Stupid things religious people say

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Christians trying to figure out atheism

What these more earnest New Atheists didn’t understand is that New Atheism means sex, not atheism. The well-trod arguments against God’s existence were not the animating force of the movement; they couldn’t be, because the leaders of the movement barely understood and didn’t bother to articulate those arguments. The movement was about liberating oneself from the burden of moral responsibility. It was about giving permission to college students to sleep around as much as they wanted, without a guilty conscience, because God was an invented trick by parents, like Santa Claus, to keep us from being naughty.

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusiv...-christian

There you go. They figured out our weekly orgies sessions. And also college students didn't have sex before the dreaded New Atheism began.

But like I said before, uninformed theists (like the author of the article above) project into atheism what they themselves want to do but feel unable. Thus horny theists think that atheism is all about sex, angry theists think it's about murdering and "getting away with it", poor theists think atheism is about stealing stuff, etc.

I think a couple of callers on the Atheist Experience have said that. A few have said it to me via chat.
They have said that atheists secretly believe that the jewish god is real but since they want to sin, atheists claim that he doesn't exist.

My counter argument-nonsense-crapola was:
"I believe that you don't believe in the jewish god and that you want to continually commit crime and that you want to put on a facade that you are a good guy so that they release you from prison early."



In other news:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/indonesia-...-1.6675595

Indonesia's parliament passes law criminalizing sex outside marriage

Indonesia's parliament passed a long-awaited and controversial revision of its penal code on Tuesday that criminalizes extramarital sex for citizens and visiting foreigners alike.




Under the new code, the death penalty will be imposed alternatively with a probationary period. This means a judge cannot immediately impose a death sentence. If within a period of 10 years the convict behaves well, then the death penalty is changed to life imprisonment or 20 years' imprisonment.

The code also expands the existing Blasphemy Law and maintains a five-year prison term for deviations from the central tenets of Indonesia's six recognized religions: Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Confucianism. Citizens could face a 10-year sentence under the bill for associating with organizations that follow Marxist-Leninist ideology and a four-year sentence for spreading communism.