The Anti-Religion gamer.

[iTeamKill]

Stupid people are dumb.

Most anti-religion people blame religions for hating free thought. Then they go around calling people idiots for believing in religions. I'm an atheist, and I think the anti-religion atheists are just annoying.

So... that would make Dumb people stupid?

just kidding. I don't think this is specifically associated with anti-religion people. I'm Catholic and I have a few atheist and agnostic friends and we don't try to kill each other. What they are calling "anti-religion" is probably more related to the anonymousness xbox live. Its an internet thing all together, but there on xbox live, they give every kid a microphone... Bad move when you don't have a keyboard command to mute players.

P.S. I have no idea if I used that word correctly...

 

[Darktau]

And thats why I moved to PSN and Steam

EDIT: OT: Im Agnostic, but I rip it out of the "Anti-Religion gamer", as they are usually as dumb as my pet rock (Sorry rocky), so any form of logic and they shut up.

I'm anti-religion, and I'm far from dumb, sir.

You may wish to use proper grammar and spelling before insulting anyone else's intellect.

And you may want to read my post good sir, I said "usually".

I honestly couldn't care less if you said usually. I don't care for the insinuation at all, period.

Ok then, I apologize for the insinuation that a large amount of "anti-religion gamers" have low intellect, however I tend to find that a large amount of these "anti-religion gamers" that I have met tend to be of a younger age with lower intellects and are just making points against religion "because they can". Now of course there are exceptions to this, much like yourself but there is no hiding that there are a large amounts of unintelligent "anti-religion gamers" on the games systems.

 

[Latinidiot]

plain trolling, nothing more. do you think they'd say that in real life, where you are bound by etiquette and the fear of getting beaten up?

 

[Crazycat690]

I'm an atheist, but I stopped being anti-religion when I noticed they were too stupid to get it^^ hehe

 

[Sethzard]

I do it either in an attempt to start a theological debate, or because I have quite a short attention span, and so get bored eas... Look at the shiny

 

[Danny Ocean]

Personally, I hate religion, but not having faith in higher powers. I'm cool with people wanting to believe in a god and talking to him (even if they come off as a bit crazy sometimes). I just can't stand the "Organized Religion" part of the whole thing. To me, Religion (not faith) is a huge scam to get people to pay a tax free service that does nothing but give you their idea of what the bible means. Hell, the stuff in the bible may just be a really old story that we're all taking too seriously. Why should people have to pay for that service and why the hell is it even a service in the first place?

? As far as I know, you don't have to pay anything to any religion in order to be part of it, or to receive their service. You can donate $5 each Sunday to your local church to support the mass service, but it's certainly not mandatory.

It's also things like state funding of faith schools. Although nowhere (That I know of) in the UK constitution does it say that religion should be separate from state, the general opinion is that we're secular. Funding schools that actively exclude those who don't follow their faith with taxpayer money goes against that. If your religion wants to set up a private school, that's fine, but the current system isn't. It's supposed to encourage diversity, but it has the opposite effect. It divides, and we're all effectively paying for it.

Generally speaking I'm heavily against organised religion. I don't mind nor care if you think there's a God or Gods, but why all the extraneous rules? When organised it seems less a case of "I follow these teachings because I think they are right," and more a case of, "I follow these teachings because they say they're right." Religion doesn't seem to have any bearing on whether a person is good or bad, it doesn't produce inherently good or bad people, it's just a tool for the good to help and the bad to hinder. Like a gun or a saw or a hammer. You can hunt for food, cut wood, or build a house, but you can also kill.

Personally I'd like to see religion gone. It just seems to be too much of a divider of society and simply seems to add another layer of personality for people to hate for no reason. As I said before it doesn't seem to have a bearing on the "Goodness" of it's followers. "Good" people do good no matter what faith (Or not) they are. Likewise for "Bad". So why bother with it if it causes so much chaos and hatred?

 

[Darktau]

Ok then, I apologize for the insinuation that a large amount of "anti-religion gamers" have low intellect, however I tend to find that a large amount of these "anti-religion gamers" that I have met tend to be of a younger age with lower intellects and are just making points against religion "because they can". Now of course there are exceptions to this, much like yourself but there is no hiding that there are a large amounts of unintelligent "anti-religion gamers" on the games systems.

i take it you're using the phrase to draw a line between gamers who happen to be anti-theistic and gamers who feel the need to "reverse preach" about it right?

i'm strongly atheist but i have no problem with spiritual beliefs, why would i have? in ym experience people believe what they believe regardless of evidence or discussion. much as i could be dragged to a church, go through the motions of praying and still think it was all lies religious people will nearly always be inclined towards believing in a higher power regardless of what they may or may not say to others. if people feelt he need and logic of a creator then who am i to argue? there's no point trying to convince someone that something is false when that thing is open to such a degree of personal interpretation.

the only ways for a religious person to get my back up is to either argue that their religion is the one true one and dismiss others, to argue that they are paragons of morality or to try and convert me. when someone enforces their beliefs on me i'll argue the point, but until then their beliefs and values aren't any of my business.

