Polls repeatedly show that Evangelical Christians are the happiest. Atheists are way down the happiness list, as exemplified by their bitter behaviour on HYS and other internet forums.
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Delusional =/= Happy
Or does it?
Sorry to hear about your injuries due to pants conflagration. Still you should have learned about the link between disingenuousness and pant combustion during grade school.
Please do be more careful in what you say next time to avoid further injury.
(Oops, translation for the fundies out there: Liar, liar pants on fire!)
No, the polls tend to show that people with religious beliefs are slightly happier, not specifically evangelical Christians and not happier by much. And any behaviour on HYS is only indicative of braindead, opinionated morons, nothing else.
Having worked in a hell hole full of nothing but Evangelicals for six years, I have an educated guess about how it is that a poll shows that they are happier. These polls are based on self-assessment; that's the first issue.
All the evangelicals I have known are, quite frankly, completely miserable. They spend all of their time worrying about following all the rules (especially since the rules are ever-changing and unwritten), being paranoid about not having "saved" all of their friends and families, and being paranoid about the whole world being out to get them. If there is an illness or death that affects them, they have to worry that it is because God is punishing them for something.
And with all of this hanging over them, they are constantly told that Jesus is the ultimate happiness and they are happy or they are not real Christians. So if asked, they loudly proclaim that they could not possibly be happier.
It simply shows that you people are full of shit, since the way to "assess" someone's happiness is ASKING THEM.
For the record Ted Haggard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Haggard ) Used to say this kind of bullshit. He also said that "Evangelicals have the best sex life". Then they caught him having gay sex on speed.
I trust you do see how ironic it is when someone who declares that his sex life got better following the bible literally gets caught fucking another man while on speed...
EDIT: Sorry, i realized he was GETTING FUCKED BY another man.
I've found that in fundi-speak declaring someone "bitter" means only, "she or he doesn't agree with me."
Witness the rapture retards who accuse us who comment on FSTDT of being "bitter" when we are, in fact, a jovial lot who are having a great deal of fun mocking them.
Yep, whole survey
What religion are you?
Are you happy?
Most fundie women I know will say they're happy, but they have that forced smile on their face that makes them look like their in pain.
Anyway, even if it was true, the happiest dog I ever owned was dumb enough to run into brick walls and think it was a game.
Even if this is true, so what? Even if belief in a god was absolutely vital for human mental health and all atheists were suicidally depressed, that wouldn't make the existence of a god any more likely to be true.
"Mephistopheles"
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"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
-George Bernard Shaw
That was my first thought as well. Nothing else needs be said.
Rapture ready would like a word with you.
They have a whole thread of how miserable and depressed they are that they have to face another year!
The trouble with you idiots is that you are able to hold two diametrically opposed viewpoints and agree with both of them simultaneously!
Maybe they are just fed up with you spewing hatred towards them, threatening them with hellfire, etc.
Or, atheists see reality, and that's no laughing matter.
Evangelical Christians live in lala-land, with pretty fairies and Jesus loves them. Easy to be happy then...
Pew Polls, done IN Evangelical churchs.
Where they're taught that Atheists or other denominations aren't blessed or favored by God and therefore are misreable.
Evangelists aren't really seperated otherwise from regular polls, especially in Europe where they hardly exist (BBC News quote).
Evangelists in fact can't say they're unhappy, their faith DEMANDS it.
"Polls repeatedly show that Evangelical Christians are the happiest. Atheists are way down the happiness list, as exemplified by their bitter behaviour on HYS and other internet forums."
Indeed. As I was saying to Richard Dawkins yesterday in Norway, 'you plant that bomb outside that government building, and I'll take my assault rifle & loads of ammo, and shoot up that camp full of kids in the most hideous way imaginable; not believing in God makes me so unhappy, and thus we have no moral guidelines to temper our own individual behaviour.'
...oh yes, that's right. It was at least one other person in Norway who did. Three words:
Extreme. Christian . Right.
Timothy McVeigh ring any bells, Davey-boy? Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda? Scott Roeder? Last time I heard, they weren't Atheists.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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