# Resolved: Atheists are wrong. What now? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [July 22, 2011, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-atheists-are-wrong-what-now/589949 "2011-07-22T04:53:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-atheists-are-wrong-what-now/589949/61 "2011-07-29T22:59:11Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > And how do we tell the difference between the One True God and something just or nearly as powerful that isn’t? If three Gods show up and each claims to be the One True God, what then? A huge problem. It makes any demonstration of “infinite” power completely impossible, since any test anyone could ask for could also be passed by some finite (vast, yet finite) entity. Clarke’s Law kicks in here. (At worst, a monstrously powerful entity could simply stamp “belief” directly on to my brain by force.) Trinopus ---
**Author:** ![psikeyhackr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/97f17d/32.png) [@psikeyhackr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psikeyhackr)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-atheists-are-wrong-what-now/589949/62 "2011-07-30T01:40:08Z")
Can I hire an atheist to beat up the Christians that ring my doorbell on the weekends? Since I am pretty sure they won’t turn the other cheek, Christians being what they are, it would kill two birds with one stone. Failing that I will continue to not give a damn. I would join the Church of Apathy if it wasn’t so heretical. [http://www.churchofapathy.org/](http://www.churchofapathy.org/) psik ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-atheists-are-wrong-what-now/589949/63 "2011-07-30T04:03:19Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > “And Jehovah _goes down!_ Odin pulls off the win for this round using a surprise blow with Gungnir to the crotch! And as a theological bonus, we can verify that Jehovah _really is_ a guy! Well, was.” Then teh noob godz iz pwn3d! by [Ceiling Cat](http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=Main_Page)!!! ---
**Author:** ![Snag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Snag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snag)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-atheists-are-wrong-what-now/589949/64 "2011-07-30T09:51:08Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > And how do we tell the difference between the One True God and something just or nearly as powerful that isn’t? If three Gods show up and each claims to be the One True God, what then? Not my problem. 😃 Actually, the more I think about it the non-believers would be most likely to figure if one or more is a fraud. Unless they’re struck down by lightning. But I think there should be a special pleading to use them as referees. ---
**Author:** ![monavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@monavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monavis)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-atheists-are-wrong-what-now/589949/65 "2011-08-03T11:26:50Z")
> [@The\_Conqueror\_Worm](#): > > Guinastasia, thank you for replying. > > To clarify: > > In this universe there is no room for agreeing to disagree. Atheists are unequivocally wrong. No room for debate, but still there are those that will not accept this truth. What do you do with them? Can you prove it is the truth, or can you prove you are correct? There is no proof of a God, nor can you prove there isn’t. It is your belief in other humans that determines how or what one believes. ---
**Author:** ![monavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@monavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monavis)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-atheists-are-wrong-what-now/589949/66 "2011-08-03T11:45:27Z")
> [@sh1bu1](#): > > I find people who believe in “something” to be more annoying than people who believe in something specific. > > “Yeah, I know we can’t seen any evidence that there is a God, but there might be _something_, and it is outside the universe so we can’t observe it. I don’t know what it does, or any of its characteristics, and I can’t tell you what would be different about the world if it didn’t exist, or how we would know if there were two of them, or a billion of them, but I know there is _something_.” > > Really, what does that do for you? Who or what created the place for God to be? if god is a being then place would have to be there first! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-atheists-are-wrong-what-now/589949.md?page=3)