Reply #6: Excellent Post!

[arwalden]

You know, I'm convinced that the folks who are the most conspicuous in their assertions that atheists have a "belief system" (or that atheists purposely and rebelliously "dis-believe" in their deity, or that they have an "active disbelief" in their deity, etc) actually DO understand the point you're trying to make. They just don't care.

Your OP is an excellent one and for anyone who truly isn't getting-it... perhaps it will help them to understand. But the usual band of suspects that your OP is probably intended for (and we know who they are), will always pretend not to understand. No matter how well it's explained to them, and even though they secretly DO understand... those folks have no true motivation to do anything OTHER than what they are doing now.

By pretending not to understand... they are able to add a bit more realism to their "who-me?" acting-innocent game. Perhaps that's how they are able to be so successfully as they continue to skirt DU rules against bigotry.

The anti-atheist bigots go to great lengths to shield their hatred and disguise their bigotry by cloaking it behind religion. Such extraordinary efforts absolutely convince me that their insults and bigoted words are intentional.

The fact that they are *clever* enough to continually come up with new (albeit repetitive) ways to make the same insulting arguments about what atheists "believe" only serves to convince me that they REALLY ARE smart enough to understand how insulting it is to atheists.

They just don't care. That's how bigots are. They just don't care. (Why they continue to be permitted to stay here at DU is a mystery to me.)