Although it's not as common as it once was, there are still people who believe that atheists both believe in and worship Satan, the evil opponent of God. This is an almost literal demonization of atheists, since the primary servants of Satan are always depicted as literal demons. Describing atheists in this manner makes it easy to dismiss them and whatever they say - after all, it would be wrong for a true and faithful follower of God to pay any attention to the lies of Satan's minions.
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Santa. Atheists worship Santa.
No, it’s Satin. Atheists worship satin.
sheesh
The skygod is make believe. Satan is make believe. Anyone who worships either is half-baked. They really like to worship various acts of worship itself. They are capable of enormous cruelty.
No, it’s Satin. Atheists worship satin.
sheesh
According to some emails I’ve seen, this is exactly what some Christians think.
If I don’t believe in the sky daddy, why would I believe in Satan? They’re both fictional characters, as are Santa, Christ, Odin, Thor, etc. Believing in either Christ and/or Satan requires that you somehow are not responsible for any good or bad in your life, therefore you are absolved.
I think that’s a very strange way to go through life. No credit for any accomplishment, or blame for any “sins” either. “Goddidit” or “Satan made me do it” are not the reasons for anything! Proving, once again, that religion destroys reasoning and critical thinking and the intellect.
Pure nonsense from the theists to try to make atheists look bad.
I don’t worship anything.
Just in case Athiests don’t believe in reading old posts either
This is from the Sept. post about the Christian kids wearing the Islam T-shirts to school. ALSO… Just out of curiosity (forgive me I’m new to your forum) are Christians the only ones that you guys rag on or make fun of? Do you make any statements in regards to other faiths? For instance…. did you say anything about the crazy muslims that cut peoples heads off or is it just a commonly known fact among Athiests that everyone in every other sort of belief system is a loon, and it just so happens that Christians and their “sky daddy” are the best ones to make fun of on here? Again, just curious.. Im new. 
ANYWAYS>>>
As a firm believer in Christianity and one who truly knows what the Christian faith is all about, I challenge not only those who oppose my faith but also the Christians who claim they are Christians yet never take the time to educate themselves on their faith.
Yes education is important. The education of the Christian faith. Not you or the other poster or the “Christian” you claimed to have spoken to seem to have a full understanding of the Christian faith, or as I like to call it.. the Truth.
The truth is that we are not responsible for the death of Jesus. That was all done through the mercy of God. Yes He is a merciful, loving, and JUST God. The wages of sin is death but the GIFT (the thing we don’t deserve because we are UNWORTHY) of God is eternal life, through the death and resurection of His son Jesus Christ.
Those who accept that we are all here to be worshipers of God and to be a part of His famiy, and accept the Truth about Jesus Christ’s death, burial and resurection for the redemption of our sins, WILL inherit an eternal life in heaven with our creator, glorifying Him.
Those who chose to believe there is something significant about themselves, so much AWESOMENESS to their meek little lives and choose to reject the Truth, will be cast into the lake of fire and pay the ultimate penalty for willingly living a life apart from your creator as a rebellious sinner.
Sounds aweful doesn’t it! Of course! We’re human. Noone likes to hear or admit that they’re evil, and thats where the devil has you all fooled, just as he has since the beginning of God’s creation.
So back to the T shirt’s. Personally I think its garbage that, while at work or school, people can wear rainbow shirts and talk about their gay pride, or sit around and discuss some great philosophers distorted theories on how we crawled out of nothing and evolved into human beings, but the moment anyone tries to make a statement about the Truth, its immediately rejected and dismissed as a band of Christian “haters” or Jesus freaks.
It must be nice to live so ignorantly in your own little bubbles of “its all about me until the day I die and there’s no more ME to worry about.”
There’s probably a little better statement to put on the shirt like maybe, “hey muslims, I’ve got some good news to tell you about! His name is Jesus!” But to completely dismiss the Christian faith because someone was bold, and blatent when designing a T shirt seems a little wreckless to me. You may want to consider for a moment the fact that there just might be something or someone out there more powerful and complex than our little human brains. Someone that is so divine that we, as human beings, just might not be able to explain it. I challenge you to rethink your dismissal of this faith and research the Christian faith a little harder before you call us all a bunch of crazy cultish muslim haters.
