A chance for you all to jerk over how intellectually and morally superior you all are, or just a chance for a bunch of rich, white, suburban, white, straight, able-bodied kids to feel persecuted? Lol at either of the two... you're fighting for nothing worthwhile.Drasonak
There's a third possibility: a place to get away from fools who are so blind in their beliefs that they have a misplaced sense of moral righteousness they feel they must ram down every unsuspecting bystander's throat.
I came here mostly because Zeviander was making misogynistic statements earlier, yet has the audacity to go on his crusade against religion. Do you think abolishing religion will suddenly improve things? Do you not understand how complex the situation really is? Yes, it does some bad, but also some good. The thing is, there's more pressing matters to attend to if you really care about this world getting on the right track as much as you all claim.Drasonak
You don't seem to understand that the complexity of the situation has come to be mostly thanks to manipulation by politically inspired religious leaders. Organized religion as we know it came into existence thanks to a politician (Roman Emperor Constantine) who saw bread in having one religion for his crumbling Empire. That's what started the Roman Catholic Church.
You all bash religion under the guise of it being for humanitarian purposes, as if you think state control or what-have-you is entirely dependent on it. Yeah right. Do you all really believe it's that simple? And do you really expect me to think you care as much of a **** about people when you're all so anti-feminist (because you only know strawman feminist arguments)?Drasonak
I personally bash organized religion because it is thus far the greatest evil Humanity has encountered. One of the purposes of religion is the de-humanization of people. It's not for nothing they always speak in terms of "sheep" and "flock". Calling atheists anti-feministis a bit of a stretch, in light of the trouble religion went through to abolish women from their entire history, thanks to the jealousy of Petrus for the affection Jesus Of Nazareth had for one Maria Magdalena whom Jesus was preparing to become his successor.
I think you all need to get over yourselves. You are not particularly enlightened individuals for pointing out the inconsistencies in a 2000 year old text written by a couple of average guys. I'm an atheist, too; I just don't base my character around it like it's something to be proud of. Stop defining yourselves this way and actually do something important for once in your lives... You know, something that matters?Drasonak
The sad fact is that the "inconsistencies" you talk about are exactly what religion tends to wipe under the carpet. And those texts weren't *written* by "a couple of average guys" but *translated* from Hebrew to Latin and then to English by monks and priests.
Abd why should we stop defining ourselves as atheists when you define yourself in the same way? Do you have the unique right to call yourself an atheist?
You don't base your character around atheism, just like you don't base your character around mathematics. In fact, you don't base your character around anything since your character is formed by your experiences. And am I proud to be an atheist? Nope. It's just the way I turned out to be: empty of all religious feelings thanks to the history of a church which has been written in blood; murder, rape and pillaging, false promises, revisionism and knowingly lying and which despite all those proven facts is welcomed everywhere with the highest egards...
Tl;dr: You're either pseudo-intellectuals or have a persecution complex. Either way, you should probably get over this idea that you'll all be accomplishing something by wiping out religion. I'm an active humanitarian and feminist; I know the self-centered elitists who do it for their own ego rather than the good of the world.
Drasonak
Ask the tens of thousands who have been burned at the stake as heathens about persecution complexes. I don't want to wipe out religion. I want to wipe out those who misuse religion for their own agenda. About inflated egos, I fear you'll have to build an extension to your house to fit yours in.
And you don't have a clue what feminism or humanitarianism mean...
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