If Atheists Ruled the World

[_harmony]

Arrogance is something far harder to recognize in one's own group than in other groups. It may be tremendously hypocritical for conservative Christians to cite "arrogance" as a determining cause in their dislike for atheists (and decision not to vote for them) but that doesn't mean that it isn't a major influence nonetheless.

Conservative Christians occasionally take hypocritical to an entirely new level. This may indeed be one of those times.

If Schmo thinks conservative Christians don't take things like being ridiculed by atheists into account when they vote, being told overtly and covertly that they are stupid to believe in God, then Schmo doesn't know many conservative Christians.

The ones I know don't take that well. Many of them are in my ward. They don't want someone in the White House who ridicules their beliefs, and they sure as hell don't want a leader in the White House who is in league with Satan (which of course all atheists are, since they deny the existence of God).

I don't see how this can be summarily dismissed. Do Schmo and the Dude think most of these people actually care about the issues (unless the issue is abortion)? No. They care about the prospective's leader's relationship with God, the God they trust, or at least the God their neighbor trusts, not the god of science.

[_TAK]

Does that make every demographic inherently arrogant?

Sheesh.

Probably, yes. That still doesn't get an atheist in the White House.

I would not be surprised in the least if we have one now and have had others in the past. They just play the Christian to get the job.

I had hope once that W was at least agnostic but have long concluded otherwise and the Christians can keep him.

[_Tiktaalik]

So if atheists are generally arrogant and often go about telling people that they're stupid for believing in God, it should be pretty easy to find examples from most of the atheist posters on this board, right?

[_VinVishnu]

So if atheists are generally arrogant and often go about telling people that they're stupid for believing in God, it should be pretty easy to find examples from most of the atheist posters on this board, right?

*chirp*

[_harmony]

So if atheists are generally arrogant and often go about telling people that they're stupid for believing in God, it should be pretty easy to find examples from most of the atheist posters on this board, right?

*chirp*

*chirp*

Yup.

*yawn*

Find 'em yourself.

[_Chap]

I have a feeling someone is trying to sucker an atheist into telling a believer that she is too dumb to be able to find any examples of arrogant atheists ... nice try though.

Fact is, examples of arrogant dogmatic atheists going around telling believers they are stupid are not easy to find on this board.

Who, for instance, is the atheist equivalent of Calculus Crusader around here?

[_Some Schmo]

The more I read harmony talking about this, the more it feels to me like she’s using arrogance as an excuse to rationalize religious people’s bigotry toward atheists.

Let’s flip it, just to see how it works…

The reason atheists wouldn't vote for religious people is that they’re arrogant about their faith. Anytime a Christian starts talking about their religion to an atheist, the attitude “I don’t have to debate that point because I have faith” rears its ugly head, and atheists are just tired of the arrogance.

Now, would anybody seriously buy that tripe?

[_The Nehor]

So if atheists are generally arrogant and often go about telling people that they're stupid for believing in God, it should be pretty easy to find examples from most of the atheist posters on this board, right?

Mercury, Porter, Antishock, Schmo, and many others have all ridiculed belief in God.

[_Some Schmo]

So if atheists are generally arrogant and often go about telling people that they're stupid for believing in God, it should be pretty easy to find examples from most of the atheist posters on this board, right?

Mercury, Porter, Antishock, Schmo, and many others have all ridiculed belief in God.

I'm interested in you finding a quote of mine that demonstrates that.

[_harmony]

So if atheists are generally arrogant and often go about telling people that they're stupid for believing in God, it should be pretty easy to find examples from most of the atheist posters on this board, right?

Mercury, Porter, Antishock, Schmo, and many others have all ridiculed belief in God.

Inconceivable is on a roll right now, on the Better or Worse thread.