In the past I have read posts written by theists who have said atheism is irrational because there are questions it can’t answer. I have been turning this question over in my head to get to how someone gets to such a point and it occurred to me you need the intelligence of unripe bananas to write that. And so in the spirit of comradeship, here is a list of questions, you can add yours, that atheism can’t answer and because of that, atheism is irrational and all you heathens should all become Muslim.
- Atheism can’t answer why I prefer vanilla to strawberry whenever am buying ice cream
- Atheism can’t answer why I was born with a dark skin
- Atheism can’t answer why politicians, police, prison warders and thieves compete for the same position- scum of the population
- Atheism can’t explain why sex is such a great thing
- Atheism can’t explain why some people do well in school and others dismally
- Atheism can’t explain why I love classical music
If your measure of the truth of a proposition is dependent on the questions you think it can’t answer, many theories will be considered irrational. It is akin to calling a fish stupid because it can’t ride a bicycle. Dear theist, before you assert atheism is irrational because it can’t answer this or that, ask yourself what is atheism. You may save yourself lots of embarrassment. I am glad I could help 😛
Random thoughts 
Neither does the non-existence of pink unicorns explain those question. Hence pink unicorns do exist…
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Theists have a strange way of arriving at conclusions
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Excellent post, once again, Mak. Here’s one for the christian theist to ponder: Why is it that neither atheism nor christianity can answer why there are no gods but Allah, and there are no prophets but Mohammad?
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Theists make me wonder when they write their posts. Did they take any time to think about them or did they just find themselves typing.
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LOL! Whether or not this entry was intended to be humorous or not, I found it very entertaining, my Nairobi brother. Thanks for putting a grin on my chin!
Atheism can’t answer why some angels are good and protective and why others other evil and deceitful. Atheism can’t explain why some believers are so greedy and hypocritical and ignore the core tenets of their particular belief system.
Much love and naked hugs, my friend! 🙂 Have a terrific day!
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This is a very serious post! Am glad it made you laugh. The motto here is never to take life too seriously, no one else does and everyone dies at the end.
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So true, my friend and blogging buddy! Excellent motto you have, my Nairobi brother. At least by living your motto, we all die happy! 😉
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poor unripe bananas 🙂
In my recent discussions with a pair of Christians, Diana and Seth, I have to wonder if they ever tried to think about their claims from the point of view of someone who doesn’t believe and apply their arguments for their god to someone else’s god. It surely doesn’t seem so and when I try to encourage such things, they certainly don’t like it. I some cases I think they cannot think in that way and in most cases I think they will not.
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I love bananas, really do 🙂
I am unsure whether the christians you mentioned have heard about the outsider test of faith.
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most likely not. They seem to rely on willful ignorance to keep their nonsense.
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and that is really sad
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Now, many of you know my reluctance in calling myself an atheist –simply because my acceptance of the term should imply a clear QED, rather then a belief in the non-existence of a deity–, chosing to stand against the annoyance of many, on the ever moving grounds of agnosticism; I feel rather shocked to hear that theists are calling atheists “irrational”, which would candidly imply theism’s rationality.
I shall therefore, from the “been there done that” imaginary pulpit of my former, nearly 20 years of christian ministry, corroborated with the right knowledge of a proper degree in theology, declare that theology -by its own mandatory definition-, cannot be rational, but only logic, assuming that the desired logical outcome emerges from a presupposition carefully chosen from its own arsenal of “self-proclaiming and therefore unquestionable truths”, e.g. “the existence of god is assumed by the biblical texts, and therefore in no need of further proofs”.
Let me ask then, what are we talking about!?
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Brother, that was beautifully said. 🙂 $Amen$ to you!
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In this case you haven’t met the one christian apologist called Silence of Mind, who for my sanity was banned from this site. He believes Christianity is rational and Catholicism is the true religion and atheists are irrational.
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Haven’t seen that fellow around in a while. Maybe the meds are working. 🙂
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You are mistaken. I have been seeing him on some blogs where he seems to be the resident idiot
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Oh, dear me. Guess most of the blogs I follow, like yours, have banned him. He’s the only person I’ve banned from mine. Quite the a-hole.
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I sure can’t stand him and even when I have told him that he still wants to talk to me. If there is a kingdom for a-holes, he is the undisputed king
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He hasn’t tried to leave a reply to me in quite awhile. But for sometime, he tried very, very hard to engage me as well. He’s a unique example of a variety of symptoms from several mental disorders.
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He does that on blogs I visit. I think the peanut brain he had finally convinced itself that he is banned here
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He’s a question that neither an atheist nor a theist can answer.
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Oh but I did, Mak…
I came to know SoM, but I never engaged with him, because his problems are not to be addressed, but treated…
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John Zande has a theory about him that he is in the prison system but in a limited capacity and thus has internet access. I tend to agree with him on that. Quite the angry, disturbed fellow.
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I remember John’s theory, and tend to agree with the disturbed part. He seems either unable, or unwilling to even consider the option of a mutually respectful argument, displaying a compulsion to utter ex-cathedra declarations, under infallibility’s spell…
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It’s a massive waste of time trying to engage him
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Agreed. Just becomes an event where calls you names and insults your patience relentlessly. If ever a rump deserved a trumping by the Great Golden Boot, it is SoM’s.
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To a mash for that matter
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too true! If there is a fellow who needs help, he is at the top of the list. I see people who encourage him and I wonder if there are people who are gluttons for punishment
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I saw SoM had a post up recently about abortion and Tea Party/GOP women who supported it in the case of rape. Never went back to see if he got any responses. Very odd person?
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Very odd person, almost deranged.
I don’t visit his blog. I think he is sick
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Tbh Mak, I lack the intellectual capacity/interest to distinguish between one loopy twerp from another.
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I think it is interest, capacity I think you have in great reserve
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Very much in reserve 😉
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Brilliant! I love posts like this, Mak. Succinct and to the point.
Baffle them with bullshit!
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If you can’t beat them, join them and this here is the beginning of BS
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Ah, your Majestic Holy of Holiness, much obliged for Thy loving-kindness, Aymen! 🙂
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Atheism can’t answer why grass is green or the sky is blue …. wait, sorry, I fucked that up.
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all you heathens are irrational. Why are you still an atheist and atheism can’t answer how computers work
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