Stupid Evil Bastard: Over 300 PROOFS of the existence of GOD!!!!!!

Over 300 PROOFS of the existence of GOD!!!!!!

Posted by Les on Friday, August 01, 2003 at 04:39 PM. Read 3057 times. Tags: atheism

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.

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Roy

Posted on 12/03/2005 at 11:33 PM

I love the site, very good work.
Two words for you all:
OPEN MIND. Have an open mind, and before you say you do, make sure you KNOW what an open mind is. You have to understand what people say BEFORE you make judgement.
And of course, you could be wrong, we all could be. You could be wrong, and do NOT be afraid of that possibility.

Les

Posted on 12/04/2005 at 12:22 AM

I’m really getting tired of folks telling me to have an open mind. Especially when they are first time commenters who don’t know enough about me to have a proper clue about how open minded I might actually be.

The irony of being told that I have to understand what people say BEFORE I make judgment from someone who obviously hasn’t followed his own advice is just stunning.

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Roy

Posted on 12/06/2005 at 12:32 AM

NOO, I’m not telling you to have an open mind, I’m just posting so that anyone reading it who doesn’t gets a clue. Sorry.

Sean

Posted on 08/20/2007 at 04:54 PM

Hi Les,

I found your site while looking for one of those unanswerable questions. The search had the word ‘moron’ in it.

Thanks, it has been an entertaining two and half pages. My thinking on religions is agnostic rather than atheistic.

I think I have come close to seeing all 14 (I think its 14) fallacious arguments in one place, other than in a text book.

As I am having the privilege this year of failing Philosophy, I have some comments and queries…

For all the comments on the existence of God/god and moral virtue or morality… There are no references (rather I didn’t see any) to Kant’s Moral philosophy nor the Ontological argument.

For what it’s worth… Here is a thought on the usefulness of the Bible. This comes of my (maybe not so) unique perspective… It’s a damn good collection of metaphors. One that I remember off-the-top of my head is the thing about not trying to remove the speck from your brother’s eye while you have a log in yours. For me this has little to do with vision and more to do with beliefs. For with a singular strong belief Th log in my eye) impairing my ability to be objective, how could I begin to conceive/understand/consider even whether your opinions/beliefs/attitudes(the speck in your eye) are relevant/subjective/objective.
I propose that we use a badly translated version of the Bible way out of context.

I am not sure that I am making too much sense there.

Well, here’s to a long life for your site, you and your posters. Thanks again Les.

Regards,
Sean

Bahamat

Posted on 08/20/2007 at 05:44 PM

Sean: It’s a damn good collection of metaphors

Probably how it’s intended, as a way to get people to think about issues that at the time of writing, the collective subject wouldn’t exist. Fundies must see past the literal

For with a singular strong belief Th log in my eye) impairing my ability to be objective, how could I begin to conceive/understand/consider even whether your opinions/beliefs/attitudes(the speck in your eye) are relevant/subjective/objective

Try to cast it to one side for a moment to be open minded, seriously consider things that contradict your bias and, if your arguement survives, use what challenged it to strengthen it, if there is conflict, develop your theories to find resolution

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