tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5823733122082490780.post4657941574277662268..comments2023-09-26T03:58:01.918-07:00Comments on Iconoclast: Altering your reality: My contempt for certain other atheists...Iconoclasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07096216944704600721noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5823733122082490780.post-64570489415020773242008-12-06T13:50:00.000-08:002008-12-06T13:50:00.000-08:00When I was at university, I often felt uncomfortab...When I was at university, I often felt uncomfortable with the zeal some of my fellow atheists had for arguing with and proving other Christians 'wrong'.<BR/><BR/>Most of them where arguably better educated than their chosen opponents, so depending on who was keeping score, the religious where sitting ducks.<BR/><BR/>Many Christians believe because of how they FEEL, not because they know every verse of the Bible in all it's self-contradictory glory and have rationally examined their whole belief system.<BR/><BR/>It seems to me that far too many of the images of Christians espoused by Atheists are not better than the straw men we accuse them of making of us. Sure, there are some ugly fundamentalist groups, but that's not ALL Christians. Far from it in my experience.<BR/><BR/>I couldn't help but feel that my fellow atheists took far too much glee in the whole process, especially when they managed to make some point that visibly stung their opponent.<BR/><BR/>Essentially, they were enjoying hurting someone else emotionally and showing off for their friends and stroking their own ego.<BR/><BR/>So, to my mind now looking back, they were actually arguing from just as emotive a position as their Christian opponent whilst denying this fervently and rationalising it all as an exercise in logic.<BR/><BR/>As an existentialist, I see that we're all trying to cope with the SAME death anxiety. Vigorously attacking someones basis for coping with that fact causes them emotional pain.<BR/><BR/>Is taunting and hurting Christians for our own amusement moral?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com