Atheist Manifesto
"Of course, people of faith regularly assure one another that God is not responsible for human suffering. But how else can we understand the claim that God is both omniscient and omnipotent? There is no other way, and it is time for sane human beings to own up to this. This is the age-old problem of theodicy, of course, and we should consider it solved. If God exists, either he can do nothing to stop the most egregious calamities or he does not care to. God, therefore, is either impotent or evil. Pious readers will now execute the following pirouette: God cannot be judged by merely human standards of morality. But, of course, human standards of morality are precisely what the faithful use to establish God’s goodness in the first place. And any God who could concern himself with something as trivial as gay marriage, or the name by which he is addressed in prayer, is not as inscrutable as all that. If he exists, the God of Abraham is not merely unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man." (truthdig)
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as fucked up as this world is, imagine how bad everything would be if God Didn't care...
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Allow me to present a devil's advocate point of view. According to Christian apologetics, you can't claim both of the following:
1) You don't believe in God, nor the archaic teachings of the
Bible and hence refuse to live your life accordance with it
2) Whenever there is a problem, this "God" (that you don't believe in) is supposed to be a bell boy to fix all the problems that you have created in the first place by refusing to live in accordance with the guidelines initially laid out.
People who make these arguments are the same ones who whine about the whole heaven vs. hell. They don't realize that in Christian doctrine, hell is nothing but a "separation from God." So hence if they don't really care about following God in this life, why should they care about being separated from him in the next (if they even believe in that of course). The same should be said about Islam... besides why do athiests not whine about not being able to enter the Muslim heaven? Think it through, people! Girlie men.
Agnostics, while lacking a backbone, makes much more sense!
And there's always the Church of Repent on your Death bed.
Suckers.
Yet, one could say that God gave humanity free will. The Deist would say that God had given man free will and allowed him to choose what path to take. Take the Left Hand and follow the path of the Satanists who believe that true godliness is found from within oneself. Take the Right Hand and follow the devout, manifesting true God in an external source, and spend your life in piety. Calamaties would not be directly caused by God, but by the result of a system He created at the birth of the universe.
Lastly, it could be argued that (and this is taking the true leap of faith) God's decree of the moral tenets of humanity was physically given to man. These codes also say nothing of what, outside of man's control, could be done to him. Thus, holding human morality to God's will cannot be true, as those morals were meant for humanity only.
Bah, not that it matters anyways, it's all academic. And frankly, as an atheist, I would rather have a beer.
I'm decommissioning that tie.
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I could tell Bruni had been drinkin.
I tend to side with the Athiest population, but there's little to argue with when someone simply points to Faith as the root of religion. I say at that point you share a beer and a shot of Red Label and start the night early.
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