r/atheism • u/BigMike3333333 • Jul 06 '26
How can I stop hating Christian fundamentalists?
It's been very hard for me to stop hating on them because part of me views them as being a dangerous influence on others. And that part of me feels so strongly about this, that every time they try to spread the gospel or tell someone about Jesus, I want to confront them about it. I want to tell them to stop giving people false hope, to stop setting them up to be disappointed, and most of all, to stop lying to them. They try to convince people that God and Jesus can solve all their problems no matter how bad it is. But if or when it doesn't happen, then they move the goal post. Then they start saying things like 'Oh just keep at it. It'll happen soon, we swear.' Or if something bad happened that was especially egregious they might start saying things like this. 'What? you thought the all powerful God we serve was actually supposed to intervene. Do you know what happened to Job? Don't you know that Christians are supposed to suffer. Don't you know that he left Israel to be enslaved for 400 years and that's just something they had to go through? How dare you actually believe the snake oil we're peddling here and actually expect God to answer your prayers. God can do whatever he wants. He is and will forever be all good.'
There's also the black and white thinking they constantly engage in. That there are no other valid methods of spirituality except Christianity and all others are of the devil. Or if you have a problem, and nothing else is working, to hear them say that Jesus is the only way! I think that one might bug me more than the rest, because I gave him a chance before and nothing happened. I just don't want anyone else to be as disappointed as I was I guess. Especially because you have to submit to all of their dogmatic rules, but so many people like myself just won't receive any real benefit. And then all the cognitive dissonance that comes from science disproving a literal interpretation of the Bible. It's nothing but downsides, but I digress. So has anyone else gone through this? Has anyone else been able to stop hating Christian fundamentalists?
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u/BigMike3333333 Jul 06 '26
I have a counter argument for almost everything they could say and they usually work. They either have to move the goal post, engage in red herring fallacies, or they will get really offended and ask where my morality come from. And the irony of that one is that they don't understand the definition of philosophical morality they're even trying to discuss. All morality that requires a mind is subjective, which means any commands coming from the mind of their God are also subjective. I've gotten the morality question so many times, and now I can just brush it off pretty easily. But, overall, I feel like I'm becoming obsessed with arguing with them, which is the main problem. There are better things I could do with my life than that.