10 Questions Atheists Can't Answer!!1!

[Xamonas Chegwé]

This bollocks is doing the rounds on Facebook. My answers added. What would yours be?


1. How Did You Become an Atheist?

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

Answer: I was born that way. Sadly, I had to go through a terrible period of religion-addiction before regaining that status.

2. What happens when we die?

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

Answer: The universe reverts to the state of not having us in it that it maintained for 13.8 billion years before we were born.

3. What if you’re wrong? And there is a Heaven? And there is a HELL!

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

Answer: What if there's reincarnation? What if you come back as a tree-frog? What if there's karma? What if the Great White Elk (blessed be her antlers) decides you are not worthy to enter her paradise of moss and lichen?

4. Without God, where do you get your morality from?

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

Answer: Fortune cookies, lolcatz and Disney cartoons. Actually, that's a lie - but all 3 are a damn sight more moral than the fucking bible!

5. If there is no God, can we do what we want? Are we free to murder and rape? While good deeds are unrewarded?

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

Answer: Yes. We are free to do those things. But, if we're good people, we tend not to.
And yes, good deeds often go unrewarded. But should one only do good deeds for reward or recognition? Shouldn't one do them simply because they are good?

6. If there is no god, how does your life have any meaning?

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

If there is no Loch Ness Monster, how does yours?

7. Where did the universe come from?

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

Answer: Where did god come from?

8. What about miracles? What all the people who claim to have a connection with Jesus? What about those who claim to have seen saints or angels?

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

Answer: What about those that claim to have seen ghosts? Aliens? Visions of Kali, Mohammed, Buddha or Zeus? What about those that claim Justin Bieber is talented? People claim some silly things.

9. What’s your view of Dawkins, Hitchens and Harris?

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

Answer: Dabbling amateurs for the most part - albeit charismatic. Give me Daniel Dennett any day.

10. If there is no God, then why does every society have a religion?

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

Answer: Because, as Frank Zappa wisely remarked, "There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."

[tattuchu]

I keep my stupidity stored in the freezer and thaw a little bit out at a time as needed. I've got a lot of stupidity so it goes a long way

[JimC]

My question in return to the god botherers is:

"Why should we give a fuck about the irrational rantings of the superstitious past?"

[pErvinalia]

Good stuff, XC.

[Tero]

Needs more Hitler and Stalin. And Mao.

[Seth]

My question in return to the god botherers is:

"Why should we give a fuck about the irrational rantings of the superstitious past?"

Well, one might assume that your irrational rantings of the superstitious past might have meaning to you, since you ranted them.

[pErvinalia]

What irrational rantings are those, troll?

[Clinton Huxley]

Had two separate squadrons of JWs at the door this week. They don't get to ask me any questions.

[Animavore]

1. How Did You Become an Atheist?

After trying out different religions and finding them utterly unconvincing atheism is all I was left with. There's no where really to go from here.

2. What happens when we die?

Life goes on.

3. What if you’re wrong? And there is a Heaven? And there is a HELL!

The Pope recently said, and many Christians agree, that atheists can go to heaven once they are true to themself and are good. Other Christian and Muslim types say I'm going to hell automatically for the crime of non-belief. If believers don't know what happens if atheists are wrong then what hope do I have of working it out?

4. Without God, where do you get your morality from?

A combination of empathy, reasoning, good argumentation and societal dictates.

5. If there is no God, can we do what we want? Are we free to murder and rape? While good deeds are unrewarded?

If there is a God and he has given us free-will, can we do what we want? Are we free to rape and murder? The answer seems to be, Yes. Of course, just because we are free to do something doesn't mean that it's a good idea. We're also free to jump off a cliff.

6. If there is no god, how does your life have any meaning?

Things have meaning to my life, not the other way around.

7. Where did the universe come from?

I dunno. I don't believe any one does.

8. What about miracles? What all the people who claim to have a connection with Jesus? What about those who claim to have seen saints or angels?

What about them?

9. What’s your view of Dawkins, Hitchens and Harris?

I've never met any of them.

10. If there is no God, then why does every society have a religion?

I think you have this arse backwards. The question should really be why does every society have a religion, or multiple religions, all worshipping different deities, many of them mutually exclusive, if there is a single god?

[surreptitious57]

How Did You Become An Atheist

Slowly But Surely

What Happens When We Die

A Little Thing Called Brain Death Is What Happens

What If You Are Wrong And There Is A Heaven And A Hell

Then I Am Wrong And There Is A Heaven And A Hell

Without God Where Do You Get Your Morality From

Same Place You Get Yours From

If There Is No God Can We Do What We Want

We Can Do What We Want Regardless Of Whether Or Not God Exists

If There Is No God How Does Your Life Have Any Meaning

Life Itself Has No Meaning So One Gives Meaning To Ones Own Instead

Where Did The Universe Come From

Something Rather Than Nothing

What About Miracles

What About Miracles

What Is Your View Of Dawkins Hitchens And Harris

Ground Apes With Above Average Intelligence

If There Is No God Then Why Does Every Society Have A Religion

Objective Truth Is Not Conditional On Popularity You Know

[tattuchu]

And now Kirk (friend of Ray "Banana Man" Comfort) Cameron is coming out with a new movie, yo, describing how atheists stole Christmas from Christians. Brace yourselves because he says we're all gonna be pissed when he eviscerates all our atheist arguments

[Svartalf]

Frag it, the chretins can get their Xmas back, I don't want it, with its commercial drive and unsufferable music.

[JimC]

I am holding xmas hostage. I will publicly destroy it unless the world accedes to my demands.

A lot of gin will be involved...

[tattuchu]

How Did You Become an Atheist?
I've always been an atheist. I've never not been an atheist.
2. What happens when we die?
We die.
3. What if you’re wrong? And there is a Heaven? And there is a HELL!
I'm not superstitious, nor retarded, so I'm not worried.
4. Without God, where do you get your morality from?
My parents, society, and my own sense of right and wrong based on compassion for my fellow man.
5. If there is no God, can we do what we want? Are we free to murder and rape? While good deeds are unrewarded?
You're free to rape and murder if you want to go to prison. Be my guest. I'm not so keen on prison. And I try to be a good person because it's the right thing to do, not because I'm expecting the reward of Heaven or worried about the punishment of Hell. On the other hand, Christians think they can do whatever they want and all they have to do is tell Jeebus they're sorry. So much for your bullshit morality.
6. If there is no god, how does your life have any meaning?
My life has the meaning I choose to give it. What do imaginary gods have to do with it? And let's say there is a god? How does that give my life any more meaning? I don't see how it could possibly make a difference.
7. Where did the universe come from?
How the fuck should I know?
8. What about miracles? What all the people who claim to have a connection with Jesus? What about those who claim to have seen saints or angels?
Ignorance, superstition, gullibility.
9. What’s your view of Dawkins, Hitchens and Harris?
What the fuck does it matter? What sort of view am I meant to have? Again, what the fuck does it matter?
10. If there is no God, then why does every society have a religion?
Ignorance, superstition, gullibility.

[klr]

I am holding xmas hostage. I will publicly destroy it unless the world accedes to my demands.

A lot of gin will be involved...

Christmas has already been sneakily taken over in an orgy of materialistic greed.