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Angry, condescending atheists
February 22, 2018 at 6:46 pm
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To read and listen to atheists, one might think that they believe that hatefulness and insults will attract others to their lair.
Take Richard Dawkins, please. What a vile, angry man, or should I say socialist. Even some of his atheist peers have stated
that Dawkins makes them embarrassed to be an atheist.
"Anyone who doesn't believe in evolution is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked." - Richard Dawkins
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RE: Angry, condescending atheists
February 23, 2018 at 3:18 pm
There are plenty of atheists who don't like Dawkins, and for good reason. I wouldn't judge all atheists based on that prick.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
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RE: Angry, condescending atheists
February 23, 2018 at 3:19 pm
^^^
There's a Christian in our forums... which you said wasn't a thing.
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RE: Angry, condescending atheists
February 23, 2018 at 3:25 pm
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.'
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RE: Angry, condescending atheists
February 23, 2018 at 3:26 pm
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(February 22, 2018 at 6:46 pm)Starman Wrote: To read and listen to atheists, one might think that they believe that hatefulness and insults will attract others to their lair.
Take Richard Dawkins, please. What a vile, angry man, or should I say socialist. Even some of his atheist peers have stated
that Dawkins makes them embarrassed to be an atheist.
"Anyone who doesn't believe in evolution is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked." - Richard Dawkins
This has no place in the Philosophy sub-forum. Go whine in another part of the site.
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RE: Angry, condescending atheists
February 23, 2018 at 3:28 pm
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RE: Angry, condescending atheists
February 23, 2018 at 3:29 pm
Incidentally, if we're going to hang the man by his words, let's at least use the words he actually wrote:
"So to the book's provocation, the statement that nearly half the people in the United States don't believe in evolution. Not just any people but powerful people, people who should know better, people with too much influence over educational policy. We are not talking about Darwin's particular theory of natural selection. It is still (just) possible for a biologist to doubt its importance, and a few claim to. No, we are here talking about the fact of evolution itself, a fact that is proved utterly beyond reasonable doubt. To claim equal time for creation science in biology classes is about as sensible as to claim equal time for the flat-earth theory in astronomy classes. Or, as someone has pointed out, you might as well claim equal time in sex education classes for the stork theory. It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that).
If that gives you offence, I'm sorry. You are probably not stupid, insane or wicked; and ignorance is no crime in a country with strong local traditions of interference in the freedom of biology educators to teach the central theorem of their subject."
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.'
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RE: Angry, condescending atheists
February 23, 2018 at 3:29 pm
LOL @ condescending.
You've got a plank in your eye, buddy.
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RE: Angry, condescending atheists
February 23, 2018 at 3:29 pm
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Who cares Dawkins says all kinds of stupid things .That says nothing about atheist or atheism as a rejection of theistic claims . I know plenty of theists who are embarrassed by Kent Hovind or Ray Comfort or the Westboro Baptist Church . That says nothing about every christian nor christianity. And you have yet to back your claim that atheism is synonymous with any specific economic or political ideology . And i gave two clear examples to the contrary.
(February 23, 2018 at 3:19 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: ^^^
There's a Christian in our forums... which you said wasn't a thing.
And Neo and Atheist etc etc etc
Seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy -- myself.
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RE: Angry, condescending atheists
February 23, 2018 at 3:32 pm
What makes us angry is when we are lumped together like this. Stop trying to generalize us. Quit making threads to push buttons and have one solid conversation. No one is angry with you for your views we are angry about how you came sweeping in here acting like we are all wrong and you are proving we are all assholes. If you think we are wrong and you don't like how we react why are you here? Its starting to come off that you want to feel superior.
I'm all for having a real conversation with you but you are making it difficult with your accusations, assumptions, and generalizations. Talk to us as individuals and stop saying we are all angry. It's the whole I was calm until you told me to calm down. We aren't angry until you start saying we are and saying we are in denial and lies if we say otherwise.
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