1337mokro said:
The reason people hate atheists is because they are an affront to their own ego's. Also known as their gods. Not to mention the many commands in their holy books to kill all unbelievers, which to the atheist basically means 80% of the world thinks a voice in their head is telling them to kill this guy that doesn't think the voice is real.
Yeah. Kill all the unbelievers. And as we know, this is a doctrine that is adhered to rigidly by all followers of Catholicism and Islam in particular. Literally every Christian and Muslim is ready and willing to kill someone based on religious beliefs based on books written thousands of years ago during one of the most violent times in human history, when human life was insanely cheap. Well-thought out argument, especially since I've never heard this same argument from anyone in my life.
If the reason that you don't want to be an atheist is because you'd be associated with people that can take a joke I can totally understand that. No you just keep calling yourself an agnostic snowflake because if you don't you might offend someone somewhere.
"Agnostic snowflake"? I identify as an atheist; I don't believe anything written in the Bible, Talmund, or Quaran, I just have the common decency to respect people no matter what they believe. I just don't like saying I'm an atheist because then I'm compared to fedora-tipping pricks who have become worse than the people that they stand against.
I spend most of my internet time on 4chan, so the idea that I'm afraid of offending people was sodomized and burned years ago when I started regularly going to that wonderful place.
I mean it's not like you are saying that it's totally okay for the pope to walk on stage and claim his homeboy Yahweh as the arbiter of the internet, basically reaffirming a long held belief by many religious folk around the world that basically their deity is the engine that powers human ingenuity so whatever comes out of science is only here because their special subconscious friend wanted it to be here, but that I can't go up on that same stage, well a slightly less fancy stage after all I don't take in several billion dollars a year, and remind everyone of reality as a counter quip.
Here's my issue with that statement. First off, run on sentences. Holy shit man, semicolons. They'll save your life. Second: Why do you have such a problem with some old guy's personal opinion? If he thinks that the almighty creator of the universe and all life within it has personally insulted you, grow a thicker skin. If he hasn't insulted you, why do you care? The internet was built by people, but these people were of countless different faiths and creeds. "A gift from god" implies that this amazing invention was something that the benevolent creator of the universe would see fit to give to his favored children. It doesn't detract from the personal sacrifices and struggles of the people who made it, it means that what they did was something really really good.
I think your right in that your stage is significantly less kickass than the Vatican Palace. Well, until Pope Francis removed a lot of the really decadent crap that had been cluttering up the place because he seems to get that a Pope should live like a monk, not a Hollywood celebrity.
I mean did you even consider the feelings of the people that spent years of their lives creating the basic web?
I'm sorry, I thought I was afraid of offending people with my beliefs.
If you created the fucking Internet and the Pope went on to say that he thought that what you built was fit for the creator of existence, and you get angry about that, there are two scenarios. Either you're an egotistical shit who believes that the creation of the web of information that binds all humanity together is too good for the creator of existence, or you need to grow up and realize that people have different viewpoints; and that thinking these people are lower than you because of it is just about the definition of fascism.
The pope's passing them by the nose and handing the 1st prize for the most revolutionary idea in human history to the man in the sky. Aren't you at least going to stand up for those people? Well seeing as you are to afraid to stand up to the pope because you might hurt someone's feelings somewhere you don't have to worry at all! I have the internet after all thanks to Leonard Kleinrock, Robert E Khan and Vincent Cerf and a whole host of other people, none of them named Yahweh, so I can stand up and tell a few quips in your place.
I don't need to stand up for billionaires who frankly don't give a fuck about my life. They're off doing what billionares do, content in the knowledge that they have created the one thing that just might bring peace to the human race. They don't care, so why should you? I'll stand up to the Pope when he starts molesting children or killing people, but so far, he hasn't done that. Pope Palpatine, yeah, but not Pope Francis. A devout man expressing his opinion? I'm not too bothered by that.
No you just go back in your recliner, switch on the TV that was also a gift from god and ignore the fact that your kids would be still be learning that Gawd and the Jeebus together on the 6th day made the Hoomans 6000 years ago if we were all like you.
I don't watch TV, I play video games and watch films. I have no children (at least I hope so), and my apartment is too small for my recliner. Also, Jesus never entered the picture until a long ass time after the Sixth day, and according to Genesis, the Earth was created 3000 years ago. But I suppose you're too busy being a crusader for rationality (through undignified rage) and understanding (through hatred) to worry about being factually accurate. Or, you know, a decent fucking human being.