Sunday, May 14, 2006

From the Department of Not Having a Fucking Clue.


Shorter Rabbi Gellman: "The whining, petulant insecurity of unbelievers when they don't get their way is totally different from the righteous, God-inspired anger of the pious when we don't get our way."

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Rabbi Gellman gets it wrong. Atheists are not angry people, we just don't believe, period, end of story. My personal journey to atheism was not anger based or spite, it was simply not buying into an absurd collection of superstitions. I knew this when I was less than 10 years old. I also find it unbelieveable that people who claim the bible to be in infalliable word of god actually understand it given that it is cryptically written and full of contradiction and bias. Don't get me started...

Anonymous said...

If they handed out rewards for smug self righteous you know this guy would be at the front of the line.

I still get misty eyed about the halcyon days of yore when Newsweek was a news weekly...

Chimera said...

I think the Rabbi has it wrong. Atheists are not threatened by the idea of a god -- they are indifferent to the idea of a god. They are threatened by the angry followers of that mythical beast! And they can become angry at being threatened. Anybody would.

Anonymous said...

angry... at the followers of the diety, at the creators of the exclusionary hierarchy that controls thoughts about the diety, not at the idea of a diety.