Ray a Day: 7.4

We’re back to doing Ray a Day’s, aren’t you happy?

For those of you who’ve just started reading this blog in the last month and a half, Your fearless bloggers Flimsy and I have been using bits of Ray Comfort’s book, You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, but You Can’t Make Him Think” as a springboard for blog posts. We’ve actually gone through almost the entire book at this point.

Today’s gem is a little letterbox on page 115 (which was also published here) that reads:

A loving Christian brother just emailed me and said, “Man-o-man. There are some bitter, furious, Christian hatin’ bloggers out there!!!” I told him that he is seeing comparatively nice ones. They know that I delete anything with blasphemy or cussing. He’s right though. Some of the atheists that are part of this blog are pretty nasty. So, I have decided to return a bit of the fire (in love, of course).

There are some bitter, Christian hating bloggers out there, but there are probably equal or more atheist-hating bloggers. Some people are just angry, and that’s fine. Anger on it’s own is amoral. Sometimes anger is justified.

When people are part of a group that is hated and oppressed, vilified for being immoral when morality is incredibly important to them, told to shut up for suggesting that people can be good without believing in god, and bombarded with viewpoints they don’t agree with on a near-daily basis. it tends to make those people angry. I think that when Flimsy and I personally express anger on this blog, it is justified.

My new theory is that perhaps atheists evolved from the chicken, because they not only have chicken characteristics–a head, eyes, mouth, skin, neck, heart, earlobes and legs (homology structures), but they also have the chicken’s tendencies–they are chicken livered. They hang around Christians like annoying little bugs hang around light, trying to inject their poison whenever they can.

I don’t understand why “chicken tendencies” are described as hanging around with Christians like bugs, trying to inject poison. I don’t think chickens hang around people like bugs and inject poison. I recall that earlier in Ray’s book, he told his readers that atheists only like to hang out with other atheists so they can reinforce their own beliefs. Which is it?

If you are an atheist, I hope I’m ruffling your feathers. I want to get under your skin and ask why you don’t have the courage to even whisper to Muslims what you keep shouting at Christians. Prove me wrong. Get onto a Muslim website and tell them that you don’t believe their god exists. Do your little “I don’t believe in Zeus” thing. Tell them they believe a myth. Make sure you use the word “fairytale.” Talk about Mohammed as you do Jesus (use your usual lower case for Mohammed). Do your “I don’t believe in the flying spaghetti monster” thing. Tell them that you believe that they weren’t made by (a) god, but that they evolved from primates (that will go down well).

This really doesn’t get under my skin. Not addressing Muslims has nothing to do with cowardice or fear. I live in the United states, where Christianity has more of a direct effect on me than Islam. Muslim’s aren’t trying to get creationism taught in the schools in my country, for one. I’ve only encountered a few Muslims in my life. I haven’t read the Quran. If I were approached by a Muslim who wanted to engage in a conversation about our differing beliefs, I’d be happy to do so. If I lived in a Muslim country, Islam would be my main focus.

I could say the same thing about Mr. Comfort. How come you haven’t addressed Buddhists? Why don’t you go tell those guys that you believe they will go to hell instead of being reincarnated? Further, why don’t you have the courage to whisper to Muslims what you shout at atheists? Prove me wrong – go start a Muslim Central blog, where you do your “Muslim’s deny Jesus so they can be moral free agents” thing. Tell them you think Allah is a false idol.

Explain that you think they are blind simpletons to believe the way they do, and that even though there is a creation, you don’t see any evidence that there is a Creator. Let them know that you think that it’s intelligent to believe the way you do. You may as well explain that even though you don’t believe in God’s existence, you use His name as a cuss word, because you think it’s worthless. Also, let them know in no uncertain terms that you believe that the Koran is full of mistakes (give some examples), and that their mosques are full of hypocrites.

I think that the reason people use your god’s name as a “cuss word” has nothing to do with their subjective feeling of worthiness. I think it has more to do with social upbringing.  I’m not even sure what Ray means by this. By cuss word, do you mean saying “god damn it”?

Profanity is a really interesting subject for me, and I’d really like to study it from a neurological point of view. What parts of people’s brains light up when they read expletives, or say them, or hear them? How does that compare to expletives from other countries, or regular words spoken as if they were an expletive? But we’re getting off topic.

You wouldn’t dare, because you are chicken-livered. You know that they are not like Christians. Despite the “anonymity” of your little chicken coop, they would come after you to lop off your head. And when they find you, you would fall on your knees and be praying to God for help, quicker than I can move a fly swat . . . and I’m pretty quick. So, think about what you are doing, and think about how much you value your life. Then think about what we are telling you. Think.

You sir, are a bigot, both toward atheists and Muslims. You’re seriously saying that Muslims are so hateful that if someone says something negative about their religion on a message board, they will hunt you down and kill you. Wow.

See, part of the reason that SOME Muslims express hatred toward Americans is because of people like you. When you’re bigoted towards a whole group of people or a whole religion, that tends to happen. You express hatred toward them, they express hatred toward you, in a vicious cycle of stupidity.

Hey I know – Maybe those hateful Muslims aren’t “true Muslims” because no true Muslim would hurt anyone.