Why Everybody Hates Atheists

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It’s not just because atheists kill babies, because not all atheists do. But let’s admit that, in a universe of accidental randomness, there is nothing particularly special about a little clump of cells.

Or a bigger clump of cells, for that matter. So if the atheists who don’t kill babies have a good argument against raping babies . . .

Look, I’m not saying all atheists are like Mark Newton and Peter Truong, and probably, some atheists are against raping babies.

But that’s not the reason everybody hates atheists, anyway.

It’s the pushy, arrogant self-righteousness. And I’m not even talking about atheists like Kim Jong-un. Not all atheists are brutal communist dictators. Some atheists are against communism, dictatorship and brutality. On the other hand, 70 percent of those who stated their religion as “none” voted for Obama. Just sayin’ . . .

Tuesday evening, I noticed Gabriella Hoffman was under attack by Twitter trolls. Gabby complained about “militant atheists who thrive on souring the holiday season while behaving like tyrants.”

Ah, the War on Christmas — and the same obnoxious atheists who have spent years waging the War on Christmas now claim that this is something that Fox News and Bill O’Reilly are just making up. In fact, it was Peter Brimelow who first described the “War on Christmas” in 1999 — four years before the Southern Poverty Law Center branded him a “white supremacist.” Probably just a coincidence.

Anyway, atheists trolls were attacking Gabby Hoffman, because they hate women. That’s not merely cheap sarcasm, because the atheist movement’s problem with women is rather notorious:

[Karen] Stollznow says that, when she told friends about her situation, many were unsurprised, regarding [Benjamin] Radford as “creepy … a weirdo … sexist … perverted.” Her accusation was made in the context of a general complaint among women in the atheist movement that they are victims of sexism, discrimination and harassment. These complaints caused a stir a couple years ago when a young atheist, Rebecca Watson, got into an Internet dispute with Richard Dawkins, a famed Darwinian opponent of Christianity.
Watson told how women didn’t want to attend atheist conferences because “they felt uncomfortable in a room full of men” and “were hit on constantly” by seemingly desperate atheist men who “try to get in the pants of every woman who walks through the door.”

It’s not me saying this, you see.

As I say, however, it’s the pushy arrogance of atheists that makes everybody hate them, because the atheist cherishes the notion that his disbelief makes him intellectually superior to those whom he disdains as being in the thrall of ignorant superstition.

Atheists therefore cannot keep silent, but must constantly mock and scoff, publicly disparaging Christianity and the Bible, supporting every measure to marginalize and stigmatize Christian belief, so that no Christian can ever enjoy a moment’s peace.

Because . . . Science!

Ace of Spades has commented on this tendency:

If atheists are so logical and rational and sensible — which is the key point of atheistic evangelism, of course — why are they behaving in counterproductive, emotional, cult-like ways? . . .
What it seems like is a lot of teenager-ish acting up, a lot of anger over hurts in the formative years, a seething need to get payback against faceless oppressors. . . .
If freeing yourselves from religion has really made you more rational and all-around better thinkers, why do I see not only no evidence of such increased rationality and overall brainpower, but what I’d mark as a net decline?

Indeed, it’s like people who aren’t intellectuals, but use a lot of fancy jargon because they want to seem intellectual — a narcissistic desire to see oneself as superior to others, to be regarded as belonging to The Intellectual Club, from which inferiors are excluded.

This craving for a sense of superiority is a central focus of Thomas Sowell’s The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy, and is closely related to the phenomena described by Christopher Lasch in The Culture of Narcisissm: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations. (These are books, by the way, which a lot of soi-disant “intellectuals” can’t be bothered to read.) Religion is an obstacle to self-worship, and the honest confession of ignorance — to say that we are mere mortals who don’t know all the answers — is a humiliation that the atheist arrogantly refuses to accept.

Barrett Brown promotes atheism on Fox News, January 2009

Pride goeth before a fall, and the first thing I ever knew about Barrett Brown was that he had been the communication director of the atheist group Enlighten the Vote, also known as the Godless Americans Political Action Committee, as I have remarked:

Brown’s atheism and his insuperable arrogance were hand and glove: Assuming that religious people are ignorant bigots, to whom he was infinitely superior, Barrett then proceeded to a series of assumptions that seemed to him equally plausible, ultimately including the erroneous assumption that he could get away with threatening to “destroy” an FBI agent’s life.

Barrett was a “Special Snowflake” to whom the rules did not apply, so that dropping out of college and “doing . . . a ‘heroic’ amount of Ecstasy and acid” was entirely acceptable, as was heroin, to which he became addicted. None of these failures was enough to convince Barrett Brown that he was less superior than he imagined; the belief in your own superiority is an article of faith in the Cult of the Self.

“Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.”

Barrett Brown ranting on YouTube, September 2012

Well, not every atheist has a paranoid meltdown that lands him in federal custody facing more than 100 years in prison, but Barrett Brown’s fate seems rather symbolic of what Ace described as “teenager-ish acting up, a lot of anger over hurts in the formative years, a seething need to get payback against faceless oppressors.”

