I mean, they're Atheistic in the sense that they don't believe in God. BUt I see a very large difference between someone who doesn't believe in a higher power because they see themselves as the pinnacle of everything, and people who don't believe in a higher power because there isn't evidence for it.
Again, they're more nihlist than anything. THey hate the church for being competition. They hate the church for being an institution. Just like they hate government for being an institution. They hate taxes for being in finanical competition. It's a hatred of anything that is different, anyone who is a threat, anything that is viewed as an "institution."
They also reject climate change, and sexual inequality, and racial inequality, and income inequality. They reject the idea of equal education for all. They are dismissive of women, and racial minorities, and sexual minorities.
To me, an Atheist isn't just someone who doesn't believe in God. An Atheist is someone who doesn't believe in God and who can understand the damage that the God idea, and the REligion idea have done to society in general, individuals in particular. I don't think anyone here just rejects God but who gives a shit about the gays, or the blacks?
Now, I do know some republican atheists, and they are very different from these nihlist Big L Libertarian atheists. I don't know...I think there is something fundamentally wrong with the brain chemistry of someone who is a Libertarian. It's just a sociopathic way to view life and society. Even moreso than Republicanism. Barely different, but different to me. I look at the rapidly dwindling number of friends I have who identify as Libertarian/Tea Party, and those who are Conservative/Republican, and there is just some difference between them. I find the Libertarians to be just nastier. Stupider, but with this misplaced sense of superiority. Republicans are happy to be the aw shucks stupid country boys and girls who drive pick-em-up trucks and who happily shun education as being some liberal agenda, and who go to church and question nothing. THe Libertarians take 3 college classes, a sociology class and come out and are like I ARE SMARTER THAN YOU, PLEBE. Unlike the republicans who are dumb and loving it, the Libertarians got 1/10th of a college education and think they are just the SMARTEST FUCKING PERSON IN THE ROOM and because they took Intro to Basic Economics then they are like a fucking economic genius...
sorry. I have a real fucking hatred of libertarians/teabaggers. THey are a stain on this country and I immediately defriend anyone on Facebook who reveals themselves to be a libertarian. Their entire political viewpoint is an antithesis to how I live my life, how I think others should live their lives, how society should function, etc.
The fact that they attach themselves as Atheists as a way to prove their oh so superior life view is even more infuriating, because they aren't Atheist. They're Anti-everyonebutme-ist.
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