Monday, December 29, 2014

What Kind of Atheist Are You (NOT a Poll)

Richard Dawkins has done the most toward turning atheism into another product from General Motors but he's not the only one to turn a buck on it.  Ryan Bell was a pastor who decided to try an 'intellectual experiment' with atheism for a year.  After the year, in no surprise to anyone, he's not a pastor anymore and calls himself a 'weak atheist' ... but ... that weak atheist was copping thousands of dollars in support from atheists via his blog.  (Christian Post: Ex-Pastor Ryan Bell Hints At Leaving Christianity Permanently Following 'Experiment' With Atheism

Note to self:  put the Donate button back up as support for that kind of looney means only one thing:  get in the line.

All this confusion is kind of sad as they worry so much over something that really doesn't need any worry at all.  For a while I worshipped Loki Smoki, the God of Volcanoes, but that wasn't so good for fishing so then I switched.


All of the primary religions believe in the same God so there is one or there isn't or none of them know what the hell they say.  It's not clear how 'weak' applies to that as you is or you ain't.

People get insane when it comes to defining this God but these guys aren't talking about his attributes but rather whether there is any God at all.  That's only a problem if you think there is one and really there isn't or you think there isn't one and really there is.  If you think there is and you believe it, you're done.  If you don't think there's one and you believe it, you also can go get your pudding.  It's the wimbly wambly ones in the middle who don't get it.

The next layer of neurotic is what if there's a God but he doesn't like me.  You might want to pass on that thinking as the next steps after that are you start killing gay men and keeping them in the refrigerator.  Of course God doesn't like us, he fookin' kills all of us.  Just be thankful he didn't do it yet.

Then he gets thinking God doesn't like me because all this terrible stuff happens.  My wife divorces me.  I lose my job.  Woe the fuck is me.

Those things didn't happen because God doesn't like you but rather because you're a fucking dork.  God cannot cure dorkness.  Nowhere does it say Jesus laid his hand on someone and forever after that  person was no longer a dork.  That part is not in there.


Atheism is kind of a single-bite sandwich as if you're right then there's no possible way you will ever know it.

Sometimes atheists will try to impress you with physics and that only tells me they didn't make it to graduate school as physics has yet to find any relationship with metaphysics.  That's no more than a meteor on a dark night that's interesting for a moment and then it's gone, the night is still dark.  When one repeatedly tries to define something non-physical in physical terms it doesn't demonstrate science but rather obstinacy.

It's sad put also kind of arrogant that our boy is so confused and needs so much to know with certainty that which no-one can know with certainty.  Obviously he loses his faith but it takes more faith to believe in atheism, in my view, as that means none of this means anything.  It was just a huge explosion and everything thereafter was governed by no more than the laws of entropy and thermodynamics.  It may even be true but what a splashing bore.  The faith aspect is they have no idea why there should be a Big Bang.  They can tell you what it was but they can't tell you why.

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