if you really want to exhibit edgy panache, why don’t you instead single out islam (aka the religion of peace)?

now that would be breaking barriers… as far as talking about things that people aren’t to talk about goes, pointing out that christianity celebrates a dude who washed the feet of paupers while islam celebrates a warlord who united tribes to conquer cities is right up there.

that would be edgy and original, playboy

fuck people who say “fuck christians”!

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i say fuck people who think identifying cliches makes them original

i.e.

fuck you

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I’m not religious. I’m quite clearly atheist by my post… if you couldn’t tell.

What my comment basically boiled down to, since you obviously didn’t read it, is that you are pretty much the audience for your own post here. I’m going to assume it was just too big for you to read.

And your above comment really just affirms that. Now would you actually like to comment on what I said? Or would you like to make a reply based only upon my “Umm…”, as clearly you didn’t make it past the first sentence in my first comment…

Or maybe you did, but just couldn’t comprehend it?

I’ll go further than saying your belief in god is stupid: YOU ARE A PATHETIC WORTHLESS CUNT. Fuck you and fuck every delusional piece of shit like you!

Saying:
“The idea that any ’supreme being’ could possibly give a shit what us insignificant insects get up to is laughable.”
is the same thing as saying:
“I think believing in god is stupid”
You’re just saying it in a nicer way, it is BS to think you are saying otherwise. In other words:
“shut the fuck up you egotistical, self-deluding simpleton.”
And also:
“The fact that someone who would say that is too stupid to see the inherent logical contradiction would be funny if it wasn’t sad.”

Throughout the article, you also seem to have many blatant errors of thought, like:
“Atheism is a belief system the same as any religion.”
No, it isn’t. Atheism is a devoid of belief, meaning, you simply don’t have a belief in a god. It’s not a belief system. Get it? Even if it was the belief that there was no god (which assumes existence of god), it’s a single belief, therefore it is not a system. It’s not a belief though. It’s not a religion, it’s not a ideology, it’s not a philosophy, it’s not a creed, it’s not a world view, it’s not anti-religion, it’s not knowing there is no god: it’s simply the lack of belief in a god. It’s the opposite of theism, which is none of the above as well. Atheism and theism, simply profess a whether or not you have a belief in god.

On that note, all non-theistic agnostics are atheists, they are only delusional/misinformed that they are not. Can you put 2 and 2 together and tell me why?

“You can’t prove that god doesn’t exist any more than anyone can prove god does exist.”
Maybe not, but I can prove that a Christian god doesn’t exist, or a Greek god doesn’t exist, and so forth. Simply because they give constraints and details to their god, which can be proven false or erroneous. You’ll find that people almost never have a problem with theism, they have a problem with religion. Understand? Am I getting through to you? It’s hard to tell.

“incapable of making the concession they could be wrong”
And why wouldn’t they be? They haven’t been proven or shown otherwise. They haven’t been given any reason to be. What’s your favorite food? Have you made the concession that you could be wrong about your favorite food? I mean, what if you just haven’t tried your favorite food yet, and somebody showed you that your really like this new food you’ve never had the best? Yes, that is how BS your argument really amounts to when it comes down to it. Have you made the concession that wearing a jacket, you know, might not really keep you warmer? No? What if I put ice inside that jacket? Now it’ll keep you colder. Tsk tsk, you shouldn’t have been so arrogant…

But no, really, refer to the first paragraph basically every time you speak about the religious, as you basically amount to saying “I think believing in god is stupid” in fancier and fluffier terms. Really, I think there is no better audience to this blog post than yourself.

In fact, on this note, I think you just have a problem with others like yourself.

I’d just like to counter a point some people above are making – nobody has to “justify” their belief system to anyone else as long as they aren’t trying to shove it down the throats of other people. Religions have done that a lot over the years, but these bigoted atheists are doing the exact same thing now.

Also – atheism is not the same thing as science. Science is a method of predicting the outcome of physical phenomena based upon repeatable experimentation, atheism is a belief system the same as the Church of Satanism or whatever else you want to pluck out of the air. Get off the fucking high horse Karl. For everyone who died in 9/11 for a “religious” cause (anti-USA fanatics from the Mid-East) there were a dozen who died in the Slovoki Camp of Special purpose just because they were religious and Stalin decided he that atheism needed to be implimented across the country with force.

Extremism is the danger, and it doesn’t come from atheism or religion, but from a complete refusal to accept the possibility that the other guy might just have a point.

Custador: I would agree that the “religion” label is totally inappropriate. Which is not to say unthinking zealots don’t exist on the atheist side.

An atheist is always an atheist, and as such has no religious belief. What there are, though, are people who think that organised reliogions are extremely fucking dangerous and should be challenged over their medieval population control techniques because they think they’re fucking evil.