I actually have a soft spot in my heart for atheists because I was one and was very angry, hateful, and bitter towards almost anyone , but especially Religious people.
But I remember it was because of how stupid the Bible was that was the reason I was an atheist , because Jonah spent days inside a whale (like the little wooden boy with a big nose who became a real boy) , and how the Funk does a person fit down the throat an in the belly of any mammal in one piece?
Then Noah creates an Ark where a pair of every animal supposedly goes and he's cleaning up the piss and shit of hundreds of millions of animals and feeding them and built a ship big enough for them.
And big Giant creatures have sex with humans. Ham sees his Father naked and all his descendants are condemned to be slaves for crimes they didn't commit. And the descendants of Ham settled in Africa of all places, which was used to justify enslaving black people.
And the Bible actually promotes and sanctions slavery.
So, I can't read the Bible without getting extremely angry because it divides people, stirs up hatred, bigotry, endless arguments, self-righteousness, and fear of a place where people are tortured for eternity for not accepting Jesus.
I can't handle such bullshit that just the words "Holy Bible" make me want to vomit.
The Crucifixion of Jesus was really moving though , how he forgave the people who humiliated him, crowned him with thorns, and nailed him to wood, and asked his Father to forgive them. There is a lot of good in "The Book" as well. That is, as long as people aren't using it to judge and condemn.
So, I sympathize with atheists. But almost every atheist I have met is abrasive, angry, antagonistic, disrespectful, proud, and obnoxious with the exception of Audiogen and the van driver of my last job.
Regarding the administrator here, I don't claim to know the guy, so he might actually be mean for all I know, but we have had our differences and I've seen people even insult him and never seen him respond with obnoxious anger, insults, unhealthy pride, or anything but the response of a harmless person who has control of unruly passions, and comes accross as humble.
I guess Buddha is my favorite agnostic, but it isn't clear if he was agnostic. Many sects of Buddhism are not agnostic.
A very rare quality for me to see in a humble atheist who doesn't respond with anger to issues like Faith, morals, and belief in the supernatural.
Go to Atheist forums.org or any atheist forum and see the hate compared to going to a religious forum.
My van driver as a paper boy hated Fascism and right wingers and I didn't care for a lot of her beliefs. She loathed Religion and believed every Catholic priest was a rapist pedophile pig. But she was actually really nice to me and knew I was a Fascist. So I was nice to her, and would take a bullet for her to receive enlightenment.
When I couldn't walk 10 miles with 45 pounds of paper because of injuries to the knees and hips, she dropped me off and said, "Just stand there and make it look like you're working when I come pick you up".
PacificDude doesn't strike me as an atheist but more of someone who borders on being agnostic yet can value enshrining heroes and paying homage to them as Native Americans, some Buddhists, Shintoists, Shamans, Tengriists, and as Fascist mysticism commands us to do.
Who would you say is the most meek and humble atheist?
But I remember it was because of how stupid the Bible was that was the reason I was an atheist , because Jonah spent days inside a whale (like the little wooden boy with a big nose who became a real boy) , and how the Funk does a person fit down the throat an in the belly of any mammal in one piece?
Then Noah creates an Ark where a pair of every animal supposedly goes and he's cleaning up the piss and shit of hundreds of millions of animals and feeding them and built a ship big enough for them.
And big Giant creatures have sex with humans. Ham sees his Father naked and all his descendants are condemned to be slaves for crimes they didn't commit. And the descendants of Ham settled in Africa of all places, which was used to justify enslaving black people.
And the Bible actually promotes and sanctions slavery.
So, I can't read the Bible without getting extremely angry because it divides people, stirs up hatred, bigotry, endless arguments, self-righteousness, and fear of a place where people are tortured for eternity for not accepting Jesus.
I can't handle such bullshit that just the words "Holy Bible" make me want to vomit.
The Crucifixion of Jesus was really moving though , how he forgave the people who humiliated him, crowned him with thorns, and nailed him to wood, and asked his Father to forgive them. There is a lot of good in "The Book" as well. That is, as long as people aren't using it to judge and condemn.
So, I sympathize with atheists. But almost every atheist I have met is abrasive, angry, antagonistic, disrespectful, proud, and obnoxious with the exception of Audiogen and the van driver of my last job.
Regarding the administrator here, I don't claim to know the guy, so he might actually be mean for all I know, but we have had our differences and I've seen people even insult him and never seen him respond with obnoxious anger, insults, unhealthy pride, or anything but the response of a harmless person who has control of unruly passions, and comes accross as humble.
I guess Buddha is my favorite agnostic, but it isn't clear if he was agnostic. Many sects of Buddhism are not agnostic.
A very rare quality for me to see in a humble atheist who doesn't respond with anger to issues like Faith, morals, and belief in the supernatural.
Go to Atheist forums.org or any atheist forum and see the hate compared to going to a religious forum.
My van driver as a paper boy hated Fascism and right wingers and I didn't care for a lot of her beliefs. She loathed Religion and believed every Catholic priest was a rapist pedophile pig. But she was actually really nice to me and knew I was a Fascist. So I was nice to her, and would take a bullet for her to receive enlightenment.
When I couldn't walk 10 miles with 45 pounds of paper because of injuries to the knees and hips, she dropped me off and said, "Just stand there and make it look like you're working when I come pick you up".
PacificDude doesn't strike me as an atheist but more of someone who borders on being agnostic yet can value enshrining heroes and paying homage to them as Native Americans, some Buddhists, Shintoists, Shamans, Tengriists, and as Fascist mysticism commands us to do.
Who would you say is the most meek and humble atheist?
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