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400 Monkeys has published an important site. It answers all of your questions about God. I strongly urge all of my readers—believers and unbelievers alike—to check it out. Go to The Official God FAQ.

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18 Responses to “The Official God FAQ”

1. Chickie Says:
   August 5th, 2007 at 6:30 pm

   I think that covers everything quite nicely. Well done.

2. Intergalactic Hussy Says:
   August 7th, 2007 at 3:00 pm

   LOL… I’ve seen it before, but it never gets old… Thanks!

3. interesting... Says:
   September 10th, 2007 at 2:00 pm

   you can believe what you will, but I know the Truth. There is no other way to explain anything, the fact is is that atheists dont want to believe that they are not in control. I challenge all of you to read the Bible. really. i mean, if you’re so sure, what can it hurt right? so seriously, try it and then answer that question again.

   and yes. you can laugh at me. BUT one day, judgement day, we will all come before the Creator (God) and He will ask each and every one of you why He should let you into the gates of Heaven, and unless you can say that you have a relationship with Him through His Son, Jesus Christ, you WILL be comdemned to hell forever. (Revelations)

   So when that day comes…and it will…where will you be?

   I know where i’m going.

   Do you?

4. Ron Britton Says:
   September 10th, 2007 at 2:15 pm

   And you can believe what you will. I don’t claim to know “The Truth”. That’s the highest degree of arrogance. Just because you lack imagination doesn’t mean that there’s no other way to explain anything.

   And yes, I have read your Bible. Most of us have. Atheism isn’t something most people are born into. It’s the end of a long journey that you are only beginning. Most people like you never get off the starting block.

5. Sharley Says:
   May 11th, 2008 at 4:28 pm

   Um… I’ve read a great deal of the Bible, and it’s why I can’t take Christianity seriously. Honestly, I don’t understand how a rational adult could read some of that and not laugh. It’s a collection of folklore, little different from Greek and Roman myths — hell, even the story of Noah is just a rehash of the (much, much older) Gilgamesh legend. It’s a STORY, and if you want to take it as, well, the gospel truth, that’s your business — but don’t have the gall to come in here and say it’s the Truth when you’ve got no actual PROOF. I’m not sure I agree with the idea that religion is the opiate of the masses, but Fundamentalism is definitely the opiate of the insecure.

6. Sarah Says:
   May 11th, 2008 at 5:48 pm

   Hey interesting…, why don’t you read the Torah? Or the Aztec codices? Or the Greek myths?

7. kelly Says:
   December 19th, 2008 at 1:38 pm

   You just wait and see the more you push God out of this country the more he will punish this country. This country was established by out God fearing forefathers and that is a fact. You look at all the country that pushed God out and see what happend to them. This is a disgraceful website and one day you WILL kneel down to The Lord God Almighty and answer to him.

8. Lindsay Says:
   December 19th, 2008 at 7:16 pm

   I don’t think our forefathers particularly feared God Kelly. Many of them were theists…hell Benjamin Franklin was a member of the Hellfire Club! Maybe you should learn more about these “facts” that you spout. It’s all pretty well documented.

   I think “pushing God out of this country and what happened to them” is completely subjective, no? Where are these places and what makes them better or worse?

   What is disgraceful kelly is your arrogance and ignorance…which is exactly why a website like this has been established.

9. Brian Says:
   December 20th, 2008 at 7:23 am

   This is a disgraceful website and one day you WILL kneel down to The Lord God Almighty and answer to him.

   Well, Kelly, I’m fully aware that there are no arguments to be made which might bring you back to reality, so I’m not even going to try. I will tell you, however, that if, upon the moment of my death, I am confronted with the all-powerful and all-knowing creator of the universe and asked why I spent my entire life living as if it didn’t exist, I would reply: “Well, Sir/Ma’am, given that you are omniscient I think you have no need to ask any questions to which you already know the answer. Furthermore, I felt that it was only rational to assume that a being capable of creating everything might value honest skepticism over fearful, self-serving worship any day. Lastly, if a deity such as yourself really does prefer blind worship over a reasonable outlook on the world and my punishment for this is banishment from Heaven for all eternity, sign me up.”

   You claim, Kelly, that I and my fellow atheists will one day realize how foolish we’ve been and will come crawling back, humbled and shamed, to beg for forgiveness. How laughable. The heaven you look so forward to is, to me, a terrifying and unending term of dim-witted subservience to a being unworthy of such deference. An eternity spent in worship, with occasional breaks to revel in the misery of those who are roasting in hell (presumably loved ones from your former life will be among those gnashing their teeth) makes for a piss-poor advertisement for Christianity. I don’t know how else to tell you this, but everything that you find so wonderful about you religion I find preposterous and repulsive, and instead of cowering in fear about maybe being wrong about all of this, I will live out my days grateful that I developed the reasoning skills to live a life free of superstition and the bigotry, fear and hatred that so often come with it.

