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Jimmie and the Atheist
Jimmie, caught in his burning home, is saved by an atheist at the risk of his own life. Jimmie, in turn, is used to bring his benefactor to the Lord Jesus Christ. Good salvation message.
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If it had been the atheist who was trapped in the burning house, I bet little Jimmie wouldn't have bothered rushing to the rescue ... because every good fundie knows that atheists are just going to burn in heckfire, anyway.
No, I think it does qualify as at least medium-rare fundy. The implication is that God used the atheist to save Jimmie so that Jimmie, in turn, could be used to save the atheist. It couldn't be interpreted otherwise - because clearly, if the atheist hadn't been there, God would've just let Jimmie burn to death.
I agree with David D.G.. It's insulting. The atheist risks his life to save Jimmie from the very real, life-threatening flames. In turn, Jimmie spreads his delusion, convincing the atheist that he needs to be saved from the fictional torment of Hell. Uggh!
I don't really think this is fundie. A little insulting, maybe, but it isn't portraying atheists as being evil, heartless, amoral monsters.
OK, so scene 1: We have 'Jimmie' praying to God to be saved.It's my shrine to Jesus Christ our lamb of God almighty Lord and saviour, holy shepherd who's blood washes us free of our vile filthy sins for we are all evil sinners and the fall was our punsihment for evil and we must atone before the end of days and the rapture and the new world order and magog and... " [Passes out from not taking a breath]
Atheist: Puts him in the recovery position and waits for him to come to!
Jimmie: "JIMMAY! ".
[stunned silence]
Jimmie: "Wow did you see that, I was visited by God. "
Atheist: "No you weren't, you hyperventilated from too many run on sentences."
Jimmie: "Liar, I was visited by God. Why can't you horrible people ever admit the truth. "
Atheist: "I think you might be suffering smoke smoke inhalation - your oxygen intake appears to be impaired."
Jimmie: "Jesus sent you to save me. "
Atheist: "Excuse me?"
Jimmie: "Jesus Christ our lord and saviour, most holy on high, redeemer of redeemers... "
Atheist: "STOP IT"
Jimmie: "...appeared before you in a vision and told you that you had been chosen to save me. "
Atheist: "Actually I was walking my dog as I do every day at this time."
Jimmie: "Lying atheist, that's not your dog, atheists can't own dogs - you're immoral, only moral people can have pets! He appeared before you and told you to go and save his most beloved disciple JIMMAY and you refuse to admit it because you're a Darwin worshipping Satanist and you want to fuck goats and burn in eternal hell because you can't handle the one true truth. "
[passes out again]
[Atheist briefly considers writing 'Jesus woz ere' in mirror writing on his forehead before walking off in disgust]
Scene 4:
[Jimmie wakes up and writes in his diary about how he converted a goat fucking atheist]
Insulting, but not more then is usually expected. 'Atheist' at least deserved a name, however. I guess he's just 'one of them' in normal conversation.
The real moral of the story is that the atheist showed human decency and brotherly love to save someone whose ideas he didn't agree with.
If the roles were reversed would he have been told to get ready for an eternity in flames and left to his own devices? Given what so many of our fundie "friends" post, that's the ending a lot of them would go for.
All in all, not very fundie and relatively harmless compared to some of the hell-and-damnation crap that fundies want to ram down childrens' throats.
I prefer the sequel where Jimmie is yet again caught in his burning home just as the same (former) atheist passes by. This time the ex-heathen falls to his knees and prays to God to save Jimmie, and he keeps on right up until Jimmie stops calling for help. Then he praises God for taking Jimmie up to heaven and continues on his way while congratulating himself on his piety.
"Jimmie and the Atheist
Jimmie, caught in his burning home, is saved by an atheist at the risk of his own life. Jimmie, in turn, is used to bring his benefactor to the Lord Jesus Christ. Good salvation message."
Which will be placed on shelves in this section of bookshops, along with this title:
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Actually, this is a step up from the way atheists are often portrayed. The atheist in this story is at least clearly a good person. They are brave and selfless enough to risk personal injury to rescue someone. The atheist is just clearly wrong about whether or not God exists in this story. I don't know about you, but I think that this sort of portrayal is definitely better than the "atheists deny God exists because they want to sin" or the "atheists are completely depraved, selfish, hedonistic, and immoral" portrayals we often get from Fundamentalists. Now, the book sounds like it's a crime against literature that's also over-the-top and annoyingly preachy. Even the title is awful. However, even if it is insulting on a certain level and it sounds like a terrible excuse of a book, the way it sounds as if it doesn't portray atheists all that badly and isn't nearly as insulting as a good many fictional portrayals of atheists are.
“Jimmie and the Atheist”
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