# ![@McClureShawn Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::31613386.png) @McClureShawn Shawn "All Outta Bubblegum" McClure

Shawn "All Outta Bubblegum" McClure posts on X about believe in, murder, has been, if you the most. They currently have [------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"#Midjourney image of the day: "You just blurted out 'Tigger' and you don't know why.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1562918444713947137)  2022-08-25T21:42Z 12K followers, [--] engagements


"@worldviewdesign Only natural evolutionary processes over a long period of time could result in something as complex and yet as *un-designed* as the human body. And any supposed "being" would surely be irrational to desire such an imperfect result even if they had "an evolution program" at hand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1605984693714681856)  2022-12-22T17:52Z 12K followers, [---] engagements


"@JoshuaLWatson @The__Myriad Given the example of a child too young to understand language would you label their "status of belief" relative to God "theism" "atheism" or something else"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1615429652625117184)  2023-01-17T19:23Z 12K followers, [---] engagements


"As a Christian of 25+ years I made and remade every best argument to myself for many years in a desperate attempt to keep my faith but I ultimately de-converted b/c the claims of theism simply do not stand up to close and honest scrutiny. This is a story of that journey. 🧵1/19"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1637268610854064128)  2023-03-19T01:43Z 12K followers, 19.2K engagements


""A homeschooling approach to education is unhealthy in a free society because it produces myopic adults who have never had their basic belief systems challenged directly or indirectly." John Traphagan https://futureu.education/education/commentary-homeschooling-and-the-attack-on-democracy/ https://futureu.education/education/commentary-homeschooling-and-the-attack-on-democracy/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1663555857060335619)  2023-05-30T14:39Z 10.9K followers, [----] engagements


"@MereSkepticism Would you have approved of members of the People's Temple Heaven's Gate or Branch Davidian cults serving in congress How outlandish does one's core worldview have to be in order to seriously question their ability to make equitable decisions about governing a diverse populace"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1671972678268489728)  2023-06-22T20:05Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"Why do theists think that the Big Bang Theory implies that "something came from NOTHING" The singularity is theorized to have contained ALL the energy and spacetime of the Universe at infinite density which would merely imply that "everything came from EVERYTHING""  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1672989030663983110)  2023-06-25T15:24Z 10.8K followers, 14.7K engagements


"Calling all atheists If you're an atheist non-theist igtheist or agnostic and like comment on or retweet this I will follow you back. We need to build a strong community of people to counter the nonsense that has co-opted our world for much too long. #atheist #atheism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1673111438855114752)  2023-06-30T02:28Z 10.8K followers, 28.2K engagements


""Me not read good but me know Bible sez." Christians being homophobic while implying Bible verses that don't exist might be good for a laugh if not for the sobering fact that they vote too. Please #VoteBlue to help keep the "Larry Does Math" folks out of office. #TheistDerp"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1673357076255612930)  2023-06-28T16:26Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"EVERYONE is either an atheist or an ex-atheist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1674485968622202880)  2023-06-29T23:23Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Immaterialism can account for NONE of reality"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1674537700450508801)  2023-06-29T22:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"When you pray to God how do the sound waves from your speech or the electrochemical signals from your brain impinge upon his purely metaphysical. um ears "Supernatural" "metaphysical" and "immaterial" are absurd concepts that render the concept of such a God incoherent"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1674558117160562688)  2023-06-29T23:22Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@MacTelegrapher @TrevTrevas95502 @MaryK95459826 *Straight* there On the contrary I've watched your nonsense make its roundabout and nonsensical way through the rusty cogs of your reason and out through your fingertips into the contradictory and inconsistent articulation of your thoughts on Twitter for quite some time now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1674559363699318786)  2023-06-29T23:27Z 10.8K followers, [--] engagements


""For the first time scientists have mapped out the Milky Way using neutrinos. we can look forward to watching this picture emerge with ever-increasing resolution potentially revealing hidden features of our galaxy never before seen by humanity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1674568216658706433)  2023-06-30T00:00Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"This is why we can't have nice things: B/c we're an illogical species that can't escape circular reasoning when it comes to one of the most pervasive myths in our history. Believing the Bible is God's word b/c the Bible SAYS it's God's word is a recipe for cognitive imprisonment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1675518318864658434)  2023-07-03T01:59Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"@SteveTiger999 Ultimately however these sane Xians still believe in an omniscient omnipotent omnipresent atemporal deity who has the power to send immortal souls to heaven or hell and exists in some as-of-yet undiscovered dimension. Their sanity is arguably quite compartmentalized at best"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1677693399858814978)  2023-07-08T23:49Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@Lord__of__Dog @hellboy2112 @LibrandiRay You're only further confirming the fact that the point here has completely eluded you. But by all means go off Queen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1677794807144665089)  2023-07-08T22:34Z 10.8K followers, [--] engagements


