I know I’ve poked fun at different religions… but I still tried to be respectful of other people.  Lately though, that’s been changing.  I think, no, I know that I am becoming an angry atheist.

Maybe I’m lashing out in frustration for other things.  Maybe it’s stemming from personal issues I’ve been having on things unrelated to religion.  Maybe it’s because I’m sick of being told that I harbor “wickedness and evil” in my heart because I don’t follow scripture.  Maybe it’s because I’m tired of being lonely in my views.  I don’t know.

I do know that lately I’ve been more and more intolerant of others.  I ask blatantly offensive questions that would be labeled as “trolling” online and “being an asshole” in real life.

If I want to function in our society, I need to reign in back in.  It’s just seems to be becoming harder and harder.

This post stems from a “Theology Night” at a local brewpub.  I sat down with people I had never met before to discuss religion.  It’s put on by a local church.  Well, mixing alcohol and religion probably wasn’t the best thing for me.

Lately, I have not been able to get this one thought out of my head in regards to christianity.  That is, christianity glorifies human sacrifice.  That it is no better than some ancient tribal religion chucking virgins into a volcano to appease the angry fire god.  I am sick of christians telling me that I’m an immoral person while they believe that sacrificing ANYTHING to their god to earn forgiveness is a good thing.

Of course, pointing that out to christians is not going to make me welcome in their homes.

I can’t help it though.  I find the whole “Jesus died for our sins” to be totally abhorrent.  I think people who regard that as a good thing as being insane.

Anyway, going back to the brewpub… I went ahead and confronted these innocent followers of a god who intentionally had his son stapled to a tree.   I asked them how could they worship a religion glorifying human sacrifice.

I didn’t get into a bar fight.  They were actually very polite about it.  I just couldn’t let it go.  They would offer up their rationalizations and I would show them how those excuses were invalid/illogical/or blatantly wrong.  Yeah, I was in rare form.  I’m lucky I didn’t get a drink thrown in my face.

Later that night, I had the increasingly strong realization that I had just trolled a social group.  That’s not a good thing.  I went over the line and became an angry atheist.  A few years ago, I spoke against people acting that way… and here I am going down that path.  I don’t like it.