Why do Chrsitians Claim Atheists are Militant?

Question

Atheists are militant if these were true than all over teh world and news media around U.S there should be headlines by now that.

Atheists have bomb blast on Churches and Mosques and Temples for hating all religions but none of the news headliNES are about Atheists.

Now some Christians will say that news media hide and cover up crimes committed by Atheists you are complete idiot don't make claims if you have nothing source or proof to back it up?

Meanwhile Chistians have thousands years of history of Crusades lasted over 300 years fighting with muslims killing Jews on in Jerusalem at that time and Muslims and even their fellow Orthodox Christians or Catholics.

The witch hunts and Pagans were killed in ancient like Celtic tribes Nordic forced to convert or killeed same with Mayans, Incas and other tribes in Ameria's continent?

The British Civil war in medieval times were relgious wars when Catholic and Protestant were killing eachother.

The Ireland and North Ireland war or civil war was also Protestant and Catholic killing eachother.

Christians have killed eachother Muslims, Pagans. Started slavery in U.S

and calls Atheists militant bunch of extremely pathological lying hypocrites?

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Answer 1

Why do Chrsitians Claim Atheists are Militant?



- Because they believe we think really hard.

Answer 2

The thing is, people will say 9/11 was about religion. No it wasn't, it was about heroin and oil profits, and how they see the USA as ripping them off, making all the money, while they can barely afford to feed their children. I mean have you seen Afghanistan? It looks like the times of Jesus, with machine guns. The children eat opium because food costs too much, all the junkies have AIDS, and that's a substantial percentage of the population. The heroin they make there is actually worth about fifty billion a year, US, but they don't see anywhere near that. The thirty million that the UN offered the Taliban in the year 2000, along with a lifting of sanctions, was enough to get them to stop it for one year, or get it down to five percent production for one year, then the attack happened, the USA came in, and started up heroin production again, after ousting the Taliban very quickly and easily. It was always their thing, the CIA trained Al Qaeda to protect the crop from the Russians, and Sadaam's troops as extra muscle. Then it all went sour when they realized they were getting played for fools.

Answer 3

why do ( some ) Christians claim Atheist are Militant ?



a few classes in Human psychology would answer the question ..



.. Its directly related to PERCEPTION of a THREAT it totally is dependent on how one or a group also PERCEIVES themselves



If ones "world View " is of having to be SAVED being the oppressed , denied their perceived " RIGHT" to be the Authority , self perception of always having to sacrifice , or are a group who thinks they are practicing or their god is practicing PURE ALTRUISM .



I am really trying to SAVE you why don't you realize it ... Its advantageous to ones self Esteem to make the " opposition " sound bigger and meaner and more Evil , to self emphasize one imagined MARTYRDOM



Then it is really a big slap in the face it your part of a group that once had power to eliminate any that questioned killing torturing jailing those who questioned your authority through out history ,



to then realize you must live in the Modern world where democracies are the norm and ones goal that has been to be the authority and a Theocracy, it can be a bit unnerving to ones EGO , one employs devaluing strategies to compensate for that



It is also significant if one is practicing TRIBALISM That " THEM vs US " mentality



.. Tribalism LOYALTY to a tribe or social group that commands STRONG NEGATIVE FEELINGS for those OUTSIDE the group



I always wondered How that can be Each Atheist is a INDIVIDUAL person who are presented with a IDEA,NOTION, PROPOSITION a product of human thought aka a Concept , evaluates the Idea finds no CONFIRMATION for it ,



How is it me sitting on my couch watching TV , and as in my using this cite or another to use my right to free speech makes me "MILITANT " doesn't seem to fit the definition ..



MILITANT defined as aggressive and combative in the support of a political or social cause and favoring EXTREME violent and Confrontational Methods ...



Wait do i recall "NEWS" cast of certain Christians at family planning clinics harassing and screaming at patients just for entering the facility , not to mention bombings , and shootings , lets not forget the Westboro baptist at funerals screaming at people while they are trying to bury their loved ones



the Certain Christian yelling and screaming at a bus of 5 7 10 year old who were fleeing getting raped and killed in their homes and came for help " NOT HERE, get out you don't belong " not my back yard

Answer 4

Militant atheists are militant. Not all atheists are militant.



Christians do not claim that run-of-the-mill atheists are militant..

Answer 5

It makes them feel better, as if somehow it makes it okay to denigrate an atheist because their views are fervently held. This quite obviously ignores that fact that the believers' views are held with equal or sometimes even greater fervency. The difference is that we atheists are not trying to impose our views on believers.

Answer 6

Most of we atheists just want to be left alone to get on with our lives. I researched many religions many years ago and decided I could not believe in any gods. I am not going to bash anyone for their beliefs....we are all entitled to our own views.



I know some evangelical churches need to try to convert us...that's fine as long as they take "No" for an answer. One lot pushed me to my knees in the street...called me names and said I couldn't get up until I repented...obviously fundies....my Christian neighbours are fine. I had them charged with assault and they were....they were most surprised they were made to pay a fine..."Doing God's Work"was all they would say.



I am a peaceful, retired teacher...who will happily smile at Jehovas Witnesses when they knock at my door and tell them I am an atheist...they usually go.

Answer 7

The word militant is used to mean that today's atheists are aggressive and organized and campaigning against religion. No one is saying that atheists have literally taken up arms and are committing violent acts. It's an attack with words.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe5kVw9JsYI

Answer 8

Christians believe in an imaginary spirit in the sky based on scriptures that some desert goat herders wrote thousands of years ago. Do you expect anything they say to be steeped in reality?

Answer 9

To cover up the fact that the problem is not anything to do with atheists, God, Jesus, the bible, or even Christianity and all to do with the intolerance, hatred, bigotry, homophobia and persecution posted by BAD Christians towards others!

Answer 10

The religious don't have evidence, facts or logic on their side, hence why their arguments are flawed and laughable.

Answer 11

Because they are FULL of claims they cannot prove or substantiate. This is just another one.

Answer 12

That is no more than simple, and transparent projection.

They can count themselves very lucky that we are not militant.

Answer 13

Because christians are completely capable of telling lies like that.

Answer 14

The term is an exaggeration, in order to make a point about contrasting them with 'old' atheists. Old atheists were so disinterested in religion that they just ignored it, getting on with their happy, godless lives. They may have looked down their noses at believers in God and make jokes about them, but they just created theism with the contempt they felt it deserved. No longer.



We now have a new 'breed' of atheist on the block, out to undermine and destroy all religion. Snipping, and subterfuge and a sort of clandestine guerilla warfare are their tactics at the moment but once they gain sufficient ground, we will see them becoming more obviously militant in their aggression against all religious belief.



The new atheists do not restrict themselves to a passive disbelief, which is how we could describe ‘the old atheists’. The new atheists are actively engaged in admonishing others to follow suit, to declare their non-belief in God, and to take the necessary steps to rid the world of religious belief and practice. As outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins puts it in The God Delusion, “I do everything in my power to warn people against faith itself.” Richard Dawkins is an excellent example of a new atheist. So is Sam Harris who said, “Some beliefs are so dangerous that it may be ethical to kill people for believing them.”



An ironic feature of the new atheism is its strong faith in the inferiority of having faith. The new atheists erroneously redefine "faith" as an "irrational belief in the absence of evidence." This misrepresentation of the nature of faith is absurd, for faith is not essentially a strong belief in something, but rather the ground of Christian faith is believing in someone—God.



New atheists have faith of a sort, if only in their power to influence others to join their atheistic pursuits. Yet why, if they truly believe God does not exist, would they spend much of their lives trying to disprove His existence? Does a man spend a lifetime trying to disprove the existence of unicorns or elves? Of course not, because he knows they don’t exist and wouldn’t bother wasting his time. Even if he knows others believe in unicorns and elves, he doesn’t spend his life to trying to debate them out of that belief. New atheists, however, are desperately active trying to so ridicule faith in God that they remove it from the public sector. For example, an atheist group called the ACLU has succeeded in getting a ban on saying ‘Merry Christmas’ in a Nevada grade school. Any student who says it instead of ‘happy holidays’ will be suspended. That’s new atheism for you!

Answer 15

It makes them look better to compare themselves to a strawman.

Answer 16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORGyNo9H0GA



It's a projection of fear. Religious faith is defenseless against reason.

Answer 17

yeah

Answer 18

I guess because some of them are.