Have you heard a theist on their argument why god may be real? Most of the time, they don’t bother to, or if they do, it’s just the simple ‘because the bible this and that’. Don’t they know that quoting the bible as grounds for your argument is a fallacy? Firstly, the bible may not be authentic; sure, it claims that it is legitimate but that doesn’t prove anything. Secondly, bible-god-bible argument is a fallacy (almost) all theists commit. The fallacy is so common that it even has a name! It’s called the argument in circles fallacy: which is a fallacy that happens if a premise is said to be true because it is backed up by another premise – even though that supporting premise isn’t even proven true. Bible said that god is real; god wrote the bible who says he is real.
Have you had a theist who questions you about your moral system, something like, “where do you get your morals from?” This is a signal, and it’s telling us atheists that the Christian has no other arguments up his sleeve. I’d like to school theists about the human morality. Unlike Christians, who get their morals from 10 laws, atheists’ are based on logic, a dose of pity, a touch of personal biases, the society and our being human. Society has told us what god from bad is, therefore, whether you like it or not, man is imbued by set of moral values which he acquired from society. Psychologists say that we got our morals from painful experiences ad that we don’t want that to happen to others, sorry to say, but, if one day, god is really disproven, theists lose their moral foundations and may turn to the worst of people, or simply lose their sanity. It’s a double edged sword.
On some occasions, I challenge those theists, I tell them my argument that god-bible is a fallacy, and I usually get two answers. Let’s talk about the first one: my apologies, but I think I made a mistake in labeling this as an “answer”, the truth is, and they don’t. Theists dodge my argument so well, that if they are as good in doing so with a bullet, they wouldn’t die in a battlefield. Anyhow, the worst part of this is that, after those theists stupidly and unartfully dodges; they come back at you, disregard your arguments, and once again, shove their religion at you.
The second answer is the use of another fallacy: appeal to emotions, or red herring. Let me further break this apart. The first segment is the part where those theists answer something like this: “it is about the feelings of the people, we felt god, that’s why we believe that he is real”. Emotions do not prove anything; I did not feel god in any way possible, does that prove his inexistence? As a teenager, have you heard the line: “he’s the one”? Usually, he isn’t. Ha ha. The other segment is that, they tell you that god is real backed up by useless arguments packed with fallacies so obvious that only a monkey can’t see – that’s what they are, by the way. The other version for this is that, they use a tactic called burden of proof; this is where those fundies challenge you to disprove god. This isn’t an obvious fallacy but it doesn’t mean that it isn’t; it is a fallacy in a sense that, they are the ones who should give the proof because they are on the affirmative side. You guys can do research about this one.
The next subtopic that I’m going to talk is confirmation bias. This is the part where those real-life-which-is-supposedly-true miracles happen; where cancers are cured, successful operations happen, crying statues and holey marks on trees exist. Let’s just focus on the cured cancer part; I do think that this would suffice. Have you heard a theist tell you about a person who has been cured because they prayed? I ask you this, then, how many people are there in the world that has cancer, and among these individuals, how many have a theist family who sought for God’s holey miracles, and to sort them further, how many did die? After answering those questions, you’ll hopefully understand something that there are a lot of deaths due to cancer that were neglected and only the one who survived is given focus, and to worsten this, they call this the miracle of god! What makes that one person different from the other? What makes that one guy so special? None! Everything happened by chance and chance alone! If that guy is special, your god then is as biased as you are.
“It is not our duty to question God, as mortals.” Who said so; if we don’t our brain will become that of a dog’s. If you Christians think this way, then by all means do so, but don’t think that, your stupidity will be respected in the atheist community.
All we ask of you is to, just for once, think, and to not act as to what a dog would.
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