God, Atheists, Eco-Marxists and Hot Sauce? - Page 2

This is a hallmark of a stupid person. Stupid people take extreme positions.
...
Devoutly religious people are morons. It is part of God's plan, for some reason, that I need to blindly concede to a doctrine that has an equal amount of objective proof backing it than all the others, (none), and that 10% of my income will spare me the eternal flame broiler of hell. If I choose not to, I need to have such reverence for some pathetic fantasy that you've bought into to make you feel better about the fact that you will die and decay in a pine box until an asteroid extinguishes our planet again in another couple thousand years.

Staunch liberals/Communists, extreme conservatives/Anarchists, sexual prudes and deviants...all of them are the exact same person poised at opposite ends of the spectrum, arguing against each other. It's never really about whatever it is they are arguing about. Your first day at a new job could be the day after election day, and you could go three years eleven months and two weeks without having ever heard the fat dyke that wears the pointy shoes and ruffled shirt say a single word about her positions on sociopolitical issues. Magically, as soon as it becomes a topical conversation around the Sweet-N-Low, she is a goosestepper and patriot for whatever arbitrary cause aligns with her ugly friends. A lot of it stems from stupid people trying to maintain a veneer of intelligence; they use it as a mental crutch. It's like a roadmap for them. The idea of looking at each situation that presents itself through the lens of your own wisdom and experience is such an insurmountable task in the mind of the stupid person that they need to deal in absolutes. In their simple grasp of the world, one political party has to be a benevolent crusader of all that is good, with the will of the people driving them, and the other party has to be an evil machine hell bent on the destruction of mankind and world domination.

This is a hallmark of a stupid person. Stupid people take their positions because they heard someone else take the position and it sorta made sense to them at first glance.
...
Devoutly religious people who believe what they do only because they believe what they do are morons. It is part of God's plan, for some reason, that I need to blindly concede to a doctrine that has an equal amount of objective proof backing it than all the others, (none), and that 10% of my income will spare me the eternal flame broiler of hell. If I choose not to, I need to have such reverence for some pathetic fantasy that you've bought into to make you feel better about the fact that you will die and decay in a pine box until an asteroid extinguishes our planet again in another couple thousand years.

Staunch liberals/Communists, extreme conservatives/Anarchists, sexual prudes and deviants...all of them are the exact same person poised at opposite ends of the spectrum, arguing against each other. With many throughout the spectrum on pretty much any issue, it's almost never usually about whatever it is they are arguing about. Your first day at a new job could be the day after election day, and you could go three years eleven months and two weeks without having ever heard the fat dyke that wears the pointy shoes and ruffled shirt say a single word about her positions on sociopolitical issues. Magically, as soon as it becomes a topical conversation around the Sweet-N-Low, she is a goosestepper and patriot for whatever arbitrary cause aligns with her ugly friends. A lot of it stems from stupid people trying to maintain a veneer of intelligence; they use it as a mental crutch. It's like a roadmap for them. The idea of looking at each situation that presents itself through the lens of your own wisdom and experience is such an insurmountable task in the mind of the stupid person that they need to deal in absolutes. In their simple grasp of the world, one political party has to be a benevolent crusader of all that is good, with the will of the people driving them, and the other party has to be an evil machine hell bent on the destruction of mankind and world domination.

So far no religion has been able to convince me that it holds more merit than any of the thousands upon thousands of other religions and deities recorded in the history of mankind. Which results in me being a nonbeliever. If there is any supernatural being that just sits there and watches its own creation or a giant, whose high school chemistry project resulted in the creation of our universe is irrelevant, since there is no reason for me (or anybody for that matter) to believe in such a thing. Ergo I'm a nonbeliever, thus, per definition, atheist.
Also, you're completely right: I do have "an axe to grind with religion". Pointing out injustice and wars in history, which have been provoked by religion is pointless, since it's all past and gone. However, there is still too many problems created or reinforced by religion. I hate that religious opposition is a/the driving factor behind hindering stem cells research, disabling a reasonable consensus on abortion, stopping gay rights and adoptions by same sex parents, and much more. Furthermore, I hate that religion almost always creates social tensions - between people of different religions, between sexes (ultra Islamic societies), between social classes (Hinduism). Furthermore, I hate that religion is abused for political agendas all over the world.


I do agree however that normally (maybe even always) things are not black and white and having an absolute stance is contraproductive or plain stupid. However, I'd say on rare occasions there are some issues, which have such small grey areas that examining them causes nothing but a philosophical debate without any practical significance, and thus an absolute stance becomes acceptable.