I'm most impressed that it still loads when you click on it.
I, for one, can't think of any extensive list of reasons for people to have recently lost faith in the existence of a benevolent omnipotent force that protects us.
Oh this is the one about how Christians are a minority now isn't it. I don't realise this was the BBC Radio 4 the FUCKING News Quiz.
Anyway, as a not-quie-militant atheist, I only hope the gradual demise of Christianity means we can turn our attention to the other ancient polar dick-cutting enthusiast tribes and have balanced, level headed debate about how anyone who still believes in any of it is a fucking nutter and needs locking up on grounds of being literally psychotically delusional. But alas.
>>455369 >Harrow is the local authority with the most religious fruitcakes.
Having lived there, I can say with confidence that almost none of them are Christians. Wembley, Kingsbury, Queensbury, Harrow-on-the-Hill, this is one of the posh Asian parts of London.
>>455371 It's the North West with the most Christians, particularly Cumbria and that end of Lancashire. Outside of that it's North Yorkshire, around Boston and parts of Staffordshire.
Tower Hamlets is the most eskimo and Bury is the most Jewish place outside of London.
>>455368 Militant athiests can be just as much reactionary bigots as religious people, only different is they festishise LOGIC REASON AND SCIENCE rather than the man in the sky.
They say here “all roads lead to Mishnory.” To be sure, if you turn your back on Mishnory and walk away from it, you are still on the Mishnory road. To oppose vulgarity is inevitably to be vulgar. You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.
Yegey in the Hall of the Thirty-Three today: “I unalterably oppose this blockade of grain-exports to Karhide, and the spirit of competition which motivates it.” Right enough, but he will not get off the Mishnory road going that way. He must offer an alternative. Orgoreyn and Karhide both must stop following the road they’re on, in either direction; they must go somewhere else, and break the circle. Yegey, I think, should be talking of the Envoy and of nothing else.
To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his nonexistence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof. Thus proof is a word not often used among the Handdarata, who have chosen not to treat God as a fact, subject either to proof or to belief: and they have broken the circle, and go free.
No you're right, it's totally absurd to put more faith in science and rationality than a 2000 year old book of bedtime stories. Clearly they are equivalent and you're dead cool for picking neither side.
>>455632 Ah looks like one of them has crawled out of the woodwork. Calm down mate there aren't any fisherperson evangelist christian korean youtubers here to hurt you.
He's not wrong though in that there are certain people in the Atheist movement who are blessed with a similar kind of zealotry as proselytising Christians or eskimos.
The problem is when people feel superior to everybody else because they think they are in possession of the only real truth. It's bad enough that some religious fanatics think that way, but outspoken atheists can be just as much insufferable cunts about it.
Being insufferable isn't the problem though. The human rights abuses and just general cultural regressiveness religion proselytises is a much greater evil than just being an edgelord who quotes Richard Dawkins. It's like with the environment lot. They're often tossers but that doesn't stop them being unequivocally right.
It annoys me that there's so much apologism for religion now, particularly in liberal and lefty circles, which appears to have come about purely and entirely as a contrarian response to the BRILLIANT fedora atheist stereotype, when it flagrantlyflies in the face of what their values should be. You see some real displays of cognitive dissonance where they're are banging the drum for women and LGBT rights and what have you, until Shamanism comes along and goes "but it's our culture lol, can't criticise us we're brown" and then they just have to shut up and look nervously at the floor.
On the one hand you've got ISIS and Boko Haram, on the other you've got people being a bit snotty and arrogant on the internet. Swings and roundabouts innit.
