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Religious claims that get under your skin
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"God wouldn't say that."
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
"God exists in way that is impossible to verify so don't look, really it does"
"Finally I am thetan free" You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid. Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
Me: How do you know that your god exists?
Belieber: The bible/kerrang/Harry Potter says... Me: zzzzzzzzzzz
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
I love it when we ask for proof of something, and they just whip out their book of myths, as though that somehow would convince us of anything.
"You can't have morals without God"
"Atheists believe there is a God deep down" "We can't have come from monkeys, monkeys still exist" "It's Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve!" They don't even listen to what you have to say in response. Gah! The bugle sounds as the charge begins
But on this battlefield no one wins - Iron Maiden, The Trooper
Asking for evidence of "God" is a strawman.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
I bet you didn't think of that, did you
'Those who ask a lot of questions may seem stupid, but those who don't ask questions stay stupid'
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
"asking for evidence is a strawman"
For me it's not necessarily any specific argument per se, but rather the apparent desperation to believe that so many theists I've met, particularly on this site, wear on their sleeves, sometimes almost like a badge of honour. That's not a proof of God's non-existence any more than ad populum... many people believe it therefore it's true... is a proof for it's existence, but nonetheless, call it 'ad populum desperatum' makes it very very hard to take it seriously when so many theists seemingly display a complete lack of self-awareness, willful or otherwise, when it comes to how psychology may be affecting their beliefs and all the mental double standards they're applying and hoops they are jumping through in order to protect, maintain, and argue their beliefs.
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