Pasithea

Saw this link on a friend's blog and thought I'd forward it.

http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2007/10/atheists-and-an.html

I think though that I feel like it's a little flawed to accept the label of 'angry' because it means that people who want to can immediately dismiss anything you say as being 'emotional'. I don't generally feel angry. Sometimes I'm rather annoyed and every once in a while I do get angry with religious groups but on the whole I'm pretty happy with myself.

I'd contend really that it's religious people who are hateful towards atheists and other religions who have the emotional investment. They feel threatened by science or the existence of other religions. I think proselytizing is generally born out of fear and doubt. I get the feeling that the loudest religious people don't QUITE believe their own bullshit and that's why they have to push it on everyone else so loudly because if no one else doubts, it will be easier for them to forget their own doubts.

Sure I get annoyed with pushy religious people but it's they who are full of fear and hate. My irritation is but a response to their sickness.

Edit:
Okay. I admit that these two from that list do routinely annoy me more than all the others combined:

I get angry when believers say at the beginning of an argument that their belief is based on reason and evidence, and at the end of the argument say things like, "It just seems that way to me," or, "I feel it in my heart"... as if that were a clincher. I mean, couldn't they have said that at the beginning of the argument, and not wasted my fucking time? My time is valuable and increasingly limited, and I have better things to do with it than debating with people who pretend to care about evidence and reason but ultimately don't.

Bible_magnifying_glassI'm angry that I have to know more about their fucking religion than the believers do. I get angry when believers say things about the tenets and texts of their religion that are flatly untrue, and I have to correct them on it.