tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post1394216309110992320..comments2023-09-25T04:26:51.568-06:00Comments on The Barefoot Bum: The Stupid! It Burns! (dead atheist edition)Larry Hamelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08788697573946266404noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-21624415203809024422010-11-04T19:10:45.663-06:002010-11-04T19:10:45.663-06:00Despite the old saying that "tout comprendre,...<i>Despite the old saying that "tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner"...</i><br /><br />I've never found that sentiment particularly appealing either.Larry Hamelinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08788697573946266404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-86044739116827348772010-11-04T17:43:26.348-06:002010-11-04T17:43:26.348-06:00Less-snarky explanation of the hard-to-parse bits ...Less-snarky explanation of the hard-to-parse bits of Steve Hays's idiotic comments:<br /><br />Top-level context: Some theists, such as Steve Hays, think atheism implies that life is meaningless, everything is random, people are robots, it doesn't matter if anyone suffers or dies, etc., and that any time an atheist expresses human feelings or cares about anything that's a demonstration of inconsistency. (The stupid, it burns.)<br /><br />Intermediate context: An atheist called Ken Pulliam recently died of a heart attack at age 50. Steve Hays posted an obnoxious comment along the lines of "The robot known as Ken Pulliam self-terminated by means of a heart attack, and his associates and genetic kin are now executing out their meaningless grieving programs". Since then he's been posting one defensive post after another complaining at how unreasonable atheists are for finding this obnoxious.<br /><br />So. Here, the initial "this" is the alleged fact that atheists (like politicians) avoid stating unpleasant things they think (such as, allegedly, that people are robots, etc., etc., etc.); the last bit is saying that atheists think that rather than being honest about the (alleged) implications of atheism we should all act as if death is a bad things, people aren't robots, etc., which Steve Hays thinks amounts to pretending that atheism is false. (The stupid, as already mentioned, burns.)<br /><br />Despite the old saying that "tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner", I find that the more I find out about Steve Hays's meaning and motivation, the more contemptible I find his actions.ghttp://www.mccaughan.org.uk/g/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-64046114162017138492010-11-03T12:10:47.653-06:002010-11-03T12:10:47.653-06:00I can help; he's talking about how religious b...I can help; he's talking about how religious beliefs justify psychopathic tendencies.Paul Cnoreply@blogger.com