I’ve noticed something lately and it’s becoming more common as time goes on, but as I watch the atheist call-in show channels, I am finding it harder and harder to sit there and let the religious stupidity wash over me.

I think I’m only able to finish about 40-50% of the calls before I click out. My bullshit alarm is going off all over the place and trying to wade through the religious desperately trying to rationalize their way back to their blind faith after getting demolished by the hosts, I just can’t take it anymore!

This has been worse since I’ve been watching videos on Deconstruction Zone and Planet Peterson  because they tend to get the dumbest theists around. However, I’m clicking away from The Lone and Atheist Experience, et al, a whole lot faster than I ever have before. There were some that were such concentrated stupid that I couldn’t stand it, but that’s increasing dramatically these days.

Does anyone else feel that way? Let me know down in the comments if you do because I’m really getting sick of it.

Granted, most of the theists that call these shows are the extremes. You get a reasonable theist once in a blue moon, but the vast majority are fanatics who are not open to having intelligent, rational discussions of their beliefs. They just want it to be true and damn it, there’s no way they’re going to change their minds no matter what happens. Those people, I don’t want to listen to because it’s a complete waste of time. If I was a host on those shows, I’d hang up because it’s not going to be a productive conversation. I can see those coming a mile away.

Unfortunately, there are fewer and fewer worthwhile theists out there, and it’s not just on YouTube. Look at any atheist debate forum  and the theists have all been down voted into oblivion because they’re just spouting nonsense. There’s no reason to even engage these people because they are not honest interlocutors. Half the time, they can’t even string a coherent sentence together. They are fanatics, nothing more.

I’m even seeing this in the videos that I’m going after. I’ve been looking for a single rational theist for years now and not only have I not found one, but even the ones that pass the reasonable sniff test seem to have vanished.

Perhaps it’s because, as I’ve been saying for a long time, most of the moderate and liberal theists have gone away. They’ve realized there’s no reason to  believe what they believe and either they’ve deconverted or they’ve just gone into hiding so they don’t make fools of themselves. It’s only the complete lunatics that are still out there, trying to preach to a world that only laughs at them.

If so, that’s a little bit sad, just from a channel perspective, because I don’t really have a lot of fun going after the extreme wingnuts. I want something that I can actually engage with on an intellectual basis and those are very few and far between. I’ve recently given up on Cameron Bertuzzi, probably forever, although those videos aren’t out yet. You get a little spoiler  because you bother to read the blog. I’m going to ask my Patrons this weekend if I should just declare a permanent moratorium on Cliffe Knectle because his stupidity is off the charts. Yet is he any worse than anyone else? About the only theist I have any respect for, and it’s very little, is Randal Rauser and that’s because he’s clearly deconstructing his own  beliefs and I expect him to be an atheist in short order. It takes time, but once you start asking those questions, the end is certainly nigh.

Where can you go to have those reasonable interactions with people who aren’t deluded out of their minds? If you have any ideas, let me know because I certainly haven’t found them yet.