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

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Permalink Reply by Shane Christian on July 14, 2011 at 3:37pm

Another good joke to throw at the fundies, if they bring up the "You can't see air, but you believe in air?"

I reply that although we can't see air, when we condense air we get liquid oxygen and liquid nitrogen, but when we condense God all we get is bull shit.  :-) 

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Permalink Reply by Shane Christian on July 15, 2011 at 12:14pm

An excellent reference, regarding the Bible and science is Julia Sweeney's DVD or CD titled, "Letting Go of God".  It is very humorous and informative.

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Permalink Reply by Joshua Billingsley on August 31, 2011 at 3:22pm

When I am confronted with them saying I am insensitive or cold due to my lack of faith I like to ask them how that is so? I am a good person, I am caring and helpful and I do it for me and not to get out of punishment later. I was raised to look out for other people. I do not think I am being watched by a divine Judge or any crap. I just behave nice to be nice. What about them. If they do the same then why do they need God?

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Permalink Reply by Napoleon Bonaparte on August 31, 2011 at 4:53pm

http://www.atheistnexus.org/video/masturbatory-theist-is-retentive

You can quote Christine O'Donnell and say 'lets not go there'.

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Permalink Reply by George on September 10, 2011 at 7:20am

I'd be interested in what someone could say to you that "makes you" feel like  you're insensitive.  

They could call you insensitive, but that wouldn't make it so, or make you feel that way.

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Permalink Reply by Atheist Andrea on September 10, 2011 at 6:08pm

One instance is a very nice lady from work who I really liked alot and enjoyed her friendship. When she found out I was an atheist, she said, " How can you not find beauty in the world?" and " I really thought you were a sweet person who believed in god?". At that point, all I felt like doing was rolling my eyes and just walking away.

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Permalink Reply by Tom Sarbeck on September 11, 2011 at 3:42am

My kneejerk response to her: "How can you not fear the uncertainty in the world?"

Turning philosophic (or philosophomoric): Beauty differs from terror by how far away it is. A lightning bolt in the distant mountains is beautiful; a few feet away it's terror.

It saddens/angers me that religious leaders, especially those who lead the conservative religions, instead of helping believers deal with their fear of what might befall them in an uncertain world, use believers' fear to take advantage of them.

Some of these leaders take their believers' wealth or power and then use that money or power to impose their religious views on everyone.

Leaders such as Jim Jones use their "fitness to survive" to take even the will to live from their believers. Perhaps these leaders improve the gene pool.

 

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Permalink Reply by Keith Welsh on September 10, 2011 at 8:03pm

I usually don't let people know because they are so very conservation in Louisiana.  Put christian that I feel comfortable with, I explain it to them in the way they understand.  At the end of a long discussion I say "god reveals himself to us in ways we can understand and the only way I can understand anything is through science and the scienticfic method."  A few get it, some don't.  The one that don't won't get it no matter what I would say.

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Permalink Reply by Larry W Snider on September 11, 2011 at 10:13am

Hmmm,

Well Andrea, Your question puzzles me greatly. I've been trying to wrap my mind around how a person whose basic life doctrine is an open, public profession (witnessing) and a deep seated joy in the "knowledge" that whoever's beliefs, or lack thereof, differs from mine shall spend all of eternity in the screaming, unending, torturous, agony of Hellfire could possibly turn their philosophy upside down and make Me feel "Insensitive" towards others!

 

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Permalink Reply by Vulpes on September 11, 2011 at 11:30am

If it's a hopeless case I would say I am a discordian. I believe in the god Eris who is the goddess of chaos. Since it is non-chaotic for a theist to believe in god and non-chaotic is against what Eris wants. I don't believe in god.

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Permalink Reply by hanspshansen on September 11, 2011 at 1:42pm

at the moment, i love the question about where the laws of math and logic came from, if god didn't write them.

i can agre that 0+0=0.

but that is a law of math, if the law of math don't exist, 0+0 can be everything :-)

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Permalink Reply by gerry gallacher on September 12, 2011 at 8:35pm

I look forward to meeting xians, had a debate recently in the street with a work mate, I didn't know he beleived stuff but soon it looked as though he was about 8 years of age, saying stuff like 'we are made in the image of god'...he of course can't explain what that means, he also slyly accused me of being evil! Then I told him not to go there as that would be a deal breaker in any relationship....it is so staggering how religion has caught on that I remind myself daily of the bell curve and how traits are dispersed around a population.

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