The double standard on this is actually really annoying, and a big part of what makes atheists who bother speaking up so militant.
In almost any context, the religious can bring up their beliefs and espouse them ad nauseum. They can tell you how their morals and eorldviews are shaped by it, and how you should contort your own to fit. They'll tell you, with great confidence, about the history of the universe and how reality itself functions, as described in their holy book(s).
And this is all generally seen as perfectly normal and correct. The only push-back you might expect to get is from people who either have a different religion, or come from a different sect or denomination of your own, and that pushback is most often of the sort that goes "no, sky king said not to eat the green round pickles on Thursdays. The green square pickles are perfectly fine!".
And then the atheist pipes up with some banal and milquetoast "I think that sounds like a load of rubbish", and suddenly the metaphorical (or literal, if you're arguing with mudslimes) knives come out.
Honestly, the militancy of the people who bother arguing against religiosity online shouldn't be remotely suprising. You filter out the conflict averse by the sheer amount of bullying they get, and all you end up left with are the people both willing and able to tell you to get fucked, as well as an axe to grind on the issue.
And this is all generally seen as perfectly normal and correct.
Because it is.
If you brought a screaming retard with Down's Syndrome into a family restaurant, you'd be looked askance by all the normal people.
Atheism is a deformity. They're loud because their beliefs are self manifestly false, so they need to shout down others and conjure a climate of mocking criticism of the non deformed.
It's like how most of the deaf are such incredibly toxic people. They behave the same way, talking about their deformity as though it makes them special instead of freaks, talking down to normal people and reinforcing their shared delusions for the sake of ego.
the atheist pipes up with some banal and milquetoast
A hilarious, even farcical reduction of their actual behavior, which is that most of them transparently reject objective morality in order to have an excuse to be a bad person, typically in a whole bunch of ways.
There's a reason why even Zoomers consider reddit atheists to be living jokes. To paraphrase my teenage daughter(and be glad I'm filtering out the brainrot) "Saying you're an atheist in 2026 makes me think the next words out of your mouth are going to be about the age of consent."
You believe that the purpose of life is to apologize to a dead carpenter who was actually a god who impregnated a woman with himself so he could sacrifice himself to himself so he could accept your apology.
Christians don't like that paraphrase, but it's literally what their dipshit religion is.
And then you confidently strut around saying "Have you heard the good news? It's normal to be this retarded! And only I get to talk ad nauseam about my dumbfuck beliefs; everyone else should keep quiet about theirs."
You've been brainwashed into that ridiculous nonsense since birth, so I can sympathize with you thinking it's "truth." But it isn't. It's ancient voodoo that your iron-age ancestors were forced to accept at swordpoint if they wanted to keep their heads.
And it's disappointing that you aren't smart or informed enough to be able to see that just like anyone who didn't grow up brainwashed into the cult.
The double standard on this is actually really annoying, and a big part of what makes atheists who bother speaking up so militant.
In almost any context, the religious can bring up their beliefs and espouse them ad nauseum. They can tell you how their morals and eorldviews are shaped by it, and how you should contort your own to fit. They'll tell you, with great confidence, about the history of the universe and how reality itself functions, as described in their holy book(s).
And this is all generally seen as perfectly normal and correct. The only push-back you might expect to get is from people who either have a different religion, or come from a different sect or denomination of your own, and that pushback is most often of the sort that goes "no, sky king said not to eat the green round pickles on Thursdays. The green square pickles are perfectly fine!".
And then the atheist pipes up with some banal and milquetoast "I think that sounds like a load of rubbish", and suddenly the metaphorical (or literal, if you're arguing with mudslimes) knives come out.
Honestly, the militancy of the people who bother arguing against religiosity online shouldn't be remotely suprising. You filter out the conflict averse by the sheer amount of bullying they get, and all you end up left with are the people both willing and able to tell you to get fucked, as well as an axe to grind on the issue.
Because it is.
If you brought a screaming retard with Down's Syndrome into a family restaurant, you'd be looked askance by all the normal people.
Atheism is a deformity. They're loud because their beliefs are self manifestly false, so they need to shout down others and conjure a climate of mocking criticism of the non deformed.
It's like how most of the deaf are such incredibly toxic people. They behave the same way, talking about their deformity as though it makes them special instead of freaks, talking down to normal people and reinforcing their shared delusions for the sake of ego.
A hilarious, even farcical reduction of their actual behavior, which is that most of them transparently reject objective morality in order to have an excuse to be a bad person, typically in a whole bunch of ways.
There's a reason why even Zoomers consider reddit atheists to be living jokes. To paraphrase my teenage daughter(and be glad I'm filtering out the brainrot) "Saying you're an atheist in 2026 makes me think the next words out of your mouth are going to be about the age of consent."
Lol, I'm stealing this.
Be my guest.
You believe that the purpose of life is to apologize to a dead carpenter who was actually a god who impregnated a woman with himself so he could sacrifice himself to himself so he could accept your apology.
Christians don't like that paraphrase, but it's literally what their dipshit religion is.
And then you confidently strut around saying "Have you heard the good news? It's normal to be this retarded! And only I get to talk ad nauseam about my dumbfuck beliefs; everyone else should keep quiet about theirs."
I do not "believe" that. It simply is the truth. The purpose of life is to give glory to God and obey Him to the best of our abilities.
You've been brainwashed into that ridiculous nonsense since birth, so I can sympathize with you thinking it's "truth." But it isn't. It's ancient voodoo that your iron-age ancestors were forced to accept at swordpoint if they wanted to keep their heads.
And it's disappointing that you aren't smart or informed enough to be able to see that just like anyone who didn't grow up brainwashed into the cult.