The very fact that mythology fanboys cannot agree with each other on a global scale, which of the numerous mythologies humans have concocted is purportedly the “right” mythology, and that adherents of a particular mythology cannot agree with each other what said mythology is purportedly telling us, is merely one of many reasons I regard mythology fanboyism as fatuous.
The presence of risible elementary errors in several of those mythologies, also refutes the assertion that the mythologies in question were the product of a fantastically gifted magic entity, purportedly possessing vast knowledge far and beyond the knowledge that humans have acquired through several centuries of diligent intellectual labour.
Try informing mythology fanboys of these elementary facts, and the response varies from evasion, to duplicitous fabrications. Neither of which would be needed if the assertions being treated as “sacred” by said mythology fanboys enjoyed any genuine evidential support. Indeed, the hilarious and pathetic anti-consilience I’ve just described above, would not exist if any of these assertions were supported by genuine evidence.
Likewise, pointing out the observable fact, that several million peer reviewed scientific papers point to testable natural processes being responsible for the universe and its contents, not a cartoon magic man from a pre-scientific mythology, elicits a whole range of similar evasions and fabrications from mythology fanboys.
That’s before we move on to the manner in which mythology fanboys try to hand-wave away scientific discoveries, by peddling mendacious strawman caricatures of scientific postulates, as if said caricatures constituted the reality. “Atheists think the universe came from nothing for no reason”, anyone? This example fails to attain the level of competence required to be worthy of a point of view, because it isn’t “atheists” who present alternative cosmological theories, but cosmological physicists, and if mythology fanboys can’t even deduce this elementary fact correctly, the only reason we need bother with their caricatures, is out of respect for proper discourse and the need to dismantle outright lies.
That’s before we point out that said cosmological physicists, once again, postulate testable natural processes, involving well-defined entities and interactions, to be the basis of the origin of the universe. Likewise for organic chemists researching the origin of life, and biologists researching the origins of biodiversity.
Quite simply, the whole mythology fanboy enterprise is characterised by a venomous combination of wilful ignorance and discoursive mendacity. I’ve seen enough of it in 13 years to recognise the foul stench from a very long distance whenever it puts in an appearance. Just visit any atheist page on Facebook, and see particularly lurid examples thereof on display, in abundance, for the requisite taxonomists to catalogue, being peddled by mythology fanboy gatecrashers.
Indeed, among the other examples of scurrilous mischief I and others have observed, is the manner in which mythology fanboys routinely peddle the verminous and pestilential well-poisoning myth, that those of us who don’t treat unsupported mythological assertions uncritically as fact, instead of applying the rules of proper discourse to said assertions, instead purportedly possess all manner of cognitive and ethical defects, several of which are more properly to be found as part of the makeup of the same mythology fanboys peddling said myth.
Far from being a totem of “righteousness”, mythology fanboyism is observed to exhort its adherents to become trained professional liars for doctrine, and elicits from them a singular hatred of all that does not conform. Which on its own should be grounds for suspicion of the assertions treated uncritcally as fact by this ilk, even before we consider the manner in which duplicitous behaviour on the part of said ilk, in some instances extends to the manifestly criminal, in a manner that would see howls of derision audible across the Solar System if an atheist perpetrated the same felonies.
Indeed, a whole range of lurid discoursive pathologies are endemic to the entire mtthology fanboy enterprise - double standards, wilful ignorance, a preference for ex recto fabrication over proper deductive reasoning, and wilfully deceitful misrepresentation of alternative ideas.
If any mythology fanboys want to know why I want nothing to do with their mythologies and their asserted magic men, the answer is simple - your behaviour made those mythologies and those magic men repulsive and noxious.
