I don’t understand how he sees some things very clearly but so blind on this issue. Granted he is a bisexual atheist and really hates Christianity. Probably because of Christianity’s stance on homosexuality
This is the real problem with the old 2000s "atheist" or "skeptic" crowd. Very few of them are actually committed to the principles of empiricism or rationalism as they claim to be. Their atheism is intellectually bankrupt and hypocritical from the start because it's motivated by emotion: usually resentment.
Whether JSG resents Christians because of the Biblical stance on homosexuality, or whether he's just holding on to some adolescent resentment towards his parents and attacking Christianity because he felt alienated by his own Christian upbringing, none of these are good reasons to call yourself an atheist, and that basis undermines literally all of his arguments.
He therefore can't form a coherent thought when he's debating with religious people on this or any other issue, especially not with Christians, even though Christianity probably has the softest approach to homosexuality out of any major modern religion.
Saying you don't support the anti-groomer bill just because Christians do support is is like saying you don't believe in God because you don't like what people have done in His name, or like saying you don't believe in physics because of nuclear weapons. It doesn't make any sense, and the more you point that out, the angrier he'll get.
is like saying you don't believe in God because you don't like what people have done in His name
That is exactly what the Atheist community is like. Not all atheists, no, but by and large it's just anti-Christians and to a lesser extent anti-religion in general. Nothing to do with whether a creator god exists or not.
Hitchens was practically excommunicated (heh, totes not a religion for some of these fools) for being critical of Islam.
"True" atheists (like true Scotsmen, you know), the kind who basically apply Gamergate's mantra of "trust, but verify" to everything including the multiple religions and simply find it coming up short, are a very rare breed indeed. Most people harbor a great need for an ideological overmind, something to do a bulk of their thinking for them, and if they cast off their religion, no matter which it may be, they'll pick up something in its place, so terrified are they of the risk of having an open mind.
And unfortunately, they aren't picky or even careful about what they put in its place. Religion has had several hundred (or even thousand) years to refine that role, but they'll shove anything in there.
That's where I stand: I appreciate what Christians have done for the world, but I can't believe in the Christian God when there is nothing but circumstantial evidence to support His existence. I don't hold the same animosity towards it or Sikhism that I do Islam (built on a foundation that moral perfection looks like a genocidal child rapist, which unsurprisingly keeps producing evil men in Mohammad's image) or the extinct Mesoamerican murder cults.
I don’t understand how he sees some things very clearly but so blind on this issue. Granted he is a bisexual atheist and really hates Christianity. Probably because of Christianity’s stance on homosexuality
This is the real problem with the old 2000s "atheist" or "skeptic" crowd. Very few of them are actually committed to the principles of empiricism or rationalism as they claim to be. Their atheism is intellectually bankrupt and hypocritical from the start because it's motivated by emotion: usually resentment.
Whether JSG resents Christians because of the Biblical stance on homosexuality, or whether he's just holding on to some adolescent resentment towards his parents and attacking Christianity because he felt alienated by his own Christian upbringing, none of these are good reasons to call yourself an atheist, and that basis undermines literally all of his arguments.
He therefore can't form a coherent thought when he's debating with religious people on this or any other issue, especially not with Christians, even though Christianity probably has the softest approach to homosexuality out of any major modern religion.
Saying you don't support the anti-groomer bill just because Christians do support is is like saying you don't believe in God because you don't like what people have done in His name, or like saying you don't believe in physics because of nuclear weapons. It doesn't make any sense, and the more you point that out, the angrier he'll get.
That is exactly what the Atheist community is like. Not all atheists, no, but by and large it's just anti-Christians and to a lesser extent anti-religion in general. Nothing to do with whether a creator god exists or not.
A VERY lesser extent, there.
Hitchens was practically excommunicated (heh, totes not a religion for some of these fools) for being critical of Islam.
"True" atheists (like true Scotsmen, you know), the kind who basically apply Gamergate's mantra of "trust, but verify" to everything including the multiple religions and simply find it coming up short, are a very rare breed indeed. Most people harbor a great need for an ideological overmind, something to do a bulk of their thinking for them, and if they cast off their religion, no matter which it may be, they'll pick up something in its place, so terrified are they of the risk of having an open mind.
And unfortunately, they aren't picky or even careful about what they put in its place. Religion has had several hundred (or even thousand) years to refine that role, but they'll shove anything in there.
That's where I stand: I appreciate what Christians have done for the world, but I can't believe in the Christian God when there is nothing but circumstantial evidence to support His existence. I don't hold the same animosity towards it or Sikhism that I do Islam (built on a foundation that moral perfection looks like a genocidal child rapist, which unsurprisingly keeps producing evil men in Mohammad's image) or the extinct Mesoamerican murder cults.