Why are atheists so obsessed with their disbelief in god?

I don't understand how so many non-believers spend so many hours a day fixated on the fact that they don't believe in god. I don't believe in ghosts, aliens, a flying leprachan...but I don't fixate on that fact every day. And before I get a question "why are believers fixated on their belief in him"...they're supposed to be. What are your thoughts?

I know. They're like faithless Jehovah's witnesses.

I don't know, the topic of all knowing being is clearly a fascinating, hot-button, inflammatory one.

You don't ever notice the ones that are quiet about it.KiIIyou

Good point, why didn't I think of that dammnit!

Why are you fixated on alleged fixation with not believing in God HMMMMMMMM?

Are you kidding me?Religion is extremely important. People don't think about it enough.

On average how many hours a day does an atheist spend disbelieving in God?Sajo7

Why do you like generalising so much? JasonDarksavior

Same reason the generalised atheists who fit this description like to generalise all Christians as mindless god-worshippers. Were not all like that, but every christian attack thread uses those generalisations.

i belieive in god evary day

Because God trolled the **** out of me.

Perhaps because the concept of God annoys them on a fundamental level more so than others which does make me wonder if atheists truely felt God was on the level of elves or fairies as some might suggest, why even address it? It would be like NT Wright discussing with Archyra S, you simply wouldn't give the opposition that sort of justification.

You're right, OP. I mean even though no one worships ghosts, aliens, and flying leprachans and the people who do believe in these never use them to justify immoral behavior, the situations are totally comparable. Those darn atheists! Always trying to ruin perfectly innocent believers' fun. VanHelsingBoA64

Exactly I just love to run up to childeren's magic shows and explain the tricks to the imbeciles or tell everyone wrestling is fake!

WHY MUST US ATHIESTS BE OUTNUMBERED BY PLEBIANS!?!

Both sides of the fence are ****ing annoying to me, agnostics are usually the only people that stay quiet in religious debates since they're generally the people that don't care either way. I couldn't care less about how great God is and I couldn't care less about how you think all religions are stupid and how, look, science, here's some science, here's another pointless argument to start that will never end because neither side realises they're battling with the same dumb arguments every single time. Nobody ever wins a religious argument because one side can just go "GOD SAYS SO, YEAH, SUCK ON THAT!" and the other can go "URR YEAH BUT SCIENCE SAYS THIS, ALSO GOD IS DUMB, SHUT UP!"bobbetybob

Agnostics make me rage so hard. Turncoat ****s can not pick a side. I bet Benedict Arnold was agnostic.

You're right, OP. I mean even though no one worships ghosts, aliens, and flying leprachans and the people who do believe in these never use them to justify immoral behavior, the situations are totally comparable. Those darn atheists! Always trying to ruin perfectly innocent believers' fun. VanHelsingBoA64

Immoral? Says who?

I don't understand how so many non-believers spend so many hours a day fixated on the fact that they don't believe in god. I don't believe in ghosts, aliens, a flying leprachan...but I don't fixate on that fact every day. And before I get a question "why are believers fixated on their belief in him"...they're supposed to be. What are your thoughts?

the_plan_man

[QUOTE="VanHelsingBoA64"]You're right, OP. I mean even though no one worships ghosts, aliens, and flying leprachans and the people who do believe in these never use them to justify immoral behavior, the situations are totally comparable. Those darn atheists! Always trying to ruin perfectly innocent believers' fun. Storm_Marine

Immoral? Says who?

Charle's Darwins theory on morals and how evolution rewards kindness and sincerity of course!

[QUOTE="VanHelsingBoA64"]You're right, OP. I mean even though no one worships ghosts, aliens, and flying leprachans and the people who do believe in these never use them to justify immoral behavior, the situations are totally comparable. Those darn atheists! Always trying to ruin perfectly innocent believers' fun. Storm_Marine

Immoral? Says who?

I don't understand how so many non-believers spend so many hours a day fixated on the fact that they don't believe in god. I don't believe in ghosts, aliens, a flying leprachan...but I don't fixate on that fact every day. And before I get a question "why are believers fixated on their belief in him"...they're supposed to be. What are your thoughts?

the_plan_man

But you can't prove they don't exist. You either have to be agnostic to them or have faith that they don't exist, if you affirm a non-belief in them you're making an unfounded assumption.

