When asked to describe what atheists believe and how they live, Evangelicals are notorious for giving straw man responses. This meme accurately shows how many Evangelicals view atheists — none of which (generally) is true.
What say ye? Does this meme describe you? Please leave your thoughts in the comment section.
Oh dear, this meme is so bad it’s as though it’s someone playing a joke! Nobody would dare go public with this kind of nonsense, would they? 😂 I’d comment only on the point of distinguishing right and wrong, though it’s such ‘old hat’ that it irks me to have to repeat it. If your behaviour is determined by the requirements of an imagined deity then it is morally inferior to that of a person who determines their behaviour in a considered way by the manner in which it affects others. The Christian believer depicted in this meme (which unfairly portrays most Christians) is much closer in character to a member of the Taliban or 9/11 terrorist than it is to most of the Christian believers I know.
Go figure. I’m apparently more like the depicted average Christian than the depicted average Atheist. I guess I am not much of an atheist after all having never been much of a devoted Christian. If accurate self concept is a defining factor, atheists win the Oscar every time for the simplest of reasons. Atheists are averse to deluding themselves, whereas delusion necessarily defines devoted Christians.
“Cares about evidence”? Really? I thought faith is “the hope in things unseen”.
Faith by its nature is not “evidence based”, it is experience based. I say this as a practicing Christian. Everyone processes their life experiences differently. Mine is no better than anyone else’s.
Disparaging and generalizing people who have a different way of seeing things is not helpful nor appropriate. Some of the negative aspects ascribed to the “atheist” in this caricature can also be ascribed to groups of various Christians through the ages, and vice versa.
My father, God rest his soul, was a borderline agnostic who became more Deist as he got older. He was a morally upright man who worked hard and provided us with a standard of living he could only dream about as a poor Appalachian child raised in a harsh fundamentalist religion. He was also (for the 1980’s) politically conservative. I can say with assurance this cartoon would have pissed him off. He talked all the time about his disdain for self-righteous evangelical “Christians”.
Neither describe me
It’s ironic that they claim to care about evidence when they have no evidence.