Fair point, I had taken "Anti-Religion gamer" to be just some-one who goes online just to, as the OP said: "Anti-religion gamer: "theres no such thing as God you idiot."", I am myself an atheist, I am referring to those who go online just to mock religion, I have no quarrel with people who do not follow a religion, obviously.

And no? Im not trying to convince you to follow a religion, as I most certainly don't .

 

[Darktau]

Fair point, I had taken "Anti-Religion gamer" to be just some-one who goes online just to, as the OP said: "Anti-religion gamer: "theres no such thing as God you idiot."", I am myself an atheist, I am referring to those who go online just to mock religion, I have no quarrel with people who do not follow a religion, obviously.

And no? Im not trying to convince you to follow a religion, as I most certainly don't .

i didn't mean that you were making a pro or anti-religion statement, i just thought it was worth pointing out that i do have a couple of situations in which i will question god's existance. i only do it if his/her existence is being used as an argument point though, otherwise it's hardly bothering me so why fight faith?

I agree, sorry your post sorta confused me, my thoughts on religion are similar to yours, it is good for establishing a base for society and doesn't really bother me too much, so as you said, why fight it?

 

[Nalesnik]

Personally, I hate religion, but not having faith in higher powers. I'm cool with people wanting to believe in a god and talking to him (even if they come off as a bit crazy sometimes). I just can't stand the "Organized Religion" part of the whole thing. To me, Religion (not faith) is a huge scam to get people to pay a tax free service that does nothing but give you their idea of what the bible means. Hell, the stuff in the bible may just be a really old story that we're all taking too seriously. Why should people have to pay for that service and why the hell is it even a service in the first place?

? As far as I know, you don't have to pay anything to any religion in order to be part of it, or to receive their service. You can donate $5 each Sunday to your local church to support the mass service, but it's certainly not mandatory.

It's also things like state funding of faith schools. Although nowhere (That I know of) in the UK constitution does it say that religion should be separate from state, the general opinion is that we're secular. Funding schools that actively exclude those who don't follow their faith with taxpayer money goes against that. If your religion wants to set up a private school, that's fine, but the current system isn't. It's supposed to encourage diversity, but it has the opposite effect. It divides, and we're all effectively paying for it.

Generally speaking I'm heavily against organised religion. I don't mind nor care if you think there's a God or Gods, but why all the extraneous rules? When organised it seems less a case of "I follow these teachings because I think they are right," and more a case of, "I follow these teachings because they say they're right." Religion doesn't seem to have any bearing on whether a person is good or bad, it doesn't produce inherently good or bad people, it's just a tool for the good to help and the bad to hinder. Like a gun or a saw or a hammer. You can hunt for food, cut wood, or build a house, but you can also kill.

Personally I'd like to see religion gone. It just seems to be too much of a divider of society and simply seems to add another layer of personality for people to hate for no reason. As I said before it doesn't seem to have a bearing on the "Goodness" of it's followers. "Good" people do good no matter what faith (Or not) they are. Likewise for "Bad". So why bother with it if it causes so much chaos and hatred?

I actually went to a Catholic high school so I can say, first-hand, that's it's pretty much exactly the same as a public school. They follow the curriculum, they teach all the necessary subjects; math, biology (pretty much 100% of that course was about evolution, and no hint of ID or creationism) chemistry, English, PE etc. In the entire four years, you only need to take one religion course and it's wasn't a "Catholic" course, it was actually a course outlining the 5 major world religions. It was quite informative, cause I didn't know much about other religions. No teachers tried to interlace any kind of religious tones into any of their subjects that they taught, they strictly taught what the curriculum said.

In a perfect world, the gov't wouldn't fund faith-based schools, but personally I don't think it's that big of an issue, in reality, there is almost no different between public schools and faith schools.

