Common Atheists' Myths

http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/atheists_myths.html ^

[truthfinder9]

Introduction

I know that Christians are supposed to be the ones who believe a lot of myths. However, the vast majority of atheists believe myths such as religion is the primary cause of wars, and the vast amount of atrocities have been caused by religious people, the Bible has been vastly changed over the centuries, Paul invented Christianity, and the list goes on and on. Find your favorite myth below and read the article so that you won't embarrass yourself in the future.

Atheists' Myths

• Atheists have Proven God Does Not Exist. Right? - Only if that god is not the God of the Bible
• Religion is the Cause of All (Most) of the World's Problems - Religion is not even close to being the leading cause suffering in the world. In fact, atheists have been responsible for most of it within the last 100 years.
• Are Most Wars the Result of Religious Belief? - Religion is implicated in less than 7% of all wars over the entire written history of mankind.
• Is Christianity a Made-up Myth Written by the Disciples? - Now really - would the disciples write about all their shortcomings, make the Christian church into a female, design heaven with no sex in it, and say that they were going to be married to Jesus in heaven? I don't know about you guys, but this is not what I would have written if I had made up the Bible!
• Paul Invented Christianity? Is the Founder of the Christian Religion Paul of Tarsus or Jesus of Nazareth? All Paul's core teachings were also taught by Jesus and the disciples, and are even found in the Old Testament.
• Misquoting Jesus: Does Bart Erhman Prove the New Testament is Corrupt? - Contrary to Erhman's claims, the New Testament canon was established in the early second century, and scribal errors/changes did not affect any significant Christian doctrine.
• The Christian Church Was Never Really Persecuted - Were all the reported persecutions of Christians were made up by the Christian church?
• The Bible Has Been Changed Over the Centuries From the Original? - Sorry, the manuscript evidence doesn't support this idea at all.
• Jesus Christ as God and the Trinity Was Not Invented Until the Fourth Century? Contrary to the claims of The Da Vinci Code, even secular sources indicate that Christians worshipped Jesus Christ as God no later than 113 A.D.
• This Joyful Eastertide: A Critical Review of The Empty Tomb (2006) - Has the resurrection been proven false? )
• The Universe Just Happened Without Any Need For a Designer - For all those who expect to win at lotto!
• There is No Evidence For the Fine Tuning of the Universe - The cosmological constant (dark energy) shows this belief to be false
• "The Lost Tomb of Jesus": Have the Bones of Jesus Christ Been Found? Only if Jesus had his ossuary inscribed when He was 2 years old!
• Omnipotence is Logically Impossible? Atheists attempt to define God out of existence through illogical arguments
• The Universe is Eternal - Contrary to atheist's claims, the majority of scientists state as fact that the universe had a beginning.
• Only Stupid People Believe in God - A large number of famous scientists believed in God, many being devout Christians
• The Roman Catholic Church's Condom Policy is Responsible For the Spread of HIV and the AIDS Crisis in Africa - Actually, HIV infection rates are lower in Catholic-dominated countries!
• The Myth of the Flat Earth by Jeffrey Burton Russell - The "history" that Christians taught a flat earth was not invented until the 19th century. (off site)
• People are Basically Good - Proof to the Contrary
• Jesus didn't really die on the Cross? - The old swoon theory doesn't hold up to historical/medical reality.
• Hitler was a Christian? - This seems like a no brainer, but there are free-thinkers who think he was. (off site)
• Jesus and Adolf Hitler - The new (and improved?) German Jesus (off site)
• Are Atheists and Theists Morally Equivalent? Aren't atheists morally superior to theists?
• Atheism Doesn't Lead to Immoral Behavior - Or Does It? In theory it doesn't, but in practice...
• Atheism and Humanism Provide Hope for the Future - The ultimate "hope" of atheism is eternal entropy as the universe loses all ability to perform work, and all life, consciousness, and knowledge is eternally destroyed.
• The Bible Teaches a Flat Earth Covered by a Solid Dome
• Teaching Religion to Children is a Form of Child Abuse? Dawkins's hypothesis is falsified.
• BLOODLINE: Serious Documentary or Hollywood Hoax? - by Gordon Franz MA
• Debunking Dawkins: The God Delusion
  • Debunking Dawkins: The God Delusion Chapter 1: A deeply religious non believer - Deception, lies, and misrepresentations.
  • Debunking Dawkins: The God Delusion Chapter 2: The God Hypothesis - Failure to support debunked assertions, quoting out-of-context, and a desire to escape moral accountability.
  • Debunking Dawkins: The God Delusion Chapter 4: Why There Almost Certainly Is No God - Richard Dawkins' Ultimate Boeing 747 argument is shown to be formally fallacious.
• The Universe Just Created Itself Out of Nothing - Why Stephen Hawking is wrong about God not creating the universe.
• Book Review: The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris - Sam Harris claims that science can determine human values, but just resorts to ranting about religion.

