Originally posted by: Forsythe
I agree, some are pricks. And sometimes i act like a prick. Which i just think is human nature. But i try hard not to do it, as it makes me feel disgusted with myself.
However, one thing you should know. The anonymity of the internet makes people behave like pricks without them caring. And msot of all me.
And i know plenty of stupid atheists, trust me.
That's true, that's true. Condescension just burns me up, though, because mature people don't use it, and immature people are usually too young to have earned it.
I get exceptionally disgusted at the large number of high school atheists who know nothing, but somehow think they're the next stage of human evolution just because they don't believe in God. And the whole time, they don't realize that they're just as bad as the rabid Christians they vilify, and on top of that, they adopt a patronizing attitude that their prepubescent, scarcely-literate selves can't possibly justify. Again, I could probably ignore them, just like I ignore the people walking around with signs saying "God hates fags," except that mainstream society gives them credibility, which once again they haven't earned. Coattail effect, in the worst sort of way; the true logician will spend years of study to craft clever, ornate, and sound arguments, wielding them carefully to try to persuade the opposition to his or her point of view, these young savages will rip the same arguments half-formed from the pages of a book and swing them like a bludgeon, twisting the skill and thought poured into them into simply battering their opponent with someone else's ideas. And then they have the audacity to be smug about it, as if their puerile acts in any way contributed to the betterment of rational thought as a whole.
Sometimes, if I'm in a weird enough mood, I'll just see the humor in it and laugh, but other times the idealistic side of me kicks in and wants to set things right.