Washington Post/Newsweek attacks atheists

[meg]

link Substitute your favorite demonized group in this column.

I never met an {atheist} I could like. Surely, somewhere on this planet, there is a friendly {atheist}, but I haven’t bumped into one yet.

The {atheists} who have crossed my path are obnoxious. They create the world in their own image and likeness, where only they are right or reasonable, and everyone else is either a fool or fanatic. (Any {atheist} who doubts him/herself enough to benefit someone else’s opinion is not a dogmatic {atheist}, but an {agnostic}: see below).

You can’t have a dialogue with dogmatic {atheists}. Because they are so sure they know everything, they never listen to intelligent people. They are mirror images of the religious fundamentalists, who -- despite their dogmatism -- at least have their enthusiasms in the right place. The worst thing for society would be to let any of them have power over the body politic. Scratch a dogmatic {atheist} and you likely will find a wannabe Robespierre or worse.

[WI_DEM]

1. It sounds like what we think of fundies

[Der Blaue Engel]

8. Yet he's saying it of ALL atheists, whereas those who detest fundies

do not generally detest all Christians. We can recognize the difference. An asshole is an asshole, no matter what color you paint it.

[Amonester]

2. Arroyo looks like he's the devil himself.

No kidding!

:evilgrin:

(Ignore that moran.)

[BuyingThyme]

3. The words ATHEIST and INTELLIGENT are interchangeable.

[toddaa]

4. I never met an asshole I could like.

Surely, somewhere on this planet, there is a friendly asshole, but I haven't bumped into one yet.

Take Mr. Stevens-Arroyo. Talk about a loathsome asshole.

[Der Blaue Engel]

5. Disgusting

Though I'm sure some on this site will echo the sentiment in this piece. :eyes:

And that bullshit about "Any {atheist} who doubts him/herself enough to benefit someone else’s opinion is not a dogmatic {atheist}, but an {agnostic}," the author can just stick up his ass, whence the rest of his/her words apparently emanate. So, if you're not a dogmatic Christian, I guess you're not a Christian, either, right?

Jerk.

[Critters2]

6. Sounds like someone's been hanging out in the Theology/Religion Forum. nt

[xchrom]

7. why do fundamentalists have their enthusiasm in the right place?

why was he too cowardly to really explain that line?

fundamemtalists in this country have proved themselves to be deranged, power hungry lunatics.

disclaimer: i am a chistian.

[Hamlette]

9. he likes agnostics because they are humble because they have doubt

and doubt, to him, is everything. But doesn't that make us all agnostics? Shouldn't believers have doubt?

What an arrogant pig. I'd like to know how many atheists he knows. Trouble is, atheists don't admit it because of people like him! He knows some he likes but they don't dare tell him they don't believe.

(incidently, I'll agree to be an agnostic about God if all the believers will too.)

[Nikki Stone1]

10. The most dogmatic, arrogant people I know are college professors. Maybe he's projecting.

:)

[WinkyDink]

12. I always found my Lit professors super-brilliant, so I cut them slack in the

arrogance dept.

[jgraz]

11. My response, just posted

"I never met an Puerto Rican I could like. Surely, somewhere on this planet, there is a friendly Puerto Rican, but I haven’t bumped into one yet.

The Puerto Ricans who have crossed my path are obnoxious. You can’t have a dialogue with Puerto Ricans. Scratch a Puerto Rican and you likely will find a wannabe Robespierre or worse."

Now, "professor", please tell me how your ignorant screed is any less bigoted than what I just wrote.