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ATHEISTS /
ATHEISM 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 some
examples of such condescending attitudes and statements.
"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,
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/paul_obrien/gentle/atheism1.html,
(Viewed October 29, 2006).
(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.”
http://www.ffrf.org/legal/legal5.php,
(Viewed October 29/2006).
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.
Freedom From Religion Foundation. What's Wrong With The
Ten Commandments?http://ffrf.org/nontracts/10comm.php,
(Viewed
Feb. 24,
2007).
"In God We Don't Trust"
"After numerous requests by its membership, the
Freedom From Religion Foundation, with its attorney Robert R. Tiernan, went
to federal court in Denver challenging "In God We Trust." The Freedom From
Religion sued the federal government in 1994 to have "In God We Trust"
removed from currency and as our national motto."
"The Foundation lawsuit was dismissed by a 10th
Circuit federal judge on the grounds that "In God We Trust" is not a
religious phrase (1994). The Foundation appealed the dismissal to the U.S.
Supreme Court, which did not take the case in 1996. "
http://www.ffrf.org/legal/legal5.php, (Viewed October 29,
2006.
"If believers are,
in general, happier than non-believers, that says just as much about the
psychological effects of religion in numbing the mind."
http://atheistempire.com/atheism/atheism.php,
(Viewed October 29, 2006).
"The fact that a believer is happier
than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is
happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
Quoted in,
http://atheistempire.com/atheism/atheism.php,
(Viewed October 29, 2006).
"The truth is the Bible portrays a
monster that is vengeful, self centered, vicious and unmerciful."
http://www.atheisteye.com/MyRants.html,
(Viewed October 30, 2006).
"By thinking
critically, instead of superstitiously, we affect the real world in a
positive way. We can come up with real solutions instead of asking for
divine intervention that never arrives. It is only us who can save
ourselves."
http://www.atheisteye.com/YourRants.html,
(Viewed
October 30, 2006).
"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."
Bertrand Russell, "Why I Am Not A Christian,"
http://www.atheisteye.com/BertrandRussell.html,
(Viewed
October 30, 2006).
Atheist forcefulness is nothing
new. This example goes back to 1858. That spirit is alive and well in many
of today's atheist.
"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
endeavour to expose
their falsity. Our policy is therefore aggressive."
Bradlaugh, Charles,
Aggressive Atheism,
The
Investigator newspaper,
(Viewed
November 1,1858.
http://www.atheisteye.com/AggressiveAtheism.html,
October 30,
2006).
Madalyn Murray
O'hair, the champion of atheism, had no respect for agnostics. In her
typical intolerant ways she dismissed them as "gutless."
"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."
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"This website hosts a
collection of atheist essays that illuminate the lunacy and
cowardice of religious beliefs. As such, you may be offended,
insulted, or angered--maybe all three. So if you don't think
you can take it, then just stop reading right now.
While I see all flavors of theism as bordering on
sheer lunacy, most of my commentary is directed at Christians...as
they are the most virulent offenders of proselytization and
religious hypocrisy. So if it will make you sleep well
tonight, feel free to exclude yourself from this group."
http://www.godlessbastard.com/ ,
(Viewed
Dec. 27, 2006).
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"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,
http://www.atheistempire.com/greatminds/index.php,
(Viewed
Dec. 27, 2006).
"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, 1906,
http://www.atheistempire.com/greatminds/index.php,
(Viewed
Dec. 27, 2006).
"Religion is science in the absence of
fact. "
Pain,
Michael, "Thoughts on Atheism."
http://www.atheistempire.com/writings/thoughts.html,
(Viewed
Dec. 27, 2006).
"Given
his outspoken defense of Darwin, and natural selection as the force of life,
Dawkins has assumed a new role: the religious right's Public Enemy No. 1.
Yet 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."
"A
delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of
evidence. Religion is scarcely distinguishable from childhood delusions like
the "imaginary friend" and the bogeyman under the bed. Unfortunately, the
God delusion possesses adults, and not just a minority of unfortunates in an
asylum. The word "delusion" also carries negative connotations, and religion
has plenty of those."
Adapted
from Richard Dawkin's speech in acceptance of the
1996 Humanist of the Year Award from the American Humanist Association.
http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/04/30/dawkins/index.html?pn=2,
The American Humanist Association,
D (Viewed
ec. 27, 2006).
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)
Quoted 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.
Quoted in Christopher, J.R., G.G, Wittet, Modern Western
Civilization. Toronto: Oxford University
Press, 1991, 75.
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