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Why the Atheist Disdain for God?

What is it with atheists and their vociferous loathing of God? Why the mania over what in their minds, does not exist? In fact, atheists refuse to know who God is, such is their hatred for him. As an example, I refer the reader to the last post at The Spartan Atheist blog entitled, “Fred is Real.”

The Spartan Atheist conjures up a ridiculous, insulting, imaginary conversation and then assigns God to the insulting, ridiculous image presented in the imaginary conversation. This is problematic for the following reasons:

  1. It is obviously, objectively stupid. What if I made up an insulting, ridiculous, conversation about an imaginary Spartan Atheist; and then assigned to the real Spartan Atheist the insulting, ridiculous, imaginary conversation? After which, I told everyone, “See, that’s what Spartan Atheist is like! He is a ridiculous person, so ridiculous in fact, that he doesn’t even exist.” Such is obviously, objectively stupid.

2. God has attributes characteristic of himself. God has a nature which defines him. Many aspects of God’s nature and his attributes can be deduced or inferred through the power of reason. Additionally, the Bible describes God through Revelation. That is, people witnessed God and wrote about him. Revelation is superior to reason in that it is God describing himself through his own actions and interactions with mankind.

3. We can come to know someone or something through our own actions and interactions with that someone. Additionally, we can know someone through authentic historical literature. For example, I can know something of George Washington by reading about him. This sort of knowledge comes from witness.

In conclusion, atheists substitute hate-inspired calumny conjured up by their imaginations, as a substitute for rational thinking and authentic witness. Then atheists assign their calumny to what they hate: God. They hate God because they create God in their own hateful image, literally.

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14 responses to “Why the Atheist Disdain for God?”

  1. Bill Avatar
    Bill

    Actually, for this atheist, whether I have disdain for God depends on whose version of God I am looking at. The God of bigots, of those who defend slavery, and such – yes i have disdain for. For most other versions, the ones that emphasize love and compassion- no, I have no disdain at all for such a God. I work with many good people who believe in such a God and I respect their beliefs, even though I do not believe that God exists.

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  2. thelyniezian Avatar
    thelyniezian

    Yes, “Fred is Real” is crude satire which leaves out some important considerations. But I can see its general intent. Why should anyone, who has never felt the need to believe in any sort of God, change their minds upon the claims of the faithful to have experienced God? As I have hinted elsewhere, Reason is not necessarily enough, nor does it necessarily point to God. Revelation in the sense of a bunch of writings from thousands of years ago which seem to contradict each other, make spurious references to each other (how many so called fulfilled prophecies of Jesus were were misquotes out of context?) and show clear signs of editing and distortion over the years, let alone whether they even align with everything known about history or science? This is hardly convincing either. Personal experience? Again we only have believers’ word for it. Personally, I tried to believe once, but was never totally convinced, deep down.

    Do atheists really hate God? No. It’s kind of a contradiction in terms since we can hardly hate something which we don’t believe exists. What we might hate are the beliefs which have been attributed to “God” from time to time by the religious, and the actions resulting from those beliefs.

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    1. thelyniezian Avatar
      thelyniezian

      (At least, such beliefs as have been demonstrated to be harmful to people and society, and the way in which they have been pushed upon others.)

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  3. Silence of Mind Avatar
    Silence of Mind

    thelyniezian,

    Reason NECESSARILY points to God. And so does science. All of your notions are absolutely wrong because all you have is 100% your personal opinions which are based 100% on faith in what someone else told you which was itself nothing more than personal opinion.

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