Atheist(s) Don’t Exist… God Said So

I’m an atheist.  If I kick him in the balls will he believe that I exist?

That would RULE if every hotel had a copy of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.  That is a classic! 

Eh, doesn’t the Romans 1 passage say that God magically made us atheists because we didn’t want to obey him and his “obvious” existence, and he “gave us over to our delusions” and what not?

So less that “atheists don’t exist”, and more saying “because we’re evil scum-sucking monsters who want to do evil while pretending there’s no God, God made us believe our delusions of atheism despite their obvious falseness”.

Man, “God” is really good at this whole “blaming people for what he makes them” shit. And Christians are really good at blaming people for the way “God” “made” them.That’s also next to the passage where Paul says gays get their gayness from God, thus adding more fuel to the burning bonfire of hypocrisy and “victim”-blaming those Christians have got going.

People always want a simple answer to a question. The fact is very few live in the absolutes of a spectrum but absolutes do exist. Some know without a doubt that God does not exist, others have never truly questioned the idea that a God might not exist. Most people are somewhere in between even with many who are religious that attend Church weekly. The problem with unique labels such as “Atheist and Agnostic” is that we don’t really have a term for the “weak religious” who have some level of questioning the 100% absolute of God’s existence. However, a large amount of people who say they are “Catholic” or any other religion faction have fairly loose beliefs and/or have questions that challenge what is being taught/said. But there are certainly people on the absolutes who “just know” the answer without physical proof. 

God is so full of shit that his arse is going to explode.

 Christians love to isolate themselves from everyone who doesn’t agree with them

Why do religious people seem to have such a difficult time pluralizing the word “atheist”?

Does this mean they’ll quit preaching to us?  Ha!  Nonexistence doesn’t faze them!

While Mr. Dillahunty makes an interesting point, I also think Romans 1 gives us good reason to doubt the faith that is NOT within us.  We have a powerful and internal confirmation that there is no God and Christianity is wrong — as we know we are not merely suppressing a truth and do actually not believe.

Keep your ghost-damn religion to yourselves.

Granted, some people might feel safer copping to agnosticism around a guy like that, or in general. Even others would not say they are agnostic or atheist even if they self-described as either or both. He might know plenty of atheists, he just has no idea why they might not tell him. 

Clearly.

But on the other hand, I’m a liberal Christian, and quite a few new atheists appear to think I don’t exist.  They appear to think that religious people come in only two varieties: fundamentalist and hypocritical.

So yeah, I feel for you guys. It’s never fun being told you don’t exist.

No one exists except you.  Everything else is a constructed illusion, a higher vibrational dream put forth for no other reason than to deal with the existance of self as it is defined within an infinite reality

Well said! I must say that in the few short months that I’ve been religiously following (haha!) this blog this is by far the most poignant, scathing satire regarding these ass-backwards Christian Americans like Ralph Barker who are becoming increasingly irrelevant in our society. Damn good writing, Jessica!

no.

but he will realise that his balls exist,
and grow some.

then look the fact in the eye that he only has one life in this body with this mind and that there are no angels or devils after death.
which *gulp* leads to the next, even worse, fact:
there is no sense to all of this.

i wish those godfearing people would all grow some balls and allow this facts to sink in…
but i understand that its easier to fear something that doesnt exist than to fear something that exists 😉

Here’s the comment I posted, simply because I don’t know if it’ll get through moderation. Though some fairly critical comments have so far.

‘Let me ask you a question.

If I went around saying that the Iliad (a text which is older than the Bible) was real and that proved the existance of Zeus and the other Greek gods and that we should worship them would you consider me sane?

I’m going to bet your answer there was no, because the Iliad is just a book written by men.

Now, let’s replace ‘the Iliad’ with ‘the Bible’.

I don’t believe the Iliad is real, I don’t believe the Bible is either. I believe it’s a text which shows the values of its time, the same as the Iliad does, but that doesn’t automatically mean that we should attempt to follow those cultural values. Mostly because they both include slavery, rape, killing children, sacrifice. Also both sets of god/s are equally likely to kill you because you pissed them off.

Also, by your logic, if I wrote on a piece of paper ‘There are no gods or supernatural beings and this is true because I say so’ there would be no gods and no supernatural beings. After all, I just said so. Why would anybody contest that, didn’t you know it’s written down?

And just as a final point. I am getting very, very tired of being told I don’t exist because I’m bisexual or because I’m an atheist. Considering that it hurts when I pinch myself and other people can see and interact with me I’m as sure that I am real as anybody who’s seen the Matrix can be.’

Aren’t atheists one of the groups that need to be stoned to death when discovered? If we don’t exist, shouldn’t there be provisions for Yeti, Loch Ness Monsters, and UFO pilots?

 If no one exists but me, then who posted this twice?

Thank’s James!

Attacking hypocrytical christians I understand, attacking God, even if you don’t believe in him…why?  Ignorance will be no defence. 

The post was excellent. The comments? Mmm – not so much. 

Sorry, I’m new here. 😉

How could one possibly have the requisite knowledge to be anything other than an agnostic?

Knowledge would require *True Belief* and *Sufficient Justification* (evidence for said belief)…..or at least that is what Plato thought.

Mayhap I needz a bit mour skooling to finger ‘oot hown to git ta a known’en  witout gitten the justfiying.

Matt:  I love ya brother but you have to remember that Ps. 14.1 (the whole verse, not just the convenient first phrase) is talking about fools, not atheists.  Fools deny god; fools are corrupt; the deeds of fools are vile; fools do no good.  

1 The fool[a] says in his heart,
    “There is no God.” 
They are corrupt, their deeds are vile;
    there is no one who does good.
Footnotes:
Psalm 14:1 The Hebrew words rendered fool in Psalms denote one who is morally deficient.(Ps. 14.1: per biblegateway.com, New International Version)

Atheists do also deny the God of Abraham, but atheists (as a group, anyway) are not without morals, not corrupt, not doing vile deeds, not void of charity or altruism.