Atheism is like a fish denying the existence of water.48.5K Views87 Reposts 40 Quotes 734 Likes 26 Bookmarks
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I can show a fish an environment that doesn’t have water.
Can you show me any place or enviornment that lacks God, so i can compare?
…You know, I’m trying to write down some form of rebuttal to this “analogy”, but trying to formulate one requires the “analogy” to make some kind of remote, internal sense. For the life of me, I just don’t get how this is supposed to work. Like, is god the water that fish are breathing? What about air? Or polluted water? Or a vacuum? or ice? Are they other gods? Are they the absence of gods? Are they some sort of eldritch beings? Are they fallen gods? And what does that make the animals and such that live outside of water?
MAKE SENSE, DAMNIT!!
@Timjer #192830
There’s a joke where two fish are in water. An amphibious creature, IIRC a frog, swims up and says that the water’s nice today. The fish look at each other, look at him, and say, ’What’s water?’
I’m thinking Eric saw this and thought to himself that water is so apparent, so omnipresent, that it’d be stupid to deny it.
And actually, Eric with his inability to conceive of any POV that doesn’t match his own, is really the Fish.
Mudskippers. Also, Coelacanth.
Both can say ‘Why not have Both ?’ so it’s not only they which deny the existence of your ‘God’, OP.
Water can be seen and felt, it doesn't need ideology or indoctrination. Imaginary beings can only be imagined and promoted. This means that refusing to accept the existence of water would be denial, but that understanding that imaginary beings are unlikely to really exist is critical thinking and logical. Until one has evidence strong enough to believe that it does. Instead, we have evidence of human imagination and conflicting traditions. Of the fear of death and of wishthinking. Of authoritarian control and manipulation recipes. Of losing people who make false accusations and demonize the world and other groups to attempt to justify their failures. Of elites attempting to justify their power. Of exploitators and scams.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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