Have to talk to religious fundies?

[naruki_oni]

Hate being bored sitting there waiting for them to give up trying to convert you by telling you what an unholy bastard you are? Well, be bored no longer, sinner! Now you, too, can play the game that's sweeping the enlightened nation: Fundingo!

Just print it out and keep a copy with you whereever you go. When beseiged by a Fallwellian, just surreptitiously pull it out and start marking off squares. When you get a line of 5, shout Fundingo! You may also slap them in the face at the same time.

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Keep going, I've almost got fundingo...

[naruki-oni.livejournal.com]

You believe in a god because you "don't think that science has yet offered an adequate explanation". Just because the understanding - which has steadily progressed for centuries - is not complete _yet_, you think it is wrong? That's really bad logic.

You say "the idea of something coming from nothing is not reconcilable", yet you believe in it (i.e., a god came from nothing). Furthermore, you think it was powerful enough to create a lot more something from nothing, though it may no longer exist? Um.

Your "explanation" is not better. It's just more superstitious and simpleminded, no offense intended. It's based on the imagination of very primitive peoples who wanted to explain things they didn't understand (science was not really around yet), so they came up with magic and gods.

Some of them "explained" where the gods came from, but that just pushed the mystery one layer deeper. Instead of making things better, they simply did what they could to shut people up. Death? Oh, some god made that. Light? Some god made that. Suffering? God's mad at you or testing you. Why keep on living? Oh, um, well... Hey! Heaven! Yeah, that's the ticket.

An atheist is one who believes that there is no such thing as a god, nor ever was. You appear to believe that one used to exist, but may have died or quit existing for some reason. That would not make you an atheist. A deist, perhaps.