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Cleaning off my external hard drive tonight, I found the following. I used to get pissed off and write things and not post them anywhere but keep them, just to blow off steam. I have no idea what set me off to write this, but it must have been something I read somewhere online. It’s dated September 6, 2007. Two months later I was in Valladolid and Akumal Bay, Mexico having a great time, so apparently it had no lasting effects . . . . (I really can’t explain why loud, aggressive atheists piss me off so much, but they do. I’m not a religious person myself. I think it’s just the arrogant intolerance, which falls over the cliff into snobbish superiority, which many of the more militant atheists display.)

Maybe I’ll post more things like this as I find them. I have a feeling there are a lot of them discarded on that particular hard drive.

This is just as I wrote it, with only 3 words corrected for spelling!

Dear Militant (liberal) Atheist,

Don’t believe in God? We don’t care. Anymore than we expect you to care if we do. In fact, we do wish you would stop caring.

You militant, obsessive atheists are finally getting on my nerves. I’ve spent the last 3 years online watching your aggressive anti-religion, intolerant movement grow and I’ve have enough of it. I don’t want to hear yet another question, “Why are atheists such jerks lately?” followed by the “terrible childhood” explanation. Or the “it’s our way of fighting back” explanation. Please don’t insult my intelligence. Your complete and utter overreaction to a tiny fraction of the fundamentalist population is mystifying and insulting, if that’s indeed what drove you over the edge. Then again, no one cares how you got this way: bitter, full of rage against religion, obsessed, accusatory, paranoid, angry and intolerant. No one cares how any asshole got that way, they just care that you’re an intolerant asshole and will avoid you. Maybe all the avoidance of you by others “not atheists’ drove you online where you obsess about your atheism hour after hour, day after day, week after week. Really, don’t you have anything else to do? You’re giving liberals a bad name, and that name is BIGOT.

Atheists are always trying to explain their positions in painful, tedious detail. Yawn. Have some self-respect and stop explaining. I don’t care why your psyche is as it is. Most of us just try to do no harm to others after the end result of years of garbage being dumped in our craniums, but we don’t make a religion out of misery and hopelessness and expect everyone else to fall in line.

You say you are for reason and logic, as though you and you alone, as an atheist, are the possessors of reason and logic. What a joke! How reasonable is it of you to spend so much time caring what others think about anything to the degree you do, when it doesn’t affect you one bit? How logical is it of you to spend so much time worrying about what others think when you can’t do anything to change it? Other people, people who believe in something, (whether it be spirits or magic or God or nature or unicorns), don’t care about your self-professed corner on the knowledge market and we really are surprised that you even notice what we’re busy believing in. We’re also nearly too busy actually reading and studying science, philosophy and politics to notice your professions of expertise on our so-called ‘mental problems’.

I’m sorry that you are so lonely and ostracized that you have to join and network with atheist clubs that primarily wallow in their own imagined mental superiority and discuss, ad nauseum, atheists books and websites. Really now, don’t you have better things to do other than to obsess over someone else’s private thoughts? People have a legal and moral right to believe what they want to believe, free of slander, insults and harassment from you.

Get on with your life and stop whining about everyone else. And stop being a bigot. No one cares what you believe or don’t believe. Your obsession about not believing in something is turning you into a big bore. Grow up and try to live among people with diverse thoughts other than those you agree with!

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