They look like short stories but who cares. They’re awesome.
“I won’t be screaming in the fires of hell, because hell does not exist. Magma exists in the core of the planet, not horned demons with pitchforks, fangs and lizard tails. Religion was something that was invented thousands of years ago to control the ignorant masses, something it still does today. However, with the advent of free thinking and existentialism, there is no excuse for people to turn to “faith” unless they are merely looking for an excuse to justify their own existence.”
“As to what happens when we die, I can only speculate while believers in religion offer certitude. However, if I was forced to speculate I would say that death would go something like this: Your mind resolves to the fact that this is the end; you begin to feel a euphoric, bliss-like state as your body goes into shock; your cognizant thought processes begin to fail; your internal organs begin to to slow; your bowels release; vision fades to black and you cease to exist. I can’t imagine that the harps and angels would begin to rejoice or the goblins would turn up the furnace in my cell at this point. All existence ends for this organism. Just like it would for a dog, just like it would for a spider, just like it would for any organism with a developed brain. If I had to speculate of course…”
“You are exasperating. There is no such thing as hell. Hell is a fairy tale that was dreamt up by the people who wanted to control the behavior of the populace. I’ll bet as you are dying that you’ll wish you lived a more full and rewarding life instead of waking up early on Sunday to drink blessed, Franzia box wine, eat cardboard and pretend in your charade that you are eating the body and drinking the blood of a two thousand year old man who may or may not have actually existed. I’m sure you are positive that Jesus existed, too, right? There has never been any substantiation of the existence of the man you call Jesus Christ“
“Maybe if they took a break from reciting nonsense stories from the bible at Blessed Robert Sutton Catholic College and cracked a basic grammar book, you would know that the word “our” is a pronoun that denotes possession to a group of people. Not sure how you infer “our” means that something belongs to one person. If God made man in his own image, he must not be very bright or rational judging from what you have shown us. Oh, wait. There is no God. Not unless you believe in creating a person out of clay and a rib, burning bushes that talk, vast bodies of water parting, virgins having babies or the world being only a few thousand years old. Enjoy your $60,000 worth of debt in student loans from a worthless school. But, hey, maybe if you pray really hard, God will wipe the record clean.”
“I don’t want your prayers. Don’t waste your time. It is funny that you would search the bible to find those facts. What’s funnier is that the Vatican’s own scientists have said there is no place for science in religion; that religion is for belief in a higher being, not for rationalizing science. It is their belief that there are two different historical periods: biblical times and modern science. They want the followers of the church to not try to mix the two. And, these scientists have said that they themselves do not believe in the historical teachings of the bible. So, if you think you know better than the Vatican’s scientists then your opinion is discounted.
Secondly, don’t you bible-beaters realize that the reason that people who don’t believe in god don’t want you to “bless us?” It is part of the reason that I am so hostile to you believers of fantasy. When you consistently foist your beliefs onto those who have zero interest in listening, you come off as arrogant, obnoxious and rude. It offends me to listen to people bless those who did not solicit such invocations. So, you take take your god, your blessings and your bible and shove them all. Have a pragmatically thoughtful day!”
“I am sick and tired of people who are religious or “devoutly religious” (arguing semantics) tossing their religion in my face and I am supposed to just take it and say nothing. So, when I give my beliefs back to them with the same level of force I think it is ironic that they get upset. So, to recap: religious people want to harp on all day about how great god is, how holy and blessed they are for following the lord and how I should do the same, however, the simple retort of “there is no god” sparks a giant argument and I get bashed. They are supposed to be the humble ones, no? I never said I was better than them; I was trying to illustrate the point that as offensive as it is to them what I say about their god, it is just as offensive to me when they ram god down my throat.”
“First, all religion is dangerous because it allows man to think that he has all the answers when he does not. There has never been a more homophobic, misogynist, racist, and intolerant group on this planet than those who unabashedly call themselves religious. I also think it is ironic that you say that god wants you to love your enemies, yet you denounce the homosexual community. Your statements are offensive and ignorant. Why would you get the idea that they are all “miserable?” I don’t think homosexuals are looking for your acceptance of their choice. They want you accept diversity. You suggest sending all the gay people to a special city where they can live out their days out of your sight. That was tried a few times throughout history. Sensible people would be reminded of the Spanish Inquisition, North American Slavery and the Holocaust. But, I guess, you being a christian, you think those are all high points in history. Certainly you can’t consider a stranger your enemy, so why not just love them like your god tells you to?
