"The greatest favor anyone can ever do for an atheist is to pop his little bubble of delusion and bring him or her back to reality."
In an edition of "Kitchen Nightmares USA" I watched last night, it dealt with the Irish-American owner of an Italian restaurant, with no knowledge of the country, culture or cuisine, who'd hired a 22-year old deadbeat 'head chef' with absolutely NO culinary training, but hadn't the balls to fire him.
95% of the ingredients used are frozen, but fraudulently advertised as 'Fresh' in the menu (which is illegal in the UK); food is heated mostly in microwaves (and is STILL cold when served), the kitchen & freezer are unhygienic (in UK, Health Standards officials have the legal power to immediately close down businesses that don't come up to legally enforceable standards), and said owner is so deluded that her 'food' is fine, even when the staff disagree (One of the servers knows more about the business than SHE does).
All it took was Gordon Ramsay to point out these failings - and more besides - to utterly destroy her precious little 'bubble'. She wigs out as her little inferior 'reality' falls apart, because even she knows that she's dealing with a Brit who is not only the Head Chef, but owner, of world-renowned restaurrants, some multiple-Michelin Star-rated. He knows EVERYTHING about everything, she knows less than NOTHING, and she finally realises this; Culinary-wise, he is superior, she is inferior, and she doesn't like that.
He's a hero of mine, in this way: how he can utterly ANNIHILATE* people, destroying their delusions that they cling on to with a death grip. We need an Atheist version of Gordon - the ultimate 'Deprogrammer' - who can break through the cultic self-hypnotic 'faith'/'apologetics' shields of fundies, verbally & logically eviscerate their inferior 'doctrines', inflict psychological pain infinitely worse than what the Cenobites (in the "Hellraiser" films) do to their victims physically, to utterly break them, then crush their 'beliefs' under his/her heel, rendering such as nonexistent as their so-called 'God', emerging superior & triumphant. But then, we Atheists always have been. And always will be. For ever & ever RAmen.
...or said fundies could simply do a Jonathan Edwards. Recanting of his previous long-time beliefs & becoming an Atheist - and all by himself, no less - hasn't killed him. Only said beliefs. Yet, he's STILL going to Heaven, regardless via those four magic letters: OSAS. Ain't that a pisser, eh Shit4Life...?! Remember: all we Atheists - and teh nasty ebil LGBT people here in FSTDT - have to do is 'Convert', then do a Jonathan Edwards, and there's your 'Revenge Fantasies' completely fucked. >:D
*- ...but it is only with utter destruction, that one can truly [i]create[/i]. Just ask Gordon Ramsay, about those whose 'bubbles' he popped, and - on taking his superior advice - became succesful restaurants. Also Jonathan Edwards about how he no longer needs that 'bubble' of delusion: and all popped by himself. Certainly we Atheists about the rise of Secularism. [/Ratzy the Nazi]