Do you find this final joke funny...
(After thanking everyone for the show, Gervais says )...
“and of course, I thank God for making me an atheist.”
Relax, Francis.
>>“and of course, I thank God for making me an atheist.”
I find it funny because the more vocal atheists have more belief in God than non-atheists. Most of them actually hate God and you can’t hate an imaginary person. They extend their hatred to the point where they are willing to suffer eternal damnation (just in case He is real—even atheists buy insurance, right?) just to demonstrate their hate and the conflict in their soul (that they say doesn’t exist either) adds to their hate.
If they truly didn’t believe, they’d just smirk and play along with us “superstitious fools”.
Funny, but I think he got the idea from someone else.
"He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife."
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