How to be an Atheist:
1) Refute everything in the Bible because men wrote it.
[There are twenty more steps on the original page, you have been warned]
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It's not just it's written by men. It's that it's written by men with no verifiable credentials and has none of the supporting evidence that would make up for the lack of said credentials.
The men referred to in "Step 2" generally don't have that problem.
1 Refute everything in the Bible that has been proven historically or scientifically wrong.
2 Apply Occam's Razor rinse, lather, repeat.
How to be a fundie:
1) Believe everything in the Bible regardless of scientific evidence, logic, and common sense.
Actually, you missed the whole point. Most atheists don't give the bible enough credit to even care about proving it wrong. It is irrelevant. Atheists do not put enough importance on your book to waste time or energy proving it wrong to anyone.
They simply ignore it and live their lives.
Many have read it, in order to understand other perspectives - something educated people generally do. I read your bible. But, I also read a whole bunch of Harlequin Romance novels in my teen years. Neither has any relevance in my life just because I read them.
Look, it's Ray Comfort's blog! Look's useless comment!
Why does the latter always occur with the former?
Being an atheist is apparently a lot more complicated than I thought.
What is it with people who want Christianity to be the *easier* choice? Where exactly in the Bible does it say that it's supposed to be easy? How exactly would it be faith if it were the only possible choice?
1) Strawman
Your score is 3/3, or 100% Strawman! You WIN!
Your prizes include: Shame *and* disgrace, A box of shut the hell up, and, last but certainly not least, An authentic logical beatdown by your fans here on FSTDT. Enjoy!!!
How to be a fundamentalist
"11) Use words like “strawman,” ...."
Well, gosh, I can't imagine why anyone would.
18) Only pick on Christians you don’t want to get killed in a Jihad. However, be sure to say that there is no difference between Radical Muslims and Fundamentalist Christians.
Go to YouTube and look up patcondell, capnoawesome, desertphile, and kurtilein3. There are those and plenty of others who "pick on" Scientologists and Muslims.
21) Make the claim that you only have one life and don’t want to waste it on religion.
Damn right, skippy.
22) If your conscience begins to bother you because of moral guilt you can numb it with drugs, alcohol, sex, or pride. You can give up the first three but never give up your pride.
I got no guilt, no drugs, occasional beer, I ain't gettin' none, and pride is a virtue.
I refute the Bible because it's self-contradictory and the miracles listed therein are unrepeatable and largely nonscientific. Plus the stories of Jesus weren't even written down and recorded until after his death, and the disciple's too iirc.
Writings of men that are backed by real-world evidence rather than emotional appeals and argument ad populum.
I am fairly consistent.
im not coming here any more, i should be looking at something funny, this isnt funny, its just depressing.
i meet enough of these dumbasses in real life, thanks.
Yeah, those stupid atheists. Just because a book that claims to have been written by an all knowing perfect supernatural being turns out to actually have been written by a group of ancient goat herders who weren't even wise for their time, those stupid atheists somehow think that invalidates the entire book.
I also agree that it's stupid to use one set of writings of men to disprove another. I mean Stephen Hawking's classic, 'A brief history of time' may indirectly argue against the case I make in my own book, 'Liberals created time in order to turn our children gay so let's kill time and gay people.' but we're both men so clearly my book is just as good as his, if not a little better.
Well, in a sense he is right: you can't deny the writings of one person, and completely embrace the others without critical analysis, without being a hypocrite.
That being said, however, critical analysis has ruled in favor of evolution.
So his analysis of atheism FAILS .
@antichrist
Step one is hilarious.
@burningstake
His 'steps' completely ignores that the bible was written by ancient men who had little or no education, and the books people normally quote from are educated people who are very knowledgeable in their fields and have access to modern science. The only 'sense' in which he is right is the shallow strawman which he has presented.
How to be a moron :
1) Learn nothing about the world around you except how to bullshit your parents and teachers, until you're all grown up and still just full of shit
* It also helps to have a phony name, like ex-atheist, or ex-satanist, or ex-biochemist
Wrong, wrong, wrong! Here's how it really works.
1) Acknowledge that everything written was written by people
Thank you for playing
The issue to not that "it was written by humans, so it's wrong", it's that it was written by humans, so its claims to being the word of God are highly suspect. The other writings don't have this problem because they never claim to be divinely inspired.
The bible was written by ignorant goat herders who couldn't even count the legs on an insect. More modern writers have the benefit of understanding countless things that the bible's authors knew nothing about.
Would you look up a telephone number in a phone book from 1945? No? Well, it was also compiled by humans, so why not? Good luck getting through, however.
“How to be an Atheist:”
“1) Refute everything in the Bible because men wrote it.”
“2) Believe and quote other writings of men to prove that the Bible is wrong.”
“3) Completely ignore the inconsistency between steps 1 & 2."
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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