Money for old rope
Russell has done a thorough dance on the exiguous “arguments” of Suzanne Fields’s “atheists are poopyheads” in that pride of journalism, The Washington Times, but I thought I would still take just a moment to point out how incredibly lazy it is. There’s no evidence that she’s ever even read anything on the subject before writing about it; all she’s done is string together a selection of very stale atheist-hating chestnuts.
Atheism is fashionable. The Bible sells way more copies. Nobody puts atheist books in hotel rooms. Atheists think they’re nonconformists but atheism is way old. Satan. Smug, shallow and arrogant. Cheap. Hitchens and Hitchens. Zealous. Lenin. The 60s. Muslims. Leftists. The worship of power.
That’s it. Seriously. Sarah Palin could have done it in a couple of tweets, and probably has. They don’t have much intellectual integrity, the “ewww atheists” crowd.
That piece is pathetic, and there is really nothing left to say about it that you or Blackford, especially, haven’t covered.
Nevertheless, I’m intrigued that the Greek and Roman gods are “mythical.” Why are they mythical, but the God/Yahweh/Allah (or whatever) is not? By what process was the existence of the Greek and Roman gods falsified? Has that process been applied to this god so many folks now believe in, and failed?
I was going to say that the Greek gods are mythical because there are better stories about them than there are about the god of the Jews. But now that I think about it, most of the good stories mainly feature heroes, with the gods mostly acting capriciously above it all – – so maybe it’s not the key distinction.
I just tried reading Field’s article, and got as far as “Atheists by definition believe in nothing,” and I could go no further.
I mean, really?? Somebody could write that and get paid for it? Really?
Why are they mythical, but the God/Yahweh/Allah (or whatever) is not?
Typical strident, hurtful, cruel, god-hating gnu atheist tripe. They are mythical because the early christians wiped out the infidels! If Yahweh was mythical, why are there some many believers who’ll kick your but for being so rude? QED. Argumentum ad baculum et populum.
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There are better stories about some mythical gods – the trickster ones especially. I do like Loki. (I wonder if he’ll be around in Stockholm…hahaha.)
Undoubtedly; he’s involved in selecting winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.
That would place him in Oslo, not Stockholm.
There’s a difference?
Hahahahahahahahaha
I posted my take on it over at Russell’s blog. I don’t think her topic was atheism at all; that was just a red herring. Notice she’s quick to throw in jabs against DC, against intellectuals, against witty people… and finally she admits it, it’s all about Chris Hitchens. Fields’ piece was nothing but venting her envy for someone far smarter, wittier, more accomplished, more famous, and more celebrated than she will ever be.