War is declared on internet stupidity

Although this will be a fruitless battle, it must be waged for the honour and dignity of our generation.

The following link exhibits the ignorance of the internet in its highest caliber. A blog about religion. Sure it’s the bain of our existence! Sure it’s killed more people then cancer and the plague! However, that does not give anyone an excuse to make an idiot of themselves on the subject.

http://ihopeyoulovemyballs.blogspot.com/

Religion! I defend the from fools:

Although your piece on religion vastly displays your obvious ignorance to the topic I have gracious decided to point out the parts that struck me as overly moronic throughout the incoherent drivel. I’ll keep this short by breaking it down into points so the jelly of self righteousness that has coated your mind does not boil. I have also left the copious amounts of spelling and grammar errors in your writing for effect.

Still though, why do I need to pledge my life and eternal soul to some fictionary being,

Fictionary is not a word. You are looking for “fictional”.

Coming to this conclusion, I just needed to change my definition of what a god is. I think that a god is not the creator of the universe - who created the universe, why it exists and all that, are questions I doubt we'll ever find the answer to; and even if we contact the creator somehow, I don't think they'd know why THEY exist; it's logically impossible for something to know what is outside the realm of it's existence

Yes that is one big sentence you got there. So you believe that god is not the creator of the universe. Welcome to the club. You join the elites such as Yessah (the Jewish god if you didn’t know), a little fellow called Buddha and who could forget Allah. All of these gods do not claim to have created the universe in the sense that you have portrayed.

Jumping back to Christianity because that is the only religion you seem to have any sort of wet grasp on. Wouldn’t it be logically impossible for a god who supposedly created the universe and everything in it, to not understand what is outside the realm of such a trivial point of existence? The Christian god is infinite in time and space and because of his omnipotence does not need to obey the rules put in place by himself.

Maybe i'm wrong, and if someone could explain to me why, i'd be glad to hear from you, but please, no deus ex machina explanations; your own ignorance is no substitute for a valid argument.

You are indeed wrong but it is hard to explain to you what you are wrong about. This is because you have not introduced any sort of evidence, or argument for that matter, into what you have said. Your own ignorance is no substitute for valid argument does ring true to this situation despite there been no argument even present.

No, I believe a god is a being created and fueled by it's believers. A creature of pure idea and thought, possibly given conciousness through significant belief in it.


So let me some up your argument into a more concise fashion: God is made up. If a creature is constructed on idea and thoughts this does not give it consciousness to rule over any other living being. No matter how hard I think about money on my table it will not appear. Even if I got the entire world to think hard it would not happen. Many people though the Blair witch was real but their dedication and belief to the topic did not magically create a Blair witch in the forests of Maine.

Let’s assume for a minute that this theory did have grounds and was taken as a valid argument. Allow me to punch a whole in the delicately formed web, if god is fuelled and/or given consciousness through belief how was this god originally created? What about the couple of billion years the oh so important human race was not around for. God works in mysterious ways I guess.

In the same way the cells in our body are all independent organisms, but combine to form a whole 'being', I think that the beliefs in certain gods combines to form their 'body', or conciousness

I don’t know what's more disturbing, you’re understanding of metaphysical structuring or your understanding of basic biology. Firsts of all, the cells in our body are not organisms. They are cells. Organisms are comprised by cells. So a god’s body and their consciousness is the same thing? Okay I’ll buy that for a second. The reliance on the human race believing in the god is not only a direct rip off of Terry Pratchett's book Small Gods but is also arrogantly impossible as stated in the paragraph above.

Kind of circular logic; individual believers are influenced by the collaborative beliefs of this entity that they themselves have formed.

So once again if they formed it how did it get there? Was there no such thing as god to begin with? Which would in turn makes a god’s existences as irrational and irrelevant as a cock flavoured lollypop.


While many are still remembered, such as ancient greek and roman gods, nobody seriously believes they exist anymore, except a few dedicated believers, most who do so half-heartedly.

The ancient Roman religion was merely a bastardised version of the Greek gods. Most rural and peasant Greeks (who made up the majority of society) did not actually buy into the multi-theological structuring that nineteenth century scholars would have us believe, as stated in basically any book dedicated to the subject in the last 50 years. So if nobody believed in them to begin with, wouldn’t this once again make the god not real but merely a story? Also saying that “a few dedicated believers worship half heartedly” is a contradiction if you read that sentence again.

Kind of a shame really, because personally I think the greek gods were a hell of alot more interesting than the pissant ones we've got today. They had more character, and got involved in people's lives alot more, whereas the christian God (only one? what a copout!) seems to have just been moping around ever since we killed his son

The Greek gods rarely got involved with everyday peoples lives. The only time a god was involved was if a hero was involved such as Odysseus or Heracles (yes Heracles, Hercules was the roman version). Fundamentalist Christians would have us believe that god has indeed been influencing the world long after Jesus was killed. Let me give you just a few examples: the crusades, the plague, the great fire of 1666, the defeat of Jerusalem at the hands of Selah ha Dem in 1187. Not to mention all of the wars that have taken place since Augustus’ war with Gaul which was raging while Jesus was born through to the recent conflict between Palestine and Israel. More people have died at the hands of other people in the 20th Century alone than every single war and act of genocide in prehistory combined. And that is just the Christian god. I would not call that moping at all.

In Christian belief it was god’s will that Jesus was to be sacrificed for the sins of man. The night before Judas betrayed him to the Romans, Jesus was given a choice by god who informed him of the things to come. Jesus chose to be killed for the sins of man.

Ouch

FIRST BLOOD IS MINE