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Atheists & Agnostics

Promethean

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11. It comes up occasionally

Reply to yodermon (Reply #10)

Tue Sep 29, 2015, 05:44 PM

Sep 2015

from apologists in debates. They try to demonstrate that everybody would be this horrible evil monster if gawd wasn't holding them back and end up just demonstrating that the apologist is a monster.

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Has anyone posted this pic here before? Cause it makes perfect sense to me [View all] dixiegrrrrl Sep 2015 OP

Good Meme LostOne4Ever Sep 2015 #1

I wonder why we never have Penn shoved in our faces Lordquinton Sep 2015 #9

Jebus loves me this I know olddots Sep 2015 #2

That is a tough thing about being a non- believer SCantiGOP Sep 2015 #3

Always wondered about people who needed to be told truebluegreen Sep 2015 #4

Me too. dixiegrrrrl Sep 2015 #5

I haven't seen it before, thanks for posting! beam me up scottie Sep 2015 #6

honestly Skittles Sep 2015 #7

This may be why atheists generally don't proseletyze for atheism –– snot Sep 2015 #8

I have been around religious people my whole life yodermon Sep 2015 #10

It comes up occasionally Promethean Sep 2015 #11

It is not a fucking straw man. beam me up scottie Sep 2015 #12

Yeah but Capt. Obvious Sep 2015 #13

Same vile homophobia, different Robertson. beam me up scottie Sep 2015 #14

Ah didn't even notice Capt. Obvious Sep 2015 #15

After years of virulent hatred they all kind of blend together... beam me up scottie Sep 2015 #16

If it quacks like a duck Capt. Obvious Sep 2015 #17

Lol! beam me up scottie Sep 2015 #18

Actually I get asked it NastyRiffraff Oct 2015 #19

I have been asked this, well it was murdering not raping WhollyHeretic Oct 2015 #20

I've certainly heard a couple of preachers ask this type of question RussBLib Oct 2015 #21

Nicely put. n/t dixiegrrrrl Oct 2015 #22