Thirdly, there is no such thing as “sin.” There is just what you do and what you don’t do. “Sin” is a concept made up by the church to control the ignorant masses (something it still does today) by frightening people into thinking that if they accrued too many “sins” on their ledger, they would spend eternity burning with demons. Come on. You’ve got to know that’s bullshit. You seem like a smart enough individual to know that there is no such thing as hell. Obviously, we have acts that are mala in se (morally wrong or evil in itself) such as murder, rape, etc. However, you are talking about mala prohibitum acts (prohibited wrongs). The only reason you think the things you speak of are wrong is because the church tells you to think that. You’ve got to more of a free thinker than that.
Lastly, I don’t think any anti-religious people are picking and choosing faiths. It is a blanket rejection of all “gods” and all religions. I mean, there are many religions and they all claim different gods, paths, faiths and teachings, yet they all claim to be right. Clearly, somebody is making something up. The thing that gets me is that they all preach certainty. Aren’t you people supposed to be humble? To reply to someone: “I just want to let you know where you erred in your statements” sound like the words of a prideful, arrogant, holier-than-thou asshole. It is people like yourself, who take credibility away from religion. Why would I ever want to associate myself with a closed minded dogmatist like yourself? Bottom line is religious people insist on shoving their religion in everyone’s face and people have had enough. It is about time that the anti-religionists up step and be heard and for the pseudo-followers take stock of themselves and make an informed decision.”
“1) Beliefs and worship- People’s beliefs and opinions concerning the existence, nature, and worship of a deity or deities, and divine involvement in the universe and human life.
2) System-an institutionalized or personal system of beliefs and practices relating to the divine.
3) Personal beliefs and values-a set of strongly-held beliefs, values, and attitudes that somebody lives by.”Beliefs and opinions are not facts. And, anything that is institutionalized in this world should be questioned, not taken as fact. Conventional wisdom is one of the most dangerous things on this planet because it allows people to NOT THINK!!!”
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The one thing I think Atheist miss in the judgment of those who postulate there is a creator or God, is that this is not an unscientific theory. Certainly it is no more unscientific than evolution or believing there isn’t a Creator or God at all.
There are many Mathematicians from MIT to Stamford to NASA, that have a hard hard time with evolution and Atheism because there is no way for them to swallow that our world, galaxy and galaxy’s we see, just coincidentally came to together and there wasn’t a designer behind the insanely complex make up. Especially when there is evidence to contrary.
For them, it would be impossible and improbably that all these parts throughout our galaxies could operate with such fluidity and by coincidence.
What are the odds we would be just the right distance from the sun that we don’t burn up or freeze to death. What are the odds of things coincidentally coming together and we evolved over millions of years into humans and everything else. Evolutionist are constantly having to add another million years to explain huge vast of time it would take to evolve from single cell organisms, which had to be created by something that something was created by something. So it’s a bit hard to swallow evolution or atheism by many educated scientist and intellectuals because things are just not adding up. Huge debate ensuing because evolutionist now believe it would take many more millions of years for the earth to be older for evolution to occur than the millions of years the theory is postulating now. The earth’s age and previous evidence is just not supporting the new theories. Carbon Dating can only date up 50,000 years at best. It’s impossible for us to have evolved in 50,000 years from bacteria to humans in that time. So they began adding millions of years by postulating from rock sediment that earth could be millions of years old. It’s scientific opinion based on observations which are far from conclusive. Which means it takes faith to believe in the accuracy of such a theory.
As to quoting the Vatican to use as the spokesman for intellect design, that’s extremely unfair. That’s like be quoting a proverb from buddha to explain all athiesm.
The Vatican may say one thing. And that’s fine but the Vatican doesn’t speak for the entire world of people who believe in a creator and intellectual design. I think it’s unfortunate they believe the body of Christ can be consumed literally today. I am sure there are different secs of Atheist that believe certain things that other atheist don’t believe. So if you want to start pulling apart secs of ashiest and secs of intellectual designers, it’s going to be mood point that goes again the real discussion here.
