Lies and the Lying Evangelicals Who Lie About Them

I'm not sure why this guy claims "No atheist can honestly answer some of these!" I'd really want to know which ones he believe I'd lie about:

How Did You Become an Atheist?

*Shrug* I was never very convinced about the stories they told me in Sunday school. None of it made much sense, and I never felt much connection to the idea of a god. I just kinda drifted into it.

What happens when we die?

Ever spend hours and hours with no awareness of what was happening? Sure you have, that's called sleep. That's what happens. The greatest disappointment about death is that you have nothing to look forward to.

What if you’re wrong? And there is a Heaven? And there is a HELL!

If I'm wrong and the Christian God is awaiting me there, I'll go down proud to have been on the side of liberty and justice, rather than kowtowing to the rampaging beast of the Old Testament who drowned men, women and children by the millions in a fit of pique, who sent wild animals to slaughter children who do what children did, and who revels in "the dashing of your little one's heads upon the rocks."

And if it's some other god, like Bacchus, well... that will be awkward, won't it?

Without God, where do you get your morality from?

From my culture. Like everyone else, including you. You got it from your parents, who got it from theirs. The message doesn't get to everyone, which is why we create governments and police forces.

If there is no God, can we do what we want? Are we free to murder and rape? While good deeds are unrewarded?

Buddhists don't believe in a god, and they clearly have the same answer; they do what is *right* because that's what living together is about.

If there is no god, how does your life have any meaning?

False premise: who says it "does." What do you mean by "meaning?" This is one of those questions that *sounds* deep, but actually has no content behind it.

Where did the universe come from?

I don't know. Which is a *much* better answer than any one that you might give me, since any answer you might have will be contradicted by the evidence we actually have.

What about miracles? What all the people who claim to have a connection with Jesus? What about those who claim to have seen saints or angels?

Schizophrenia. The number of people who have claimed to see angels, who suddenly "get better" when given the proper medication, is astonishing. If one can hold angels at bay with one sad little molecule, that doesn't say much about their divine power now, does it?

What’s your view of Dawkins, Hitchens and Harris?

I'm unimpressed. None of them have said much that the Greek atheists weren't saying two thousand years ago. The biggest problem is that you all haven't brought us anything new. After two thousand years, you're still relying on the same tired stories, fables, and deceits you always have

If there is no God, then why does every society have a religion?

False premise. Not every one does. Buddhists have no god. Highly primitive human societies generally don't have much in the way a god or gods.