Infidels like to play atheist. Play the moral relativist. They talk tough in the face of death–as long as death remains a vague abstraction.
Like Harvey, atheism is their invisible 6'3.5" rabbit. A marvelous make-believe playmate. And as long as you play along with their special friend, then all is well.
It’s fun to play atheist as long as you don’t treat it for real. For instance, never preach an atheistic eulogy at an atheistic funeral. That would hurt the feelings of the survivors.
Atheism isn’t something an atheist thinks you should talk about at a wake or morgue or funeral. To honestly state what mortality means in atheistic terms is something deeply offensive to the average atheist. Instead, you’re supposed to wink and nod at Harvey the Rabbit.
"To honestly state what mortality means in atheistic terms is something deeply offensive to the average atheist."
ReplyDeleteThey must hate the mirror.
The irony is that when atheists discuss the possibility that eternal life, they often take the position of "well tough, the truth isn't there to console us. Deal with it." But if you teach your children about hell and sin, then all of a sudden the big issue is their self-esteem and feelings.
ReplyDeleteActually the big issue is that you're teaching kids something that there is no evidence for.
ReplyDelete"Actually the big issue is that you're teaching kids something that there is no evidence for."
ReplyDeleteNope! Wrong, wrong, wrong. The issue of evidence never comes up in all the discussions I've seen on the subject. Rather atheists and agnostics get all up in arms about how you're ruining the child's self-esteem and damaging their feelings.
Also, to say that there is no evidence is an assertion completely bereft of a supporting argument.
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ReplyDelete"Actually the big issue is that you're teaching kids something that there is no evidence for."
Actually the bigger issue is that you're making an allegation about the lack of evidence for what we teach our kids without providing suitable evidence to back up your allegation.
rrlane said "Actually the big issue is that you're teaching kids something that there is no evidence for."
ReplyDeleterrlane, do you object to the teaching of calculus, fundamental pillar of empirical science, on the same grounds?
Calculus is based on summing infinite sequence. Have you ever known anyone who has actually summed an infinite sequence? Can you produce even a single name of someone who has? Where is the 'evidence' infinite sequences act as we suppose they do?
The evidence of summing infinite sequences is faith; mathematical faith perhaps, but faith nonetheless.
Faith in God is most certainly reasonable, and it's evidence is at least as strong as the evidence for Calculus (example: from life comes life, from reason comes reason etc)
If you herald the virtues of science, your criticism makes you quite a hypocrite.
Theist's like to mind read. Play the mystic revealer...
ReplyDeleteI find this post particularly amusing as I've been to a number of funerals where the complete absence of mysticism has riled the theists, but everyone else has commented on what a great service it was.
Why on earth would you preach atheism at a funeral? A funeral is a ceremony that celebrates the life someone lived, not a pulpit. Oh wait, you guys do use death to preach I forgot :/
A theist beats up a straw-man caricature of "an atheist".
ReplyDeleteYou pwn yourself when you do this.
But please, continue. I find it absolutely fascinating.
But not as fascinating as assertion/opinion without argument.
ReplyDeleteThat's not my goal, Warren. Smooches!
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