What are the ingredients to an atheist argument?

Question

I think it goes like this:

1 cup of a Bible verse taken COMPLETELY out of context
1/2 cup of liberal rhetoric
1 dash of know it all

Mix together and cook for fifteen minutes. Serves 10 percent of the world's population.

Agree?

Answer 1

So out of the blue you just felt compelled to post this drivel?

Answer 2

Or you could look at the ingredients to a Christian argument

1 cup of Biblical verses (this would be the part of the recipe that is no good for you, like the sugar in cookies)
1 cup of brainwashing
and a teaspoon of common sense out the window.

BTW: your recipe (however wrong) is still funny.

Liesel.

Answer 3

It's so much simpler than that.
Our main ingredient is Logic and R...
Our two main ingredients are Logic, Reason and Re ...
Our three main ingredients are Logic,Reason and Reality without Del ...
Our main ingredients are Logic,Reason and Reality without Delusions and Insanity.

Stephen Roberts: I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

OH, and, most of the world does not believe xianity is the answer to life.
Many of us have discovered it to be 42.

Answer 4

No, you got it wrong.

HERE'S the atheistic argument:

3 cups of precedents
5 cups of logic and rationality
2 1/2 cups of knowledge of what they're talking about.
1 teaspoon of sarcasm

Shake-and-bake for 15 minutes, take out of oven, let cool, and dig in! -_-

Answer 5

Ingredients of a typical John D argument.
Fecal matter

Step 1. Pull the argument out of your ***

Step 2. Write it down

Answer 6

Hate to tell you this as you mix your wrathful poison Witch!

For the most part Atheists don't care a wit about the Bible.

I, on the other hand do care. I care most especially about Christians like you. You don't even follow the teachings of Christ because if you did you would not be be attacking people you are incapable of understanding.

John 8:1-11

1 Jesus went to the mount of Olives: 2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him; and he sat down and taught them. 3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought to him a woman taken in adultery: and when they had set her in the midst, 4 They say to him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. 5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned; but what sayest thou? 6 This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with [his] finger wrote on the ground, [as though he heard them not]. 7 So when they continued asking him, he raised himself, and said to them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. 8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. 9 And they who heard [it], being convicted by [their own] conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, [even] to the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. 10 When Jesus had raised himself, and saw none but the woman, he said to her, Woman, where are those thy accusers? hath no man condemned thee? 11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said to her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

Do you understand this? Have you read and studied it and become inspired by it? Obviously not. I believe this to be the most important piece in the whole Bible.

I may be an Atheist, but I am a good one among many other good one's.

Where do you stand as a Christian? I would say, not very tall.

Answer 7

No. The atheist argument is very simple. It requires you to think critically and use reason. It requires us to examine the hard evidence before believing in some incredible deity.

Some of us apparently have a hard time with that.

Answer 8

The theist argument:

1 cup of stupid questions such as this
1/2 cup of lack of evidence to back up their claims
1 dash of not thinking

Answer 9

Yes, because all Christians quote the bible completely in context.

I see this one a lot: "Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name [...] and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then I will profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity." (Matthew 7:22-23) Many Christians use this one as "evidence" that faith saves, not works. Problem is, this verse is taken totally and completely out of context. Taken in context, it says pretty much exactly the opposite of what Christians claim. To wit (look especially at 21-23):

21: Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22: Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23: And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
24: Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
25: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
26: And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
27: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it (Matthew 7:21-27)

Stop calling me liberal. I consider that a mild insult. Of course, I consider know-it-all a worse one, so I guess calling me liberal isn't the worst that you've done here.

Answer 10

How to identify someone who is intellectually lazy:

Look for mention of the word "liberal".

You realize there are conservative atheists too, right?

Answer 11

Here's a Christian one:

1 cup of a bit of the bible they only bring out when it suits them, the rest of the time, it's a "metaphor."
1/2 cup of "You're going to hell!"
A tablespoon of either circular reasoning, slippery slope, or begging the question, your choice.
Three shakes of false piety.
Add "Think of the children!," "Preserve the family!," and "Good morals!" to taste.

Eat while blindfolded.