10. Parrotlover77 Says:
    December 20th, 2008 at 8:06 am

    Yea, I’m curious what countries kelly is talking about too. Which ones pushed god out and suddenly had hell-fire reigned upon them? Let’s look at Japan, for example. They are, by and large, a secular society. The religion they do have left is all eastern (not even an off-shoot of judeo-christian-muslim), so for all intents and purposes, it’s pagan. And we all know that pagan=atheist=satanist in the eyes of god.

    Other than god visiting an earthquake upon them from time to time, they have a very high standard of living and enjoy longer lifespans than any god-fearing big mac eating christian over in the west. In fact, they have great defenses now against “acts of god,” such as earthquakes. From early warning systems to skyscrapers designed to handle the most power earthquakes imaginable, they do pretty well as a society!

    So… maybe instead of more god we just need better technology? God doesn’t seem to be too strong when compared to human ingenuity.

11. OtherRob Says:
    December 20th, 2008 at 9:51 am

    I’m more of an agnostic than an athiest, Lindsay, but if upon Judgement Day I find myself facing your god my answer to him would be very much like Brian’s. Except I would also add, “I am as you made me.”

12. Ron Britton Says:
    December 20th, 2008 at 11:56 am

    What I find amusing is that Kelly is so upset that we exist. I put up this site to push back against a malevolent outside force (fundies) that seeks to impose arbitrary restrictions upon other people’s freedoms. If fundies merely held to their own (crazy) beliefs and went about their own business, there would be no need for this site.

    What is laughable is that there are people out there who are so upset at the mere fact that other folks hold a different opinion on how things are. If I roamed the internet posting crabby, irritated comments on websites of people who merely see things differently from me yet have no real effect on my life, what a sad, pathetic little person I would be.

13. Another Steve Says:
    December 20th, 2008 at 8:13 pm

    As for me, I’m thinking about at least one country that grabbed the religious question and ran with it like Satan himself was chasing them. I’m thinking of none other than that fun loving theocratic Disneyland of religious love and tolerance: Afghanistan.

    Maybe you remember how it turned out when that country turned almost every non-trivial aspect of its citizens’ lives towards God? Women forbidden to go out in public unless accompanied by a male relative. Women forbidden to expose a single square millimeter of skin in public lest they be stoned to death. Schools whose only focus was to totally warp the minds of the male students such that they would gladly strap on vests of explosives and blow themselves up for God?

    Wow! I can hardly wait for that sort of zany bunch of religious folks to take over this country. In the process, of course, they’ll be protecting us from the wrath of God.

14. Brian Says:
    December 20th, 2008 at 9:48 pm

    I think it also bears mentioning, as an opposing example of a religious shit-hole like Afghanistan, countries in which the religious impulse has largely atrophied away. First and foremost I think of the Scandinavian countries as beacons of rational, tolerant humanism in a fog of dogmatic stupidity.

    Objectively, there is no contest. These are countries in which the standard of living is very high, crime is quite low, health care is universal, the lists of international enemies is rather short, and the bikini teams are smoking hot. If ever there were countries daring the almighty to bring on the smiting, it is these. Yet still they remain. How can this be? If every woe to befall America is its own goddamned fault, literally, why does Sweden get a pass? Truly, god is inscrutable. Or, far more likely, non-existent.

15. Lindsay Says:
    December 21st, 2008 at 9:22 am

    PL77, Brian and AnotherSteve, as well thought out and rational as your arguments are I doubt kelly could even find Afghanistan, Scandinavia, or even Japan on a map. One of the greatest evils I believe there is to Americans outside the major metro centers is the utter lack of exposure to foreign cultures. I wish there would be more sponsored school programs that would expose children to foreign cultures…but sadly I doubt that would ever get past any small town school board.

16. OtherRob Says:
    December 21st, 2008 at 10:45 am

    Oops, I just realized that I addressed my previous comment to Lindsay when I should’ve addressed it to kelly. My apologies, Lindsay.

17. Another Steve Says:
    December 21st, 2008 at 4:01 pm

    Brian nice counter example. It was a toss up for me Scandinavia or Afghanistan. I have friends in Sweden. What an amazing place it sounds like. Some day, I’d like to go there. I was shocked to find out that they are somewhere near 80% non-theistic.

18. Lindsay Says:
    December 22nd, 2008 at 7:46 am

    No offense OR, I figured your comment wasn’t directed at me.

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