Atheist Billboards, TEN of them, will be popping up around the Denver/Colorado Springs area this holiday season…
Here’s my BIGGEST beef with the article:
“Bob Enyart, a Christian radio host and spokesman for American Right to Life, said it’s hard to ignore the evidence.
“The Bible says that faith is the evidence of things not seen. Evidence. If we ignore the evidence for gravity or the Creator, that’s really dangerous,” said Enyart. “Income tax doesn’t not exist because somebody doesn’t believe in it. And the same is true with our Creator.”"
Wow, faith IS the evidence. Look, I have worked with people with disabilities and mental illness for more than THIRTEEN years. Many of them have “faith” that they see things or hear things that just plain aren’t there. They’re called schizophrenic delusions or hallucinations. There is NO evidence that these things are really happening, but yet, these people insist they are real. To them, they ARE very real… Does this mean they are real? No.
Yeah, you heard me right, I just compared this guy’s belief system to mental illness. What else do you want me to do with it?
I have FAITH that there are pink and green fairies dancing in my backyard right now. That IS the evidence, my faith. A really beautiful Brian Froud book told me that my faith WAS the evidence. (Those books are really gorgeous, for sure!) That means the pink and green fairies in my back yard are real. Great logic there, you absolutely insane-rhetoric-vomiting person who’s hanging onto the last fraying strings of your idiotology. Have a fun life in there, if you can even hear reason knocking on your skull.



2 responses so far ↓
Steve // November 15, 2008 at 11:08 am |
Whatever happened to rational atheism? Malcolm Muggeridge, Bertrand Russell or Wittgenstein? Instead we get retread rants from the likes of Dawkins, Sam Harris and the like. Calm, carefully reasoned thought doesn’t exist in modern atheism.
Metro State Atheists // November 15, 2008 at 2:39 pm |
I’m almost glad that picked the religious representatives that they did. It almost makes us look better.