Moderates make me feel happy
December 8, 2017 at 9:32 am
(This post was last modified: December 8, 2017 at 9:33 am by Der/die AtheistIn.)
I have a romanian language teacher who's a moderate orthodox christian. Yesterday she told us about a literary movement the romanian history, in which religion was used a lot. She told us that some used religion to manipulate. "Nothing new", I thought. Anyway, she said that we shouldn't take every single bible verse for granted, and that no religion is superior to others. I agree that all religions are just as good, that's why I'm an atheist.
Moderates are on one hand smarter than fundamentalists, on the other hand dumber. Moderates recognise (more or less) their book as shit, fundies aren't able to, but they actually follow the rules of their code. There are some rules which even they don't follow, but they're afraid to question them, they're afraid of Hell. Modies don't have that fear, they only fear that they'll be in the minority, they fear that they need to believe in a God. The modies I know don't do anything whatsoever to stop the fundies, sometimes they don't even avoid their extremist speeches. These modies are such pussies, I can just as well call them moodies (get it? from moody). They make me feel so happy! They make me laugh.
This reminds me of The emperor's new clothes. The fundies are like the emperor, easy to fool, afraid that if they don't have faith they'll be idiots, and the moodies are like the folk, they know the truth, but are too afraid to do anything about it because they fear they won't fit in. Nonbelievers are like the child who said out loud that the emperor is naked, they recognize the bullshit and are honest about it (not all say it out loud, but at the very least they're honest with themselves). Just like the child, they're in the minority, and most atheists are young. The reason for this is that the youth is generally more open minded, and now we have more sources of information than ever.
My comparison doesn't apply on every single person, some atheists choosed to be so only to be rebels, some moderates do something against fundamentalisms, but generally it's how I've described it.
Moderates are on one hand smarter than fundamentalists, on the other hand dumber. Moderates recognise (more or less) their book as shit, fundies aren't able to, but they actually follow the rules of their code. There are some rules which even they don't follow, but they're afraid to question them, they're afraid of Hell. Modies don't have that fear, they only fear that they'll be in the minority, they fear that they need to believe in a God. The modies I know don't do anything whatsoever to stop the fundies, sometimes they don't even avoid their extremist speeches. These modies are such pussies, I can just as well call them moodies (get it? from moody). They make me feel so happy! They make me laugh.
This reminds me of The emperor's new clothes. The fundies are like the emperor, easy to fool, afraid that if they don't have faith they'll be idiots, and the moodies are like the folk, they know the truth, but are too afraid to do anything about it because they fear they won't fit in. Nonbelievers are like the child who said out loud that the emperor is naked, they recognize the bullshit and are honest about it (not all say it out loud, but at the very least they're honest with themselves). Just like the child, they're in the minority, and most atheists are young. The reason for this is that the youth is generally more open minded, and now we have more sources of information than ever.
My comparison doesn't apply on every single person, some atheists choosed to be so only to be rebels, some moderates do something against fundamentalisms, but generally it's how I've described it.
"By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none"
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin
