Here's someone who really doesn't like atheists:
I can't stand atheists - but it's not because they don't believe in God. It's because they're crashing bores.
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My problem with atheists is their tiresome - and way old - insistence that they are being oppressed and their fixation with the fine points of Christianity. What - did their Sunday school teachers flog their behinds with a Bible when they were kids?
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First off, there's atheist victimology: Boohoo, everybody hates us 'cuz we don't believe in God...
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Maybe atheists wouldn't be so unpopular if they stopped beating the drum until the hide splits on their second-favorite topic: How stupid people are who believe in God...
She has the gift of generalization, all right. Like Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor, only he's worse; according to him living without faith is the root of all things bad:
What is most crucial is the prayer that we express every day in the Our Father, when we say 'deliver us from evil'. The evil we ask to be delivered from is not essentially the evil of sin, though that is clear, but in the mind of Jesus it is more importantly a loss of faith. For Jesus, the inability to believe in God and to live by faith is the greatest of evils.
You see the things that result from this are an affront to human dignity, destruction of trust between peoples, the rule of egoism and the loss of peace. One can never have true justice, true peace, if God becomes meaningless to people.
You think he's not expressing himself as clearly as he might like? Think again. If you are without God, he has also said, you are not fully human. His interlocutor suggests that some might find this offensive. Others might rather struggle for choice of words between 'pathetic' and 'ridiculous'.