I think we should summarily execute atheists on sight. Let them be scientific observers for us. If we never hear from them again, we will know that they were right. So come along atheists, do it for science and the satisfaction of knowing that you were right; life is a pointless series of events leading up to oblivion.
So what, anyway? You win. Life is pointless. Do you want a cookie? You still have to go to work in the morning. Only now, you have to be a little bit more depressed about it, but you win. In the end, when you are reduced to worm poop, you will always have the satisfaction of knowing that you were right. Oh wait, there is no right in oblivion. There actually happens to be no anything. Chomp my nuts, atheists. Chomp my nuts.
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Ah, the old "Pointless, so why not die" argument.
Assuming the pointless argument is true, then there is also NO reason why we shouldn't choose to live, love and be happy.
Life, love and happiness is enough point for me.
Nimrod, if you want your nuts "chomped", there are probably better places to ask for it.
Although why you would bring your kinky personal fetishes into a debate over the existence of a supernatural entity in the first place is beyond me.
And therein lies the rub: That mythology-worshipers choose what to believe based on what feels good, not on what it's most rational to believe.
It's akin to me liking a girl and "having faith", with no evidence whatsoever, that she's in love with me. It might make my life better, but come on, how healthy is it to go around imagining things like that instead of either moving on or getting her to actually love me?
Bah, his whole article is nonsense, including this whole "it takes faith to be an atheist" nonsense. It takes no faith to not believe in something until there's a gram or two of evidence for it.
WTF? A few posts backs, some FSTDT regulars were expressing contrition because of the prevalence here of such meaningless catch-phrases as "Die in a fire," and then this exemplar of christian love comes along advocating execution of all atheists. Well, excuse me for not loving you back in the same way.
BTW, I don't know of any atheists who think life is pointless; we make our own points without having to rely on a fairy tale to give life meaning.
"I think we should summarily execute atheists on sight."
What a kind and caring attitude. Must be that Christian love showing through.
"Let them be scientific observers for us."
We already are.
"If we never hear from them again, we will know that they were right."
Only the mentally ill hear from the dead, nimrod.
"So come along atheists, do it for science and the satisfaction of knowing that you were right;"
Your killing me would have nothing to do with whether or not I am right.
"life is a pointless series of events leading up to oblivion."
I do not contend that life is pointless, just that God is fictional. One's life has the meaning one give it.
"So what, anyway? You win."
Thank you, that's very gracious.
"Life is pointless."
You life maybe, not mine.
"Do you want a cookie?"
Yes, please.
"You still have to go to work in the morning."
No tomorrow as it is a holiday. The jobs I will go to on Tuesday morning is teaching theater to some great teenagers, and raising/training/showing terrific dogs. They give my life a point and meaning.
"Only now, you have to be a little bit more depressed about it, but you win."
Yes, but my depression stems from knowing that idiots like you are out there stiffling scientific and social progress.
"In the end, when you are reduced to worm poop, you will always have the satisfaction of knowing that you were right."
When we (you, me and the rest of humanity) are reduced to "worm poop" we will be dead and, thus, not feeling satisfaction or knowing anything.
"Oh wait, there is no right in oblivion. There actually happens to be no anything."
Indeed, there is nothing in oblivion.
"Chomp my nuts, atheists. Chomp my nuts."
You bring 'em right over here and I'll see to it that they get chomped.
I didn't hear anyone say life is pointless. Did you hear anyone say life is pointless? In fact, I've never even heard an atheist say that we are all worthless, sinful, pathetic swamp scum in the eyes of the Sky Daddy. That's a Christian belief.
Read the whole page. He's basically an atheist himself, but is so filled with bitterness, cynicism, and hate that he must attack anyone who makes a commitment or takes a position on anything.
What a pathetic person.
Well, what's your take on life, nimrod(what?-that's his name! ;) )-be good or God will throw you in Hell, since God apparently had nothing else to do but create a universal system according to His whims?
I think we should summarily execute atheists on sight.
Just like Jesus summarily executed prostitutes on sight, eh?
I will never understand why so many Fundies believe that if you don't believe in God, then life is therefore meaningless to you. I know a lot of atheists and agnostics and to them, life is more important because that's all they believe there is for them. Why does there have to be an afterlife in order to make this life worth living? Shouldn't life be worth living solely on its own merits? Why must there be a reward or punishment for life? Why does it have to be a test?
I believe in an afterlife, but it isn't the afterlife that makes my life worth living. It's my friends and my hobbies and my interests and my family and my pet cat and my writing and my art and all the other things that I fill my days with.
Unlike turds like you, I happen to constantly strive to give my life as much meaning as possible. I'm not depressed nor do I want to die. I simply want to make the best and most significant contribution that I can during my life without an imaginary policeman hanging over my shoulder. Go shove your religion up your ass.