For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. (2 Timothy 4:3-4)

More Answers

• Answers for Atheists and Agnostics
  • Criticisms of God's Character from Atheists and Agnostics
  • Criticisms of God on the Basis of the Existence of Evil and Suffering
  • Religion is Stupid
  • Bad Christians
  • Bible and Science Criticisms
  • Answers to Bible Contradictions
  • Skeptics' Objections to Christianity
  • No Evidence of the Supernatural?

[FlingWingFlyer]

If God does not exist, why the hell are the atheist libs so worried about him? Why do they feel the need to have faith in God banned in the United States?

[truthfinder9]

Because they are smarter than you and know what is best for you.

[American Constitutionalist]

Common Atheists’ Myths = there is no GOD.

[savagesusie]

I watched a debate between a theist and atheist before and the atheist admitted that it took faith to be an atheist because they were never able to prove scientifically that there is no God.

Also, it is extremely ignorant, according to all scientific evidence, to think that something can be created from nothing.....That there is not a supernatural existence at the beginning of time.

They want God eliminated so there is no good and evil. They can be pederasts like before the advent of Judaism and Christianity and no one will have reason to believe that what they do is evil. They want to recreate the pagan days of Greece and Rome. There was no sexual morality then.

The sins of the flesh create slaves easily controlled by the state. The elites, pushing Marxist atheism will be able to control the world. Utopia will exist for only the few, until they face death, when their ugly vision is proven to be false. There can never be utopia on earth because of the nature of man.

[ViLaLuz]

bump

[wordsofearnest]

If find it comforting that none of the twelve Apostles ever renounced Jesus Christ or the fact of his Resurrection.

[Logic n' Reason]

Before I would read any of this...or take any of it seriously...I’ll need a working definition of “God”.

[Allen In Texas Hill Country]

These are concocted atheists myths. Whats the phrase,,,,,,,,,,,,’straw something or other’. Even this atheist/agnostic/humanist sees this is garbage.

Christianity is fine, Islam,,,,,,,,, not so much.

[de.rm]

"..to live outside the law you must be honest...."

Absolutely Sweet Marie

Bob Dylan

[James C. Bennett]

Agreed. Goes either ways.

[filospinato]

It doesn't help your cause when the first 5 links appear to be myths about myths.

All I get when I click on the link is The requested document does not exist on this server.

[HerrBlucher]

Except for this one...The Universe Just Happened Without Any Need For a Designer -

That is the core of Athiest belief.

[RainMan]

Ping to self

[Allen In Texas Hill Country]

Except for this one...The Universe Just Happened Without Any Need For a Designer -
That is the core of Athiest belief.
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Guilty as charged and my bad as I did not read every miniscule entry because they all looked inflammatory in nature.

Now we could get into a discussion/purpose of the universe’s creation but it would be pointless. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh as is the universe. Couldn’t pass that one up :<))))))

[eastforker]

Not all athiest are leftist and not all athiest think religion is bad, however, an athiest gets tired of religious folks, just like homosexuals, pushing their beliefs on people that don’t care to listen to them. Contrary to popular belief, many athiest have high moral standards and compasion towards their fellow human beings.Religion should be taught at home or in your church, not in a public school.All religions are cults to one degree or another, hence the word culture.Those that holler the loudest about their religion being the true way are usually the ones that have a deep conflict about their faith.Faith is just what it says, a belief in something that can never be proven or disproven other than by your belief. If you believe the bible then that is YOUR proof,don’t expect a non believer to accept your idea of the truth.

[RegulatorCountry]

All religions are cults to one degree or another, hence the word culture.

All buses are used to one degree or another, hence the word use.

I'd hate to see your take on the etymology of "Schwarzenegger."

[HerrBlucher]

If the Universe is pointless then so is life, so is morality, so is the concept of good and evil. If you are ok with that then at least you are an honest Athiest. However, some of the most reknowned Athiests in history have expressed outrage at what they perceived as evil, most notably Carly Marx, Jean Claude van Sartre and even Dickie Dawkins. Silly boys, they want it both ways...oh well.

[Allen In Texas Hill Country]

If the Universe is pointless then so is life, so is morality, so is the concept of good and evil.
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Get carried away much??

No,,,, life is fortunate. I thanked my mother countless times. But I suppose ‘intelligent life’ is what you might be referring to and to use a truly pointless phrase we should thank our lucky stars.. God, I can keep this up all day. :<)))

[Notary Sojac]

Yes, there are militant atheists out there who just love to stomp on the nativity scene, take the crucifix off the city seal, and muffle the Christmas choir.

But for each of those there are ten or a hundred atheists like me, who simply find the supernatural to be a closed book to them, and who quietly and inoffensively go their unbelieving ways.

I would not be surprised to find that there are a few of them sitting in the pews at your church.