I just finished writing a long video, and I don’t want to give anything away since it won’t appear on the channel for about 2.5 months, but I still wanted to talk about something that I have observed in the “atheist community” a lot. That is, the desire to decry the religious when they do an irrational thing and then, do the same irrational thing about non-religious subjects and be completely oblivious to it.

So let’s talk about it.

Now I’ve probably talked about this plenty over time, but this is the first time I’m actually addressing the emotional similarities between a lot of theists and a lot of atheists, especially atheists of a particular political ideology. It could happen to anyone, I suppose, but I do see it there a lot.

The religious, as we well know, adopt views based on their emotions. Fee-feels and faith, I’ll call it, and that is not something that is restricted to the religious. Lots of people are guilty of it. They will take positions that are wholly emotional, with no intellectual backing whatsoever, and claim they must be true, because their “community” says that it is. Not the evidence, the community.

I’ve pointed this out a lot. “Aren’t you doing the same thing?” They’re just blinded to it because they really want it to be true, but the religious don’t get away with that, neither will the non-religious. What you want doesn’t change what is factually true. Yet these people are just as credulous as their religious brethren, just on different topics.

“I’m right!”

How do you know?

“Because I am!”

Says who?

“My pastor said so!” It could also be “this book that I like said so!” They’re pretty much interchangable.

It goes around and around and around, yet a lot of left-leaning atheists do the same thing. They just replace “pastor” with their “expert” of choice because they really want to believe. That doesn’t make any of this true. It ultimately comes down to “a person I like said a thing I like about a conclusion I like so it has to be true, so there!”

That still doesn’t make it true.

It is really shocking how few people care about actual truth. They just really want to  believe. I have a hard time understanding why people are like this, although, unlike most people, I don’t just assume that everyone is just like me, but you can’t even talk to these people intelligently about the things they take on faith and fee-fees. There’s no common ground to be had.

How can you possibly think that?

“I’m right, so there! You’re just attacking me! You’re a racist or a sexist or some other kind of -ist that I haven’t even dreamed up yet, but if you don’t agree with me, then you’re wrong!”

It’s just absurd. This is not how adults ought to talk to each other, but then again, I think I’ve identified the problem there too. These are not adults. They are immature children, looking for a reason to get their way.

That is not how reality works. You people need to grow the hell up.