I recently wrote a very long comment to a post on an anti-atheist bigot’s hissy fit insulting atheists, “Atheism is for Fifth Graders“.  It would be fine if he just expressed his opposition to atheism, that’s a valid opposite viewpoint.  From even his title, he insulted all atheists.  That’s the hallmark of someone who has nothing of substance to say, of someone who can’t intelligently defend one’s position – straight bashing.

Feel free to read it if you’re a masochist, but it’s just the standard tripe: atheists are “smug fuck[s],” “childish,” and he even threw in a claim that we “casually drop [our] beliefs in the middle of a conversation to look cool.”  That’s a new one; I wasn’t aware being atheist was cool now.  All the apparent bigotry against us sure fooled me!  I guess we should just shut up like good little heathens.  Only the religious have the right to have opinions.

My Response

I figure the comment I left him would be useful here.  It covers many important points as to atheists demanding our place is the marketplace of ideas, and tears down his dubious “scientific” (and I use that term loosely) logic.  But more to the point of this blog, as he unsuccessful tries to claim atheists are intolerant, it points out his own bigotry.  I show that he, while criticizing atheists, is the one using ad hominem attacks – attacking the people instead of the ideas.  It’s not surprising though, when he has nothing of substance to say.

I don’t expect my comment to have any effect, he’ll just ignore it as bigots do no matter how valid the points made are, or he’ll use it as an excuse to bash me, a “smug fuck” atheist.  It was just somewhere to write it before I brought it here, and sort of a – since he likes profanity – fuck you, being an atheist expressing my views which he despises oh so much.  My comment from his blog follows (edited a bit for SDR):
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