Why are some atheists so fanatical?

Question

Aren't some atheists becoming as dogmatic as the religious fanatics? Doesn't it seem ironic?

Answer 1

Anybody who's fanatic has something to prove! Fanatics are confused and never happy with themselves. They need something to be obsessed with.

Answer 2

No really. Fanatics come in all areas. Once a fanatic, always a fanatic. Did you ever see the fanatical drunk who reforms and suddenly is fanatical about everyone else being sober? The fanaticism itself has nothing to do with the belief system, but with the personality. The belief system is just how the fanatic manifests his or her personality. Atheism, non-Atheism, drinker, non-drinker, vegetarian, meat-eater, doesn't matter, those are just external manifestations of the inner person.

Answer 3

Sure they are and it is somewhat ironic. Not too many decades ago, America was pretty much a religious country. The vast majority of its people were either Protestant or Catholic.

In recent history, being different has become more important than being right or, indeed, anything else. So, atheists, agnostics, Wiccans, and everyone else not only can come out of the closet, they can revel in being different and to many, objectionable.

For full disclosure, I am a 34 year old Christian.

Answer 4

Some atheists are fanatical for the same reason that some Christians are fanatical and for the same reasons that some people who like pie are fanatical.

Fanaticism is a human trait that can be directed anywhere.

Answer 5

I believe the better question is: If "atheists" truly do not believe in God, then why are they so adamant about making sure our government passes enough laws to prove our Government doesn't believe in God either?

There is no such thing as a true "atheist". Madeline Murray O'Hara succeeded in convincing our Supreme Court that prayer should be banned from schools and in other public forums. She professed to be an atheist. However, in each profanity she spoke on air in her interviews, she used the name of "God."

Each time Jesus Christ cast out demons or performed miracles, it was in the name of God. Satan will use his spirits to try and prove that the name of God has no power over the Earth. Atheism is simply a form of Satanism run amuck.

Every knee will bow, and every tongue will confess that He is Lord when Christ comes again. Even the purported "atheists." Oh, Lord----come quickly!

Answer 6

I have not yet met a fanatical atheists, they generally quiet about their beliefs. It's the other fanatic's that turn me into a Lizzie Bordon person. Atheist's don't knock on YOUR door trying to convert you. Atheist's don't stand on a street corner in a suit and tie, trying to convert YOU. Atheists don't stand in a group wearing white and shaking tambourines trying to convert YOU. You don't hear about atheist's blowing up building's nor people. So where exactly are these fanatical atheists?

Answer 7

They similar to those fanatical Muslims who cut off your head or kill you by so other way if you do not submit and covert to Islam.
Atheists don't believe in anything they cannot see or anything, than themselves. If atheists believe there is not a God, why are they so dead set on trying convince the rest of us?

Christians have provided proof in the existence of the God we serve. Atheists want us to take their word on it a fact or want they think or feel about the world.

Answer 8

Define "fanatical". Standing up to defend one's rights when being threatened or harassed does not make one "fanatical". "Fanatical" is when one has absolutist thinking and attempts to impose their own views upon others. For example, those who seek to put the "ten commandments" into the public square.

Michael Newdow does not fit into that category. He is attempting to have the US pledge spoken as Francis Bellamy wrote it in 1892, *without* the phrase "under god" which was added in 1954.

Answer 9

Sorta the same reason that many religious people are fanatical. When I left Christianity it took me a long time to get out of the mindset that it was my duty to try to convert everyone to my views. Some never get out of that mindset.

Answer 10

Christaphobia is a grwoing thing in North America particularly as the atheists are being trained to hate by the moon god worshippers by way of TV news, Newspapers, etc..