Monday, June 04, 2007 . 6/04/2007

I fucking hate the news. Always negative things, never positive. People dying, buildings getting caught on fire. It's so common to hear these things that eventually, one just has to say "who gives a shit?" After all, death happens every day. We don't need the news to tell us this unless it was someone important who died.

Why, just tonight, yet ANOTHER soldier has gone missing! Who would of thunk (thank?) it?! "Prayers are going out, blah blah".. I got so pissed that I said, out loud, "Yeah, good load of help prayers are going to do". Of course, my dad got all anal on me and I went on saying "Oh, and I'm sure you care a WHOLE LOT about every person that dies? Pray for them, oh HOW GOOD THAT WORKS!".

I hate myself and all those idiots that think praying does anything. I hate myself for not caring and I hate people who are so deluded as to think a dude in the sky exists and cares more about a missing person than starving children. Whatever happened to being rational adults, here? What ever happened to thanking PEOPLE for good things that happen? If someone turns out to be alive it's "thank god" more than "thank you". Something is seriously wrong with this.

And haven't people gotten the idea yet that praying doesn't work? Yet many (here in good ol' fat-and-religious America) still pray for petty things such as getting that parking space or doing well in an interview. There are homeless children out there, starving and disease-ridden, and you have the nerve to think that you are more important than they are? Or do you just block this out of your mind, like all bad things?

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A little off topic - more "brilliant" quotes from the Infidels.org forums:

"Because atheists are just like Stalin and Hitler, who hated Christianity so much, atheism is designed just to ridicule theism, it has no other purpose, in fact without theism there would be no atheism..."

"... What is this supposed to mean? I should say the same to you atheists....why don't you ever leave theists alone? Instead atheism is entirely devoted to ridiculing theism...you even ridiculed theism with your statement "reasonable people" ahahahahaha"

"Well I could easily say the same about my own personal experiences.....ofcourse personal beliefs don't matter....now you're using an argument from personal belief and an argument from ignorance....which is what atheism is ignorance+personal belief..."

"No, nothing I said is has the agrument from ignorance in it....

Its impossible to show that something had to have the hand of God in it......you can always say nature-did-it...everything happened by nature.....naturalism is unfalsifiable..."

Oh, where to begin? One wonders if this guy is joking or being serious in the first place. Assuming that he is being serious:

First, he knows next to nothing about what atheism really is. Atheism was not "founded" to ridicule theists at all. Atheism is simply the disbelief in a god or gods. Little does he know, he himself is an atheist towards other gods such as Zeus.

Second, he says that atheism is based off of ignorance, which is extremely absurd and ignorant in itself. Let's take a look here on what atheism, science and skepticism in general are based off of, and theistic belief:

Atheism/Science

• Reality
• What we can see and test
• Discovering cures for diseases
• Discovering how the world really works
• Evidence

Theism

• A book nearly 2,000 or more years old
• Belief in a god or gods
• Prayer

Furthermore, what most theists don't realise is that their "holy book" (Christianity mainly) is based off of copies of copies of people rewriting it to how they see fit. And their god? Based off of old Paganistic ones. Not a bit of Christianity (I can't say for certain with the other religions) is original or new.

And, addressing that "you can just as easily say nature-did-it as God-did-it".. this has got to be one of the stupidest statements I have ever read. Unlike the "Godidit" assumption, this "naturedidit" (something I have never heard of until now) one isn't an assumption at all but based off of evidence. If something goes bump in the night, we don't immediately credit it to ghosts, but we try to find a rational explanation. Theists, on the other hand, will just say "Godidit" and that's that. No thinking required. Day and night exist, Godidit. Trees exist, Goddidit. Apparently, many religious people don't have the curiosity to want to find out why something is the way it is, and that's just sad.

I could probably type up a better arguement but I'm very tired and in need of sleep.

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