Big Words and Other Cute Arguments from Atheists

Posted on September 28, 2018 by A Bit Of Orange

Actually, Atheists, you DO have the Burden of Proof

You know, it is highly unlikely, that there will be any cosmologists or astrophysicist ruminating this post. I’m guessing they weren’t your target audience. Here, you are making a specious agreement and displaying, for all the world to see, a completely fallacious argument.

The burden of proof lies solely with the claimant. Atheism is the rejection of the claim that a god exists. It’s what the word means! The end. Over and out. That’s all folks. To subscribe anything else to the word is either hypocrisy or deceit.

In an attempt to, how did you put it, oh yes, “I know you are but what am I”, you conflate two diametrically opposite conclusions to the question of origins implying that the two are meritorious. They are not. The claim that god did it is a conclusion that has no probative value. A dead end. A terminus to inquiry. As a layperson I have only a rudimentary understanding of the topic but I know the process is exacting. The current understanding of the question of origins is not a claim of surety but are reasoned conclusions based solely on a process called science.

Its cute that you like to use big words. I used to do that a lot back in high school.
But I have to make this quick because I have a science lecture to give to some preschoolers in an hour (And I’m not even making that up).
1. cosmologists and astrophysicist ALWAYS ruminate my posts! They are the only people I allow to subscribe.
2. You call my argument “fallacious” but offer no reasons WHY it is, and thus I do not believe you really think it is. I think this is emotional name calling.
3. You say “Atheism is the rejection of the claim that a god exists. It’s what the word means!” But I do not believe this. I reject it. Which means, you have the burden of proof and must prove it to me.
4. I don’t think you will even try.
5. It won’t matter if you do, because I have already addressed this many times in posts and videos like the ones you will find here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9H1r9fw21g7Akt9phRHQeYZ8kdLLa-nn
6. That you think the claim that God made the universe is a “terminus to inquiry” only shows how little you know about Creation science, or science in general which was founded by Christian creationists, and which can only exist in a Christian worldview.
7. It also shows how little you know about the MANY ways evolution/big bang have LITERALLY Stopped the progress of science because of the dogma of those fool ideas.
8. If you think Big Bang or evolution are based on science, then you are in good company, but sadly, a company of fools.
8. Check out the truth here: https://abitoforangeacademy.wordpress.com/
9. And have a nice day. I’m off to preschool to talk science with people who don’t put on airs by using big words. They don’t know any.

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Help Us Create Rent-A-Friend Radio Studio!

Posted on September 27, 2018 by A Bit Of Orange

Rent-A-Friend Radio Studios is planned to be an ongoing project with new releases every month. It’s a multi-topic entertainment podcast that you can walk around inside of, as opposed to just sitting there and listening. You can download the first episode for free at:

https://rent-a-friend-2000.itch.io/rent-a-friend-radio-studio-sept-2018

Explore the Rent-A-Friend Studio grounds! It’s mainly a bunch of low poly trees right now. But we’re open to suggestion. What would you like? A park bench or something? Some squirrels or bunnies? Let us know.

Begin your tour of the Rent-A-Friend Radio Studio with the receptionist. Until we can hire one, it’s Rent-A-Friend 2000. He does most of the work around here.

After you’ve had a chance to walk around and see the place, Send us an email with your ideas or artwork. We need decorations. You’ll see. We just moved into the place and are still trying to make it look like home. Have your kids draw us a picture we can put on the bulletin board.

Also, we will have a room just for replying to fan mail, so send us questions we can answer!

Send artwork, suggestions, or questions to:

AskRentAFriend@gmail.com

and thanks for being a part of Rent-A-Friend Radio!

 

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Rent-A-Friend Radio is now a GAME!

Posted on September 25, 2018 by A Bit Of Orange

It’s an exploration game and a small handful of podcasts rolled into one!

Rent-A-Friend Radio has gained fans on the internet, and now we take you behind the scenes to explore the Studio where the show broadcasts from! In this episode Rent-A-Friend 2000 talks about the Proof for God’s existence and reasons to avoid Shia Labeouf, and Bryan from A Bit of Orange warns us about the slippery slope of Wind Chill.

There’s a few items to click and maybe toss around, a poem and at least one way to die. So, be careful out there!

We hope to put out a new version of this adventure every month, so send questions, suggestions, and artwork for the office bulletin board to us at

AskRentAFriend@gmail.com

Download the game for free at:

https://rent-a-friend-2000.itch.io/rent-a-friend-radio-studio-sept-2018

And enjoy!

