Thread: If athiests ruled the world

Originally Posted by coqauvin

It's because people bash christianity under the same pretext that christianity bashes other people - the blanket of "Well, I'm better than you, you misguided fool." Any bashing that's done paints the basher with the same brush as the bashee. The difference is, it's hip for people who wish to be seen as intelligent to hate on religion as loudly as possible right now, so this kind of thing is encouraged, which is completely retarded, both in the pejorative and literal sense.

i really don't understand what you're getting worked up over. do you like figures like george w. bush? do you like it when people think the USA is specially favored by god and that the king james version of the bible is the only authoritative inspired one (even to the exclusion of its precedents in hebrew, greek, and aramaic)? do you like it when people who identify themselves as christians bash other religions?

the thing is that these stupid forum posts reflect an attitude adopted by many christians in the US and abroad, and it's scary. some people such as myself are intelligent enough to take a nuanced view of things and realize that not all christians are like this and to differentiate between christians like you and christians like these.

however, way too many christians hold the views that these people do, no matter how much you want to deny it. these are stupid beliefs that are just as stupid when read as text as they are recited out loud, and the humor comes from their nature as self-parody and from their obvious absurdity

Yeah, I don't think that mocking the viewpoints that are mocked in the OP video is at all the same as mocking Christianity or Christians or religion in general. Coqauvin, I think you're jumping to conclusions if you perceive things like this video as simply atheists bashing Christians because they think it makes them look intellectual, or because they think they're better than Christians. I'd perceive it as non-retarded people bashing utterly idiotic ideas because those ideas deserve to be bashed. It's moron-bashing, not Christian-bashing.