Jul 20, 2010
Atheist Bingo
What would be in the squares of the reverse version of this, Christian/Religious/Theistic Bingo?
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…Some day EVERY knee will bow to God…including yours.
I’m sorry there aren’t any more spaces…but your submission will be considered for v2.
“But, you’re a professor.”
I used to think atheists had no source of morality without God and actually believed in God but just wouldn’t admit it because they hated him. But that’s what happens when you only listen to fundamentalist preachers.
Squares on the reverse:
Your God is a monster/tyrant
Flying Spaghetti Monster (free square)
I’m raising my kids to be free thinkers just like me
The world would be better without religion
Religion is a crutch for weak minded people.
Evolution Evolution Evolution
Another Theist bingo square: We just believe in one less God than you.
95% of wars are a result of religion.
Hitler was a Christian, too.
Why do you hate science?
Do you want to go back to the crusades?
The Bible is filled with contradictions
You can’t prove there’s a God.
You believe in miracles?
I feel sorry for you, being such a duped non-thoughtful person
Why is there evil/pain?
You’re what’s wrong with society today.
Stop being intolerant of my beliefs.
How arrogant.
some for the reverse
You can’t prove there is a God
You’re what’s wrong with society today
You are so closed minded
Religion is the cause of war and intolerance
You are just copying your parents
So the Crusades…
I don’t need/want a Big Brother/Dictator God spying on me
Something about homophobia
The Roman Catholic Church covers stuff up
The Roman Catholic Church fiddles with boys
Some other thing assuming that because you are a Christian, you support the RCC and are Catholic.
Christian Bingo
These are my individual responses. I do not and cannot speak for anyone else. Before I submit my responses, I ask any Christian reading this, why do you, who are protected by the armor of God and whose mission it is to save the sinners of this world, instead choose to attack the unarmored whom you are meant to save? Kill them all, God will know his own. Any person who would subject another to his own beliefs, who would impose his will upon the free will of others, has no respect for human rights.
From top to bottom, left to right:
Q: Where do you get your morals?
A: From personal beliefs, as you do. Even if everyone believed as you do, for all time, that belief would still be subjective, because there is always the possibility of change because of free will.
Q: You’ll grow out of your rebellious phrase.
A: Don’t let the name fool you; it is not rebellion, it is simply another choice.
Q: So you want to outlaw religion?
A: No, just religious intolerance. Believe anything you want, and feel free to convert others, just don’t claim to be the voice of God.
Q: You’re what’s wrong with society today.
A: … said Hitler to the Jews.
Q: 95% of the world believes in God. Doesn’t that say something?
A: Muslims and Jews do not believe in the same God as Christians, just because they’re all children of Abraham. And what about the Hindus and Bhuddists? Are you telling me the greater majority of the East is only 5% of the world’s population?
Q: It takes just as much faith to be an atheist as it does to be a believer!
A: Yes, it does. In fact, here’s a quote supporting your statement:
“Most of us like to believe that our opinions have been formed over time by careful, rational consideration of facts and ideas, and that the decisions based on those opinions, therefore, have the ring of soundness and intelligence. In reality, we often base our opinions on our beliefs, which can have an uneasy relationship with facts. And rather than facts driving beliefs, our beliefs can dictate the facts we chose to accept. They can cause us to twist facts so they fit better with our preconceived notions. Worst of all, they can lead us to uncritically accept bad information just because it reinforces our beliefs. This reinforcement makes us more confident we’re right, and even less likely to listen to any new information.” That applies to you as well.
Q: How arrogant.
A: Likewise.
Q: You can’t prove there’s no God!
A: Sometimes there is no convincing some people. You would have just a difficult a time trying to prove to me there was a God.
Q: The evidence for God is all around you!
A: What we deem as evidence is subject to the individual. I could say that there is just as much evidence of Zeus’s presence all around.
Q: God loves you anyway.
A: Do you turn to God when you are turned away from people?
Q: What’s stopping you from going on a crime spree right now?
A: My own set of morals, which is very similar to yours, actually, but that’s just me, I don’t speak for everyone.
Q: Pascal’s Wager
A:
Q: Aren’t you afraid of Hell?
A: I can’t be afraid of something I believe in, but something tells me you are, or should be, since your eternal soul is at stake.
Q: I feel sorry for you, not having a reason to live.
A: Speaking as an existential nihilist, I do not believe there to be any objective purpose to life, but that just encourages me to find my own purpose and to appreciate my life and life itself.
Q: There are no atheists in foxholes.
A: I’m in the US Army serving in Iraq right now, and even in dangerous situations, my beliefs remain.
Q: But you HAVE to believe in something!
A: I do; I believe in the inherent meaningless of life, in that there is no fate or God.
Q: Hitler/Stalin/Pol Pot was an atheist too, you know.
A: And many Catholics and Protestants, when they were killing each other, were Christians, and so were the Inquisitors and the Crusaders, who killed many heathens but that was okay because they had a right to commit murder.
Q: What are you going to tell your children?
A: I’ll encourage them to explore many beliefs, because I cannot force them to believe something, and it would be wrong of me to persuade them to my beliefs while keeping them ignorant of others.
Q: I’ll pray for you.
A: For some reason whoever made this bingo card sounds less sincere and more like an annoying jerk.
Q: You’re doing the devil’s work!
A: And you berating others isn’t doing God’s work.
Q: If you read [religious text], you’d change your mind.
A: What do you think I was before?
Q: You are so close-minded.
A: I am willing to understand the beliefs of others and the reasons for those beliefs, but obviously I have beliefs of my own and hold to them.
Q: Stop beling intolerant of my beliefs!
A: You’re free to believe whatever you want.
Q: God doesn’t believe in atheists, either.
A: Satan believes in God, too. Does that alone make him Christian?
This wasn’t meant to be that serious. It’s a bingo card, after all. Just be glad I didn’t cut and paste a bunch of atheist quotes like whoever made this bingo card cut and pasted generic Christian quotes.
Oh, I left Pascal’s Wager blank because I don’t know what that is, and my internet connection was too slow for me to look it up before I finished my response.
Kevin, I think you missed the point of the Bingo Card. You as an atheist would keep this card with you and mark off each square whenever someone brings up that cliche in conversation about atheism/theism.
The point isn’t that Christians (especially on this site) think these are great replies; (many of them aren’t). The point is that these are arguments that atheists are sick of hearing. Thus, in the comment section, Christians are posting the arguments we hear from atheists that we are sick of hearing.
Most of the arguments have been answered, but the other side does not find the answers satisfying.
I think that Christopher Hitchens and Douglas Wilson should have just decided to settle this ancient debate in a mud wrestling match.
“I think that…”
Calvinist bingo:
What about all the verses about free will?
So I Biblegatewayed ‘free-will’… I still don’t agree with you.
You are so close-minded.
So we might as well fast-forward to the end now?
*punch* – sorry, couldn’t help it. I was predestined.
Any comment contrasting robots to beings with free will.
You believe you can do whatever you want and it doesn’t matter?
So you don’t think God is loving?
Where do you get your morals from?
L O L, so good.
best comment in this post. next was the one explaining what this bingo card is about. :D
Wow. As a Christian, that was pretty offensive. *shudder*