Comments on: Friendly Atheist Contest #15: What Would It Take to Change Your Mind?

By: Friendly Atheist » Friendly Atheist Contest #16: Tell Us About Your New Religion

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:00:20 +0000

[...] week, I ran this contest: What would have to happen for you to start believing in a [...]

By: JimboB

JimboB — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:44:16 +0000

1. [Assuming Young Earth Creationism (YEC)] Darwin himself rises from the grave, announces he was wrong.
2. Bibles everywhere suddenly becomes uniform & unchangeable. Their message must be clear, concise, and so precise that there is no room for debate about the meaning of even the smallest passages.
3. God *directly* reveals himself to everyone, everywhere so that even if people don’t accept him for whatever reason, they wouldn’t be able to deny that he exists.
4. Miracles for which there is no scientific explanation occur to people who accept God’s existence (e.g. people regenerating limbs, etc.).
5. God pardons Satan, his minions, and every sinner once and for all… simply put: good triumphs over evil.

By: Darwin's Dagger

Darwin's Dagger — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:28:38 +0000

Amy Winehouse goes to rehab. No, wait, scratch that.

By: Bill M

Bill M — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:21:38 +0000

Being locked in a room with Tom Cruise. I’d believe anything to get out of that room.

“Yes, you are the greatest actor in the world.”
“Oh yes, you did impregnated Katie”.
“Invisible spirits are attached to me, sure thing. Can I get out now?”
“Sure, an evil galactic dictator is trapped in a volcano with atomic bombs instead of nuclear warheads or something more advanced than the technology available at the time L. Ron wrote that book, rite on. You do have the key?”
“For the love of Xenu somebody open the door!!!”

By: miller

miller — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:59:27 +0000

Obviously, all I need is to do is read some all-caps Bible verses on the internet. (This is, by the way, why I ignore such comments. )

By: Philosopher Jeff

Philosopher Jeff — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:58:38 +0000

By: anti-nonsense

anti-nonsense — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:57:39 +0000

I could never believe in an completely omnipotent, omninescent, omnibenevolent God like the Chirstian god.

But if every cancer patient, AIDS patient and amputee were to wake up healed tomorrow morning and the words “Love God” were to appear on their bedposts/wheelchairs whatever in glowing red letters that everybody regardless of language or actual literacy could understand, and my mother’s ashes were to reconstitute themselves into my living mother AND Fred Phelps, Dinesh D’Souza, and all the other loudmouth religious fuckwits suffered a change of heart for being fuckwits simultaneously AND Osama bin Laden appeared in a room from nowhere on international television and promptly apologized for murdering innocent people, then I might believe in some kind of higher being that was worthy of being worshiped. .

By: Philosopher Jeff

Philosopher Jeff — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:56:55 +0000

Tabloids across the nation announce “Jennifer Anniston marries Philosopher Jeff”

By: Rovakur

Rovakur — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:41:22 +0000

I simply cannot employ humor or creativity with this, only logic and reason. Nothing could ever lead me to believe in an almighty deity. Anything and everything I witness in my lifetime can be explained by physics. If I literally meet my "maker" after death, I could acknowledge only that it is a creature superior to humanity. Even if he touches me with his noodly appendage.

By: King Aardvark

King Aardvark — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:52:04 +0000

Dammit, I was going to make a juvenile Adriana Lima comment, but Paineroo beat me to it.