What do you think of the following simulated attack on atheism, from me. (Let's pretend)?
March 16th, 2010Ok. ready? Lets go.
1. Why are you empty?
2. Why are you lost?
3. Why do you prefer darkness?
4. Why do you come here to the religion and spirituality section, if you are an atheist you don't have a religion or spirituality?
5. Why don't you have (jesus/allah/etc.)
6. Why do you worship satan?
7. Can you prove evolution? Read Genesis.
Did I miss anything?
Why cant you see the truth? or Why do you turn away from truth?
I know my friends use that one sometimes. But you list sums it up pretty well.
Just as an off point, I am a chrisitan, and I have absoloutley never asked any of those things of an atheist or agnostic. Some Christians do believe in live and let live, you know?
You will go to Hell
You are ignorant
Even now Jesus can save you it is not too late
Your religion/faith is false
So n so books tell you are devil
This is not place for you
Non-christians should be banned to use internet because it was made by christians
Non-christians should be thrown out of America
Blah
Blah
Blah
Blah
Can you prove that God DOES NOT exist?
Here's one of the answers I received in asking a question about religion here.
Posted by screen name... oldman...
"Maybe we should insist they put an atheist category in here so we can ask you ridiculously stupid questions."
8. You will know you are wrong when you come face to face with the Lord Almighty.
9. Don't you have a meaningless existence?
10. If you're right, I lose nothing. But what if we're right?
11. Do you like bananas?
12. I will pray for you.
13. Don't you know that Jesus died for you?
14. Atheists... like so one day I was, like, in the supermarket, okay? And... like wow it was oh so totally cool but I saw Jesus my Father and he was, like, all showing me his spiritual greatness and stuff and then, like, I saw you atheists up there in, like, this tree and stuff and, like, I was so totally 'cool!' and Jesus was all 'hey babe, come and bathe in my glory' and stuff... etc. etc. etc.
And don't forget the great biomimetik: You should accuse atheists of having bad posture, living in unhygienic conditions, losing their hair prematurely and believing that clouds in the sky are really big balls of cotton...
"they are ignorant and uneddicated"
"an atheist moved in next door, what do I do?"
Where on earth would you get your morals?
I met the morpheus once, a few weekends ago. I was walking to the corner market for a loaf of bread when I had to pass by a neighborhood church. I was somewhat acquainted with the structure as it was always mentioned in the newspaper's community section. Known as "The loft," folks would gather there on Thursday evenings for poetry readings.
However, this day happened to be a Saturday afternoon and a pair of gentlemen greeted me as I walked by. They invited me inside to sample an hour of their presentation. Ok, I went inside and found myself to be a prospective new recruit for their brand of religion.
Most of the pews were filled with hooded monks chanting a haunting rhythm. There were others who like me, were wearing their regular denims. The service began like most others that church-goers would be familiar with. A grand master of ceremonies led the group through some songs and gave a sermon. Near the end of the hour it was time for their ritual of "laying on of the hands." Some of the parishioners would come forward and ask for prayers for their ailments or for a sick grand mum who fell down in the tub. All the hooded dudes whose faces could not readily be seen would all place a hand on the person and their combined energies were presumed to have a strength and expedite a solution to the problem.
OK now, there was another new guy in the pews who was watching eagerly. I recognized morpheus from a wanted poster viewed earlier at the post office. When he saw a chance, he approached the ring of conspirators and described how he was always moving around and never able to settle down. The hooded goons closed in upon him, all to make a physical connection. The master of ceremonies began a prayer, a dogmatic mix of logic and pure hocus-pocus. I immediately saw the effects of the procedure as the tension went out of morpheus's body. When the beseeching was near an end, the master asked, "Are the brothers ready?"
A suspenseful few moments passed until he almost shouted, "NOW!"
On that cue, the brothers began to pummel their hapless victim. Continually delivering blows over head and to the solar plexus until morpheus was down on the floor getting stomped. After another minute, the grand Pooh-Bah decided the treatment administered was sufficient to induce a relaxing calm that would assuage the nervousness of morpheus for a long, long time.
I can't say for certain if morpheus got the comeuppance he deserved as I had a loaf of bread to buy and some other errands to do that day. I hope for you Morpheus, that you do find a sense of closure to this difficult episode of life.
Mark
and "If there is no God then how did the universe get here?"
even though that can be countered with "who created God?"
People like yourself are usually motivated to redefine the word atheist because you want to enlarge the definition of atheist to include as many people as possible, or because you perceive it to be an advantage in debates with theists. Unfortunately, people like you have used lies and distortions to support your opinions, and some have made extremely ignorant and grossly incorrect statements that may reflect badly on all atheists.
One of the main problems of a lack of belief definition is that it is too broad. If someone told you they were an atheist, you would still not know if they were agnostic, undecided, believed that gods don t exist, or never thought about it. This makes the word nearly useless.
Another problem with a lack of belief definition is that it is not accepted by the vast majority of people. I personally don t know anyone who considers babies atheists because they lack belief in gods. I also don t know of any people who are agnostic or undecided about the existence of God who call themselves atheists.
If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? ...Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.
-Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Thomas Law, June 13, 1814
If you want to be an atheist or agnostic then that's fine.
Why all the pot shots though?
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