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RE: Worst Argument For Religion You Have Ever Heard?
August 4, 2010 at 4:39 pm
(August 4, 2010 at 3:52 pm)Thor Wrote: (July 25, 2010 at 11:56 pm)Skeptisma Wrote: My favorite nonsensical argument for god's existence would have to be Ray Comfort's banana argument. This, of course, was most hilarious to me because the modern banana was engineered by man - not god. "But it fits in my hand so well!" "Yeah, well it also fits in your butt."
Well, there you go! Obviously, "God" wants us to have deviant sex with pieces of fruit! Hmmmm.... Maybe that explains the cucumber and the zucchini....
When I first saw Ray and Kurt doing their banana video, I could only think "guys, get a room".
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RE: Worst Argument For Religion You Have Ever Heard?
August 5, 2010 at 12:23 am
Other classic ones I've heard include:
"Dinosaur bones? God put those here to test our faith!"
"Without religion, people would have no moral values"
"I can feel God's presence inside me"
"What about all the good that religion has done in the world?"
"Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot were atheists"
"The majority of people believe in God, so he must exist"
"God works in mysterious ways, everything happens according to his will" - Usually an excuse when their prayers are unsurprisingly not answered.
And from religious idiots who do not understand evolution:
"If evolution is true and we descended from apes. Why do monkeys keep breeding monkeys instead of human beings?"
Among other major stupidity.
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
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RE: Worst Argument For Religion You Have Ever Heard?
August 5, 2010 at 10:40 am
(August 5, 2010 at 12:23 am)DiRNiS Wrote: Other classic ones I've heard include:
"God works in mysterious ways"
I saw an episode of Penn and Teller's show "BULLSHIT!" that dealt with the Bible. At one point, Penn addressed this asinine argument by saying, "God works in mysterious, inefficient and breathtakingly cruel ways". I loved it and I always use that as a comeback when some ninny wants to tell me that "God works in mysterious ways".
Science flies us to the moon and stars. Religion flies us into buildings.
God allowed 200,000 people to die in an earthquake. So what makes you think he cares about YOUR problems?
