Title: "God doesn't believe in atheists"
Post by: Nazzer on May 27, 2009, 03:53:29 PM
Post by: Nazzer on May 27, 2009, 03:53:29 PM
I was sitting in line at the Department of Motor Vehicles to get my drivers license, and som fat mouthbreather came into the building with this vacant smile on his face and a shirt that said "God doesn't believe in atheists". This got me thinking: do theists think they're actually making a point with those shirts? What point are they "making"?
Title: Re: "God doesn't believe in atheists"
Post by: rlrose328 on May 27, 2009, 04:33:47 PM
Post by: rlrose328 on May 27, 2009, 04:33:47 PM
I think they THINK they're trying to be inflammatory and start an argument so they can get all ruffled... but it just won't work. I see that phrase and I just roll my eyes.
Title: Re: "God doesn't believe in atheists"
Post by: jcm on May 27, 2009, 05:01:52 PM
Post by: jcm on May 27, 2009, 05:01:52 PM
Quote from: "Nazzer"I was sitting in line at the Department of Motor Vehicles to get my drivers license, and som fat mouthbreather came into the building with this vacant smile on his face and a shirt that said "God doesn't believe in atheists". This got me thinking: do theists think they're actually making a point with those shirts? What point are they "making"?
Mouthbreather? Excellent! I love mouthbreathers, they bring me so much joy. I'm sure that was the greatest quote it has ever heard!
Title: Re: "God doesn't believe in atheists"
Post by: Enoch Root on May 27, 2009, 05:06:11 PM
Post by: Enoch Root on May 27, 2009, 05:06:11 PM
That's almost as good as this little gem:
"God is dead." -- Nietzsche
"Nietzsche is dead." -- God
"God is dead." -- Nietzsche
"Nietzsche is dead." -- God
Title: Re: "God doesn't believe in atheists"
Post by: Psalm23 on May 27, 2009, 05:40:50 PM
Post by: Psalm23 on May 27, 2009, 05:40:50 PM
Quote from: "Nazzer"I was sitting in line at the Department of Motor Vehicles to get my drivers license, and som fat mouthbreather came into the building with this vacant smile on his face and a shirt that said "God doesn't believe in atheists". This got me thinking: do theists think they're actually making a point with those shirts? What point are they "making"?That shirt is just silly! God believes in all of his creation, whether they believe in him or not. Why do you think GOD finds atheists? I know of many atheists who have converted to GOD.
Title: Re: "God doesn't believe in atheists"
Post by: jcm on May 27, 2009, 06:30:22 PM
Post by: jcm on May 27, 2009, 06:30:22 PM
Quote from: "Psalm23"Quote from: "Nazzer"I was sitting in line at the Department of Motor Vehicles to get my drivers license, and som fat mouthbreather came into the building with this vacant smile on his face and a shirt that said "God doesn't believe in atheists". This got me thinking: do theists think they're actually making a point with those shirts? What point are they "making"?That shirt is just silly! God believes in all of his creation, whether they believe in him or not. Why do you think GOD finds atheists? I know of many atheists who have converted to GOD.
So if Paul Bunyan believes in the grand canyon, should that be proof Paul Bunyan exists?
Title: Re: "God doesn't believe in atheists"
Post by: Psalm23 on May 27, 2009, 08:07:54 PM
Post by: Psalm23 on May 27, 2009, 08:07:54 PM
Quote from: "jcm"No, but that proves that the Grand Canyon exists..Quote from: "Psalm23"Quote from: "Nazzer"I was sitting in line at the Department of Motor Vehicles to get my drivers license, and som fat mouthbreather came into the building with this vacant smile on his face and a shirt that said "God doesn't believe in atheists". This got me thinking: do theists think they're actually making a point with those shirts? What point are they "making"?That shirt is just silly! God believes in all of his creation, whether they believe in him or not. Why do you think GOD finds atheists? I know of many atheists who have converted to GOD.
So if Paul Bunyan believes in the grand canyon, should that be proof Paul Bunyan exists?
Title: Re: "God doesn't believe in atheists"
Post by: BuckeyeInNC on May 27, 2009, 08:31:52 PM
Post by: BuckeyeInNC on May 27, 2009, 08:31:52 PM
Quote from: "Psalm23"No, but that proves that the Grand Canyon exists..
Title: Re: "God doesn't believe in atheists"
Post by: Nazzer on May 27, 2009, 08:33:32 PM
Post by: Nazzer on May 27, 2009, 08:33:32 PM
So if his big blue ox believes in Shiva, that means that Shiva exists?
Congratulations, by your logic every entity anyone ever believed in exists.
Congratulations, by your logic every entity anyone ever believed in exists.
Title: Re: "God doesn't believe in atheists"
Post by: jcm on May 27, 2009, 08:45:22 PM
Post by: jcm on May 27, 2009, 08:45:22 PM
Quote from: "Psalm23"No, but that proves that the Grand Canyon exists..
what are you talking about? I was not wondering if the grand canyon exists.
