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The angry Atheists poll

Are you an angry Atheist?

  • Yes, I'm an Atheist and angry as hell about Religion

    Votes: 28 20.0%

  • Meh, I'm an Atheist but rather amused about Religion

    Votes: 64 45.7%

  • No, I'm an Atheist and I don't really bother about Religion

    Votes: 37 26.4%

  • Huh? - I'm no Atheist at all!

    Votes: 11 7.9%
  • Total voters
    140
As a wishy-washy agnostic, I'm angry because I have to click the "other" button in all the fun polls.

Other than that, organized religion both saddens and frightens me. I love the idea of humans congregating to celebrate something larger than their own individual lives, to gather together to contemplate some form of goodness. (Plus, I'm a sucker for pageantry. Catholic mass in Italy? Swooon.) It would provide an nice balance to the individualism that is responsible for the greatest works of man. But it never happens that way.

Instead it provides a platform for mob mentality and mob rule.
 
I'm a very angry Atheist.

Here are my reasons...

1. The insane amount of influence religion has on public policy, censorship, values, political acceptance, parental guidance and the general public

2. The ridiculous amount of bloodshed that has been done in the name of GOD. Wars, torture, killing abortion doctors, homosexuals, etc.

3. It's use in justifying bigotry, sometimes to the point of brutality...The anti-gay folks, the Klan, the Neo Nazis, Anti-Semitism, pro-lifers, etc.

4. The stranglehold it has on human intellect, the collective conscious, the way it takes advantage of people when they are weak and the vulnerable (scientology and the more bizarre cults to be specific)

5. Its ability to keep people separated and angry at one another for silly trivial things that really bare little to no significance in the real world.

6. The way it has a tendency to take credit from the hard working human and give it to god...(like a doctor saving someone's life and the family says it's a miracle from God)

7. The brain washing of young children and the guilt and shame they grow up with for not fitting the religious mold (I know a few kids that seem pretty permanently damaged, that just also happen to have been raised in strong religious families)

8. The really bad music

9. The fact that it's considered more socially acceptable to be religious than to be an atheist.

And finally

10. The unnecessary war it has declared against science.

In other words...I'm Richard Dawkins
 
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bookitty said:
As a wishy-washy agnostic, I'm angry because I have to click the "other" button in all the fun polls.

Other than that, organized religion both saddens and frightens me. I love the idea of humans congregating to celebrate something larger than their own individual lives, to gather together to contemplate some form of goodness. (Plus, I'm a sucker for pageantry. Catholic mass in Italy? Swooon.) It would provide an nice balance to the individualism that is responsible for the greatest works of man. But it never happens that way.
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Hey, me too!

Instead it provides a platform for mob mentality and mob rule.
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And don't forget the descrimination and bigotry. I got pretty peeved at the LDS church for the whole Prop 8 mess. I mean I get that they feel they're doing God's work, but can't they leave everyone else alone? Yeah, nice, you don't agree with the homosexual lifestyle, kudos. So why impact their quality of life?

Yeah, that aspect of religion really . . . hmmm, yeah, anger. Red . . . anger.
 
Nursefoxfire said:
[briefly] steering the thread back on topic,

I'm generally a #3, i don't bother with religion. today, however, I find myself seethingly mad at what has been done to that poor abducted girl (Jaycee Dugard) and her 2 daughters by some whacked-out religious nut. Perhaps it's just my heightened emotions about the case, but it seems to me that a preponderance of horrific things are done in the name of religious belief, and right now, today, I loathe religion and all of its deluded followers.
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I do not have the words to describe my contempt for the people who could do this.
 
RobRoy said:
I mean I get that they feel they're doing God's work, but can't they leave everyone else alone? Yeah, nice, you don't agree with the homosexual lifestyle, kudos. So why impact their quality of life?
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You forget that if gays are allowed to marry we will all be forced to engage in bestiality. The Mormons are just looking out for our best interests.
 
RandFan said:
You forget that if gays are allowed to marry we will all be forced to engage in bestiality. The Mormons are just looking out for our best interests.
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Damn your flawed logic! It's all clear to me now. Where do I sign up?

