New readers of this blog are bothered when I don’t reflect Christ’s love to commenters.
I’ll write about how Christianity teaches us to treat our neighbors with kindness.
Then I refer to an online neighbor as a worthless bag of wind.
How do I stay comfortably oblivious to my hypocrisy?
I have mastered the language of the heathen.
Words mean different things to atheists.
What seems offensive and unkind to sensible folks…
…is incoherent to pagan trolls.
They don’t know how to feel shame or humiliation.
If you want to engage the godless, you’ll want to keep this lexicon handy.
Glossary of the Godless
Atheist: Someone who adamantly believes that they don’t believe anything.
Bad Question: Any question for which the atheist has no ready answer.
Brain Washing: The only method by which theists are produced.
Confidence: What atheists say when they mean ‘faith’.
Denying Reality: Disagreeing with atheist dogma.
Diversionary Bullshit: What you’re doing when you ask an atheist to clarify their position. Other forms include: ‘song and dance’, ‘deflecting’, ‘dodging’, and ‘irrelevant nonsense’.
Dogma: Collection of beliefs that atheists dogmatically argue they do not possess.
Education: The atheist-approved system for transferring knowledge. See, indoctrination.
Evidence: Anything that suggests the possibility of supernatural reality. Atheists can’t explain what evidence is but they demand theists provide it.
Evil: Imaginary concept invented by religious people.
Faith: The term used by gullible, superstitious people instead of confidence.
Good Question: A question for which the atheist has a prepared answer.
Hand-Waving: When you fail to affirm an atheist statement without question, you are ‘hand-waving’. See also: ‘denying reality’.
Indoctrination: Morally corrupt system for transferring knowledge. See, education.
Insane: Any theist who says things to which an atheist cannot respond.
Irrational: Anything outside atheist dogma.
Knowledge: Information acquired via education but NOT INDOCTRINATION!!!
Logic: A thing that exists solely as a function of the brain.
Morals: An individual’s arbitrary beliefs about right and wrong. See, religion.
Rational: Anything an atheist believes.
Reality: The universe as understood by atheists.
Religion: See, evil.
Sin: Imaginary concept invented by religion to scare people.
Superstition: The universe as understood by theists.
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I will continue to add terms to this glossary as necessary.
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You need to add “child abuse” to this list, John: when an adult shares anything that isn’t atheism to a child. See also, indoctrination.
Probably because there is only one sort of atheist, whereas there are over 30,000 different christian cults, at least.
probably because not every christian is …. an i am guessing that you would say the same about atheist
Not sure I follow you, Steve. What would I not say about atheists?
would you say that everyone that claims to be an atheist actually is?
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/06/01/10-facts-about-atheists/
4) Although the literal definition of “atheist” is “a person who believes that God does not exist,” according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, 8% of those who call themselves atheists also say they believe in God or a universal spirit. Indeed, 2% say they are “absolutely certain” about the existence of God or a universal spirit. Alternatively, there are many people who fit the dictionary definition of “atheist” but do not call themselves atheists. About three times as many Americans say they do not believe in God or a universal spirit (9%) as say they are atheists (3%).
5) Unsurprisingly, more than nine-in-ten self-identified atheists say religion is not too or not at all important in their lives, and nearly all (97%) say they seldom or never pray. At the same time, many do not see a contradiction between atheism and pondering their place in the world. Three-in-ten (31%) say they feel a deep sense of spiritual peace and well-being at least weekly. A similar share (35%) often thinks about the meaning and purpose of life. And roughly half of all atheists (54%) frequently feel a deep sense of wonder about the universe, up from 37% in 2007. In fact, atheists are more likely than U.S. Christians to say they often feel a sense of wonder about the universe (54% vs. 45%).
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My sense is that all of Ark’s questioning is his awkward attempt at questioning his “meaning and purpose” and hiding his wonder at the universe by berating Christians and making fun of them for believing and wondering what he can’t bring himself to believe and wonder about.
Oh my! Seems people hate atheists more than they do people of other religions. (Except those Muslims. Those stinkin’ Muslims are right there on the “feeling thermometer” with those stinkin’ atheists. (From the same link above:)
“Americans like atheists less than they like members of most major religious groups. A 2014 Pew Research Center survey asked Americans to rate groups on a “feeling thermometer” from zero (as cold and negative as possible) to 100 (the warmest, most positive possible rating). U.S. adults gave atheists an average rating of 41, comparable to the rating they gave Muslims (40) and far colder than the average given to Jews (63), Catholics (62) and evangelical Christians (61).”
By definition, Atheists are SELF-righteous. No one likes that. 🙂
Atheists even annoy other atheists.
To be fair, Christians annoy other Christians, too. (But usually when they’re acting like self-righteous Atheists.)
Where are you, by the way??? I’m at your house…
“There are currently no self-described atheists serving in Congress, although there is one House member, Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), who describes herself as religiously unaffiliated.”
The article also states that Americans hold the same level of contempt for atheists running for office, as they do Muslims (around 40% on the good feelings thermometer.)
Since there are effectively no professing atheists in Congress… does that mean, by atheist glossary definition, America is effectively a THEOCRACY??
