Weltall

Insulting us tends to have negative reprecussions.
Quantity vs Quality. You can present whatever evidence you like (and I recommend that you do, we're tired of assertions) but if your evidence can't stand logical scrutiny it means exactly nothing.
Actually many of us are willing to change our minds if evidence presents itself. Not that we're holding our breaths...
Faith: Belief in the absence of evidence. Please explain to me how the LACK OF BELIEF has anything to do with faith.
Actually some of us believe what the evidence points to wheras some of us ignore the evidence because they don't like what it says.
Actually I used to be a chrisitan. It was the lack of evidence that made me become an atheist.
Great, now prove that he existed.
If you want to engage in rational discourse, you should care.
Sorry if you're offended that we've insulted your imaginary friends.

Ben Willott

I too, wish to beg to differ. I am an atheist, but I eagerly await proof that I have been wrong. What I want is a "discworld" situation, i.e. one in which gods pop round to atheist's houses to throw rocks through their windows (kudos to Terry Pratchett here). That's the kind of personal attention that would see me in church.

southernhybrid

Well I too have a smile on my face but of course you can't see it. First of all I wish you would stop calling me a fella or a guy. I am a WOO-man, a proud, atheist woman, that thinks for herself. It doesn't matter what the other atheists or Xians think. I sure have a lot to be angry about when it comes to Xianity if I were an angry person, so let me clue you in as to why.

Take these quotes from the Bible and some famous Xian leaders.

Ecclesiastes 7:26-28

1 Timothy 2:9-12,15

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Job 25:4


1 Corrinthinans 14:33-36


St. Thomas Aquinas

Martin Luther

John Know ( founder of Scottish Presbyterianism )

Samuel Butler ( poet and Xian )

Karl Barth ( Swiss theologian )

Pope PIUS XII



And one more that really should make me angry.

Dr. C.W. Shedd, Presbyterian minister in his pamphlet,
Letters on How to Treat a Woman

I am not angry because I am married to an enlightened atheist man who treats me as his equal and for 24 years we have enjoyed the utmost harmony, emotional and physical satisfaction as well as mutual respect and admiration for each other. I don't know how any self respecting woman can accept a doctrine which prefers to subjugate her, and uses her as the scapegoat for the failings of humanity. I'm not doubting that there are some in your church who do good works but that doesn't make the silly, outdated doctrine of the church any more credible.


May I suggest if you are worried about the lack of contributions from the godless, that you study the many historical women who were social reformers of all kinds. Almost everyone was a freethinker. Learn about the thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment and notice that most of them did not believe in the supernatural, then look at the most progressive scientists of the past 100 years and you will find almost everyone an atheist or agnostic. We atheists have a long proud history of contributing to the improvement of humanity. If you would educate yourself wtih an open mind, you would realize that. If some of us are angry, well we are only human and we have plenty of reasons to be angry.

You on the other hand come here to our community and seem only interested in pushing emotional buttons and casting aspersions. Maybe you should ask yourself why that's the case. Maybe you should try and investigate objectively why some atheists seem to be angry.

...and you haven't riled me up. I always enjoy an opportunity to educate [edit of implied insult..]

Godot

Are you really sure that this is something you wish to admit? That you are intentionally writing in such a manner as to ruffle a few feathers, simply as a means of engendering a response?

This practice has a name. It is called trolling. At best, it is rather heavily frowned upon. At worst, well... hmmm.

What little else that remains of your response that I have culled is simply you demonstrating your confirmation bias. You come to an atheistic website, insult the atheists assembled therein, and then gleefully pat yourself on the back when we respond with some degree of rancor? Please. :banghead:

Goliath

Incorrect, as I am an atheist and have no faith whatsoever.

Sincerely,

Goliath

xxthe_leewitxx

Boy, if that's not a clear-cut case of projection, I don't know what would be.

Krosis

Moving to ~E~ b/c of that alone..

-Krosis GRD moderator

orpheus last chant

Oh I get it. We're like those ticklish persons. You poke'em with your finger to see them squirm. And when they get mad because they really really don't like being tickled, you're like "Hey man, why so angry, just wanted to get your attention! Chill."

And the best way to keep away any thought of wishing to be Christian is to talk to them. They're walking, talking anti-advertisments.

If you can't convince us one way or another, and you have no interest in at least comparing worldviews, why don't you leave us alone and find another means of entertainment?

Obey_Matthew_6_6

Yes, I suppose those sects which oppose abortion, and especially any form of birth control/contraception think that overpopulating the earth to the point of exhausting the world's resources, mass starvation, and rampant epidemics (look at the Third World for examples) is just a happy-joy-fun walk with Jeebus. Yes, let's catch people at their lowest and most vulnerable, and keep them from breaking free by telling them they're evil, sinful, lowly worms, but hey! there's hope, Jeebus loves you! :boohoo: Are we THAT afraid of homosexuality? Cripes, I'd rather be gay than xian! Nope, not here. Never a bit of xian opposition to vaccines, transplants (and surgery in general - might disprove the "Adam's rib" myth), evolutionary theory (backed by centuries of scientific observation, as opposed to creationist MYTH), genetic research, stem cell research, equal rights for women and minorities, contraception, sex education, divorce (which IS for the better in some cases), oh, and let's not forget religious freedom. Does the term "Luddite" ring a bell? :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: Atheism, as you still don't seem to understand, is purely a LACK OF GOD-BELIEF, nothing more. It is NOT a philosophy or religion. As such, Atheism cannot foster progress, any more than your lack of belief in Buddha, Vishnu, Thor, Odin, or Zeus fosters progress. On the other hand, AtheistS (as well as Agnostics) make up a fair percentage of the scientific community. Blatantly false. :banghead: The only thing you may have right is that fear of gawd is the only thing that keeps xians from raping, murdering, pillaging, etc. Atheists act ethically because it's in our interest as well as that of society as a whole. All our actions have consequences in THIS world. The "Golden Rule" is a much better standard for behavior than any "holy" book. If we act ethically purely out of fear, we are lower than beasts. That sometimes happens when you light matches. :banghead: No, YOU believe what you want to believe. I'm sure most of us, if presented with incontrovertible evidence (that being an appearance "in person"), would believe in your deity. Appeals to emotions or fear are not evidence, nor is a book of fables written by technologically challenged goatherders. We're not the ones who are so desperate to believe as to ignore reality.

Ibsulon

I'm sorry, he must be talking about me.

I'm the angry atheist. Well, I'm really a satanist because all atheists worship Satan whether they know it or not. But atheist sounds cooler and less scary.

So I was really annoyed when my Christian neighbors kept calling the police as I was drawing the pentagram getting ready to sacrifice their baby on my altar, but the whole bit about loving me just really pissed me off. I mean, I wanted to hate them so much and they had the audacity to tell me they loved me? If they loved me, they'd let me sacrifice their child!

and that whole thing about being struck by lightning twelve separate times so far, I'm really annoyed that, and I'm more than annoyed that I don't believe in a god to blame so I just have to take someone else's god and the Christian one is more convenient.

That's not even mentioning the whole bit of having Jesus come down weekly and try to convince me that that whole crucifixion trick isn't really a joke. I mean, the teleportation trick is kind of cool showing up right next to me but I saw them do it on Star Trek so someone must know how to do it, right?

So that's why I hate Christians.
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(Or.. it could just be that I get annoyed with people who keep trying to convert me after I say I'm not interested, but that's too simple an explanation. Christians that don't do this are fine by my book...)