Lumberjack legends
Bunyan's birth was strange, as are the births of many mythic heroes, as it took three storks to carry the infant (ordinarily, one stork could carry several babies and drop them off at their parents' homes). When he was old enough to clap and laugh, the vibration broke every window in the house. When he was seven months old, he sawed the legs off his parent's bed in the middle of the night. Paul and Babe the Blue Ox, his companion, dug the Grand Canyon when he dragged his axe behind him. He created Mount Hood by piling rocks on top of his campfire to put it out.
Title: Re: "God doesn't believe in atheists"
Post by: Sophus on May 28, 2009, 06:58:28 AM
Post by: Sophus on May 28, 2009, 06:58:28 AM
:D
Title: Re: "God doesn't believe in atheists"
Post by: Psalm23 on May 28, 2009, 01:29:46 PM
Post by: Psalm23 on May 28, 2009, 01:29:46 PM
Quote from: "Sophus":idea:
So....
God is all knowing. God doesn't believe in atheists. God doesn't believe in other gods. God is an atheist. God doesn't believe in himself. Thus God doesn't exist.
............did I get it right? lol. God believes in atheists because GOD said atheists would exist long before atheism existed..
religion has been a part of mankind since the dawn of human kind.
can you prove to me atheism was embedded in the mind during creation? because according to modern science. "God" is programmed into the human brain.
who programmed our brain?
Title: Re: "God doesn't believe in atheists"
Post by: curiosityandthecat on May 28, 2009, 02:29:15 PM
Post by: curiosityandthecat on May 28, 2009, 02:29:15 PM
Quote from: "Psalm23"God is all-knowing. he knows there are no other Gods. how can a GOD be an atheist, if he is GOD?(https://www.happyatheistforum.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages41.fotki.com%2Fv1341%2Fphotos%2F8%2F892548%2F6145789%2F63565103-vi.jpg&hash=e14f887878619a4e2da62a598c556b74db5d34fd). God believes in atheists because GOD said atheists would exist long before atheism existed..
religion has been a part of mankind since the dawn of human kind.
can you prove to me atheism was embedded in the mind during creation? because according to modern science. "God" is programmed into the human brain.
who programmed our brain?
Title: Re: "God doesn't believe in atheists"
Post by: JillSwift on May 28, 2009, 04:32:53 PM
Post by: JillSwift on May 28, 2009, 04:32:53 PM
Quote from: "Psalm23"who programmed our brain?IBM
Title: Re: "God doesn't believe in atheists"
Post by: Jolly Sapper on May 28, 2009, 05:14:11 PM
Post by: Jolly Sapper on May 28, 2009, 05:14:11 PM
Quote from: "Psalm23"Quote from: "Sophus":idea:
So....
God is all knowing. God doesn't believe in atheists. God doesn't believe in other gods. God is an atheist. God doesn't believe in himself. Thus God doesn't exist.
............did I get it right? lol. God believes in atheists because GOD said atheists would exist long before atheism existed..
religion has been a part of mankind since the dawn of human kind.
can you prove to me atheism was embedded in the mind during creation? because according to modern science. "God" is programmed into the human brain.
who programmed our brain?
But technically, could I say that god was an atheist as God doesn't believe in any other omnipotent, omnipresent, self aware being who is more powerful than itself? IF God is not an atheist, then what God does God believe in?
Title: Re: "God doesn't believe in atheists"
Post by: Heretical Rants on May 29, 2009, 03:38:26 AM
Post by: Heretical Rants on May 29, 2009, 03:38:26 AM
Quote from: "curiosityandthecat"who programmed our brain?(https://www.happyatheistforum.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages41.fotki.com%2Fv1341%2Fphotos%2F8%2F892548%2F6145789%2F63565103-vi.jpg&hash=e14f887878619a4e2da62a598c556b74db5d34fd)[/quote]
That seems about right to me...
if you watch a lot of TV, anyway.
Title: Re: "God doesn't believe in atheists"
Post by: Jolly Sapper on May 30, 2009, 12:41:04 AM
Post by: Jolly Sapper on May 30, 2009, 12:41:04 AM
oohhh!!..
If "God doesn't believe in atheists" that means that either god doesn't exist or I don't exist.
Damn, that's too long to fit on a T-shirt! :upset:
If "God doesn't believe in atheists" that means that either god doesn't exist or I don't exist.
Damn, that's too long to fit on a T-shirt! :upset:
Title: Re: "God doesn't believe in atheists"
Post by: VietnamVet-BRIGHT on May 31, 2009, 03:15:24 AM
Post by: VietnamVet-BRIGHT on May 31, 2009, 03:15:24 AM
Quote from: "Psalm23"Quote from: "Sophus":idea:
So....
God is all knowing. God doesn't believe in atheists. God doesn't believe in other gods. God is an atheist. God doesn't believe in himself. Thus God doesn't exist.
............did I get it right? lol. God believes in atheists because GOD said atheists would exist long before atheism existed..
religion has been a part of mankind since the dawn of human kind.
Yes, superstitious ideation goes back to the dawn of human history and continues today ...
