What are some of your favorite rebuttals when someone questions your atheism?

Especially when they say something that makes you feel like an insensitive human being.

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Permalink Reply by G Smith on July 10, 2011 at 7:36pm

In case anyone hasn't voted yet on inclusion/exclusion of "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, here's the link to the single-question poll:  www.azcentral.com/12news/

(scroll down -  right-hand side)

Permalink Reply by It's just Matt on July 10, 2011 at 8:21pm

Which version of which one(s)? A Catholic, a Charismatic , and a member of Westboro Baptist do not worship the same God...even if they use the same names and texts- So far, all Christians agree with me on that...but do not find anything wrong with it...oh yeah, that's right, they practice "true" Christianity.

 

We cannot all be right, but we can all be wrong.

 

"I contend that we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer God than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all other possible Gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."-Stephen H. Roberts

Permalink Reply by Brian Wood on July 11, 2011 at 1:03pm
Sheeeeeit!! Jesus can't even walk on water any more; his feet leak.
Permalink Reply by G Smith on July 12, 2011 at 5:58am

Ouch!

Oops...

Double Ouch!!

Permalink Reply by Phenix on July 11, 2011 at 2:19pm

I say:

 

I stopped practicing superstition in all its forms.

Permalink Reply by S.F. Zeigler on July 11, 2011 at 3:17pm
me too... knock on wood.
Permalink Reply by Tom Sarbeck on July 11, 2011 at 10:47pm

A free-thinking friend told me recently that she regularly lunches with some people, and an Xian in the group had told her I'm a member of the Church of Satan.

I asked her if she knew where I could find a Church of Satan nearby.

A few days later she very happily told me she'd taken my query back to her lunch group and they'd howled with laughter.

 

When an Xian scolds you, ask if s/he knows where there is a Church of Satan you can go to.

 

Permalink Reply by Atheist Andrea on July 12, 2011 at 8:50pm

Well, at least they seemed to have an open mind!

 

Permalink Reply by Allena Weber on July 12, 2011 at 5:04am

I say that atheism is much more reasnable.I think too much to swallow abunch of nonsense.A person I thought was a friend decided I was bad and dammed to hell because of my non belief.It doesn't happen often thankfully.

Permalink Reply by G Smith on July 12, 2011 at 6:12am

I like Penn Gillette's (Penn and Teller) response:

When someone asks me why I don't believe that we were created as humans, but instead believe that we evolved to become humans:  I take a fossil out of my pocket, hold it up in front of them, and say "Fossil!"

If they still don't get it, I throw it just over their head.

 

Permalink Reply by Atheist Andrea on July 12, 2011 at 8:51pm
He must keep alot of fossils in his pocket!
Permalink Reply by Atheist Andrea on July 12, 2011 at 8:52pm
I try not to tell my friends. Only one friend really knows. As a mom, it can really affect how other moms view you and if they want their kids hanging out with yours.

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