Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Apparently, or at least according to Hindu texts, God was busy using flying chariots and heat rays against soldiers in India, at the time, and just couldn't spare the forces to knock out the Philistines' iron chariots.
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
I'm more powerful than any deity because I can create a physical book. I don't require intermediaries to do so. In fact, I've yet to see a deity create something a human can create, besides naturally I causing things such as fire. The list of things oy deities are said to be able to do is shrinking ever more rapidly. Very soon humans will be creating entirely custom life forms.
I don’t lose my temper in front of a currency exchange kiosk at the airport.
"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
“I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's." - Mark Twain in Eruption
This is a list of things I can do that God cannot. They are individually based on information different people have given me about God, or on my own observations. It's supposed to be the same being, right?
Feel free to add your own
1) I can demonstrate that I exist.
2) I am easily recognised as being me.
3) Everyone sees me the same way.
4) I can reply to any question put to me, by different people, with the same answer.
5) I can stand in front of people.
6) I can be near people without them dying instantly.
7) I can have an immediate and unambiguous effect upon reality, on request.
8) I can lie.
9) I can do "evil".
10) I can forgive people without first killing another version of myself.
11) I can provide useful information to people that they didn't already know.
12) I have a physical form.
13) I can create things without getting angry and punishing them because I dislike the way I've made them.
14) I can die.
15) I can communicate with people directly and clearly.
16) I can instantly clear up any misunderstandings about my intentions or desires.
17) I can learn.
18) I can take responsibility for my actions.
19) I can have a meaningful relationship with an atheist.
20) I can clearly exist without causing people to lose their free will.
If I were God, this list would depress the shit out of me
![[Image: atheist_stereotypes_by_uchihakaito-d4yng2u.png]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=img01.deviantart.net%2F9be6%2Fi%2F2012%2F125%2Fb%2Fc%2Fatheist_stereotypes_by_uchihakaito-d4yng2u.png)
