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“The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge against traditional religion as the "opium of the masses"—cannot hear the music of the spheres.”
“The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge against traditional religion as the "opium of the masses"—cannot hear the music of the spheres.”
Can you believe he said this??
yes, I say the same thing all the time. Some atheist are out for revenge or they can't blame themselves or family members for just how stupid they were/are. Or that the "religion" made my daddy hurt me so. The numbers just don't support this deep seeded hate filled anit-religion war. I am anti big religion, but some of us take it way past rational.
These types of atheist completely ignore evidence in order to maintain the safety of their world view. Ex-fundyies are the worst. If we are a fundy, we are a fundy no matter what we believe. We need to try and lesson the fundy part. But like all mental issues, its very hard.
There is fundamentalist atheism just like there is fundamentalist Christianity, albeit it is destructive in different ways and the damage is nowhere near as severe and widespread.
“The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge against traditional religion as the "opium of the masses"—cannot hear the music of the spheres.”
Can you believe he said this??
Yes, I can believe he said it.
Many atheists cut off their nose to spite their face.
They blame religion for all their problems not hearing the beautiful music.
Then they blame God for all their woes even though they say they don't believe in God.
They are mad at God even though they don't believe in God.
They are mad at Christians for believing what is written in the Scriptures even though they believe the Scriptures are fairy tales.
I'm not saying there isn't abuse out there, mental abuse by some ministers. There surely is. But why do they throw the baby out with the bath water?
“The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge against traditional religion as the "opium of the masses"—cannot hear the music of the spheres.”
Can you believe he said this??
Einstein said a lot of stuff. In the Wiki article about his religious views, this comment was included this way:
According to biographer Walter Isaacson, Einstein was more inclined to denigrate atheists than religious people. Einstein said in correspondence, "[T]he fanatical atheists...are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge against the traditional 'opium of the people'—cannot hear the music of the spheres." Although he did not believe in a personal God, he indicated that he would never seek to combat such belief because "such a belief seems to me preferable to the lack of any transcendental outlook."
In the Wiki article about his religious views,
this comment was included this way:
According to biographer Walter Isaacson, Einstein was more inclined to denigrate atheists than religious people. Einstein said in correspondence, "[T]he fanatical atheists...are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains ...
Then they blame God for all their woes even though they say they don't believe in God.
Deliberate misrepresentation. BELIEF in god is a source of many woes in the world, although not mine in particular.
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Originally Posted by Eusebius
They are mad at God even though they don't believe in God.
Another deliberate misrepresentation. I have yet to meet an atheist who is "mad at god". We oppose BELIEFS ABOUT god and ARGUMENTS FOR god's existence, and we are sometimes angry when theists REFUSE to engage the actual counterarguments and keep pretending they even have a valid argument.
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Originally Posted by Eusebius
They are mad at Christians for believing what is written in the Scriptures even though they believe the Scriptures are fairy tales.
What angers me is the societal harms that come from deliberate blinkered ignorance, whether it is the deliberate blinkered ignorance of the failed epistemology of faith, or some other deeply flawed ideology.
But even there ... it is not so much the beliefs people hold as their unwillingness and inability to justify those beliefs logically and rationally.
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Originally Posted by Eusebius
I'm not saying there isn't abuse out there, mental abuse by some ministers. There surely is. But why do they throw the baby out with the bath water?
Why don't you guys at least throw out the bathwater ... or even failing that, just quit making claims that you have a superior morality and a new godly nature?
“The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge against traditional religion as the "opium of the masses"—cannot hear the music of the spheres.”
Can you believe he said this??
We see that on this board. Ex fundamentalists that jump into every thread and use words like fairy tale, make believe, and so on. I don't see that from former Catholics and atheists that left other religions.
I laugh at the idea that atheists are angry at god. I wasn't spoonfed god. I never had to leave religion, it was not a part of my life. God is a story, no more real than Harry Potter.
As for Einstein, I'm sure he was a product of his era. One has to wonder how much he had to fear the religious, considering the work he did. His statement may be no more than covering his own ass.
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