No God, No Reason?

I can not atheists - but it is not because they do not believe in God. It is because they are crashing bores.

Other people, recently the British cultural critic Terry Eagleton in his new book, "Faith, Reason and Revolution" to this task Superstar nonbelievers as Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins ( "The God Delusion") and political journalist Christopher Hitchens ( "God is not great "), for a primitive philosophical contradiction of faith and reason that assumes that if science can not prove something, it does not exist.
My problem with atheists is their annoying - and so old - that they are suppressed and their fixation with the finer points of Christianity. What - have their Sunday school teachers flew her ass with a Bible when they children?

Read Dawkins, Hitchens or, or the work of fellow atheist Sam Harris ( "The End of Faith") and Daniel Dennett ( "Breaking the Spell"), or visit an atheist Web site or blog (there are dozens of them, with Titles such as "God is for Suckers," "God is Imaginary" and "God is Pretend"), and your eyes will glaze over as you consider - again - the compulsive small range of topics around the circle atheists such as water into a burden.

Firstly, there are atheist victimology: Boohoo, hates all of us' Cuz we do not believe in God. Even though a recent Pew Forum survey on religion found that 16% of Americans describe themselves as religiously independent, only 1.6% call themselves atheists, with a weight of 2.4% as agnostic (a group despised as a wishy-washy by atheists). You or I might attribute the low number of atheists "will not win converts their unbelief, but atheists say that the problem is that the relentless pursuit to drive millions of God-deniers in a cupboard of feigned faith, such as gay before Stonewall.

In its online "Atheist Manifesto," Harris writes that "no person, regardless of their qualifications, can be a public office in the United States without pretending to be sure ... that God exists. " The evidence? Antique-clauses in the constitutions of six - count 'em - States barring atheists from office.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that these provisions are not enforceable in almost 50 years, but this does not bewailing atheists, that they are to hide their atheism from friends, relatives, employers and potential dates. A representative of the pity-poor-Me school of atheism, Kathleen Goodman, writing in January for the Chronicle of universities, went so far as to promote the "affirmative action" for atheists on college campuses: "Specially Designated, College subsidized "safe space" for them to express their views.

Maybe atheists are not so unpopular when it exits the drum to beat, until the skin shares to their second favorite topic: How stupid are the people who believe in God. This is a popular topic Dawkins. Recently in an interview with Trina Hoaks, the atheist blogger for Examiner.com website Dawkins religious believers as follows: "You have the feeling uneducated, they are often quite stupid what they are inferior, they are and paranoid about sharp head intellectuals from the East Coast in search of them, with some justification, they do. "Thank you, Richard!

Dennett likes to call atheists "The Brights", unlike all others, of course, are not so rosy. In an essay describing the 2006 brush with death after a heart surgery, Dennett wrote these thoughts about his religious friends told him they were praying for his recovery: "Thank you, I am very grateful, but did you also sacrifice a goat? " With friends like Daniel Dennett, you do not need enemies.

Then there is P.Z. Myers, biology professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris Campus, his blog, Pharyngula, is allegedly on Myers' field of evolutionary biology, but in fact his passion for the identification of fanatical religious believers as "idiots", "moron", "Fun "or" imbecilic "in almost every post. The University will disable the link to Myers' blog in July after it with a photo of a consecrated host in a mass that he had pierced with a rusty nail and in the trash ( "I hope that Jesus' tetanus shots are up to date ") in an effort to prove that Catholicism is a bunk bed - or so.

Myers' Blog exemplary atheists "frenzied fascination with Christianity and the Bible. Atheist atheist website after website insists that Jesus either did not exist or was a jerk" (in the words of one blogger), because it does not eliminate smallpox or poverty in the world. At the American Atheists website, writers complained about the fact that God "the" Adam and Eve in advance to know that they eat the forbidden fruit. A blogger on A is for Atheist has in the Bible each chapter and verse by verse to prove his "madness" (he had the book to Joshua, when I last looked).

Another issue that atheists beat, like the hammer on the anvil in the old Anacin Advertising is Darwinism versus creationism. Perhaps Darwin-O-Mania arises from the fact that this year the Bicentennial of the birth of Charles Darwin in 1809, but not atheists is that many religious people (including the late Pope John Paul II) have no problem with the development but regard it as God's nature, his creation unfold livelihood? Moreover, even if human nature as we know it is a matter of luck adjustments, how exactly does refute that the existence of God?

And then there is the question, why are atheists who are so trying to prove not only that God does not exist, but evil to boot. Dawkins, writing in "The God Delusion," raises the deity, a "small, unjust, unforgiving control freak" and a "misogynistic, homophobic, racist ... Bully." If there is no God - and you are also so stupid to think otherwise - why does it matter whether he is good or evil?

The problem with atheists - and what makes them so painful snooze - is that few of them are interested in serious metaphysical or epistemological arguments against the existence of God, or when taking on the serious arguments that the theologians have tried to reconciliation of, say, God's omniscience with free will to God's goodness with human suffering. Atheists seem to assume that the whole idea of God is a ridiculous absurdity, the "Flying Spaghetti Monster" of atheists "typical lame jokes. They think that a few lobbing rockets Gaza-style casts God not to create a world more to their ideas ( "If there is a God, why do not I rich?" "If there is a God, why he is not to me: two heads, so I could sleep with a head, while I have some work done with the other?") is enough to knock the entire building of the faith.

What primarily seems to motivate atheists are not rational, but anger - anger that the world is not perfect, that someone be forced to go to church as children, that the Bible contains apparent contradictions, that man can commit, and hypocrites of crime in the name of faith. The vitriol is exceptional. Hitchens believes that "Religion spoils everything." Dawkins argues that raising their own offspring in religion is child abuse. Harris argues that it "may be ethical to kill people" on the basis of their faith. The perennial party atheist Michael Newdow sued (unsuccessfully) to bar Obama from President uttering the words "so help me God" when he is sworn.

What atheists do not seem to realize is that even for the believers, faith is never easy in this world of injustice, pain and delusion. Even for believers, God is only on the meaning of the Scrim. So, atheists, how about the loss of sarcasm tired and boring self-pity and the believers seriously?

Charlotte Allen is the author of "The Human Christ: The Search for the historical Jesus" and a contribution to the Minding the Campus Web site of the Manhattan Institute.