I think they project that "life is pointless, worthless, not worth living" onto us out of envy, really...
"What? how DARE they be content or even happy without having to jump through all the flaming hoops and begging like we have to do?"
or something like that. It can't possibly be as liberating as they claim it to be to have those beliefs...
Is this central to the southern baptists or something though? because even a lot of the more devout french-canadians in my parents/grandparents days knew damn well the priests were some of the prostitutes best customers. "God'll forgive stuff like that if you don't mean any harm in it, and that's all in good fun too" was the kind of stuff we were told... not the constant prostrating fire&brimstone or "you're worthless without Him" crap.
If we never hear from us a again ,We were right .That wont work
I got a better Idea Mr. nimrodfunk you believe in the great after life you go first send me a post card and few snap shots of you with the god daddy and when you came back I will admit the I was wrong and you were right
But I don't care either way no one here going to chomp on your nut dumb-ass.
so have nice trip .and say hi to Elvis and god for me.
"Chomp my nuts" seems rather counter productive to me. Nimrodfunk seems to think that the phrase is demeaning and insulting, something by which he can prove his superior status. He doesn't seem to have considered that being bitten in the nuts would hurt. Yes, we might have to go wash the taste out of our mouths, but we're not the ones writhing on the floor wishing for an end to his torment.
If we never hear from them again, we will know that they were right.
Since he hasn't heard from any of the other billions of people who have died over the course of history, I should think his "experiment" has already been carried out.
If you are so sure that there is an afterlife, why don't YOU commit suicide? That way, if by some miniscule chance you are actually right you can come back and tell us. and if you are wrong, the world will be rid of your stupidity and bigotry for good.
Oh yes, I'd be very happy to chomp your nuts, as then I could be reasonably sure you will not spread your stupid genes into the next generation.
"Chomp my nuts, atheists. Chomp my nuts."
I wouldn't go for it, but if this is working out as a pick-up line for you, enjoy.
Elsewhere on site:
"n life, I have not wasted one second on self-righteousness. I do not cling for a moment to pretense. I will not spatter a single idea against a wall of presumption. I have no walls. I am free, and that is why I am better than you, FSTDT cronies."
So he knows he's better than us because he doesn't think he's any better than us, and he proves this by suggesting we all be killed. EeYeah, that makes sense.
Life is pointless?! We're the one's saying we only have one run at it, so enjoy it. YOU guys are the ones in a thinly veiled Death Cult, saying this life is nothing but a waiting room for the afterlife. Maybe YOU guys are the ones that should be shuffled off.
Mass murder, argument by emotion, shit-eating condescension, and incredible arrogance all in one package! MM-MMM THAT IS SOME GOOD FUNDIE!
Oh, I'm afraid you cannot execute an idea , nimrod. However, the idea that a Judeo-Christian 'God' exists is gradually dying out. Just ask the worshippers of Jupiter, Zeus, Amun-Ra, Hunab-Ku etc...
...oh yes, that's right. The ancient Romans, Greeks, Egyptians and Mayans no longer exist , and their once great deities are now in the realms of mythology
Speaking as an Atheist, living in Hull - one of the Top 5 least religious cities in the UK, there's a lot of churches that have either been turned into furniture warehouses (or other retail premises), pubs/nightclubs...
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...or simply left to rot .
...and suck my bollocks. They should be funky enough for your tastes. >:D
Ah, but you see, my life is NOT pointless. I have my wife, my children, my friends, my neighborhood, my work, my nation and my world to strive on behalf of. When none of those are pressing, I have my hobbies and interests. My life is filled with purpose. However, and here's the essential point, if I had waited for the universe to hand me a purpose, I would not have any purpose at all. My life would be as empty as that of the people who haunt Rapture Ready and whine, "I just WISH I could go hoooome!!!"
I am sure that your life can have purpose as well. If you want to look for it in a book, or (more likely) you think that your favorite preacher or newscaster to give you one, well, its you're life. However, don't presume that my quest for a purpose in life is as undiscriminating and lazy as yours.
How do you presume to spot an atheist "on sight"? Shoot everyone who's cut their hair and/or beard? Shoot everyone who wears clothes of mixed fibers? Shoot everyone who eats pork and/shellfish? Shoot everyone who does any kind of work on the Sabbath?
I have cookies already, I don't need handouts from condescending pig-ignorant pricks.
Why do I have to be a little bit more depressed about having a good work that pays fairly well? Lots and lots and lots of people don't. THIS life matters, THIS life is not pointless; it is what you make of it. If you make it out to be only a test run for the REAL life afterwards, YOU'RE the one making life pointless, not us.
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