Seriously, why do YOU spend so much time fixating on us? It's normal for us. Hell, Christians spend hours every week going to church and Bible study and crap, we only spend a few hours on it inbetween homework breaks (and even then we split our time between other topics. No, I think Freud would say that the person who has no personal stake in atheism but constantly talks about it is fixated, not the person who DOES have a personal stake in it.

who said atheists spend "several hours / day" in that? lol

Why are theists so obsessed with my disbelief in god? Oh right.....butthurt

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[QUOTE="VanHelsingBoA64"]You're right, OP. I mean even though no one worships ghosts, aliens, and flying leprachans and the people who do believe in these never use them to justify immoral behavior, the situations are totally comparable. Those darn atheists! Always trying to ruin perfectly innocent believers' fun. VanHelsingBoA64

Immoral? Says who?

fail.

[QUOTE="VanHelsingBoA64"][QUOTE="Storm_Marine"]

Immoral? Says who?

Storm_Marine

fail.

Atheists have a higher IQ on average than theists, so we think more frequently.

Oh, and in case the TC or some other dude gets his panties riled up and starts generalising atheists as supremacists in yet another moronic post, that wasn't a serious statement.

[QUOTE="Storm_Marine"]

[QUOTE="VanHelsingBoA64"] Me.VanHelsingBoA64

fail.

yes

I feel like this thread belongs on yahoo answers XDLocoVarro-Randy

Lol so true, would you thumb up all my comments?

I would definately select your answer as the best answer.

Also God is Spaghetti Monster, ROFLMAO! Thread over!

Why are theists so obsessed with my disbelief in god? Oh right.....butthurt

wis3boi

Quite the opposite actually. They want to be butthurt but their god forbids it, so they envy us atheists and our permissive systems of morality.

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Why are theists so obsessed with my disbelief in god? Oh right.....butthurt

theone86

Quite the opposite actually. They want to be butthurt but their god forbids it, so they envy us atheists and our permissive systems of morality.

[QUOTE="VanHelsingBoA64"]You're right, OP. I mean even though no one worships ghosts, aliens, and flying leprachans and the people who do believe in these never use them to justify immoral behavior, the situations are totally comparable. Those darn atheists! Always trying to ruin perfectly innocent believers' fun. Storm_Marine

Immoral? Says who?

Atheists caused a town uprising where I live because they wanted a city hall to stop displaying a nativity scene in the hall's front yard (which if you're a decent atheist, you let people worship, you don't change things to your point of view). The only way they would allow town hall to keep the nativity scene was if they displayed a banner that states that all religions are false and turns faithful into idiots.

That nativity scene wasn't just there as a Christian thing, it had been a town tradition for the past 50 years and all the local atheists I know didin't have a problem with the nativity scene. Most of them actually opposed "Freedom from Religion", the organization doing this.

Basically, a bunch of atheists from out of state came into the town, caused a huge uprising, threatened to sue the city over a piece of plastic that was literally not harming anyone, and won.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2011/12/05/atheist-banner-rejected-from-ellwood-city-municipal-building-while-nativity-scene-stays/

[QUOTE="bobbetybob"]Both sides of the fence are ****ing annoying to me, agnostics are usually the only people that stay quiet in religious debates since they're generally the people that don't care either way. I couldn't care less about how great God is and I couldn't care less about how you think all religions are stupid and how, look, science, here's some science, here's another pointless argument to start that will never end because neither side realises they're battling with the same dumb arguments every single time. Nobody ever wins a religious argument because one side can just go "GOD SAYS SO, YEAH, SUCK ON THAT!" and the other can go "URR YEAH BUT SCIENCE SAYS THIS, ALSO GOD IS DUMB, SHUT UP!"666BumbleBee666

Agnostics make me rage so hard. Turncoat ****s can not pick a side. I bet Benedict Arnold was agnostic.

[QUOTE="WiiCubeM1"]

[QUOTE="Storm_Marine"]

Immoral? Says who?

Storm_Marine

stuff

Didn't read. Don't want to know what you posted. No offense.

None taken, but to clear something up, did you think I was bashing atheists or christians?

