"The enemy will twist words and sow the seeds of doubt, as they will speak with the tongue of the devil".
In my work, I support a service user to church about twice a month. They encourage me to take Christ into my heart, but so far they have failed to tempt me. The guest preacher on Sunday was very entertaining and spoke well, even if he identified the likes of me as the enemy. Each part of his argument strengthened my atheism.
The thing with the one true God, is there are so many of them!
Guest preacher! Oh what fun! That's like having a substitute teacher. Get an accomplice, a convincing glass bottle of water, some baking soda, some red-tinted contact lenses and a crucifix. Have accomplice put in red contact lenses, mix baking soda with water and put on mouth/shirt for frothing look. Run into church yelling, "Father! Father ! I need your help with this exorcism! The power of Christ compels you!" If said accomplice can crawl upside down on walls- bonus!
"You just want to keep on sinning."
That's one thing I love about the term secular humanist
Winning an argument with an intelegent person is difficult,...winning an argument against someone stupid,or in a ''faith''is impossible
Geez Louise, have you got at least 2 life times for me to list their inane responses?
@kodimerlyn LOL, you should see their shocked faces when I tell them that, a) I have read it cover to cover, page by page, word by word, and,
b) that I HAD to read it as part of my studies to gain a ThD ( Doctorate in Theology and Comparative Modern Religions) whilst being a DELCARED atheist and still remaining an Atheist to this day.
@kodimerlyn As my Dad taught me, "If you ever get into a debate/discussion, etc, it is always better to know more about the subject than the person with whom you are debating."
And, trust me, it works wonders against the Faithfools, I often get invited to debate with all kinds of Preachers, etc, and, not boasting in any way, shape nor form, I've only ever been in what you could call a Stalemate situation once in over 50+ debates and that was because the Mediator decided to call 'time.'
I'm pretty certain that on a number of occasions I've actually manage to make more than a few Faithfools start to actually think deeply and questioningly about their beliefs.
"I'm sorry you're an atheist," they say as if I have a terminal disease.
"I chose rational thought over magical beliefs," I reply firmly.
Silence. They don't know what to say. Perfect.
You're welcome, darling.
"How can you not believe? Just look at a tree. Look at the clouds."
Yeah, You got me.
That reminds me of the Chewbacca defense from South Park.
There were actually two instances on "The Atheist Experience" where two different callers lost to Matt Dillahunty (it was clear as they stopped talking and had no response), and suddenly said they were going to come down there and "punch his fat head in for Jesus."
I think someone made a song out of it at one point, but I can't find it.
Here they are. I didn't remember they were on the same episode:
@OwlInASack They've gotten a few weird calls (although not threatening that I can remember) from England, New Zealand, Australia, and an African nation (I can't remember which), among many others. I've probably spent a few thousand hours watching the show since clips first started showing up on youtube, then live on u-stream, now live on youtube, etc.
But America is weird. I honestly can't say I fully understand it right now. Maybe I never did.
Well I think it takes MORE FAITH to believe that the universe came from nothing than to believe in God.......
So you think that you should be able to just go round killing and raping and doing whatever you please.
Yes, I've come across christians who think they have a monopoly on ethics. How stupid can they get?!
You're over-thinking it. Don't be so intellectual. Stop demanding evidence. Just accept it on faith.
The lord moves in mysterious ways.
@Donotbelieve oh, there's nothing mysterious about the way my bowels move. My ex would say the mysterious bit is how I can spend 45 minutes doing it. Apparently "I'm hiding from you" is not the correct answer.
"Did someone in the church hurt you to make you hate god?"
Oh my I will pray for you.i want you to have the relationship with god that I have.
So how do Satan's balls taste, sinner?
My brother said satan will fuck me in the ass! He a homophobic douche.
If you don't believe in God, that means you think you're God. What an ego you have.
Well I got into a debate with a Christian last weekend. When ahe had no rebuttal, she said that I will see how wrong I was when I died.
Which makes no sense since neither one of you will know....
They use this one often. Believers use my age to try and convince me I had better start believing soon now. Oh, don't we love those Christians.
Hit her with these if you like, No Son of Man may die for another's sins, No one has ever gone up to heaven, There is only One Immortal. yw You and your sons will be here with me
I tell believers that if they die before I do and find out that they have ceased to exist in any form, the least they can do is return to tell me I was right and to apologize. They readily agree ... until they think about it ...