Btw, I'm not speaking on behalf of Catholics or religious people, cause I'm not religious at all. I don't follow any religion, cause it's just not for me. Religion, like a lot of things, can be potentially dangerous, but we shouldn't get rid of things cause they could be potentially dangerous. *points at knives, electricity, the internet (cause of the pedos)* For that reason, I'm not against or for organized religion. Religion can do whatever it wants as long as they don't imped any of my freedoms or rights.

I'm not religious, so you may be wondering why I'm defending religion. I'll answer that in the immortal words of Voltaire "I may not agree with you, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it"
That's my 2 cents.

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

Stupid people are dumb.

Most anti-religion people blame religions for hating free thought. Then they go around calling people idiots for believing in religions. I'm an atheist, and I think the anti-religion atheists are just annoying.

Like Richard Dawkins?
OT: Yeah, those guys piss me off. They're the bad atheists who give us good atheists a bad name.

 

[Delock]

I've always wondered why they pull the "No God" card rather than pretend to be Jehovah's Witnesses. That would be a better troll move. After all, you know some people would react as such:
"Oh hell no! They're annoying me on the internet now too!"
Plus since it's technically evangelical, your annoying of other people is backed by God. Yep, annoying people and you get to feel good for two reasons rather than one reason and pissing off God if it turns out he exists. (Ok, fine, doing my method would probably do the same if you do it for the sake of annoyance...)

 

[Octorok]

Roundhouse kick them through your Television screen. They are meer trolls and should be taken down on sight, show no remorse.

Meertrolls? Is that like a Meerkat?

OT : Don't assume that kind of moron is a representative of anti-religionists. I'm pretty anti-religion, but I'm still an atheist who spends too much time bordering on agnostic.

I have a deepset hatred of religious bureaucracy, the corruption and evil that most religious organisations have put upon the world, not of religious people or religious beliefs.

We live in a free world, people can think what they like. However I despise things like religion as it was, say, 500 years ago. I know it has changed, but the idea of twisting something that so many billions turn to for solace into a device for war disgusts me.

As does the corruption behind modern religion. I tend to get knocked for this, but I find that the Church (most notably the Catholic church) are surprisingly corrupt, and I have a great deal of offensive views about the Church that I can't really get away with posting.

Plus I have an association hatred of the Catholic church, since my Catholic father is human scum, and uses religion as a basis for abuse.

 

[TsunamiWombat]

Trolls are Trolls, whatever flavor of of trolls.

 

[Uberjoe19]

My God, don't you all know that the 2 things one never discusses in a forum are religion and politics?

 

[Danny Ocean]

Personally, I hate religion, but not having faith in higher powers. I'm cool with people wanting to believe in a god and talking to him (even if they come off as a bit crazy sometimes). I just can't stand the "Organized Religion" part of the whole thing. To me, Religion (not faith) is a huge scam to get people to pay a tax free service that does nothing but give you their idea of what the bible means. Hell, the stuff in the bible may just be a really old story that we're all taking too seriously. Why should people have to pay for that service and why the hell is it even a service in the first place?

? As far as I know, you don't have to pay anything to any religion in order to be part of it, or to receive their service. You can donate $5 each Sunday to your local church to support the mass service, but it's certainly not mandatory.

It's also things like state funding of faith schools. Although nowhere (That I know of) in the UK constitution does it say that religion should be separate from state, the general opinion is that we're secular. Funding schools that actively exclude those who don't follow their faith with taxpayer money goes against that. If your religion wants to set up a private school, that's fine, but the current system isn't. It's supposed to encourage diversity, but it has the opposite effect. It divides, and we're all effectively paying for it.

Generally speaking I'm heavily against organised religion. I don't mind nor care if you think there's a God or Gods, but why all the extraneous rules? When organised it seems less a case of "I follow these teachings because I think they are right," and more a case of, "I follow these teachings because they say they're right." Religion doesn't seem to have any bearing on whether a person is good or bad, it doesn't produce inherently good or bad people, it's just a tool for the good to help and the bad to hinder. Like a gun or a saw or a hammer. You can hunt for food, cut wood, or build a house, but you can also kill.

Personally I'd like to see religion gone. It just seems to be too much of a divider of society and simply seems to add another layer of personality for people to hate for no reason. As I said before it doesn't seem to have a bearing on the "Goodness" of it's followers. "Good" people do good no matter what faith (Or not) they are. Likewise for "Bad". So why bother with it if it causes so much chaos and hatred?

I actually went to a Catholic high school so I can say, first-hand, that's it's pretty much exactly the same as a public school.

I'm still at one, and you're right. It's the principle that I object to. Up until L6th we were required to go to the chapel every week for a service, and we still all have to listen to our chaplain drone on every assembly.