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Why did God make atheists?

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Why did God make atheists?
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RE: Why did God make atheists?
March 15, 2012 at 8:52 am
They MIGHT be worshipping the only TRUE god but xtians hadn't thought about that.
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RE: Why did God make atheists?
August 23, 2012 at 4:07 pm
If God made everything, including me, then he also made my mind and how I think

Why would he make me this way, why make me so I cannot believe?


Question - DID YOU HAVE parents?

I did

No matter how they seemed - neither of them were gods.
But they did provably MAKE me.
I can without doubt say I was NOT made by a god.
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#33
RE: Why did God make atheists?
August 23, 2012 at 4:15 pm
Religion - God's test to see if you're stupid enough to believe it or smart enough to avoid it.
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Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.

Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.

You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
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#34
RE: Why did God make atheists?
August 23, 2012 at 4:34 pm
(August 23, 2012 at 4:07 pm)ThomM Wrote: If God made everything, including me, then he also made my mind and how I think

Why would he make me this way, why make me so I cannot believe?


Question - DID YOU HAVE parents?

I did

No matter how they seemed - neither of them were gods.
But they did provably MAKE me.
I can without doubt say I was NOT made by a god.

Invalid comparison. Parents would never demand your love on the threat that they would otherwise pour gasoline all over you and set you on fire.
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RE: Why did God make atheists?
August 23, 2012 at 6:51 pm
Question - DID YOU HAVE parents?

I did

No matter how they seemed - neither of them were gods.
But they did provably MAKE me.
I can without doubt say I was NOT made by a god.
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Invalid comparison. Parents would never demand your love on the threat that they would otherwise pour gasoline all over you and set you on fire.


THe actual comparison is that my parents really exist and made me
ANd gods do not exist and make nothing
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#36
RE: Why did God make atheists?
August 24, 2012 at 5:25 am
(February 29, 2012 at 12:16 pm)Chuff Wrote: If God made everything, including me, then he also made my mind and how I think

Why would he make me this way, why make me so I cannot believe?

And if the purpose of life is to get into heaven, but the price of entry is absolute fealty that I cannot give - Why not just make us all believers?

What divine purpose does it serve? I've heard he works in mysterious ways but it just seems a bit retarded to make something imperfectly and then punish it for its imperfection

What makes you think God made unbelievers? You have a choice- you choose your own path.
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RE: Why did God make atheists?
August 24, 2012 at 1:02 pm
(August 24, 2012 at 5:25 am)ManOnMoon Wrote:
(February 29, 2012 at 12:16 pm)Chuff Wrote: If God made everything, including me, then he also made my mind and how I think

Why would he make me this way, why make me so I cannot believe?

And if the purpose of life is to get into heaven, but the price of entry is absolute fealty that I cannot give - Why not just make us all believers?

What divine purpose does it serve? I've heard he works in mysterious ways but it just seems a bit retarded to make something imperfectly and then punish it for its imperfection

What makes you think God made unbelievers? You have a choice- you choose your own path.

Probably the widely held belief that a god created the world and everything in it gives him that idea.
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RE: Why did God make atheists?
August 24, 2012 at 1:37 pm
Heaven is a high-altitude operation and tends to get cold. God needed an eternal fuel source to keep heaven at just the right temperature, and souls are the only things that can burn forever without being consumed. Hence, us.
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#39
RE: Why did God make atheists?
August 24, 2012 at 3:14 pm
What makes you think God made unbelievers? You have a choice- you choose your own path.



Actually - that is the point -we do not believe that gods made ANYONE

WE can choose our own path BECAUSE there are no all knowing gods to make a requirement to do only what it already knew before we existed..
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RE: Why did God make atheists?
August 24, 2012 at 3:51 pm
Clearly some pagan trickster god created me just to spite the fucking christians.
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