Is it time for atheists to fight back?
I was watching Richard Dawkins, the Root of all Evil, last night. It was quite disturbing some of the things the religious freaks he found were spouting. I used to think it was ok for people to believe whatever they want – but now I am not so sure.
Some religions seem harmless enough, but American evangelists are starting to make life hard for atheists. Some biology teachers are receiving hate mail, other’s are being forced to teach creationism as science. These evangelists are quite willing to use all the fantastic things that science has given us; fat bastards use insulin derived from genetically engineered bacteria then tell us the theory most essential to biology, evolution, is a lie.
Then it comes to the Middle-East…well you know what goes on there.
Atheists around the world and particularly in America are starting to rebel against the evangelicals, check out the number of atheist video’s on youtube – it still does not compare to the number of religious videos, but it is a step in the right direction.
I feel the world might be turning a corner, with reason replacing faith – we can pray anyway.
Atheist YouTube videos:
How to Convert an Atheist Part 1
How to Convert an Atheist Part 2
Richard Dawkins Message, It’s Good to be an Atheist
And some creationist videos (to prove I have a open mind):
Peanut Butter, The Atheist’s Nightmare!
The atheist’s nightmare: the banana
May 22nd, 2007 at 10:19 pm
As a fellow atheist, I can’t help but agree. On the other hand, “the banana” is hardly the religious at their best. Even the other religious think the banana video is ridiculous, and Mr. Comfort is not going to win the “towering intellectual” prize any time soon.
The reason that the fundamentalists are dangerous is that they are fundamentalists and think the “stone everyone who disagrees with you” is mean to be taken at face value. Others don’t, and read the Bible metaphorically, for broad themes, as an illustration of how the faith was founded and followed two thousand years ago and what the import and message of Jesus was. I am perfectly well able to read it in that sense also. Of course, when you take this line long enough, you must inevitably ask why the Bible is supposed to be so special then, if it is just a collection of old documents with interesting and often gruesome stories. The religious and I part company there, but I’ve just decided that obviously this is something I am never going to understand and don’t really need to. As long as they leave the biology classrooms alone, and do their believing privately, what their imagination/faith tells them is really none of my business.
May 24th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
The main problem I have with religion is that people believe with absolutely no proof. Or they believe ludicrous miracles and their holy book is proof enough. None of their so-called proof comes up to scientific or even logical standard. I have a very smart friend, who if he gave an honest attempt and thinking about it would be an atheist. It’s all very frustrating.
One other thing that pisses me off about religious people is they believe that atheists have no morals. They believe that if humans don\’t have an all powerful being setting their laws that theft, murder, rape etc will then be considered ok. But, when you look at it was not atheists that crashed two planes into the world trade center or held witch-hunts, crusades or Jihads.