ITT: Something We Already Knew

[Remington]

http://newsjunkiepost.com/2009/09/19/research-finds-that-atheists-are-most-hated-and-distrusted-minority/

Really, is anyone surprised? I love how atheists are hated for not believing in fairy-tales.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

http://newsjunkiepost.com/2009/09/19/research-finds-that-atheists-are-most-hated-and-distrusted-minority/

Really, is anyone surprised? I love how atheists are hated for not believing in fairy-tales.

Get back in your box, infidel.

[Iason Ouabache]

I thought that this survey was several years old. It's common knowledge that all atheists are immoral bastards that like to kick puppies and eat babbies.They should all be shot on sight for not bowing down to the Blood God.

[Golden Applesauce]

I thought that this survey was several years old. It's common knowledge that all atheists are immoral bastards that like to kick puppies and eat babbies.They should all be shot on sight for not bowing down to the Blood God.

The survey itself was '03-'04, article published '07.

[Precious Moments Zalgo]

This isn't new.

The atheist is, morally as well as mentally, a fool, a fool in the heart as well as in the head; a fool in morals as well as in philosophy. With the denial of God as a starting point, we may well conclude that the fool's progress is a rapid, riotous, raving, ruinous one. He who begins at impiety is ready for anything.

No God, being interpreted, means no law, no order, no restraint to lust, no limit to passion. Who but a fool would be of this mind? What a Bedlam, or rather what an Aceldama, would the world become if such lawless principles came to be universal! He who heartily entertains an irreligious spirit, and follows it out to its legitimate issues is a son of Belial, dangerous to the commonwealth, irrational, and despicable.

Corrupt are they. They are rotten. It is idle to compliment them as sincere doubters, and amiable thinkers -- they are putrid. There is too much dainty dealing nowadays with atheism; it is not a harmless error, it is an offensive, putrid sin, and righteous men should look upon it in that light.

One does not find virtue promoted by the example of your Voltaires and Tom Paines. Those who talk so abominably as to deny their Maker will act abominably when it serves their turn. It is the abounding denial and forgetfulness of God among men which is the source of the unrighteousness and crime which we see around us. If all men are not outwardly vicious it is to be accounted for by the power of other and better principles, but left to itself the "No God" spirit so universal in mankind would produce nothing but the most loathsome actions.

That's from C.H. Spurgeon's Treasury of David, in the exposition of Psalm 53:1, written in 1885.

[Remington]

http://newsjunkiepost.com/2009/09/19/research-finds-that-atheists-are-most-hated-and-distrusted-minority/

Really, is anyone surprised? I love how atheists are hated for not believing in fairy-tales.

Get back in your box, infidel.

The bank repossessed it.

[Corvidia]

This isn't new.

The atheist is, morally as well as mentally, a fool, a fool in the heart as well as in the head; a fool in morals as well as in philosophy. With the denial of God as a starting point, we may well conclude that the fool's progress is a rapid, riotous, raving, ruinous one. He who begins at impiety is ready for anything.

No God, being interpreted, means no law, no order, no restraint to lust, no limit to passion. Who but a fool would be of this mind? What a Bedlam, or rather what an Aceldama, would the world become if such lawless principles came to be universal! He who heartily entertains an irreligious spirit, and follows it out to its legitimate issues is a son of Belial, dangerous to the commonwealth, irrational, and despicable.

Corrupt are they. They are rotten. It is idle to compliment them as sincere doubters, and amiable thinkers -- they are putrid. There is too much dainty dealing nowadays with atheism; it is not a harmless error, it is an offensive, putrid sin, and righteous men should look upon it in that light.

One does not find virtue promoted by the example of your Voltaires and Tom Paines. Those who talk so abominably as to deny their Maker will act abominably when it serves their turn. It is the abounding denial and forgetfulness of God among men which is the source of the unrighteousness and crime which we see around us. If all men are not outwardly vicious it is to be accounted for by the power of other and better principles, but left to itself the "No God" spirit so universal in mankind would produce nothing but the most loathsome actions.

That's from C.H. Spurgeon's Treasury of David, in the exposition of Psalm 53:1, written in 1885.

I hate the ignorant. Voltaire was a Deist.

We're some of the monkeys who don't follow the accepted monkey rules, so as Roger comments, we catch a lot of shit.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Atheists are on my list of dislikes, along with Christians, Libertarians and dill weed.

But, just as with dill weed, there are exceptions.

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If there's something wrong with Atheism, it's that it ends in -ism.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

If there's something wrong with Atheism, it's that it ends in -ism.

I was gonna say that's the only thing that makes it oh-so right.

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If there's something wrong with Atheism, it's that it ends in -ism.

I was gonna say that's the only thing that makes it oh-so right.

Please explain.  If it's a belief, someone's going to be a jackass about it.  If it's a preference for nonparticipation in the numinous, that's fine by me.

At the moment, my list of A-OK isms is pretty much "onanism" and "tribadism".

[Iason Ouabache]

If there's something wrong with Atheism, it's that it ends in -ism.

I don't like the fact that the word "atheism" is a negative term. By using it you are defining yourself by something you don't believe in, something you are not. I prefer the terms Skeptic, Rationalist, "proud member of the reality-based community", Bright. At least then people know what you are rather than what you are not.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

If there's something wrong with Atheism, it's that it ends in -ism.

I was gonna say that's the only thing that makes it oh-so right.

Please explain.  If it's a belief, someone's going to be a jackass about it.  If it's a preference for nonparticipation in the numinous, that's fine by me.

At the moment, my list of A-OK isms is pretty much "onanism" and "tribadism".

I was thinking that at least it has something in common with jism.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

And Discordianism!

[Golden Applesauce]

If there's something wrong with Atheism, it's that it ends in -ism.

I don't like the fact that the word "atheism" is a negative term. By using it you are defining yourself by something you don't believe in, something you are not. I prefer the terms Skeptic, Rationalist, "proud member of the reality-based community", Bright. At least then people know what you are rather than what you are not.

Don't say Rationalist, because then you implicitly make the assertion that people who do believe in one or more dieties are irrational - not really true.  Also, Descartes was a Rationalist, and he came up with the "God is too perfect to not exist." argument.

And Skeptic doesn't actually say whether you believe in God.  A skeptic might hold that current evidence supports some notion of the Divine.  Skepticism implies that you hold your beliefs as tentative, subject to change in light of new evidence.  An awful lot of [twelve-year-old internet] atheists don't seem to fit that category...

I'd say "materialist" by the definition of "nothing outside the material world" but a number of people use "materialist" to mean either "reductionist" or a person who lives for material goods - a person who disbelieves in divinities is not necessarily one of those.

I'd suggest finding something you do believe in and calling your self a whatever-that-thing-ist.  Or if you don't believe in anything, nihilist.