Cruxed of the matter is, how crazy is it to believe there is a creator and intellectual designer and how crazy is it to believe there is not. That’s what the greater argument isn’t it?
Chasing rabbits for burning bushes and whether you are an atheist who believes in evolution or an atheist who doesn’t believe in evolution and is a Buddhist, is fine to debate if you want. But the observation that one person makes that there is a creator and the observation that another person makes that there isn’t are two observations and come from two intellectual camps.
It’s no longer a religious thing to believe in intellectual design. It would be as crazy as me saying that atheism was a religion.
I have a hard time looking at the evidence and concluding that this world was not created. As a medical doctor I know many aspects of the human body. It’s insanely complex and it baffles me how someone who studied it could believe it just happened and think someone who observes such a wonder is religious for believing there is an intellect behind its creation.
You have messenger RNA, DNA and so many parts to a cell alone, that make the inside of cell hugely complex. It’s like someone who builds a pocket watch, you know the mechanism had to be finally tuned but watchmaker. Even if you never met the watch maker or had never seen a pocket watch.
The difference here is a pocket watch compares nothing to a human cell and its complexity. It would be like comparing a mechanical pencil to the the most complex computer of our day if you were to compare a pocket watch with a human cell.
Such a complex movement that has to occur for cells to transport and deliver information flawlessly and transcribe. It’s insane how robotic and systematically all the operations have to perform. That’s a microscopic human cell.
If you want to believe that just happened or maybe you want to believe evolution over gazillions and millions of years could randomly come up with that. Hey that’s kewl!
But don’t think that someone that believes in an intellectual designer behind all this that we see in this life is a religious nut.
You know it’s kind of like several people walking in a building. You walk in look around and walk out. Someone walks out saying wow I just think this building evolved into this. Someone else says no it didn’t evolve it just happened, there was no creator. Someone else walks out and says no it was designed but something intellectual. No way it just happened.
The latter of the three comments is how a intellectual design theorist deducts. It’s hard for us to see the huge amount scientific evidence and say it just happened or evolved. To intellectual people who believe an intellect that designed this world and everything in it and out of it, it’s as absurd to us as if someone said the pentagon just erected or evolved and there wasn’t intellect design behind it.
If you want to write people off as being religious because they believe that, it’s a free country.
But certainly the view point is a pretty educated observation and supported by math, physics and science itself.
I am not trying to say that your interpretation of such evidence is not warranted to conclude atheistic conclusions. Everyone can believe what they want, but certainly don’t pass those who believe in intellectual design as not scientific or stretching to some fairy tale imagination that’s filled with talking bushes and virgin births. There is more to it than that if you start reading the science, math and physics behind our world. An extremely strong argument can be made that in intellectual designer left a pretty clear thumb print tracing back to HIM.
I understand the religions do ensue from the idea of this. Obviously, I think people who see the huge wonder of our existence and everything around us would consider our creator to easily be able to pull off a talking bush and virgin birth.
That’s peanuts compared to the hundreds and thousands or more of galaxy’s that were created. So yeah, that might sound goofy to an atheist but if intellectual creation is correct, it’s not like the probability of those things happening would be any more way out there than the amazement that comes when we think about insignificant we are in an insanely spanse of space.
None of us were there in the beginning.
But the writing are there from Egypt to Rome. You certainly can’t discount the information and consider that along with the scientific evidence we do observe today.
The most recent discoveries in the last several years are remnants of chariots on the base of the Red Sea along with human remains. Obviously, this newest find is going to take years of exploration. God knows, if the parting did happen and two walls of water came back down from hundreds of feet in the air on a large army stretching for a mile as the dead sea scrolls and other ancient writings say, pieces of gold and chariot wheels will be all over the place and that shouldn’t be a shock. They have found some great pieces already a half a mile down and are still exploring the red sea.
Who knows, but the point is there are varies levels of people who see great evidence for intellectual design and others intellectual design believers who see an origin and reason for why we are here backed up with archeological finds which are no less evidence by any stretch than the evolutionist theories.
Evolution is not the easiest thing to swallow as I eluded to already.
I mean it’s a stretch of faith to believe we just evolved all equally. We should see evidence all around us of different stages of evolution still going on. There should be humans less evolved and more evolved. Did every nation and sect of our world just evolve at one time and graduate from each stage at one time.
