Phaedrus
Active Member
I just realized that I never made an introduction thread.
Labels are good, I like labels. They help me define myself as well as differentiate one individual from another.
As far as labels are concerned, I think agnostic and atheist are weak in describing my character. I am essentially a militant anti-theist.
I know, I know. No one really wants to know that, why don't I just hide behind the safe atheist label to appease everyone? Simply, because it is not my responsibility to cater to the irrational sensitivities of others. Of course, I am still a nice, kind, respectable individual. I am simply not going to indulge irrational ways of religious thinking, which is reasonable.
Everyone also wants to say "Oh, I'm here to learn." Well, I can state with certainty that I have learned enough about religion in my lifetime to understand that none of it is worth accepting as based on objective reality.
Why am I here? To debate, of course, from the anti-theistic perspective.
Now, who wants to hug a heathen?
Labels are good, I like labels. They help me define myself as well as differentiate one individual from another.
As far as labels are concerned, I think agnostic and atheist are weak in describing my character. I am essentially a militant anti-theist.
I know, I know. No one really wants to know that, why don't I just hide behind the safe atheist label to appease everyone? Simply, because it is not my responsibility to cater to the irrational sensitivities of others. Of course, I am still a nice, kind, respectable individual. I am simply not going to indulge irrational ways of religious thinking, which is reasonable.
Everyone also wants to say "Oh, I'm here to learn." Well, I can state with certainty that I have learned enough about religion in my lifetime to understand that none of it is worth accepting as based on objective reality.
Why am I here? To debate, of course, from the anti-theistic perspective.
Now, who wants to hug a heathen?