My plan was to post this thread on my other blog: ‘From the Pulpit of…’ but I have decided that I will stay on this site as what I have to say is my opinion and although we all know that I am right, Truth is best served by phrasing this as an opinion. (But not just any old opinion but it is MY opinion!
Many years have passed since I was accused of believing that ‘Eddie thinks it’s right because he has said it (I’m 66 years old now, so that would first have been said about me some 58 years ago!) but that is not so, I don’t believe that something is right because I said it but I say something because it is right.( I’m a bit like the Pope on that score, only sometimes he says something that disagrees with what I believe, so that proves that he is not always right!)
Not so many years have passed since someone. I think that it was my wife..I forget which one, number 2 or number 3 I suspect, told me, during a row, that I was the most arrogant man that she had ever met. My reply to her, and to any of you that may be thinking the same about me, was, Arrogance is for lesser men than me my dear.
Anyhoo, back to the matter in hand. Atheists and the cognitive thickness thereof.
I admit that my interactions have mostly been with Atheists on social media and as we all know, Twitter is not the best place for informed opinions and discussions but some of these people have written books and articles. God bless their little cotton socks.
The 2 books that have occupied me lately are ‘All God Worshippers are Mad’ by JP Tate (hence my riposte ‘All Atheists are Thick!) and ‘Why God does not Exist…’ by Dan Steel, I have made short trips to books by CJ Werleman, his ‘God Hates You…’ and ‘Jesus Lied…’
What all these books have in common with all other Atheist works of the 20th and 21st centuries that I have read is a complete lack of understanding of what Atheism actually is and a vehement hatred for Christianity and Islam, blaming all the ills of the world on a God that they don’t believe exists.
The title of this post is ‘in my opinion all atheists are thick’ but that is not necessarily true, not all of them are thick, some of them are stupid and the others may just be merely naive. (I suspect that there may be one or two intelligent ones out there but I have not seen any proof of that theory!
The main thrust of my Argument is that If one has the intention of discussing, or arguing about, the existence or otherwise of God with another person then it behooves one, and the other one, to come to an agreement, even if only for the sake of Argument, as to what defines the term “God.’ and to define the term ‘God’ in as uncontentious a way as possible so that one is discussing what is ‘God’ and not what he, she or it, is named. As in any d debate or discussion there must be a common starting point. In the absence of that commonality the debate cannot happen, or if it does it is little more than a slanging match which serves nobody any good.
I have tried to hold dialogues with Atheists but as soon as I mention the word ‘God’ they get all iffy and sniffy and go off in a sulk. So in my next post I will go into the situation furthrr.
Think about it