tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670360131617205450.post8913718797974597805..comments2023-06-18T05:01:03.708-05:00Comments on Popin' Ain't Easy: Can An Atheist Be Sanctimonious?Throwbackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14896446477292839087noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670360131617205450.post-50704010008503594482012-06-20T16:49:52.093-05:002012-06-20T16:49:52.093-05:00Just wanted to be clear that I didn't edit any...Just wanted to be clear that I didn't edit anything in the above comment.<br /><br />Said comment making a good point, by the way.Throwbackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14896446477292839087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670360131617205450.post-72935745986727058382012-06-20T08:03:06.106-05:002012-06-20T08:03:06.106-05:00Permit me to stand up for your original assertion,...Permit me to stand up for your original assertion, that contemporaneous atheists are sanctimonious. <br /><br />These are people who advocate a particular worldview and code of conduct: only empirically verifiable things exist, and only arguments predicated on empirically verifiable premises have merit.<br /><br />They then proceed to advocate the superiority of these immanentist beliefs through cheap mockery, even though those comments are 1) not empirically verifiable and 2) appeal not to science or reason but to emotion. The approach, then, is both hypocritical and a public display of pious devotion to an immanentist belief system. <br /><br />Since the system has no rituals or devotions, per se, adherence is most effectively flaunted by derision of theism. In this way, mockery of theistic belief does become pious, because it reflects the existence of the mocker's belief, and sanctimonious, because a not insubstantial element of the intended message is "see what a good atheist I am," just asTitushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01905201479928703850noreply@blogger.com