Charlotte Allen: Why I can't stand atheists

St. Paul Pioneer Press ^ | 05/18/2009 | Charlotte Allen

[rhema]

A little Biercean puncturing of pomposity.

She has a point. Your pays your money and you takes your chances. Throw in your lot with materialism or Jesus, but let's stop the incessant, piteous whining. If you're happy with your beliefs, why the need to flail and rage at those who don't share your Weltanschauung?

[Westbrook]

> The evidence? Antique clauses in the constitutions of
> six — count ‘em — states barring atheists from office.

Sorry, but atheists must be banned from public office.

Upon what can they base their oath of office? To what external, objective, transcendent standard can they appeal in ordert to uphold the Laws of the Republic?

For the same reason, an atheist’s testimony should be inadmissible in a court room.

[seowulf]

...atheist victimology: Boohoo, everybody hates us 'cuz we don't believe in God.

Actually, they're just irrelevant. Nobody hates them. Nobody loves them either.

That's what makes them so angry and vindictive.

[cripplecreek]

I don’t mind atheists who keep it to themselves in the same way I don’t mind homosexuals who keep it to themselves. We a fair number of atheist FReepers who are just fine in my book.

[Emmett McCarthy]

I think it’s the same neuortic affliction the queers have. They hate themselves and insist on demanding that everybody else love them to compensate.

[freedumb2003]

Most so-called “atheists” are in fact very theist — they just are angry at God and His followers.

[dfwgator]

they just are angry at God and His followers.

More specifically, angry at Jesus and his followers, they're usually neutral when it comes to Allah or Buddha, or Xenu, or whatever else.

[ALPAPilot]

Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins ("The God Delusion") and political journalist Christopher Hitchens ("God Is Not Great") for indulging in a philosophically primitive opposition of faith and reason that assumes that if science can't prove something, it doesn't exist.

It's not just philosophically primitive it has been proven incorrect by the mathematician Kurt Goedel in his famous incompleteness theorem.

[pnh102]

I can't stand most atheists because they insist on being evangelists of their own faith who can't seem to respect the fact most people do not agree with their religious beliefs.

I suppose they are better than Muslims in that they won't kill you for not believing as they do... but hearing their crap over and over does get irritating after continually telling them to quit it.

[fish hawk]

Bingo!!!

[Birch T. Barlow]

...their fixation with the fine points of Christianity.

Atheists hardly have a corner on this. On FR there are people who are guilty of the same, but from the other direction. They fancy themselves the "Moral Absolutes" crowd and have their own Ping list. This list is immediately pinged the second one of them engages in a thread. Cowards the whole lot of them.

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

Was Ceasar Nero an Atheist?

[Mr. Jeeves]

A genuine atheist would speak of religious people in a tone of compassionate pity. The vitriolic comments suggest that these people really do believe in God - they just don't like Him. :)

[stormer]

Sorry, but you're wrong. The “external, objective, transcendent standard” you seek is the constitution itself. Review Article VI, Section 3:

“The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.”

As far as your comment regarding the testimony of atheists in court, you may want to rethink that, unless you wish to claim that the proponents of faith never lie.

[4Liberty]

I’m an Atheist - but I’m not ‘angry’ or victimized. I’m very happy and productive.

:)
4L

[Doe Eyes]

I don’t mind atheists who keep it to themselves ...

I feel the same way about Christians.

[ansel12]

On FR there are people who are guilty of the same, but from the other direction. They fancy themselves the "Moral Absolutes" crowd and have their own Ping list. This list is immediately pinged the second one of them engages in a thread. Cowards the whole lot of them.

Just curious, how many names have you posted under at FR and especially what name were you using from August of 2007 until this latest sign up of February 2009?