Religion is a Mental Illness

Thank you, I appreciate it.

Most religionists are harmless and want to ask a question or get further explanation. Sometimes honest, sometimes not. Others are just dummies who can’t resist spouting something vacuous and platitudinous which amounts to little more than "booger.”

The insults from the nasty or aggressive ones are usually hilarious, as they generally take one of two forms: either they say something dumb that makes it clear they’ve never actually read anything I have to say; or they try to bother me with comments that only work if you believe the same superstitions as they do, which makes it clear they don’t know what an atheist is, but think that threatening one is the best way to fix the “problem.”

Or sometimes both.

But it’s hard to take someone seriously when they’re threatening you with the wrath of The Wicked Witch of the West. “I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!”

They can only influence you in ways that you allow them to. The most I’ll allow them to do is inspire me to write.

Thank you, I appreciate it.

Out of the drama that has happened over the last couple of weeks, what has been most noteworthy to me is not so much “hate” as just really pathetic attempts at insults in lieu of an actual point.

I’ve been called a “boomer” - whatever that’s supposed to even mean to me(*) - and a literal swastika-tattooed Nazi - since valuing evidence is apparently a racist trait, given apparently nobody but white people can find or use it, and everybody else uses “other ways of knowing” (aka “faith”). Which is both racist in itself, and kind of ironic given Hitler’s Xtian beliefs (and weird to witness CRT and religion aligned under a common banner of anti-evidence).

I’ve used the “Your Logical Fallacy is: Ad Hominem” link more times recently than I can recall ever having before.

The takeaway appears to be either that they have no valid argument to make, or if they do, they don’t care enough to make it. The result is resorting to laughable attempts at insults, and little reason to pay them any mind.

* EDIT: It’s like accusing someone of being born in March, or on a Thursday, or in a country starting with “A”. It has what to do with anything? Aside from a convenient excuse to ignore valid points and still claim victory. BTW, not that it even matters, but I was born to baby boomers.