STOP. Did you hear yourself? You just said "I don't believe in any gods..."
YOU ARE AN ATHEIST.
Don't get all excited. So what if you think you cannot prove it, or you don't know it? Fine. BE an agnostic.
BUT YOU'RE STILL AN ATHEIST.
How many times do I have to say this? Look inside yourself, for want of a better phrase. Is there a belief in God there? Yes? Then you're a theist. No? Can't find any? Then you're an atheist. Don't tell me you don't know if you believe or not. Your beliefs are not hidden inside, lurking behing some grey tissue.
For fuck's sakes, answer the question! Do you believe or not? NO no no buh buh buh buh.....I didn't ask you to tell me anything about proof or knowledge or chances or any of that. I ASKED you if you BELIEVE. You don't believe, you are an atheist. Simple.
Atheism is about BELIEF. Agnosticism is about knowledge. A person isn't "an" agnostic. A person is agnostic towards something, would be a better way of putting it.
Do you believe or not? Honestly, if only the word "agnostic" had never been coined. If Huxley saw the uses of his terms today, he'd be "rolling over in his grave."
I don't believe that either.
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Three of the slipperiest words in the English language: could, should, and deserve. There "could" be a god... and pigs "could" be waaay smarter than humans and just extremely lazy and suicidal... and "if Huxley could see..." then presumably he could roll over too! :-)
You always have the coolest pictures for your blog entries!
Roger Lordblessed:
Whoever sayeth thou fool is in danger of hellfire.
Ever read that Bible verse? Fool.
Necklace Lady,
See, that wasn`t my point. You can be both. As I said, atheism is about belief, agnosticism is about knowledge. You can say "Ì don`t KNOW that God doesn`t exist, but I don`t BELIEVE in it."
Personally, if the agnostic is right, and one CAN'T know, then there is no reason to believe. Atheist.
Mr. Lordblessed,
Whoever wrote the verse thinks I am a fool. Have you not noticed from my blog that I am an atheist? Where in your head tells you that I would find anything written by an evangelist in scripture important? I repeat: I am an atheist. The bible also says will suffer forever with worms in my stomach. Why did you not write that verse?
The fool hath said: "there is a big man in the sky that watches over us and has a big list of ten things we must not do, and if we do, then we will go to a scary place with fire and demons, especially if we have sex wrong. and this big man made a man out of clay and a Perfect Place where there are magic trees and temping serpants and he had to kill everything he made because he screwed it up."
There's your fool, Mr. Lordblessed. The one that can't make a man worth a damn.
Roger,
You are really a wacky guy! I`ll give you that.
If I pray real real hard, (guess those 12 years I did that weren't good enough) God will reveal himself, and then Jesus will come back with a sword in his mouth, and will press all the bad guys with this giant wine press while these scorpions with lion heads and women's hair play catch with an asteroid that poisons the water supply.
"And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth." Guess that's not "biblical" enough.
As I say in my next post, it's much better to be an atheist. I think other people should be atheists as well. If I didn't, I wouldn't have The HEllbound Alleee Program, would I?
Didja ever notice how often people project their own deficiencies onto other people?
fool n.
1. One who is deficient in judgment, sense, or understanding.
Like someone who believes in talking snakes and immaculate conception and an invisible overlord who creates all the rules of physics and then runs around breaking them
2. One who acts unwisely on a given occasion: I was a fool to have quit my job.
Or: I was a fool to give all that money to Pat Robertson
3. One who has been tricked or made to appear ridiculous; a dupe: They made a fool of me by pretending I had won.
Or: They made a fool of me by pretending to have a rational world view to give me
One who subverts convention or orthodoxy or varies from social conformity in order to reveal spiritual or moral truth: a holy fool.
That would be a definition that, ironically, would apply to an atheist
A dessert made of stewed or puréed fruit mixed with cream or custard and served cold.
That would be a definition of something with more substance than the invisible big alpha-daddy in the sky
Archaic. A mentally deficient person; an idiot.
As in one who prefers the world-view of ignorant, barely-civilized desert-dwellers to the entire body of scientific knowledge gained since.
If I am wrong, may I be struck by lightning, because "everyone knows" that lightning comes from God's giant bicycle generator!
I am a fool. A fool for love.
Hello Hashishan Prophet`s sockpuppet:
I find it very sad when people are not atheists. It breaks my heart when people`s minds are destroyed, and fight against reality.
I am not interested in you or your personalities anymore, Hashishan. I`m sorry for you, but please don`t bother posting here anymore.
She really got me again.
Here's what happens: every time I delete one of her posts, she comes back as a different personality. It's just that I'm really, really, bored with it. I wouldn't mind a real believer, but I just have no interest in this nonsense. No more Hashishan, no more Hashishan sockpuppets.
Roger Lordblessed is NOT A CHRISTIAN! **sirens and red flashing lights**
He just dismissed the entire new testament as a fraud! That makes him a Jew I think, or maybe a TedJesusChristGod as Alleee alluded to.
Wow. These nutjobs are totally crazy. Why is rationalism so elusive to so many humans? I think I sometimes give my species too much credit. Sigh...
Ok, this is Really weird, and I am NOT implying that it is anything but a bizarre coincidence, but I have to share this. The same day I make a joke about "May I be struck by lightning, and lightning coming from God's bicycle generator, my next-door neighbor's house gets struck by lightning and it starts an electrical fire in the basement. My house and his started out with the same floor plan, but he has added on. You don't suppose that the all-powerful, and all-knowing you-know-who got the wrong address? :-) I swear I'm not making this up!
Why is it that all these righteous folks never learned the meaning of BREVITY.
Anyway, more on point, I can not tell you how many people I meet that are "not religous" and yet they don't want to call themselves "Atheist". They just don't want a label. It's extremely basic: If you cannot say you believe in a god then you are Atheist - sorry, in this world you are always something to somebody. Unfortunately, by avoiding the issue most people seem to assume you are a believer - at least they do in Jezusland.
Also, I'm really tired of hearing "the fool and hith heart" cliche'- so you know what? Go fuck yourself.!
A comment on breakerslion and lightening. As an electrical engineer and former lightening researcher I am totally shocked that God made a mistake an picked out your neighbor instead! Bless you.
Homes get struck by lightening all the time, usually resulting in little to no damage if the electrical grounding system is intact and in good working order. Poor workmanship, corrosion, or careless remodeling can damage the ground in your home and it fails to direct the hit into the ground. Much of the energy is directed into the dwelling destroying appliances, causing fires and injuring people.
Praying has absolutely no effect of course, but having a beer instead may give one more enjoyment.
Rev,
Thanks for the info. I will check the condition of my grounding rod. I think you nailed the cause of my neighbor's misfortune with "careless remodeling". His addition is right where the chimney ground used to be and includes a full cellar.
You also nailed it with the beer comment. I had a cold 12-pack of Becks in the trunk when I rounded the corner to see 5 fire trucks parked on my lawn. Duh, you must be psychic! ;-)
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