Thank God I’m an atheist

Let me make it clear at the outset - there are a lot of intelligent Christians out there, and rarely would I single out stupidity in a group of people as a common denominator - stupidity is so subjective and non exclusive it can be found anywhere. However, having said that I’m now about to cite Sherri Shepherd as being very stupid indeed. Shepherd, a co-presenter of ‘The View’ in America, insisted during one of her appearances that Christianity pre-dated the Greeks, indeed she was pretty sure that NOTHING pre-dated Christianity. During a discussion of the Greek philosopher Epicurus co-host Whoopi Goldberg said - “Keep in mind that probably when Epicurus was around, there was no Jesus Christ stuff going on,”

“They still had Christians back then,” Shepherd insisted.

“They had gods,” Goldberg said.

“They had Christians,” Shepherd insisted. “And they threw ‘em to the lions.”

“I think this might predate that,” Goldberg said.

“I don’t think anything predated Christians,” Shepherd retorted.

Last September, after saying she did not believe in evolution, Whoopi asked her rhetorically if she also believed the earth was flat.

Taking the question seriously, Shepherd responded: “I don’t know.”

Like I said in my previous post - we hand the keys to some important places to these people - anyone know why?

See - Nothing Pre-dates Christianity

Ben

I once had a friend who believed a ‘little man’ had taken up residence in his knee cap. No one ever saw this little man of course, and all things considered I doubt anyone ever will. A consequence of his belief, is that he has taken up residence in an asylum for over twenty years now. Only at my most despairing moments, only at those times when life gets so messed up and bewildering that it gets in the way of living, have I ever even nominally entertained the idea that a ‘little man’ could, indeed, be living in some tunnelled out hollow behind my mate’s knee cap (just the mere fact that we were great friends demanded I at least give it pause for thought, even if only once). The more likely explanation is, sadly, that he’s quite mad. There is no evidence that any such creature exists. So convinced of this are the Professionals in the Medical Service that they haven’t gone to the trouble of x-raying him just to put it all to rest. His protestations are summarily dismissed and x-rays which are demanded, tend to be of the cranial area. My friend however is not for letting go of his belief that a malevolent little bugger with an Irish accent lives inside his knee cap. Every now and then this little leprechaun will command that my friend hasten to confront celebrities and tell them that their days are numbered. High on his ‘their time is almost up’ list are members of the Royal Family, and on more than one occasion security has had to be tightened to keep ‘Bob’ (not his real name) from getting through the cordons (he does escape his captors every now and then - on the instruction of his knee dweller of course). Now Bob in most other ways is a decent guy, he’s kind, gentle and predisposed toward being friendly. Only when the malevolent voice using his knee cap as an amplifier pipes up does Bob get ‘weird’ and Bob would never act weird, threateningly or otherwise dangerously, if it were not for his belief that the little man is real.

So what’s that got to do with the Bible I hear you ask? Well…there are countless millions of people running around this planet right now who believe that some kind of guy exists ‘up there’ - and that this guy has already made demands, issued edicts, urged people to behave in a particular way and guides their every move. There is not one, not one shred of evidence for this guy’s existence and yet we don’t throw cordons around others when these folks are in close proximity, we don’t lock them up for harbouring the belief that someone up there is actively engaged in demanding behavioural imperatives from them. The God of the Bible has as much claim to existence as the man in Bob’s knee cap.

The truly worrying part for me is that not only are the ‘he exists up there’ believers not locked up, but in many places they are embraced before being ultimately handed the keys to some of the most powerful offices in the world. Next time you hear someone referring to ‘God’ - replace the name God with ‘little man who lives in Bob’s knee cap’, then be afraid, be very afraid at the insanity of it all. Hopefully you’ll be afraid enough to protest.

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Ben