“I've read a number of stories about how atheism is seen as "cool" by many young people, especially among college age youths.”
Cool was never a factor in my thinking. But all the offered evidence for ‘god’ was uncompelling.
"That's funny to me because I couldn't think of anything less cool than becoming an atheist.”
That’s really compelling, a Christain trying to assess ‘coolness.’
“So, just in case any young people are reading, here are eight reasons that atheism is the in-coolest choice ever.
8) Religious people live longer, happier lives, according to numerous scientific studies.”
Gotta wonder how many Christains are honest enough to admit to being unhappy.
“I know you atheist types are all about the SCIENCE even though you pretty much get all your scientific information from Huffpo articles with clickbait headlines”
Is lying cool? This is just ad hom.
“But on top of shorter lives, studies indicate you'll be more miserable too. So while your life won't be longer, it might just feel that way.”
I really wonder what they used to determine happiness.
“3) Your atheist girlfriend (should you ever get one after you move out of your stepdad's basement)”
Nasty, smug, lying ad hom.
“will see you as a gel-haired accident in skinny jeans on a lonely rock orbiting a meaningless sun in a mistake of a universe. See the difference? It's kind of a big one.”
You gained telepathy through your beliefs, then?
"1) Atheists have less children and that probably means...well you probably know what that means since you're all about SCIENCE!”
Are you afraid to actually spell out another ad hominem?
We had all the kids we could afford to raise and put through college, so they’d start their lives without significant debt. Three. That’s plenty.
“ Once again, to sum up, you'll be miserable,”
Projecting.
“have a shorter life,”
I dunno. Medicine keeps getting better and better.
“and quite likely less sex than your religious counterparts.”
We have no fear of using contraceptives. The number of kidlets is NOT proportional to the sex life.
"And you thought atheism was cool?”
no.
“Reconsider and repent ye' fools.”
Never read the Psalm that says revilers are going to hell, I see.
"Jesus said he is the way, the truth, and the life. Left unsaid, is that He's totally cooler than Richard Dawkins!”
i will admit that being a magic user who persists after death through his own magic (A Lich) IS cooler than being a living person who actually exists, but that’s still not the reason I’m an atheist you smug, preening, self-important, name-calling twat-waffle.