Good News For Atheists

[BPSCG]

God will save you - believe in him or not (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6543019.ece).

Love the top photo. He'll save you from an earthquake even if you're a heathen Chinee (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heathen_Chinee). House and village not included.

I guess the author of the article believes Pascal was wrong (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager).

[Twiler]

God will save you - believe in him or not (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6543019.ece).

Love the top photo. He'll save you from an earthquake even if you're a heathen Chinee (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heathen_Chinee). House and village not included.

I guess the author of the article believes Pascal was wrong (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager).

I say 'Non-existent entities will never save you, whether you believe in them or not.'

[Hokulele]

“I would never understand why people pray all their lives, not see the results,” Stan says, “and here I am calling out on God, this split second, and He sends someone for me.”


Obviously god likes this guy better than all of those who died in the same tragic event. Meh.

[Pure Argent]

God Cthulhu will save eat you - believe in him or not.

Fixed.

[D'rok]

God Cthulhu will save you - believe in him or not.Fixed.God Cthulhu will save devour you - believe in him or not.Fixed.

[Pure Argent]

Ah, I just changed that. You jumped the dot on me there.

[HeyLeroy]

http://cdn.vidilife.com/image/2006/10/10/946639/1681489L.jpg

[Pure Argent]

I declare win.

[Moon-Spinner]

After much data collecting, researching, testing, peer reviewing, fact checking, and more peer reviewing, it is the conclusion of the panel that this world has gone insane... :eek:

[slingblade]

Stan's story is full of wrongness.

[HansMustermann]

I say 'Non-existent entities will never save you, whether you believe in them or not.'

Whoa, man... you're trying to tell me that my invisible cat lied to me?

[thaiboxerken]

I think the idea of a god who will save you, whether you kiss his butt or not, is nice. Still irrational, but nice.

[Twiler]

Whoa, man... you're trying to tell me that my invisible cat lied to me?

Knowingly. It's all part of the conspiracy. The cats spread the lies, the parrots repeat them, the dogs eat the food, the wolves eat the dissidents, the dolphins do the shows, the whales land on the beaches, the rats make the betrayals, the giraffes watch from above, the elephants blow the trumpets, the ferrets find the secrets and the weasels give out the orders.

[Tricky]

Whoa, man... you're trying to tell me that my invisible cat lied to me?

Don't be silly. Cats can't talk.

[Wolfman]

Actually, while the first part of the article seems to be relying on an unverifiable personal experience of one individual as 'proof', the latter part of the article argues essentially that the 'experience' of god is an illusory one, that exists only in the brain due to particular kinds of stimulation. His final, summary paragraph:
Pain stimulates these reactions. So does a lack of oxygen. No matter your religious affiliation or level of belief — or disbelief — your brain reacts almost identically. If you’re fighting for your life, the right side, where both creativity and dreams originate, really lights up. This, Persinger says, is God’s headquarters. So really, so far as I can see, he's arguing that belief in a god of some kind has psychological (and resultant physical) beneficial effects on the individual, but the actual experience that an individual may have of god's intervention or presence is an illusion.

[MattusMaximus]

http://cdn.vidilife.com/image/2006/10/10/946639/1681489L.jpg

WANT. You must tell me where you got that!

[MattusMaximus]

Don't be silly. Cats can't talk.

That's what they want us to think... crafty little devils.

[scimystic]

After much data collecting, researching, testing, peer reviewing, fact checking, and more peer reviewing, it is the conclusion of the panel that this world has gone insane... :eek:

Wake up and smell the napalm M-S. Its been insane for at least these past 7,000 years. Which is to say, all of the ones that we know about. :boggled:

[Elizabeth I]

Don't be silly. Cats can't talk.

That's what they want us to think... crafty little devils.

...and the invisible ones are especially sneaky.

[AngelicAtheist333]

...and the invisible ones are especially sneaky.

I find dumping buckets of paint around usually works. As soon as I find 'em, I get my lasagna back. :D