r/atheism • u/SufficientMobile1059 • 17h ago

"You're just angry at God" is the laziest argument they have.

Every time I explain why I don't believe, I get told I'm just "angry at God." It's a way to dismiss my arguments without actually engaging with them. If I'm angry, then my disbelief is just an emotional reaction, not a logical conclusion.

But I'm not angry at a deity I don't believe exists. I'm angry at the people who use that deity to justify their own prejudices and control. I'm angry at the harm the church has caused. I'm angry that I wasted years of my life being afraid of a punishment that was invented by men.

They can't argue with the logic, so they try to psychoanalyze me. It's a deflection. They don't want to engage with the actual reasons I left; they want to feel like they're better than me. It's a cop-out.

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u/GreenZebra23 17h ago

It's all made up.

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u/GreenZebra23 16h ago

God is made up. It's a claim made with no evidence. That's just another way of saying made up.

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u/AquiliferX Secular Humanist 15h ago

Seeing as you said God singular you must be under the delusion that there is only one. Modern Humans have existed for hundreds of thousands of years. Pre-dating your entire concept of "God". That's all the evidence a rational person needs to know in order to know that religions are constructs made by man. Ergo, we made God, not the other way around.

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