"The prejudicial misogyny that permeates Christianity isn't necessarily its worst trait but it's one of the most insidious because it has been so normalized that it slips in almost without notice. Single mothers need repentance simply because they're single mothers GTSOH FFS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1678106535065718784)  2023-07-09T21:12Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"As one of the most powerful and influential forces in the world religion should never be off-limits to critics. In fact the adverse impacts from religion throughout history and in the present day indicate to me at least that religion should be relentlessly criticized"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1678437873203412992)  2023-07-11T05:16Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@thebereanmillen Because He's fake You will waste tomorrow Because He's fake Your truth is gone Because your hope Is not your future Your life is full of fiction Just because He's fake"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1678556399482339328)  2023-07-11T07:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Thank god (pun intended) for skepticism. As a former Christian now atheist I'm highly skeptical of my own beliefs. In fact that's how I became an atheist - by gradually growing skeptical of my long-time Christian beliefs b/c they no longer held up to close and honest scrutiny"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1678600812564721665)  2023-07-11T03:26Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Translation: "There's no evidence for human evolution that I've read and understood." @SF2Maui @SimpleS18790446 There's no evidence for human evolution we were created. @SF2Maui @SimpleS18790446 There's no evidence for human evolution we were created"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1678841305148039169)  2023-07-11T18:58Z 12K followers, [----] engagements


"Don't believe in evolution No worries - the educated and rational understand how your dumb ape-ass evolved even if you don't. Just please don't attempt to use your hairy prehensile digits to fill in the little ovals on a ballot k Thnx"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1678849490017722368)  2023-07-12T14:09Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@NathanBozeman2 All POSTERIOR considerations for God's existence or nonexistence are moot until the much more important ANTERIOR demonstrations of God's existence are given. "God by demonstration" is the only evidence that really matters. "God/No God by inference" is merely mental masturbation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1678952400068169730)  2023-07-12T02:56Z 10.8K followers, [--] engagements


"@DrFrankTurek @ericmetaxas "The best way to love others is to tell them the truth." This is exactly why I'm a vocal atheist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1678954466140364802)  2023-07-12T03:28Z 10.8K followers, [--] engagements


"No two entirely incredible and unproven ideas have ever impacted the world as much as "soul" and "God". The "impact to credibility" ratio of these two concepts is astounding"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1678957611369246721)  2023-07-12T09:39Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"@InfiDale3476 "want *TO* get called out" You left out a crucial word - that's bullshit. Challenge accepted. 😆"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1679145734812364800)  2023-07-12T15:12Z 10.8K followers, [--] engagements


""If you base your beliefs and your actions on myths that are incorrect you're inevitably going to take irrational actions." This is worth a watch"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1679168343713136640)  2023-07-12T16:50Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


""Treat others as you would like to be treated." Does more need to be gleaned from the Bible in regard to basic morality Many insist that the "moral teachings" of the Bible and of Jesus in particular are valuable by themselves but WHAT MORE is there to it really"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1679221298101366789)  2023-07-12T22:36Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"In the 1600s the Catholic Church banned books by Copernicus and Galileo for proposing that the Earth revolved around the sun. Galileo was charged with heresy and sentenced to house arrest for the rest of his life. Christianity is anti-science b/c knowledge threatens their God"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1680382828054478848)  2023-07-17T03:22Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@TheoreticalBS @weeedster (1) There is a First Cause. (2) If there is a First Cause then Cthulhu exists. So (3) Cthulhu exists. Your glib acceptance of the argument's form as valid to the point where you grant it consideration at all is tantamount to giving the same consideration to my argument here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1681165635987083264)  2023-07-18T05:02Z 10.8K followers, [--] engagements


