I write quite a bit about religion, atheism and various related issues so it’s only natural that my site would attract more than the usual attention from overly religious folks who feel the need to try and show me the error of my ways. I don’t mind that all that much, though it does get rather boring hearing the same old arguments over and over again as to why God(s) exist from people who don’t seem to know that dictionaries exist or what “punctuation” means. Occasionally someone will come along who at least knows how to use a spell checker and makes a moderate attempt at punctuation and I get my hopes up that maybe I’ll hear a new take on the old God argument only to be let down when they fall back into the same old points all over again.
So while I was browsing FARK this afternoon I was surprised to see a link to the following website: Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence!
Three hundred proofs? Hot damn! Surely there has to be at least a couple of new ideas to chew on out of 300 proofs, right? Turns out this is actually a bit of humor from the folks at the Atheists of Silicon Valley website where they’ve taken a shit-load of common Theist’s arguments and boiled them down to very short summaries such as:
25. ARGUMENT FROM INTERNET AUTHORITY
(1) There is a website that successfully argues for the existence of God.
(2) Here is the URL.
(3) Therefore, God exists.26. ARGUMENT FROM INCOMPREHENSIBILITY
(1) Flabble glurk zoom boink blubba snurgleschnortz ping!
(2) No one has ever refuted (1).
(3) Therefore, God exists.27. ARGUMENT FROM AMERICAN EVANGELISM
(1) Telling people that God exists makes me filthy rich.
(2) Therefore, God exists.
While some of them are simply silly, there’s a lot of surprisingly accurate summaries of actual arguments used by Theists in among the mix and it makes for some hilarious reading. I’m tempted to take the list and recreate it here with check boxes so that Theists can just show up, check off whichever argument they would normally waste hours trying to type in without spelling a single word correctly and when they hit submit it would email me their argument and I can laugh at it and go back to playing video games. It’d save us both a lot of time.
