Atheism is not a rational conclusion, rather it's a psychological condition. You put God in the same category as twenty-footed ghosts. What would you think of someone who spends hours on end denouncing twenty-footed ghosts? If you truly beleived that God did not exist, why have you spent so much time typing over 1,346 posts about a non-existing being? What would you think of someone posting 1,346 messages dennouncing twenty-footed ghosts on a website devoted to those who did not beleive in twenty-footed ghosts? One would think that you are obsessed like the lady in the story..
The two reason the whole world is not a follower of Christ is because of ignorance, and the bad example of bad Christians..
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What would you think of someone who spends hours on end denouncing twenty-footed ghosts?
If we had to put up with people insisting that we had to believe in twenty-footed ghosts the way we have to put up with fundies insisting that we have to believe in their religion, then I would think it was a perfectly normal response to the harrassment.
We'd have as much problem with the 20ft ghosts if there were violent mysoginist psychopaths trying to ram it down our throats and change laws to suit what someone told them said ghost wants them to do, usually to the sole benefit of whoever's "talking" for said "ghost".
Or, if you'd rather, We'd have no problem with your belief in a "god" if you were as common and harmless as the old lady with the cats claiming it lives in her attic.
Actually we have no problem with people who think God exists, it's the fundies who seem to have a problem with people who don't believe God exists that are the problem! Although I must admit the last sentence hits close to home. By narrowing a God of love to fit their own prejudices, fears, and hatreds, fundies are the ultimate example of bad Christians.
I'm an atheist because I am NOT ignorant, I know what science says, and I know what the Bible says, and I find science more credible then the Bible.
"If you truly beleived that God did not exist, why have you spent so much time typing over 1,346 posts about a non-existing being?"
Because _you_ dumbasses won't shut up about God and won't stop trying to force your nonsense into our lives.
Do Twenty Footed Ghosts exist? No.
Are there people who believe in Twenty Footed Ghosts? Not that I know of.
Do they threaten my freedoms? No, because if said people exist, they don't have much influence.
Does God Exist? No.
Is there someone who believes in God? Yes. Many someones.
Do these people threaten my freedoms? Do I even need to answer that?
I do this because the people who believe in twenty-footed ghosts keep insisting that the ghosts tell them how to run the world.
I do this because they say that women deserve less rights.
I do this because they say that GLBT people deserve sub-human rights.
It would be fine if they were merely insisting their beliefs, but the people who believe in 20-footed ghosts are -in charge-.
I think that's enough cause.
Sorry, but what is God, anyway?, a Ghost, the closest I get. They don´t spend 24 hours a day denouncing God, but the people who want to use a God they don´t even agree who he is to impose beliefs and morals which, sometimes, are not even rational.
It is an undisputed fact that the 20 footed ghost is the illegitimate offspring of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and the great Goddess Athea.
I will start the cult of the 20 footed ghost, and a few other atheists can come along and mock it when I begin issuing edicts on what constitutes inappropriate human behavior.
Hope that makes you feel better, Gab.
... I'm trying to imagine what a ghost with twenty feet would look like. Some sort of humanoid centipede? Are all the feet on just two legs, or do they have twenty legs as well?
Still, at least they'll have plenty of toes to count on...
Sorry, got distracted there. What was the question again?
"What would you think of someone who spends hours on end denouncing twenty-footed ghosts?"
Prolly the exact opposite of what I think of the people who spend hours on end trying to prove the existence of twenty-footed ghosts.
We would argue against 20 foot ghosts if the money said "In 20' ghosts we trust!"..or if belief in 20' ghosts was often used to measure your patriotism. How would you feel if someone told you; "If you dont like the 20' ghost being preached then leave America!". How would you feel if the government forced your children to pray to the flag under the name of the 20' ghost, and if you try to opt out of it you may face firebombs on your house or have your children beat up. How about them replacing science and other religions (such as christianity) with a literal preaching of the 20' ghost and how he created everything, proving that you need to worship him. How about priests of the 20' ghost molesting your children and then hiding behind the political immunity that is granted by being a preacher for the 20' ghost...I could go on and on with this one.
Gab, after reading all of your "brilliantly thought out" posts I gotta say that you are fun; but, unfortunately for you, fun in the way that a Court Fool is fun.
And like a puppet with someone's hand firmly up it's butt, I think what you should do is go ahead and throw in an O at the end of your name so you can say, "Here's Gabo!"
Because you can't be the president unless you profess belief in twenty-footed ghosts, because children are forced to pledge allegiance to a nation under twenty-footed ghosts, civil rights are violated, general laws are bypassed and privileges are granted by appealing to twenty-footed ghosts and because we are at war with people who believe in twenty-footed ghosts of a different colour. That's why.
Your God has a lot in common with an twenty foot ghost (or a ghost with twenty feet for that matter) I know if people insisted on all these being real and having commands we must follow you'd see many sites denouncing such staggering stupidity.
You know it too, that's why the analogy occured to you, it seems Fundies can only do analogies correctly in Fruedian slip terms
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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