AronRa on being vitriolic to theists - The Atheist Experience #668

AronRa and Matt talk about TAM (The Amaz!ng Meeting), James Randi, being vitriolic to theists, and skepticism.

Excerpt from The Atheist Experience #688 of August 1, 2010, with Matt Dillahunty and AronRa. (Topic: viewer calls).

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[drfoxcourt]

I promise to not be vitriolic with theists up until the point where they wish to limit my liberties based on their faith. When they tell me they are basing a restrictive law on what it says in their holy book or what some "holy"man tells them, I will do my very best to reveal them as idiots, charlatans, and the anti-social people they are..

I will not be a prisoner of their theist ideology.

[Mattt8D]

vitriolic [ˌvɪtrɪˈɒlɪk]

adj

1. (Chemistry) (of a substance, esp a strong acid) highly corrosive

2. severely bitter or caustic; virulent vitriolic criticism

[FubarLikeYou]

amon ra's hair is so silky and smooth.

[Treblaine]

It theists wonder where this vitriole is coming from, realise THEY kicked down the door to the science classroom to force their beliefs. THEY started trying to rewrite the US Constitution to make out USA as a Christian country rather than one of the first Secular countries. THEY started trying to force through legislation based on scripture rather than reason.

Some of them even resort to terrorism, with faint condemnation by other theists.

[winterstellar]

I've always been very "vitriolic" towards theists and other superstitious people, ever since I heard of religion/superstition actually, I have always really loathed the ancient b.s and I think I'll keep loathing it/them. Pushing for instance bronze-age mythology in the space age should be illegal, and I'll spit on all gods and all superstitions until I die. : )

[sepiasiren]

@drfoxcourt AMEN brother--I mean--right on! And co-signed.

[MrWaddefak]

@Mattt8D thanks :P

[spacelizardlaw]

Everything got corporative in the 80's big business Globalism agenda.

That includes the Wicca Satanist Pagan troika and the very moment you're educated in real world history especially after the Norman conquests and the takeover of the Vatican in 1084 you know the monotheistic religions also all became corporative and as America found out in Reagan-omics the big suck corporation-ism of freewill thinking results in the dumbest common denominator rising to the top like shite in a sewer.

[Mayitzin]

Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem.

VITRIOL.

[GreaseStain]

@EvenStar303 and just to point out man, I'll agree that booze is like battery acid, i call it that myself sometimes. i've seen first hand the damage it can do to your body, and hand to live with the second hand damage it can do to your family.

but remeber, anything that alters your state of mind, is basically a poison. it'll all ruin your life, your body and your brain when abused. your have your poison, i have mine. in any case man, enjoy! and Cheers!

[GreaseStain]

@EvenStar303 my buddies where big into 'em. the ones that grow here are found in graveyards or on cow paddy's most commenly, or in forest clearings with a lotta dead wood. They get seem to get a boost from the frost somehow. i seem overly sensitive to to every other drug i've ever taken, so i became hesitant to try shrooms or acid. at this point, i feel i've gotten to old to bother. to be honest all my acid and shroom buddies got away from it, for multipul reasons.