Why do atheists hate so much? Is it some sort of unnatural compulsion to blasphemy and make the religious feel uncomfortable? Well, not really. The message from this part of the atheist community is clear: believing in the supernatural is not rational and basing decisions that affect people and institutions on mythology is credulous behaviour at best. This cartoon has been making the rounds in various atheist hotspots( I found it on Good Reason) on the net, and I reproduce it here for you today for the Sunday Disservice. The cartoon is a concise summary of why many atheists sound and act the way they do.
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March 11, 2012 at 8:49 am
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Hi found this linked on Twitter,
I think it’s counter-productive for either atheists or the religiously observant to continue to use the edge-case fringe of either side to try to base any kind of meaningful conversation about the role of religion in the social world. Most religiously observant people I know consider their faith to be an important but largely private matter, that informs how they live their lives. Similarly most of the non-religious or atheist people I know don’t preoccupy themselves with others’ faith or non-faith. Frankly I find the divisiveness of this is mostly the product of self promoters on either side: Ditchkens or the Evangelical Alliance aren’t from what I have seen and read, concerned with the greater good but with spreading division and pestilential acrimony for narrow self-interest.
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March 11, 2012 at 1:12 pm
The Arbourist
Most religiously observant people I know consider their faith to be an important but largely private matter, that informs how they live their lives.
And that would be awesome if this was the majority case, but the magical thinking and belief in fairy-tales tends to follow people back to empirical reality after they’ve communed with the sky-daddy of their choice.
Frankly I find the divisiveness of this is mostly the product of self promoters on either side
This sort of sounds like a argument against the ‘tone’ of the entire theist/atheist debate. Religion is not an easy opponent to fell, it is a codified, parasitical agent that will not simply pass with time, but must actively be scrutinized, questioned and challenged on every front if its influence is to be undone for the betterment of society.
As the strip illustrates, blasphemy, scorn and most importantly humour are the methods to needed to help usher out the rotten edifice of superstitious religious belief.
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March 12, 2012 at 6:44 pm
Alan Scott
The Arbourist,
In your distaste for all things not of the physical world, where are you on fairy tales ? Do you hate the Easter Bunny ? I figure that you will post some anti Christian Easter items. I just wondered if you will destroy the rabbit too .
Or did your childhood include chocolate and Easter egg hunts ?
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March 12, 2012 at 11:06 pm
The Arbourist
I think fairy tales are great Alan, as well as the Easter Bunny, bringer of chocolate and all things sweet. :>
Do you think I should post a takedown article on the Easter Bunny, could it be that you are comparing the Easter bunny to the rest of the religious hoo-ha that I do go on about? It would be a big step for you Mr.Scott. :)
I’ve hunted the odd egg in my time, although I cheated and watched my parents eyes as I went around the house and yard.
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March 13, 2012 at 7:36 pm
Alan Scott
Arbourist,
I believe there is hope for you. My favorite magical rabbit is Harvey.
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