Atheist Blog Comment

Generally I don’t approve ‘anonymous’ blog comments, and quietly trash them. I thought this one was too illustrative to trash, though. This is from the Chinese pictures post:

If you are going to mention god, then you must believe in one.

I suppose that no atheist can then even mention God, a god, or a god concept, or a creator. Isn’t this kind of silly? Especially since the comment itself mentions little-g god.

If you believe in god, then you must believe everything happens for a reason.

Since this sentence mentions god, and further delves into the implications of god existing, then by the aforementioned rule you must believe in a god.

Really though, this is little more than clumsy Theological statement. There are about 500 pages of assumptions and the content isn’t really worth talking about. Anyone with a cursory understanding of Christian Theology can see the problems with this statement.

The last line of your post is one of the most asinine things I have ever read.

Ah…seems like commenter just wants to call names. Ok. Mission accomplished.

-an atheist who can’t believe how dumb and self-contradicting religious people can be

This is the meat of the modern Atheist movement, or backlash, or whatever you want to call it. They like to roll their eyes, say “haha…’god’…how stupid can you get.” By repeating it enough they seek to create a meme that believing in God requires a lack of mental ability.

I have been talking with atheists online since 1985 (back when it was primarily BBS’). The Athiest showing seems to get weaker and weaker. This comment is a perfect example.

Aside from the public policy implications (teaching your kids to believe in God is child abuse, etc), Christians have little to fear from Atheists. The real danger lies elsewhere.