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.
Atheism isn't intellectually bankrupt. It's just grounded in a bit of empiricism... and that's about all. It's not a philosophy or a moral ethic. You can't make it into one.
Atheism is the lack of belief in a God or gods. That's all it is. There is only one logically sound reason to be an atheist, and that is that you don't believe there's enough eveidence to convince you that God exists. Most atheists, as much as they'll tell you they are motivated by rationalism, aren't. That doesn't mean they're not atheists. It just makes them stupid.
It's important to note that most Atheists are/were also Anti-Theists.
The way society encourages Anti-Christian behavior means that lots of Atheists stall out and get stuck in their hate for religion (Christianity in particular.) They wind up defining themselves through opposition-- and it's usually rooted strongly in emotion.
Until these Anti-Theists abandon hate for religion, they can't reason their way through any Theological question. It's nothing but knee jerk & rationalize. 'Reason' is nothing but camouflage for these types.
Anti-Theists like JSG will grind that axe rather than think. Their hostility towards others' beliefs moves the locus of control right outside their person, and makes them worse people because (oh irony of ironies) just like fire & brimstone zealots--- they condemn because they cannot accept that which they don't approve of. It's pure Intolerance.
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.
Atheism isn't intellectually bankrupt. It's just grounded in a bit of empiricism... and that's about all. It's not a philosophy or a moral ethic. You can't make it into one.
Atheism is the lack of belief in a God or gods. That's all it is. There is only one logically sound reason to be an atheist, and that is that you don't believe there's enough eveidence to convince you that God exists. Most atheists, as much as they'll tell you they are motivated by rationalism, aren't. That doesn't mean they're not atheists. It just makes them stupid.
It's important to note that most Atheists are/were also Anti-Theists.
The way society encourages Anti-Christian behavior means that lots of Atheists stall out and get stuck in their hate for religion (Christianity in particular.) They wind up defining themselves through opposition-- and it's usually rooted strongly in emotion.
Until these Anti-Theists abandon hate for religion, they can't reason their way through any Theological question. It's nothing but knee jerk & rationalize. 'Reason' is nothing but camouflage for these types.
Anti-Theists like JSG will grind that axe rather than think. Their hostility towards others' beliefs moves the locus of control right outside their person, and makes them worse people because (oh irony of ironies) just like fire & brimstone zealots--- they condemn because they cannot accept that which they don't approve of. It's pure Intolerance.