Any true Christian will openly admit to not hating anyone. We hate the devil and the demons that convince you that Jesus died in vein. But we certainly don’t hate you. Our entire religion is based on God’s love for mankind and as true Christians we strive every day to live just as our creator did while HE walked this Earth in His fleshly body recognized by many as Jesus Christ.
One of my best friends is an Athiest and I pray for his Christian enlightenment every day.
Jesus told us however, narrow is the gate to heaven and broad is the path to destruction.
So at least 51% of this world is going to Hell in a hand basket, but don’t let a T shirt be the reason that you’re one of them.
I’m praying for you guys and if any of you want to discuss this with me please feel free to email me at NSwarthout@gmail.com
PS
Becoming a Christian doesnt make anyone worthy of anything. Just because Im a Christian doesn’t mean Im worthy of my salvation… Its only by Gods grace that I even have my salvation to talk about. Just because you clean up your house after your dog chews the sofa apart, doesn’t mean your dog is worthy of living at your house anymore. He did nothing to deserve living with you, just as we did nothing to deserve living with God. Its simply by grace alone.
@Nick Swarthout:
Same lyrics, different tune. Do you really think that we haven’t heard your spiel over and over again? Do you imagine that somehow you, can reveal anything new? Do you have any idea of what atheism is?
Most of us came to this conclusion BECAUSE of religion. I would venture a guess that atheists know more about the facts surrounding the bible, both OT and NT then you ever will.
Most atheists know the factual truth concerning the evolution of those two mythology books, and their history and origins. Most of us have read and done extensive investigation to come to the atheistic conclusion. We are reasoning, logical thinking individuals. Most atheists use those faculties. More than, unfortunately, I can say for you and your delusional, close minded cohorts. Prove that your god is the only one. As a matter of fact, prove your god is, period… You can’t really, can you?
Don’t bother to pray for me, I find that insulting. How would you like it if I think for you? Who are you to pray for me whether I like it or not, anyway? How about praying to your god for world peace and a cure for all the horrible deprivation and disease in the world? A lot of good your praying has done in that regard. You know why? Because he isn’t there, he doesn’t exist, except in your books of fairytales and your deluded minds.
You probably didn’t even look at my post (5) above. How lovingly Christlike of you to delight in being the special chosen, who will live in eternity with the creator. While we will languish eternally in hell, because he so loves us.
Are you going to look down and watch us suffer? That should suit you just fine. Your god is a sadistic, psychotic, megalomaniac! Any human father who behaved that way would be locked up for life. Definitely not worthy of ANY worship.
Tell me, exactly what you will do in heaven for eternity? What will that be like? Give me an idea of a day in heaven, or eternity in heaven.
By the way, we don’t believe in any gods. All religions are subject to as much scrutiny as Christianity. If you look through the site, you will see articles about Judaism, Islam and even Scientology. Any religious construct that suppresses humanity with unreasoning dogma and dictatorship in the name of any god, is fair game.
I’d love to answer some more of your questions for you. Don’t be bashful… shoot me an email. NSwarthout@gmail.com
My prayers are an expression of love toward you whether you accept them or not. Its in my fairy tale books, check it out. SO I’ll continue to pray for you and for those of you interested in hearing more of my same tune and less of this same tune called atheism then feel free to email me as well.
God Bless you guys, Im praying for you!
Nick
Don’t be so closed minded, Sojourn. Some of us Jesus freaks actually know what we’re talking about
If I were close-minded I wouldn’t be an atheist. I read, I researched, I learned. I didn’t wake up one day and say “I think I’ll be an atheist.” Your fairytale book is that, just fairytales. Maybe some day, you’ll wake up and realize I know what I”M talking about. Till then. Good luck to you.
