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Arrogant Atheists

  • 09-08-2009 9:20pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 316 ✭✭


    Does anyone else get the impression that all atheists are really arrogant? I totally do.


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    No.
    Just clear minded.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    Their faith impresses me, when they try to make out they have none.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Conor108


    Does anyone else get the impression that all atheists are right? I totally do.

    FYP


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,586 ✭✭✭cedomination


    Does anyone else get the impression that all generalisations are really ignorant? I totally do.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 204 ✭✭thecornerboy


    Arrogant how?

    To slander a very large group of people who happen to all believe the same thing as arrogant seems quite arrogant to me.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,555 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭Aodan83


    Some atheists are. So are some religious people. Get over it, most people don't care.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 316 ✭✭Halla Basin


    Hey, it's just my opinion. You can't bash my opinion!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Does anyone else get the impression that all atheists are really arrogant? I totally do.

    I could say all god fearing Catholics are really arrogant too
    - BUT I would be totally wrong to assert such a too broad assumption - besides the fact I WOULD BE TOTALLY JUST WRONG.
    I would be stupid, arrogant and ignorant.

    Its too easy for some to tar all with the same brush when they can't validate and back up their broad wide ranging tarring.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,555 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    Hey, it's just my opinion. You can't bash my opinion!

    Oh the sweet Irony


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,673 ✭✭✭✭senordingdong


    Atheism forum is thataway mister!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,892 ✭✭✭spank_inferno


    Atheists do to tend to be quite smug.

    Strange as well is that they like to impart their belief or lack of belief onto others.
    Making others believe what they believe being the hallmark of may religions.

    A good atheist is one who doesnt believe in god but doesnt judge others for doing so and most importantly keeps his atheism to himself


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 316 ✭✭Halla Basin


    snyper wrote: »
    Oh the sweet Irony

    See? This is exactly what I mean. He thinks that by saying a fancy-shmancy word like "Irony", I'm not going to understand it. Well, FYI, I do know what it means.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    I don't have any problems with the beliefs or lack of beliefs, of ahteists but i do think some of them are very arrogant and a bit up their own arse. Dawkins is the best example of this.

    Don't get me wrong i think extremely religious people to be just as bad.

    We'd probably have a better world without all the -ism's in general.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    ...A good atheist is one who doesnt believe in god but doesnt judge others for doing so and most importantly keeps his atheism to himself

    lol Aye, god forbid such thinking might spread so lets keep it buried and silenced! :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭barleybooley


    snyper wrote: »
    Jesus, thats harsh.

    Shush, the filth will be down on top of you like a plague of locusts!

    Tbh, the majority of Atheists that I've come across are serious fundamentalists, they're as bad as cults with all their conversion tactics, belittling etc., and I do find a lot of them to be up their bottoms. Then again, that particular majority happen to be the same age as me and have seemingly just hopped on the band wagon. I've no problem with people believing whatever they want to believe but just don't shove it down my throat. Hell, I'd say the same if someone was b*tching about Jehovah's going by my own encounters.

    And for those of you getting worked up over "sweeping generalisations" lighten up and give this thread a ganders :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    There are no atheists in a lifeboat .

    Amen !!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭orestes


    Does anyone else get the impression that all atheists are really arrogant? I totally do.
    Hey, it's just my opinion. You can't bash my opinion!

    Oh dear, I actually really hope you're just trolling badly


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,555 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    See? This is exactly what I mean. He thinks that by saying a fancy-shmancy word like "Irony", I'm not going to understand it. Well, FYI, I do know what it means.

    Irony is a fancy word? :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭orestes


    snyper wrote: »
    Irony is a fancy word? :eek:

    Indubitably so


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,814 ✭✭✭✭JPA


    I don't have any problems with the beliefs or lack of beliefs, of ahteists but i do think some of them are very arrogant and a bit up their own arse. Dawkins is the best example of this.

    Don't get me wrong i think extremely religious people to be just as bad.

    We'd probably have a better world without all the -ism's in general.

    What about gism?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    snyper wrote: »
    Irony is a fancy word? :eek:

    to creationists....




    sorry


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,070 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Atheism has become hard-line thanks to that wanker Dawkins

    he's like the Jesus of atheism, which is ironic really


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 647 ✭✭✭ArseBurger


    A good atheist is one who doesnt believe in god but doesnt judge others for doing so and most importantly keeps his atheism to himself

    Most atheists do all of the above to be honest. Just like religious folk.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,555 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    orestes wrote: »
    Indubitably so

    *scrambles to online dictionary*


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 316 ✭✭Halla Basin


    snyper wrote: »
    *scrambles to online dictionary*

    ha what an idiot


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,555 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    Atheism has become hard-line thanks to that wanker Dawkins

    he's like the Jesus of atheism, which is ironic really

    Yea, i used to like what dawkins had to say until i realised he seems more on an anti religious crusade rather than dealing with scientific theory


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,555 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    ha what an idiot

    2 doses of irony in one thread.

    Regards

    Kettle


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭barleybooley


    snyper wrote: »
    Irony is a fancy word? :eek:

    It's a perfectly cromulent word :P


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Does anyone else get the impression that all atheists are really arrogant? I totally do.
    ALL of them, how many have you met? I don't know the religious beliefs of most people I know.
    Aodan83 wrote: »
    Some atheists are. So are some religious people.
    +1
    Atheists do to tend to be quite smug.

    Strange as well is that they like to impart their belief or lack of belief onto others.
    Then the same could be said of religious people or vegans or vegetarians. The only reason you know they are of some "group" is because they are banging on about it all day in work and trying to convert you.
    A good atheist is one who doesnt believe in god but doesnt judge others for doing so and most importantly keeps his atheism to himself
    And the same could be said of any other "group". And the quotes so far should probably have been
    Does anybody find arrogant/smug atheists to be arrogant/smug? i.e. they are just smug/arrogant people in the first place, who just so happen to be in a group so you become prejudiced against the whole group. You would well have met hundreds of atheists and be none the wiser.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭Mrmoe


    It's a perfectly cromulent word :P


    mmmm cromulent:)


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