{"id":646,"date":"2013-05-30T10:28:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T14:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/?p=646"},"modified":"2013-05-30T10:28:18","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T14:28:18","slug":"atheists-must-believe-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/2013\/05\/30\/atheists-must-believe-x\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Atheists Must Believe X\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Often times I will open up my e-mail in the morning and see some incoherent rant from some anonymous religious believer. One of the more common rants I get informs me that as a \u201cmaterialistic atheist\u201d I must believe X. The authors usually go on to show that X is immoral, ridiculous, or faith-based.<\/p>\n

These e-mails are always amusing because X is almost always a non-sequitur. For example, the latest theist claimed that as a \u201cmaterialistic atheist\u201d (as if that was some denomination of atheism or something), I must believe that I am a \u201cquantum computer with quantum encryption.\u201d I\u2019m not even sure what that means or how me not believing religious bullshit relates at all to quantum computers or quantum encryptions.<\/p>\n

Here is the bottom line on these types of arguments. As an atheist, I don\u2019t have<\/strong> to believe anything. I just have to be skeptical of religious bullshit. In other words, I just have to be able to say, \u201cThat whole God thing doesn\u2019t seem to match up with reality; do you have any evidence?\u201d<\/p>\n

Okay, I lied. I don\u2019t even have to be that \u201cin your face\u201d to be an atheist. Some atheists might not have ever heard or considered the concept of God at all. They aren\u2019t even asking for evidence because they might not have even heard the ridiculous story yet.<\/p>\n

As for me, I have heard the stories and I once even believed one of them. I certainly considered a few of them at various times in my life, but in the end every one of these religions are ridiculous and I am more than just a little skeptical. In fact, I\u2019m reasonably certain they are all bullshit. Not all atheists have to believe that, but for me, I believe religions are all bullshit and no gods exist. I remain open to any evidence that might convince me otherwise, but I am not expecting any religious believer will provide any evidence at all.<\/p>\n

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