Do all atheist have low self-esteem?

Question

It seems that atheist on here have a great need to be better than believers. Here is a summary of most of the atheist on here

1) We are enlightened
2) Deists are brainwashed
3) We are better
4) We are smarter
5) The world would be better if it was only us
6) Deists are ignorant and we have all the answers


YOu will find that a lot of hate groups such as the KKK and Nazi Germany and Men hating feminist often depend on a need to feel superior to those who they direct their venom and hatred towards. And its really based on insecurities and low-self esteem.

Honestly if an atheist felt so correct then why be on yahoo answers on a Sunday night trying to provoke fights and put people down to feel good about yourself. If you are an atheist and this life is all there is (right?) then should you be out living up your short purposeless life instead of trying to prove how much more superior you are then people who believe?

Please use logic. How can a group like the KKK be a Christian group if CHRIST said not to hate and God said not to murder.

Answer 1

WOW!!! You do like to generalize, huh? You should say *some* atheists. I don't feel that I have low self esteem. You could turn this around to say if christians had high self esteem and confidence in their religion, then THEY wouldn't be here trying to convert everyone. See how that can go both ways?


Dude- seriously...killing has been going on for thousands of years in the name of religion. Mainly the biblical variety of religion. And yes, the KKK is very religious. You seriously need to do research before posting asinine questions such as this.

Answer 2

Atheists are exactly like everyone else. Some have low self-esteem. Some are confident. Most of the atheists you describe in 1-6 are simply angry at having been duped in their past.. They are guilty of embarassment, shame and poor judgement. Some people like to feel that they are smarter, better, stronger, etc. These kinds of feelings are, indeed, often associated with low self-worth. Given time an atheist with the above described mentation, will learn via social pressures and sanctions that belligerent behavior directed at piety will create a cycle of depression, attack, vindication, counterattack, deppression ... ad infinitum.

Answer 3

You're wrong about pionts 2 and 6. deists are, for the most part, out allies. Theists (other than Deists) are the enemy. Look up what a deist is and you'll see why.
And you're directing your venom at atheists, only you're part of the majority so you can't be considered a "hate group" by your standards, imbecilic hypocrite. "And its really based on insecurities and low-self esteem."

You have no room to talk about logic. After all, your groups hinder the progress of science and are funding a museum depicting dinosaurs and humans interacting.

Answer 4

It would seem to me that your perception of what atheists are saying indicates a bias. That's not unusual, bias is built into the human brain.

You might apply points 1 through 5 directly to nearly any body of believers, and with a slight alteration, point 6 would also work across the board.

Bear in mind that we are all predisposed to believe that those who do not think as we do are mistaken and in need of correction.

Perhaps you might ask yourself whether points 1 through 5, and an altered point 6 make up your assumptions about yourself and those you imagine believe as you do.

Answer 5

I'm not an atheist but most of the things you "contribute" to atheists can be applied to Christians also. After all the CHURCH has a well documented history of oppression, murder, and falsehood. In fact it does the things you mentioned more than anyone else. Before you attack an opposing group of people you might want to shore up your own defenses first buddy.

Answer 6

I have noticed this too. Its shameful to nice, thinking Atheist, just as the "fundies" and anti environment, anti everyone but them Christians are shameful to good Christians.
Labels are helpful for communication, but as we see more and more, they are used against people, for baseless hate, ego feeding, justifying war and dehumanization of others, and to sell them things.
When you see an us and them you can rationalize a snowball effect of negative and hurtful actions. People like this are found in every culture and religion/doctrine.
Though it is interesting to me, which cultures and doctrines produce a larger amount of bigots and irrational opinions and hate towards others. I would like to find those things and see if we can stop it before it starts by seeing it clearly, but sadly,this may be totally impossible.
For example, you mentioned men haters but women haters are far more common, but I think this is because more people subscribe to the cultures where this is part of the excepted and encouraged behavior. It is a good point you brought up, and I think if we knew more where it starts in each of us and in each culture and saw the suffering it causes for all involved and stopped, we would be much closer to a kind of world peace.

Answer 7

For the non secular, there is plenty convenience and solace in believing in some thing greater powerful and grander than themselves. interior the non secular strategies set, the primary trials and stumbling blocks that existence supplies are component to some divine plan; the unique human experience isn't lived out in ineffective. i'm merely speaking from very own experience. satirically, i'm pagan, and that i don't have low vanity. exciting...huh?

Answer 8

I can't say I agree with all of those, but I wouldn't say that atheists have low self-esteem. I actually have great self-esteem regardless of what christians think. After a while, you kind of figure out that their opinion no longer matters since it's just the same stuff over and over again

Answer 9

Narcisstic tendancies, with meism as the self made god arrangement doesn't give much hope, for those who practice it religiously. In mythology , Narcissis pined away his life viewing himself in the pool of water--seemed to be quite alone in his self-love, exclusive of any other love or person to love.

If that be the case with our resident atheists, what a sad way to go. Because when one bleeds so easily, dies like everyone else, their godship doesn't arise to the occasion to save themselves.

Answer 10

Your question shows characteristics of a person with low self esteem, considering you're on here on a sunday night trying to start a fight. I have low self esteem, yet it isn't tied to my religion, and you mention the KKK and the Nazis, both very conservative groups heavily associated with religion. read up before asking a question.