"Theists use philosophy as both a smokescreen and a web. Tangle enough equivocation together with a sufficient volume of words and you can hide an almost endless amount of circularity tautology and bad reasoning behind a semblance of credibility while inveigling the gullible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1681299708466315271)  2023-07-19T00:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"We have normalized "God" for far too long. "God" is not normal. "God" is not indicated. "God" is not even clearly defined. "God" shouldn't be the norm - He should be the aberration"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1681302023046844416)  2023-07-19T00:21Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@paulbraterman @hookskat @ThinkingAtheist @SethAndrewsTTA @SethAbramson @BanjoAtheist @geostylegeo @SteveTiger999 @pensiveone01 @DavidReilly007 @TrevTrevas95502 @WhyRWeHere99 With all due respect agnostics are atheists. Many of them don't like to be labelled thusly but without proactive belief in a god there's no avoiding the logical fact that they're a default form of atheist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1681395641216569344)  2023-07-18T20:08Z 10.9K followers, [--] engagements


"What evidence would convince me of God's existence I don't know for sure but I think it would be very similar to Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart's comment regarding porn in Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964) in the sense that "I'll know it when I see it." And I haven't seen it yet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1684932681698594816)  2023-07-30T01:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Jesus will not be returning today. Just a hunch"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1686002654630285313)  2023-07-31T13:54Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"@Underwoodforyou "Made in the image of God" is a vapid and ludicrous euphemism employed by the authors of the Bible to conveniently anthropomorphize God while simultaneously connoting a transcendent aspect to humans"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1686132362432942080)  2023-07-31T21:50Z 11.6K followers, [---] engagements


"Science does not indicate a "God" in any way shape or form. Believing or insisting otherwise merely exhibits a remedial or willful ignorance of science and/or an overly-optimistic and equally ignorant case of wishful thinking"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1687145437147623424)  2023-08-04T02:55Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"These are Christian Muslim Hindu Jewish and other religious leaders from around the world. Logically only ONE of these faiths could be true in its entirety but ALL of them could be false. Most importantly exactly NONE of them have demonstrated the existence of any God"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1687479004973219841)  2023-08-05T01:15Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"One of the most blatant Christian hypocrisies is to insist that the Bible is true by arguing "scientifically" for the authenticity of Biblical events but to insist in other contexts that Bible-based faith is not subject to scientific evaluation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1688246228663066624)  2023-08-06T17:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Philip_Goff Are you seriously proposing that panpsychism implies the existence of an entity/agency that merits the appellation of "God""  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1688392317961703424)  2023-08-07T03:44Z 10.8K followers, [--] engagements


"If you think atheism can be studied you have no clue what atheism is. Atheism results from an honest study of theism. At [--] being a Christian is a calculated risk. I've seriously studied atheism and all the major religions. I'm going with Jesus all the way At [--] being a Christian is a calculated risk. I've seriously studied atheism and all the major religions. I'm going with Jesus all the way"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1688402300359094272)  2023-08-07T04:10Z 11.6K followers, [----] engagements


"The fact that billions worship adore and glorify a God who they believe drowned millions of innocent children in a global flood killed all the Egyptian firstborn for one man's obstinance and commanded the murder of entire tribes is one of the most laughable hypocrisies ever"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1688599116354662400)  2023-08-07T17:12Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Theists like to call atheism a religion and a faith in order to impugn it. Ironically this merely highlights the equivocation fallacy they commit by doing so. They know their faith is illogical so they want to brand atheism with the same pejorative self-p0wning in the process"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1688613662557347840)  2023-08-07T18:10Z 11.7K followers, [----] engagements


"If you believe God you're a theist. If you follow God you're a disciple. If you defend God you're an apologist. If you promote God you're an evangelist. If you truly understand "God" you're an atheist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1688655863828172805)  2023-08-07T20:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Why do I publicly denounce God Because theism mainly Christianity has infiltrated our governments and judiciaries motivated a coup repealed a woman's right to choose curtailed the rights of LGBTQ people and sought to dissolve the separation between church and state. 🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1688939329283141634)  2023-08-08T15:44Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"The Bible is nothing more than fan fiction"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1688975062278569984)  2023-08-08T18:06Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"So much wailing and gnashing of teeth over not just "God" but over atheists' rejection of that ludicrous idea. If your God exists DEMONSTRATE HIM. And do so believably not just with the tired ole "personal spiritual experience" and "God is evident" bullshit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1689278181029580801)  2023-08-09T14:11Z 12K followers, [----] engagements


"In The Egyptian Book of the Dead the god Horus says I am the Lord of Light; I am the victorious one; I am the heir of endless time; I know the paths of heaven [----] years before Christ. The Israelites were in Egypt for [---] years. Do you think they might've gotten some ideas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1689335871890395136)  2023-08-09T18:00Z 12K followers, [----] engagements


