Why Religious People Are Stupid and Atheists Are Smart

[Wallydraigle]

Okay, I'll actually contribute something this go around. I posted this earlier today. I couldn't help but notice your very narrow view of what makes a person religious. Most ATOT atheists subscribe to a "continuum", apparently of their own device. It goes like this:


Atheism=====Anything but Christianity======Christianity

Why is it you believe that Christianity is the opposite of atheism? There are literally thousands of religions out there, yet all the atheists on this forum spend all their time trying to to debunk this one faith, and if they can find someone with weaker debating skills they take great pleasure in spelling it all out once and for all. Do you people take this approach because you feel that if there was any one true religion, that it must be this one, and that all the others aren't worth the time it takes to argue? How arrogant.

And why is it that most atheists on this forum try to force their disbelief onto others? Why the contempt for someone of a differing faith, from one so open-minded and tolerant as youself? You automatically dismiss the notion of a higher power out of hand, and label anyone subscribing to any such school of though stupid and a schmuck. How very wise of you.

I am so very glad I am not so blinded by my own ego that I would claim such thing as you.

 

[Czar]

Sometimes it is true and sometimes not. As always it just depends on the person.

 

[AreaCode707]

I demand... a LOCK!

 

[crypticlogin]

After typing up something reasonable (I really had to hold back on the flames), it just wasn't worth feeding the troll.

 

[voodooguy]

<< There are literally thousands of religions out there >>



There are three monotheistic religions.

These are Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Christianisty is the most popular religion in the Western Hemisphere.

Apart from these, there are a bunch of polytheistic fringe religions. Wicca, Buddhism, Taoism, and so on.

The rest of the so-called religions are more appropriately called cults, because they do not have enough of a history and enough of a following to be properly called religions. Some examples are Scientology, Freemasonry, and thousands of other crackpot groups.

It is not unreasonable to contrast the most popular monotheistic religion in the Western Hemisphere with lack of belief in any one deity or any set of deities.

 

[reitz]

<< An open minded religious person is a contradiction in terms. >>

As opposed to such a stunning examply of open-mindedness as yourself? :disgust:

 

[Beowolf]

Im an atheist, I have a best friend who is very relegious. We've talked about our difference in beliefs, and although we don't agree, we do respect each others right to have their own opinion. It doesn't mean one of us is smarter then the other. Its just a belief. Idiots that try to start arguments over this is doing nothing but seeking attention into their own pathitic lives.


Lets try to ignore them, maybe they will leave. Sometimes though, a turd takes a lot of flushing before it goes down the drain.

 

[Maetryx]

lirion, you're my hero of the day. After the atheists setup the framework of Christianity == religion, then they attack the strawman fundamentalist. Certainly ignorant fundamentalists and money grubbing TV evangelists are worthy of reproach. But that is hardly an indictment against the brilliant theologians and other educated Christians. My pastor holds an undergraduate degree in philosphy, and a Masters of Divinity from Yale. I've taken 7 theological classes from him, reading dozens of theological textbooks.

In short, very few people fit the strawman mold that voodooguy is attacking.

 

[Jzero]

<< Apart from these, there are a bunch of polytheistic fringe religions. Wicca, Buddhism, Taoism, and so on. >>


Snort!!!!
Buddhism is a polytheistic fringe religion!!!!!!!!



<< The rest of the so-called religions are more appropriately called cults, because they do not have enough of a history and enough of a following to be properly called religions. Some examples are Scientology, Freemasonry, and thousands of other crackpot groups. >>


Dude, I'm in pain from laughing. So Hinduism doesn't have enough history and following to qualify as a religion?
And if you think Freemasonry is a religion....
Read 1000 comic books doesn't make you a religious scholar. Or even intelligent. (No offense to comic book fans)



<< It is not unreasonable to contrast the most popular monotheistic religion in the Western Hemisphere with lack of belief in any one deity or any set of deities. >>


Well, I guess if I had a choice to put my blind faith in a God...
or to put my blind faith in a lossy compression algorithm
at least I know I'm not the dumbest schmo on the planet.

 

[Wallydraigle]

So you think that because a particular faith is what you labe "fringe" or it lacks a large following that it also lacks legitimacy?



<< Apart from these, there are a bunch of polytheistic fringe religions. Wicca, Buddhism, Taoism, and so on.

The rest of the so-called religions are more appropriately called cults, because they do not have enough of a history and enough of a following to be properly called religions. Some examples are Scientology, Freemasonry, and thousands of other crackpot groups.

>>



So these faiths don't measure up to what you deam a religion should be? Naming some religions as more wrong than others belies a measure of faith. Didn't know you had it in you, did you?

 

[voodooguy]

<< Well, I guess if I had a choice to put my blind faith in a God...
or to put my blind faith in a lossy compression algorithm
at least I know I'm not the dumbest schmo on the planet. >>



I personally do not believe that a video codec created the universe in seven days, wrote a holy book with false information that our current scientific knowledge clearly disproves, made a virgin woman give birth to a baby without losing her virginity, and other such nonsense.

Who is the dumbest schmo here?

 

[reitz]

<< There are three monotheistic religions.

These are Judaism, Christianity and Islam. >>

Not quite.

