OT 4 More Things Atheists Should Stop Saying

How is throwing fire from the sky not an "interaction"? This is essentially a form of communication, god demonstrating his existence, he's "interracting" with humans. This is so baffling. And you actually have the audacity to accuse others of "lying".

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."  - George Bernard Shaw

A test is something repeatable and peer reviewable.

Schedule a teet of fire throwing from the sky.

The belief in God does not include any such thing.


When God spoke to people somehow in the Bible, he would call their name.

The usual answer to God was “I’m here.”

Clearly a response, not a command to God.

I don't agree.

In my opinion, it's either ignorance and/or rebellion.

Some people are too mentally unable to comprehend intangiblilties like spirituality. That is why we keep getting statements like, "There is no empirical evidence."

And some Atheist are just angry at religion for various reasons. So they swear never to endorse it. And constantly blame the religions for what some evil acts people use religion as an excuse for.

That is the same argument the anti gun crowd uses when they say "guns are evil".
And others say "money is the root of all evil".

This goes back to the irresponsibility factor. Like Black Lives Matter blaming the police when criminals get in trouble for being criminals.

Responsible people can use religion, guns and money responsibly. And when they don't, the responsible blame themselves. Not whatever tool they used irresponsibly.

But irresponsible people are never responsible. It's always somebody else's fault. Or something else's fault.

Telling people how to think (via insults) is arseholery.

It’s understandable over politics, but it is inexcusable with something as personal as religious beliefs.

The people who do this are arseholes.

Okay.

And yet here you are,  attempting to establish a view and arguing with those who don't agree with you...



Which is why we saw earlier the forced attempts of one of your sources attempting to reconcile a literal reading of the Torah with modern science through special pleading. And the warning from the Jewish Journal about those "Rabbis, many of whom are not versed in the sciences and, worse know just enough to say something foolish or dangerous.."

But hey, pointing out such things is more of that attempting to control your thinking, right?

This is the youtube guy’s false assumptions, aka prejudice, probably born out his frustration in not understanding the concept of atheism. These maybe ass-smelly axioms are thrown out by frustrated fishers of men casing their nets off Dover Beach. 

“We're all born Atheists until someone starts lying to us."

False. No one is born an anything with an “ism” attached to it. Maybe the label “pagan” or “heathen” can be put on newborn babes. They are born with a pure id that gets tempered as the baby’s ego develops. It is at this stage children are inculcated into culture belief systems either through schooling or osmosis. 

"Reading the Bible will make you an Atheist."

Probably true. If one reads the Bible without an assist from a commentary, the stuff the theists are taught often don’t match what’s in the biblical narrative mount up. This is most apt to damage or kill the faith of the unprepared Evangelical reader. Therefore, most Right Wing Evangelicals use Scofield or Ryrie Study Bibles, which use the KJV, and helps explain the confusing passages using their brand of fundamentalist theology.

Atheists didn’t start this moral panic anyway. The RCC itself forbade the layperson from owning a Bible, especially a vernacular translation...or read it, even. Even the approved Latin Vulgate translation could bring down harsh judgement...not that many people could afford to own a Bible back then. It wasn’t until 1500 or so with the Protestant Reformation and the printing press did this change. 

"You can't be reasoned out of something you weren't reasoned into."

This is a true axiom, though not one exclusive to theism.

And here’s that “ism” again. The term atheist is contra to theist, an apologist. The opposite of a believer is the skeptic...that’s a separate topic.

A believer does not require a theology or theory of God. He or she have faith in It, not a rationalization for believing opposed to not believing.

A theist, though, does look for justification for his or her beliefs and become frustrated when the atheist points out the flaws in his logic. 

This statement has most recently been applied to QAnon believers. 

"Atheism and Atheists are honest/rational/reasonable."

No creditable atheist has said or thought that unless they’re trying to be an asshole. There are plenty of asshole atheists, just like there plenty of theist assholes. 

However, what atheists are not are religious hypocrites. Generally the theist is more concerned with getting his “ism” to cancel out the atheist’s “ism” and tends to forget he is supposed to be living a Christian life, not bean counting church membership as proof their own particular religion is the True One.  

Reading the Jewish Bible in Hebrew has been shown to make Jews more religious.