I have read the OT and NT thoroughly, more than once. That was part of my being an atheist. As I said I probably have more FACTUAL information about it than you do. I said “factual”, not wishful thinking, or because I put my brain on hold. Your god is evil, and horrific, not worthy of worship. Nothing in the bibles changes my mind, it just corroborates it. Furthermore without the framework of religion, it would be no more true or real than Greek or Roman mythology.
Those mythologies, and their precursors throughout the centuries, are exactly the same tales, told through different cultures and belief systems. Christianity just wrapped them up in a bright new box and new shiny ribbon and presented them. Somewhat akin to passing the eternal fruitcake around, year to year.
There is nothing short of irrefutable proof that could convince me god exists. I doubt whether you have that proof…and you can’t use the bible or anything in it or based on it.
How arrogant, smug and self righteous you are to decide you will pray for me, whether I wish it or not. You are saying to me that my wishes don’t matter, and actually I’m insignificant as far as you’re concerned. Its a rampant insult! Of course, you don’t see it that way through your pious tunnel-vision. I bet you wouldn’t appreciate it if I spammed you with atheist literature. Well, you are doing the same thing!
PS
In case it wasn’t clear enough I don’t believe in Satan, hell, or eternal damnation either. So that won’t impress me at all.
Some loving god you have there.
(If I were close-minded I wouldn’t be an atheist. I read, I researched, I learned. I didn’t wake up one day and say “I think I’ll be an atheist.” Your fairytale book is that, just fairytales. Maybe some day, you’ll wake up and realize I know what I”M talking about. Till then. Good luck to you.)
I had to stop here at the first sign of your self contradiction there, Steve. YOU didnt just wake up one day and decide “Im going to be an athiest” but one day I might wake up and decide “Im going to be an athiest”? Im going to try to get by that part and finish reading the rest of what you’ve written.
PSS Its not my job to impress or scare you, Jim. Its my job to tell you the Truth. You should know my fairy tale book says to seek out your own salvation with fear and trembling…. Ive got mine.. I’m just praying you get yours.
The fairy tale book also tells all of us who know Jesus to “fear not.”
So at least you and I can find a common ground, niether of us are afraid. We’re making progress.
Im not spamming you with Christian literature… Im expressing my views just as you are… you ought to be open minded enough to see that. Noone is forcing you to read or respond to what Im writing and the very creator of this article actually condones people challenging religion. Its in his “about this site” section or what ever its called… You may want to keep your research a little closer to home.
anyways in response to this….
( You are saying to me that my wishes don’t matter, and actually I’m insignificant as far as you’re concerned. Its a rampant insult! Of course, you don’t see it that way through your pious tunnel-vision. I bet you wouldn’t appreciate it if I spammed you with atheist literature. Well, you are doing the same thing!)
Yes. You are insignificant and no what you want does not matter. I want you to go to heaven but you dont care about my wants. infact you dismiss them as being based off of some fairy tale. So in a broader perspective, sir, if my wants mean nothing to you then why should your wants mean anything to me? Who are you sir to deserve more respect on this website than me. If you truly wished for me to convert to athiesm from a dead sleep one day then you should be encouraging me to stick around here for a while. You should wish this, in hopes of an end of my constant “spamming of Christian literature”… some food for thought before I make my real point here.
PSSS Dont get so fussy… its just make believe right??? You certainly wouldnt cuss out Walt Diseney for dressing people up as mickey mouse and letting them walk around a theme park signing autographs for little kids would you? So then the only LOGICAL conclusion to such a strong defense against my presence is the fact that it might hold some validity against the very grounds you rule youre own life by…? Sorry if that stung a little.. but dont sweat it, its make believe
SO
Yes we are all worthless and what we want does not matter. I am worthless, you are, everyone is. God gains nothing but our love by keeping us around. And our love for Him is the only reason He breathed life into us in the first place. Just as a child has no grounds to tell his parents how to run his own life, we as humans have no grounds to tell our creator what is and isnt OK. So if he sees that some of his project that we call earth is infected with evil and sin and is dragging down the rest of His creation, then who are we as humans to say He shouldnt dispose of that portion? If you had a bum leg that could cost you your life, would you not have the leg amputated? I know few people who would die to hang on to a bum leg. Thats only logical is it not?
