Shit Christians Say To Atheists: The Videos

I’m not a video person, but I did post the following on my Facebook page…
“You’re
an atheist? But you’re so nice!” – It is amazing that someone can be a
decent human being without the threat of some sky-monkey smacking them
down if they disobey some arbitrary or ambiguous rule, but it can
happen. “Do you believe in Satan?” – No. No god, no satan.
“Your life must be bleak and meaningless.” – I live in reality – and
reality has meaning. There is friendship, love, compassion, etc. “So why do you even bother to live?” – See above.
“You were never a true believer.” – Finally got one right… I truly
never did believe in any mythology. However, I have talked to and read
articles by those who at one time did believe in a god of some sort.
Just as some believers were not always so, some atheists have not always
been atheists. “Why do you hate God?” – How can one hate that
which does not exist? I do get tremendously frustrated at believers who
insist that others live by their brand of mythology, but since there is
no god to hate, I do not hate god. “You’re just going through a
phase.” – This “phase” is almost 50 years now. No, just because I do
not believe in your superstitious nonsense does not mean it is a
“phase”. “Deep down, you really believe.” – You have not been listening, have you? Shallow, mid-depth, deep down – no god. “Just wait till you have children of your own.” – Moot point. “I’ll pray for you.” – I appreciate the thought.
“But what if you’re wrong?” – Until someone gives me proof that passes
basic scientific tests, I am not wrong. Besides, if one is to believe
what is said of some gods, Pascal’s Wager is a fool’s wager. Think
about it – a person should pretend to believe in a being to effectively
fool that being into thinking the person has followed the being’s rules,
yet this being is supposed to be omniscient, and able to read and
understand your thoughts. So, pretend and you are darned to heck
anyways. However, like the children question, this one is a moot point,
too. “It’s not meant to be taken literally.” – Yet so many
fools do take it literally, and expect everybody to live by that
delusion…. “Have you ever read the Bible?” – Part of it, and
I am reading it now. I suspect it will instill a belief in me just as
my reading Lord of the Rings instilled the belief that Middle Earth is
real. “You still believe in Jesus, though, right?” – Again – you have not been listening, have you.

 “Look at this dog.”

I guess she misheard something. 😛

About a year ago, I was walking across campus and a man in a group called out to me and asked me if I believe Jesus was my savior.  I replied no.  He asked me if I believed in god.  I said no.  Then he asked me “not even Moses?” That question caught me off guard; I was surprised that that was his last resort in saving my soul.

Totally funny video until you stop to think about what she actually believes: (NOBODY x NOTHING) + (CHANCE x TIME) somehow = EVERYTHING.  

I would almost take these to be straw-man portrayals if I hadn’t actually solicited so many of these responses in real life.

I don’t think all of it is that dumb, though. So many Christians are so steeped in their religious upbringing that they have just never had the opportunity to step back and really look at it from the outside. I can understand why they say many of these things.

Mark Panzarino is hilarious!  Hope to see him at the reason rally!

You just show that you neither understand the Big Bang Theory, nor the Theory of Evolution. Not that anyone expected anything but that

Some are understandable, but others aren’t. “Why do you bother living?” Really? Come on. Nothing can explain or even excuse such stupidity

totally gonna steal some of the lines from “shit atheists say.” “There is a reason it’s called christian APOLOGETICS” HAHAHAHHAHAHH

When I first discovered ‘Atheism’, (I had been atheist for a while, but never really knew it was such a ‘thing’) and came across the term “apologetics” I first thought it was a derogatory term coined by atheists.

I thought so, too.

The true mark of a loving god (that was sarcastic). It would be bad enough if people were punished for all eternity because they weren’t convinced of said god’s existence, but it would be even worse if said god were to pick and choose who goes to Heaven and who goes to Hell before they’re even born.

But that’s exactly what Calvinists (who inspired lots of modern Protestant theology) believe. They’re really big into predestination

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predestination_%28Calvinism%29

You wouldn’t believe they kind of nonsense various Christian sects invented to explain this. There are all kinds of different levels and kinds of predestination in order to reconcile it with free will and some other ideas. No one but an insane person could come up with any of it. Even complicated religions in fiction for example are more sensible

“But what keeps you from going around killing people?”
I don’t know. Maybe you’d better come up with a reason really quick.

I know, and it’s sad that so many people would worship a deity if they believe it to be like that.

Atheism is a tragic life.

There’s definitely a lot of shit said in those videos – scary thing is how similar a lot of them are (the whole “so you worship Satan” thing is insane).

There’s plenty of shit atheists say too. The whole dichotomy is one that has been approached badly from both camps – particularly in America, it would seem (I’m in the UK and there’s much less of a “church culture” here that would cause a person to say “You’re an atheist? But you’re really nice!”, because most Christians here have incredibly mixed social groups, in my experience, so it wouldn’t come as such a surprise that there are nice non-Christians).

The truth is, the kind of dumb statements represented in these videos are ones that a large portion of Christians themselves fight against, probably with more passion and learning than from outside the church. I consider myself one of those.

“You can pray for me, I’ll think for you”

That was brilliant.