Atheists are stupid and need to shut up.

[zuhane]

I'm an atheist!

[Prpl_Mage]

Largest problem is that if one person of one faith, politic, or country expresses a feeling / thought / idea about anything we like to assume that all people of similar background think the exact same way. What people don't realize is that we're living in a secluded society these days when being the same as everyone else isn't really an option because of all the freedom of choice. And religion doesn't have the same power of people anymore. Neither does a government.
If someone says that he's a priest people misjudge him as a child molester, if a person says he's a Buddhist people assume that he's a vegetarian, pacifist and thinks life is an illusion. Problem is that people of faith doesn't have a shared mind link. Mother Theresa and George Bush are both Christians but we can't claim that she would've done the same choices that he did.
Same goes for atheists and people of any faith alike.

One persons opinion doesn't reflect the thought of millions of people although there might be some people who shares a common thought. Over here we have priests who don't believe that Mary was a virgin or that bible is 100% truth while other christians would claim that those things are the most important thing in the world. And that's just fine, people are doomed to freedom of thought.

I have christian friend who's circumcised which confuses a lot of people, same as people assume that all muslims and jews are circumcised. Things differ between place and place.

What people do these days though. Is to grab one book, or theological argument and bash it into the heads of all those who don't share their opinion. There are christians who represent the bible, muslims referring everything to the Quran, jews to the Tanak, buddhists to Buddha and so on. Just as well as there are atheists who refer to the big bang theory, evolution or anything scientific. And even nationalists / patriots who keeps referring to how things used to be or how the government want things to be.
These people simply accept this one piece of information and doesn't question it or put it in context to how the people / society or world looks like these days.
Ignorant people are on all sides, people who simply follow and doesn't think.

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

Oh yeah I just remembered this lololololol

You atheists will love this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PAJNntoRgA&feature=player_embedded

[Archem]

Guh. Too much repetition. Either in points or personality. I'm done here.

[TyDrace]

Mother Theresa and George Bush are both Christians but we can't claim that she would've done the same choices that he did.

A woman obsessed with making other people suffer like Christ suffered on the cross. Do your homework on Mother Theresa, I hate George Bush but goddamn he's the better choice in this one.

[Prpl_Mage]

A woman obsessed with making other people suffer like Christ suffered on the cross. Do your homework on Mother Theresa, I hate George Bush but goddamn he's the better choice in this one.

I never said she was the most huggable woman in the world, point was that two christians don't think the same. And those two don't. It's about overlapping circles, not one big circle shared by all.

[TyDrace]

I never said she was the most huggable woman in the world, point was that two christians don't think the same. And those two don't. It's about overlapping circles, not one big circle shared by all.

Sure, but pick a better example next time.

[Grandy]

But atheists are usually much nicer than the so called "Christians".

In my personal experience, nope.

[Grandy]

I'm going to guess that nobody ever beat you up at school at school for being an atheist. So, in MY personal experience, 'Christians' are much worse people.

nobody beat people up on my school. At all.

We relied on psychological warfare.

[Prpl_Mage]

So, today, this girl I know from dA posted on the forum about how hard it is to deal with her father's death*?

Not born in a country with the majority being religious people so atheists are the ones trying to force beliefs upon the minority over here. Unless it's jehovas or mormons.
It's lovely trying to teach kids about religion when all of them sees it as mental illness, low self-esteem and lack of responsibility.

Was it a roman catholic or more of a lutheran protestant btw?

[Razor]

Nobody in my school was beat up for being an atheist or a Christian because I don't live in a toilet
MEGABURN

[Archem]

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn.

[Prpl_Mage]

So basically it's the same reason why christianity even became a large group to begin with. You just realized that you had to spread the world about this teaching that can save your immortal soul without having to sacrifice your family cow.


Also, I'm kinda wondering how Brazil must be doing church wrong.

[fruckert]

If it matters any, Lucas, I apologize for being a bit of a dck.
Didn't realize how much of an awful...erm, toilet Brazil is regarding basic tolerance and ****.
It would kind of helped to know that sooner, though. So...yeah.

[Grandy]

How mature.

Anyway, just gonna say this before anyone else does.

The reason why so many young atheists (and I will include myself in that group) feel the need to be so vocal about their faiths. They have been raised in societies where not being religious is just not a choice they had. Everyone prays, everyone goes to church, and all non believers burn in hell. And then one day they wake up, find out they don't believe in any of that, and realize that there is no hell waiting for them and that god did not burn down their houses. And you know, with that comes a great deal of freedom. You actually become allowed to think about whatever you want without fear of eternal otherworldly punishment, and that's awesome. And well, you suddenly know that you just have to spread the word, because it is really good to you, it is good to all your new atheist friends, you got no more reason to hate gays, atheists and other religions, there is no hell, you don't wake up at 6 to go to church and listen to a guy who is probably a pedo trying to teach you about morals... You just get happy with all that, and like I said before, not giving people the choice to be happy is kind of being a dick. I myself have known ex-Christians who hated it (and me) when I tried to convert them and they got pretty mad, but once they changed their minds, they spent pretty much whole days talking about how much religion sucks and how much lack of faith rocks. And then after a few months they calm down and are ready to become productive members of society again. I think the whole "I hate religion" thing is fine to do with your friends to get the steam out, but thing is, lots of those newly converted people decide to go on youtube or the internet in general to do that, and in turn, give atheists a bad name.

Really, fruck only thinks that I'm that kind of atheist because he's my friend and I talk about things like this with him all the time. But I never go out of my way to troll youtubers or attack Christian sites. I only try to convert people I care for.

I'm sorry Lucas, I can't bring myself to agree with you.

You're an atheist and want others to be because you're happy that way? Fine. Problem starts with generalizations and certain comments you make.

  When someone like you who supposedly is not newly-converted feels the need to say the guy teaching morals is "probably a pedo", it just really really irks me.

It's the same as a christian going "but at least with christianity we won't become rapists like those atheists probably will".

It's little implications like that that make me mad and rant. Unfortunately, your post was full of it.