tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9006471472196275591.post3431900415946878242..comments2023-07-25T01:32:08.991-07:00Comments on The Heterodox Homosexual: The straw atheist and the straw ChristianThe Heterodox Homosexualhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00857478402897833464noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9006471472196275591.post-87336904175239555952013-04-02T10:23:09.943-07:002013-04-02T10:23:09.943-07:00I was googling "straw Christian" and fou...I was googling "straw Christian" and found this post. You nailed it, for both sides. Though I would add a few more characteristics of straw Christians:<br /> <br />Main line Protestantism doesn't exist. Oh, liberal Christians claim they exist, but they don't really, because how can one not believe in a literal virgin birth and a physical resurrection and be a real Christian? <br /><br />In their interactions with others, all Christians are focused on one single purpose: to convert you and save your soul. Except, of course, when they're busy covering up for child-molesting clergy.<br /> <br />All Christians are misogynists who think women should shut up and sit down in church, wear high-necked calico prairie dresses, and have lots of babies.<br /><br />Scientific thought and critical thinking are anathema to all Christians.<br /><br />As for straw atheists: because faith is necessarily a zero-sum game, their lack of faith is a direct threat to one's own. An atheist who claims not to believe in God is not just expressing a personal conviction, he is deliberately shitting all over you and everything you believe in. <br /><br />I can also tell you how an atheist can be angry with God: because deeeeep down, atheists really do know God exists, and they're just rebelling against him out of pride, like Lucifer.<br /><br />My husband, an astrophysicist and a secular humanist (who insults my Christian faith EVERY TIME he opens his mouth, even to ask where I want to go for dinner), could probably come up with lots more atheist traits! That is, when he's not helping plot the sacking of all our neighborhood churches (he says he's actually writing proposals, running simulations, and grading exams, but I know what he's really up to).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9006471472196275591.post-64170277931766379382011-12-29T21:42:26.997-08:002011-12-29T21:42:26.997-08:00Nice work.Nice work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com