Does anyone here know this one?!
Question: An atheist was walking through the woods. "What majestic trees! What powerful rivers! What beautiful animals!" he said to himself.
As he continued walking alonside the river he heard a rustling in the bushes.
Turning to look, he saw a 7 foot grizzly charging towards him.
He ran as fast as he could up to the path. Looking up over his shoulder he saw that the bear wa closing in on him. His heart was pumping frantically and he tried to run even faster. He tripped and fell on the ground. He rolled over to pick himself up but saw the bear raising his paw to take a swipe at him. At that instant the atheist cried out: "Oh my God..."
Time stopped. The bear froze. The forest was silent.
It was then that a bright light shone upon the man and a voice came out to the sky saying: "You deny my existence all these years, teach others I don't exist, and even credit creation to a cosmic accident. Do you expect me to help you out of this predicament? Am I to count you as a believer?"
Answers: An atheist was walking through the woods. "What majestic trees! What powerful rivers! What beautiful animals!" he said to himself.
As he continued walking alonside the river he heard a rustling in the bushes.
Turning to look, he saw a 7 foot grizzly charging towards him.
He ran as fast as he could up to the path. Looking up over his shoulder he saw that the bear wa closing in on him. His heart was pumping frantically and he tried to run even faster. He tripped and fell on the ground. He rolled over to pick himself up but saw the bear raising his paw to take a swipe at him. At that instant the atheist cried out: "Oh my God..."
Time stopped. The bear froze. The forest was silent.
It was then that a bright light shone upon the man and a voice came out to the sky saying: "You deny my existence all these years, teach others I don't exist, and even credit creation to a cosmic accident. Do you expect me to help you out of this predicament? Am I to count you as a believer?"
This one is okay.
yes, god forgives all.
is this really supposed to turn an atheist? it sounds like a bad joke an atheist would tell. the most closed-minded thing I've read today
BWAHAHA! Good one. Heard it before, but I liked it...
pmsl good one. not heard that joke before.
Umm, well, perhaps in archaic religious periods saying 'Oh my God' would imply a religious belief, but in the modern day, it's just an expression of angst. It's a term thrown around carelessly. Admittedly, atheism is pointless. However, so is a full-on belief in the contradictory nature in the wording of the Bible. I, personally, am an Agnostic. I don't side either way. I know the real truth about religion. I know exactly what to believe, because I can prove it. I know exactly what the truth is, and the truth is that people do NOT KNOW until the day that they die. If the Atheists are right, yipee, there's no heaven, and no one will ever EVER know. If the other religions are right, yipee, there's an afterlife. But why do people continuously create these stories about God and why disbelievers go to Hell and burn for eternity? Just tell whoever wrote that story to shut the **** up and not tell people what to believe.
nice one
..nice..who created it?
lmao XDD
Well, of course, the one little fallacy always present in this kind of commentary, or joke, or whatever is being said on the subject of atheism and references to "god" is this......
From the time we're babies, week after week, month after month, year after year, our ears are bombarded with very commonplace expletives and exclamations that have something to do with "god" or "devil" or "hell" or "heaven" etc. etc. "Good God!" "Oh my God!" "I'll be damned" "Go to Hell" "That kid is a real little devil" and so on and so on. You get so used to hearing these phrases that have passed into routine every day language usage, that you use them yourself, with absolutely no intention to directly associate their meaning with any real "god" or real "devil". I do not believe in the notion of Heaven or Hell, yet that doesn't get in the way of my using expressions like "The traffic was hell this evening" or "Oh my god, look at that"!
As a matter of fact, I would say that 95 per cent of people who do believe in God, Devil, Heaven, Hell etc., use them purely as expletives, or exclamations to accentuate something they're wanting to say. Nor would I think for a moment either that ONLY "believers" ever tell somebody to "go to Hell, and a-theists would never use the expression because they do not believe in Hell. LOL Even when a believer tells somebody to "go to Hell", he obviously never expects that person to immediately disappear in a puff of smoke.
So there you have it. We use expressions like "Oh my God" NOT because we are addressing the mysterious invisible superbeing of that name, or requesting any kind of assistance from said being in a critical situation. T'is just us doing what all humans have always done - parroting one of zillions of words or phrases that have gotten hard-wired into our brains over years of hearing them. A few years ago I was around somebody a lot, whose favorite exclamation was "Hot Dog!" He used it a lot, and I'm darned if I didn't find it burning itself into my own brain. But it was too late, and to this day it has become my automatic expression of surprise, or response to something somebody just said that I found amazing. But, a passionate animal lover, I would find nothing more horrifying to me than an overheated canine LOL.