psyche

Maybe this is why I’m not a people person but again I am highly annoyed by people doing the right thing for the wrong reasons, or in this case choosing the right worldview for the wrong reasons.

Take, say, Elliot or Richard Dawkins or Dr Zetie. They are firmly atheist and secularist because they have considered the problems of faith and religion and have reached a logical conclusion. Now take several other people: they champion an atheist view because it’s easy to defend and it’s still countercultural. This makes me annoyed. If at some point they dropped the mind-melting arrogance and superiority complex they gain from touting such statements as “Religion was invented to control people.*” (Great, now stop telling people who worked that out when they were eight and go find some zealots to cleanse, you attention-whoring piece of… human) and perhaps sit down and really think hard, they could be nice!

Of course in Dawkins’ case as he said (paraphrasing): it’s okay to be arrogant because he’s right. But it’s not if you’re just being a twat and utilising some of the most clear and beautiful philosophies in the world for fucking social fodder, so FUCK OFF.

Pax

* Controlling people is difficult and annoying - so probably to make money off people, not to control them (although controlling them is a natural extension of making money off them in the most efficient way possible [cf consumerism])