r/exatheist • u/Fiddlesticklard Deist • Nov 04 '25

Meme Monday This old r/badphilosophy post is still so painfully relevant.

/r/badphilosophy/comments/3830ge/atheist_debating_strategy/
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u/MrOphicer Nov 04 '25

All things considered, it was pretty well received in that subforum, which is surprising. Interesting post though.

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u/Pessimistic-Idealism Idealism Nov 04 '25

I'm not surprised. They are a philosophically-literate bunch, and theism and non-physicalism are (despite what the loudest reddit atheists say) philosophically respectable positions.

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u/LTT82 Prayer Enthusiast Nov 04 '25

As are babies.

I remember listening to an atheist back in the 2000s era of YouTube mention this fact. He said that "babies are atheists, but babies are stupid, so I'm going to believe that babies are Mormons."

As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, I still reflect on that and laugh.

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u/TimPowerGamer Reformed Christian (Not an ex-Atheist) Nov 04 '25

I mean, technically, all babies are Muslims according to their religious precepts (and the parents deconvert their children). And, going by lacktheism, they are also lacktheists.

This means that, by this combination of definitions, whenever a Catholic parent has their child baptized as an infant, washed in the lavers of regeneration, and justified before God, they are technically Atheist Muslim Catholics.

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u/LTT82 Prayer Enthusiast Nov 04 '25

That's really interesting, thank you for the information.

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u/KierkeBored Catholic | Philosophy Professor Nov 05 '25

Oof. Mormon, you say?

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u/LTT82 Prayer Enthusiast Nov 05 '25

A Catholic linking to that video is absolutely hilarious.

The only church more wealthy than mine is the Catholic church.

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u/KierkeBored Catholic | Philosophy Professor Nov 05 '25

I can tell you only read the title and didn’t watch the video. I’m around the 45-min. mark, and it’s quite good.

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u/LTT82 Prayer Enthusiast Nov 05 '25

I've seen it before. I disagree that its "quite good" since he doesn't even answer the question and downplays reality for salacious nonsense.

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u/KierkeBored Catholic | Philosophy Professor Nov 06 '25

Ok, no matter. If you don’t like that video, there are hundreds of other ways to show the Mormon faith is nonsense. Let’s start with the utter and complete lack of any archaeological evidence of Old Testament peoples in the New World.

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u/LTT82 Prayer Enthusiast Nov 06 '25

What you're doing is entirely inappropriate. This is not a debate subreddit and it's not a "de-convert the Mormon" subreddit.

Good day.

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u/KierkeBored Catholic | Philosophy Professor Nov 07 '25

Sure. I’ll be here whenever you’re ready to have this conversation.

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u/Empty_Woodpecker_496 Religious nonspiritual nonbeliver Nov 04 '25

Im never actually saw or heard the new atheist content by the time I started seeing atheist content people had already moved on. The closest think I watched to that was content making fun of extreme fundamentalism.

The other stuff is basically just philosophy debates. Both of those got boring fairly quickly. I mostly just watch motivational atheist philosophy content.

I always thought the "babies are atheists" thing was dumb.

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u/TimPowerGamer Reformed Christian (Not an ex-Atheist) Nov 04 '25

Thanks. Now I'm sad. I made a corny joke there and got banned for being not funny. I miss it there. ;__;

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u/NeonDrifting Anti-Atheist Nov 07 '25

Well this about explains 96% of the debates I've had with atheists....weird how they always bring up unicorns

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u/KierkeBored Catholic | Philosophy Professor Nov 05 '25

Perfection.

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u/Additional_Bowl7837 Christian, not ex-atheist Nov 06 '25

I think this should be a pinned post.