Oh, boy! I feel honored.

Violent Acres: Atheists are Snobs

Snobs? Is that the best you can do? I wonder if you’re losing your touch.

Atheists think they’re being clever with their spaghetti monster analogies and fairy tale rhetoric, but at the end of the day, they come off sound like condescending pricks.

And fundies don’t, with all their smug little talking points, and patting themselves on the back for being the ones with the One True Beliefs and the One True Morality? The only reason people think atheists are such “condescending pricks” is that they don’t like it when people question things that are held as self-evident truths by the majority of the population. Including you, apparently.

Furthermore, any group of people claiming superior intelligence that willingly engages in the fight of a losing battle automatically loses credibility. However, Atheists are too dumb to realize they’re fighting a losing battle, so they persist with the lecturing and the withering stares. Atheists have singled handedly ruined coffee shops with this crap.

Aww, was widdle V a widdle bothered by having to hear a widdle theological argument in public?

Most Atheists have the tendency to thumb their noses at Jesus, and then log onto World of Warcraft so they can pretend to be an orc for a couple of hours. They sneer at the Bible, but have no problem playing endless hours of vampire role playing games. The message is clear. Fantasies are OK as long as they include gratuitous violence and some sort of porn.

Yes, the authors of the Bible do seem to be inordinately fond of gratuitous violence and porn, don’t they? And — come on. “Atheists are all a bunch of pasty-faced geeks who live in their mom’s basement and spend their time playing RPGs”? Really? That may be the lamest excuse for an anti-atheist slur I’ve ever heard. If you’re gonna insult me, insult me! I’m a little insulted that I’m not more insulted.

It’s no wonder Religious folks don’t take them too seriously. Even the Quiet Intellectual Atheist comes across as if he’s only denying belief to be aversive. It’s hard not to pity the guy addicted to nonconformity like an addict to a needle.

Wow, you really have a hard-on for going along with the crowd, don’t you? I can’t help but question things. It’s my reason for living, and I’m glad it wasn’t indoctrinated out of me.

Personally, I don’t mind Religion. Religious leaders, on the other hand, really get my goat. But in my experience, when you approach someone by saying, “Hey. I don’t mind Catholicism. It’s just the creepy priests fucking altar boys that gross me out,” members of the congregation are more apt to listen.

You’re either incredibly lucky or incredibly sheltered that the only religious people who have had an opportunity to offend you are Catholic priests. It’s kinda hard to say, “you know what? I’m tired of Christians thinking they can assassinate my character and bar me from participation in society just because I don’t subscribe to their religion” without stepping on a few toes. For some people, stepping on their toes is the only way to get them to consider the idea that maybe they’re doing something wrong.

But then again, most of society today seems almost completely lacking in any moral compass whatsoever. So if ‘God’ does his part to scare some little bastard out of stealing my fucking car, I guess I can’t complain too much.

Any Atheist who does seriously needs to reevaluate his priorities.

You’re the one who brought up the strawman “zomg religion makes people behave for the wrong reasons” complaint, not us. Personally, I’m much more disturbed that so many people believe that the only thing that keeps them from going on murderous rampages is the idea that they may be punished for it several decades from now in the afterlife. If that’s really true, we’re surrounded by sociopaths.

So, V, I appreciate your concern. It is noted and stupid.

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