Blogging for Angry Atheist Whackjobs Day!
I don’t pretend to be as eloquent as PZ Myers when, in all my atheistic glory, I express a negative critique or positive rebuttal whenever someone publishes a stream of illogical drek somewhere. I just get angry.
Marc Gellman says he is Trying to Understand Angry Atheists. Attempts to address the commentary in detail only made this atheist, well, angry.
Interesting how that all works.
The short answer, then, is I am not atheist because I’m angry, I’m angry because atheists are so often purposely misrepresented by the theist majority. We believe in nothing, we’re not civil, we’re lashing out against some past hurt, we lack discipline, we ask little of life.
I know this because Marc Gellman said so, for if he acknowledged that atheism is quite simply a lack of belief in gods and nothing more, he wouldn’t have an article to write, would he?
And even though he admits to assumptions that are “condescending and a large generalization”, he doesn’t “mean it that way”. As if claims of intent excuse actions.
Gellman says he “would ask for forgiveness from the angry atheists who write to me if I thought it would help”.
That sounds like an excuse to not try to understand atheists at all. He just wants to anger them, then ask why they get so gosh darned angry.
for the NNAF
3 comments:
I hate to be described as 'what an theist isn't', don't you? I am what I am and there are many many things I don't believe in. It's just one of them happens to have a word for it, which says more about theists paranoia than it does about non-believers.
That's really obnoxious. Although I've pretty much only faced that kind of condescending uncomprehension from my family (all Catholics), most of my friends are atheists, pagans, or simply not idiots.
But I didn't mean to hit you upside the head!
I guess people think they can get away with it since everybody knows atheists are stupid, lazy, and immoral.
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