Atheist Intolerance 101

An Atheist on the Internet griped:

"In this country, at this time, anyone running for public office must profess to believe in magic and invisible beings, or they have no chance of being elected. Once in office they must keep the believers that elected them happy, (or they won't have a job for long), so they make decisions based on that, rather than what is fairest for all concerned."

So is this guy suggesting religious believers holding elected office are all fakes? Or can't he fathom that a believer in public office would have his decisions affected by the faith that shapes his personal morals?

"That is the main complaint I have, but little things like them postponing the Rose Parade, or not being able to hard alcohol on Sunday (in Oregon), making ME say so help me god, in court, having your motto on our money, (if it said in Pixies we trust, you would understand)"

Gee, pal, sorry if traditions like postponing the Rose Parade get you in such a lather. And you can drink on Sundays at home in dry states, you just can't buy on Sunday. And as far as the money goes, most transactions are handled with debit cards, so stop fretting about that legal tender. By the way, The "pixies" argument is hackneyed and deserving of being tossed on the same garbage heap as the "Fire Breathing Dragon in My Garage" argument.

"But the worst thing that religious beliefs do is divide people. Religion divides families, communities even counties."

You know what else divides people? Intolerance and disrespect for beliefs that are different than yours.

"Religion is a hate machine, it cause groups of people to hate or at least mistrust other groups of people who have different beliefs."

Hatefully written, Mr. Finger-Pointer.

"Do I need to keep going or do you get the picture?"

 Nope. I've seen plenty. Thanks!

Atheists and Their Nutty Assumptions

Taken from a religion forum on the internet:

"If there were any truth to any religions, surely the gods would have imparted at least SOME knowledge to humans beyond the little they were aware of. Instead, 99% of the knowledge that's been acquired during the entire existence of humans has been acquired during the past 150 years, with the adoption of the modern scientific method."

First of all, what is this person qualifiying as "knowledge"? Just scientific advancement? And how was God supposed to impart the theories of Quantum Physics to ancient people?

"No religious "knowledge" has contributed one iota to the development of humans; quite the opposite. And still, as we gain this knowledge through science, religion fights tooth and nail against it."

This is simply stupid. Western civilization, which advanced technologically faster than any other society, had Christianity at its core. If this atheist's banter were even remotely true, the people of France and Germany should still be living in log cabins and cooking their food over open fires. Why do so many atheists labor under such inane delusions? Yet, they're all over the internet, calling believers idiots, and backing up their claims with dumb comments that are obviously false.

"Since religion is such a detriment to humans, why is it still around? Are we just in an in-between phase, or is it here to stay?"

If religion were "such a detriment to humans", the Dark Ages should never have ended. The fact is, Christians and Muslims preserved, protected, and made use of the knowledge that was collected, helping propel Western Society into a new age of Renaissance and Enlightenment.

It would really help if bantering atheists like this would try reading a book every once in a while.

Atheists, What's With the Condescension?

Whenever I log onto a website or a forum where Atheists are commenting on religion or religious believers, I am struck by the overwhelming condescension of Atheists in their posts.

If I were to take their word for it, Atheists would have me believing that all religious believers are drooling, bucktoothed, redneck morons who had religion beaten into them as children.

The question is, why?

Where did this cartoonish impression of religion come from? TV? Movies? Pop culture?

Why do people who claim to be the "mature, logical ones" spread such obvious lies passed about as blanket statements?

Or do Atheists really believe all they post on the internet?

I'm convinced most of them DO believe what they post on the internet.

So much for "maturity" and "logic".

Another Atheist *FACEPALM* Moment

I had the most amazing interaction with a Village Atheist in an internet forum.

This person was going on about how the New Testament documents were written so long after the events they described, and therefore it was all made up.

I mentioned the recent discovery of a fragment of Mark's Gospel that has been dated to the 1st century. The Village Atheist kept arguing and telling me the earliest document was from AD 150, so I posted a link to prove him wrong. In fact, this fragment is confidently dated to the mid-1st Century, and that proves Mark's Gospel is an early document that rivals 1st Corinthians. I offered that the fragment is from a copy, meaning the original is much earlier.

The atheist kept arguing that it was still written 50-75 years after Jesus' death and he was getting pretty snarky about it. I kept asking him how he came to that conclusion, and then it dawned on me: this atheist thought AD meant "after death". I started laughing, because I couldn't imagine that in today's information age, anybody wouldn't know that AD stood for Anno Domini, the Year of Our Lord. This guy was calling me an idiot over this.

It gets even better. After I established that AD 50 was only 17-20 years after the Resurrection, this guy tried to tell me that this Gospel only proved that none of them were written until at least 75 years after Jesus' death. To make a long story short, this brilliant atheist thought the fragment was from the ORIGINAL, in fact, he thought all the surviving NT papyri were the autographs. Unbelievable.

I pointed out this guy's errors, and predictably he went ballistic and tobogganed straight into a tirade of 4-letter words and high school insults. No matter how many times I linked things and showed him that there were no surviving original NT autographs, he would hear none of it and he just kept up with the sputtering. Finally, he just stopped posting.

I still can't believe that, as smart as atheists think they are, that there was one who didn't know what AD meant and that there are no NT autographs (usually that alone is a foundational atheist argument: "Well, since there are no originals, how can we know that the New Testament is even accurate?")

The Moral of the Story here is: never assume your opponent is smarter than he really is.

There's a reason I call these people "Village Atheists".

'Nuff said.

Lame Argument: "Everyone is born an Atheist"

This is one of the silliest memes spouted by the Village Atheist Left. It's banter like this that makes me believe they are the Jehovah's Witnesses of godlessness, as if there were some kind of 90 day training school that all budding Atheists attend, to learn the basics as well as the bumper sticker slogans that they regurgitate all over the internet.

Babies aren't born atheists, they're born ignorant. They know next to nothing. At best, a baby is AGNOSTIC (as an agnosis, "lacking knowledge or understanding"). Atheism is a conscious decision, a rejection of belief.

However, if Village Atheists want to call themselves ignorant babies, I won't stand in their way.

Atheists, get some new material, puleeeeze.....

If Atheists Want To Improve the World...

Why don't they take the money they spend on silly lawsuits to tear down crosses in public places, and donate that money to the poor, instead of some well-paid attorney?

I mean, come on guys, if you're so much better than us wacko believers, then prove it and feed some hungry kids.

Tearing down religious symbols that are acceptable to 99% of the population (including some nonbelievers) is a such a waste of time and resources.

The economy is lousy right now, atheists. It's time to prove yourselves and ante up for the less fortunate.

Atheist Foot-In-Mouth Syndrome

On the web the other day, an Atheist posting in a religion forum claimed that Jesus was not crucified through the hands because the Romans didn't perform crucifixions, especially through the hands.

I answered, "Oh, really?" and offered this link:

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2064920,00.html

The Atheist got flustered and answered, "How does this prove the Bible stories were true?"

It proved that the Bible is right and you are wrong about crucifixions, Mr. Atheist.

That's all I needed to do.