You can’t rebel against what you don’t believe exists!
What is it with Christians running around saying they used to be atheists because they ran around being, at the very least, stupid assholes for a while?
Take the makers of this silly assed shirt shown to the left. It’s being marketed towards Christians who “would not have said God did not exist”.
Many of us would not have said that God did not exist, but we lived as though God did not exist. We lived as though there would be no
consequences for our sins. We did whatever pleased us. Thank God though, today we are officially ex-athiests.
In other words,they weren’t atheists. They were theists, Christians specifically, who were having themselves a tantrum and refusing to obey their main parent God.
There’s also the whole part about atheists being people who live “as though there [will] be no consequences” and who do “whatever please[s] us”.
I don’t even know what to say to that kind of hate and bigotry anymore. Besides “fuck you you damned twit” that is. How about you?
Well technically they are correct since everyone is born not believing in a god… I’ve been an atheist since the day I was born.
No JT, we are born ignorant not atheists. A person can become educated or remain an ignorant. If one remains ignorant one could continue without developing superstitions, in theory, in practice we will make up gods and ghost to explain everything we don’t understand and everything we fear.
A typical atheist has invested much more in learning about reality, I wonder how many of those so called EX-atheists know about, say, Pascal’s Wager (by name) as well as a summary of the rebuttals. How many of them have read The God Delusion? Heck, how many of them have actually read the Bible (something atheists are much better at doing that most theists) these guys are asking for a big lesson.
In the end is part of the subversion game, they call themselves ex-atheist creation scientists and call us unscientific zealots in an attempt to murky the waters, cheating bastards.
They are of course still atheists about all gods, but they never let god of the god of their parents.
I stand by these statements -
“All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.” – Baron d’Holbach, 1772
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“The man who is unacquainted with theism is an atheist because he does not believe in a god. This category would also include the child with the conceptual capacity to grasp the issues involved, but who is still unaware of those issues. The fact that this child does not believe in god qualifies him as an atheist.” – George H. Smith, 1979
A newborn does not believe in a god – by definition, it is an atheist.
These are the same sillies that have “EX-MASTURBATER” and “EX-HOMOSEXUAL” t-shirts.