Today’s Atheist Meme of the Day, from my Facebook page. Pass this on; or don’t; or edit it as you see fit; or make up your own. Enjoy!
“God created humanity, therefore people have no right to judge his actions” is a terrible argument. Parents “make” their children, but they don’t have the right to beat, starve, terrorize, neglect, or kill those children. Even if God did exist, that wouldn’t make whatever he did good simply by definition. Pass it on: if we say it enough times to enough people, it may get across.
Parents “make” their children, but they don’t have the right to beat, starve, terrorize, neglect, or kill those children.
The horrible thing here is that that this analogy would not have worked when this religion was created, and the bible still say exactly this: You do have the right to kill your children because you made them – they just have to disrespect their creators and you can, and should, stone them to death.
You’re still mad at God for the earthquake in Hati, aren’t you?
llewelly,
This particular example may have been chosen by Greta because of recent events, but that’s a very different claim. It is a bit hard to be angry at something that doesn’t exist. You know, like being angry at Hades or Thanatos. However, it is possible to be annoyed at believers who when faced with this sort of problem do respond with this sort of claim that essentially amounts to some form of might-makes-right.
To see a particularly sickening example see Pat Robertson’s recent comments: http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/this_is_why_i_prefer_secular_a.php
Apparently Robertson thinks that Haiti is suffering because they practice Voodoo. See, according to Roberton, Voodoo is devil worship that started because the Hatians made a deal with the devil to get the French out. So God is entitled to punish their descendants. Or something like that. See how this is annoying?
greta, if i may go off topic, i thought you would enjoy this:
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I’ve always found the “god created you so you can’t critize him” hilarious especially when the supposed “patriarchs” critized God. Abraham, almost child killer that he was, was up in God’s face about how stupid it was to kill the innocent in Sodom with the “evil” people.
Oh, and as for God causing anything in Haiti, I do love how Patty’s claim sure shoots any claim of “free will” by other Christians down the tubes, if one can be damned for something you didn’t do. Being an atheist, I don’t have to make up disgusting things like Patty does so I can cling to my beliefs no matter what.