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In My Opinion All ATHEISTS ARE THICK.

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My plan was to post this thread on my other blog: ‘From the Pulpit of…’ but I have decided that I will stay on this site as what I have to say is my  opinion and although we all know that I am right, Truth is best served by phrasing this as an opinion. (But not just any old opinion but it is MY opinion!

Many years have passed since I was accused of believing that ‘Eddie thinks it’s right because he has said it (I’m 66 years old now,  so that would first have been said about me some 58 years ago!) but that is not so, I don’t believe that something is right because I said it but I say something because it  is  right.( I’m a bit like the Pope on that score, only sometimes he says something that disagrees with what I believe,  so that proves that he is not always right!)

Not so many years have passed since  someone. I think that it was my wife..I  forget which one, number 2 or number 3 I suspect, told me,  during a row,  that I was the most arrogant man that she had ever met. My reply to her, and to any of you that may be thinking the same about me, was, Arrogance is for lesser men than me my dear.

Anyhoo, back to the matter in hand.  Atheists and the cognitive  thickness thereof.

I admit that my interactions have mostly been with Atheists on social media and as we all know, Twitter is not the best place for informed opinions and discussions but some of these people  have written books and articles. God bless their little cotton socks.

The 2 books that have occupied me lately are ‘All God Worshippers are Mad’  by JP Tate (hence my riposte ‘All Atheists are Thick!) and ‘Why God does not Exist…’ by Dan Steel, I have made short trips to books by CJ Werleman, his ‘God Hates You…’ and ‘Jesus Lied…’

What all these books have in common with all other Atheist works of the 20th and 21st centuries that I have read is a complete lack of understanding of what Atheism actually is and a vehement hatred for Christianity and Islam, blaming all the ills of the world on a God that they don’t  believe exists.

The title of this post is ‘in my opinion all atheists are thick’ but that is not necessarily true, not all of them are thick, some of them are stupid and the others may just be merely naive. (I suspect that there may be one or two intelligent ones out there but I have not seen any proof of that theory!

The main thrust of my Argument is that If one has the intention of discussing, or arguing about, the existence or otherwise of God with another person then it behooves one, and the other one, to come to an agreement, even if only for the sake of Argument, as to what defines the term “God.’ and to define the term ‘God’ in as uncontentious a way as possible so that one is discussing what is ‘God’ and not what he, she or it, is named. As in any d debate or discussion there must be a common starting point. In the absence of that commonality the debate cannot happen, or if it does it is little more than a slanging match which serves nobody any good.

I have tried to hold dialogues with Atheists but as soon as I mention the word ‘God’ they get all iffy and sniffy and go off in a sulk. So in my next post I will go into the situation furthrr.

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Psalm 1

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i am reposting this from my other blog;-

Psalm 1  King James Version (KJV)

1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

6 For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

Who is your god? Does your god give you the strength that the Psalmists god does? If you believe (can prove?) that Science and reason are your ‘god’ then does your god give you that strength? Do you live by the laws that your god has given you? Read the psalm, not as a religious tract but as a statement of belief in the benefits and strengths of your god, of the Laws of Reason or Science or Common Sense or whatever gives your life meaning and structure. ‘Blessed is the man who walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly’… But his delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law he doth meditate day and night… vv 1-2 If the ungodly are those people in our life, or thoughts in our heads, that lead us towards contrary or unreasonable thoughts and actions then we are best served by ignoring or avoiding them; having no place for them in our life.

To an ‘atheist’ that means that any argument that you make or support must be founded on Reason and Empiricism, there is no place for opinion or unreasoned, emotional arguments. Your faith sic in the laws of Reason etc should preclude you from making unsupported or irrational statements, not because the ‘law’ says you mustn’t but because you know how important it is to live within the guidelines of the ‘law’. ‘He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season: his leaf also shall not wither and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. VV3-4 Some expositions of this psalm state that the rivers spoken of are ‘irrigation channels’ How exciting is that! Your belief in the Primacy of the Laws of Reason will irrigate your thoughts and allow them to bear fruit, but any thoughts not irrigated by those rivers will be withered and will die; any unreasoned or irrational thought process is pointless and doomed because it is unsupported by empirical evidence. …the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous …For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous but the way of the ungodly shall perish. vv5-6 You know that as an atheist anything you say that is not supported in all it’s aspects by the Laws of Reason is worthless by your laws. What are the benefits of following this ‘edict’? Read Psalm 23 to find out! Think about it!

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30 years ago, whilst I was on a train from the North of England to London I started to write a story about a vampire. Despite many breaks in my authorial efforts, some lasting YONKS, I took up my pen once more some 5 years ago and started to write it again.

I now have the story completely written…in my head and am in the process of editting it so that it is publishable.

I am like a man who has a ‘self-assembly’ bookcase in front of him but does not knowhow to put it all together in the right order.

 

I’ve got all the bits of the story but they are in a jumble in front of me. To paraphrase the great Eric Morecome. I have written all the right words but not necessarily in the right order

Actually they’re not in a jumble, some bits are fitted together but I am no longer sure if the bits that are fitted together really do go together!

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In My Humble Opinion

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So, as I struggle to adjust to this new WordPress editor I just want to try to say again that In MY humble opinion if someone wishes to exercise their right to have an opinion and to express it in public they have the responsibility to make sure that their opinion is based on rational, logical thinking and that it is not just emotionally charged irrational ranting. Unless of course they start their post with ‘In my humble oponion.

If you want to see examples of such futile thinking and Argument then search WordPress or Twitter or whatever for ‘Atheist’ and you will find instances galore of assinine comments (actually if you read Bertrand Russell’s ‘Why I am Not a Christian’ you will find that even he has problems tackling the subject so these lesser mortals have only two chances of hetting it right…no chance and a dog’s chance!

It is not someone’s opinion to be an atheist that offends me it is the ludicrous, specious and irratonal mode of Arguing or supporting their decison that I find offensive as it demeans their humanity and insults  my intelligence.

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