My God is not make believe Sir. He’s very real and Hes very loving. And as a servant of Him I do my very best to obey His commands. Sometimes we get a little out of touch with what it means to strive to be Holy, and for that very purpose we have the saving grace of Jesus Christ to redeem us for our sins. My sins, obamas sins, the authors sins, and yours as well. It is through Jesus Christ alone that we have a fighting chance to leave this world and enter the gates of heaven.
Im still praying for all of you on here.
Nick
There is NO contradiction in that statement. You are trying a tactic known as “set up a strawman” You know perfectly well what I said and why. Nit-picking doesn’t change it. How can I discuss anything when you have ignored everything I said previously? Who’s close-minded? You either did not read or could not comprehend a word I said.
You speak of “telling the truth?” Who’s truth? as Austin has said many times and I will concur “prove it”. Prove that it’s THE TRUTH and no other. You can’t! Prove all the historical and archeological studies are wrong. Prove that your savior was not a patchwork of previous mythological memes. You can’t.
Your whole basis is a waste of energy. Prove your savior actually is real. You can’t do that either.
Hell, damnation, sin, sin, sin, guilt, guilt, guilt! What a useless waste of life, living with that kind of fear. I don’t believe in your imaginary heaven either. Are you a thespian or a theologian? I checked your Facebook entry. I see you’re a model too? How versatile. A Jesus scholar also, no doubt.
Why would I want to convert you? Atheists aren’t evangelists. We’ve all converted ourselves. We don’t need anyone to tell us how to think, or brainwash us. We have no churches, pastors, priests, imams, bibles or holy books of any kind, atheism is not a religion.
You didn’t actually read the first part of what he wrote. There is no contradiction between “I didn’t just wake up and decide to be an atheist” and “Maybe some day you’ll wake up and realize I know what I’m talking about.” The subject of the two statements are entirely different: deciding to be an atheist and not accusing atheists of being ignorant.
There are really only a couple of choices here: your reading comprehension skills are too low to comprehend that distinction; you don’t care what’s being said, you just latch onto anything vaguely appropriate to criticize; you know very well what was said but your religious beliefs compel you to lie in order to make a religious point.
I suppose there are other possibilities, but frankly I don’t really care because no matter what the motivation, such behavior won’t be tolerated here. This site doesn’t exist as some sort of “private game preserve” for proselytizing. Comments exist for discussion, not for Christians to evangelize. If you want to discuss, you are required to stick to the topic of the original post — if you can’t, post on the site’s forum. You are furthermore required to actually discuss, which means you need to address what’s actually said to you.
If you can’t do any of this, you need to move on and find some other atheist site that is more tolerant of your behavior.
My sincere apology, in advance, to Austin for the following, obviously rather blunt, comment. It was written before reading his preceding, excellent, and as usual, ever so cogent comment. [My bad?...ahem.]
However, my leftover emotions from reading (much earlier this morning) fundie Nick’s comments impel me to follow through with the following:
Nick Swarthout?…
…This IS, after all, an atheist Site; which for many of us EX-religious survivors, is one of the most sane, rational and informative of all the atheist ‘oases’ amidst the all too moronic, brainwashed desert of religious oriented claptrap.
For starters, you might learn to spell the word atheist correctly…and, for that matter…theist.
To us, YOU’RE invading OUR turf, with your, IMO, totally naive, rather inexperienced, and…inferring from your, obviously intentional, easily Googled, age, education, and even ‘vocational’ intentions…you are, it would seem, relatively uneducated in Science, other ancient religious Mythologies, Philosophy, Arcaeology…yada-yada. AND…most probably, not unlike many of us, you were childhood brainwashed. You obviously come here with the rather inane intention of trying to coax much more aware and experienced people back to swallowing the amazingly stupid, and totally fictional, monstrously vicious, Abrahamic claptrap about existence. The psycopathic claptrap which is, in essence, the original “Archetype” of all the World’s tyrannical, dictatorial, and utterly slavish systems. And, I’d add…not only slavish during one’s life IN the world, but intending the slavishness to continue…forever…in a most bizarre concept of an afterlife.