If you are an Athiest than I guess you believe in no intellectual design and pick and choose certain scientific observations. Many atheist subscribe to being Buddhist. But I don’t consider being an Atheist a religion anymore than I consider an intellectual design a religion or evolution a religion.
It would be wrong to subscribe such an ideal of intellectual design as something fanatic or pawn it off as a religious belief.
Certainly it stands on it’s own in the scientific world and should be equally considered as much as evolution and atheism and not written off. Unfortunately evolutionist and atheist seem postulate a one dimensional viewpoint of intellectual design as being only religious. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Here go yet another stupid soul who think typing up biographies and life stories is going to solve anything. Put A CORK IN IT!
Hardly, I am just responding to your misguided lengthy diatribe and misconception for those who believe in intellectual creation. I am hoping if you get your facts right, you might be able to speak intellectually on the topic instead of spewing out attacks. What are you mad at! Or are you just not as secure in your conviction on the matter? Either way, you may want to do more than just spout out hate.. Kinda takes away any reputation you may be trying to establish on the topic.
Please save your babble for someone who cares…
I found asilee.com very informative. The article is professionally written and I feel like the author knows the subject very well. asilee.com keep it that way.
God doesn’t believe in atheist.
Yea, you would know huh?
God is real and i believe in him im sorry that u dont, ive never said anything hurtful to an atheist, so y would u talk about christians for their beliefs. GOD IS REAL!!!!!
To sit there and say that to me like you’re sure is rude and arrogant and you shouldn’t comment at all. You did say something insulting though, you really think Atheists care what Christians think is real? Get over yourself and get over yourself FAST!
Um sweetie, no one cares as far as Atheists are concerned what Christians think is real. You can put all the exclamations behind that statement all you want but if you were so sure you wouldn’t care what others think but you aren’t sure so now you’re kidding yourself on an Atheists blog. If you aren’t an Atheist you shouldn’t even be commenting to this blog post…you fail. Your illogical assumptions is insulting, arrogant and yes mean!
Man, I couldn’t of said it better…
ALSO! Asilee isn’t talking about Christians, as you fail to read there are quotes and know one don’t care what you did or didn’t say to an Atheist its not like she was talking to you! You’re imbecile…like Lee said GET OVER YOURSELF!
I couldn’t of said it better myself.
I’m so sick of Christians coming on this blog with this holier than thou attitude like they truly no more than the scientists. Its starting to look disgusting on their part. Yes there are Atheists out there that push Atheism in Christians faces but I bet there are MORE Christians shoving their imaginary friend down are throats than there are Atheists shoving science down theirs.
re: drink blessed, Franzia box wine, eat cardboard and pretend in your charade that you are eating the body and drinking the blood of a two thousand year old man who may or may not have actually existed. I’m sure you are positive that Jesus existed, too, right? There has never been any substantiation of the existence of the man you call Jesus Christ“
Dr. Luke would beg to differ with you on that fine point:
22:19 Then 48 he took bread, and after giving thanks he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body 49 which is given for you. 50 Do this in remembrance of me.” 22:20 And in the same way he took 51 the cup after they had eaten, 52 saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant 53 in my blood.
The point of the ceremony for Christians is to remember that Jesus died on the cross for them. It was almost 2000 years ago and we even have the calendar to remember the event A.D. or Anno Domini meaning “in the year of our Lord” as in 2009 A.D.
Now you could also argue about whether other historical events happened such as July 4, 1776 and the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Coincidently there were a lot of Roman Emperors just before the time of Christ and shortly after he was crucified who commemorated themselves by getting marble statues carved in their likeness. On the other hand the commemoration of Jesus Christ is with “bread and wine” and this is something Jesus started the day before he was crucified on a cross and is practiced regularly by Christians to this day.
re: Thirdly, there is no such thing as “sin.”
The apostle Paul wrote that “all have sin and have fallen short of the glory of God.”.
Sin is the crux of the matter … that’s why God sent his one and only Son to take the penalty for my sin … or as Jesus said
3:16 For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. 3:17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him. 3
Please save it, nothing is more annoying than a Christian speaking to an Atheist about stuff Atheists could care less about.