Feb. 13th, 2013

draggonlaady: (Teddy)
This article is a bit old, but I'd never read it before, and I love it. So I'm linking it so you can love it too.

Whatever you “believe,” this is not as effective as medicine. Again
you can say, “It works for me,” but so do placebos. My point being, I’m
saying God doesn’t exist. I’m not saying faith doesn’t exist. I know
faith exists. I see it all the time. But believing in something doesn’t
make it true. Hoping that something is true doesn’t make it true. The
existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn’t. It’s
not a matter of opinion. You can have your own opinions. But you can’t
have your own facts.

Why don’t I believe in God? No, no no, why do YOU believe in God?
Surely the burden of proof is on the believer. You started all this. If I
came up to you and said, “Why don’t you believe I can fly?” You’d say,
“Why would I?” I’d reply, “Because it’s a matter of faith.” If I then
said, “Prove I can’t fly. Prove I can’t fly see, see, you can’t prove it
can you?” You’d probably either walk away, call security or throw me
out of the window and shout, ‘’F—ing fly then you lunatic.”

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Since the beginning of recorded history, which is defined by the
invention of writing by the Sumerians around 6,000 years ago, historians
have cataloged over 3700 supernatural beings, of which 2870 can be
considered deities.

So next time someone tells me they believe in God, I’ll say “Oh which
one? Zeus? Hades? Jupiter? Mars? Odin? Thor? Krishna? Vishnu? Ra?…” If
they say “Just God. I only believe in the one God,” I’ll point out that
they are nearly as atheistic as me. I don’t believe in 2,870 gods, and
they don’t believe in 2,869.

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