Comments on: Kickass Book: "Why Are You Atheists So Angry!" https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/10041 Announcing appearances, publications, and analysis of questions historical, philosophical, and political by author, philosopher, and historian Richard Carrier. Fri, 12 Mar 2021 03:38:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Richard Carrier https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/10041#comment-4618 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:48:20 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/?p=630#comment-4618 In reply to Anonymous Atheist.

Maybe you forgot to read the title of the book: it’s why are atheists so angry. Not why are people so angry. Also look at the Table of Contents to see what the book is about.

It’s a weird reaction to go to a book about atheism and expect it to be about things other than atheism.

It’s doubly weird to say x doesn’t matter because y is worse.

Just try it. “Rape doesn’t matter because murder is worse.” Nope, that doesn’t work. “Unjust wages for field workers in New Mexico doesn’t matter because slavery in Chad is worse.” No, that isn’t true either. And so on.

Now imagine saying “I’m not going to buy a book about the problem of unjust wages for field workers in New Mexico and what to do about it, because slavery in Chad is worse” and you’ll grasp my perplexity.

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By: Anonymous Atheist https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/10041#comment-4617 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 01:29:16 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/?p=630#comment-4617 I just read the first chapter on Amazon and I don’t think I’m going to buy the book. Sure, all the things she lists are terrible, but religion is one of many things that motivates people to do terrible things. Some countries execute atheists, which is an injustice, but in other countries they kill you for belonging to the wrong political party. Should I be angry about politics? The Catholic church chose to cover up child abuse in order to protect the institution, but so did Penn State University. Should I be despise football?

Presumably you’ve read the book, so my question is this: does she say why, out of all the things that cause injustice, religion is worse?

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By: LykeX https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/10041#comment-4616 Sun, 04 Nov 2012 15:02:38 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/?p=630#comment-4616 In reply to bobwahler.

No one buys my ‘crazy’ here because you do need to have a little imagination until your inner sight is opened.

We have plenty of imagination. We just don’t confuse our imaginings with reality.

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By: standancer https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/10041#comment-4615 Sun, 04 Nov 2012 04:01:29 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/?p=630#comment-4615 Bought and read some months ago. Thanks for supporting Greta and her very relevant book.

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By: Richard Carrier https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/10041#comment-4614 Sat, 03 Nov 2012 22:22:45 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/?p=630#comment-4614 In reply to bobwahler.

Ah yes. My inner sight. I need to see my optometrist about that.

In the meantime, I have glasses for my regular sight and with that I can read documents and they all establish Nazism was primarily a religious, god fearing movement. So you should try using your regular sight and stop trusting that obviously unreliable inner sight thingy.

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By: Richard Carrier https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/10041#comment-4613 Sat, 03 Nov 2012 22:16:48 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/?p=630#comment-4613 In reply to David Olsen.

I should add that Greta actually addresses positions like that in her book. So to anyone like Bob: read it.

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By: Richard Carrier https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/10041#comment-4612 Sat, 03 Nov 2012 22:15:41 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/?p=630#comment-4612 In reply to charlesminus.

It is on the book. My blog title just wants to shout.

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By: charlesminus https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/10041#comment-4611 Sat, 03 Nov 2012 19:58:36 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/?p=630#comment-4611 Let’s get to the serious stuff. Shouldn’t that be a question mark at the end of the book title?

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By: David Olsen https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/10041#comment-4610 Sat, 03 Nov 2012 10:41:30 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/?p=630#comment-4610 In reply to bobwahler.

I want to guess you’re Bahia or maybe Hare. In any event if somebody is using the supposed unity of religious teachings as evidence for the existence of God, they are pretty certain to fail. You realize that that argument is certainly not going to be very successful. I shouldn’t even have to list the problems. But, I can name off at least half a dozen lethal problems and see a dozen or so critical issues on top of those.

All religions are similar therefore God, has got to be one of the weakest arguments ever.

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By: anbheal https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/10041#comment-4609 Sat, 03 Nov 2012 02:48:53 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/?p=630#comment-4609 BobWahler —

Since both Russia and Poland have right-wing Christian governments, are you saying that either Eastern Orthodoxers or Roman Catholics caused the crash? Or that one of their respective Gods did?

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