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Article on Atheism as a Mental Illness

Ixion

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Well, I was surfing the internet (as I happen to do quite a bit), and noticed an article that caught my attention. The title of the article is "Atheism is a Mental Illness, a cry for attention". I noticed that the author is bwinwright, who posts here a bit, and admits as such in the article.

Atheism is a Mental Illness

His premise is (paraphrasing): atheists are protesting organised religion. They cannot possibly deny that an intelligent being created the universe. Order requires an intelligent being.

He never really addresses how he came to the conclusion that being an atheist infers that one must have a mental illness. The article revolves around a big straw man to support his beliefs as well. Too bad. Maybe someone else has another take on it.
 
Nope. Insanity.
As described by the majority of social norms.

Social norms ignore reality, naturally.
 
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I read this all prepared to throw something. I even had a soft thing ready to throw so that I didn't damage anything. But after reading it I could only laugh. My 13-year old son could write better.
 
Starting with wrong premise, coming to the wrong conclusion, GIGO. I read it and could only laugh too. *shrug* there will always be a few theist which NEED to justify their belief by attacking the non-belief of others. Fox in da hole. Insane atheist for not believing. Close minded atheist for not seeing the truth and evidence of God's existence. Etc... Etc... I have yet to read a real article which make a good point on that, instead of building their own strawman.
 
Hokulele said:
Too true. It is such a shame that some theists feel a constant need to publically poke people who may not share their beliefs with sticks.
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Yup - and the people being poked find a stick and poke back, and the whole thing just trundles along

Even as a thesist I wonder how many athiests we are actually responsible for creating by this behaviour
 
So, if you find yourself in a duel with an atheist, you can not lose. Just remain calm and stick to your guns. Generally, if you simply hold their feet to the fire and stick to this one point, the atheist will resort to name calling and quit first. It's like throwing holy water on Satan. It's fun!
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Lying for Jesus.
 
RandFan said:
Lying for Jesus.
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Actually, it sounds to me more like "if you're one track minded and repeat the same stupidity a thousand and one times, the other will eventually quit the pointless thing and move on. Then you can act as if you were right and proved yourself right."

Plus, if it's bwinwright, see his post yesterday to the effect of "some woowoo said he proved evolution is dead, therefore atheism is dead too." It's not even for Jesus, it's for his own flavour of woowoo new-age pantheism. It's the guy who thought that if Einstein tried to make a unified field theory and failed, it's somehow proof of a cosmic consciousness.

Honestly, he seems more like the kind of guy who makes fundie Jesus theists seem sane and smart by comparison.
 
I sometimes like visiting the James Randi Educational Foundation website just to duel with atheists.
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How did we miss that one? I wonder if s/he comes to the forum or just posts to comments?
 
Hokulele said:
...who may not share their beliefs with sticks.
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But belief with sticks is the best sort of belief! Have you ever tried believing without sticks? People think you're mad!

I admit that I haven't read the article linked by the OP yet, because I already have a mental illness to contend with and I don't want to learn that my atheism is another one... :rolleyes:

...wait...is that the reason, or is it because I don't want to have to pay work for a new monitor...?
 
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I sometimes like visiting the James Randi Educational Foundation website just to duel with atheists.
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Mmmm, strange style of duelling: Drop a heap of garbage on the scene and abandon it.

Oh, well......

Hans
 
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