It turns out religious believers…

…want nothing more than for other people to go to a non-existent Hell. I’m not convinced of the premise, but since the author seem to enjoy broad strokes, I supposed I can rejoin:

This makes believers different from atheists, who want believers to go to extremely real death camps.

The main difference is that I know no Christians who want anybody to go to hell (that’s what all the “evangelization” stuff is about: to keep people from suffering damnation), but I can readily document where millions of believers have been sent to death camps by atheists.

Now, some highly sensitive atheist may object that most atheists do not thirst for the blood of believers. True enough. And I will reply that neither does your average Christian long for the damnation of the atheist. Now the believer does not claim to be a believer because he is more highly evolved intellectually. Indeed, many a believer will acknowledge he is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. It goes with all that stuff about God not putting a big spiritual premium on being wise and learned. So we’ve got some pretty dumb bunnies running around the camp of the believers as we will freely admit.

Funny thing is, the atheist is perpetually touting his massive intellect as the principal evolutionary advantage he has over the stupid believer. So how is it that the atheist camp keeps saying such massively stupid and unperceptive things? It’s like Evangelical atheists are Napoleon Dynamite with a mean streak: reasonably intelligent, but not super intelligent people who mistake their utter lack of social skills and inability to relate to normal human beings with some sort of genetic superiority.

The Christian tradition calls this habit of mind “pride”. It makes the smartest people say the dumbest things, which explains a lot about why Evangelical Atheists perpetually write things like the silly piece I linked above.