1. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, etc. were atheists, and they were terrible! Answer that!

Comment #165026 by CentabyteZero on April 21, 2008 at 12:04 am

For the last time Hitler wasn't an atheist. Also, even if he was that doesn't mean he or any of the other people you listed killed in the name of atheism. While the perpetrators of the Inquisition and the Crusades and the Salem Witch Hunts and all that horrible stuff did it in the NAME OF RELIGION. Even if Hitler, Stalin, etc. were killing in the name of atheism, does that mean God exists? No. It just means evil people used their lack of belief to justify actions that no sane person today would find justified or justifiable.

2. You can't prove that you love someone, so don't expect proof of God

Comment #165025 by CentabyteZero on April 20, 2008 at 11:59 pm

You'd think that if you had an all powerful, all knowing being, who created the universe and everything in it, and was everywhere at the same time we'd know by now.

3. If you don't accept the supernatural, you obviously think life is depressing, meaningless and cold

Comment #165024 by CentabyteZero on April 20, 2008 at 11:57 pm

Yeah, that's why I want to be a musician when I grow up. You don't need God, well maybe you do, but I don't need to believe in a supernatural creator being to enjoy music, art, or any of those things. They're completely separate things.

4. Atheists don't believe in anything

Comment #165021 by CentabyteZero on April 20, 2008 at 11:51 pm

Atheists don't believe in anything that can't or hasn't been proven with evidence.

5. What does atheism say about the purpose (or the meaning) of life?

Comment #165016 by CentabyteZero on April 20, 2008 at 11:44 pm

Atheism is the lack of a belief. The lack of a belief cannot state the purpose or meaning of life.

6. What are your qualifications to question religion anyway? Just who are you?

Comment #165015 by CentabyteZero on April 20, 2008 at 11:42 pm

What are your qualifications to question who has the qualifications to question religion?

7. You can't be moral without God!

Comment #165002 by CentabyteZero on April 20, 2008 at 11:23 pm

Is that why Buddhists are so violent?