Why are many atheists so angry?

Being angry and constantly bashing religion or Christianity in specific isn't doing much to make atheism seem 'enlightened'. Why are many atheists so angry and 'threatened' by the existence of religions? A lot of religious people seem much more inwardly happy than these angry atheists.

 

Perhaps atheists do not want to live under moral codes that originate from scrolls written by goat herders 4,000 years ago.

Personally, if folks want to believe in gods, fairies, the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, or chupacabras I could not care any less, as long as they leave me out of it and keep it out of the government.

Except the chupacabras. That we should legislate into our legal system.

 

I'm not an atheist I'm agnostic and I'm not angry. On Facebook people constantly post religious stuff and I find myself biting my tongue not replying letting them know it's a fake god. I used to preach that there is no such thing as an undercover Christian. Well I'm an undercover Agnostic if I'm letting the fear of consequences of being alienated by my overly religious relatives when I don't display my beliefs like they display theirs. Why is it ok to let everyone know You love God but it isn't ok to let everyone know God is a fake?

You know I'm real tempted to (*)(*)(*)(*) the charade and just be myself for once damn the consequences. I'll have family members deleting me from Facebook simply because I think the bible is a work of fiction.

 

Then you're free to live under moral codes written by sheep hearers 3,000 years ago instead, if that's your thing.

Your claims about people trying to 'force you' to believe in gods, etc are just a conspiracy theory and rooted in paranoia.

 

It isn't anger to point out blatant stupidity.

 

I'm not sure what your point is - if your family only loves you under the condition that you believe the same as they do, then they're not real family to begin with, and you'd be better off without them.

But I'm convinced that a family of militant atheists would act the same way if one their loved ones one day converted to Catholicism, Mormonism, etc - so you're acting like this exclusionist mindset is only a "Christian" or 'religious thing' but it's not.

And on a side note - what is the purpose in walking up to someone and telling them 'your religion is fake' other than to provoke them? Doesn't seem any different to me than some evangelist walking up to an atheists and telling them they're going to hell - which is why militant atheism is really just a religion in everything but name.

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Example?

 

Why would someone follow a God that killed 17,000 people simply because one man brought one prostitute into camp?

 

Why does it concern you - unless they're still killing people in the 21st Century? Nations that are mainly Christian are the most advanced when it comes to human rights - Christian nations are responsibe for women's rights, the end of slavery, etc. The majority of Muslim nations on the other hand are either outright theocracies like Saudi Arabia and Iran, or heavily theocratic and deny women, gays, nonbelievers, etc basic human rights.

Christianity has evolved pretty far from the Dark Ages I'd say.

 

Just from the posters I see here, what I see are angry Christians attacking atheists for daring to not believe in their fairy tales.

You- Blackrook- others.

All angry white guys who just seem to want to pick fights with anyone who doesn't believe in what you believe in.

 

No one cares what atheists believe if they mind their own business - militant atheists are bigots who openly attack religion.

 

I used to believe there was no harm in believing in an imaginary God. I'm a better person today because I was terrified of what the imaginary old man up in heaven thought of me. My nephew is flunking out of high school because going to church 5 days a week is more important to him. Some day he'll be a music teacher in the church and he doesn't need high school. He can drop out of school like his older brother did and become a preaching musician and live on the alms of others. Now I see the harm.

 

If no-one cares, then why not take your passive-aggressive supernatural BS and do that thing.

 

You don't get it.
It isn't atheist that aren't minding their own business. It's Christians going around telling them they will go to hell if they don't convert. Prattling on about how great their imaginary God is and then acting outraged when you counter them with facts logic and common sense.

 

I dunno, that church sounds kind of cultish - but that doesn't mean 'religion' or believing in god is automatically harmful.

 

Or we can change the question a little bit , why atheists have low moral values compared with theists ? For example they usually use a rude style of speech , usually speak loud and nervous : ))) why , maybe these are the results of cannot decide what they try to do or what they believe in .

 

You don't understand what supernatural is.

 

Really?

A couple of months ago some state legislators back east tried to institute a state religion.

http://religionandpolitics.org/2013...of-american-states-and-established-religions/

That sort of (*)(*)(*)(*) scares me, as that is how you end up in theocracies. The Constitution was expressly set up to allow both for the freedom to practice religion and the freedom from religion in the form of government backed religion. How about this. How about if folks keep their religion in their personal lives and not in the government? If folks want to murmur to invisible gods, then go for it. Just leave me out of it and leave my tax dollars out of it.

 

A lot of militant atheists don't have good moral values - their entire mission is just to criticize 'religion', not to offer any good moral values themselves - that's why they suck and why their movement is bad for society. Most religions I'd say overall have more morally redeeming value.

 

Try why are there proportionately more christians in the American prison population than there are in the general population?

 

It's a crutch. Believing in some imaginary old man changing your life for the better is a false belief. It allows you to make choices you would not make if you were actually going to use logic and common sense. It causes you to give money to con men that you could use to better your own family's lives. And trying to force the rest of the world into your way of thinking is simply wrong. You aren't as bad as the Muslims, but your not much better.

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Your making a false statement. Christians are loud and boisterous as they proclaim they are Christians and everybody else is going to hell. Use a mirror before you start making false generalizations.

 

Why are you asking a Muslim that question?

 

I find killing 17,000 people because one man brought one prostitute into camp extremely immoral.

 

Then tell that to the Christian who recently killed those 17,000 people.

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Irony noted

 

Because when one looses everything, including hope, they grasp at anything for a brighter future. They're life in jail can't be all there is, there must be a promise land afterwards to reward their torment. Or they hope there is. Hope is all they have left.

 

I think that religious institutions do more good that harm overall, even in spite of some kooky beliefs that some of them might hold. Atheism is becoming the more 'evangelical' sect, which is why people are getting turned off by them.