Wait, you said bestiality like it's . . . a bad thing!? :jaw-dropp

ETA: This was actually one of the few times politics really made me both angry and sad. Usually, a measure I support or am against, I don't care too much what happens. But this one . . . yeah, I actually considered pouring a drink just to ease the pain I felt for such back-handed bigotry.
 
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Hey, me too!

And don't forget the descrimination and bigotry. I got pretty peeved at the LDS church for the whole Prop 8 mess. I mean I get that they feel they're doing God's work, but can't they leave everyone else alone? Yeah, nice, you don't agree with the homosexual lifestyle, kudos. So why impact their quality of life?

Yeah, that aspect of religion really . . . hmmm, yeah, anger. Red . . . anger.
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I live in California, can't even discuss that without getting sick.

So friggin' frustrating. Take the same people, with same books and give them instead a leader who says "Hey there's a few verses in here about loving your neighbor and helping the poor."

So then they take out TV ads that say "There's a storm coming. A storm of illiteracy. A whirlwind cycle of poverty that hurts the American family. Education is a way to break this cycle of poverty. So that more American families can provide the benefits that help children from birth. We at the LDS in Salt lake City are raising money to help schools in CA...." And then they raise millions of dollars to send to another state to help education legislation pass.

I'm whimsical before the coffee kicks in.
 
RobRoy said:
Damn your flawed logic! It's all clear to me now. Where do I sign up?

Wait, you said bestiality like it's . . . a bad thing!? :jaw-dropp

ETA: This was actually one of the few times politics really made me both angry and sad. Usually, a measure I support or am against, I don't care too much what happens. But this one . . . yeah, I actually considered pouring a drink just to ease the pain I felt for such back-handed bigotry.
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I know, and I've lost friends and upset family members over this issue. It pisses me off. It really does.
 
RobRoy said:
It's after noon. How long does it usually take the coffee to kick in? :D



That's worse than unfortunate. I feel your pain.
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About an hour. Home office and I'm a late riser. (neener, neener :D)

The worst part of the Prop 8 mess was dealing with otherwise intelligent people, watching them try to intellectually twist prejudice into logic. Ugh! There were times when the only thing to do was leave the room. And there are people that I no longer respect.
 
Religion per se doesn't make me angry; stupidity, willful ignorance, hypocrisy and bigotry make me angry. The fact that those things are so often spotted palling around with religion, well, that's another matter.
 
bookitty said:
About an hour. Home office and I'm a late riser. (neener, neener :D)
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Now you're just being nasty. :p

The worst part of the Prop 8 mess was dealing with otherwise intelligent people, watching them try to intellectually twist prejudice into logic. Ugh! There were times when the only thing to do was leave the room. And there are people that I no longer respect.
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I have one victory story from the whole debacle. My wife, who is a returned LDS missionary and reasonably devout, and I had long discussions regarding this issue. She eventually ended up voting for the proposition, because "the church told me to" (and I won't push the matter). But, here's where it got interesting, we were at a church-friend's house, and the husband, who is very LDS (so very conservative), began to pontificate on the whole matter, and my wife shut him down. I did nothing but watch, it was amazing how every "logical" argument he pulled, and every party-line he tried, she was able to shoot down in flames, and pointed out how the law was bigoted and discriminatory.

It's part of why I love my wife.
 
Barsdamian said:
Because JW's perpetually believe that the end is right around the corner. They've been believing this for as long as they've been around. As a result they actually discourage their members from wasting time and money on a higher education when there's so much preaching to be done. I of course bought the whole line having been indoctrinated from birth. My parents were somewhat moderate and gave their blessing for me to attend a technical school but not university. Even there though, I finally came into contact with people who would shake my belief system and start my 15 year transition to atheism. I feel like I'm an intelligent person whose potential was partially squandered by that religion.

Even owning a computer was frowned upon for a time. Their 'Awake' magazine had an article about how computers were a waste of time and really couldn't do anything that couldn't be done with a pencil and paper. Its ironic now that they release all of their publications on CD-Rom.
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I knew some girls in high school who were JW. I feel for you. :rub:
 
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