Sunday, May 04, 2008

The Christian stupid, in four simple words.


Over at the intellectually-challenged sinkhole that is "Atheism is Dead," we read:

If atheism were true ...

Pause.

Stunned silence.

Wow. Just wow. How much grotesque ignorance can you pack into four short words? "If atheism were true." How many of you understand the truly appalling dumbassitude of that expression? Because it's really fucking stupid.

Quite simply, atheism represents nothing more than a lack of belief in a supernatural deity. Got that? A lack of belief. As such, there is no truth or falsity associated with atheism in any way. Period.

Again, quite simply, the standard atheist position is that, with respect to a "God," there is currently absolutely no evidence to support such a conjecture but, if there was, the responsible atheist would be happy to reconsider his lack of belief. Until that happens, the default position of lack of belief is not just a logical position, it is the only logical position. And that's why it's meaningless to speak of atheism as being "true" or "false."

You'd think people who have an entire web site entitled "Atheism is Dead" might have taken the time to at least figure out what it is they're trying to discredit. But, fucking hell, if they were any stupider, they could go hang out with The Politic's Matthew and you'd never be able to tell them apart.

4 comments:

Red Tory said...

That’s a perfectly correct point, of course, technically speaking. However, at the risk of playing the devil’s advocate here, I think it’s fairly clear that what these jokers are referring to is atheism as a “movement” of some sort. Unfortunately, they’re apparently too inarticulate and/or lazy to set out their proposition as such.

KEvron said...

" these jokers are referring to is atheism as a 'movement'”

there's a movement? not being much of a joiner, i'll take a pass.

KEvron

¢rÄbG®äŠŠ said...

If atheism is false, so is dog.

Dana Hunter said...

You've got them totally wrong, CC! You see, the title of their blog was too long, so they had to cut it down a bit. The FULL title is actually, "[We're Far Too Stupid to Prove That] Atheism is Dead." Their alternate title was "Atheism is Dead [Tired of Dumbasses Such as Ourselves]."

I'll have to propose a new title for them now, though: "Atheism is [Having A Marvelous Time Watching CC Kill These Stupid Arguments] Dead."