'Satan' Hacks Away At
Another Internet Apologist
Matt
From: "Satan"
To: "Positive Atheism" <editor@positiveatheism.org>
Subject: countless
Date: Sunday, August 20, 2000 11:36 AM
Internet Apologist: "Countless numbers of Christian families have sent their children off to schools across America only to see them return as strangers robbed of their faith..."
Matt: Robbed of their faith? No,
they were just educated and gave up a childish habit. No need for an imaginary
friend once you're all grown up.
Internet Apologist: "Many of these children have attempted to fill the vacuum in their lives through aberrant sex, drugs, and alcohol."
Matt: Mmmmmm. Aberrant sex, drugs and alcohol! I don't do these things
because of a "vacuum." I do them because they're fun and they
make me feel good.
Internet Apologist: "...which can never satisfy the spiritual needs..."
Matt: There is no spirit. It's fiction. Therefore there are no needs
to come from it.
Internet Apologist: "Simply stated, a person would have to be omniscient and omnipresent to be able to say "there is no God" from his own pool of knowledge."
Matt: Funny, you seem to have no problem denying the existence of all
the other gods and goddesses. Inconsistent are we? I smell a hypocrite.
Internet Apologist: "By using arguments like this, you will often find that an atheist quickly converts to agnosticism and is thus making progress rapidly in the right direction."
Matt: Where did you steal this line from? "Conversion for Dummies"?
Internet Apologist: "The second possibility is that the universe is eternal."
Matt: Isn't it funny that the Christian constantly preaches and preaches
about how the soul is eternal and god is eternal, but then when you say
that the universe is eternal they can't believe it. They say it must have
been created and their god did it. Oh really, well then who created your
god? And who created his creator? Why is your god exempt from the rule
you so rigidly apply to the universe?
Internet Apologist: "Reason tells us that out of nothing comes nothing."
Matt: And yet your bible states that your god created the universe
out of nothing, or did you forget that part?
Internet Apologist: "...it can be pointed out that only a personal God can account for human personality, thought, and morality."
Matt: Nope. Wrong again. Today just isn't your day now is it? Personality is the name given to your style of actions in your life. What you say, think and do. These come from information stored in your brain on what you like and dislike.
Thought is another action of the brain. Nothing spiritual or magical there. Just the firing of neurons in your cerebrum.
Morality is learned though observation and experience. Once again,
nothing magical about that.
Internet Apologist: "...who demonstrated His deity through the undeniable fact of the Resurrection."
Matt: Is that so? I have found no evidence for him even existing and
your saying his resurrection is "undeniable"? Care to prove this?
Or maybe you've seen dead rise yourself as it must be so common on the
planet you live on. Whatever one that may be!
Internet Apologist: "Additionally, God has provided His written Word which can be shown to be divine rather than human in origin."
Matt: Can it now? And how is this shown? You can't even prove that your god exists in the first place! I would think that would be the first step.
Internet Apologist: "Although we cannot talk atheists and agnostics into the Kingdom of God..."
Matt: But you sure do try! Look, we don't believe in your silly fantasy world. There is no kingdom because there is no god. End of story. Go sell your fairy tales to someone else.
-- Matt
"Intelligent is he who believes when it has been fully proven using logic and reason, than he who blindly believes anything he has been fed, for this man is gullible."
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