"A Sabbatical?" or "My Anti-Testimony"
I first posted this "testimony" to the web on July 27, 2001. If you too have found Christianity specifically, or religion generally, to be less than satisfying for any reason, please consider posting your own "testimony" to this site by clicking here , or message me by clicking here. I t is invariably a shock to Evangelical Christians to come across someone who has turned his or her back on the “faith was once delivered unto the saints.” Most believers will quickly dismiss an ex-Christian by piously pointing out that anyone who turns away from Christ was never a real believer. Or, as an insider might say it, “They were never born again.” There is Biblical support for the assertion. 1 John 2:19, which addressed the problem of First Century apostates, states that: “They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us....
surely there was a missing space in the title...'A Theist Delusion' but I think we can forgive the typo and thanks for the laugh...
ReplyDeleteSo much effort for such a shitty purpose...
ReplyDeleteI love this title because Atheism is a delusion. Atheism leaves people lost and hopeless. Jesus gives purpose to life and he can give each of you true life. Please repent! This website is for the wicked and the lost.
ReplyDeleteHaha, well done, Eddie. Well done!
ReplyDeleteOh and, Mark, just in case you didn't catch it, the flash presentation was 100% facetious, demonstrating the ridiculous logic often employed to support Christianity. But I guess you probably use all those same arguments that atheists laugh at.
Wow, this video has changed my mind completely. Thank you very much for posting this video here. I can't believe that the truth was right in front of my face. Seriously, I feel abit embarrased for having such questions and doubts about The Universe. Because of this video, I am no longer AGNOSTIC...I profess my new belief...from now on I am ATHIEST...Thank you very much for helping me change my mind...What an eye opener this was. Oh yeah, in the so called bible(should be spelled buybull) it states that the Law is still in effect, so go burn an offering and let God smell the sweet burnt flesh.
ReplyDeleteThurisaz, or rather thurisaz, has a good point. Creating the universe, Man and all that must have been a huge task and when you look at the result it is very hard to see why God bothered. I mean, the universe is OK, I suppose, but not marvellous, and Man is a very feeble joke.
ReplyDeleteI guess he, or rather He, must have been really bored to have gone to all that trouble. It's depressing to realise that we only exist because a deity had nothing better to do one afternoon.
thurisaz: What is shitty about confronting the truth? This is mild ribbing compared to the colossal lies fundamentalists heap up about atheists.
ReplyDeletemark martin: One day you´ll understand.
anonymous: The video is an ironic take on fundamentalist "logic", but the message is, of course, atheist.
Me: I like this. It is a bit sarcastic, but not overmuch. :)
lol, that was a friggin awesome vid.
ReplyDeleteI cannot believe you atheists will argue with a book!!!
ReplyDeleteIf the Bible says that God created the Earth in just six days then it has to be the truth.
Jesus was undoubtedly the smartest man to have ever walked the face of the earth.
What Jesus believed;
he believed that the world was flat
that the Sun revolved over the earth
that diseases were caused by demon possession
that angels and devils existed
he was the virgin birth son of god
that he was god
that you needed faith to believe that he was god
you could move mountains with faith
that he would return soon in that century to claim his victory
that the heart was the center of all thoughts and emotions and he had no knowledge of the brain
that god lived above in the clouds and hell was below
that depending on what you chose to believe god will either send you to heaven or hell
as written by the bipolar Saul/Paul
I love it! It reminds me of Stephen Colbert's "The Wørd" segment on The Colbert Report.
ReplyDeleteMartin thinks Atheists are "lost and hopeless". Well, once I became an Atheist I then HAD a purpose, because the univese had to be examined, it wasnt just some consruct made to torture and test me by some god who was frickin' insane with jealousy, ego, and narsicism. I became something other than a drone who's sole purpose is to take things at face value as presented by a Bronxe Age fairy tale. As for hope, I have hope because I have a say in my destiny. I no longer think it's in the hands of some celestial Mullet sporting dick head.
ReplyDeleteThis isn't sarcasm or facetious, it's the genuine article from a simple minded poster boy for fundamentalist beliefs. I'll bet there are more christians who believe in evolution than in biblical claptrap.
ReplyDeleteIs this for real? The tone of voice and arguments put forth just seem to be begging to be taken as a parody.
ReplyDeleteHowever, if it is for real...then this is hands down the least convincing, most head shaking in pity presentation i've ever seen. If it's a satire, which I pray it is, then it's brilliant.
Ian, surely you cannot be that dense.
ReplyDeleteThis is excellent satire. If you look at the images, they give a totally different meaning to the words ie the arrows going from God to the Bible and back again, and "Absolutely unbelievable".
ReplyDeleteThe beauty of it is, you could show this to a fundamentalist, and he would enthusiastically agree with it and not realise he was being subtly mocked.
That was hilarious :)
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely brilliant.
ReplyDeleteBahahah!
ReplyDeleteJust in case anybody missed that this was a satire (a really good one)...
ReplyDelete"Edward also sometimes makes animated cartoons and videos, largely for Huffingtonpost.com's Contagious Festival. His latest project is the satire 'The Atheist Delusion'." ~ From Eddie's MySpace page.
This website is for the wicked and the lost.
ReplyDeleteSo what are you doing here?
But seriously, when satire isn't recognized by the very group it targets, you know THAT is some good satire.
If you have any doubt about whether this is satire, or not, look at the end credits--Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins---can't get any more concrete than that!!
ReplyDeleteMark Martin said...
ReplyDeleteI love this title because Atheism is a delusion.
Atheism is a philosophical position.
Atheism leaves people lost and hopeless.
Guess again, as an atheist I am neither lost nor hopeless.
Jesus gives purpose to life and he can give each of you true life.
Then why in the 12 long years I was in the cult, did he not do so?
Please repent! This website is for the wicked and the lost.
lol,
Bo-Howdy, I like this, because it's good satire, and it reinforces my question of what happens 2,000 years from now when somebody finds a copy of A. A. Milne's "House at Pooh Corner"...
ReplyDelete"It's an OLD Book! We must try to live like this Pooh character. Come, everyone, let's go find hollow trees to live in and a brook to worship with Poohsticks!"
XD I love it!
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ReplyDeleteRafael said...
ReplyDeleteGod’s creation of man is different from His creation of all other things. He created man in His own image.
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So Rafael,
If this is true, then let me ask you some questions.
1. Does god have a penis?
2. If so, what does god use it for?
3. If 'man' is made in god's image, then in who's image are women made?
Does your god have both male and female parts?
4. If god is not of this earth and resides 'outside' the universe, then why would god need arms, legs, hands with fingers, feet with toes and when god speaks, does he use his mouth and tongue like we do.
Just exactly which parts of us are made in god's image, hmmm.
ATF (who thinks we have yet another brainwashed fundie here, who likes to vomit their crap onto our site)
Rafael,
ReplyDeletePlease do not copy and past full website articles as a comment.
This article is replicated all over the net. Your post has been deleted. In the future, if you want people to read a page on some website, just post your comment with a link. Thanks.