There’s intellectual cowardice, sure.
There’s also intellectual bullying.
Lest you forget, ye of little bulk, the not-so-long-ago days when people were MADE FUN OF for being smart?
You know…dumb people would physically abuse smart people? Because they were easy targets? Because the dumb people wanted to feel better about themselves, and beating up nerds did that for them?
Remember that? I do.
Which is exactly why I’m not a bully.
To pick on someone and attack them (intellectually) because they’re an easy target…because you want to feel better about yourself, and (mentally) beating up people not as smart as you are does that for you?
It’s like…to yell and scream (literally or figuratively) for your right to be an atheist and against the a$$holes that demand you fall in line with their theism…
And then to demand that everyone fall in line with your atheism, and if they don’t to mercilessly attack them.
You become what you hate.
And you can try that “educating them” bullsh1t all day…
Everyone KNOWS (including you) that you’re NOT demanding theists become atheist because it’s logical…because you believe in educating…because you want to raise overall awareness…or ANY of the “intellectual” reasons ANYONE gives.
Everyone KNOWS, deep down inside, that – while there may be secondary factors involved, and while you may be EXACTLY RIGHT IN EVERYTHING YOU SAY (where applicable…) – the REASON…the REASON you’re calling out theists, and going to rallies, and coining the term “Hitch-slap”, and inviting “debates”, and…
The REASON you’re doing that is the same reason D. Vinyard discovered:
It’s just cuz you’re pissed off.
You’re pissed that your logic has been repressed, and so you’re lashing out.
I mean, I’m not saying in every case I BLAME you…
But that’s what you’re doing. And you KNOW it. So, stop pretending you give a fck about educating theists. Stop pretending you actually believe worldwide atheism would solve all the world’s problems.
You get off on mocking theists. PERIOD.
The same way I LOVE IT whenever I watch Tyson-Douglas and see Douglas DROP that scumbag…that’s you. I mean…it’s as base as that.
It’s the intellectual’s version of watching a hockey fight, or a prize fight, or slowing down to look at a car wreck.
Some dark, angry, primal part of you GETS OFF on it.
You KNOW it’s true. So just admit it, and stop lying when you supposedly believe all about “spreading the truth”.
You CAN’T believe in truth when you LIE about why you’re spreading it.
Now, here’s my version of you watching Hitchens or Dawkins drop an outmatched theist opponent (metaphorically speaking):
*Link Taken Down, Probably Out Of CA/A Angst*
So just go to Youtube and search for “Mike Tyson Buster Douglas”.