tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post114615681198153777..comments2023-10-24T04:29:23.693-06:00Comments on Atheist Ethicist: Angry AtheistAlonzo Fyfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687777216426347054noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-17565215322857513072013-01-03T01:15:00.389-07:002013-01-03T01:15:00.389-07:00Many atheists are angry because of unresolved ange...<br /><br />Many atheists are angry because of unresolved anger with their childhood. That deep seeded anger due to the betrayal/neglect or abuse of one's parents at such a young age leaves them scarred for life, never able to believe that a God would actually care for them. (Study basic childhood psychology and you can easily see the connection) Atheists see God as hateful, because their own upbringing was absolutely hateful, through no fault of their own. I know an atheist very closely, and he was deeply neglected and wounded as a child, left alone to cry with no one to hold him, no love, nothing. Now he is a grown man who is emotionally stunted (can't be any serious relationship) but absolutely intelligent. Many atheists seem to have high IQs, but terribly low EQs. He doesn't even know why he is the way he is, he can't even verbalize anything about his emotions to hopefully dig his way out of his past, his hurt, his wounds. <br /><br />I read up on Piers Morgans childhood (was interested because he is so deeply angry with anything God-related). Morgan's childhood sounded really rough. Seems to fit in line with the theory posed above. <br /><br />Atheists can't understand the things written about in the Bible because the Bible talks about relationships. Man's relationship to God, and man's relationship to each other. An atheist's ability to understand and be in any healthy relationship was robbed from them as infants and young children due to abuse and neglect.<br /><br />I see atheists as people to be loved more because they were so robbed of love as a child. Their anger is deep, and strong, but they're also deeply hurt. Anyone who has been hurt will understand this.<br /><br />Don't believe it when someone says they are christian just because it came from their mouths. No real christian would ever hold up a sign that says "G-- hates f--s" That's just the religious fanatics, not the real church. Church (institution) is filed with hypocrites. Judge by the fruit of their lives, not by the words out of their mouths.<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-1146399622095091702006-04-30T06:20:00.000-06:002006-04-30T06:20:00.000-06:00I wonder how the article would have went over had ...I wonder how the article would have went over had he said "It seems as though African-Americans are so angry".Darhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07534302098399264608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-1146219947009206102006-04-28T04:25:00.000-06:002006-04-28T04:25:00.000-06:00"I'm sometimes at odds with Yankee fans, people wh..."I'm sometimes at odds with Yankee fans, people who like rap music and people who don't like animals, but I try to be civil."<BR/><BR/>Got to disagree with him here. There's no reason to be civil to Yankee fans.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-1146165090405265012006-04-27T13:11:00.000-06:002006-04-27T13:11:00.000-06:00I would just add...As an atheist I have been asked...I would just add...<BR/><BR/>As an atheist I have been asked many times, "If, as you say, everyone has the right to believe whatever they want, why is it so important to you to debunk religious beliefs?". This is a valid question.<BR/><BR/>My answer to this question is simple and admittedly somewhat cynical; because the sheep of this world will follow whomever shouts the loudest, and I don't want to see them taken off to slaughter. More importantly to me, I don't want to be trampled by the herd while they march blindly off to their own destruction.<BR/><BR/>Put another way, I really don't mind people having beliefs that differ from mine. I do mind people that try to impose their beliefs on me. Since the hardcore fundamentalists are constantly trying to do just that, it is important to me to defend myself. This can catch people of less fundamental opinions off guard when I reply in a very animated way to the claims of religion. This gives people the impression that I am angry, and I guess, in a way I am.<BR/><BR/>All fundamentalist groups "KNOW" that they are right and everyone else is wrong. They see it as their right and duty to make the rest of us see it their way. If we do not, then fundamentalists have little compunction about using violence or coercion to inflict their beliefs on the rest of us. I believe that this is different from what I (and most other "angry atheists") do. My goal is not to get people to change their beliefs, but rather to realize that their beliefs are no more absolutely true than anyone else's. If people are threatened by this, it may be that they already have doubts and don't know how to handle it. As an example, I don't know how many times I have heard an Bible literalist say, "if we can question the literal truth of Genesis, then what stops us from questioning any other part of the Bible?".<BR/><BR/>So, to the theists of the world I say, please, write about these things until your fingers fall off; flame away on every forum you can find. Pray, confess, witness, and wail to your GOD until you are horse in the throat and you just can’t do it any more. But, at the end of the day remember that your belief is no better than my lack of belief. Just because you <I>think</I> you are right does <I><B>NOT</B></I> necessarily make it so. Unless you can show me a flying reindeer, or introduce me to "Nessy", or produce one tangible messiah (must bring miracle portfolio), or give me an ounce of fully functional fairy dust, or cure my hypertension without drugs, or bring in Big Foot's body, or show me just one measurable, quantifiable, verifiable scrap, of real evidence that any of these things are anything other than fanciful fiction, then stop trying to rule my life by your fucked up superstitions, I have my own! Thank you very little.LBBPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11489069649700724120noreply@blogger.com