Faith is the one thing atheists go crazy about

And you are so easy to fish in. Even my silliest posts got you guys all freaking out with hundreds of messages. I know I shouldn't be tormenting you but it is fun. You few that constantly responded gave me a good laugh but otherwise you're so predictable and boring too. Here's what some people have to say about atheists
[quote]Charlotte Allen says Atheists: No God, just whining
Atheists are a tiresome, self-pitying bunch whose primary motivation isn't rationalism but anger. I can't stand atheists – but it's not because they don't believe in God. It's because they're crashing bores.

Terry Eagleton take's to task nonbelievers for indulging in a philosophically primitive opposition of faith and reason that assumes that if science can't prove something, it doesn't exist.
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Kwek00 · 41-45, M

I guess Charlotte Allen en Terry Eagleton really have issues when someone questions their worldviews. Espescially since the worldviews aren't defendable in any reasonable way. It's funny how Charlotte tries to justify her undefendable position, by just labeling opponents of that position as: [i]"self-pitying bunch whose primary motivation isn't rationalism but anger."[/i]. I guess that saves her from defending the undefinable. And Terry just has to strawman a position: [i]"nonbelievers for indulging in a philosophically primitive opposition of faith and reason that assumes that if science can't prove something, it doesn't exist."[/i]. Which is a position that only holds up in very specific cases... in the case of religion, it deff holds up. And considering that this position has been largely developing and becoming important again in the 17-18th century as a reaction towards the more primitive position (religion)... I wouldn't label the atheist position as "primitive". But I guess... what ever label is nescessary to feel good about yourself and keeps you from defending the undefendable, is the way to go when you are so stuck in this primitive joke that was played on humanity by people that could only explain the unexplainable by invoking God. And for civilisations that saw it as a nescessity to invoke God so that they could impose an ethical system on people while the ever watching eye and the fear of eternal damnation keeps people straight.