God forbid!!
“10) About half of Americans (53%) say it is not necessary to believe in God to be moral, while 45% say belief in God is necessary to have good values, according to a 2014 survey. In other wealthy countries, smaller shares tend to say that a belief in God is essential for good morals, including just 15% in France. But in many other parts of the world, nearly everyone says that a person must believe in God to be moral, including 99% in Indonesia and Ghana and 98% in Pakistan.”
Maybe it’s just an American/Western culture thing that makes a supernatural sense of ethics and justice and morality so relative. Interesting that the less “third world” a culture is, the less they THINK they need God. (or a god).
Humanist Privilege?
Of course, in the interest of balance, a brief glossary of the terms god believers bandy about might look something like this …
Hell. A place of eternal torment children are told is a literal by a great many Christian parents where they will be sent to if they do not beleive in Jesus.
Heaven: A place where god lives where they might get to go to for believing in Jesus after they are dead.
Satan/Lucifer. The Devil. God’s nemesis who is responsible for Man’s fall in the Garden of Eden. A real place where two naked people lived and ate apples.
Worthless Sinner: What ever human is and will remain so even if they become a re-born Christian.
God Believer:(Christian) Someone who actually considers the above to be based on Yahweh inspired documentary evidence.
and sound judgement.
Not even close.
By your glossary, it’s obvious that you don’t have the vaguest idea what you’re talking about.
Really? So I wonder what sort of Christian you are then?
Well, that’s a waste of time.
I spend no time wondering what sort of atheist you are.
ignorant — term use for people who actually know stuff
Bot – an automated response system that repeats and recycles statements that are usually off-topic or repeats questions rather than answering onos posed to them. Often uses cut and paste from a self-penned book. Also see A.I.
Dave
James 1:17-18 (ESV) – Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
Ugh… “answering *ones* posed to them.
A glossary should used words spelt correctly, no?
Dave
Matthew 22:29 (ESV) – But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.
P.S.: Yes,.. I used spelt like that. Very British, you know.
Funny (description)- not what comedian like John Branyan says, but what a Christian says.
Oxford Classical Dictionary- document that proves Jesus is a myth.
“For the fourth time, Jesus fails to qualify as a historical entry in The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Awkward.”
Embarrassed- An emotion expressed by people who claim to be Christians on these occasions: When an atheist asks a good question, when a person claims to be a Christian but does not interpret the Bible like a True Christian, when a Christian obediantly excludes God from a conversation, when a Christian discusses science…. actually, all Christians are embarrassed all the time.
I would just use that last sentence.
Christians are embarrassed all the time. Hehe.
And notice, “embarrassed” is the emotion expressed- for it is a constant state.
Embarrassment- a theist i.e. Christian
“You are an embarrassment.”
Awkward- a state of being for a theist
i.e. when a Christian cannot become a True Christian because of his or her interpretation of the Bible ( see True Christian for interpretation requirement), when a theist answers a good question, when a theist doesn’t answer a good question.
Childish- see awkward
Bayesian Reasoning- An atheist’s method of determining truth- although insignificantly developed by Thomas Bayes- a Presbyterian minister.
True Christian- Interprets every word of the Bible as an atheist does; cannot be a True Scientist (see True Scientist).
True Scientist- Source of truth- cannot believe in God.
Using all three in a sentence ” Bayesian Reasoning was developed by Thomas Bayes; who may not have been a True Scientist- the fact that he was a True Christian is a coincidence.
Lol!!! Yes!
What about “Goodbye.”
Goodbye: the Atheist will be commenting again in 30 seconds.
I think speaking the truth is very loving especially when casting pearls before trolls. This and meet the Heathens are two of my favorites now. I appreciate the “education”. Look forward to the glossary updates.
Education:
Tildeb: “It’s called an education!”
MrsMcMommy: “What’s the difference between ‘education’ (which is good) and ‘indoctrination’ (which is bad)?”
Tildeb: “Education is what’s left when you forget what you’ve been taught.”
John: “Education is what Tildeb has.”
https://branyancomedy.wordpress.com/2016/09/18/why-we-cant-find-gods-bones/comment-page-1/#comment-5052
We could do with some sample sentences! 🙂
Like so:
“John asks, ‘Do reason and logic exist outside your brain, or do they originate in your brain?’…[that’s a] Poor question…we have to be careful with the terminology, and ‘reason’ and ‘logic’ are terms we give to concepts. That doesn’t make them into real ‘things’ in existence.” –Tildeb
https://branyancomedy.wordpress.com/2016/05/02/i-think-you-need-more-than-brains/comment-page-1/#comment-1623
Hand Waving:
MrsMcMommy asked, “Should people stop crying over Pixar movies? Doesn’t it seem silly to cry about cartoons?” so Arkenaten replied, “With all this hand waving, isn’t your wrist sore yet?”
(link) https://branyancomedy.wordpress.com/2016/08/27/crying-in-the-truckstop/comment-page-1/#comment-3544
Thank you for clarifying the terms because many people don’t like defining the terms.
Define on ….