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Entry tags:	christianity, left, politics

Reactionary Atheists
I've questioned the existence of God for as long as I can remember. I can remember my Catholic grandmother taking me to church one Sunday around the age of four or six and thinking "This is a load of crap." From then on I've always questioned the existence of the Christian God and still have yet to be convinced that he exists. As I've mentioned before I've been punished in school for not having the faith so I'm no stranger to the tyranny of Christianity and religion in general. I've spent many years arguing with Christians about their faith and was online arguing with hundreds of Christians before most people knew about the internet or cared about it. In that time I've helped establish arguments against Christianity and was involved with those others whose arguments have been picked up by the mainstream of atheists. We were the pioneers of the atheist online world, and we could kick alot of Christian ass, however we could never get them to vote left.

Nowadays I see atheists twice my age who log on and tout those arguments, however, they're not only touting a bastardized version of our arguments which just makes us veteran atheist online activists shake our heads, but they've also failed to realize what we realized in our political struggles. That being the Bible is the best resource against the Christian Right because their actions so conflict with the beliefs they supposedly hold dear. Try and get a Christian to say Jesus or God is wrong, they will never say it! No right wing pundit will ever say it either, the current generation of atheists fails to realize this. Why?

If you had checked the CIA's World Fact Book a few years ago before Dubya's first term you would see that only 2% of the country labeled themselves as atheists, since 2002 though that number has shot up to a whopping 10%. I was shocked to see this and only recently have I realized why that is. They're reacting to the sudden Christian fundamentalism that has saturated the government. They have no interest in knowledge or truth, they just don't want to be like those fundamentalist Christians. Here's the funny thing, by becoming the opposite extreme they become almost identical to those fundamentalist Christians. They refuse to listen to any position which is not exactly like their's, if you're a Christian, well you MUST be a right winger. Question their arguments against Christianity, well you MUST be a right winger. They just fail to realize that, you know, it's been the Christian Left which has spearheaded all of the progressive movements in the United States.

Yeah hear that you assholes? You haven't done shit! You're still not doing anything that's good for the left. Not only are you marginalizing Christians who are on our side, you're also marginalizing Christians who would be on our side if not for the anti-Christian image you're painting for the left. Now why is that? I know, do you? It's due to you fuck's acting EXACTLY like the Christian Right. You harass people for not believing in exactly what you do, you refuse to hear people out with opposing points of view, and then you label them whatever the popular forum demon is. Then on top of it you attack Christ when he fucking agrees with us! Then when someone suggests to you to read the religious texts of a certain belief you act like they're trying to convert you, which isn't always the case, especially when it's a fellow atheist. They're trying to give you the ammo and the means which work best against and convinces the Christians to convert to the left, it's called knowing your enemy, try reading a little Sun Tzu at some point. I mean you're intellectuals and all so Sun Tzu shouldn't be too far outside of your grasp, right?