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Don’t Touch That Dial! (Or we’ll all die!)

Posted on September 24, 2018 by A Bit Of Orange

Your Rent a Friend is waking to the sounds of Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong. Is he on heaven’s doorstep? After the explosion, everything went dark, and now he’s hearing the voices of dead musicians…

Our intrepid hero, Rent a Friend 2000, finds himself waking on the polished white floor of a strange place. After the explosion on the Space Station, he was sure he would wake up in heaven, but it seems he has survived! Miracle of Miracles! After a quick look around, he finds that the sinister Dr. Materialist and the ponderous Dr. Pensive have also both survived, as has humorous and expendable junior cadet, Billy, who they all call “Skippy” because they are all too polite to call him “idiot.”


 Continue reading →

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Sam and the Unicorn

Posted on September 21, 2018 by A Bit Of Orange

In reply to: https://abitoforange.com/2018/01/01/the-evidence-for-atheism-is-ignorance/

‘Because, unless you’ve seen every fossil in every museum or still encased in rock, then you can’t possibly claim that unicorns did not exist with anything but arrogance to back you up. Maybe YOU haven’t seen the evidence, but that doesn’t mean it’s not out there.’
Doesn’t that mean that you have to believe they existed or at least consider it until you have looked at every inch of earth possible without finding one? That just sounds exhausting!

 

Hello Sam,
Yes, admittedly, digging up every square inch of rock on earth would be exhausting. That’s why, despite all of my big talk, I secretly expect I shall never get around to doing it. But what it actually means is, one cannot declare definitively that something DOES NOT EXIST unless there is some LOGICAL reason. For instance, you CANNOT declare with 100% certainty that there are no dinosaurs living on earth right now. But I can claim with absolute certainty that there are no polygamous bachelors. Thanks for your comment! Continue reading →

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Taking a Closer Look at Nature

Posted on September 17, 2018 by A Bit Of Orange

There was once a group of philosophers having dinner together, one of which was a Christian. The others asked him, “If someone were to ask you for proof that God exists, what would you say?”

He considered it for a moment, and then said, “I would take him into my garden, and I should show him the flowers, and trees, and insects, and the fish in my pond.” And then he went back to eating.

“That’s it?” his friends asked. “That’s all you would say? What if he looked around at your garden and said he still did not believe that there was a God?”

“I would tell him,” he replied, “to look closer.”

So get on your boots and grab some bug repellent, because today we’re venturing out into NATURE to take a look around! If you see a bear, STAY IN THE CAR. Continue reading →

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Taking a Closer Look at Nature

Posted on September 12, 2018 by A Bit Of Orange

There was once a group of philosophers having dinner together, one of which was a Christian. The others asked him, “If someone were to ask you for proof that God exists, what would you say?”

He considered it for a moment, and then said, “I would take him into my garden, and I should show him the flowers, and trees, and insects, and the fish in my pond.” And then he went back to eating.

“That’s it?” his friends asked. “That’s all you would say? What if he looked around at your garden and said he still did not believe that there was a God?”

“I would tell him,” he replied, “to look closer.”


So get on your boots and grab some bug repellent, because today we’re venturing out into NATURE to take a look around! If you see a bear, STAY IN THE CAR. Continue reading →

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This paper clip is a real jerk

Posted on September 12, 2018 by A Bit Of Orange

What’s up my fellow atheists? Thank the improbable eventualities it’s Friday, huh?

Let me tell you something I was thinking about between my all CAPS LOCK flame attacks on those stupid Christians. I went into the kitchen to get a drink, and I saw something which has made me mad for a LONG time, and I finally figured out why.

If you walk into my kitchen you will see a brave and honest magnet sticking to the refrigerator. It doesn’t need to be told. It asks nothing in return. It just sticks to the refrigerator day and night,  doing what is right.

But then there’s this paper clip. This little jerk REFUSES to stick to the refrigerator no matter what I do or say. I don’t know if it is selfish or insane but it will NOT stick to the refrigerator! Continue reading →

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I Think, Therefore I Scribble (Or: Cogito, Ergo Ducky)

Posted on September 10, 2018 by A Bit Of Orange

I think, therefore I am. How about you? Do you think? If not, what makes you think you exist? Oh, I guess if you thought you existed, that would be you thinking.

It was a silly question anyway.

