Who's your favorite atheist?

[Stoicheion]

My favorite atheist is God.

He doesn't have faith, because he already knows everything. And he doesn't believe in a higher power, because he already is the highest power. Therefore God is an atheist.

^_^

[oldschooldoc]

My favorite atheist is God.

He doesn't have faith, because he already knows everything. And he doesn't believe in a higher power, because he already is the highest power. Therefore God is an atheist.

Interesting outlook on the whole debate. I've had brief thoughts on that, but decided that choosing that argument would force me to acknowledge there was a god. I believe you are being cynical, so I will just stick to praising you    for putting my thoughts into, err, type.

As far as my favorite atheist, what a tough choice. So, so many great minds. I would have to call a draw between John Stuart Mill, Richard Dawkins, and Albert Einstein. That's right all you religious nuts, I'm staking claim to Einstein.

[Stoicheion]

Interesting outlook on the whole debate. I've had brief thoughts on that, but decided that choosing that argument would force me to acknowledge there was a god. I believe you are being cynical, so I will just stick to praising you    for putting my thoughts into, err, type.

As far as my favorite atheist, what a tough choice. So, so many great minds. I would have to call a draw between John Stuart Mill, Richard Dawkins, and Albert Einstein. That's right all you religious nuts, I'm staking claim to Einstein.

heh, thanks. I have been feeling cynical lately.

actually, my favorite atheist would have to be Kathy Griffith. She's awesomely funny. Oh and what part of south texas are you from?

[oldschooldoc]

heh, thanks. I have been feeling cynical lately.

my favorite atheist would have to be Kathy Griffith. She's awesome

It's funny you say that because I feel like I have had the equivalent of what could be called the cynical flu. I think it started when I joined this forum. Reading posts from Titan and Karakara, well...

Kidding Titan and Kara...I actually enjoy the daily dosage of religious nonsense. (Seriously, that wasn't personal either, I have to inject humility and sarcasm, it's my thing.)

Kathy Griffith is pretty awesome, mainly in an obnoxious way. Her personal attacks on Clay Aiken...to die for. Of course talking about comedic atheist, we can't forget the late, great Carlin!

[curiosityandthecat]

I'm going to have to take the obvious route, and say... me, of course.  

[Titan]

My favorite atheist is God.

He doesn't have faith, because he already knows everything. And he doesn't believe in a higher power, because he already is the highest power. Therefore God is an atheist.

^_^

So you don't believe Stoicheion exists because you are Stoicheon therefore you don't exist......nice.

Knowing you exist isn't the same as believing in something. God knows he is God, he doesn't believe he is God. Faith is about the unknown, since God knows everything he has no need for faith.

[Sophus]

Neil Peart!

Oh and... Erich Fromm, Douglas Adams, Samuel Clemens, Robert Green Ingersoll, Stephen Hawking, Edgar Allan Poe and Richard Dawkins. Also, although he was a deist, I like Voltaire.

God would be an atheist not in the sense that he doesn't believe in himself but that he doesn't believe in any other gods higher than him. Which he would have no way of knowing for certain.

[Tom62]

Harry Harrison, Robert A.Heinlein, Isaac Asimov and Douglas Adams. Harry Harrison wrote for example in 1962 the marvelous short story "The Streets of Ashkelon", which is one of the best atheistic stories about the evilness of religion that I know of. He could not publish it the USA and it was banned there for many years.

[Koliat]

Michel Onfray, definitely. Mainly for his imaginative introduction to Traité d'athéologie: Physique de la métaphysique, where had been said the words: "Monotheism took its origins from sands". Dawkins is also interesting figure. If consider Nietzsche to be an atheist, he is at equivalent position to Onfray

[Rastelin]

Among the once already named here, there are one I like to point out. Christopher Hitchens.

The way he takes apart the arguments from religious adversaries are masterly done.

[Stoicheion]

My favorite atheist is God.

He doesn't have faith, because he already knows everything. And he doesn't believe in a higher power, because he already is the highest power. Therefore God is an atheist.

^_^

So you don't believe Stoicheion exists because you are Stoicheon therefore you don't exist......nice.

Knowing you exist isn't the same as believing in something. God knows he is God, he doesn't believe he is God. Faith is about the unknown, since God knows everything he has no need for faith.

hah, i didn't actually come up with that. I copied and pasted it from one of my facebook groups.

I like your replies, everyone. OH and on the note of Clay Aiken. I was SO unsurprised to find out that he is in fact gay. Take that middle-aged women who said he's not!

[karadan]

My mum is my favourite atheist.

[MariaEvri]

I donno many but I like dawkins and the dude from "bullshit"
I like the way he spills out everything

[Zarathustra]

Douglas Adams, Woody Allen, Daniel Dennett, Bertrand Russell, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Martin Heidegger, Aristotle, Albert Einstein, Ricky Gervais, Dawkins, Sam Harris.
And those whom, I think were atheists at heart:
Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo Galilei, Kopernikus, Tycho Brahe and Kierkegaard.

[MariaEvri]

Douglas Adams,

ouch how could I have forgotten about him! I love his books