Post by Admiral Lithp on Aug 25, 2010 15:15:51 GMT -5
www.columbiacitypaper.com/2010/08/11/a-brief-armchair-psychology-of-atheism/comment-page-1/#comment-8782
A bit of the same old, a bit of new gibberish. Basically, atheists are ignoramuses because they don't have dedicated spiritual journeys.
He's the guy who posted this tripe on the main page:
He goes on to explain the great deal of research that he did before making this blog post:
I hate to be the bearer of bad news: thinking believers struggle with these issues, too. But when one comes upon a boulder in the path, one is an idiot to claim that the path has ceased existing.
One might grant that there is a sort of “take that!” David-versus-Goliath chutzpah in declaring one’s Creator nonexistent. (My first thought: such an attitude by Shelley would have rendered the plot of Frankenstein insufferably boring.) In the end, such mortal defiance is about as productive as a box of doughnuts organizing an anti-policeman rally.
I admit that my polemic is mostly based on time spent during the past decade in the company of atheist intellectuals. I have devoted countless hours discussing the subject of Creation and cosmogony with them. I have offered each of them an opportunity to reclassify themselves as agnostics, as it is a far greater display of epistemological humility to assert “I do not know whether God exists.” Time and again, however, these people lay the ontological emu turd: “God’s nonexistence is factual.” So be it. Indifference is true spite. Fools, as the Psalmist wrote.
My fiercest encounter with an atheist occurred in an Irish pub several years ago. My enemy was a true intellectual in many respects; he had rolled his cranial bones as a journalist in Africa and as a key staffer for a major political administration. He had also worked at a renowned international NGO and had studied at a fine European Ivory Tower. The subject of religion emerged following copious imbibing, and his eyes were swollen with tears as he boozily lamented all the suffering children in the world. “How could God exist amidst such suffering?”
I slammed the table, “So rather than shake your fist at the Divine and demand an explanation, you run with your tail between your legs and deny His existence! At least be honest with yourself. You are a coward afraid of declaring the logical conclusion of your observations: that, based on the inexplicable suffering you behold of your fellow human being, the universe appears to be operated by a sinister, delinquent deity. Instead of sticking it to your Creator, you embrace the ridiculous lie of Chance—a false god you have come to idolize.”
Read more, if you dare.
A bit of the same old, a bit of new gibberish. Basically, atheists are ignoramuses because they don't have dedicated spiritual journeys.
He's the guy who posted this tripe on the main page:
I think that most atheists are just exercising (and, in my opinion, wasting) their free will to pretend God does not exist, like some obstinate second grader who refuses to acknowledge the existence of arithmetic tables because mastering this academic tool is not as fun as playing kickball or hopscotch.
He goes on to explain the great deal of research that he did before making this blog post:
I hate to be the bearer of bad news: thinking believers struggle with these issues, too. But when one comes upon a boulder in the path, one is an idiot to claim that the path has ceased existing.
One might grant that there is a sort of “take that!” David-versus-Goliath chutzpah in declaring one’s Creator nonexistent. (My first thought: such an attitude by Shelley would have rendered the plot of Frankenstein insufferably boring.) In the end, such mortal defiance is about as productive as a box of doughnuts organizing an anti-policeman rally.
I admit that my polemic is mostly based on time spent during the past decade in the company of atheist intellectuals. I have devoted countless hours discussing the subject of Creation and cosmogony with them. I have offered each of them an opportunity to reclassify themselves as agnostics, as it is a far greater display of epistemological humility to assert “I do not know whether God exists.” Time and again, however, these people lay the ontological emu turd: “God’s nonexistence is factual.” So be it. Indifference is true spite. Fools, as the Psalmist wrote.
My fiercest encounter with an atheist occurred in an Irish pub several years ago. My enemy was a true intellectual in many respects; he had rolled his cranial bones as a journalist in Africa and as a key staffer for a major political administration. He had also worked at a renowned international NGO and had studied at a fine European Ivory Tower. The subject of religion emerged following copious imbibing, and his eyes were swollen with tears as he boozily lamented all the suffering children in the world. “How could God exist amidst such suffering?”
I slammed the table, “So rather than shake your fist at the Divine and demand an explanation, you run with your tail between your legs and deny His existence! At least be honest with yourself. You are a coward afraid of declaring the logical conclusion of your observations: that, based on the inexplicable suffering you behold of your fellow human being, the universe appears to be operated by a sinister, delinquent deity. Instead of sticking it to your Creator, you embrace the ridiculous lie of Chance—a false god you have come to idolize.”
Read more, if you dare.