Bitter and Angry Much
It seems that no matter how jolly I am when it comes out that I don’t believe in a deity; Christians always assume that I must be bitter and angry just because I don’t believe in their deity of choice. While I can be critical of their God and their whole religion for that matter, I rarely do it in a bitter or angry way despite the fact that Christianity ought to make any sane and rational person angry.
It seems that the fundamentalist Christian view is that without Jesus, people are bitter and angry by default. Perhaps they believe that only atheists are angry and bitter. It seems to be a stereotype that Christians have about atheists that has no real basis at all. Being in the greater atheist community, I rarely if ever meet atheists who are angry and bitter people. They do exist, but no more than in the general population.
On the other hand, there is a stereotype that many fundamentalist Christians seem to exhibit. It seems that fundamentalist Christians often are as George Carlin put it, “more then happy.” They seem to hide their true emotions and put on a Ned Flanders type front. Underneath the super jolly front, they hid a lot of anger and bitterness.
Maybe these fundamentalist Christians are just projecting their own anger and bitterness on atheists. Or perhaps they see atheist actually express their feelings openly rather then hid them as they do.
Filed under: culture war, discussion, Religious Manipulation
