“These recent atheist bestsellers are becoming tiresome.”
Be sure to tell them, I’m sure they’ll feel bad about bothering you.
“Because people often have a perspective on God that is very similar to their personal relationship with their own father,”
Gotta citation for this?
“Atheism is a form of mental illness”
Really? 6000 gods that you do not believe in because Daddy, 6001 that _I_ disbelieve in is a problem. Huh.
“ and emotional distress rooted in a bad relationship with your human father,”
I didn’t have a bad relationship with my father. And even if I did, he was real. There were eyewitnesses. No matter how bad he might have been, it wouldn’t have been anything like atheism.
"then projected onto God as the ultimate authority and father figure.”
Father figure? How many fathers you know throw their kid into the furnace for any offense, nowever minor?
“All the most famous atheists have had terrible relationships with their fathers and deeply resent them, are angry at them, etc.”
Sure, sure, i believe you. NEVER had a God-botherer lie about my motivations, my history, my life.
"Look up Madalyn Murray O'Hair, the woman who got prayer outlawed in public schools--bad father relationship.”
‘Strained’ is what the internet says. It the cause of the strain was her take on religion. Sounds like she was an atheist before the ‘bad’ relationship.
"If you are an atheist,”
Yo.
“ look at your own life. See the pattern?”
Yes. I had questions, no one in the church had an answer. Left that church, same results, eventually became an atheist.
“I know this to be true, because I used to be the same way before I got Saved by Jesus.”
Ah. So, if you’re saved, you can just make shit up about other people and KNOW you’re right?
“ You can get Saved, too, and you will lose your animosity towards God,”
Doubt it. Hell is an offense against empathy, compassion, rationality, and love. That’s not likely to change without brain damage.
“and start enjoying your life for a change.”
I’m having a GREAT time, you smug, self-centered asshole.
“I challenge the reader to research this author, Christopher Hitchens, and find out about his family relations. I have, and I read that he has poor family relations and he drinks way too much alcohol. Is that true? Is this a great mind to be reading, learning from, and following? Not hardly!”
Never read him. Or Murry-O’Hare. Or Dawkins.
Your ad hominem is misplaced.