A lot of atheists certainly do seem unhealthily obsessed with controlling others’ beliefs. But saying it’s just because they’re evil, ill-willed Nazis is like a bad writer who can’t conceive of a character having more than one dimension.
I think a lot of atheists envy religious people, and long to take part the beauty, splendor, history, ritual, etc. of religion, but they think not being dead certain of the existence of God excludes them from it—they mistakenly think faith is the absence of doubt, when it is actually making peace with one’s doubts and choosing to believe in spite of them. Nevertheless, if they can’t have all that is wonderful about religion, they don’t want anyone else to have it, either.
My opinion of atheists is that they are sad or maybe even angry people who do not have anything in their lives to feel joy about or can look to in times of trouble. Maybe atheists just don’t have a productive enough life or are so empty that they cannot fathom or imagine something other than everything around is is not the result of some cosmic accident.
My opinion of atheists is that they are sad or maybe even angry people who do not have anything in their lives to feel joy about or can look to in times of trouble. Maybe atheists just don’t have a productive enough life or are so empty that they cannot fathom or imagine something other than everything around us is not the result of some cosmic accident.
Most atheists are not overly concerned with what other people believe, and mostly just want to be left alone without having someone try to shove religion down their throat. As an atheist I’ve never had a problem with most religious folks, other than a few truly offensive ones, and never felt any particular desire to try to talk other people out of their faith. Unlike a lot of people on this forum, I don’t lump all religious people in with the relatively few who are truly aggressive or offensive. Not that we get much respect from a lot of those people, who would rather judge people by what they claim to believe than by their actions.