Probably for the same reasons Christians ridicule and put down atheists.
Insecurity.
Because they are trying to convince themselves that they are right and how best to do that than attack.
Heck, we have people on FR who call themselves Christians go to great lengths to ridicule other Christians.
Your average Atheist does not ridicule Christianity or any other religion because he really doesn't care.
The Attention Whores who happens to be Atheist criticizes Christianity because they want to sell books to those people that are fascinated by Attention Whores and Christianity is a safe target.
The Attention Whores who happens to be Atheist never criticizes Islam because they are afraid to die.
Why do atheist ridicule Christians?
I believe that, subconsciously, they fear they may be wrong, and would like confirmation in the here and now that they are right.
Ridicule can make some hide or change their beliefs.
I saw “the invention of lying” and while I’d have to watch it a least one more time to really form a serious opinion about it on first impression it did not strike me as anti-religious.
It has a ridiculous, if very clever concept - that there is a world in which nobody ever lies, and basically just blurts out the truth, no matter how hurtful. And it is true that the expression of religious belief (in life after death and the big man in the sky, iirc) is presented as ANOTHER lie told by our lying (but brilliant) protagonist. However, as with most of the lies told in this sort of bizarro world story, this makes people happy, it gives them comfort.
Now, right now I’m realizing I can’t really opine on this movie any futher without another viewing (although there is a sweet joke right at the end, so if you ever watch it don’t give up on it before the very end). But I didn’t see it as mean spirited about relgion at all, no more than it was mean spririted about people in general.
But, like I say, maybe I missed it and others might well see it differently.
OK, now I’m going to blah blah on for a moment...
I also never saw that song “what if God were one of us” as anti-relgious or anti-God either. In fact I saw it as rather religious, because didn’t Jesus become “one of us”?
And I always liked the line that poor, tired God was all alone, with “no one calling on the phone/except the Pope, maybe, from Rome”.
You see, to me this song was not only not anti-Religious, but it was actually pro-Catholic.
But I’ve seen it condemned, so maybe I missed the point, or perhaps these are just differences of opinion.
I know nothing about the group (or person) that did that song, so if I learned more about them (or him or her) perhaps that would change my view.
Anyway TCC, hope I didn’t take your thread too OT.
Oh ye of no faith.
One of the better arguments I heard from a friend was to a Mormon.
He was asked why he didn’t believe in “A” god, at least.
To which my friend replied “Well, if I believed there was a god I would then have to choose from the many gods. Which one would I choose?”
Funny and sad at the same time. You had to be there. My Mormon friend couldn’t answer the question and my atheist friend had just check mated him once again.
I almost spoke up but then we would be talking different doctrine and the conversation would get confusing.
Oh well.
I don’t believe in atheists.
Because atheists serve at the pleasure of Satan, whether they know it, disbelieve it or deny it.
Because they aren’t really atheist. They believe in and despise God and those that follow Him.
Because they are evil.
And they want Islam to prevail.
Hitchens and Maher are certainly ones to display contempt for all things religious.
Hitchens has said some really vile things about Mother Teresa.
Closer to home, our own S.E. Cupp is a professed atheist, though one of the more benign ones.
Atheism is so widespread now, if you don’t believe in the Big Bang (yes, I said “believe in”), you are ridiculed in the scientific community.
The public schools won’t allow consideration of alternate theories (creationism) either.
Of course atheism is required for the supremacy of the state, that is, the implementation of Marxism.
I think aetheists who do this are acting out underlying emotional issues via the atheist label of religion. you can extrapolate this very general thought to politics and religion in general.
I say this because I have been functionally atheist for many many years, but
1) I don’t opine on private religious matters of anyone. When one riots, threatens death, kills, maims, etc. over events in foreign countries regarding ones’ religion, I consider this silence removed. Otherwise it is none of my business and I don’t care. I am always polite when someone wishes to benignly pursue this (usually protestant christians, but who cares, they are polite).
2) the activist aetheists only go after christianity because a) most of them came from christian backgrounds and are reacting to childhood issues and b) the world religion actually overtly going about killing repressing and otherwise inconveniencing people isn’t one as pacific a target. It fights back.
At this point the west is nearly secular, christianity is almost invisible in politics, and the major rising theological threat to any rational brain is islam. I know where I stand in this fight, and that is most clearly with the interests of the christian deep south.
I have no use fir zelots of either stripe.
Because they haven't the GUTS to ridicule Islam.
if they were truly atheists, they wouldn’t care... they’d think you were being odd, but otherwise would not effect them in the least.
those that ridicule and attack obviously do care, and care very much. Christianity seems to go against everything they believe.
then what they believe must be counter to Christianity in some way.
could it be... satan(ism) ?
>>> Why Do Atheists Ridicule Christianity?
In part because one corner of Christianity makes it SO easy. See any FR “6000 year old Earth” thread. Not just ignorance on display which we can all fall victim to, but belligerent pride in their ignorance.
Beyond that, hypocrisy naturally draws scorn and contempt. Self-righteousness wins few friends, much less converts. Many of the worst people I’ve encountered, online and off, tended to go out of their way to remind you what “good Christians” they are.
It's envy. Envy does not want what someone else has, but wants to spoil, ridicule, ban, tax away, and work to take away a perceived advantage someone else has. When the emotion of envy turns into action it becomes hate. The statement "RELIGION SHOULD BE TREATED WITH RIDICULE, HATRED AND CONTEMPT" is an excellent example of an envious statement, full of spoil and hate.
Christians do have many perceived advantages, an optimism, a purpose, a confidence, more success at life, better women, better marriages, better children, bigger houses, bigger families. This causes leftist atheists to boil over with envy and set out to spoil it. Conservative atheists are not predisposed to so much envy so are not hostile to Christianity.
The antidote to envy is shame. When envy is called out, the envier will always deny it publicly, put the pain of the shame will counter the pain of their envy and they will slink away. Envy is the root cause of theft, murder, war, and voting Democrat, so should not be considered a petty emotion. Envy should be called out at every opportunity and not let to boil. This is a lot of work because Democrat politicians inflame feelings of envy daily for political gain. Christians are one of many envious targets of leftists, stone age Muslims not so much.