Have Faith...because?

PZ Myers points to a stunning proof of divinity. Myers nicely lays it out and draws you into what will likely rock your world.

But I am going to jump right to it.

GOD CODE. Yup. That's it. The turn a book into a word puzzle game. But when it is one of the magic books, it is proof of something. When it's Moby Dick...well, you aren't supposed to mock the powers that be.

Oooooooo.

Myers points to an interesting point in all of this.

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I'm beginning to suspect that maybe we atheists are a bunch of mutants with weirdly wired brains, because without fail, every time I am presented an argument for the existence of a god, it is a pungent pile of watery crap. It's never pie; I'm disappointed every time. And it's not as if they even come close, like maybe they come up with a small biscuit or a tiny sliver of pastry; no, every goddamned time it's this malodorous, reeking inanity accompanied by some squeaking, quacking idiot of an acolyte who tries desperately to reassure me that the maggoty filth he is bearing truly is a splendid pie.

This is true of every "proof" and scrap of "evidence" for any gods that Western culture provides: Anselm, Aquinas, Pascal, Paley, they're all bakers of shit-pies. I read these with the same incredulity I do some crackpot Muslim who argues that the number 19 proves the existence of Allah. What is wrong with these people who try to make excuses for the inexcusably stupid? How can anyone read the Kalam Cosmological Argument and not break down laughing? All I can imagine is that the people who deal with these arguments are so used to raking over steaming offal and excrement and just plain bad arguments, that when they find one that the author did not intentionally take a piss in, they feel compelled to "ooh" and "aah" over it as a relative miracle.

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If you are an atheist you have no longer seen or heard that people feel so sorry that you have no faith. As if you are missing out. Everyone has faith, faith in friends, family, etc. In society we put trust in people. But when it comes to faith in magic thinking, atheist ask, "Why?"

And that is when you get a pitied look...and now it seems you are in a different dimension of being. How horrible it is to not have faith in a higher power, or force in the universe that is looking out for you...

Really?

Isn't that the same reasoning and the same powers that gamblers look to and rely on as they fall deeper and deeper in debt?

Isn't it the same thinking that leads people to forgo medicine and doctors when they are sick and at risk of dying?

That is what people want you to embrace?

That is some sick shit. Really sick shit.