Lets play a game: Suppose that tonight God was proven to not exist...

[LostInAnomie]

... What happens tomorrow?

[iconoclastic cat]

1. The same exact thing that would've happened anyway.

[blueraven95]

2. proven how?

I would say that tomorrow a religious war would break out over the proof.

[LostInAnomie]

5. Let's just say that it is.

Whatever it would take to prove irrefutably to everyone in the world that there is no such thing as God.

[hfojvt]

27. it's pretty hard to prove that something doesn't exist

isn't it? I can prove that there is no beer in my refrigerator by performing a simple search, but how do you search the entire cosmos for God. It would be much harder than searching a high school for a janitor (which is difficult enough as the janitor can move to a room you have already searched). It might be more interesting to ask the opposite question - what if it was proven irrefutably that there is a God? Especially since it would take a God to transmit that information and proof to everyone.

So what would it take for God to prove to you that God exists? A dream? A message? A visit? An instant trip to Ganymede? Turning your baseball bat into a fish? What does it take to satisfy you?

[last_texas_dem]

32. If God WAS proven to exist tomorrow...

The religious right would all be on their knees asking for forgiveness for being such hateful jerks. After all, the only way I can explain the way that they behave and the claims that they make is that they must not really believe in God, but only know how to manipulate millions of people in God's name.

[LostInAnomie]

35. "how do you search the entire cosmos for God"

Well for the sake of this thread someone did, and there ain't one.

So there.

[progdonkey]

3. suppose something that isn't a logical impossibility occurred... n/t

[alarcojon]

4. Gnashing of teeth!

[RevCheesehead]

6. I guess I'd be unemployed.

Can I sleep on your sofa?

[LostInAnomie]

7. It would be a long drive, but sure.

You'll have to fight the dog off of it though.

[ForrestGump]

8. Dog? But isn't dog supposedly nonexistent? I'm confused.

EDIT: my mistake. Carry on.

[RevCheesehead]

9. Well, I'll be bringing the two cats, too.

[LostInAnomie]

10. Then I hope my allergies don't exist either...

... or you'll run me out of my own home.

[RevCheesehead]

11. Considering you just ruined my career....

don't you think that's fair? :)

[LostInAnomie]

13. I guess I have to load up on the Benedryl.

You will at least look for a job won't you?

[RevCheesehead]

15. After Packers season, sure...

but then there's Duke Basketball. Do you have full cable, or satellite?

[LostInAnomie]

17. You know what?

It's just been proven that I don't have a couch either.

[RevCheesehead]

19. ...

:rofl: Hey, the floor's not so bad.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

12. I'd be an atheist instead of an agnostic.

[Jamastiene]

14. We'd end up forced to watch nothing but

Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson 27/7. Hardly any believers woud believe it and we'd have to hear King George constantly refusing to believe it saying it's unproven and therefore he ain't following it.

[HEyHEY]

16. I phone a few Christians I don't like and rub it in their face

[evlbstrd]

18. I would not be surprised at all.

[In_The_Wind]

20. people wouldn't have any reason

to say ...

god dammit
god bless you
god will get you for that
god save the queen
what in god's name did you do that for
god is watching you

[LostInAnomie]

21. Or...

What the hell!?
To hell with that!
It's hotter than hell out here!
etc.

[In_The_Wind]

23. exactly

for some it would be chaotic

for others ... it would be life as usual ... except for watching people go nuts ... but we're watching that all the time anyway, it would just get worse

[hfojvt]

26. you can have a hell without having a god

in fact, it's easier that way.

[LostInAnomie]

28. According to the last Pope...

... Hell is the absence of God. So I guess you are right.

[WhollyHeretic]

22. Thank god for that. Those sayings are annoying

[In_The_Wind]

25. thanks for adding another 1 to my list

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :spray: :thumbsup:

[mykpart]

24. Fundies would just ignore it

the same way they ignore the science about global warming.

[SKKY]

29. A certain LiberalSailor I know would have a lot of explaining to do.

But, as I've always said before, it's so much easier to beg for forgiveness than it is to ask for persmission.

[u4ic]

30. The Fundies would be out in full force

claiming it is a test of faith god put before us, that the evidence was created to test one's faith, and we must respond (see second paragraph). Or, dem darn liberals fixed it - we must fight them. (see second paragraph)

Either way, they'd open the phone lines up for $$ (some things never change) :eyes:

[moof]

31. No Game to play, the supernatural is already nonexistant.

Unlike Global warming.

[last_texas_dem]

33. Pat Robertson would be off the air

and I wouldn't have to hear him praying for USSC vacancies anymore.

On second thought, as delusional as his followers are he'd probably still be on there and just as popular. Dammit.

[Robeson]

34. He doesn't. So what are you going to do tomorrow?

[scarlet_owl]

36. I guess I wouldn't be going to church tomorrow.

[hyphenate]

37. Tomorrow would go on

just like it has for the past 300 million years for most of us. There would be some plays for power, no doubt, and much of the hypocrites on the right will simply invent some new "god" to continue to hold on to their base.

[DerekG]

38. I'd open up to the book of Pslams and finish where I left off

If it's a lie, then I will continue to believe it. At least it's a noble one.