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MILITANT ATHEIST ARROGANCE AND PRIDE Militant atheists do not hide their arrogance and their superiority; they proudly exhibit it whenever they have the opportunity. Their web sites are replete with pride, impertinent comments, tangible sarcasm and copious ridicule of religion. The following are just a few examples of their arrogant and condescending attitudes and statements. ...but first a candid admission: "To atheists, I make an especially avid plea to reconsider their own position as well. I am tired of heated debates that lead to personal insult. I find Christians who are close-minded frustrating, but I find atheists who speak sarcastically and disrespectfully equally disappointing." (Emphasis Mine) O'Brien, Paul, Gentle Godlessness, Infidels Web Site. <http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/paul_obrien/gentle/atheism1.html> (9 July, 2008).
Can anyone compete with Richard Dawkins in the area of arrogance? Doubtful. (See Dawkins's Rebuttals, on this site. "Dawkins doesn't shy from controversy, nor does he suffer fools gladly. He recently met a minister who was on the opposite side of a British political debate. When the minister put out his hand, Dawkins kept his hands at his side and said, "You, sir, are an ignorant bigot." Slack, Gordy, "The atheist." The Salon.com Web Site. <http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/04/30/dawkins/index.html?pn=2> (9 July, 2008).(Freedom From Religion) "Foundation PR director Dan Barker and Foundation president Anne Gaylor stood beside a Ten Commandment monument in Denver, Colorado and placed beside it the following marker with Anne's suggested wording for a freethought alternative." "There are no gods, no devils no angels no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds." "Other Court Challenges." FFRF Web Site. <http://www.ffrf.org/legal/legal5.php> (9 July, 2008). (Atheists such as the two above excel in vast generalizations. See "Atheist Mistakes" on this site.) "Do study the ten commandments! They epitomize the childishness, the vindictiveness, the sexism, the inflexibility and the inadequacies of the bible as a book of morals.""What's Wrong With the Ten Commandments?" FFRF Web Site. <http://ffrf.org/nontracts/10comm.php> (9 July, 2008).See "Ten Great proofs of God's Existence" on this site for a rebuttal. Atheist forcefulness is nothing new. This example goes back to 1858. That spirit is alive and well in many of today's atheists. "If we find a mind bound round with Creeds and Bibles, we will select a sharp knife to cut the bonds; if we find men prostrating themselves, without inquiry, before idols, our policy is iconoclastic -- we will destroy those idols. If we find a rock in our path, we will break it; but we will not quarrel with our brother who deems his proper work to be that of polishing the fragments. We believe all the religions of the world are founded on error, in the ignorance of natural causes and material conditions, and we deem it our duty to endeavor to expose their falsity. Our policy is therefore aggressive." Bradlaugh, Charles, "Aggressive Atheism," The Investigator Newspaper, Nov. 1, 1858. Cited in The Atheist Eye Web Site. <http://www.atheisteye.com/AggressiveAtheism.html> (9 July, 2008). Free Booklet from UCG.ORG (No Follow Up)
Madalyn Murray O'hair, a champion of atheism, had no respect for agnostics. In her typical intolerant way, she dismissed them as "gutless." (Richard Dawkins has a somewhat similar attitude. See Dawkins' Rebuttals, on this site. "The Atheist position is that the traditionalist historical concepts of god are quite fallacious and that the notion of some ``super power'' is not now susceptible of proof by existing scientific methods or by the accumulation of knowledge presently accessible to man. Therefore the Atheists live as if there were no god, no efficacy in prayer, and no life after death. We are free from theism. We bet everything on this as being accurate. The agnostic is gutless and prefers to keep one safe foot in the god camp." O'Hair, Madalyn, "Agnostics." Cited in Atheist Eye Web Site. <http://www.atheisteye.com/Agnostics.html> (9 July, 2008).The following statement encapsulates the long-term agenda of atheists. They clearly mean business. See also Atheist Agenda, on this site. "The genuineness and authenticity of the Scriptures are questions relevant to Secularism. It is as necessary for the Secularist to destroy Bible influences as for the farmer to endeavor to eradicate the chickweed from his clover field. We appeal to those who think our work fairly done to aid us in our labors; to those who will not work with us we simply say, do not hinder us." Bradlaugh, Charles, "Aggressive Atheism." Cited in, Atheist Eye Web Site. <http://www.atheisteye.com/AggressiveAtheism.html> (9 July, 2008).
The following statement summarizes the views of atheistic humanists and their arrogant belief that humans have need of no one to improve the human condition. See Atheistic Humanism: The New Messiah? on this site. "Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a better place to live in, instead of the sort of place that the churches in all these centuries have made it." Russell, Bertrand. "Why I Am Not A Christian," Cited in, Atheist Eye Web Site. <http://www.atheisteye.com/BertrandRussell.html> (9 July, 2008).
KARL MARX "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, & the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." Karl Marx. Cited in Atheist Empire Web Site. <http://www.atheistempire.com/greatminds/quotes.php?author=7> (9 July, 2008). (Marx's ideas/religion led to the destruction of tens of millions and helped bring about the most bloody time in human history.) See Crimes of Atheism, on this site.) "Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast" "[The Bible] has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies." Mark Twain, "Reflections on Religion." Cited in Atheist Empire Web Site. <http://www.atheistempire.com/greatminds/quotes.php?author=8> (27 Dec. 2006). (Many atheists speak very condemnatory words against the God of the Bible. Unfortunately, their views are based on either Bible ignorance or a very superficial understanding of the God of the Bible. See Is God Cruel? on this site.) Friedrich Nietzsche “Before God! But now God is dead. You superior men, this God was your greatest danger. Only since he is in the grave, have you risen again. Only now comes the great noontide; only now the superior man will be –Lord!" "Suffering and taking sin upon himself might have been right for that preacher of small people (Jesus Christ). But I rejoice in great sin as my great solace—" Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, In Michael Curtis (Ed.) The Great Political Theories, Vol. 2 (New York: Avon Books, 1962, PP. 261-262). Cited in, Christopher, J.R., G.G, Wittet, Modern Western Civilization. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1991, 232, 233. “Perhaps the most solemn conceptions that have caused the most fighting and suffering, the conceptions “God” and “sin,” will one day seem to us of no more importance than a child’s play thing…” Levy, Oscar (Ed.) The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche. Volume 12, 1964. Cited in Christopher, J.R., G.G, Wittet, Modern Western Civilization. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1991, 75. (Nietzsche was Hitler's primary source of inspiration. Need we say more? See Was Hitler an Atheist? on this site.) "Atheists are, in fact, the living embodiments of the temperaments that the religious claim to possess but fail to embody." (Except for humility, of course...) Russell Cole, “Militant Atheism” <http://www.midwest-populistamerica.com/articles/militant-atheism> (1 October, 2008)
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