My "Beef" With Atheists

Admin writes:It really helps moderators figure out if a topic is disintegrating because of general misbehavior versus someone in particular if the originally non-misbehaving members kept it that way. When everyone is prickly and argumentative and off-topic and personal then it's just too difficult to tell. We have neither infinite time to untie the Gordian knot, nor the wisdom of Solomon.There used to be a comedian who presented his ideas for a better world, and one of them was to arm everyone on the highway with little rubber dart guns. Every time you see a driver doing something stupid, you fire a little dart at his car. When a state trooper sees someone driving down the highway with a bunch of darts all over his car he pulls him over for being an idiot.Please make it easy to tell you apart from the idiots. Source

Strong atheism, on the other hand, the general stance of there is no proof whatsoever, therefore “God doesn’t exist,” deserves the most rebuking. First of all, the proof thing can most certainly be debated (yes yes, not unassailable), but the circumstantial evidence of such a power (just how "loving" is not relevent) can certainly be depicted as nothing other than overwhelming.And yet, there are people, and even those I’ve come across, that state as a fact that God does not exist. And they will go as far as rebuking, and mocking you for thinking otherwise. “Why are you creating up a fairy tale?” “If it wasn’t for the indoctrination that society has instilled in humans, the concept of a higher intelligence outside our reality wouldn’t even exist, no more than giant flying potato that rules over us all. And THERE IS NO POTATO, this is absurd, and why should I be expected to have anything to do with this.” I’m sorry, but the big difference is (as touched on earlier), we are here, reality does exist, we reside in a reality that is totally and utterly un-explained. And If I were isolated from all civilization on an island, I would come to the same conclusion, that has nothing to do with flying potatoes but rather, “Hmm, it seems quite reasonable to suggest that some kind of higher power/intelligence had a hand in creating what I see around me. Perhaps there is some sense and purpose to all of this. Just perhaps, maybe [sarcasm].” Hardly un-reasonable.I think what it all boils down to, is true Atheism is most certainly a pathological disorder [perhaps related to narcissism] consisting of the following things somehow intertwined into a poisonous combination where the individuals who fall subject to it are blinded themselves. First of all, I think it’s a rebellion. So often, I think you will find that atheists at one point had some religious affiliation, found out how much bologna there was in all that, and completely went the other direction, and found the ultimate antithesis, atheism. But the rebellion goes further than this. It’s a rebellion against religious society as a whole, not only in the present, but going as far back as the birth of human existence.

Admin writes:It really helps moderators figure out if a topic is disintegrating because of general misbehavior versus someone in particular if the originally non-misbehaving members kept it that way. When everyone is prickly and argumentative and off-topic and personal then it's just too difficult to tell. We have neither infinite time to untie the Gordian knot, nor the wisdom of Solomon.There used to be a comedian who presented his ideas for a better world, and one of them was to arm everyone on the highway with little rubber dart guns. Every time you see a driver doing something stupid, you fire a little dart at his car. When a state trooper sees someone driving down the highway with a bunch of darts all over his car he pulls him over for being an idiot.Please make it easy to tell you apart from the idiots. Source

Do you believe this reality, this "something" you see around you, is at the very least "suggestive" of an intelligence that may be behind it?

Admin writes:It really helps moderators figure out if a topic is disintegrating because of general misbehavior versus someone in particular if the originally non-misbehaving members kept it that way. When everyone is prickly and argumentative and off-topic and personal then it's just too difficult to tell. We have neither infinite time to untie the Gordian knot, nor the wisdom of Solomon.There used to be a comedian who presented his ideas for a better world, and one of them was to arm everyone on the highway with little rubber dart guns. Every time you see a driver doing something stupid, you fire a little dart at his car. When a state trooper sees someone driving down the highway with a bunch of darts all over his car he pulls him over for being an idiot.Please make it easy to tell you apart from the idiots. Source

Admin writes:It really helps moderators figure out if a topic is disintegrating because of general misbehavior versus someone in particular if the originally non-misbehaving members kept it that way. When everyone is prickly and argumentative and off-topic and personal then it's just too difficult to tell. We have neither infinite time to untie the Gordian knot, nor the wisdom of Solomon.There used to be a comedian who presented his ideas for a better world, and one of them was to arm everyone on the highway with little rubber dart guns. Every time you see a driver doing something stupid, you fire a little dart at his car. When a state trooper sees someone driving down the highway with a bunch of darts all over his car he pulls him over for being an idiot.Please make it easy to tell you apart from the idiots. Source

Admin writes:It really helps moderators figure out if a topic is disintegrating because of general misbehavior versus someone in particular if the originally non-misbehaving members kept it that way. When everyone is prickly and argumentative and off-topic and personal then it's just too difficult to tell. We have neither infinite time to untie the Gordian knot, nor the wisdom of Solomon.There used to be a comedian who presented his ideas for a better world, and one of them was to arm everyone on the highway with little rubber dart guns. Every time you see a driver doing something stupid, you fire a little dart at his car. When a state trooper sees someone driving down the highway with a bunch of darts all over his car he pulls him over for being an idiot.Please make it easy to tell you apart from the idiots. Source