A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usually
results in a belief in anything.
An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
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It's amazing how one's own perspective affects ones perceptions. This is why I never ask a Fundie when I want to know something about atheists, Jews, Catholics, pragmatists, agnostics, scientists, vegetarians .... besides, it's hard to understand what they are saying when they are speaking from inside their own alimentary canal.
A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usually
results in a belief in anything.
*sigh*
I don't "disbelieve" in your fantasy character, I have never had any belief in it in the first place, your nonsense has always just been that to me, nonsense!
And no, I don't believe in anything, I am not a believer.
An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
In a way, you are correct, just not in the way you were trying to go. I am the result of an accident, an accident involving my mom and dad having sex and the accident of a sperm cell to meet and mate with an egg. So, indeed, you may say we all are accidents.
"disbelief in God usually results in a belief in anything"
If I believed in just anything -- I'd probably be just like you, soldier.
"An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident"
The word accident still implies a creator, asshat.
Why do these fucks think an atheist is only someone who doesn't believe in Yahweh? Certainly there are hundreds of gods they don't believe in!
"We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further." - Richard Dawkins
No, an atheist doesn't believe in any deities. Otherwise you just called me an atheist even though I'm a pagan. Oh, wait, fundies sometimes get the two mixed up...
Well, I was born ten months after my parents were married, so technically I'm not an accident.
Oh, and for the record, I'm an atheist who is skeptical of unproven claims, so I don't believe in just "anything".
Well, based on the inconvenient timing of my birth, I'm pretty damn sure *I* was an accident... oh, that's not what you mean...
"An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident."
CAUTION: 38% of people are caused by accidents.
That's what happens when mummy and daddy use cheap condoms.
And at least mummy and daddy exist.
Nope. I don't Believe in anything. No gods, no demons, no ghosts, imps, spirits, or fairies. No supernatural Beliefs at all.
An accident? Guilty as charged. My parents were 40 and not planning any more children. They had a few too many during a trip to Hawaii and, nine months later, I was born with sand between my toes.
I'm pretty sure that there are female atheists too.
"We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further." - Richard Dawkins
Trouble is ole Dawkins doesn't get that loads of us believe that all these religious myths are symbols of the same search for reality/truth/God.......so we believe them all and yet none. But please, let Dawkin's own strawman excuse you from facing the reality of philosophical and theological paradigms if you must.....though it's still a fundie thing to do.
And yes - soldier is talking crap!
Shiny mirror award.
If atheists believed in anything, they'd believe in God. They don't believe in God exactly because they don't believe in improbable stuff with absolutely no evidence to support it. It's believers in God who believe stuff like talking snakes, magic fruit, an entire universe being poofed into existence in six days and the rest of the nonsense one has to swallow to accept some bronze age fairy tale.
Why am I unsurprised that a fundie would use language appropriate to only men to refer to members of a group which is not all-male?
Oh, right, because fundamentalist religions generally present a hugely sexist view of the world to their adherents.
The sad thing is I doubt this person even realised they were being sexist.
Certainly I believe myself an accident, and what an amazing thing that is. In a universe that is but a chaotic amalgam of random chance, the mere presense of life is profoundly and utterly awe-inspiring. That fundies are unable to perceive this... Who is the one that believes in 'nothing'?
Just because you need to believe in an imaginary friend doesn't mean that everyone needs to believe in a deity or in anything in a religious sense.
P.S. "Accident" kind of implies something negative. I believe that human beings came into existence by unplanned means. You, I believe, are a tragedy.
"A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing;"
Ok so far so good
"disbelief in God usually
results in a belief in anything."
And you blew it.
"An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident."
And wrong again.
A disbelief in Santa results in a belief in anything.
A disbelief in Cthulhu results in a belief in anything.
A disbelief in Zaphod Beeblebrox results in a belief in anything.
A disbelief in Galactus results in a belief in anything.
A disbelief in Bigfoot and/or Bunyips results in a belief in anything.
All of these sound exactly the same to me as "A disbelief in God results in a belief in anything" and none of them make any sense.
Are you an atheist? If not, then how can you know what an atheist believes in?
I don't tell you what you believe, please return the courtesy and refrain from telling me what I believe.
Atheism is not disbelief in gods, it's a lack of belief in gods. To disbelieve you need to believe that there is something there, but you do not trust it/them.
Okay given that I know for a fact those who fall for the christian bullshit tend to fall for the One world government conspiracies, microchips implated under skin, and some irrational fear that the UN will become magically competent and install a global currency, I'm guessing belief in god results in belief in anything.
And yes their belief in conspiracies is related to their belief in god since they think it's the start of the rapture.
I am an accident, just as all life on this planet is an accident. There's no evidence of a plan or a planner.
However, the sentient slime molds of exoplanet 453 are convinced that the universe was created to ensure that they would always have lovely clorine gas to breathe.
"An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident."
well, um... yeah. I've never understood your problem with that.
Thank you for telling me what I believe. Perhaps you can also tell me what I would like for dinner. Maybe, what clothes to wear today. Anyway....to get back to the main point, as an atheist I apparently much believe in anything. So, here are some of the anythings I believe:
Talking snakes. Talking donkeys. Different accounts of a supposed event, and believing all of them to be a credible account of an event, even though the accounts discredit each other. I also believe that most of the instructions from a supposed gawd are not real, and can be ignored. He really didnt mean that I should actually give all my money to the poor. Even though such instructions to do so are clearly in the book of contradictions. (Interestingly, there is little contradiction concerning the giving away of all of ones wealth). I also believe just exactly how one should treat their slaves; just like gawd instructed us to keep slaves. Yeah, we atheist certainly dont believe in nothing. But boy howdy do you xians sure believe in something.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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