Personally, I won’t waste any more of MY time writing the same things that most every atheist has hammered out on a computer keyboard to try confronting, or disuading, another hopelessly fundie troll.
More to the point…you have absolutely NOTHING to add to the already mountainess bunch of crap that we’ve all heard from your ilk. We’ve all been there, done that; and, indeed…long ago…for many of us.
Just a Suggestion…
Try watching a couple of atheist oriented YouTubes, narrated by Christopher Hitchens, which, I think, cover the general subject of what’s totally WRONG with your apparently totally “faith-based” beliefs:
[obviously, copy/paste bracket contents]:
“Why Christianity Fails 1 – Christopher Hitchens ILLUSTRATED 1″:
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYaQpRZJl18]
“Why Christianity Fails 1 – Christopher Hitchens ILLUSTRATED 2″:
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkHuvErbpd0&feature=related]
Other than the above…erm…”Nick”…
my OTHER (obviously uninhibited ad hominem) suggestions would be:
“Bugger off, and stuff, perhaps, your favorite version of the Bible up your arse (where your brains apparently currently reside?)…and/or…
Go f*ck yourself (for imaginary Jeebus’s sake?)!”
Has the comment section been hijacked? It seems really off topic from the blog post about worshipping Satan. I had a friend who told me that when she was younger and in church, she was taught atheists worshipped Satan–or at least she came away with that idea from her church somehow.
I find it interesting that we have a dehumanizing philosophy that dominates the West–one that says being a human is to be a mistake that cannot be corrected. That without divine salvation no human is anything but depraved evil. They teach this to their children. And they say they agree with it. So, Christian children get a heapin’ helpin’ of “you’re not good enough. You’ll never be good enough. Nothing you can ever do will ever be worthy of acceptance. If god wasn’t so merciful, you’d get your just come-uppance.”
This is generally accompanied by a good bit of not sparing the rod. And sometimes some sort of hell or penality is added. If some being came to harm my child, it would be through my dead body. I certainly wouldn’t hand my kid over and say, “Sorry dear, but it’s what you deserve–you really are that horrible.” What sort of person could convince so many people their children need salvation? That they’re something inherently wrong with them?
If I had a child born with no limbs–to me, that child would be _perfect_. And that child would know it’s mother deemed it perfect. And any idiot who would dare disparage my child would get corrected in no short order. I absolutely would not enter a child into a doctrine that starts out by making them swallow they’re screwed up beyond help.
Has anyone seen the Locator before? The guy meets with adults who want to find their parents. And they’ve lived tormented–wondering why their mother/father abandoned them. When they hear their mom/dad loves them, they break down. You know they’ve been waiting for that acceptance a lifetime. Imagine having a mother and father who refuse to ever tell you you’re acceptable–who rather remind you weekly you deserve nothing good because of who you are–inherently. And until you’re dead and if you’re lucky enough for god to change you into something else–then you’ll finally be less than a worm.
Great parenting.
Sorry–should have been “more than a worm” in that last line.
@TracieH:
As usual your comments are on the mark. I wholeheartedly agree with your statements. If “Nick” hadn’t come along and tried to pirate the proceedings, we would probably have stuck to the original topic. As it was, there seemed no choice but to defend the vessel and take up arms.
@Austin:
I had a hunch you’d come calling, I was expecting some of your pithy commentary. I had intended to go no further with our fundie troll, Nick. One can only put up with so much pig-headed ignorance and tunnel-vision. As usual, you’re spot on!
Sorry for hurtin y’alls feelings. I really didnt mean to. I’ll try to play by the rules from now on and only talk to you guys about what I think about your beliefs. I’ll just leave my email for anyone who wants to know about my beliefs.
AND Austin. If I get out of line again, feel free to delete me from your friends list so I can’t access this page anymore.
My Bad dudes!
Nick
Nswarthout@gmail.com
You didn’t. Why assume you did?
You aren’t on any “friends list” of mine. Anyone can access this page at any time.
You simply have to be able to exercise a bit of self-control and reasoning.