Get a load of these guys, LOL!

[Gee3666]

GodIsImaginary.com

[Givens]

At first I though it was entertaining, but then I reached Proof #39, which states, "Jesus was a jerk!" 

I am not overly religious in any sense, but I found that incredibly distasteful.  The site rehashes some common sense about theology and religion in general, but it was written with little maturity, and smacks of narcissists who are enthralled with their own less-than-astonishing intellect.

[JohnP]

I like a good intellectual debate about religion, but when you start calling the man who many consider the Son of God a jerk and also blatantly misuse scripture, I think there's a problem as well.

There's quite a bit of territory between the GodIsImaginary crowd and the religious zealout crowd in which to have a good discussion.  Anybody ever study the history of Christianity?  I think it's interesting that many early sects didn't believe that Christ was in fact the Son of God or that he was divine.

[udo]

I've made a couple prayers in my life.  I do not pray often.  Most of the time it starts with "Yeah, it's me; I never go to church and you rarely hear from me..." or some such.

And yet, two things I have prayed for which were very selfish things, actually did come to pass.

Now, do as they say and pray to God for the cure to cancer.  And what? You expect God to reveal himself in such an overt act as to place a beaker in your room with the cure to cancer?  Especially when you're making a spectacle of praying in order to disprove His existence?  Yet, what if your prayer causes the person who will cure cancer to be conceived at that moment?  He has indeed answered your prayer, but you won't know it for some 40 or 50 years.

But, this is atheism.  And as I've always stated, atheists are hypocritical.  How can a person go through all this "scientific research" and so on to disprove points in the Bible, and then say "Aha! So God doesn't appear, therefore he is false" ?  SHOULD God appear, then atheism must necessarily be false.  There is no debate at that point.

But, logically, it makes sense that God may be testing us, or busy creating our replacements in some other galaxy because of the miserable failures that we are as a species, and is deciding how many meteors will wipe us all out.  Or God is in an alternate dimension.  In order for atheists to prove His non-existence, they would have to identify His theoretical whereabouts, go to that place, and prove that He is not there.  [And get into some "time or location" paradox.]

So, logically, atheism cannot be proven--ever.

Finally, proving that a particular organized religion is a hoax is not disproving the existence of God.

[Maximus]

Finally, proving that a particular organized religion is a hoax is not disproving the existence of God

I strongly agree with this point, and I also must commend Givens for giving those self-satisfied "intellects" a nice spanking.

But, I also think Gee deserves credit for pointing the site out to us, because it has proved very entertaining indeed!