Not every militant atheist is a raving lunatic or a baby-raper, nor do all atheists vote Democrat. But all atheists deny God, and are contemptuous of Christians, whom they regard as ignorant bigots.

It is this arrogant attitude that makes atheists so obnoxious in their behavior, so that everybody hates them — except Christians, whom Jesus commanded to pray for their enemies.

That Jesus — always spoiling the fun!

 

 


112 comments

  1. I do not want to paint with a broad bunch. I know many atheists who are moral and good persons who I like very much.

    But there are many who have an empty hole in the soul and seem to want to drag as many as they can there with them.

  2. I’ve known atheists that were decent people, but they all have an empty hole in their soul. Without exception. The only one that can fill that hole is God, but they deny Him, so that hole will simply sit and collect all sorts of garbage until one day they meet the God that created them, and will then judge them. Their enlightenment will instantaneous, and far too late.
    As the Psalmist said “the fool has said in his heart, there is no God.”

  3. I know you don’t control the ads, but it seems appropriate that there is an ad for Atheist dating on this page as I type this.

  4. As I say, however, it’s the pushy arrogance of atheists that makes everybody hate them, because the atheist cherishes the notion that his disbelief makes him intellectually superior to those whom he disdains as being in the thrall of ignorant superstition.

    Atheists assume that their little pea-sized brains are capable of discerning the infinite, as if man’s five physical senses are all that’s needed to understand the whole of reality. They are blind men, contemptuous of those with sight. They are microbes arguing that man does not exist, because no microbe has ever seen one. Or, they are like boll weevils attempting to understand calculus; their mental machinery is just not up to the job. However, what they lack in intellect, they more than make up for in ego.

  5. What’s “moral” and “good” if they support the murder of the unborn? They don’t shoplift? Awesome.

    It’s been said that someone who is nice to you but mean to the waiter is not a nice person. Put the word “moral” in there instead of “nice,” “lethal” instead of “mean,” and “unborn” instead of “waiter,” and you have my feelings on the matter.

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  8. Indeed, it’s like people who aren’t intellectuals, but use a lot of fancy jargon because they want to seem intellectual

    I call them uninteligent intellectuals.
    These are the same folks who write Time and People magazines and give us headlines like ..
    “Boris’ Boffo Trip” (Boris Yeltsin’s trip to the US) and “The $5.3 Billion Gizmo” (superconducting super collider)

  10. My laughing so hard at this is probably adequate proof that I am not such a nice person, after all. Well, I am not actually surprised. I do say, every Sunday, “Sinned… in thought, word, and deed.”

  11. Richard Dawkins is utterly insane. And when you consider that what people actually say (or tweet) is just the tip of their “personal belief iceberg,” it’s scary to think what he wishes he could do to the world.
    He has talked before about killing babies that are insufficiently “Dawkins-like.” He’s a drooling monster.

  12. Did I say they supported that? I know atheists who are adamantly pro life. Don’t be like the collective sort, judge individuals as individuals.

    I also know plenty of so called believers who are pro choice, which makes me question their moral compasses.

  15. “Adamantly pro-life” atheists? I’ve never met one of those in my life. I demand pictures! (And not blurry Bigfoot-styled photos!)

  16. I have started to refer to the ultra-obnoxious out to stamp out any sign of Christianity their virgin eyes and ears cannot bear as “ath-holes.” The title fits perfectly.
    Richard Dawkins also said recently a little pedophilia never hurt anybody. If you accept no moral center in your life, then there’s nothing off limits (see also: those disgusting pedos in Australia).

  19. I just had breakfast with a friend who was talking about this lovely atheist he’s become friendly (not romantic) with. She’s the age of his daughters but he’s a widower and can still admire a pretty woman She’s some sort of lawyer in the EPA in her late 20’s. When they first go to talking he said, “I’m a retired pastor.” Her response, “I don’t believe in that stuff. People should get their issues with mommy and daddy worked out.” He comments how nice she is. I kept thinking, “That response was nice?!” Why couldn’t she just have said, “I don’t believe that stuff” without the psychoanalytic addition? I neglected to add that I could almost guarantee lovely Ms. Atheist enthusiastically voted for Obama who was her secular messiah/daddy figure and yet we theists supposedly have daddy issues?

  20. One of the websites I was looking at referred to Richard Dawkins and said: “‘There’s something truly devoted about the way that Dawkinsites manage to extract a stimulating hobby from the thought of other people’s belief.’

  21. Atheism is a belief system like that of any recognized religion with it own specific dogma – No God, no afterlife, and oblivion upon death. Therefore, as wacky as it sounds, it should be treated as a recognized religion of non belief. However, what really surprises me about this credo of atheism is that those who profess belief in this dogma never attack Islam. Seems they only attack Christianity. Interesting food for thought.

  22. Atheism is a belief system like that of any recognized religion with it own specific dogma – No God, no afterlife, and oblivion upon death. Therefore, as wacky as it sounds, it should be treated as a recognized religion of non belief. However, what really surprises me about this credo of atheism is that those who profess belief in this dogma never attack Islam. Seems they only attack Christianity. Interesting food for thought.

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