The Positively Atheist Thread

[Stu Monty]

Go back through the thread and look where most of the antagonism comes from.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

Why would I do that?

[Stu Monty]

Why would I do that?

Because you seem to have missed a running theme of people antagonising atheists. Gleefully so.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

Because you seem to have missed a running theme of people antagonising atheists. Gleefully so.

 

What are you talking about? I was referring to a post. I didn't say they're the only antagonistic people and I'm not commenting on this thread, but the wider world. The one that has shaped my experience, not this thread. 

[TheHowieLama]

Nothing better than winding an atheist up....

[razor]

Some people do seem so occupied with their 'lack of belief', though. I have no issue with a lack of belief, which some aggressive, condescending, insulting people claim that is simply all their views amount to. It's so clear to see that for those people it isn't all it amounts to.

 

I'd imagine that's the sort of thing they meant. I think antitheists should call themselves that rather than just atheists. Being atheists doesn't mean you have to be an aggressive, antagonistic, condescending arsehole. It's just that quite a few seem to bask in it due to their hellbent hatred of it.

 

Bang on the money.

 

Go back through the thread and look where most of the antagonism comes from.

 

Oh, aye, and what are YOU going to do about it?

[Rico1304]

Nothing better than winding an atheist up....

Yes, being wound up by someone who believes in fairy stories is just infuriating.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

Yes, being wound up by someone who believes in fairy stories is just infuriating.

QED

[skend04]

Yes, being wound up by someone who believes in fairy stories is just infuriating.

Come now Rico, you must admit you are wound up by religion a teensy bit.

[Rico1304]

Come now Rico, you must admit you are wound up by religion a teensy bit.

Course I am, it kills millions of people.

 

Wound up by that post? Come on, I'm a Tory murdering racist cunt (I think that's everything but Hades will confirm) it barely registered.

[skend04]

Course I am, it kills millions of people.

 

Wound up by that post? Come on, I'm a Tory murdering racist cunt (I think that's everything but Hades will confirm) it barely registered.

You're a Tory??

[cloggypop]

I thought Tories were all C of E.

[Jairzinho]

I thought Tories were all C of E.

 

Cunt of England?

[cloggypop]

Close enough.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Course I am, it kills millions of people.

 

 

Lazy, shallow and childish sloganeering, that is.

 

Religion does not kill people (or "start wars" as the other puerile canard has it). People choose to do bad (or good) things for their own reasons, then use religion as a justification.

[Lee909]

Disliking religion for killing people.

Atheists Pol Pot,Joesph Stalin and Chairman Mao. How many deaths on them 120 million or so isnt it.

 

The same can be said the other way. Oh the Crusades killed how many in the name of God.

 

Well the Crusades were not a religious war. The Pope started it as a mixture of a land grab snd as a way of stopping the Catholic European royal houses from fighting each other and the Pope being forced to excommunicate them

 

Both sides can be antagonist as each other and like putting all the worlds issue on each other

 

 

[Rico1304]

Lazy, shallow and childish sloganeering, that is.

Religion does not kill people (or "start wars" as the other puerile canard has it). People choose to do bad (or good) things for their own reasons, then use religion as a justification.

AIDS, Africa, condoms. That's because I can't be bothered with the rest.

[Rico1304]

Disliking religion for killing people. Atheists Pol Pot,Joesph Stalin and Chairman Mao. How many deaths on them 120 million or so isnt it. The same can be said the other way. Oh the Crusades killed how many in the name of God. Well the Crusades were not a religious war. The Pope started it as a mixture of a land grab snd as a way of stopping the Catholic European royal houses from fighting each other and the Pope being forced to excommunicate themBoth sides can be antagonist as each other and like putting all the worlds issue on each other

None of the people you mentioned killed in the name of atheism - read the thread.

 

If a Christian kills because he's a cunt religion plays no part in it and only an idiot would blame the religion. If a person who doesn't believe in God kills because he's a cunt...

[Hades]

How many wealthy oil sheikhs are suicide bombers? 

[VladimirIlyich]

Course I am, it kills millions of people.

 

Wound up by that post? Come on, I'm a Tory murdering racist cunt (I think that's everything but Hades will confirm) it barely registered.

Religion doesnt kill people,people kill people.

The reasons for it are plentiful,including a belief in fairy stories too.

It will never cease to be and will continue to be done on a grand scale by people of all beliefs. I'd say the most murderous people are motivated by power and money and put on whichever jacket disguises this.

[Lee909]

Isnt that what im getting at?

Both sides through names into the argument. No wars or deaths are really on the religious or non religious there is always a political issue behind it

[stringvest]

Can't we just all get along while eyeing each other with mutual contempt, suspicion and distrust?

[Lee909]

Can't we just all get along while eyeing each other with mutual contempt, suspicion and distrust?

No we bloody cant

Your from a different place than me and your skin pigment is probably 0.005 lighter than mine you bastard

[AngryOfTuebrook]

AIDS, Africa, condoms. That's because I can't be bothered with the rest.

Matthias Rath, Anthony Brink, Thabo Mbeki.

 

I could go on, too, but you're right - it'd be pointless to throw references, anecdotes and speculation back and forth because we're not going to persuade each other of anything.

[Rico1304]

Isnt that what im getting at?Both sides through names into the argument. No wars or deaths are really on the religious or non religious there is always a political issue behind it

AIDS, Africa, condoms.

 

A man living in a palace in Italy has the power to save the lives of millions poor Africans and chooses not to because of a book cobbled together a few hundred years ago. Mental.