Atheist Assertions Answered

Atheist
1) As soon as, scientific knowledge and modern medical practises started to save lives - without the witchcraft and mumbo jumbo of shamans and priests - the various religions of the world started to rock on their pedestals - badly.

Friar Hilarius
Please indicate how this relates specifically to the Christian Church

Atheist
2) Then there was a genius called Charles Darwin who showed the world that species evolved, rather than having been suddenly 'created', religion started to reveal itself to be the slightly sick joke that a lot of us know it to be.

Friar Hilarius
My church has no problem with evolutionary theory. Therefore, if you really think the Christian religion is a sick joke you must have some other reason.

Atheist
3) The Darwinian Theory Of Evolution started to be taught in schools and universities - unless you went to school in one the rust-bucket southern states of the United States, or had the misfortune to be the child of the seventh day adventists or some other back-woods hillbilly religion.I imagine you think god created the world 5-6 thousand years ago.

Friar Hilarius
Science tells me and my Church that everything started billions of years ago. I have no idea why you think I would believe otherwise. Incidentally do you believe, like many atheists that the matter which now constitutes the universe has always existed?

Atheist
Tell me, I) Who created god,

Friar Hilarius
No one

Atheist
and why did he do this miracle 5-6 thousand years ago?

Friar Hilarius
He didn't

Atheist
And how was it exactly that it coincided at precisely the same time as ignorant and superstitious shepherds started to tell their scribes about wonderous miracles?

Friar Hilarius
What is your source for this claim? Which shepherds are you discussing?

Atheist
So, sorry, old chum, ah one other thing. If Christ did putter around with miracles, why did he cure one blind man, but not all of them?

Friar Hilarius
If you remember his ministry lasted only three years. So he had to delegate his authority. Modern surgeons now routinely cure many causes of blindness.

Atheist
Why did he cure some lepers, but not wipe out the disease altogether?

Friar Hilarius
He had other work to do, and other matters on his mind. Again he delegated much authority.

Atheist
Why did your god create women just to have them reviled and made subordinate to a whole lot of men who feared women?

Friar Hilarius
Please be more precise

Atheist
How it is the fervent suicide bombers come from virgin young men?

Friar Hilarius
What is your precise point?

Atheist
How is it the Catholic Church refuses to admit the existence of women unless they labour in menial jobs?

Friar Hilarius
I am not a spokesman for the Church of Rome

Atheist
Why did religions emerge at a time in man's past when man was barely out of the stone age?

Friar Hilarius
It seemed like a good idea at the time

Atheist
Why were people tortured and threatened with an auto-da-fé, like Galileo, when it was discovered that the earth revolved around the sun?

Friar Hilarius
I am not a spokesman for the Church of Rome

Atheist
None of these obscenities were done by a god. They were done by the very people who stood to lose most if the truth ever got out. Priests, shamans, rain-makers, and mendicant sooth-sayers. They are the ones who have been losing out, trouble is, they still persist. Only they've become something to be laughed at.

Friar Hilarius
I don't see many honest and caring priests being laughed at

Atheist
Then try this one on for size: It comes via a fervent, dare I say devout, believer in god. His name is Steve Fielding. He said that Climate Change didn't exist, because god hadn't thought of it!I leave you in the not-so-safe hands of terminal nit-wits like him.

Friar Hilarius
I am not a spokesman for Steve Fielding