No Atheist is truly happy. Some will pretend but deep down they are simply miserable disbelief has effectively ended their sense of wonder and joy. The men are often impotent and the women frigid
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The men are often impotent
I beg to differ.
How do you know that?, have you ever been in bed with them or just aren´t you that prude as to ask such delicate questions?. Don´t try to project what you want to believe in other people. I am not an atheist and I do critisise atheists too. The difference I have with other atheist-bashers is that I try to be fair, logical and just expose my beliefs without forcing other people to spouse them. Most Christian critics take the issue of atheism as a rather personal matter(just as, incidentally, some atheist do), even if nobody forces them to be one just because other people have chosen that way of life. I wonder, do you believe in God because you want to be saved, as you claim OR YOU NEED POSITIVE FEEDBACK TO REASSERT YOUR BELIEFS?. In that case, be honest. The problem is not faith, the problem is that your convictions are very fragile.
solomongrundy -
Sorry, even with the rest of that paragraph, it is still tremendously idiotic.
ie: "Blacks are criminals. If this doesn't apply to anyone here, then no offense is intended."
See how that works? Right! It doesn't.
Besides, why are men and women sexual failures, if according to you, don´t respect the sexual morals?. Make up your mind.
Play fair, this is quote mining. The original sentence continues
(If this doesn't apply to anyone here then please do not take offense to it. This is what I have observed and is in no way scientific Data) Even so, it's odd to start out by saying "No Atheist is truly happy...", then admit it doesn't apply to anyone there.
So atheists sometimes are sexual deviants that rape children and small animals and other times are frigid and impotent...
Anyway, if you read anything written by atheist scientists you'll note that most are atheists because their sense of wonder can't be restrained by the limited scope of religion (quite ironic, since you posted that on Richard Dawkin's site).
Uhhhh...Aren't Christians usually the ones with shitty sex lives?
Tdevil - actually, as far as I know, a large proportion of christians can get pretty damn filthy given half the chance - it's the whole "forbidden fruit" thing. If sex is such an excellent experience that the average atheist is appalled by the notion of forbidding most of its forms, then the attraction of breaking the rules only makes it even more irresistible - of course, good Christians may go on a massive guilt bender afterwards, but they'll still do it! Preachers' Daughters have passed into common terminology, to such a degree that I don't even have to say anything else about them, for a reason!
'Is sex filthy? Only if it's done right!' - Woody Allen
"No Atheist is truly happy."
A hugely sweeping generality with no supporting evidence. How typically Fundie of you.
"Some will pretend but deep down they are simply miserable"
Do not presume to tell me whether or not I am happy. That is truly arrogant.
"disbelief has effectively ended their sense of wonder and joy."
The universe is full of wonders. I have great joy in my life, not enraptured by my imaginary friends, surely, but great joy nonetheless.
"The men are often impotent and the women frigid"
You have no way of knowing such things. Lying for Xianity is still lying, asshat.
Wrong on all counts, dickhead.
My wife and I are both atheists.
We enjoy a remarkably varied sex life, and are well into our fifties.
As to my senses of wonder and joy, both are intact, in fact, without the burden of religiousity, our sense of wonder is enhanced each morning, and the joy of the life I share with her grows daily.
Can you say the same with your fear of your "benevolent" god?
Re: Old Vikings post.
I wanted to post about the story of Moses growing ram's horns: all I found on Wiki was
Moses is cooler than Jesus. Fred Shahar is Jesus. Jesus and Hitler were best friends, and played poker together on sunday nights. Jesus is a loser, while Moses is da man. Allah is communist. That's all you need to know folks. Now get off this crappy website.
It amused me, anyway.
Bodhitharta , you're an idiot.
You've fallen into the typical fundie trap of demonizing your enemies and lying about them. Jesus would be appalled.
Being an atheist has most certainly not dulled my sense of wonder and joy, if anything it has enhanced it. I don't have to attribute every mystery as the work of some mythical God. It's fun having to puzzle things out.
I also don't get that feeling of abandonment Christians often feel whenever something bad happens to them. I work through my own problems without relying on a mythical fairy in the sky to solve them for me.
I didn't even get around to mentioning the lack of guilt from imaginary "sins" mucking up my psyche.
Darned tootin'. Those who sign a "virginity pledge" tend to be more willing to engage in oral and anal sex, so as to keep what they think is their virginity.
I'm not about to disillusion 'em!
Oh yeah, the good old "technical virgins" :P
I'm quite often miserable, but it has primarily to do with physical and psychological health issues, and the consequences they have on various aspects of my life (social, professional, financial,...). Somehow I doubt believing in Gawd and Jebus would make me more happy about my near-constant sciatica torturing me or about needing to pop antidepressants to keep my OCD more or less under control (not to mention their side effects). Though my sex life is all but nonexistant (mostly due to said OCD and a few other issues), I'll have you know that I am perfectly capable to keep it up...
Ohh, I'm so miserable, And I wouldn't have know it in till you told me. I thought I was happy, fulfilled and took joy in life but I guess not. How ever will I know if how I feel is ever correct again!
Odd. This fundie post seems to be implying that sex = happiness. That's a new one from fundies, isn't it? Don't they usually go the other way on this? And by this logic, all sex maniacs and perverts are religious...
Oh, I'm sure that complete faith and ignorance to everything beyond makes life much simpler. What it doesn't tend to do is make you more fertile or sexually potent.
Also, the logical flaw in "I'm happy because of faith, so you can't be happy because you don't have faith" is fairly obvious, and rather painful.
Another interesting tidbit:
The psychological condition vaginismus, which causes the vagina to clench up so tightly that sex becomes impossible, is found predominantly among Christian women who've been taught their entire lives that sex is dirty and sinful. It's the fundies who are frigid, not the non-religious.
Yeah, cuz nothing gets the wimmin-folk hotter'n quoting some commandments and talking about leperous boils, and the severe mutilation of a man, done by his own father. Boooiiing! That sure gives me a stiffy!
Being an atheist means you are responsible for including a sense of wonder and joy in your own life, not an imaginary sky fairy or a book of superstitions written by Bronze Age goatherds. This can be a big responsibility, but you've got a whole lifetime to work with, and without worrying about "sin," you're free to explore and experiment. This also works for your sex life. Atheists probably have fewer hang-ups than fundies, for that matter.
My sense of wonder will never die as long as there are fundies out there, and I wouldn't mind me one of them figid atheist women from Sweden or Holland. That would do my sense of joy no harm at all.
(If I wasn't married, of course.)
How do you know how atheists feel deep down, and how do you know that we're impotent and frigid?
I am truly happy; I have a wonderful husband, we've been together for 25 years, we recently bought a house with a lovely garden, and we have two marvelous cats to keep us company and busy. Wonder and joy are frequent "visitors" in my life.
No impotence, no frigidity. We don't seem to be able to have children, but that's not for lack of trying, and our lives are pretty OK anyway.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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