"Those who have studied Spurgeon's amazing sermons will know that he often used sanctified humor and sarcasm to drive home powerful truths."
Plenty of that in "Bruce Almighty":
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If the 'Truth' hurts, then just the above alone completely annihilates any & all possible arguments as to why the likes of you can't answer the simple question(s) of we Atheists, and to our satisfaction.
After all, that Jim Carrey & Morgan Freeman film - apart from being a deucedly good "What If"; in this case 'What would you do, if you were God?' - asks in a humourous & sarcastic way, as we Atheists have been doing for fuck knows how long, one simple but 'Apologetics'-destroying question: if your 'God' is as 'Omnipotent' as you lot claim he is, why isn't he omnipotent enough to actually do a Morgan Freeman (in "Bruce Almighty") and actually appear to people: here and now?
That's 'intellectual' enough for you, is it not? Oh wait...!
A certain long-time Christian asked himself certain questions. Why not try asking those same questions of [I]yourself[/I], Ray Cumfart?
'Intellectual Suicide', Ray? Well, Jonathan Edwards put the intellectual .50 cal. Desert Eagle to his own head, and pulled the verbal trigger. The only thing killed was his faith. And that's why the likes of you haven't got the cojones to do the same, O Banana Man who is as yellow as the thing you love to fellate.
He's still here, still being the ex-long time Christian, still proving you wrong. What are you afraid of, by doing the same as he did?:
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OSAS. Jonathan has it, even as an Atheist. Do you? [/Reverse-Pascal's Wager]
Tl;dr: As the old saying goes, Those who don't want their beliefs laughed at, shouldn't have such funny beliefs.
Do you see us laughing at those same Quakers, Unitarian Universalists et al, Ray Cumfart & co.? If you're too insecure to be affected by being 'ridiculed', then don't give others reason to.
And you can ensure that, by you stopping something in turn: thinking the way you do. Those same Quakers, UUs et al don't.
Capische?
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To say nothing of him being forced to admit that Gravity does exist in space, his & Kirk Cumonhim's 'Crockoduck' was a 'joke', and above all: having to admit that the Banana as we know today was as a result of human intervention, and not by (un)'Intelligent Design'.
His pwecious 'Atheist's Worst Nightmare' & proof of Cre(a)ti(o)nism cruelly wrested away by those with superior intellects. Oh, teh irony.
Thus he & all his fundie ilk only bring that 'ridicule' on themselves. Question, Ray Cumfart: Why aren't we equally ridiculing the Quakers, Unitarian Universalists, and all their non-fundie ilk? The clue's in the question, if it's too intellectual for you, just like those levelled at you & Kirk Cumonhim by the Rational Response Squad that time, and destroyed you in the process.
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Where was Ray when the defence needed him in Kitzmiller vs. Dover? When their star wit(l)ess Michael Behe, Professor of Biochemistry, did such a great job for them, of couuuuurse they didn't need to call upon Bananaman to save the day. Because of course, as a 'Professor' of Biochemistry, he had the 'intellect', yet he was a fool by Ray's standard. But the defence needed his 'intellect' to give their own 'Creationism by Stealth' case some credibility & thus a possible chance of winning.
Quite the mega-paradox KvD represents, eh? And with the Conservative Christian Judge John E. Jones III - appointed to that position by George Dumbya Bush - presiding over that case, you still had the deck stacked your way, yet your Cre(a)ti(o)nist 'agenda's last best hope for survival still failed.