One of the best article on this subject I have ever read.
Enjoy.
The Incredible Lightness Of Being An Atheist
Enjoy.
The Incredible Lightness Of Being An Atheist
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The Incredible Lightness Of Being An Atheist
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 RE: The Incredible Lightness Of Being An Atheist
November 23, 2011 at 6:15 pm
(This post was last modified: November 23, 2011 at 6:16 pm by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
How can I put this? Ah yes;What a smug, sanctimonious piece of hot cock.
An atheist is only a person who does not believe in gods. NOTHING ELSE is implied or may be inferred. An atheist is just an ordinary person. His atheism does NOT make him a better or happier person. Eg he may well be an angry,miserable, paranoid bigot like that Condell fruitcake. 
 (November 23, 2011 at 6:15 pm)padraic Wrote: How can I put this? Ah yes;What a smug, sanctimonious piece of hot cock. I don't know if you've ever been religious, but I can certainly attest to the vast difference in mental "lightness" between being a christian and being an atheist. I don't think the article was about saying, "ooh look at us, aren't we just the cleverest little clogs?" but illustrating how freeing it is to not believe, and have to wrestle with the implications of all the ridiculous bullshit that comes with religion.  (November 23, 2011 at 6:15 pm)padraic Wrote: How can I put this? Ah yes;What a smug, sanctimonious piece of hot cock. I think you missed the whole point. Without god, a person only has to answer to themselves. There is no second guessing, "What would jesus say?".
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion. -- Superintendent Chalmers Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things. -- Ned Flanders Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral. -- The Rev Lovejoy  (November 23, 2011 at 6:15 pm)padraic Wrote: His atheism does NOT make him a better or happier person. It does. I'm better and happier than all theists. 
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.
 RE: The Incredible Lightness Of Being An Atheist
November 25, 2011 at 1:44 pm
(This post was last modified: November 25, 2011 at 1:45 pm by Angrboda.)
Not sure how to break this to him, but most theists live outside the shackles of religion, too. I'm still trying to second guess, "What would Jesus do?" When I'm not asking W.W.K.D. ?  ![[Image: extraordinarywoo-sig.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/zf86M5L7/extraordinarywoo-sig.jpg)  (November 23, 2011 at 6:15 pm)padraic Wrote: How can I put this? Ah yes;What a smug, sanctimonious piece of hot cock. +1 This article is just as bad as a theist saying "an atheist cannot even COMPREHEND what it's like to have faith, the poor, sad, ignorant fools !" And the fact that some of us indulge in that kind of mental masturbation should be a source of worry. Villifying the religious as a whole as intellectually-stunted simpletons is being a bigot, intellectually small, and very, very irrational.  (November 26, 2011 at 11:50 am)Rwandrall Wrote:(November 23, 2011 at 6:15 pm)padraic Wrote: How can I put this? Ah yes;What a smug, sanctimonious piece of hot cock. Sorry but believing in a fairy tale when there is no credible evidence, which is the case for theists, is something that needs to be pointed out. I fail to see how this has anything do with bigotry or irrationality. Secondly, the article is not about denouncing religion per se but how good it feels to be free of the shackles of religion.  (November 23, 2011 at 9:02 pm)Kree Wrote:(November 23, 2011 at 6:15 pm)padraic Wrote: How can I put this? Ah yes;What a smug, sanctimonious piece of hot cock. I used to be religious, now I am an atheist. What this man wrote is very much how I feel. (November 26, 2011 at 1:28 pm)little_monkey Wrote: Sorry but believing in a fairy tale when there is no credible evidence, which is the case for theists, is something that needs to be pointed out. I fail to see how this has anything do with bigotry or irrationality. First, as long as it does not affect me, i don't see why the hell i would give a crap what someone else believes. Second, some people only make it through the day thanks to their belief in God. Yeah you can call them weak, but some people have nothing real to hold on to. Thirdly, we are all irrational: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority is an example of that. So judging someone else for being MORE irrational is simply hypocritical. Finally, this article seems to claim that the religious are blind fools who can't know how liberating it is to be an atheist, and that is a HUGE generalization full of condescension and ignorance of the millions of believers who ONLY use religious for a moral support, never bothering to read the Bible or spend even a second worrying about any divine rules, and are as rational as you and me their whole lives. Implying, as the article does, that every religious person would look up to the sky and think "forgive me Jesus" before downloading a movie illegally is just laughably wrong. |
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