Theists! What makes you laugh?

Question

About us Atheists? Don't be shy, admit it: we laugh at each other's beliefs. So, what do YOU guys this is funny about Atheism? Evolution? The Big Bang?

to Badliberal:
Oh... It's 7:30pm here in Tokyo... Well better get back to writing that essay then.

Answer 1

Songs like this:

When I saw my best friend yesterday
She said she never liked you from the start
Well, me I wish that I could claim the same
But you`re always near to have my heart
And you`re such a charming handsome man
Now I think I finally understand
Is it in your genes, I don`t know
But I`ll soon find out that`s for sure
Why did you blame me this way?
Well I guess what you say is true
I could never be the right kind of girl for you
I could never be your woman
I could never be your woman
I could never be your woman
I could never be your woman

White Town - I could never be your woman

Answer 2

Not sure. Atheism doesn't really come out with things without any kind of proof..... so I would have to say George Carlin makes me laugh. :-P~~~ Seriously, as a Theist, I believe in Evolution, so I wouldn't find it funny (though what others claim it is, well, that's just friggin hilarious sometimes). The Big Bang, well sometimes that seems a bit far-fetched on some points, but it's not totally off the wall.

Answer 3

I'll tell you. What makes an atheist? Isn't it basically the choice not to believe in God? Now what makes the choice not to believe in God? It's a decision like any other. It may have emotional reasons like anger with God or it may have intellectual reasons like faith in scientific teachings. Whatever. It's a decision like any other. Here and now, I can choose not to believe in God. In a split second I'd become an atheist. Voila.

The question is, what does this decision add to my intelligence and my maturity...SO that by virtue of it I become maturer and more intelligent than theists...SO that I have the right to judge their beliefs as superstitions and judge them as misguided peasants?

You believe religiousness is associated with stupidity. I say that depends on how you define religiousness. If you believe religiousness is literalism, meaning taking every word of a certain holy book literally, then yes, that is stupidity. Certainly literalist attitudes throughout history have proven to lead humanity astray. But is all or even most religiousness literalist these days? Aren't there such things as reform and reinterpretation? How many religious Jews do you find executing each other for working on the Sabbath? Associating religiousness with literalism and stupidity doesn't work because a great many theists are as intelligent, mature, and open-minded as atheists (if not more as I learned yesterday) and a great deal of theism is just as inspired by intellect, reason, and research as atheism is. Many atheists neither realize nor respect that and treat ALL theists as uneducated bumpkins.

In short, you believe that a split second religious choice is a magic word for intelligence, intellect, and maturity, which is not the case because intelligence, intellect, and maturity are the produce of education, freethinking, and personal research, and can make you a theist as well as an atheist.

In short again? You're not as smart as you think you are but you act like it. Lose the baseless arrogance.

Answer 4

Why YES...it is 5:30 AM here in Iowa...the Bible BELT (someone needs a whoopin")

I honestly find NOTHING funny about your beliefs.

Well, actually.....about evolution....There is this ministry that I like alot, and they recorded themselves calling airlines, trying to get a monkey into a first class seat....and the airlines were so confused. The end result.....why will evolutionists not HONOR a primate,, our supposed FOREFATHERS, a first class or even 3rd class place on an airline....direct contradiction, direct!!!!

Now, be nice ppl; the asker did allow for all to be honest.

GOD BLESS YOU !!!
^7^

Answer 5

Interesting. My answer to your title question was "just about anything". Then I read the details, and I have to admit I don't find anything about atheists, evolution, or the Big Bang particularly funny. (Please note: I'm not saying they're sad, or pathetic, or anything like that. They're simply interesting topics, like abstract algebra.) I'm going to have to think about that for a bit.

Answer 6

for persons who're asserting that a similar must be mentioned of Atheists, you're so incorrect that's just about laughable. in case you ought to be caught as much as hurry, this is the definition of "delusional" from the Merriam-Webster dictionary: "...a continual fake psychotic perception with reference to the self or persons or gadgets outdoors the self this is maintained regardless of common evidence to the choice..." that would not word to Atheism in any respect. Atheists do no longer have confidence in "persons or gadgets outdoors of the self" (i.e. God or Gods or different imaginary beings) and maximum heavily "regardless of common evidence to the choice". in actuality that faith purely has faith, technology has evidence. this is basic evidence. and persons who think of in any different case are blissfully ignorant and closed-minded, and in addition to, residing in a 2,000 3 hundred and sixty 5 days old previous. EDIT: besides the reality that non-particular innovations of insanity have been around for a number of thousand years, the psychiatrist and actuality seeker Karl Jaspers become the 1st to define the three significant standards for a perception to be seen delusional in his 1917 e book usual Psychopathology. those standards are: actuality (held with absolute conviction) incorrigibility (no longer changeable via compelling counterargument or evidence to the choice) impossibility or falsity of content textile (astounding, strange or patently unfaithful)

Answer 7

I think it's funny that you consider yourselves incredibly logical yet you think you can "prove a negative" through lack of evidence.


(But in truth, I am not your typical theist... I see no reason why anyone should *have to* believe in God, and I certainly don't think God requires belief or punishes lack of belief.)

Answer 8

Nothing from a humour point of view. Sometimes I chuckle at how sure you are of your beliefs - without evidence.

Answer 9

I laugh at the fact that atheists always say that religion are shoving religion down their throat, but they always go around evangalizing that God doesn't exist :P

Answer 10

convoluted logic & carefully thought-out 'what if' questions. Some of them are so off the wall that they're hilarious.