Brethren, a message about arrogant atheists

MonkeyBalls

Richard Dawkins was once giving a speech on a podium, and when he
finished he invited questions from the audience. A pretty young girl
near the front politely asked him, "...what if you're wrong?" Dawkins
rushed towards her, jumped off the stage, and began to strangle her.
"What if YOU'RE wrong, bitch!" he screamed, before security pulled the
rabid, convulsing, insane Dawkins off her.

True story, in some people's minds.


For hundreds of years religion has been cocooned from the blasting
light of reality and criticism, and now, in the twenty-first century,
people are finally starting to say "wait a minute, this is nonsense".
This criticism sounds to most ears – habituated to the glow of
solemnity and respect emanating from all things religious – like a
mighty army of cloaked swastika-clad fascists booming murderous
frothing rage as slivers of drool swing from their snarling mouths,
brandishing The Origin of Species and marching through the city
streets on a crusade to rip apart the worldview of goodnatured people
who just want to love the Lord and live a good life.

There is nothing militant about using words to criticise pernicious
nonsense. There are nice, simple people for whom religion is a
comfort, and who have no designs upon blowing up innocent people. But
life is not always fair, there are tradeoffs. It's a lie, perpetuated
over and over again, that religion is not responsible for the
atrocities religious people commit. People just block that nasty truth
out, or bleat “that's not religion, that's people”, or nuance every
detail to death in order to blur the hard brutal obvious truth of what
religion is and can be. The more truthful and cutting the criticisms
of religion, the more "militant" the atheist. Religious apologists
want to pull all discussion into the realm of the fuzzy and ambiguous,
where it is nice and safe and its undignified nakedness is covered up.
Nuance is the cloth that covers up the dangling ballsack of
religion.

Religious belief is so imbricated and twisted into the fabric of
people's lives and minds, that criticising religion is like reaching
up into the wiring of their souls, grabbing a handful, and tearing it
all out through their asshole. It dangerously threatens everything
that keeps them together.

Lost in all of this is that the most frothing atheist pales in
comparison to the arrogance of the most timid theist – infinitely
special in the grand scheme of the universe – who kneels before his
bed to speak to the Creator of the Entire Universe who listens to what
he has to say and created the universe with him in mind and will
change the laws of reality for him if he prays extra hard and saved
him a parking spot that morning when he was late for an important
business meeting. Most religious people can't even see the absurdity
of this, so deep are they bured in the sands of delusion. My advice:
if you're a committed theist who doesn't require an opponent to define
you and reinforce your cult, don't try to argue with atheists or
expose yourself to science and reason, because that will cause you
distress and cause you to spout inane perversions of reason, such as
the attempt to reconcile evolution with theology. There is enough
truth-mutilating nonsense in the world without you adding to it.

PDN

So have any Christians here really ever believed that security staff had to pull Richard Dawkins off a young girl after he tried to strangle her and called her a bitch?

Is there any point to this rant other than the kind of trolling that occurs when little boys get together on A&A and egg each other on with, "Go on, try posting it over there!"?

Where's that yawning emoticon when you need it?

MonkeyBalls

PDN wrote: »

So have any Christians here really ever believed that security staff had to pull Richard Dawkins off a young girl after he tried to strangle her and called her a bitch?

I think you may have missed the point of that.



As for the point of this - militant atheism is a fabrication designed to ease the blow of points that break apart the fabric of religious ideas.

And I wanted to hear your thoughts.

PS: as for the yawn emoticon, see Orwell's definition of Crimestop.

bad2dabone

I don't think you're for real monkeyballs, I think you're on a wind up to be honest.

antiskeptic

PDN wrote: »

Is there any point to this rant other than the kind of trolling..

Trolling is an art. That's not art.

PDN

MonkeyBalls wrote: »

I think you may have missed the point of that.

No, I think I got the point very well. You wanted to misrepresent how Christians view Richard Dawkins. Probably better to keep that on a forum where your fellows will pat you on the back every time you trot out the tired stereotypes and cliches.

As for the point of this - militant atheism is a fabrication designed to ease the blow of points that break apart the fabric of religious ideas.

And I wanted to hear your thoughts.

Nobody's particularly interested in discussing 'militant atheism'. Seems a topic more suited to the A&A forum rather than spamming it over onto a forum that is for the discussion of Christian issues.

Tell you what, if anyone wants to give their views I'm sure they can do so on the forum where you originally posted it.

Meanwhile I'll lock it here to save you making a tit of yourself. Then you can complain about how oppressed you are by the Nazi mods of the Christianity forum.