International Atheist Day

[Tarquin Farquart]

I like the way they prove God exists by quoting... erm, God...

[Auburn Red]

Or you could always paraphrase Star Wars, who's the bigger fool the one who leads or the one who follows?

[imjustasteph]

Originally Posted by Chloe

"But I say to you, anyone who is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment, and whoever says to his brother Raca shall be in danger of the council; but whosoever shall say Thou fool shall be in danger of hell fire."

Some guy named Jesus, in Matthew 5:22.

I was scrolling through to see if anyone had beaten me to this.

[chillas]

Originally Posted by Singing in the Drizzle

On the other hand it is just as funny atheist that something they do not believe in will harm them in some way.

It's not the things I don't believe in that I'm worried of harming me, it's the mindless adherents to the things I don't believe in that are a serious threat.

[Lainie]

Originally Posted by Singing in the Drizzle

On the other hand it is just as funny atheist that something they do not believe in will harm them in some way.

I don't think that and neither do any of the other atheists I know. (I assume the missing word be tween "atheist" and "that" is "think.")

[Chloe]

Originally Posted by imjustasteph

I was scrolling through to see if anyone had beaten me to this.

You are learning well, grasshopper!

[Floater]

I was so wondering where I should post this:

Insanity of a Jealous God

Many non-believers struggle with the fact that so many good and intelligent people actually believe in the Bible despite all the irrational nonsense. As someone who aspires to be patient and respectful, this is something I wrestle with constantly. The Second Commandment declares that god is a jealous god. How can this insanity be ignored? Would the sole creator of life and billions of galaxies really need a bunch of gnats stroking his ego? Is it more likely that a jealous god created jealous men, or jealous men created a jealous god? I have to go with the latter. Of all the madness in the Bible, a jealous god has to be the most absurd. But perhaps I’m the one who is nuts.

http://www.chicagonow.com/an-agnosti...a-jealous-god/

[crocoduck_hunter]

I stumbled onto that bit of logic as a teenager. It was one of the many reasons I ended up becoming an atheists

[Saint James]

Originally Posted by Mouse

...that they'll be laughing their heads off while they're burning in Hell, .

Yeah, we've been spending most our lives, living in an Amish paradise.

(sorry, but it was the perfect set up).

[crocoduck_hunter]

Well played.

[BrokenBiscuit]

I hate the trope that atheists are stubborn. I don't want to die, and sometimes it's bloody hard to have courage and do good and keep going when nobody's watching and there's no reward. I'd rather have some supernatural force take care of me, but I haven't found one.

Pictures like that are backslapping by believers for believers. They have nothing to say to someone who doesn't believe. If he's doesn't care about insulting people, don't feed the troll. If he would never insult people to their face but will do it in a cowardly way like this, mildly tell him it's rude.

[ganzfeld]

Other than the fact that they say they don't believe in any gods, I don't know of even one difference between atheists and non-atheists.

[Chloe]

Some of them write books about not believing in god.

[snopes]

The Second Commandment declares that god is a jealous god. How can this insanity be ignored?

Perhaps by recognizing that a modern English translation can have different connotations than something written thousands of years ago in a different language.

[crocoduck_hunter]

Even when attempting to maintain historical context, the idea of a god that creates humans and gets angry and dishes out vicious punishments if they fail to show sufficient levels of sucking up and is also adamant that no other gods exist but paranoid about his worshipers switching over to follow a different god and so requires them to constantly prove their devotion to him through a variety of tests is disturbing.

[snopes]

To some, it's disturbing; to others, it's consistent with their theology:

http://www.gotquestions.org/Old-Testament-violence.html

[Lainie]

Some of us find that theology disturbing.

[ganzfeld]

Originally Posted by Chloe

Some of them write books about not believing in god.

Do you mean to imply by this that the same is not true for some theists?

[Chloe]

I'm not aware of any theists who write books about them not believing in God, no. Are you?

[GenYus234]

I think ganz meant that people often write books about what they believe (or don't) in.