[QUOTE="Storm_Marine"]

[QUOTE="VanHelsingBoA64"]You're right, OP. I mean even though no one worships ghosts, aliens, and flying leprachans and the people who do believe in these never use them to justify immoral behavior, the situations are totally comparable. Those darn atheists! Always trying to ruin perfectly innocent believers' fun. WiiCubeM1

Immoral? Says who?

Atheists caused a town uprising where I live because they wanted a city hall to stop displaying a nativity scene in the hall's front yard (which if you're a decent atheist, you let people worship, you don't change things to your point of view). The only way they would allow town hall to keep the nativity scene was if they displayed a banner that states that all religions are false and turns faithful into idiots.

That nativity scene wasn't just there as a Christian thing, it had been a town tradition for the past 50 years and all the local atheists I know didin't have a problem with the nativity scene. Most of them actually opposed "Freedom from Religion", the organization doing this.

Basically, a bunch of atheists from out of state came into the town, caused a huge uprising, threatened to sue the city over a piece of plastic that was literally not harming anyone, and won.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2011/12/05/atheist-banner-rejected-from-ellwood-city-municipal-building-while-nativity-scene-stays/

Why quote me? I didn't do anything. O_o

[QUOTE="VanHelsingBoA64"][QUOTE="Storm_Marine"]

fail.

Storm_Marine

yes

[QUOTE="WiiCubeM1"]

[QUOTE="Storm_Marine"]

Immoral? Says who?

Storm_Marine

Atheists caused a town uprising where I live because they wanted a city hall to stop displaying a nativity scene in the hall's front yard (which if you're a decent atheist, you let people worship, you don't change things to your point of view). The only way they would allow town hall to keep the nativity scene was if they displayed a banner that states that all religions are false and turns faithful into idiots.

That nativity scene wasn't just there as a Christian thing, it had been a town tradition for the past 50 years and all the local atheists I know didin't have a problem with the nativity scene. Most of them actually opposed "Freedom from Religion", the organization doing this.

Basically, a bunch of atheists from out of state came into the town, caused a huge uprising, threatened to sue the city over a piece of plastic that was literally not harming anyone, and won.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2011/12/05/atheist-banner-rejected-from-ellwood-city-municipal-building-while-nativity-scene-stays/

Why quote me? I didn't do anything. O_o

I didn't feel like going back and finding the first guy's comment, and I forgot to erase yours. When I do things like this, I'm not attacking anyone in particular, just getting my opinion out there.

In other words, I'm just too lazy to erase your post. I'm not attacking you.

[QUOTE="Storm_Marine"]

[QUOTE="VanHelsingBoA64"] Nope.VanHelsingBoA64

yes

who says those things are wrong? we're kind of back where we started here.

[QUOTE="Storm_Marine"]

[QUOTE="VanHelsingBoA64"]You're right, OP. I mean even though no one worships ghosts, aliens, and flying leprachans and the people who do believe in these never use them to justify immoral behavior, the situations are totally comparable. Those darn atheists! Always trying to ruin perfectly innocent believers' fun. WiiCubeM1

Immoral? Says who?

Atheists caused a town uprising where I live because they wanted a city hall to stop displaying a nativity scene in the hall's front yard (which if you're a decent atheist, you let people worship, you don't change things to your point of view). The only way they would allow town hall to keep the nativity scene was if they displayed a banner that states that all religions are false and turns faithful into idiots.

That nativity scene wasn't just there as a Christian thing, it had been a town tradition for the past 50 years and all the local atheists I know didin't have a problem with the nativity scene. Most of them actually opposed "Freedom from Religion", the organization doing this.

Basically, a bunch of atheists from out of state came into the town, caused a huge uprising, threatened to sue the city over a piece of plastic that was literally not harming anyone, and won.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2011/12/05/atheist-banner-rejected-from-ellwood-city-municipal-building-while-nativity-scene-stays/

Yup, I mean Christians only forcefully converted individuals from every continent to their benevolent religion after conquering them and using them for their own self-interest even if it meant killing off their food supplies, enslaving them, working them to death en masse, or committing cultural genocide. Oh, and they tortured heathens to death and burned them at the stake on their own continent. But to protest a nativity scene? These atheists just take things a step too far!