Atheists: "It's got to be a horrible burden, carrying around all that rage" (o.O) ?

Question

Just got the following answer to a previous question.

Not entirely unusual to hear this sort of thing. A lot of christians say this, I find.

What say you?

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"But I think it might be a good thing if more atheists would start really reading the answers other atheists have given...not to mention some of the questions they ask.
I feel so very sorry for some of them.
It's got to be a horrible burden, carrying around all that rage.
The venting you do in forums like these doesn't really hurt anyone. Oh, a Christian might get his feelings hurt for a couple of minutes, or get mad enough to retaliate, once or twice, before he figures out that you've made a patsy of him...
But then, he gets to turn his computer off and go to bed. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, he will have forgotten all about it by the next morning.
The angry atheist, however, has to carry his rage with him, even after he logs out.
So tragic, really."

Answer 1

I say that I do read a good many of the answers from other atheists. I've learned a lot from them.

They're not carrying rage around. I'm not either. All I can figure is that this is yet another Christian misreading of other people's words. They seem to specialize in that.

Answer 2

I have no rage.

And I don't live in fear every second that some benevolent God is going to condemn me to hell.

I consider myself an open minded Atheist. I would welcome a God. It would be nice to think there was actually an engineer on this run-away train. Unfortunately there is no evidence to support that position. And please don't ask me to prove a negative. If you have a positive there should be evidence. Simply present it.

I must warn you though, I am not a person who will accept your beliefs as proof of anything. Show me something that will stand up in any court and I will pick up my robe, dust off my ordination papers and ignore the scar tissue on my back where Christians have had their back stabbing practice. I just don't want to be anywhere near the Christians I have known. And I especially don't want them behind me.

Answer 3

I feel sorry for Christians. You continue to live in a fairy tale world because you don't have the courage to accept responsibility for you own lives. It is very easy to say that it is gods will what happens to us on a daily basis, instead of accepting that what happens to us might have something to do with the decisions we make day in and day out.
The only time I get angry is when you IDIOTS try to analyze the thoughts of atheist. To begin with you don't have the ability to think. That is why you believe in a being that is greater than yourself. You have never even considered that you might be wrong. THAT is ignorance.
I was once told "if you have nothing nice to say. Don't say anything at all". But what the phrase should be is " If you have nothing intelligent to say. Keep your stupid *** comments to yourself. You dumb ***".

Answer 4

umm..? As an atheist, I can't say I ever turn off my computer and am pissed off over the comments made by other people. I have an opinion, they have an opinion, but we (atheists) don't go around trying to change the beliefs of others. Good for them if that makes them feel happy. We aren't filled with rage. It's like arguing which is better, peanut butter or jelly:
"You like peanut butter?!?! How dare you!! Jelly is the only RIGHT answer!"
We just don't care

Answer 5

I wonder if Christians are tired of carrying around the yoke of guilt and having to defend a superstition? Personally, I'd rather be carrying around some rage than having to brainwash people into accepting the BS religion spews!

Answer 6

Anger only hurts the person who carries that anger in his or her heart.


I have seen some children (or teenagers, I assume) say that they say the things they do to make people mad. It is all a game to them. They are kids pretending to be atheists...or kids pretending to be Christians.....trying to stir up trouble.
I have seen 4-5 kids post this in response to a question.
(that they are just having fun because they are bored)

I sincerely doubt that true atheists carry anger in their hearts.

They are good people. I choose to believe that about most other people as well, no matter what religion they are.

Answer 7

No rage here. No weight on my back.

Some Atheists have the rage
Some Christians have the rage

Some Atheists are not ANTI RELIGION- they just do not believe in a higher power period.

Most Atheists are logical and hence, have MUCH easier arguments against believers. We sleep well at night :)

Answer 8

When outside of here I say the same thing in a perfectly level, unraised voice - very calm. You can't project that here online so because you disagree with doctrine and what is real concerning their deity or deities they take that as 'raging' because that is how they choose to perceive it.

I cannot control the perceptions of others on here, but I know what I mean and how I mean it when I say it and rage doesn't enter into it.

Answer 9

I wouldn't know about carrying around rage. I know plenty of Christians and Muslims and Hindus and Asatruars and etc. who could explain it just as well as some atheists could, though.

It's silly to think one group holds a monopoly on an emotion.

Answer 10

At this point I'm not angry about anything

I think christians have a hard time understanding that we just don't believe their god exists and that we manage to get through life just fine without it so they have to lie and say we're all depressed or all angry

Sad really