I guess what I’m getting at is the fact that you’ve probably heard this phrase before: “I think, Therefore I am” (Or, in the original French, “Cogito, Ergo Sum,” and in Pig Latin “Iway inkthay, ereforethay Iway amway.”). But have you ever wondered where it came from? Good thing you have a Friend like yours truly to clear up the vast mysteries.

Actually “Cogito, Ergo Sum” is Latin, but the guy who made this phrase popular was French. His name was Rene’ Descartes, and he was trying to find a way to reduce philosophy to the most basic of self-evident premises. It doesn’t get any more basic than realizing that you exist. If you need a lot of evidence to believe that you exist, just give up. You’re never going to be anything but a skeptic. Continue reading →

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Bogey-Man Atheists | Feedback Friday!

Posted on September 7, 2018 by A Bit Of Orange

Welcome once again to Feedback Friday where I take actual replies from actual viewers and give actual answers with actual words! This comment is in response to this article where in I argue that the worldview of Atheism provides no foundation for believing that atheist parents are morally obligated to take care of their children- or anything else. The reader who chimed in, as you will see, entirely missed the point I was making and chooses to attack me for something I did not say:

Atheist don’t kill and eat their young, and for the most part hold all others in higher regard than Christians. Funny, the basis of your arguments are bogey man atheists and it couldn’t be farther from the truth. Just a small stat I ran into. .07% to .2% of US prisoners are atheist. Interesting. As far as caring for your young and other creatures Christians are the ones interested in dominating everything and subduing it. All the elements and organisms and life forms have an inherent struggle, a hope if you will to survive, to carry on another day. This includes propagating each species. It is a natural phenomenon that does not need a bible and a god to direct. I’ve read the accounts of Christians bullying their way all over the historical world forcing conversion or death. It is a system that breeds misery and guilt upon all who cross its path.

WOW. Did you get all of that? This is a common machine-gun style response where in our dear atheist friends assume that if they change the subject fast enough, we will be overwhelmed and simply toss our hands in the air and say, “Ugh, FINE. I guess there is no God! I’m going to go watch Netflix and never go to church again…”

But I replied: 

You seem to be missing the point. I didn’t SAY that all atheists kill and eat their young. But answer me this: WHY NOT?

Would it be EVIL?

The basis of my arguments are not some “bogey man atheists” as you claim here. The basis of my arguments are philosophical distinctions. I am making a philosophical argument ABOUT ATHEISM, not describing what I think ATHEISTS are like. If you read more carefully I think you would see this to be the case. You are arguing against points I NEVER made.

That’s called a Straw-man Fallacy.

Once again you claim a stat with no reference, which once again I reject without a resource to substantiate it, and once again I point out that it has NOTHING to do with the point I am making even if it was a substantiated fact. Read my posts again and you will never see me saying “People who claim to be Christians are BETTER PEOPLE and end up in jail LESS than people who claim to be Atheists.” And does your stat really show anything different than the population in general? Atheists are a tiny minority, and that is reflected in jail stats. OK. So what? Does this magically give Atheism an objective moral code?

No, it does not. So I don’t know why you would bother bringing it up.

Also, you have NOT “read the accounts of Christians bullying their way all over the historical world forcing conversion or death” because this is what ISLAM does, not Christianity. The Christian church has always grown under persecution. When it becomes established, and is given time to be rich and comfortable, it wilts, as its doing in Europe right now. What you have read is either the popular trend of blaming the church for what Islam does under the ridiculous idea that ALL religions are the same, and so the sins of one is the sins of ALL- or you have been reading internet fiction. And this: “Christians are the ones interested in dominating everything and subduing it” is mindless name calling which is not worth correcting. Don’t waste my time building arguments on bogey man Christians when you know it couldn’t be farther from the truth.

(That’s called a “Call Back.” See, because you said something like that above, and then you DID the very thing you accused me (Falsely) of, and then I quoted you back to you, only… well, you get it. “Call back”.)

But back to my point, from the worldview of atheism, were I to force you to profess faith in the church or be beheaded,

would that be EVIL?

Can an atheist claim ANYTHING is evil?
No. Atheism does not allow good or evil.
DO atheists call things good and evil?
YES, because they are not stupid enough to actually BE atheists.

My argument is based on the assumption that atheists are smarter and more moral than atheism.

Please read what I actually said before you go reacting to how you feel about what I said. It will make for a much better conversation.
Thanks.

 

 

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