I prefer to be uncompromising than spineless... [View all]
which is what I see far too often from both atheists and the religious alike.
Besides that, what the hell is a compromising atheist? One who only lacks a belief in gods some of the time, where does compromise fit in on a binary scale of belief? I'm also uncompromising in my lack of belief that big foot exists, is that necessarily the opposite of unreasonable?
Give the definition of atheism, its impossible to be a compromising atheists, abigfootist, or alochnessmonsterism, or whatever other fantasies you want to think up to not believe in.
But, that isn't really what we are talking about here, is it? Its the real world responses and application of beliefs we have, most of which are removed from things such as atheism.
For example, I'm a Humanist first, my atheism is a by-product of my skepticism, and so comes in a very distant second. Frankly, I care less about the esoteric and philosophical debates with magic believers, and instead I'm interested in what affects they have on me, my family, and humanity at large, because that I consider important, not whether the Kalam argument is logically consistent or not.
So, to give an example, when 2 Mormon missionaries approached the backyard of my house while I was babysitting my mixed race nephew in his sandbox (he was 3, almost 4 at the time). They asked if I wanted to hear about the Book of Mormon, blah, blah, bullshit, etc. I told them, in so many words to fuck off and go away. Of course, one of these such sharply dressed young men actually asked me why, and I told them exactly why, I don't associate with hate organizations that demonize gays like my best friend, who was raised in their church and almost driven to suicide because of its teachings, or my nephew, who will already not have a life removed from racism, I'll be damned if this fucking church, which still has so many in it believing blacks are inferior, will gain a hold on him.
After I was done with my rant, they quickly turned around and left the property. Now, I was uncompromising, I was intolerant, I was even hateful, and I was justified. I, in my own small way, stood up for my best friend, my nephew, and hopefully, through the rant, maybe chipped away at the faith of those two guys. I can only hope.
Of course, many Christians will say, "But not all Christians are like this." And my response is simply, so what? You still believe in fantasy and try to act it out, and even worse, you try to pass it off as good when all it does is damage the people around it. Faith is simply gullibility packaged in a holy wrapping and teaching it to others leave them vulnerable to falling for all sorts of scams and bullshit that, in quite a few cases, actually kill. Whether its parents praying for their kids instead of sending them to the doctor, because "God provides", or its crystal healing or anti-vaxxers, or ponzi schemes, homeotherapy, etc.
I don't care what sort of crazy, supernatural, beliefs you have, for crying out loud, don't equivocate on them, realize you have no evidence, and shut the fuck up about them, stop treating them as if they are important, they aren't, the health and safety of humans are important, your gods, angels, demons, etc. are nothing compared to the well being of humanity.
This is what I refuse to compromise on, and if I'm disrespectful of your far too sensitive faith, too bad.
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