How 'Bout them Cavs?
I just do not understand this type of response. All this does is make you look rude and nasty.
I finally wrote something like this to my born-again older sister. After years of constrained conversation (by email, the only way we communicate these days) she finally asked me, so I laid it out. I said I don’t respect those views as a reflection of reality, but that I was not interested in persuading anyone to change their beliefs or opinion. I don’t think she was surprised, and she didn’t really say anything further about it.’
This is not something I would do lightly with anyone.
G. K. Chesterton has a quote that would really steam me, if I allowed it to: “The worst moment for an atheist is when he is really thankful and has no one to thank.” What a moron. My tag line is partly in response to that quote.
Yeah, well he also said, “Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God.” While this seems to be true lately in the US, it is not by atheists’ efforts.
The Iranians can teach us everything there is to lnow about governments who believe they are chosen by some god to govern in that god’s stead per that god’s commands.
That’s interesting, I think the moments where I’m desperate for help and know that none is coming are the worst moments. I’m going through a thing now where I’d be praying every day, if I prayed. Oh, to believe this was all going to work out fine! That’s the rub.
Yeah, I have mentioned before that being an atheist doesn’t always give me as much of a cognitive/emotional scope for nonspecific gratitude expression as I might prefer. But it is an extremely minor downside to an atheist worldview, at least IME.
If that’s really the “worst moment” that I as an atheist can expect from my belief system, then thank—well, thank whatever or whoever for that! 