. Let the misconceptions begin...

Actually, the main (stated) reason why he went on a rampage was something to do with overpopulation and he was a bit of a nutcase, obsessed with the idea that humans were destroying the earth (to a degree, this could be true, however, I am often tempted to welcome this with open arms). He didn't go to the Discovery channel to make people "convert" to atheism-- he went there to convert people to his obsessive form of environmentalism. A distinction I can't expect idiots to make...

Americans, least of all, I expect to have any understanding of atheism, which, taken by itself says NOTHING but that it is the absence of belief in gods. FROM that absence a myriad of ideologies MAY arise, many which are mutually exclusive and have nothing to do with religion per se: secular humanism, existentialism, communism, Darwinism, nihilism, Objectivism, etc. All this covers a lot of different ground, but none of them are religions. A nihilist may be an atheist, but not all atheists are nihilists. A secular humanist may be an atheist, but not all atheists are secular humanists. And so on.

When someone tells you "I am an atheist" it doesn't really tell you a lot. When someone tells you "I am a humanist" or "I am an Objectivist" or "I am an existentialist" they are telling you a lot more information. On this one board, we've got atheists who fall under a variety of political, scientific, moral and philosophical points of view, many of them overlapping.

Understanding such nuance requires at least some degree of intelligence. I don't expect that from most people, least of all religion-saturated Americuns.

[Shell B]

Actually, the main (stated) reason why he went on a rampage was something to do with overpopulation and he was a bit of a nutcase, obsessed with the idea that humans were destroying the earth (to a degree, this could be true, however, I am often tempted to welcome this with open arms). He didn't go to the Discovery channel to make people "convert" to atheism-- he went there to convert people to his obsessive form of environmentalism. A distinction I can't expect idiots to make...

Right after this happened, another writer that I bump into occasionally on another site, started a thread titled "My Hero." She went on to say how fucked up it was that they killed this guy and that the Discovery Channel needs to stop the bullshit programming and air stuff about solutions to over population. She's one of those environmentalists who do more to hurt their cause than to help it, like all the idiots in PETA.

I completely agree that the world is over populated. However, I will never support the ideas some of these people have. Forced abortion, infanticide, forced birth control measures - including surgery, mass murder, etc. These people are out of their fucking minds, as evidenced by that jackass.

[Minimalist]

I completely agree that the world is over populated

Just think how nice it would be if we could get rid of all the nutty believers?


Paradise!

[Entropist]

Uncyclopedia's entry on "atheism":

Atheism (pronounced Eehtheism in Cantuckistanish) is a fundamentalist religion which dogmatically adheres to the conviction that God, be he of the long-flowing bearded kind, or be it of the flying spaghetti kind, is probably a product of your poor, incense-riddled brain. It is a non-prophet organization, however it does have a few demigods such as Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Carl Sagan and Darwin. Ideal ways to kill the Atheist scourge include waving crucifixes at them, showing outright displays of faith, and saying "God bless you" when they sneeze. Modern anthropologists note that Atheism is as boring as hell, which Atheists don't believe in either. Atheists don't have any gods to lead them, so they made a King called The King of Atheists who leads them through life....

MORE HERE.

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[Rev. Rye]

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

I despise militants and proseltyisers of all kinds as arrogant dickheads, and consider idealogues naive idealists at best, dangerous lunatics at worst.



The one being discussed seems to be a lunatic of some kind who is also an atheist.


Tu quoque and fatuous slippery slope arguments used to justify the same behaviour have not convinced me.

[TheDarkestOfAngels]