A Christian telling an atheist to prove there is no God is like an atheist telling a Catholic to prove that the anti-Catholic propaganda that was written in 1836 by Maria Monk called The Awful Disclosures, which told of lurid tales of sexual depravity among Catholic priests and nuns, is in fact untrue. After all, the Catholic requirement that atheist must prove God does not exist, even though it is impossible to prove a negative, is no different from atheist's requiring Catholics to prove that they are not simply dupes who, however sincere they may be, are simply working unwittingly for their own devil.
In her book, Monk tells about the horribly painful penances she was forced to perform, which included sticking pins through her cheeks. She likewise details how, after taking her final vows to become a nun, she was told by her superiors that she must have sex with the priests, and that in fact the convent was actually a brothel and the nuns were entirely at the lascivious disposal of the priests.
Monk went on to explain that these sexual exploits would sometimes lead to pregnancy, which in turn lead to birthing the child, baptizing it, and then strangling it and burying it in the basement of the convent. She even tells the story of how one nun who refused was eventually strangled to death for refusing to serve as the bride to those who had so selflessly devoted themselves to the Church of Christ.
The Catholic cannot simply point out that there is no real evidence to support such ludicrous claims, however fabricated such stories appeared to be, since the Bible contained far worse stories of depravity and evil, and all in the service of "God's plan." For if the Bible alone is sufficient evidence for a "belief" in the truth claims of Christianity, with its catalogue of admitted horrors lauded always by the faithful as "the will of God," so Monk's book alone is likewise sufficient evidence for a "belief" in Monk's "truth claims" about how the Catholic church is simply a shell corporation for Satan himself.
Hence, the Bible is only as much evidence for the existence of god, as Monk's book was for the belief that Catholicism is simply the yellow brick road to hell.
In her book, Monk tells about the horribly painful penances she was forced to perform, which included sticking pins through her cheeks. She likewise details how, after taking her final vows to become a nun, she was told by her superiors that she must have sex with the priests, and that in fact the convent was actually a brothel and the nuns were entirely at the lascivious disposal of the priests.
Monk went on to explain that these sexual exploits would sometimes lead to pregnancy, which in turn lead to birthing the child, baptizing it, and then strangling it and burying it in the basement of the convent. She even tells the story of how one nun who refused was eventually strangled to death for refusing to serve as the bride to those who had so selflessly devoted themselves to the Church of Christ.
The Catholic cannot simply point out that there is no real evidence to support such ludicrous claims, however fabricated such stories appeared to be, since the Bible contained far worse stories of depravity and evil, and all in the service of "God's plan." For if the Bible alone is sufficient evidence for a "belief" in the truth claims of Christianity, with its catalogue of admitted horrors lauded always by the faithful as "the will of God," so Monk's book alone is likewise sufficient evidence for a "belief" in Monk's "truth claims" about how the Catholic church is simply a shell corporation for Satan himself.
Hence, the Bible is only as much evidence for the existence of god, as Monk's book was for the belief that Catholicism is simply the yellow brick road to hell.
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