They don't freaking understand it, for starters.
A friend's crazyass husband posts this quote on FB: "Atheism-- the belief that there was nothing & nothing happened to nothing & then nothing magically exploded for no reason creating everything & then a bunch of everything magically rearranged itself for no reason which then turned into dinosaurs. And they mock YOUR beliefs."
me: that is not atheism. That is nihilism.
him: I don't believe all Atheists believe it. I just know that some do. You can be an atheist and still subscribe to chaos theory. Personally, I'm Christian, but I believe in evolution and other scientific theories. I don't believe we evolved from monkeys though. (there was more, if you want it)
me: We didn't evolve from monkeys. They are just in the same taxonomic family because of a common root ancestor that diverged into hominids and monkeys.
him: *crickets*
Re: lol, no wonder some people hate evolution
I agree. Not believing in a purpose is in line with nihilistic thinking. However believing 'nothing happened' isn't.
It's just a dumbass quote he shat on his fb wall.