Dumb things theists say .

[Eric1958]

The idea that God gave us free will, but gets angry when we use it, makes no sense to me. It's like giving your child a box of matches and then getting angry when he sets the house on fire.

Or to put it another way : I give you free will, so choose your own belief, but if you choose wrong I'll put you in an eternal pit of hell. For I am a loving God. Oh, one more thing, I am all knowing and so even as I create you I know that you will probably choose wrong. Sorry about that.

[Eric1958]

Another good one I heard recently was a theist asking a panelist on a talk show. "you can't tell me what happened one second before the big bang, therefore science can't answer everything so scientists only believe in science because they have faith".

[ChillyWilly]

"Stalin was an atheist!"

"Hitler was Atheist"

[FrankDK]

Similar to one I heard.  "God is so powerful that he could have created everything even if he didn't exist."

I'm glad I wasn't drinking a soda when I read that.  I'd be cleaning the keyboard for a couple of hours.

One that always makes me smile, because it's a theistic condemnation of theists, is "If God didn't exist, Christians would be terrible people, robbing and killing."  I guess that one didn't notice that most robbers and killers in the US are Christians.

Apparently, atheists have something that theists lack: a conscience.

Frank

[Hydra009]

"Stalin was an atheist!"

"Hitler was Atheist"

"Darwin was an atheist!"

[Mister Agenda]

It would be funny to have a thread of dumb things atheists say, but whenever I've run across one, it seems to only have things in it that we're often accused of saying but which I never seem to catch any of us actually saying; like 'Life came from nothing by accident!' or 'God doesn't exist because you can't prove he does!'

[Hydra009]

It would be funny to have a thread of dumb things atheists say, but whenever I've run across one, it seems to only have things in it that we're often accused of saying but which I never seem to catch any of us actually saying; like 'Life came from nothing by accident!' or 'God doesn't exist because you can't prove he does!'

The main problem with that is that the really dumb stuff is usually the opinions of individual atheists, and not opinions commonplace among atheists as a whole.

[FrankDK]

> The main problem with that is that the really dumb stuff is usually the opinions of individual atheists, and not opinions commonplace among atheists as a whole.

The dumbest thing I ever heard an atheist say was, "Yes, dear," right after his wife asked, "Does this dress make me look fat?"

Frank

[VaasMontenegro]

Theist: "1+2=3, Half life 3 Confirmed, therefore God."

[Jesus]

> Wins a match (sports)
 - "Thank God for giving me the win."


Or another ...

"You can't possibly understand what God has in store for us."

[leo]

"The will of god " :rollin:

[PickelledEggs]

"If that guy let some jesus in his life, he wouldn't have turned out to be such an evil person."

[Jesus]

"The will of god " :rollin:

"Maybe your father died because it's what God wanted."


Oh fuck ...

[Hydra009]

Here's an exchange that I was a part of:

Theist:  I honestly believe that prayer works.  People who are prayed for get better.
Me:  What about people who are prayed for and die?
Theists:  That's God calling you home.  When it's your time, it's your time.
Me:  *internal facepalm*

[NilDesperandum]

Science IS a religion. That's the smartest thing people, let alone theists, say. If you think otherwise, you're a bloody cvnt.