“Porn for Bibles”
Posted on March 7th, 2010 by Mike McGowan
Regardless of whether or not you agree with the stance of the group Atheist Agenda, most of us would recognize and admit the folly of trying to change someone’s mind by insulting them. I think we can all agree that things such as this only make the resistance to their ideas more concrete, opposition more determined, and hurts their overall cause.
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If publicity was their overall cause, I’d have to say they hit the bullseye. And it is a little bit funny.
I’m an atheist through and through, but in general, I find other atheists annoying. I particularly get annoyed with atheist bloggers, who seem to spend most of their time bashing Christians, who, as far as religion goes, are the easiest of easy targets — they’re not even fish in a barrel. They’re cetaceans in barrel.
The fact that these bloggers so often shy away from ridiculing Islam is tantamount to intellectual/moral cowardice (IMHO).
The most egregious example of atheist idiocy I’ve seen is the documentary film “the God Who Wasn’t There.” From what I could glean, the director had a shitty experience at Catholic school. Boo-hoo (join the club, jerky.) This leads him to carry out the most cowardly form of Michael Moore-style video ambush in which he accosts the principal of his former school with some retarded questions.
Such courage!
I’m not defending Christians, as I’m also familiar with the shitty Catholic school experience, but typically speaking, Christians don’t hit back when you slam them. Or if they do, their retorts are usually pretty flaccid.
A much more adventurous atheist would spend less time on Mormons, Creationists and Catholics and direct some bile and invective at the most target-rich environment in all of theism — Islam. Most don’t, though, for fear that they’ll be viewed as racist, or for fear that they’ll, y’know, be killed.
For me, atheism is something I arrived at without much glee and without much happiness. A lot of atheists in the blogosphere have turned atheism into a fraternity party where the frat is filled with snide, mostly lefist blabbermouths committed to telling you how blasphemous they are.
Such courage!
They bore me to tears.