https://www.religiousforums.com/threads/i-hate-atheism.252211/
The whole purpose of this forum is to hate atheists, I’m fine with people having options and such but this is taking it too far, Have you ever heard ‘If you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say anything at all’ now I know why they say that.
One of the first remarks in that thread is “It denies the obvious out of arrogance and desire to reach intellectual superiority to believers, and the obvious is that who we are and what we are is magical and being created by God.”
So much wrongness to unpack there, but after many years of engaging with such people (in fact that particular guy – “Link” – was for a time on AtheistDiscussion, now banned I think) I find countering them to be epically boring. They have no original thoughts or even original fallacies.
The OP also takes the “arrogant” tack. Like the vast majority of unbelievers, I don’t claim to be everywhere and everywhen; only to see no valid, supportable evidence, even a shred, for whatever god-thing they are pushing. And I know where the burden of proof lies.
I guess sometimes they have a need to concoct a positive claim that we’re not making so they have something to shoot down, IDK. I have ceased to care. They can have their failed epistemology.
You also have to keep in mind that charges of arrogance are usually projection anyway. I think the OP and the respondent I cited are pretty arrogant and dripping with disdain for atheists. Lacking cogent (or even coherent) arguments, they feel inferior and see smarty-pants-ness even where it doesn’t exist.
Sadly when they die they won’t even find out they were wrong, lol.
I am not sure I will visit that webpage. But is strange that it exists. I am assuming this was put together by bible literalists, they probably created this, and probably will still believe they are “persecuted”, and not the ones doing any persecuting
I checked out the “I hate Atheists” forum out of morbid curiosity, and see below:
They have the idea that ultimate meaning can only come from God.
This is 30 seconds of my life that I want back.
Have you read the thread? It starts with petulant sweeping and unevidenced claims, that show a woeful ignorance of what atheism actually means, then quickly devolves into atheists taking the piss.
for example, the risible claim “I don’t really believe in atheisism” (sic) yes that’s how they spelled it, got (quite rightly) the response “Well, fortunately for you, atheism doesn’t require belief.”
If you read on an atheist does a reasonable job of explaining some of the basic errors in reasoning presented as well.
Someone hates atheism, so what would be my initial response, well it’s like saying they hate lack of belief in mermaids, get over it is all I can suggest, as we cannot ultimately control what people think or believe, nor would I have it any other way.
I know, it’s pure projection, as it is theists and religious apologists who claim absolute truth exists, as an atheist all I do is ask any theists making claims to demonstrate any objective evidence to support it. If what they present is insufficient to allay my doubts, I remain disbelieving.
Sounds like a cesspit of presuppositionalists and really angry creationists, who are venting their boiled piss impotently in the typical fashion of these specimens.
I see their ilk on Faecesbook. They go into artery bursting mode when you destroy their excremental apologetics, and make them look pathetic and infantile before a global public audience.
I gather that the Australian term for these specimens is “wankers”.
That for the ordinary apologist. “Fucking wankers” is the correct term for the middling kind of Christian zealot and " Brain dead galahs" for the most fanatical.
Thank you for clarifying this. As a non-native speaker of English, it helps having these small nuances explained
I must stress this is a purely Australian translation.
Argumentative poms, like Sheldon, will no doubt have their own pejoratives.
Most Americans, lacking imagination and education in the wonders of the English language will not be able to describe such cockwombles with any degree of accuracy or humour…but come on guys…give it your best.
There’s no generic terms, but as appropriate from behaviour and claims, and in no particular order, I have used “dumber than a bucket of hair”, “thicker than a diver’s boot” and “has all the charm of a mass grave”. There are plenty of others of course, all ready to be applied where the need arrises.
I like it, one could also use, fuckknuckle the ever useful tosspot, or waste-of-sperm, one of favourites recently (can’t remember if it was on here or not?), was trumpanzees, to describe the oompa loompa’s fearless followers.
I also described the specimen in question elsewhere as Omango-Tan …
Is it really a good use of a limited energy reserve to do so given that perfectly applicable words and phrases already exist? Examples include fuckwad, waste of skin, cunt, and shit-gibbon.
As for me, learning new and imaginative pejoratives, and contexts in which to use them, is always a pleasure. Let’s just say that the formal schooling I’ve had regarding such word classes is not exactly impressive. So for me it is also a learning process
If memory serves, the occasion on which I labelled someone a verminous and pestilential sub-amoeboid decerebrate had the desired impact …
Another one for he archives, also I am reminded of a poster that made me lose my fragile cool façade…
and call a “superstitious snake oil peddling, dog fingering low life”
I am not proud of it obviously…well…perhaps a little smug then, fuck it, it made me laugh at the time, and that’s all we can really hope for…
take pleasure in the little things, like watching some kid fall off his skate board while showing off to his friends, or coming home to a full mouse trap, or that time my ex wife missed a step on the stairs…we laughed and laughed and laughed, well I did, and of course I had to pay for her new hip…but fuck me, it can’t all be about money, you have to enjoy life as well…
Meanwhile, I’ve just had another arrogant creationist tosser wheel out a tirade of ad hominems, blind assertions, and the usual garbage we see from such specimens over at Faecesbook. Pounding that one provided special pleasure.
They keep coming …
Just had another arrogant mouth on a stick creationist lie about prebiotic chemistry, AND engage in blatant quote mining. They make it so fucking easy.
When I’m particularly irritated, I have occasionally told men that “. . . you’re so stupid that you can’t count to 21 without unzipping your fly” or “It probaby takes you an hour to make Minute Rice.”
Hi! I’m a atheist and I don’t associate myself with hate.