If you don't believe in Leprechauns

Here's an amusing extract of an atheist's reply to a theist.  I've matched up selected statements and fixed up any spelling mistakes I noticed.


Theist: Let me tell you now. I'm not going to convert you.
Atheist:  You're right about one thing:  you're not going to convert anybody with that.

Theist: If you don't believe in God.  Why do you believe in Love?
Atheist:  If you don't believe in Leprechauns, why do you believe in mischief and rainbows?

T:  How can good and evil exist, if there is no God? 
A:  How can light and music exist, if there is no Apollo on his golden chariot?

T:  Yet whenever you choose to ignore God, you lose that ability more and more.  People marry because of love.
A:  Yet whenever you choose to ignore vampires, you lose that ability more and more.  People hide under the covers because of fear.

T:  Tell me why you hate God. Do you hate all that is good and love?
A:  Tell me why you hate elephant-headed Ganesha, the four-armed Lord of Beginnings.  Do you hate His domains of art, science, intellect and wisdom?


T:  God exists.  Seeing Him isn't something I need to believe, because He is with me.  When you believe in God, He will be with you.
A:  Xenu, my Galactic Overlord, exists.  Seeing Him isn't something I need to believe, because He is with me.  When you believe in Xenu, He will be with you.

T:  What do you, as an atheist, have to live for?  Absolutely nothing.  Do you think the Devil will allow you so easily to believe Him?
A:  What do you, as a non-believer in Thor, have to live for?  Absolutely nothing.  Deniers of the Hammer-Wielding, Fiery-Haired One will say anyway that none of this is true.

T:  Ask God to help you understand.  Is it so hard to hate a God who is love? Who is nothing like anything you've thought or have been led to believe by the Devil.
A:  Ask the Blue Fairy to help you understand.  Is it so hard to hate a Fairy who is love? Who is nothing like anything you've thought or have been led to believe by sneaking chupacabra.

T:  There is absolutely no reason to say God doesn't exist, when He has always been with you.  Have you ever thought as a child about God?  
A:  There is absolutely no reason to say The Invisible Girl doesn't exist, when Susan Storm has always been with you.  Have you ever thought as a child about superheroes?  In blue spandex?

T:  You might have felt alone but you've always known He was with you.  And it's probably not the idea you have of Him you've thought of, but it was Him.
A:  You might have felt alone but you've always known the Ghost of Elvis was with you.  And it's probably not the idea you have of Elvis you've thought of, but it was the Sideburned One Himself.

T:  You may need help, and that's ok, but what I'm saying is, don't let others give you a false idea about God.
A:  You may need help, and that's ok, but what I'm saying is, don't let others give you a false idea about Yahweh, the Bronze-Age deity Who slaughters children, commands rape and slavery, and hates the shrimp He created.  Good luck on your awakening!

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#1
Atheist:  Not believing in the sky fair or leprechauns, fairies in the garden or flying pigs is a religion?  I thought that was called common sense! One does not need to have a religion to not believe in bullsh*t like religion!


#2
Theist:  God has the solution!  That is why God is still invisible, mankind has not come to the end of himself yet as a species. [Nimrod] tried to build a waterproof tower about the clouds to thwart another flood, in the meantime unknown to him, God had already solved that problem with his rainbow.  (Say, what??)

Atheist:  LOL! Perhaps, Leprechauns and gods are one and the same, its just that rainbows with pots of gold at the end along with your god of the bible seem to always disappear in light of chasing reality.

#3

Theist:  Faith is believing in things unseen.  Anyone can believe in what they see.  No eye has seen, no ear has heard.


Atheist:  Yes, I know the difference between believing in leprechauns and unicorns and gods; faith . Yeah, I get that. And, had you been indoctrinated into a leprechaun belief system instead of a religion, you would state emphatically that leprechauns existed as it is "believing in things unseen"

#4

Theists:  Atheism is just like any other religion.  Atheists use faith.  Thinking there is no God is a theory of Science but not a proven one.  Atheism is the religion which is bent on believing the impossibility of nothing. By their ignorant efforts, they are actually serving the devil for he indeed is the father of every false belief.

Atheist:  Atheism isn't a belief system any more than a-leprechaunism is a belief system.  It's a mistake many religious people make to think there is some coherent world-view call atheism.  There isn't.  There's just the following of the default way people learn, by using rational thinking and a skeptical position with respect to acquiring knowledge.