Here's how to pose as a believable YA atheist:
1. Mention the flying spaghetti monster a lot. In particular, talk a lot about "noodly appendages."
2. Ask a copy-paste Internet paradox that's been asked a million times before, like stuff about God making big rocks, hot burritos or what not.
3. Make blatant and unwarranted assumptions about being smarter than Christians. You can do this by implication, you don't have to explicitly say you are more intelligent... you know, make a lot of pop-culture references you figure the dumb christians won't get, or use a scientific word you figure no christian has heard.
4. ...but every once in a while, do explicitly say Christians are dumb, or uneducated due to home schooling or some kind of farm tractor accident.
5. Make it appear that you assume any christian who answers your question is a homophobic creationist who has a Roy Moore autographed set of stone tablet commandments, supports George W Bush and has shot at least one abortion doctor.
6. Make sure you add a "me too" answer to support all the other atheist trolls that get asked.
7. Make it seem apparent that, despite your clear intellectual superiority, you actually don't know that much about religious systems of thought, or the individual religions. You must be able to quote scripture, of course, but only stuff about shellfish from Leviticus.
You, Jim, however, are another matter entirely. I've always enjoyed your posts, and I doubt anyone could pose as you, you, or you. :-)
Oh, and meta-morph? That would be "reckon", not "recon." I'm assuming you are not an infantry scout.
2006-07-12 08:53:26
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answered by evolver 6
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As an atheist, when I write as if I were a theist, I make every effort to accurately represent the person I would have been had I believed in a God.
Sometimes I write as if I were a Roman Catholic. When I do, I make every effort to make sure that my answers are accurate from a Roman Catholic perspective.
If a Christian is going to write as if he were an atheist, I would hope that that person would make every effort to accurately reflect in their question the state of mind of an atheist.
2006-07-12 15:40:22
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answer #2
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answered by Anonymous
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This question is a wee bit paradoxical. Christians should not be posing as people they are not, no matter what the circumstances. It is a form of lying. Therefore, there are no need for guidelines.
2006-07-12 15:43:09
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answer #3
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answered by MoonWolf 2
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They should probably pretend, to themselves, that they're asking questions about Hinduism and Vishnu and the Vedas and the Hindu creation story... or other religious doctrines/deities/creation stories that THEY don't believe are real, could not be convinced are real under any circumstances and would never embrace in a life or death moment in a last ditch effort to cover their eternal bases.
2006-07-12 15:48:58
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answered by Mel 4
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If you are really an atheist you wouldn't even care about religion and spirituality, so why are you even here? Of course you can be, that isn't what I'm saying, I'm talking about your motivations, are admitting your spirituality? Or just trying to express your general anger?
2006-07-12 15:42:40
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answered by darvinwallis 2
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Grasp the basic concepts of evolution and what it really means. Ditto for the Big Bang (I've read some that think the Earth was created instantly from the Big Bang)
2006-07-12 15:41:50
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answered by Kenny ♣ 5
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Whan pretending to be an athiest:
-Act as hostile as possible to any idea that there might be anything beyond the physical.
-Insult anyone who does not think the same.
-Only use baseless arguments, and then act like your point of view is proven.
Follow these three things, and noone will be able to tell that you are not an athiest.
2006-07-12 15:42:11
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answer #7
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answered by acaykath 3
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You are too much!! There are no such things as athiests! Of course, I believe in God, and do not believe in bigfoot and some do, so how do you convince them otherwise? Bigfoot doesn't have a bible, though.
Read Romans 1: 18-20. Please. How do you know Christians are pretending to be athiests???
2006-07-12 15:45:42
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answered by Anonymous
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Don't capitalize the word GOD, it's a dead give away. A real atheist LOVES to capitalize his own name. Atheist won't trust YOU if you make this mistake.
And when you learn to fake sincerity, the rest is easy...
2006-07-13 09:16:04
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answered by Anonymous
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First, the question should make sense independent of a religion. I would think that would be critical.
There should be no reference to a scripture, or so I should imagine.
The question should be an intelligent question.
2006-07-12 16:06:44
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answered by OPM 7
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