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Checkmate Atheists: you don't exist
February 3, 2015 at 1:20 pm
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Quote:You and I are here at Friendly Atheist for one reason only: because we secretly believe in God.
Deep down, we all know we hate the Almighty (who is totally real) so much that we deny his existence by attacking him.
Well, Keith Thompson is onto us. After he saw the viral video of Stephen Fry responding to a TV interviewer who asks what the comedian would say to God if the two were to meet, Thompson, who runs Reformed Apologetics Ministries in Canada, is convinced that there are no atheists. To prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt, he’s come up with a little video of his own.
http://youtu.be/TXpObHT7lCg
Here is a man who calls himself an atheist, and claims he does not believe God exists. Yet…he can’t help but rail against God with utter hatred, so much so that he shows that he believes God exists, and hates him!
A lesser man than Thompson would’ve said that Fry was just answering the interviewer’s hypothetical, but let’s admit it: the minister’s Spear of Heavenly Truth has pierced our Armor of Angry Denial. In other words, the jig is up, people.
While [Fry] speaks about moral issues such as suffering of children, he fails to recognize [that] in atheism, there is nothing wrong with that. All you have is some random, young, biological meatsack, who by chance appeared on this random planet called Earth, whose brain is interpreting sensations in a certain way, due to nerve pathways to the brain. Why is this wrong in atheism? You see, he’s assuming humans have value and dignity, that unnecessary pain is wrong, even though his worldview doesn’t justify this. Only Christianity does, by noting humans are created with value in God’s image, with dignity, and that unnecessary pain is wrong due to an objective moral standard.
So he borrows from the Christian worldview in order to attack it, because deep down he knows God, depends on him and can’t function in this world without doing so. …
Fry’s comments really serve as clear proof that people who claim to be unbelievers are in reality people with fallen natures, which caused them to hate their God — just as holy scripture says.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyath...ont-exist/
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RE: Checkmate Atheists: you don't exist
February 3, 2015 at 1:23 pm
I can rail against the actions of Lord Voldemort too, using the framework of the Harry Potter series to make my argument. Doesn't mean he's real either.
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RE: Checkmate Atheists: you don't exist
February 3, 2015 at 1:25 pm
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RE: Checkmate Atheists: you don't exist
February 3, 2015 at 1:29 pm
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For the record: yes. Now all you butthurt christians can go home. You're embarrassing yourselves.
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RE: Checkmate Atheists: you don't exist
February 3, 2015 at 1:34 pm
Of course I secretly (oops! that cat's out of the bag) believe in God! Just so I can hate him.
As a Tool of Satan (Satan's Tool - hmm, maybe a new band name), I have to believe in God to hate him!
For the record, I'm not very fond of Darth Vader either.
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RE: Checkmate Atheists: you don't exist
February 3, 2015 at 1:34 pm
Claudius is an incredible dick. But then again, so is Prince Hamlet. And yes, pointing out that these allegedly fictional characters have severe character flaws obligates me to believe that they really existed as Shakespeare presents them. While I'm at it, I have a bone or two to pick with Chicken Little.
Don't these apologists have anyone in their lives -- a spouse, a friend, someone -- willing to say, "Um, that's really stupid; don't write that."?
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RE: Checkmate Atheists: you don't exist
February 3, 2015 at 1:34 pm
Well...this will come as a surprise to the missus.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
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RE: Checkmate Atheists: you don't exist
February 3, 2015 at 1:51 pm
Keith Thompson is just saying that because he secretly believes there isn't a god, and he's angry that he can't force himself to believe in god. Rational thought is a product of atheism, and so he's forced to borrow from our worldview when he attempts to make a rational chain of thought, showing that he really knows that we're right, and is suppressing the truth in unrighteousness.
Actually, the english language and the internet also belong to atheists. I just decided that, right now; Thompson just can't stop stealing our concepts and things!
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RE: Checkmate Atheists: you don't exist
February 3, 2015 at 1:57 pm
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I like how even if you follow this utterly moronic way of thinking, this still doesn't work. "It's not possible he's just answering a hypothetical because I SAY SO!" "This one guy supposedly secretly believes in God, therefore all of them do!"
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RE: Checkmate Atheists: you don't exist
February 3, 2015 at 2:03 pm
If everyone believes in god, then it seems their work is done and they can all go home now, right?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
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