Siamang

That last step is going to happen no matter what.

In fact, some believers are counting on it!
baniak

seems that fundies are huge fans of diagrams, flowcharts, etc. This one puts Mr. Gordon’s flowchart to shame.
Secular Dignity

Atheism leads to “Dissolution of Religious Freedom”? This from someone who wants to tell me what to do? Is this guy pulling everybody’s leg? There seems to be this idea in the USA that the only freedom some people are interested in is the freedom to conform.

“People as Consumers Only” is another interesting one. I recently finished listening to a book on my mp3 player by Randall Balmer called “Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America”. He talks about the partnership between evangelicals and the Republican Party. He says that the Bible says believers should look out for the poor and the outcasts, yet a lot of evangelicals are in lock-step with the Republican Party which pushes policies that favor the rich and the powerful.

It is a very interesting book. Has anybody else read it?
Brent

The arrows indicate non-sequiturs, right?
I like tea

Strange… the arrows seem to imply some kind of connection, but I can’t see any.

The arrows indicate non-sequiturs, right?

Oh, okay. Thanks.
Tolga K.

As you can see, many of these traits are wired in a weird combination of series and parallel.

Now, we can treat a lot of these factors like resistors, because the factors he mentioned resist the progression of humanity.

The formula for adding resistors in parallel is 1/R (total) = 1/R(1) + 1/R(2)…

The later factors are more like capacitors, because those effects are long term and fade away slowly over time (except for the whole extinction bit). Those are added in the same way when in series.

So… according to the schematic provided, our resistance is much lower than he’s implying, as is the stored potential destruction we are harboring within our beliefs.

Science prevails again!
Brian

Hilarious! Unification of governments automatically leads to societal collapse and human extinction! If only we’d seen it coming.
slut

Genocide is LEGAL now?

Geesh, who knew?
Imemine

Alright, who leaked our secret plans?
Atheist Okie

I was looking forward to the “Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader Orgy” block. Someone needs to make this into a board game.
Chicken Girl

Anyone else notice they missed the link between “Dissolution of Religious Freedom/Secular Authoritarian Governments” and “Legalized Genocide”?

That whole thing reads like some fundie nutjob’s apocalyptic wet dream.
Nancy

I am stuck at the beginning. How does disbelief in god lead to gluttonous behavior? Are there more fat atheists than fat christians?
cautious

The unification of governments leads to civil war?!

Buh? This must explain why all those European Union countries are falling apart from the inside.
Mriana

Looks like a bunch of tripe to me. I lost count of the falicies in that diagram. The religious (esp religious extremists) are just as much to blame if not more.
Richard

Check out the http://www.christiancrosstalk.com/ website and click on arguments for god. There aren’t any. Literally. A dead link speaks a thousand words!
I like tea

Someone needs to make this into a board game.

“Legalized genocide legislation filibustered in Senate, go back three spaces.”
Scorpious

The whole thing is one huge logical error.

They can’t even connect things right as they don’t have an arrow leading from Dissolution of Religious Freedom & Secular Authoritarian Governments, which just circle around each other, to Legalized Genocide.

I think they may be trying to reserve that for themselves and they have used it multiple times in the past 3-4 thousand years or so.
Richard Wade

The flowchart seems to be missing a step saying “Mass hysteria, dogs and cats living together!” as in Bill Murray’s great line from Ghost Busters.
Old Beezle

And Richard Wade takes the win in the final round of “Fun With Fundies’ Apocalyptic Wet Dream: The Board Game” with his powerful quotation of scripture!
Old Beezle

Richard–what do you do if someone asks you if you’re a god?
Richard Wade

YOU SAY YES I AM! 😀
QrazyQat

Genocide is LEGAL now?

Geesh, who knew?

It was a signing statement.
chancelikely

Reminds me of the joke about the rabbi reading the Nazi propaganda newspaper:

Rabbi Altmann and his secretary were sitting in a coffeehouse in Berlin in 1935. “Herr Altmann,” said his secretary, “I notice you’re reading Der Stürmer! I can’t understand why. A Nazi libel sheet! Are you some kind of masochist, or, G-d forbid, a self-hating Jew?”
“On the contrary, Frau Epstein. When I used to read the Jewish papers, all I learned about were pogroms, riots in Palestine, and assimilation in America. But now that I read Der Stürmer, I see so much more: that the Jews control all the banks, that we dominate in the arts, and that we’re on the verge of taking over the entire world. You know – it makes me feel a whole lot better!”
False Prophet

Nancy, the “gluttonous behaviour” link might be the only non-fallacy in that whole affair. Like Robert Ingersoll says in “God in the Constitution”, in the last 300 years of increasing secularization and scientific progress, the average working class person in our society has more education and a better quality of life than royalty did in the Middle Ages.

So, as a direct result of secularization, we have a society where:

-obesity is considered a greater concern than starvation
-extra-marital sex is a greater concern than plague
-recreational drug use is a greater concern than burglary
-gambling is a greater concern than slavery
-consumerism is a greater concern than civil unrest

And I could go on. Christianity tells you “it’s okay to suffer pain, oppression, and want in this life, because you’ll be rewarded in the next”. Our secular society says “it is not right to suffer pain, oppression and want if there is a rational way to prevent them”.

Although gluttony and indulgence are harmful when taken to extremes, they represent a lust for life that the depravity of Christian doctrine condemns. I’ll take a steak dinner over the Eucharist any day.