Why Everyone's Bored With Atheists

[devildavid]

My generalizations in the OP gave atheists the chance to prove that they weren't so defined by said statements.

Instead, almost all of them just doubled down. No big surprise.

Your straw man arguments don’t need to be refuted. It is hilarious that you think you created some real challenge to be overcome by those who you made a straw man argument about.

You now have to prove that all agnostics aren’t atheist haters who only present straw man versions of atheists and then think these straw men must be proven wrong. Can you do this?

 

[Hari Seldon]

 

[renee]

I don't want to pay for someone's experiments is all. If someone thinks he is a frog and wants to have an operation that makes him have webbed feet and hands, he can do that as long as he pays for it, and to NOT expect me to address him as froggy or be put out of my job if I don't.

That’s the way I feel about church is getting tax exempt

 

[Paradoxical]

That’s the way I feel about church is getting tax exempt

Churches should no longer be exempt. Not that they ever should have been, but they make billions and Rome bas billions in gold and diamonds because of it. The "Church" of Scientology is exempt and was able to amass billions by claiming their belief in Thetans was a religion.

 

[renee]

All atheists are on the same page regarding gods. No atheists believe in gods. There is nothing else to atheism other than that.

You mean, I don’t have to live in fear of turning into a pillar of salt if I don’t obey my husband?. you mean it wasn’t some invisible man in the sky who went poof and everything fell into place? You mean you don’t believe that a man turned water into wine and was able to walk on water? What’s the matter with you? It’s also logical
Lol

 

[Ouroboros]

Of course they're on the same page. Atheists do not have beliefs in gods. That's it.

That's my assertion in the OP; that the similarities of atheists as a whole are more important than their individual differences, because those similarities result in massive mediocrity.

 

[Ouroboros]

Sam Harris has replaced Christopher Hitchens as one of the most militant atheists of the day and I have listened to probably every debate that both have had. Being that I grew up in the Catholic cult, I relate to what he said in a debate which is that his girls love Batgirl and wear her suits and go around with their arms out as if they could fly. He postulated that if there was a society that continually said and taught that Batgirl was real, his daughters would grow up believing that because the society in which she lived all believed it; her friends did; the elders did and even though no one ever saw the "real" Batgirl, she most certainly existed and only appeared to a very few chosen people. As they got older and started having doubts and expressed them the society members admonished and even ridiculed them, to such an extent it put them in emotional turmoil because they were being berated for their NON belief in Batgirl.

The above is why people will CLAIM they still believe even when they don't. You could not tell if they really still believed in Batgirl or not. All you would know is they say they do.

I'm not sure how any of this is relevant to your attempt to downgrade "Biblical quotes" to "quotes from Superman films," or my response to it.

 

[Ouroboros]

Maybe one day. But for now- it is someone having a discussion with their doctor and getting a procedure that’s making their body closer to what they want- like liposuction. No one is getting hurt. So where is the immorality?

If someone wants to pretend to have transformed into a gender opposed to their birth-gender, that's harmless.

But you zoomed past my example of "harm:" of faux-women competing with genetic females in order to advance themselves via the former's biological advantages.

 

[Paradoxical]

I'm not sure how any of this is relevant to your attempt to downgrade "Biblical quotes" to "quotes from Superman films," or my response to it.

Belief is the key and the story Sam Harris gave is how people are convinced to believe.

 

[Ouroboros]

Smh. Critical Theory is graduate level study, and it's generally part of a program. Good luck finding a course devoted to Critical Theory.

Critical Theory and Marxian economics are two different things. Marxian economics is also part of programs in the Sociology or Philosophy departments. There are no courses on Marxism. Your claim that Marxism is running rampant (or however you worded it) in universities is nonsense.

IDGAF about Harris. Your hatred has clouded your thoughts.

What any of this has to do with atheism is known only to you. Leave it there. Your posts are boring me to death.

I'll re-explain it for you: someone claimed that atheists enjoyed hegemony in American culture, and I said, "Only in academia." Because not all atheists are Marxists, but all Marxists are atheists.

You have zero idea of the philosophical grounding of Critical Theory, even though I gave you a link to a valid definition. I can't help you more than that.

