This is a video of Greta Christina’s talk at the recent Skepticon 4 in Springfield, Missouri. Why are atheists so angry? Well, not all atheists are angry all the time, and when we are, we have good reasons to be. But GC explains it much better:
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- "If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination, rapture and deception embellished them; that weakness worships them; that custom spares them; and that tyranny favors them in order to profit from the blindness of men."-- Baron d'Holbach
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Currently arguing about this with some muppet on the AFA Facebook page. Apparently anger turns us all into morons, we’ll never achieve anything if we’re angry (“change doesn’t come from anger, it comes from an organised response”, as if they’re mutually exclusive), and we need to “compare the anger of the Black Panthers with the measured tones of Martin Luther King Jnr”.
At least, according to the muppet.
I have read GC’s blog for quite a while, my only criticism would be that her posts are sometimes too long for my attention span and that may be my fault. This was a brilliant and enjoyable speech and I laughed and clapped spontaniously along with the live audience. I do have a few observations.
I am pretty sure that anger is one of the seven deadly sins that are listed by the RCC. This one and the other six sins do seem to have been deliberately contrived to keep the sheep in line.
When we nasty atheists come across a blog post that we disagree with, our comments tend to be about how we disagree and why. Threats of violence pretty much prove that you are wrong and have nothing to prove otherwise.
On the subject of Jesus and Hell, it might be overkill to quote every single example in the NT. You could have just quoted one or two and then challenged the idiot to look up the rest for him/her self, while pointing out that it is your holy book and you haven’t even bothered to read it.
When you mentioned Karen Armstrong you missed out Terry Eagleton. They really ought to be a couple. Eagleton is still a Marxist Twenty years after reality land has intruded on that particular fantasy.
The end piece about atheists concern about the suffering of non-atheists was spot on. Christians love to tell us how they were persecuted in the first and second century and how they are persecuted now that their gay bashing has been made illegal. They like to ignore the fact that as long as Christianity has existed they have been gleefully persecuting each other.
Stonyground,
Nope.
(Close, but)