Name: 9 Things Atheists Should STOP Saying
Uploaded: 2018-01-07T07:44:10.000Z
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There are a lot of things that atheists, including myself,

say all the time that we really need to stop saying.

Special thanks to Vic Wang who inspired this list. You should check out his expanded list below.

You know, you say you lose something when something bad happens.

The only time I can think of, when someone says, "I lost something"

virginity" or "I lost my weight" if you were trying exercise or something, but that's about it.

I guess I'm supposed to feel bad for you.

But no, atheists say it all the time as a badge of honor, like "I lost my faith".

Instead of saying, "I lost my faith", say you defeated faith.

say, "I gave up my faith", like you gave up smoking or something.

but this time there's more of a positive spin on it.

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence".

When someone suggests that faith healing works,

or that Jesus came back to life, we may say something like that,

"That's a pretty amazing claim, you better have some amazing evidence for it".

or anything like that, is not that there's some evidence

and just not an overwhelming amount of it,

So, when someone makes an extraordinary claim,

a good amount of evidence, we need the bare minimum,

to understand why you believe this stuff. If you want to say prayer works,

just give me a tiny iota of evidence and maybe

I'll hear what you have to say and I'll take it seriously.

So, this idea that whoever makes an extraordinary claim

burden of proof to convince us to believe that stuff;

The problem with them is not that they can't go this height,

the problem is they can't even go this low.

Like they just need to meet that bare minimum.

We just want to ask them for the bare minimum.

they don't require extraordinary evidence;

they just require a tiny-teeny little bit of evidence.

Oh, I hear this all the time about babies,

and as if that counts for something, as if

Look, it's true, technically is true that babies are not born believing in God

or being a Christian, or being a Muslim, or whatever.

as if to say they're on the same category as those of us who have thought about religion,

because I've actually put thought into this and that's why I'm an atheist.

That kid was just born. Why give him credit for all this stuff?

It's kind of like saying that babies are politically independent.

It's like, "Yeah, I guess he is, but what is that even mean?

You should only give someone a label about this stuff,

if they've had a chance to think about it,

and then they've come to accept that label.

And then it's fine, but let's not call babies atheists

as if that has any meaning or if that should count for a point on our side.

If you think about this, this is a really silly thing for us to say.

Because, first of all, is a straw man argument to begin with.

No one, including a lot of conservative Christians, no one's ever saying,

"Oh, yeah, all atheists are bad immoral awful people".

No, even the most conservative Christians out there would say.

"Oh yeah, atheists can be really nice people. I know a lot of nice atheists".

"I have a best friend who is an atheist."

They all seem to have a friend who is an atheist. I don't know how that happens.

But they all say, "Yeah, you can be good without God".

But, when Christians hear that, it's kind of the equivalent of

"I can drive without a seat belt on and I won't get into an accident".

"Well, yeah, you could. You're probably going to be safe."

"But you might not. Wouldn't it be better if you just wore the seat belt?"

And when we say we can be good without God,

"Well, yeah, you can be good without God, but

Or "Why not believe in God? Because it'll make you even better".

That's the thought that's going through their head.

And obviously that's not what we're intending to say.