- 14 Apr 2015 17:55
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Do you think this is going to be a Christian apologetic rant? If you do, you're wrong; I'm an atheist and I've been one consciously so since I was 18 years old.
Is atheism a religion? Certainly not, atheism is the complete opposite of religion - But in many ways atheists behave in a manner that closely resembles religious fundamentalists.
Atheism is supposed to give you the tremendous advantaged of being a freethinker (unless you are a religious atheist) and free you from any dogmas or principles you think you should abide by. Is this really how it works? I don' think so.
Atheism and particularly new atheism may not be a religion but it behaves like one - Just look at it - Institutions and organizations (Freedom from religion foundations, secularist groups whose only purpose is to basically free people from religion by hating on it, atheist conventions and events, atheist churches, atheist books, the list goes on....), leaders (Dawkins, Harris and Hitchens), dogmatic thinking (Science and Reason represent an enlightened position, atheists make a conception of evidence and that's the only valid one, everything else is wrong and atheists are right because they've been blessed by the universe), close minded conceptions about other groups (like Christians or any other religion) as well as gross generalizations (There are thousands of religions in the world, you seriously can't know much b sides the big three and sometimes the big five - Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, Islam and Buddhism) along with a wish that one's group (atheist organizations, leaders, etc.) cannot be criticized (because we are not a religion even though we behave like one - So our sacred cult gets to remain pure while we pretty much spend our lives telling people how idiotic they are for believing in gods)
Atheism is just a lack of belief in gods? So what? Christianity is just the belief that trough faith in Jesus you can achieve resurrection. It's not anything else, there are Christians who do not read the bible and never go to church. The fact it's just a lack of belief in gods hasn't stopped people from forming institutions around it, promoting it, writing books about it (seriously there's even books for black atheists specifically) and creating principles or tendencies around notions connected to new atheism - The most predominant characteristics are what atheists define as reason (any other conception of reason is stupid), science (although most don't know that much about science, just that the earth revolves around the sun and that god didn't show up in front of them), groupthinking (the same arguments are used by most new atheists), excess of ad hominen fallacies, excess of false dichotomy fallacies, an insistence that atheists somehow know better than Christians, Popes and priests how to interpret holy books and how to follow religious principles (Atheists always know what a good Christian is) and a huge Us V Them belief, not to mention most are liberal left-wing capitalists who believe in egalitarianism and a world where their ideas are seen as critical thinking under free speech but everything else is bullshit. - This is what Dawkins does, he creates (trough books and also Twitter, lectures, etc.) a mentality of two sides where one is solely composed by religious fundamentalists and creationists, ignoring every reason religion may appeal to people or why people are affected by their nurturing to become religious, and the other side is composed by enlightened atheists filled with reason and science who can free the world from the shackles of religion
I mean, seriously? Am I supposed to take this cult seriously as an atheist?
Richard Dawkins? Seriously, you complain so much about sexism yet you take the most irrational stances on things like rape and make sexist comments, yet you are so concerned about the middle east without having read the Quran. You wear T shirts saying "Religion, together we can find the cure"? I mean, this guy might as well create an evangelist station where he shouts "fuck religion" instead of "Amen!".
And I'm not even kidding when I say there's people who worship Dawkins. Important atheist figures have personal beliefs about everything and inevitably they'll influence atheists who like them to engage in groupthinking. Richard Dawkins is a biologist, but arguably he never did anything relevant b sides coining the word "meme" and writing a book about atheism while claiming it is a freethinking position.
Thunderf00t? I mean, for a scientist you sure like little about science and enjoy spending your afternoons ranting on how feminism oppresses you. Like in highschool must have been though. So much for skepticism
Sam Harris? So the Islamic state is all about religion? It probably is (mostly) but it is also true that you don't get to complain about a war against the US when the US pretty much created the Islamic state with their imperialist games. Is it Islam's fault when it's for Allah? Sure. So why do you think it's not Christians' fault when it's for Jesus?
Christopher Hitchens? So what if Christians don't bother you? "They have to, it's part of being a Christian, bla bla bla women aren't funny bla bla bla Judaism is ok because I say so and I can forget about all the crazy rabbis"
Religion appeals to people for a lot of reasons. I'm not in a position to judge people's actions or every religion as a monolith when there's specific denominations inside each one and since we are all influenced by the environment we grow in we end up not even deciding what we believe in. If the door is closed it's impossible for me to know what's on the other side. I have no reason to believe there's something. Some people want to speculate that there's a divinity behind it, and that's ok - As long as you don't want to force your speculations down my throat.
