How to tell a real freethinker

[EGross]

Despite the fact that everything we know about the universe around us points to the conclusion that space magic is impossible and that god has been remarkably silent since the invention of any kind of effective recording device, the burden of proof is on us?

It's on you for reasons given below. As for the silence of God, if the Christian God does exist, then he is a billion times smarter than you or I, and has no reason to talk to a race which ignored his commandments, killed his prophets, knocked off his son and who by the billions, prefer to worship men, like the Pope or Mao. I mean what rational God would bother? Would you stop compalining about him if he did speak to you? No. And he knows that. Which is why he mostly talks to praying grandmothers I assume.

If you take it from a point of fact, the holy books tell us that God loved being the center of attention. You pissed off a prophet, and he would open up the ground and swallow you and your followers whole. You questioned his word and a magic plague would show up, requiring magical intervention. You tried to kill his people and he turned your water into blood. You got lost, pillers of cloud or fire. You kill his son, zombies march on Jerusalem. The list goes on and on.

Ok, granted, nobody saw any of that, for real, but that's what those magic books tell us. And then some have the chutzpah to say "Well, he doesn't like to be the center of attention anymore". What, he got sullen? You say he got pissed off and won't talk anymore because some of his best friends got killed? What, is he bi-polar? You say he talks to grandmothers. What, are those old ladies hearing voices? Or, are they just imagining shit?

That's the problem with believing in those books - the stuff they talk about, well, God got whiney and left. Planes flying into buildings? God was eating popcorn and having the time of his life. After all, those were very religious people. Suicide bombing daily in the middle east, which used to be his home address. Why those are just silly comedies to him! Public blasphemies? Nah, not worth it.

In fact, He stopped being Mr. "Hey, look at what I can do" once people started evolving into rational thinkers.

Imaging that!