# Atheist vs Believers **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 21, 2011, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheist-vs-believers/593512 "2011-08-21T05:55:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 76
**Author:** ![Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omg_a_Black_Conservative)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2011, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheist-vs-believers/593512/76 "2011-08-21T19:54:02Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > Well I’m only concerned with this board as that was the thrust of the OP. > > so my obvious question is…where? where is this mass of unprovoked hatred at the merest hint of god. Give me links and cites that back up your claim or I’ll just dismiss what you’ve said without further thought. [Literally a two minute search](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13400519&postcount=102): > [@You're right, Danny C...there is no god.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-right-danny-c-there-is-no-god/568983/102): > > Except that one side, the religious side is ridiculous, incoherent and denies physical laws. You are pretending to a false equality between the two positions. Which was in response to this: > [@Omg a Black Conservative](#): > > Ergo, it’s better to just believe what you want to believe and don’t believe what you don’t want to believe. And, really, that’s just one example. When you think about it, that’s pretty funny, actually. I say people should be left alone and some a self-avowed atheist comes up to tell me that people shouldn’t be left alone to believe what they want to believe, 'cuz one side is, apparently, logically superior to the other (allegedly). But, oh, atheists really just want to be left alone, right? All us religious people are really just being paranoid or something. I mean, 'cuz that’s usually how the line goes, isn’t it? Atheists don’t go out of their way-- especially on the internet-- to feign some faux sense of intellectual superiority. Naw. All of us religious folk really have a persecution complex 😉 --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheist-vs-believers/593512)._