# Lock your doors and hide your children, there's athiests about!!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lock-your-doors-and-hide-your-children-theres-athiests-about/167126>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [April 7, 2003, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lock-your-doors-and-hide-your-children-theres-athiests-about/167126 "2003-04-07T18:42:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lock-your-doors-and-hide-your-children-theres-athiests-about/167126/62 "2003-04-09T10:25:15Z")

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_Originally posted by Miller_  
**My stock reply to that sort of crap is that I’d never trust a theist, because what if they suddenly decide that God wants them to steal my wallet?**

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> \*Originally posted by kung fu lola \*  
> **Because, Miller, God is good and wouldn’t order them to do anything immoral. Therefore, any immoral imperatives they get from a source claiming to be God aren’t _really_ from God.**

One of my Christian friends seemed to take the view that if God told him to steal my wallet, then that is a good action. I couldn’t pin him down as to whether it would be inherantly good, or merely be for the best in the long term.

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**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lock-your-doors-and-hide-your-children-theres-athiests-about/167126/63 "2003-04-09T17:47:29Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Apos \*  
> \*\*This guy seems sorta in the same vein: offering bribes (instead of threats) to do what he thinks is the right thing.  
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If I was in the army and had to encounter the prick known as Josh Llano, I’d shoot him.

Except being an atheist, I know this is the only life you get, and killing someone means erasing their only shot at existence, and that wouldn’t be very nice. So I’d tell him to stop being a wanker and give me a drink of water.

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