Introduction

[The Theist]

I didn't call you a bloody liar. In fact I was giving you the benefit of the doubt. Just so you know, we do get plenty of theists on here pretending to be atheist then convert in an instant, as it turns out they were theists all along. Some state they were long time atheists and state that 'they had woken up and saw the light' and that it turns out they were lying about being a long time atheist.

So of course I'm going to have some doubts. Don't go throwing a bloody strop over it, sheesh. Aren't I allowed to question?

I appreciate your question, and have answered it. To be honest I don't put much importance on terms such as atheist and theist. The Theist is the title of a story I'm working on, which Brain.37 referred inaccurately to.

Its the story of a formerly atheist human turned android who, in a futuristic state of technological and scientific utopia, has no choice but to evaluate theism.

Its going to get me banned from this forum shortly though.

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Oh and The Theist claims to be writing a si fi novel about how atheists are evil. Thus his robot avatar.

Oh, is that what it's meant to represent? I thought it was Douglas Adams' Electric Monk, "a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.

Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they'd have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City."

A belated hello, non-felonious monk!

I really liked this post. Best Douglas Adams reference I've heard in - well, forever.