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A lot of things peeve me. For one, rabid atheists and rabid agnostics. They tend to force their beliefs on anyone, and whenever they preach about tolerance, they are the most intolerant of other people's beliefs.

I have met one, actually.

He's like, 16 actually.

Same here, and it also applies to rebel teenage agnostics.

I don't appreciate those who look down on me, and devalue my scientific knowledge because of my beliefs. I can be a scientist and a therian, I just have different hats (my therian hat has nifty ears).
I don't mix the two if I can help it, unless I'm helping another therian discover their kin-type by giving them my knowledge about certain animals...or on occasion disproving thier theory owing to erroneous information about a particular species (what can I say, I'm a zoologist [sorta] I can't help myself).

Re the platypus thing: Platypus are monotremes, a branch off the mammalian family line that delineated before the marsupial line.
Monotremes lay eggs like reptilians, but secrete a milk-like substance from mammary glands (hence why they're a mammal), and keep their young (which hatch when relatively immature) in wee burrows.
Male platypus have a spike on thier hind feet which is poisonous, and awesome. Echidna are also monotremes, but not quite as cuddly or popular as platypus. (again, zoologist [sorta], don't shoot me)

Most scientific knowledge and research is based on the concept of evolution. If you ignore that, you never see the whole picture.

I do indeed. It even came to people I knew ignoring my input, because it might be 'tainted' with my beliefs. rolleyes
Before they knew about my therianthropy they took me seriously, afterwards...they treated me like I was an idiot. Now I don't tell anyone irl, unless I know they won't judge me unfairly for it. Sometimes I feel like holding my degree under their nose and saying 'how could I get this if I'm such an idiot, eh?' sweatdrop

The funny thing is, the whole reason I went into science was to find out what was wrong with me, and if I was alone. I didn't expect it to backfire on me.

As others have said, this kind of behavior isn't exactly exclusive to Atheists, but the "thinking it makes them smarter" seems to be more prevalent among Atheists. I generally see religious people telling people that they need to consider their religion as a way for them to feel like they have stronger faith, than to necessarily feel like they're smarter, but I guess that could be the reason in some cases.

But yeah, I hate this too. People assume that because you don't agree with them, you've never really thought about agreeing with them. Because, obviously, if you considered it, you'd definitely agree with them. There's just no other possibility, because they are so smart, and there is no way they could be wrong. rolleyes



Agreed, and I'm glad you added that last one in there. There are some things I do or believe that are not based on reason, and I know that. So why don't I care? Because I don't believe that human beings are solely rational creatures. We have emotions and things that just don't mesh well with reason all the time.
Everybody does it, they just don't always admit to it. Of course, as soon as I admit to it, people start disregarding everything I say. Apparently, if you're not 100% rational, you must be 100% irrational, and nothing you say can be believed. I'd roll my eyes again, but if I don't restrain myself a bit, this post is going to be 50% eye rolls.



I also hate it when people hear I'm Catholic and make entirely wrong assumptions about what I believe about scientific theories and the like.

Ignorant person: You're Catholic. You don't believe in evolution.
Me: Um, actually, I do believe in evolution (though there are still some holes that need to be filled in, but that's pretty much the case with a lot of science, so whatevs), and the Catechism of the Catholic Church specifically states that evolution does not contradict any Church teachings, so we can believe whatever the hell we want about it.
Ignorant person: Actually, that's not true. I know, because I was raised Catholic. I spent every Sunday sitting in Church, ignoring sermons and readings and what my CCD teachers said for twelve whole years before realizing it was all crap and leaving the Church.
Me: rolleyes

And honestly, this pet peeve goes way beyond just science stuff. I hate hate hate it when someone tries to say they know something about the Church because they're Catholic or, even worse, because they used to be Catholic. There are a lot of people in the first group and a ton of people in the second group who have never learned anything about the Church other than what they were told, and that's just not grounds enough to make a definitive statement about what the Church believes. Unless you got your information from a reliable source on what the Church believes, don't claim you know what they believe. *end rant*



I think it's really prevalent. I mean, there are a lot of religious folks that are just as arrogant, but in my experience, this type of religious based arrogance (namely, I'm smarter than you are, na-na-na-na-na-na!) occurs more often in atheists.

I hate when people are super surpised when I have morals, cause I don't have diety overlord to dictate them to me.

I hate it when somebody brings me a bible trying to convince me through disgustingly sexist/racist/violent/outdated biblical scripture that I am mistaken.

I hate when I tell them they aren't going to change my mind, and than they tell me they will pray for me.

I hated it when they use to make me say the pledge in school, and I got suspended in high school for refusing to say the "under god".