 

[Michael Cole]

I'll re-explain it for you: someone claimed that atheists enjoyed hegemony in American culture, and I said, "Only in academia." Because not all atheists are Marxists, but all Marxists are atheists.

You have zero idea of the philosophical grounding of Critical Theory, even though I gave you a link to a valid definition. I can't help you more than that.

I'm bored with it. Sorry. Try someone else.

 

[Ouroboros]

Please quit whining. It’s tiresome.

All the whining here comes from you atheists, who can't stand criticism of any kind.

You're not doing anything to prove you're not boring, as per the OP.

 

[Ouroboros]

There’s no argument from you. There’s only false and generalized accusations towards atheists in support of carrying water for the believers.

Thanks for reiterating your lie, I want to be sure all the posters claiming that atheists are level-headed and rational are duly embarrassed by your yammering.

 

[Ouroboros]

It's someone who can read this and ignore it or try to "properly interpret" it to mean something other than what it plainly says:

"Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says. If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church."
-1 Corinthians 14:35

It's someone who can read the Gospel of Matthew and still say the poor are that way just because they are stupid and lazy and they and their whole family should be left out on the street to die until they learn their lesson to work harder like Donald Trump's children.

I asked you for a clear definition of cafeteria Christian and you didn't answer. You still have not.

 

[Ouroboros]

Unlike you. The OP is a ridiculous mess. You can’t build a skyscraper on quicksand.

I can only report on the idiotic mediocrities of atheists, and the fact that you've been unable to refute me proves my point over and over.

 

[Ouroboros]

From a guy who doesn't have the virtue to admit his faulty arguement.

But you keep proving your philosophical mediocrity every time you post, so why would I make such a false admission?

 

[Ouroboros]

Faulty might be giving too much credit. It implies there's an actual argument or attempt at one to be had.

No arguments simple enough for atheists to understand, at least.

 

[Ouroboros]

All atheists are on the same page regarding gods. No atheists believe in gods. There is nothing else to atheism other than that.

Nope, you all have the same mediocre philosophical justification for your belief: "if God can't be put under a microscope, He doesn't exist." Modern atheism is completely tied to empirical science. It doesn't spring out of nothing, and every time you say that it does, you sound extremely religious.

 

[Ouroboros]

You are the one with false rhetoric about beliefs. Atheism is not a belief, thus atheists do not share any beliefs. There are zero beliefs that can be ascribed to atheism.

A belief in no gods is still a belief.

 

[Ouroboros]

I know exactly what a straw man argument is and your posts about atheists fit it to a t.

You have never known the meaning of the words you use and still do not. You continue to prove my OP.

 

[Ouroboros]

You are the one with no clue as to straw arguments ans evidenced by the fact that you keep unwittingly making them in regard to atheists.

I'm sure you'd like it if no one critiqued your belief system the way you critique those of others. Sorry, you're out of luck though.

 

[Ouroboros]

LOL There's only one page for atheists...they dont believe in god. There's no membership, no newsletter, no beliefs, no collective common derivation for that lack of belief...making any more of it is stupid.

Already answered.

 

[BabaVoss]

No arguments simple enough for atheists to understand, at least.

Your unhealthy obsession is still going on, I see. So now atheists are not only boring and mediocre but unintelligent? LOL… All these posts, sometimes 10-12 in a row, on this subject you neither understand or believe. You are thinking about this a lot, clealry. Atheists aren’t.

You may want to find a new hobby. You’re not good at this one.

 

[Ouroboros]

And yet, there are some who call atheism a religion or atheists have beliefs or other such nonsense. Go figure.

I haven't called it a religion. It's a philosophical belief system, as evidenced by the fact that you all make roughly the same arguments.

 

[Ouroboros]

Yes, theism includes many different views of gods. One atheist’s views does not represent what atheism is any more than one theist’s views represent what theism is. Both are general terms regarding belief or lack of belief in gods. There is no atheist doctrine just as there is no theist doctrine. Doctrines come from specific belief systems, not the general belief or lack of belief in gods.

Completely false. If you all use the same justifications for your philosophy, then it doesn't matter if you go to a particular atheist organization or pay dues, etc. You're using a definition of "doctrine" that simply flatters your prejudices.