Comments on: I Think I’m Offended

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:10:41 +0000

This is the first time I’ve commented here, and I just wanted to say of course we can agree to disagree and be friends with theists, and I have done that, but putting “In Christ” on a blog called the “Friendly Atheist”, while well-meaning, would probably give you a harder time doing so than if you had just said “Sincerely” or something like that. Frankly, this mocking of atheist beliefs is inherently flawed not because they are going against their teachings and mockin others, not because “whatsoever” is spelled wrong, but because atheists don’t have a belief to mock – atheists, rational ones in any case, hold that we have no way to be positive how the universe started, how life started, how it grew, who or what made it grow, what if anything comes after death. Rather, atheism is a non-belief, simply stating that “Humans, in reality, don’t know the answers to the above questions, but religion claims to without providing sufficient evidence or consistent logic, so we choose to rejecct that approach until sufficient evidence and consistent logic are provided.”

By: LLL

LLL — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:36:08 +0000

Jayce, no Atheist believes that something came from nothing. Atheists, unlike Christians, understand that the true nature and existense of matter and energy are truly unknown and likely incomprehensible by our human minds. Putting in “God” as the answer is just lazy and stupid. Oh, and if the only typre of Atheist is a dumb one, then how is it that most of the world’s greatest scientists were Atheist? As for an “IQ in the freakign negatives”, studies show that higher intelligence is actually affiliated with a higher chance of Atheism. Japan is one of the most academically advanced countries in the world, and also least religious. America is the other way around. See the pattern?

By: Glenn Davey

Glenn Davey — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:49:45 +0000

*cough* STRAW MAN *cough*

By: Kori

Kori — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:52:12 +0000

Ew. And I have to wonder about the person who created that. They’re “Christian” (presumably) and are mocking, mocking and ridiculing… tsk tsk.

As for what it says: now that, dear world, is what one might call a “straw man”.

By: Justin Hale

Justin Hale — Mon, 05 May 2008 06:45:24 +0000

Atheism: lack of subscription to celestial despotism.

Makes perfect sense.

By: Marty

Marty — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:36:00 +0000

I have two thigs to say ablut this. Atheists don’t “believe” we think, and that scares the hell out of, or possibly into, Creationists. And secondly the fact that we think gives us the ability to change our minds when another thoery presents itself, an ability Christians refuse to give themselves.
And now to paraphrase George Carlin.
“Religion has convinced the world that there is an invisible man, that he lives in the clouds, and that he sees everything we so/say every second of every day. And that he has a book of 10 rules that we need to follow, and if we don’t follow these rules we will be sent to a place of sheer terror, pain and suffering, where you will scream and die every day for all eternity, there will be pain and suffering, death and decay, He will punish you again and again for everything you have ever done against his book of rules………but he loves you.”
George rocks

By: TuxPad

TuxPad — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:31:57 +0000

Long live Darwinism and Pastafarianism.
Noodles.
I mean – Toodles.
RAmen

By: Steph

Steph — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:30:54 +0000

I can’t say I find that statement insulting. I find it hilariously stupid.

Who ever wrote that has NO clue what the meaning of Atheism if they talk about magic while describing it.

I get a funny mental picture of some dude patting himself on the back for being “smart” because he came up with that while his fellow idiots giggle at his “wit”. lol

By: One-lamb-of God

One-lamb-of God — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:37:01 +0000

I see it’s just to get a rise out of others and also poor character. But in the meantime we all can initiate friendships alone the way. How about it?

In Christ,
Connie

By: Ricky Barnes

Ricky Barnes — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:26:37 +0000

Having read some of the other comments, let me say this also – I submit that criticism and efforts against many organized religions is, in fact, showing the greatest respect for those human beings caught up in their dysfunctional thinking. I for one would love to see these individuals freed from such irrational burdens. As the mentally ill need assistance from those who are caring, those burdened with the errors of supernaturalistic beliefs require those who are able to think rationally and reasonably to have enough compassion to assist them to a more genuine life. Theist objections to treatment are to be expected just as with the mentally ill. Those who can and are willing to assist these people are not deterred by the belligerence of the patient.