I Get Hate Tweets
While the Secular Outpost strives to promote a professional, respectful atmosphere, it’s useful to be reminded that “Real Life” can sometimes be very different.
Here’s a case in point. A vitriolic, apparently (?) Catholic Twitter user with the handle (@NIGELTEAPOT) recently sent me a stream of 18 tweets before blocking me.
Here’s the context. Pastor Rick Henderson (author of the Huffington Post editorial I responded to a few days ago) and I were having an exchange:
@Rick_says some do others don’t
— Secular Outpost (@secularfrontier) July 29, 2015
Then @NIGELTEAPOT enters the discussion:
@secularfrontier @Rick_says A saying: When one bases their philosophy on comedians, don’t be shocked if your philosophy is a joke.
— NIGELTEAPOT (@NIGELTEAPOT) July 29, 2015
I think the rest of the exchange speaks for itself.
@NIGELTEAPOT @Rick_says I can’t tell if this is supposed to be an important point or not. Who do you think is basing a phil on comedians?
— Secular Outpost (@secularfrontier) August 4, 2015
@secularfrontier @Rick_says Atheists. From your figureheads to the fact you based your philosophy on madmen like Marx and Schopenhauer
— NIGELTEAPOT (@NIGELTEAPOT) August 5, 2015
@secularfrontier @Rick_says Not to mention Thomas More’s utopia was a joke and you people took it as a model for living. Ridiculous, — NIGELTEAPOT (@NIGELTEAPOT) August 5, 2015
@secularfrontier Its impossible to name a single heretical group that has caused more deaths and more degeneration of humanity than atheists
— NIGELTEAPOT (@NIGELTEAPOT) August 5, 2015
@secularfrontier From every corner, every angle, from every one of your mentally ill heroes, there has been naught but destruction from you
— NIGELTEAPOT (@NIGELTEAPOT) August 5, 2015
@secularfrontier And yet the most disturbing factor of all is that not a single one of you satanic degenerates can even see what you cause.
— NIGELTEAPOT (@NIGELTEAPOT) August 5, 2015
@secularfrontier The ONLY difference between an atheist & a child who smears their own crap on the walls is the death camps and the tyranny.
— NIGELTEAPOT (@NIGELTEAPOT) August 5, 2015
@secularfrontier How precisely are ANYONE bullies compared to you? Are to so far gone you consider morality and goodness itself detestable?
— NIGELTEAPOT (@NIGELTEAPOT) August 5, 2015
@secularfrontier Are you so pathetically weak you consider abstaining from sin, degeneracy, and murder to be impossible?
— NIGELTEAPOT (@NIGELTEAPOT) August 5, 2015
@secularfrontier Those questions are all rhetorical, of course. I already know who you people are and why you do what you do.
— NIGELTEAPOT (@NIGELTEAPOT) August 5, 2015
@secularfrontier Evil stems from absence of will, & the devil works via puppets; but what disturbs me is the sheer lack of even consciousness
— NIGELTEAPOT (@NIGELTEAPOT) August 5, 2015
@secularfrontier Atheists are so pathetically incapable of bare brain function you dont even realize what you do even in the process of doing
— NIGELTEAPOT (@NIGELTEAPOT) August 5, 2015
@secularfrontier I tolerate evil no more, even when the person is too stupid to realize what they are.
— NIGELTEAPOT (@NIGELTEAPOT) August 5, 2015
@secularfrontier The hundreds of millions dead thanks to socialism and communism, and the billions dead from abortion are screaming.
— NIGELTEAPOT (@NIGELTEAPOT) August 5, 2015
@secularfrontier I hope you atheists are haunted by those screams all the way to spot in hell you have earned multiple times over.
— NIGELTEAPOT (@NIGELTEAPOT) August 5, 2015
@secularfrontier You think being held accountable for your evil is tyranny. The whining of a child who wants to do ill without consequence.
— NIGELTEAPOT (@NIGELTEAPOT) August 5, 2015
@secularfrontier Know there is no greater tyranny than the culture of death atheists peddle. The mass graves hum with protest & want for God
— NIGELTEAPOT (@NIGELTEAPOT) August 5, 2015
@secularfrontier No amount of dirt you dutiful servants of the infernal pile on top of them can silence them. Listen and weep, imp.
— NIGELTEAPOT (@NIGELTEAPOT) August 5, 2015
I then looked at his Twitter profile and found the words “ATHEISTS NOT WELCOME.”
Woe is me! How will I cope?
Disclaimer: I am not in any way suggesting that @NIGELTEAPOT is representative of most theists, much less the best of them.