no. 190

Science seeks the truth. And it does not discriminate. For better or worse it finds things out. Science is humble. It knows what it knows and it knows what it doesn’t know. It bases its conclusions and beliefs on hard evidence -­- evidence that is constantly updated and upgraded. It doesn’t get offended when new facts come along. It embraces the body of knowledge. It doesn’t hold on to medieval practices because they are tradition. If it did, you wouldn’t get a shot of penicillin, you’d pop a leach down your trousers and pray. Whatever you “believe,” this is not as effective as medicine. Again you can say, “It works for me,” but so do placebos. My point being, I’m saying God doesn’t exist. I’m not saying faith doesn’t exist. I know faith exists. I see it all the time. But believing in something doesn’t make it true. Hoping that something is true doesn’t make it true. The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn’t. It’s not a matter of opinion. You can have your own opinions. But you can’t have your own facts.

Why don’t I believe in God? No, no no, why do YOU believe in God? Surely the burden of proof is on the believer. You started all this. If I came up to you and said, “Why don’t you believe I can fly?” You’d say, “Why would I?” I’d reply, “Because it’s a matter of faith.” If I then said, “Prove I can’t fly. Prove I can’t fly see, see, you can’t prove it can you?” You’d probably either walk away, call security or throw me out of the window and shout, ‘’F—ing fly then you lunatic.”

Ricky Gervais


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no. 182

"So to punish the Devil for trying to overthrow him - which wouldn’t have happened anyway because HE’S GOD and he could just will him out of existence - God decides to throw him out of heaven, but just let him have total freedom otherwise. So the Devil can run around completely fucking up everything God tries to do from then on, meaning that millions of souls will be tortured in hell for all eternity.

This is like if you threw a wad a paper at your Dad, and he “punished” you by signing the house over to you and not doing anything as you set fire to the lawn.

Come on. Zeus turned into a cow to have sex with married women, and even his plans were more rational than this.

And before you guys say “GOD’S MIND IS SO GREAT WE CANNOT UNDERSTAND HIS WAYS,” I just want to point out that God intentionally made us too stupid to understand him, and yet, even in that state, the stuff he does looks to us like arbitrary, short-sighted, nonsensical bullshit.

Which demonstrates a larger point. He made us idiots, and then set the Devil loose on us. And the only salvation we get from this is after we die a miserable death, he won’t torture us forever.

I don’t believe in God, so to me, this is all just goofy Iron Age mythology. But to those of you who do believe in him…what, do you just not think about all this?"

Fat, Angry, Godless Freak. via The Virgin Prince

no. 159

"Atheist are routinely asked how people will know not to rape and murder without religion telling them not to do it, especially a religion that backs up the orders with threats of hell. Believers, listen to me carefully when I say this: When you use this argument, you terrify atheists. We hear you saying that the only thing standing between you and Ted Bundy is a flimsy belief in a supernatural being made up by pre-literate people trying to figure out where the rain came from. This is not very reassuring if you’re trying to argue from a position of moral superiority."

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