When I was an atheist, I spent an inordinate amount of time & energy trying to disprove the Bible, God, Christianity, etc., and trying to discourage others from doing the same. It never occurred to me that, if it wasn't true, if it was just a stupid belief, then why was I SO obsessed with it, when there were so many other better uses of my time.
Obviously, the answer (which I eventually discovered) is that it's true... He's really our Creator. We didn't magically spring to life from some primordial ooze. Just look at the incredible complexity required for the simplest cell, or the fact that information could not have just appeared as complex DNA, the incredibly complex cell processes... all of it!
Do a sincerely honest and open-minded investigation of the scriptures (without falling for the critics accusations carte-blanche).
Join the many of us former atheists who were surprised at the results of a sincere look at the existence of God, the truth of the Bible, and the love of the One Who came to rescue us!
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" He's really our Creator. We didn't magically spring to life from some primordial ooze."
Then where did he come from?
"Just look at the incredible complexity required for the simplest cell, or the fact that information could not have just appeared as complex DNA, the incredibly complex cell processes... all of it! "
Yes, something as complex as a creator god could not pop out of nothing for no reason.
So, when you was an atheist, you never actually looked up what evolutionary theory actually says?
Just seems weird, all that 'inordinate' time spent on the Bible, never once getting a clear idea about why 'argument from complexity' is such a shit talking point.
And you might have learned no one is claiming we 'magically' popped out of the ooze. Or that DNA just appeared in the current form...
If you were really a militant atheist as you open with, you did waste a lot of your time.
Bill Charlton
He lives IN A WORLD where
- atheists ONLY critique and try to disprove Christianity
- 'science' means 'closely studying the Bible'
- rings of godless pedophiles operate out of pizza joints
Wait, what?
You're saying you spent an inordinate amount of time & energy trying to disprove the Bible, God, Christianity, etc... Okay.
But then you close suggesting that atheists are "falling for the critics accusations carte-blanche."
Is that what you thought you were doing when you were an atheist? You think 'time and energy spent disproving the bible' consists of swallowing other critics' accusations?
"When I was an atheist..." - When you were an atheist, I was the King of Khartoum.
"We didn't magically spring to life from some primordial ooze." - Says the guy who believes we magically sprang to life because Biblegod snapped his fingers.
"Just look at the incredible complexity required for the simplest cell..." - Self-organizing complexity is your friend there.
"...or the fact that information could not have just appeared as complex DNA" - The only people who claim it "just appeared" are you lot (q.v. Biblegod).
"Do a sincerely honest and open-minded investigation of the scriptures..." - Well that explains your scientific illiteracy.
"Join the many of us former atheists..." - That would be you, and who else? Oh, and the whole join us.... thing is supposed to be said in a deep, raspy voice.
Regards & all,
Thomas L. Nielsen
Luxembourg
Why did you try to disprove Christianity? Did you also try to disprove Islam? To atheists, ALL religion is imaginary, not just Christianity, ya know.
Sure, I spend an inordinate amount of time and energy making fun of fundies, religious or otherwise. But that's just for my own amusement.
How did you discover that it IS true? Have you shared the evidence for this particular god with the scientific community? If you HAVE discovered the existence for the Christian god, you might get a Nobel Prize! People have tried for over two thousand years to provide evidence, but the best one is still "The Bible is true because the Bible says it is true".
Information didn't just appear as complex DNA, silly-nilly. It took a couple of billion years before life evolved from single-cell amoebas and tiny bacteria, to Eukaryote life-forms.
How did that god of yours appear, btw? Who created him/her/it/them?
I tried to read the Bible from cover to cover. I became too bored to carry on, somewhere among the "begats".
Why were you an atheist before? How did you become an atheist then? Quite a few atheists become atheist BECAUSE they study the Bible.
When I was an atheist, I spent an inordinate amount of time & energy trying to disprove the Bible, God, Christianity, etc., and trying to discourage others from doing the same.
Why did you waste your time like that, instead of enjoying sex and drugs and rock'n'roll? After all, I thought we atheists only pretend to not believe in God because we love sin so much.
Oh wait, you never were an atheist.
"When I was an atheist, I spent an inordinate amount of time & energy trying to disprove the Bible, God, Christianity, etc."
And when you were a satanist, you were also a vampire and cast many evil spells unsuspecting christians, I'm certain.
Any "sincerely honest and open-minded investigation of the scriptures" will make it obvious to even the meanest intelligence that they are sometimes parables (comparable to Aesop's fables), sometimes poetry, and sometimes merely wild fantasy. Now conduct the same kind of analysis of the effect that religion has upon civil law, and you will see that the bible is being used principally as a club to exert power over everyone, believers and atheists alike. THAT is the reason that we criticize religion.
Christianity doesn't need to be disproved by us; it does a fine job of that on its own.
For every "former atheist" I'd bet there are twice as many former christians. Some of them populate this very site.
When I was an atheist, I spent an inordinate amount of time & energy trying to disprove the Bible, God, Christianity, etc., and trying to discourage others from doing the same.
So you were trying to stop people from disproving the Bible?
Thank you, Sasha! It only took 9 1/2 hours for someone to point that out, and it's the first thing I noticed reading it just two minutes ago.
But hey, he has a point, well made already. Why spend so much time focused on trying to disprove Christianity to Christians? I've only ever mentioned my reading of the Bible to Christians when they've tried to convert me. Talking about the genocide in Numbers, I was told "that's not in the Bible!" Follow not even a minute later with some bullshit about Jacob stealing the inheritance from Elam, and that's why so many nations had to be wiped out, save for their little girls who were made "wives" of the conquerors. Yeah, wives, I get it.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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