According to Bitter Bob Thiel of the improperly named Continuing Church of God, here are some of the
reasons atheists exist. According to Bitter Bob the mere fact that they exist proves they are fools.
I just love it when self-righteous smug Armstrongites claim to know what goes on in the hearts and minds of people around them while they themselves are most corrupt and abusive.
Did you know the main reason evolution came about in the late 19th century was because people wanted to breed like rabbits?
Now, actually one of the reasons that there are evolutionary atheists
is, believe it or not, in the 19th century various male “intellectual”
were looking for excuses to not have to abide by biblical standards of
sexual morality. And back then, some of them even admitted that is why
they embraced the concept that life randomly evolved without a creator
God.
Then Bitter Bob has to take a swipe at evangelicals. It seems, according to him, they are a bunch of oversexed bed hopping swingers that cant stop having sex. What he describes is a LOT of Armstrongites that I have seen over the years! Bitter Bob has no room to cast that allegation considering many in the COG are sexually active before they got/get married. Hypocrisy over sex in Armstrongism is rampant!
I would also add hypocrisy to the list. The fact that evangelicals,
for one example, are more likely to be involved with fornication than
the general public, despite biblical admonitions against it, turns
people off.
War is another factor. Many non-believers point to religions such as
Islam, Catholicism, and Protestantism as major causes of war, which
turns many people off to the idea that there is a truly loving God. But
of course, all scholars realize that early Christians would not
participate in carnal warfare. And in my opinion, this is still true of
faithful Christians today...
Armstrongites would readily sit back as they see their neighbors taken off to concentration camps or put in prison because of their beliefs. They would have sat back when the Germans came for the Jews, gypsies, gays and Jehovah's Witnesses. They sit back and let others fight and die for their right to be assholes to the rest of humanity.
Bitter Bob next takes a swipe at Bart Ehrman. His childish simplistic "explanation" on what Ehrman supposed believes regarding Christianity. Bitter Bob has complete disgust for Christan outside of Armstrongism so he has to take a swipe that Protestantism is what turned Ehrman off to God.
There are also scholars, for example, like Bart Ehrman, who started
out as Protestant but when they learned more about church history,
realized that Protestantism simply did not fit with church history or
much of the Bible.
And while he may be more of an agnostic than an atheist, the fact that
most of what is considered by the world to be Christianity, is not
Christianity, and this turns many off of religion (though it does not
necessarily make them atheists).
Bitter Bob now weighs on on how illogical he thinks atheism is. I don't know why he is so concerned on how others perceive a "personal" God, since Armstrongism completely ignores Jesus and anything he said or did. Its all logical to Bitter Bob. He knows all the answers.
But I would like to add that it is illogical to be an atheist. While
there may be many reasons that people may doubt the existence of a
personal God, such as the one that the Bible teaches about, the reality
is that any that conclude that there cannot be a creator/god are being
foolish:
1 The fool has said in his heart,”There is no God.” (Psalms 14:1, NKJV)
One of the reasons that it is foolish to conclude that there is no
God is because humans should realize that we are finite beings. No human
has been to ever place in the universe, no human has lived forever, no
human has been to every possible dimension that may exist in the
universe. Since no human has done that, for any human to conclude that
there cannot be a god or any type is illogical.
Why? Because no human
has enough possible proof that God cannot exist. Doing so with limited
“evidence” is foolish.
Furthermore, if the laws of bioscience are accepted as valid, one can
easily prove that something outside of those laws (God) was necessary
for life to begin and to continue. Amino acids simply did not randomly
line up, become alive, realize that it had to eat, realize that it had
to have a means to eat, immediately have a way to utilize food (like a
properly developed digestive system), realize it had to reproduce for
survival of life, and have the means to do so. It is illogical to
conclude otherwise.
But, despite the fact that some claim to be atheists, God’s existence is logical.
