The Angry Atheist
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I suppose I’m an angry atheist but I’m not angry because I’m an atheist. I’m angry because I’m a compassionate human who tilts at windmills in a Christian world. I’m angry because religion encourages people to let their superstitions get in the way of compassion, justice, science and tolerance. I’m angry because religion encourages hate and discourages love.
The believers would have us all believe that those who refuse to embrace the mythical vision of the Christ are somehow angry, mean, and lost. Nothing could be further from the truth and history has proven time and again, from the Catholic Inquisitions to the Westboro Baptist Church, that they, the Christians, are the ones whose anger is projected in dark hate and catastrophic violence.
I’ve long known that there are those in this world, and in this country, who would happily hang me from the tallest tree for refusing to acknowledge or believe in a mythical sky being. I also know that the world is full of nuts, and fanatics, devoted to the horror that is organized religion, who interpret the Bible and the Koran as it suits them, and believe in the most absurd things.
I know that their instruction manual, the Bible, is filled with indescribable acts of horror, human oppression, torture, and murder. They cannot point to an atheist bible, or a list of instructions to guide the non-believer, because there is none. Atheists live their lives as compassionate caring people who make every effort to adjust to the social mores, minus the horror of religion and the religious. They are the forgivers but rarely the forgiven, at least not in the world of religious bigotry and persecution.
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Mark Willis
March 19, 2013 at 7:59 am
Mike there’s no such thing as a happy super-Christian, because they’re always looking for someone to pick at or on. I’m with you man. Angry Atheists all the way!
Michael John Scott
March 19, 2013 at 8:06 am
Mark you are so right. While the run of the mill, average Christian goes about his business, the Uber-Christians, evangelicals and fundamentalists, are busy tearing down the secular world.
AnonymousNot
March 19, 2013 at 8:09 am
The religious are the ones that are angry. Us atheists simply go about our business asking to be left alone, but Christians don’t do that. They make everyone’s business theirs. Good article.
Jess
March 19, 2013 at 1:56 pm
But but but, don’t you know that Atheism is a religion all by itself, if we are angry atheisty about it. Oh yeah, I have been told by extended family members on hubby’s side, that I am just as religious as they are, only I am an Atheist while they believe in invisible sky pixie since Atheism is a religion all by itself and the circle keeps going round and round. Yeah, I have never been able to wrap my head around that one either, so I ignore them at family gatherings in case my brain turns to mush among them. Tell anyone you just don’t believe in their god/s and you are labeled a militant Atheist, regardless how little you talk about religion in gatherings. Ok, I’ll take the badge and wear it proudly, thank you very much. I’ll even add my own bling to it.
Bill Formby
March 20, 2013 at 7:38 pm
The irony of true believers Jess is that if they are true believers everyone else must be wrong no matter what they believe if it is different than theirs. It is like perception. What you perceive to be real is real if you truly believe its real. It is indeed circular logic.
Jess
March 20, 2013 at 10:41 pm
AYUP. My ‘rental units were religious but never once forced it on me, after they saw I was believing none of it when they took me to church when I was but a little Jess. I have one aunt who is Wiccan and my other is a Christian, but goes to one of those non denomination places where they accept everyone, very liberal church.
My inlaws are Catholic, as is my husband and a couple of them have left the church after the whole child abuse thing and the hating on people became too much for them. These people are cousins and a couple of his aunts and uncles, that are uber religious and very traditional. I’m a pariah because I won’t take his name and don’t go to church and blah blah blah. I tell them when they ask me about the name thing, I had a perfectly good name before I met him and I’ll keep it thank you very much. That grates on them more than my non religious leanings I think and I am okay with that
According to some of them, I am the devil incarnate in their midst.
RickRay
March 19, 2013 at 4:15 pm
I like to shut the xians up by telling them, “Any god who creates a hell for his children should be the first to be skinned and roasted in it.” Oh yeah, and when’s the last time you heard a snake & donkey talk?
Jess
March 19, 2013 at 4:58 pm
Eddie Murphy as Donkey in Shrek or the snake in the Disney Robin Hood movie maybe? Oh wait, you were asking about biblical shit, never mind then
Norman Rampart
March 19, 2013 at 8:47 pm
Excuse me. God exists!
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