Since I have come out as a full-fledged atheist, I have experienced being bullied on the Internet.
I wonder if it has something to do with men being misogynistic towards me. The two men who bullied me were flaming with anger, using capital letters and words of condemnation such as “YOUR SOUL WILL BURN IN HELL!!!” I take all of these with a grain of salt. I got used to it already.
I am also a member of an Internet group and recently came out as an atheist. Oh boy, only two of us against everybody. I am very confident now, debating with theists, but when they start to bully me, I feel it is because of me being a female. Is it a disadvantage being a female and an atheist? It clearly boils back to their god who is a misogyny. What else can I think of as a reason. Funny, my female friends get mad when we exchange ideas about religion, but they never bully me. In the end, they even appreciate a new knowledge/idea from an atheist.
Slowly, but surely, we are carving ourselves out in the humanity’s map.
I believe that you cannot sell a product without full conviction. I believe that if you truly believe in atheism, you can also preach it.
The Most Dumbest Religion In All of History Of Mankind -> "ATHEISM" "Theory of Evolution" <- It Says that "Everything" is created by nothing and out of nothing. Where's the Logic?
You Said "Since I have come out as a full-fledged atheist, I have experienced being bullied on the Internet."
Actually it is the other way around, The Satanic Occult Religion of Brahmanism AKA EVOLUTION ATHEISM.. With Hinduism Origin in its ESOTERIC HIGHER Conscious Mind Pagan NEW WORLD ORDER'S NEW AGE MOVEMENT of LUCIFER(illuminati within freemasonry) IS ALREADY THE KING OF THE INTERNET! ATHEISM IS THE MAJORITY.
http://www.logicalfallacies.info/presumption/no-t…
sorry to hear that narsdoktor.
but i hope you don't see these bad examples of reactions as representative of theists
Love your enemy.
I completely agree with justinaquino. All the other guys above obviously lack balls. We should be passionate with us atheism because we are clearly in the right here. This is not to say that we are completely close-minded. We are rationalists, we are open to new ideas, but we hate superstitions.
Conviction is important in any knowledge, without it we would not have the science that grants all these technologies and innovations. A particularly good conviction, is one that is ethical and open.
As for the bullies, it is strange that nothing will ever content them. They are so myopic regarding their sense of moral superiority that no matter the age or the progress they only see a "decline".
In a way I take some sadistic pleasure letting them think everything they believe is in a "decline" when in actuality it is definitely the opposite. Anyway its not like they would ever take the time to appreciate human suffering through history, if they did they wouldn't be theists.
@Romainechester:
I think it is actually possible to 'sell' an absence of belief, but it should be packaged as skepticism and freethinking, not atheism. In fact, that's what we've been doing all along here at Filipino Freethinkers – promoting reason.
Of course, if you put it that way. Being rational and a skeptic could probably result in a 'canceled subscription.' I was merely pointing out the possible pitfalls in the statement.
Also, a correction on the "(not so proper)" part of my post. What I meant was "poor." Kakagising ko lang nun kaya di ko naisip yung salitang yun.
"I believe that you cannot sell a product without full conviction. I believe that if you truly believe in atheism, you can also preach it."
You need to be careful with these kinds of statements. Atheism itself is not a belief but rather an absence of it (or even rejection). There is no product. You can't sell 'nothing' (obviously religion has done a very good job in making it happen).
It has always been a (not so proper) argument by theists that non-believers actually DO believe in something and they'd be happy to use "belief in atheism" to justify their argument.
it is because sexism is taught in the bible ..