You Know You're An Atheist When...

Saturday, January 2, 2010
Whist reading through my Google Alerts I found a provocative title that warranted further examination:  "You Know You're An Atheist When..."


It turns out it is a creationists list of a atheist's characteristics. There is nothing particularly new here, but the list is not exactly what this post is about. Although, just for fun here is a sampling:

# You blame God for the starvation, sickness, pain and suffering in the world...when, indeed, it is MAN's greed, politics, selfishness and apathy that not only causes, but also ignores the sick and the starving masses. We aren't our brothers' keepers....but we should be.
# You claim Creationists don't research on evolution websites before debating against it. Luckily you caught this useful weapon against Christians at the evolution site you learned all about creation doctrine from.
# You refuse to use the word "excruciating" because of its origins in describing the agonies of crucifixion. (ex crucis - "from the cross")
# You adhere to a false and realised version of history gained from watching Hollywood movies such as Inherit the Wind so that you can (for example) conclude: "the controversy over creation and evolution was settled way back in 1925, when Clarence Darrow eviscerated William Jennings Bryan in a country courtroom in Dayton, Tennessee."
# You're convinced that people only believe in God because they're afraid of going to hell...despite the fact that if there is no God, then there's probably no hell either.
# You deface money by scribbling God off of dollar bills.
# You claim that there is no way a book thousands of years old can be relevant today, but refuse to do the necessary homework to see how it could apply in modern situations, preferring instead to argue that God should have provided an updated version.
# You have never pondered the question: why did a really smart guy like Bertrand Russell write such a pathetically limp, uninformed and adolescent critique of Christianity in "Why I Am Not A Christian"?
# You believe any person who writes a book critical of Christianity is doing it for "education" purposes. Conversely, you believe that any person who writes a book defending Christianity is "just in it to make money."
The above list was written by Heathen Basher on Landover Baptist's forums. When I clicked on his profile link I was asked to register on the site, which I had no interest in doing. But, I noticed at the bottom of the page the following "disclaimer":

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 WYF?!? Seriously, WTF?
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