<< Apart from these, there are a bunch of polytheistic fringe religions. Wicca, Buddhism, Taoism, and so on. >>

Buddhism is not polytheistic. I wouldn't exactly call Buddhism or Hinduism fringe religions, either, with 353,794 and 761,689 adherants (in thousands) respectively.

<< It is not unreasonable to contrast the most popular monotheistic religion in the Western Hemisphere with lack of belief in any one deity or any set of deities. >>

Nor is it reasonable to base any assertations about religion in general on only those three.

I'd like to hear a little more about all of that reading you've done...

 

[gohan]

<<

<< There are literally thousands of religions out there >>



There are three monotheistic religions.

These are Judaism, Christianity and Islam. >>



Some guy on a christian tv station was adamantly stating that Islam was not a true religion. Even went so far as to cross the word Islam out with a X.

 

[ThisIsMatt]

<< Who is the dumbest schmo here? >>



ThisIsMatt checks off number 327 in his "Do before I die" book.



<< #327 - Locate the most ignorant person on the planet, insert name here voodooguy >>

 

[voodooguy]

<< Some guy on a christian tv station was adamantly stating that Islam was not a true religion. Even went so far as to cross the word Islam out with a X. >>



What he may have meant was that he who believes in Allah is going to hell. The three monotheistic religions are in fierce competition with one another, and though they draw their mythos from much of the same literature, and though most of the miracles and symbolisms are similar, each monotheistic religion believes that the adherents of the two rival monotheistic religions (and pretty much, everyone but them) is headed straight for hell.

 

[Zenmervolt]

voodooguy, from one agnostic to another, STFU. I don't care much for theists who evangelise, but I REALLY have a problem with people like you who do nothing other than create a negative image of atheists and agnostics. In short, you are very bad P.R. and I doubt that any self-respecting atheist/agnostic would want you "defending" his (or her) position. By the way, Buddhism and Taoism are not polytheistic. They aren't even monotheistic. In a very technical sense, they are atheistic. And to call them "fringe religions" demonstrates a complete inability to think outside of the stereotypes that are typically ingrained in American youth.

ZV

 

[Amused]

Voodoo, it's abrasive, uncouth idiots like you that give nonbelievers like myself a bad name.

Go bury yourself with Madalyn Murray O'Hair and stop pissing all over other people's beliefs... especially when they outnumber you 9-1.

I'm sick and tired of having to defend my non-belief because people equate me with buttheaded elitists like you.

 

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Boys have penises and girls have vaginas!

 

[Jzero]

<<

<< Well, I guess if I had a choice to put my blind faith in a God...
or to put my blind faith in a lossy compression algorithm
at least I know I'm not the dumbest schmo on the planet. >>



I personally do not believe that a video codec created the universe in seven days, wrote a holy book with false information that our current scientific knowledge clearly disproves, made a virgin woman give birth to a baby without losing her virginity, and other such nonsense.

Who is the dumbest schmo here? >>



I note that you opted only to respond to the humorous part of my post, and conveniently ignore the part where I blatantly expose your immense lack of theological knowledge (among other things) which demonstrates that you are clearly

<< AN IGNORANT, DUMB, UNTHINKING SCHMUCK. >>



Bump for a lock and ban, mods! I won't miss this clown at all!

 

[classy]

<< A religious person must take the entirety of his holy book as true. This is the great thing about religion. It lets you get away with being an ignorant, dumb, unthinking schmuck. AND IT LETS YOU BE PROUD OF YOURSELF FOR BEING AN IGNORANT, DUMB, UNTHINKING SCHMUCK.

That is all. >>



I take it you must be religous.

 

[Wallydraigle]

<<
There are three monotheistic religions.

These are Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Christianisty is the most popular religion in the Western Hemisphere.

Apart from these, there are a bunch of polytheistic fringe religions. Wicca, Buddhism, Taoism, and so on.

The rest of the so-called religions are more appropriately called cults, because they do not have enough of a history and enough of a following to be properly called religions. Some examples are Scientology, Freemasonry, and thousands of other crackpot groups.

It is not unreasonable to contrast the most popular monotheistic religion in the Western Hemisphere with lack of belief in any one deity or any set of deities. >>




Stop it. You're giving the real atheists on this forum a bad name. You haven't researched any religions, or come to any of your own conclusions. You are the script kiddie equivalent of an atheist, so I won't let this experience color my opinion of real atheists. Much of the above you pulled directly from your posterior. I thought this could be somehting other than a troll's feeding frenzy, but I was sadly mistaken. This will be locked soon.

 

[Goldfish]

Because if you are an athiest you are nothing but pure genius.

 

[AreaCode707]

<<

<< Who is the dumbest schmo here? >>



ThisIsMatt checks off number 327 in his "Do before I die" book.



<< #327 - Locate the most ignorant person on the planet, insert name here voodooguy >>

>>



ROFLOL

 

[voodooguy]

<< conveniently ignore the part where I blatantly expose your immense lack of theological knowledge >>



You say it like it's a bad thing.

An atheist tackles the significant questions of life on his own, without using religion as a crutch.

 

[HamSupLo]

apathy is my religion