A new horde
It is amusing when
you exercise a prerogative on Twitter and a certain lot believe that they have
the inalienable right to override that prerogative having arrogated to themselves
the entitlement to be engaged at all costs.
With time, it has
become obvious that the opening line already shows the slippery slope to
conflict, their feigned quest for understanding is never what it seems, they
are perched ready to debunk, deride, excoriate and ridicule – they are the new
atheist horde from Nigeria.
They believe that they
are the bastions of logic, driven by scientific reasoning they have become
completely unreasonable towards the reasons why others might believe quite
differently from their apostate godless existence, they are right and you are
wrong.
Seeking prey
If you have the
smarts to refuse to engage them, they feign hurt, they demand a hearing, they
flail and ache with shrill whimpers of an abused dog that you have had the
temerity to deny them, but they must be denied.
For, they are the
carrion seeking godless hyenas desperately seeking who to feast on, their
forlorn existence given purpose by negating the beliefs of others. They are ready
to deem you arrogant, condescending and disrespectful, but if you mount the
rostrum they construct all in the ploy to wrong-foot you, they claim a form of
superiority that appears to validate their existence.
Ostracised from
their communities, they adopt multiple identities shape-shifting on the
Twitter landscape hoping to find the luck of the draw, they are frustrated to
distraction if you refuse to take their bait, if their persistence is rebuffed
it is taken as rude.
Brusque, brash and brutish
They have no finery
in language, no broad interest in the good things of life like fine wine or
banter for all discussion must lead in one direction only, the purpose for
which they exist, a life without God fulfilled by hacking down the gods of
others.
Black holes that
gravitate to endless disputing, argumentative to disagreeableness, they drive
you to exhaustion, but as you review everyone else you engage of the thousands
you communicate with on Twitter, these are radically different, odious and
repugnant, they must be withstood at all costs and the best way to achieve that
is to treat them like strangers – ignore them; if you must humour them, tease
them but never fancy them.
They seek to
unsettle your equilibrium and make you a drifting cloud bereft of water for
rain, obscuring the sunlight needed for warmth, life and growth, you follow at
your peril into the abyss of bottomless rancour.
The Taliban in new garb
My opening gambit
was, “So take your ball back home, no one wants to play in the rain.” I should
have brought a trailer of tissues for the sniffles that followed for I had not
appealed to their sensibilities because their extroverted inferiority complex worn
in every intonation to show some superior knowledge is too burdensome for them
to engage without conflict.
If for once they
can divorce themselves from the extremism that is quite similar to the Taliban
but without the religion, you might take them for nice chaps, but even the
social graces they might have once possessed has been lost with their kind of
indoctrination, they must ram their guano down your throat and woe betide you if
you attempt to gasp for oxygen.
Like those who have received their religion prone to error with obtuse interpretation and practice, so have these too, we seem to be predisposed to practice what was not intended of those who schooled us in the new knowledge and beliefs we have received – it is unfortunate – even where reason should prevail, we find ways to suspend intellect for the purpose of obstinacy at where we immovably stand.
I could be persuaded
Surely, there are reasonable atheists out there, ones who having railed about the divisiveness religion brings who do not go on to create another dimension of divisiveness their consciousness exudes in – I seek common ground in most things – where I see conflict looming, it is unnecessary to be unduly confrontational for kicks.
I am tolerant of others who are ready to be tolerant of me, the human race is too diverse in culture, beliefs, views and persuasion for anybody to think where they have arrived is the final destination of human knowledge be you adherent, agnostic or atheist – if we seek co-existence where we meet and when you go away fellowship with those of your persuasion, there is harmony and where we agree to disagree, it will never become disagreeable.
I might be persuaded
differently of the opinions I have expressed here, but to date, these views
have been reinforced, if this is a pattern, extremism finds a home in the
character of anyone regardless of what they do or do not believe and that is a very
dangerous thing.
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