Are you an atheist and want to hate on this? Go ahead. Are you a theist and agree or disagree? Then share your opinion
Is atheism a religion? Certainly not, atheism is the complete opposite of religion - But in many ways atheists behave in a manner that closely resembles religious fundamentalists.
Atheism is supposed to give you the tremendous advantaged of being a freethinker (unless you are a religious atheist) and free you from any dogmas or principles you think you should abide by. Is this really how it works? I don' think so.
Atheism and particularly new atheism may not be a religion but it behaves like one - Just look at it - Institutions and organizations (Freedom from religion foundations, secularist groups whose only purpose is to basically free people from religion by hating on it, atheist conventions and events, atheist churches, atheist books, the list goes on....), leaders (Dawkins, Harris and Hitchens), dogmatic thinking (Science and Reason represent an enlightened position, atheists make a conception of evidence and that's the only valid one, everything else is wrong and atheists are right because they've been blessed by the universe), close minded conceptions about other groups (like Christians or any other religion) as well as gross generalizations (There are thousands of religions in the world, you seriously can't know much b sides the big three and sometimes the big five - Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, Islam and Buddhism) along with a wish that one's group (atheist organizations, leaders, etc.) cannot be criticized (because we are not a religion even though we behave like one - So our sacred cult gets to remain pure while we pretty much spend our lives telling people how idiotic they are for believing in gods)
Atheism is just a lack of belief in gods? So what? Christianity is just the belief that trough faith in Jesus you can achieve resurrection. It's not anything else, there are Christians who do not read the bible and never go to church. The fact it's just a lack of belief in gods hasn't stopped people from forming institutions around it, promoting it, writing books about it (seriously there's even books for black atheists specifically) and creating principles or tendencies around notions connected to new atheism - The most predominant characteristics are what atheists define as reason (any other conception of reason is stupid), science (although most don't know that much about science, just that the earth revolves around the sun and that god didn't show up in front of them), groupthinking (the same arguments are used by most new atheists), excess of ad hominen fallacies, excess of false dichotomy fallacies, an insistence that atheists somehow know better than Christians, Popes and priests how to interpret holy books and how to follow religious principles (Atheists always know what a good Christian is) and a huge Us V Them belief, not to mention most are liberal left-wing capitalists who believe in egalitarianism and a world where their ideas are seen as critical thinking under free speech but everything else is bullshit. - This is what Dawkins does, he creates (trough books and also Twitter, lectures, etc.) a mentality of two sides where one is solely composed by religious fundamentalists and creationists, ignoring every reason religion may appeal to people or why people are affected by their nurturing to become religious, and the other side is composed by enlightened atheists filled with reason and science who can free the world from the shackles of religion
I mean, seriously? Am I supposed to take this cult seriously as an atheist?
Richard Dawkins? Seriously, you complain so much about sexism yet you take the most irrational stances on things like rape and make sexist comments, yet you are so concerned about the middle east without having read the Quran. You wear T shirts saying "Religion, together we can find the cure"? I mean, this guy might as well create an evangelist station where he shouts "fuck religion" instead of "Amen!".
And I'm not even kidding when I say there's people who worship Dawkins. Important atheist figures have personal beliefs about everything and inevitably they'll influence atheists who like them to engage in groupthinking. Richard Dawkins is a biologist, but arguably he never did anything relevant b sides coining the word "meme" and writing a book about atheism while claiming it is a freethinking position.
Thunderf00t? I mean, for a scientist you sure like little about science and enjoy spending your afternoons ranting on how feminism oppresses you. Like in highschool must have been though. So much for skepticism
Sam Harris? So the Islamic state is all about religion? It probably is (mostly) but it is also true that you don't get to complain about a war against the US when the US pretty much created the Islamic state with their imperialist games. Is it Islam's fault when it's for Allah? Sure. So why do you think it's not Christians' fault when it's for Jesus?
Christopher Hitchens? So what if Christians don't bother you? "They have to, it's part of being a Christian, bla bla bla women aren't funny bla bla bla Judaism is ok because I say so and I can forget about all the crazy rabbis"
Religion appeals to people for a lot of reasons. I'm not in a position to judge people's actions or every religion as a monolith when there's specific denominations inside each one and since we are all influenced by the environment we grow in we end up not even deciding what we believe in. If the door is closed it's impossible for me to know what's on the other side. I have no reason to believe there's something. Some people want to speculate that there's a divinity behind it, and that's ok - As long as you don't want to force your speculations down my throat.
Are you an atheist and want to hate on this? Go ahead. Are you a theist and agree or disagree? Then share your opinion