We all feel it from time to time, that anger at how stupid these religious people are. They do look stupid, don't they? They act stupid, they say stupid things, they don't seem to think much at all and they certainly don't even begin to question their little convictions.
Man, I used to be in a constant state of outrage over these morons. Jesus this, god that, sin, sin, SIN!!! Alah be praised, reincarnation, hare krishna, all that flapdoodle that so many people have taken to define their lives just so they never have to think.
I was briefly a member of another atheist website and it was most unpleasant. What I saw was people posting raging profanity, mindless raging anger expressed in barely coherent statements. "This," I thought, "is how atheists choose to represent themselves?"
I really think that atheists need to choose their battles wisely. When I see that a guy wants to sue the town council for having a nativity scene in the town square during the christmas season I get a little annoyed. What good is that going to do except to make people think that atheists are a bunch of cranky nuts?
Being angry at all the crap that religion, any religion, has promulgated and enforced is futile. Worse, it makes atheists appear to be radical activists bent on destroying the fabric of society, whatever that means.
Reason and the respect for all humanity is our greatest "weapon." A frowning, bitter old intellectual in a tweed jacket denouncing religion and calling into question the intelligence of its adherents just isn't going to do it. But if people could see the joy and wonder that is the result of the freedom from a mindless belief in the supernatural, the freedom to be truly human and decide for one's self, then we just might have a chance of putting the thin end of the wedge into this world and its way of viewing humanity and the universe.
But anger is just not the way to go about it.
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