I Ain't Mad Atcha
Offline One of the more annoying accusations believers often level at atheists is "You're just angry at God." Whenever I present the Evidential Argument from Evil this inevitably comes up often in the form of "You just want to blame everything on God and not take any responsibility yourself." Funny that this accusation is launched so often since being a humanist/atheist is the very act of taking all responsibility for all that goes right or wrong in one's life onto the individual or individuals themselves and not on supernatural beings that we do not believe exist. The Argument from Evil merely points out the obvious fact that if you do believe that a God exists than God would be responsible for all the evil in the world just as the faithful believe that he is responsible for all the good in the world. Since atheists do not believe that God exists we do not believe that God is responsible for either good or evil. We believe that man is. We cannot be angry at God because we do not believe in the existence of God.
This seems like an obvious point and I almost feel silly elaborating further on it since it would seem to need no further explanation but you really would not believe how often this comes up. I am still surprised every time it does. I find this accusation obvious proof that faith not only does not require logic but directly impedes it...
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http://godlessandblack.blogspot.com/2009/03/i-aint-mad-atcha.html
"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, it takes religion."
- Steven Weinberg, Nobel Prize-winning physicist
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It is definately one of the greatest self fulfilling prophecies that theists embark upon.
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SO SO SO.......... Are you saying that earthquakes are a result of faults?
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Oh, I think a few of us would. I can't even argue from evil anymore, since ... okay, it's because I don't believe in evil. I mean, people do terrible things, but "evil" just doesn't cut it as a label on those terrible things.
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The incredible tendency to treat abstract nouns, adjectives used as nouns, as though they were concrete nouns appears most frequently in discussions of religion. The second most frequent usage is in fiction like Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
A pound of evil and a pound of good and a pound of blue are all the same, nonsense.
Yet religion discusses evil and good as though they were real real thngs that can be measured like stones and trees.
Jews stole the land. The owners want it back. That is all anyone needs to know about Israel. That is all there is to know about Israel.
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I'm inclined to agree with this. I know a preacher who runs a church in my town and he does this a lot. He's a smart fellow though so I figure he does this to confuse and subjugate his less intelligent followers.
After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him.
The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.
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