WELL?
2006-09-02 11:11:26 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Do some people need to study rhetoric so they at least know when they're blatantly using too-easy-to-see-through logical fallacies?
2006-09-02 11:15:37 · answer #1 · answered by Gestalt 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you ever watch one of those discovery channel shows where they show some simple tribal people worshipping a large rock and think what a silly thing to do. Praying to a huge rock like that and thinking that rock will do something.
Well we kind of look at you the same way, you are praying to thin air. You dont even have a rock really, just praying to individual god things you each invent and make up based on your own version of the bible.
We are not angry that you pray to air, or rocks, or trees or dessert war gods from 1000s of years ago. We just dont want you to make major decisions based on this weird cult you belong to. Let the rational people not proned out before rocks and air make our own life decisions.
2006-09-02 18:18:27 · answer #2 · answered by Rob 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, their anger is in the fact no matter how they live their lives according to the rules they have set up and no matter how good they truely are, there is always one person or another telling them they shall parish in the fires of Hell. I had this anger myself at one point, but moved beyond it. Although I do not beleive in the Christian faith for myself, I am a beleiver in the Goddess and my acceptance of that was from the love and beauty I saw with in.There is no fear involved in what I have chosen.
2006-09-02 18:16:16 · answer #3 · answered by mother_of_bonehead 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, I think the anger lies within the religious themselves. Who keeps going to the other side and try to "save them"? We are not angry because we fear the same fear that believers have. We are frustrated because of the actions of the religious who always try to say 'save yourself, yada yada yada'. I haven't seen an athiest going door to door and handing out athiest papers and trying to get them together to form an athiest cult, is there? Hm? Don't be angry at us just because we're allowed to think, question, and speak the way we feel. Don't be angry because we do not fear and you do.
2006-09-02 18:16:25 · answer #4 · answered by graduate student 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Anger? No. I am offended. I am offended by stupidity, willful ignorance and self delusion... which pretty much sums up the Abrahamic death cults of desert monotheism (Judaism, Christianity, Islam). It offends me to know that three-quarters of the population of the USA appear to be infected by some sort of insidious mental virus, which leads them to the insane certainty that the myths, superstitions, fairy tales and fantastical delusions of a bunch of ignorant Bronze Age fishermen and wandering goat herders represent some kind of cosmic 'TRUTH' about fundamental aspects of existence and reality. It offends me that so many people dwell in a delusional reality consisting of an imaginary magical universe which contains a 6,000 year-old earth and heaven, a solid 'firmament' structure (the sky) separating the earth from heaven (terrarium earth), talking snakes (with legs) and donkeys, a shepherd staff that turns into an asp, demons chased out of people and into pigs, friendly spirits, evil spirits, walking on water, multiplying loaves and fishes, food falling from the sky, conception by a ghost, people raised from the dead, the sun stopping in its tracks, parting seas, people being bodily sucked up into heaven (which, by the way, lies on the 'other side' of the sky), world-wide flood that drowned the earth to a depth of 40 feet above the tallest mountain, creating people from a dust bunny and a rib, a magical tree of knowledge, god speaking from a burning bush... and ritual cannibalism, by eating god in the form of a cracker.
In a sane world, anybody running around spouting ANY of that crap, would be locked up in the State Farm for the Funny. Apparently, though, mass insanity seems to convey some sort of free pass for the loony.
It offends me that in our society, such irrational, deluded people as these are permitted to vote, hold public office, procreate, and shape the minds trusting, vulnerable children.
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"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion." ~ Robert M. Pirsig
2006-09-02 18:15:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The non belivers fear stems from not wanting to believe in a greater power that they cannot see with their eyes. Believers have power through God for their being obedience to Him and that source of power scares the non believer.
2006-09-02 18:14:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Anger at what? Fear of what? Acceptance of what? Many of us have not attended the same brain-washing seminars as you, so we need to understand your shorthand.
2006-09-02 18:17:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I dont believe in god. I'm not angry. I get annoyed when i am flat out told by believers that i'm wrong and they are right. Just because i have different beliefs to them doesn't mean i criticise them for it. I don't see why we can't all be respectful of each others beliefs.
2006-09-02 18:13:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
As an atheist i think i qualify as an non believer.
I have no anger or fear, and would not know wye i should have any. i feel luckey not being bothered by religion and gods. be good be nice
2006-09-02 18:15:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Your the one liberaly using capital letters arsewipe
2006-09-02 18:16:46 · answer #10 · answered by julia 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