I Love Irony
So, a couple of days ago, vjack the Atheist Revolutionary wrote a post about how much evangelists annoy him.
As I write, the comment thread on vjack’s post has 81 comments - 32 of which were written by one Christian who is sharing his sure-fire, awesomely true, must-be-experienced-to-be-believed brand of Christianity with vjack and his godless readers. Too fucking funny! After all, it’s obvious that vjack and his heathen band have never heard the One True Gospel. They’ve never had the scriptures and the right theological interpretation thereof explained to them properly - until now. Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!
Of all the hundreds of posts that vjack has written over the years, this True Christian hijacks the comments of the Evangelism post. My irony meter just busted and my sides are splitting with laughter.
– the chaplain
Yeah, I was one of the Atheist Revolution regulars who had an exchange with Jason. But as true believers go, he doesn’t strike me as a bad fellow. So far he hasn’t played the “you’re going to burn in hell” card, nor as he employed such lame statements like “atheists can’t make moral statements because they have no sense of right and wrong apart from their own personal preferences.”
Comment by Tommykey — May 16, 2008 @ 7:23 pm
Tommy - I noticed your comments over there. Yes, vjack’s evangelist has been pretty cordial, overall, but it’s still annoying when Christians pop into atheist blogs and start trying to convert the poor, doomed, lost, godless, damned heathen. IIRC, you may be one of the folks who pointed out that many atheists are former believers; we’ve heard the message and lived the life, and have chosen a different path. Judging from the comments of many Christian on atheist blogs, they either willfully ignore our claims (we weren’t True Christians and only need to try Their Brand of Faith, then we’ll get it right) or they just don’t or can’t comprehend that even a True Believer can decide to walk away from all of it.
Comment by the chaplain — May 17, 2008 @ 8:13 am
I always like the ones who cite Bible verses to support their arguments as if it had never occurred to them that skeptics don’t recognize their magic book as the final authority on all questions.
Comment by Vinny — May 17, 2008 @ 12:24 pm
I’ve been catching up on posts of your blog, love it - except for the bag of crap pic! GROSS! I agree with the sentiment though.
Comment by Walking Away — May 17, 2008 @ 10:29 pm
Jason makes the rounds of several atheist blogs–I don’t think the man has a real job, or if he does, he must work for daddy, who keeps the sot on the payroll to keep himself from looking like he raised a nitwit bum. Even though he did.
Anyway, Jason is notorious for thinking that atheists would change their ways if they just understood the bible the way he does. It can get pretty funny at Dwindling in Unbelief when Steve says that “many” Christians believe something (and a quick Google search will back it up) and Jason comes back whining that all Christians are being sullied by saying they believe in something. You can explain to him that many does not equal all, nor does it negate the veracity of the original statement, but, nope, he’s certain that Steve means all, he’s totally mistaken for condemning Christians for something that a few believe. Even though you can find, like, oh, 10,000 Christian websites that say exactly what Steve did. Even after those sites get hammered into his pointy head, he’ll trot out the no True Christian fallacy, and it’s all downhill from there.
In other words, he’s just another pretentious, brain-dead fundie twit.
Comment by Aquaria — May 21, 2008 @ 1:50 pm
Well, I’m glad someone is enjoying it! I saw the comment count and thought “Hot damn, I’ve hit the big time!” Of course, it turned out to be mostly troll traffic. Oh well, the readers seem to enjoy it.
Comment by vjack — May 21, 2008 @ 3:51 pm
Hah! vjack I would love to have your traffic as it is
Comment by Sean the Blogonaut — May 21, 2008 @ 10:36 pm
If you like irony, you’ll love “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Intelligent Design,” an ID-sympathetic book advertised on Amazon.com. The comments are pretty good, too.
Comment by monado — June 13, 2008 @ 12:12 am
Monado: Welcome to my blog! I didn’t realize that idiots needed guides to ID - I figured it came naturally to them.
Comment by the chaplain — June 13, 2008 @ 6:43 pm