tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285737581949527996.post528103827568679142..comments2023-10-11T09:14:08.345+01:00Comments on Pyjamas in Bananas: Why do I hate theists so?pjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06832177812057826894noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285737581949527996.post-52085116722025014622011-01-25T23:17:28.115+00:002011-01-25T23:17:28.115+00:00It's not really really bad. The world is mostl...It's not really really bad. The world is mostly theists because governments like them that way, they have since the very beginning (when it was more feasible to actually believe a religion because we were still learning how to fish). <br /><br />Theists are easy to control because ignorant people are easy to manipulate. I'm smarter than most everyone I meet, and it took years to wane myself off this manipulative habit because it is just so damn easy. Ignorant people can be controlled easier than one can control the movement of, say, an ant or a bird. Rhetoric only works on minds made of clay, not iron.<br /><br />Government works off this very principle. Keep folks dumb, and the powerful elites can continue doing whatever they want (and now look at where we are thanks to legions of despots in the guise of xenophobic patriots and literally billions of you idiot theists running around). Everything happening today is the direct result of this system being taken to its (il)logical conclusion. Far more bad than good, yeah? No duh. Ya numbskulls. Nothing would make me happier than to see every scrap of flesh, cloth, and paper dedicated to "god" burned to ash.<br /><br />Oh, yes. Wipe them out. Not one good thing has ever been born of religion. Such things are born of man alone. It would be healthier if people recognized and embraced this fact.<br /><br />You are right about one thing. I do hate all the world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285737581949527996.post-90784804861397005582010-10-23T01:20:51.939+01:002010-10-23T01:20:51.939+01:00That's really really bad. The world is almost ...That's really really bad. The world is almost all theist, take a look. It's impossible to wipe out believers, because believers are too powerful and instead atheists would cause the war they blamed on religion and they would be killed. Only 2.0 of the world is Atheist, if you hate theists, you hate all the world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285737581949527996.post-67897614236824797512007-10-15T13:30:00.000+01:002007-10-15T13:30:00.000+01:00I find that atheists who dance around the issue of...I find that atheists who dance around the issue of atheism are frequently theists in denial.<BR/><BR/>As an actual atheist, I would like to see the complete dismissal of religion on all scales in the same way that I would like to see everyone dismiss the "world is flat" theory.<BR/><BR/>There just aren't any arguments in favor of religion. I don't mean people don't make arguments for religion; they do. But each argument simply reflects a lack of knowledge.<BR/><BR/>To say: "Religion comforts the dying" is erroneous (research it for yourself, there is already statistical data... there is no need to argue it). To suppose that religion offers moral guidance is preposterous.<BR/><BR/>The sooner we abandon these fantasies the sooner we can put real meaning into our lives.<BR/><BR/>Religion was great when there were no answers; when we didn't know where we came from, or why we're here. There's just no call for it anymore. It is intellectually damaging, and stifles scientific advancement.<BR/><BR/>I don't hate theists. I feel bad for them. On the whole, I suspect that they physically cannot give up their beliefs. Such is the way of childhood indoctrination. It took me years to overcome my Christian upbringing. Even now I find myself blaming invisible people for bad things that happen. I suspect it would be easier if I hadn't had 8 years of religious schooling.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11738378141032477219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285737581949527996.post-24400773378378725332007-09-13T18:38:00.000+01:002007-09-13T18:38:00.000+01:00It's difficult to know where the line is to be dra...It's difficult to know where the line is to be drawn there. Obviously in my ideal world there probably wouldn't be religious believers (or Tories) - so in that sense I'm like PZ and friends - and I think most religious believers would think ideally all people should believe what they believe (which is good - I want Christians at least making an effort to stop me spending eternity in hell, even if they annoy me sometimes).<BR/><BR/>In those areas where I have factual beliefs that I think are true, I'm pretty much inclined to say that I'd prefer everyone to believe the same as me. In fact I'd probably want people to all believe some of my moral beliefs as well. Arrogant me.<BR/><BR/>But I do think this differs in very important ways from wanting to "wipe out" theists - i.e. we want theists to think like us, and thus cease being theists, we don't want to expunge religion from the world by bodily disposing of theists.<BR/><BR/>Anti just-so-stories, which, to a not insignificant extent is what academic evolutionary psychology is (or was last time I studied any of it - which, to be fair, was quite a few years ago now). But I'm not opposed in principle.pjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06832177812057826894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285737581949527996.post-90472910457970336092007-09-13T14:03:00.000+01:002007-09-13T14:03:00.000+01:00But, to be fair, some atheists do want to get rid ...But, to be fair, <I>some</I> atheists do want to get rid of religion completely, and you can see why, to a theist, there isn't much difference between that and wanting to "wipe out theists". Sam Harris, for example, and Hitchens I think, and possibly ever PZ Myers and certainly some of his echo-chamber.<BR/><BR/>Are you anti evolutionary psychology? (I mean "anti" in the most intellectually rigorous sense). It would be interesting if you were to do a post about why, sometime. (Assuming you don't just mean, anti non-experts making up e.p. Just So stories at the drop of a hat, in which case I absolutely agree with you).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com