Youth pastor: The rise of atheism is inevitable.

[deucemagnet]

FULL QUOTE: "Information and time are on the side of nonbelievers. Every single day that the idea of a god persists, more will disbelieve in His existence. There is simply nothing we can do about it but accept the inevitable and hope they do not treat Christians the way Christians have treated them."

From his mouth to the FSM's noodly ears.

[mr blur]

1. Well, I certainly don't plan to torture any of them,

Or burn them alive.

[Scuba]

3. +1

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. they don't burn well anyway. Too wet.

No, I just plan to laugh as their ignorance digs them an ever deeper hole.

[OriginalGeek]

5. I'd bet my house

that is a real fear for some of them. They know they have misbehaved badly and can't grasp the thought that everyone isn't like them.

[Arugula Latte]

14. I'd like to make it illegal for the fundy men to have access to boner pills, though.

[Gore1FL]

15. They do it themselves

every Sunday.

[awoke_in_2003]

19. I am putting them...

on my naughty list, though

[Auggie]

2. Heh

[Warpy]

6. Holy smokes! There is a youth pastor who can be trusted

with kids! Wow!

I just hope s/he is managing to teach the kiddies that sort of tolerance.

[FiveGoodMen]

7. What I don't get...

"Information and time are on the side of nonbelievers"

Isn't that an admission that his faith isn't true?

[gcomeau]

8. No...

...it's an admission that the evidence isn't on his side. Which would matter if most religious believers made their decisions about God based on evidence... but they don't. They declare that what they believe is true regardless of the evidence, call it "having faith", and declare it to be the pinnacle of virtue to do so.

[FiveGoodMen]

9. I'd buy that for a LOT of cases, but the quote that started this thread sounds like it comes from

someone a little more together than that.

[deucemagnet]

11. Apparently, this guy's wife is questioning her faith and may not believe.

http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/16ouac/youth_pastor_says_the_rise_of_atheism_is/

[FiveGoodMen]

12. Interesting

Thanks for the link.

[gcomeau]

13. If he was more together than that...

...then he wouldn't have been able to make such a straightforward statement about information being on the other side without batting an eye about still believing contrary to that information, would he? And being a youth pastor I have to assume his eyes remain un-batted... but perhaps I'm wrong and any day now he's going to drop that position and join the ranks of the atheists.

(In which case, he stops being a believer, and my comment as it pertains to believers remains in force)

[Warpy]

10. No, only that it won't stand up to what science is telling us

about the age and nature of the universe. No one who isn't sleepwalking through life can take any of it literally any more.

People will continue to tuck irrational stuff away in the "use in case of disaster" compartment in their brains, to be pulled out like a security blanket when the world around them has gone nuts.

[ShadowLiberal]

20. I think it's how science is explaining things people used to say "God did it"

If you went back a few thousand years ago people used to say things like God made it rain, or the Rain God made it rain. Natural disasters were God's wrath for some misbehavior or something. Long before we could predict the weather and figure out what caused it.

These days if we can't explain something we're more likely to say it's something scientific we don't understand instead of saying God is doing it.

And even in some cases where there's no answer people now guess things other then god are responsible. For example, many people say UFO's they see must be aliens in the sky.

The less you know about science and such, the easier it is to be religious probably (look at the numbers on religion, or lack of it, among US scientists).

[dimbear]

17. God could put this all away by appearing on "The View,"

Except for that being imaginary thing.

[Phillip McCleod]

18. must be frustrating for he/she/it

[AverageJoe90]

21. I'm personally glad that traditional religion is on its way out.....