The top 10 benefits of being an atheist

Christian Post ^ | 04/14/2020 | Ray Comfort

[Doche2X2]

Dostoyevsky was right: “Without God, all things are permitted”.

[TexasGator]

I can believe $150k + house + car in a town of 33k with a mean household income of $33k. Circa 2002.

[Responsibility2nd]

This article is satire.

As a Christian, I don’t use the Christian Post to speak for me. I’m quite sure they don’t speak for atheists either.

[MeganC]

An actual atheist doesn’t need to address the existence of God. This is in contrast to those evangelical anti-God fanatics who > BELIEVE < it’s their mission in life to spread a gospel of disbelief...which is really just a religion that claims not to be a religion.

[jmacusa]

Seen here on Free Republic some years ago: “I think atheism is a swell religion. It takes as much faith to believe there is no God as it does to believe there is one’’.

[Jolla]

Did not realize it was satire, “those in quotes” made me think otherwise.

[DoodleDawg]

Number 11: I get to sound like a bigoted idiot on the internet.

[Strident]

Thank you for your very perceptive comment. Arguments that dispose of the existence of God because in so doing I get personal benefits are like arguments in favor of my being crowned king of the world because it would make me happy.

[Vaduz]

20,000 new people join a website that links married people with other married people.

Kind of like seeing dogs in the park.

[awelliott]

The only bummer about being an atheist is that you’re stuck believing (if you’re smart enough, and most aren’t) that the universe became self aware and created Claire De Lune. I see no difference in astonishment between that and simply believing in an intelligent God.

Correct. I was an atheist into my early 20's and say without reservation that my former life required a much greater leap of faith.

[dfwgator]

I liked the way Trey Parker put it:

Basically… out of all the ridiculous religion stories which are greatly, wonderfully ridiculous—the silliest one I’ve ever heard is, ‘Yeah… there’s this big giant universe and it’s expanding, it’s all gonna collapse on itself and we’re all just here just ‘cause… just ‘cause’. That, to me, is the most ridiculous explanation ever.

[LittleBillyInfidel]

Interesting! Thank you for sharing that!

[MayflowerMadam]

That’s always been one of my favorite epitaphs. So funny. (And not funny in another way.)

[MayflowerMadam]

There’s a book, “I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist”,
by Frank Turek and Norman Geisler.

I never read it but it’s a good statement.

[lurk]

Atheism has already been tried. Solomon experimented with materialism. Then he wrote Ecclesiastes.

[SkyPilot]

6. I don’t have to prepare for an afterlife I believe I will never get.

Oh, they'll get an afterlife all right.

[dubyagee]

1. I can embrace new scientific theories about human origins, without being saddled with the belief that a god created everything.

I embrace scientific theories because science is nothing more than the name we’ve given to God’s methods.

2. I’m free from church hierarchy telling me what I can and can’t do.

The church doesn’t direct me, the Spirit does.

3. I can embrace a woman’s right to make choices when it comes to her own body.

I also embrace a woman’s right to make choices with her body, while embracing the right of an innocent with no voice to live.

4. I don’t have to give my money to a church, so that the pastor can afford his own personal jet.

I cheerfully give my money to my local church, but my pastor does not have his own jet.

5. People don’t look down on me intellectually because I believe silly Bible stories like Noah and his ark.

I doubt fret over people looking down on me intellectually because, well...I know who I am in Christ.

6. I don’t have to prepare for an afterlife I believe I will never get. I instead enjoy the life I already have.

I am enjoying this very brief life to the full, over flowing, and also looking forward to enjoying eternity after it comes to an end.

7. “I don’t feel any guilt about enjoying my sexuality, quite the converse. I often see crippling guilt over sex, especially, among the religious or recently recovering.”

Recovering from what? Sexual addiction. Addiction is slavery. Ultimately, we’re all a slave to something. I choose Christ.

8. “I get to do what feels right to me...I have a freedom of thought that just can’t be achieved within most religions. I’m free to consider all avenues of life and make my own sense of things. I don’t have a superior telling me that my gay friends are evil, or that sex without marriage, even with somebody you love completely, is wrong.”

I’m free to consider all avenues. Some things I’ve considered: Gays aren’t evil, but like any sin, their actions are. Their lifestyles are destructive to them. And love and sex are two different animals. If one can’t express love without sex, there’s a problem.

9. “I feel a lot better knowing God doesn’t know my every thought, because then I would definitely go to hell (which I believe is mythical as well).”

We all would. Thus, Christ.

10. “I get my Sundays back.”

Did you lose them?

[Songcraft]

If there is no God, then there is really no right and wrong (except for what some other humans say), so, if he can get away with it with his fellow humans, there is no real reason for one clever atheist not to shoot another atheist through the head, and take his wife, his car, and all his money.   (But, then, of course, God will throw both their dumb asses into hell.)

[semimojo]

Despite the massive societal shift in the perceived acceptance of adultery, the still, quiet voice of our conscience tells us that it is wrong.

Well, which is it?

Is it the Bible or our conscience telling us it's wrong?

Or don't atheists have consciences?

[punknpuss]

That made me laugh.