Fundamentalist atheists?

How high do you score on the: “You may be a fundamentalist atheist if” test?

…Mandatory smiley: :slight_smile:

It’s a pretty ridiculous set of muddled stereotypes, with a bunch of things that actually are completely correct mixed in with obviously absurd qualifiers attached. It’s full of the “Have you stopped beating your wife?” type statements. It also has a bunch of things in there that appeal to arggument from incredulity, which is a logical fallacy; some of the things sneered at in there can actually be answered pretty well. (24, 25, 42, for instance. The theory of evolution has been soundly proven to a similar level of satisfaction as the theory of gravity, due in part to the fact that it was heavily challenged… theistic claims of absurdity, however, are not throwing rocks to test the strength of the theory, they are throwing marshmallows.)

Mostly it’s offensive insofar as it attempts to define the group as a whole and how they think rather than just the hypothetical loony depicted, or tries to argue it’s own points rather than just depicting a character. Pretty inflammatory really. I knew someone who lived up to some of those other ones. I thought they were an obnoxious nutcase, myself.

Psst… it’s a joke… you’re supposed to laugh… :stuck_out_tongue:

Yeah, but it’s kinda crappy. I didn’t get past number three, it was soooo boring.

Number 6 is really stupid. The question is not can God create a rock so big he can’t lift it. The question is can God create a rock so heavy he can’t lift it. You might ask if God can create a rock so big he can’t get his arms around it, though.

I stopped there because it’s stupid. But I do like the challenge of eating extra drippy ice cream, so that one didn’t make much sense either. God would know that.

Rock is stupid. My favourite is from the Simpsons(by Homer, of course)

“Can Jesus microwave a boritoe(sp) so hot that he himself could not eat it?”

I didn’t know The Simpsons was part of the classical literature.

Well, I’m an atheist and one who has spent far too long thinking through the issues, reading the philosphers, and having the arguments - i.e. I am not atheist by default, but as a considered position - and I found the list amusing. There were a few palpable hits on the way I have behaved and things I have said over the years, and I recognised some real behaviours often displayed by “militant” atheists.

If we can’t laugh at ourselves, God knows who we can laugh at.

:smiley:

I’m laughing at us anyway.

Psst… I didn’t think most of them were funny. I had to read pretty far down until I started seeing funny ones. Most were just mildly annoying.

:smiley:

Sorry to take any of this seriously, I know it wasn’t intended that way.

At age 10 you where ready for something more Sunday School, but everyone just kept trying push that bearded man in the white robe at you until you got really really sick of it all.

I’m sure you say the exact thing every time you hear a Christian joke. :wink:

I thought the list was funny.

What a perceptive comment. You’ll go far.

I should set off now.

Hmmm…I don’t actually think it was supposed to be funny. It looks more like an attack on athiests from a christian perspective.

Don’t get me wrong, I can laugh at myself and even my spiritual choices, but this wasn’t humor.

I concur.

Lighten up… you must have missed the: :slight_smile:

You may enjoy this list more: http://www.godlessgeeks.com/LINKS/GodProof.htm

…as well, they get better (?!?) towards the end of the list.

I saw the :slight_smile: …but I still don’t think it was funny, and it still looks like an attack.

I did enjoy this more…because I’m a hypocrite. (and it was less scathing)

…lists that are supposed to be humourous should never be more than 20 items.

If it is an attack, I hope it is on a strawman.

BTW, Was the other list not humourous either, because it was longer than 20 questions?

I actually did not find the other list funny either. Both lists are intended to ridicule opposing thoughts. One might also think that only two possible spiritualities are possible by reading them.

This, however, is funny.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29540?issue=4227&special=1999

uni 4 chirst 4 allah!!!

I wonder how much hate mail The Onion gets from people who don’t get it…