[Warning: irony alert...]
[“—Yes, there are militant a-hole atheists. But they are very few and far between. Can we stop perpetuating this stereotype?”]
Ask Richard Dawkins & Christopher Hitchens – they’re theones making atheists look like a-holes by slandering religious folks and using strawmen.
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I can name FAR more than two religious figures who make religious people look like assholes. But that's not the point. Militant asshole atheists (and what's with the self-censoring, you fucking pussies?) don't mean all atheists are like that any more than Fred Phelps means all Christians protest soldiers' funerals. Yet if an atheist makes a bad judgment on Christians based on one or two, you start yelling persecution.
Take the redwood tree out of your own eye before trying to remove the speck of sawdust from the atheist's eye.
Pointing out the absurdity of your religion is not "slandering religious folks". And I'd be interested to see what you think is a strawman by either Dawkins or Hitchens but particularly Dawkins.
The problem seems to be that you guys have had a thousand years or so of your religion being off limits to criticism, mostly because you liked to set fire to anyone who disagreed with you in the slightest, and now that you don't have an iron grip on what people are allowed to say you run around screaming "persecution!" all the damned time.
Get over it. If your religion had even an inkling of truth behind it then criticism would be welcomed as it would be an excellent way to show that you are, in fact, right and you would even gain converts from it. The fact that you fear criticism shows just how hollow your beliefs truly are.
Yet another fundie who doesn't actually know what a strawman is but figures that if it's a good enough argument for us to use then it's good enough for him.
Get used to it - it's a symptom of their primitive, unscientific tendency towards magical thinking and cargo-cultism. You expect the mysteriously argument-winning magic words to work for you, even if you have no idea how or why, just as well as they seem to work for everyone else you've seen using them.
A more extreme example is much of the material produced by and for the ID movement, which apparently follows the principle that simply adopting the language, manner and outward appearance of science is quite enough to beat scientists at their own game, without going to all the trouble of learning the game's actual rules or underlying principles.
Calling a liar a liar is not slander.
Poking holes in your delusion when you feel safe, warm, and happy inside it, can be called an asshole thing to do. So I'm an asshole. It takes one to know one.
HEY....who took that picture of me under the caption of "militant atheist"?????
I would discuss, slander, criticise, (fill in your favourite word) any blithering idiot that seriously proposed the earth is flat. Or that there is some magic sky ghost. To have a better world, we need better thinkers. Believers in fairy tales are not helping out the world.
*BOOOOOOOOOM*
Great that irony meter explosion took out half a city block! Why did I bother getting a new one anyway?
Yeah, those tactics... Um.. Don't you fundies use those like... ALL the time?
Hitchens is my favorite asshole. He's only an asshole because he has no respect for religious sensitivity or stupidity. He's a sarcasm junkie, fun as hell.
When was Dawkins ever an asshole?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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