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Post by devilschaplain2 on Mar 2, 2009 21:12:40 GMT -5
These are the same fuckwits who believe men have one less rib than women. The next time you see a Creationist, kick him in the balls and tell him you're just testing God's wonderful design.
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Post by Pookie on Mar 2, 2009 21:15:05 GMT -5
I was having doubts about religion (mine and everyone else's) when I was 13, but when my older brother got sick with cancer and I turned to God help. My prayers didn't save him, a perfectly healthy 19-year-old man, from a particularly aggressive case of cancer that in normal circumstances offers its victims over a 70% chance of survival.
My father said that it was God testing my faith.
At that point, I stopped having doubts about my religion. I made the 100% justified and logical decision that no god that would kill an innocent person to "test the faith" of his/her family/friends should EVER be worshiped for any reason. It was never about them being lying, conniving con artists and hypocrites. It was about my problems with singing praises to a total asshole.
Since then, I've studied (briefly or extensively) science, Christianity, and numerous other religions (Zen Buddhism and Wicca to name a couple) and my decision to become an atheist has stood.
I don't think choosing to believe in no god because the god you thought existed just killed someone you loved makes you an Atheist fundy. If anything, it makes you intelligent.
After all, you would think Christians would be spending all their energy praying for their sick friends to die so that they can go to heaven.
EDIT: On a lighter note, I find the comment about various mechanical objects to be highly amusing. YES, the calculator and the compass and the computer were all designed, but their technological predecessors were each increasingly less complex as far as technology is concerned.
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Post by Paradox on Mar 2, 2009 21:56:29 GMT -5
I think it might be a fire code violation to have that many strawmen in the same place.
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Post by dasfuchs on Mar 2, 2009 22:03:57 GMT -5
Did anyone actually manage to read the whole list? I made it to the origins section before I couldn't take it anymore. This is the line that got me "You descended from apes.(Think about it.)" Wonder what the response would be if someone pointed out to him, that we are in fact apes. I got to #2, remembered it was BH and tl;dr'd the rest by default
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Post by ironbite on Mar 3, 2009 0:22:59 GMT -5
And now I have a headache.
Ironbite-that was just waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to much fail.
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Post by Undecided on Mar 3, 2009 0:41:35 GMT -5
So... Who wants to reply to all two hundred fifty marks? OR Who wants to write a tl;dr-style atheist copypasta bomb?
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Post by DarkfireTaimatsu on Mar 3, 2009 0:53:41 GMT -5
I started reading and comparing myself to them, but stopped around 5 or 6 for two reasons: 1) I realised the list was a few hundred lines long, and I just didn't care enough to waste the time, and 2) Half the points made no sense to me anyway.
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Post by Lady Renae on Mar 3, 2009 1:20:02 GMT -5
This board needs a puking smiley. The RR boards have one... we could steal it.
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Post by DarkfireTaimatsu on Mar 3, 2009 1:27:42 GMT -5
This board needs a puking smiley. I've always liked DeviantArt's puking smiley.
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Post by Undecided on Mar 3, 2009 1:57:01 GMT -5
This board needs a puking smiley. I've always liked DeviantArt's puking smiley. Maybe we should make one ourselves. Does anybody here have too much time on their hands?
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Post by antichrist on Mar 3, 2009 3:27:23 GMT -5
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Post by Julian on Mar 3, 2009 7:46:57 GMT -5
# You believe the astronomical size of the universe somehow disproves God, as if God needed a tiny universe in order to exist. I still can't get past this one actually... No, the astronomical size of the universe proves amongst other things that the bible was a load of shit, invented by people looking for answers and was modelled upon their extremely limited and collosally egocentric misunderstanding of the universe at the time. Oh right, when you said 'God', you meant the biblical God YWYH. Firmament, moon is a light source, stars in the solid bit, flat Earth on pillars above the waters of the deep, the waters above the firmament, four corners of the Earth, God sitting in darkness above, night being a curtain, etc, etc, etc, etc... Oh. It does disprove him!
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Post by Death on Mar 3, 2009 8:21:01 GMT -5
tl:dr
The stamina of fundamentalists is amazing.
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Post by crazalus on Mar 3, 2009 8:38:30 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm sorry... I wouldn't vote at all AND I'm be very vocal about the fact that the Christians were taking part in a fixed debate...
I'd follow it up with a question about if that's the only way they feel they can win...
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Post by Sigmaleph on Mar 3, 2009 11:16:05 GMT -5
Not only did I bother to read it all, I actually responded to each individual point a few months ago Part 1Part 2Part 3
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