The first religions were practiced by nomadic tribes (as far back as the Paleolithic); they were shamanistic. There was no god/s in their belief system, shamanistic religions believed that the dead became ancestors located "on the other side of the hill" and were available for advice through the special communicative abilities (trance) of the tribal shaman.
Over time as nomadic peoples became agrarian (~8,000 BCE) and then urbanized (~3000 BCE), highly respected ancestor characters evolved into the mythic cosmological (means located in nature, not supernatural) gods of the polytheistic religions (Egyptian, Greek, Mesopotamian, etc) ... even Genesis has echoes of polytheistic ideation, ie: male god, Baal, and his female goddess consort, Ashtoreth, versus Yahweh.
About 1000 BCE, cosmological gods began to morph into the transcendent (supernatural) deity characters featured in monothiestic religions, ie: Zoroastrianism's Ahura Mazda; Yahwism's (eventual Judaism) Yahweh; etc.
The second commandment (Exodus: Do not have any other gods before me) illustrates the historical tension between retreating polytheistic worldviews and emerging monotheism. Scholars place the Book of Exodus at about 600-500 BCE.Quote from: "Psalm23"can you prove to me atheism was embedded in the mind during creation? because according to modern science. "God" is programmed into the human brain.
who programmed our brain?
Who programmed our brain?
Oooo-kay, I can see that this is going to be difficult for you.
.
Title: Re: "God doesn't believe in atheists"
Post by: BuckeyeInNC on May 31, 2009, 12:49:22 PM
Post by: BuckeyeInNC on May 31, 2009, 12:49:22 PM
Who programmed our brains . . .
Well, here is what science has to say about that = = = > evolution.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iMmvu9e ... annel_page (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iMmvu9eMrg&feature=channel_page)
Well, here is what science has to say about that = = = > evolution.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iMmvu9e ... annel_page (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iMmvu9eMrg&feature=channel_page)
Title: Re: "God doesn't believe in atheists"
Post by: Atrax Robustus on May 31, 2009, 01:10:21 PM
Post by: Atrax Robustus on May 31, 2009, 01:10:21 PM
Quote from: "Psalm23"because according to modern science. "God" is programmed into the human brain.
Oh please show me your source!
THIS I have just got to see!
Title: Re: "God doesn't believe in atheists"
Post by: Whitney on May 31, 2009, 09:35:34 PM
Post by: Whitney on May 31, 2009, 09:35:34 PM
Quote from: "Atrax Robustus"Quote from: "Psalm23"because according to modern science. "God" is programmed into the human brain.
Oh please show me your source!
THIS I have just got to see!
You might have to go ask him at www.athesitthinktank.net (http://www.athesitthinktank.net) (whom he is currently trolling) He's on a week vacation from HAF and the email he sent me after I told him about his little trip lead me to think he won't be returning.
Title: Re: "God doesn't believe in atheists"
Post by: Jolly Sapper on June 01, 2009, 12:30:39 AM
Post by: Jolly Sapper on June 01, 2009, 12:30:39 AM
No source, but I do remember hearing about research going on to see if there were some kind of difference in genes or brain chemistry/function between those who claim to actually feel the presence of supernatural things and those who don't feel any presences.
I think that may have been what Psalm was referring to.
I think that may have been what Psalm was referring to.
Title: Re: "God doesn't believe in atheists"
Post by: samuel on June 01, 2009, 05:43:56 AM
Post by: samuel on June 01, 2009, 05:43:56 AM
Either:
God is real, and atheists really do believe in a god.
or
There is no god, thus cannot believe in anything, let alone atheists.
or
God is real, but doesn't believe in things that exist (thus isn't an all-knowing god).
God is real, and atheists really do believe in a god.
or
There is no god, thus cannot believe in anything, let alone atheists.
or
God is real, but doesn't believe in things that exist (thus isn't an all-knowing god).
Title: Re: "God doesn't believe in atheists"
Post by: BadPoison on June 01, 2009, 03:42:12 PM
Post by: BadPoison on June 01, 2009, 03:42:12 PM
God most likely doesn't believe in atheists because God most likely isn't real.
God is a fictional character that believes in atheists.
God is a fictional character that believes in atheists.
Title: Re: "God doesn't believe in atheists"
Post by: idienothinghappens on July 15, 2009, 01:35:01 AM
Post by: idienothinghappens on July 15, 2009, 01:35:01 AM
THANK GOD IM AN ATHEIST!...*PHEW*
Title: Re: "God doesn't believe in atheists"
Post by: michael on July 15, 2009, 04:22:28 AM
Post by: michael on July 15, 2009, 04:22:28 AM
Yeah, guys like this usually disappear after they preach for a couple of posts. When they get asked a tough question like the above "name your source", they're gone.
Quote from: "Whitney"Quote from: "Atrax Robustus"Quote from: "Psalm23"because according to modern science. "God" is programmed into the human brain.
Oh please show me your source!
THIS I have just got to see!
You might have to go ask him at http://www.athesitthinktank.net (http://www.athesitthinktank.net) (whom he is currently trolling) He's on a week vacation from HAF and the email he sent me after I told him about his little trip lead me to think he won't be returning.