"Here's a good example of Christian gaslighting where they essentially try to convince you and others that your reasons for X are not really your reasons for X at all. It's cute how these apparent mind-readers think they know your reasons better than YOU do. It's cult-speak"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1689656804316418048)  2023-08-10T15:15Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"Every god comes from the human mind. God is us. We are God. Self-referential psychology has only the power we give it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1690001259804188675)  2023-08-11T14:04Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"Aquinas's logic was as circular as his ridiculous hair halo. Anyone who esteems the obtuse masturbatory ramblings of this tautological wonder is simply hoping to confirm their own presuppositions and existing beliefs. His smokescreens of tangled verbosity have deluded many. 👎🤡"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1690392831498891264)  2023-08-12T16:00Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"How many atheists have been elected to Congress How many atheists sit on the Supreme Court How many atheists have been POTUS That's right: Atheists aren't the ones imposing a belief system on the general populace via an infiltration of government. https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2023/01/03/faith-on-the-hill-2023/ https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2023/01/03/faith-on-the-hill-2023/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1690442953746194432)  2023-08-12T19:19Z 12K followers, [----] engagements


"To Christians the environment is expendable. When you believe that God has given man "dominion" over all creatures (Gen 1:28) and that the Earth will be destroyed after the 2nd Coming of Christ you simply don't have the same sense of urgency and preciousness about the Earth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1690759887352147968)  2023-08-13T16:19Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@CapturingChrist @Trent_Horn @RandalRauser @justinschiebs @SpeedWatkins @TheoreticalBS @majestyofreason @MaverickXtian @TylerDMcNabb A steelman is unnecessary because the claim is obviously invalid. No amount of apologetics alone for ANY belief has bearing upon the foundational truth of the belief. The only thing that has bearing on the truth of a belief is believable evidence for the subject of belief"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1690945705282842624)  2023-08-14T04:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@CosmicSkeptic Much of philosophy and all of theology is nothing more than mental masturbation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1691085846081089536)  2023-08-14T13:54Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"One reason I'm a vocal atheist is to encourage more closet atheists to leave the closet. Normalize atheism - it's the true normal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1691092695698251777)  2023-08-14T14:21Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Theists are quick to conclude that the universe couldn't exist unless God created it and they should be just as quick to wonder how it could possibly benefit a perfect God to create a planet full of imperfect humans. A perfect God surely does not get lonely or need fellowship"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1691483348408086528)  2023-08-15T16:13Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


""If a man would follow today the teachings of the Old Testament he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New he would be insane." Robert Green Ingersoll"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1691634880277565930)  2023-08-16T02:15Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Atheism merely rejects what theism has failed to demonstrate. Atheism is not a belief IN anything - it's a denial of the claim that there's a God to believe IN at all. Don't confuse "belief" with "belief IN something""  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1691813043506680173)  2023-08-16T14:03Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@Eric_Conn The American church loses up to 75% of its kids. Why God is a lie The Bible is myth Science is advancing Empathy (wokeness) is growing Abrahamic theology is bigoted Abrahamic theology is misogynistic Abrahamic theists are hypocritical Pastors are often pedophiles FIFY"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1691843926985195975)  2023-08-16T16:06Z 10.3K followers, [---] engagements


""Good" and "evil" are human-constructed metaphors relative to our subjective assessments of what is desirable or not. They are not forces they are not entities they are not even objective aspects of reality. Liberate yourself from the tyranny of metaphor taken as fact"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1692189368101020008)  2023-08-17T14:59Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"There are no gods. There are no souls. Holy books are myth. There is nothing immaterial. There is nothing supernatural. There is nothing worth deifying. Consciousness is not fundamental. There is no such thing as "nothing". No one can KNOW anything with 100% certainty"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1692346884269199429)  2023-08-18T01:25Z 10.8K followers, 50.3K engagements


"@HCVail Thoughts are purely physical brain activity. Figure out a way to measure the combined length of the sodium potassium etc. molecules that mediate cognition in the brain and you can arrive at some (albeit useless) measurement of the length of a thought such as "justice". ;)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1692548776580567502)  2023-08-18T14:47Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"Abandoning a belief is rarer than acquiring a belief. Humans are belief sponges and until squeezedeither by their own internal dissonance or by incontrovertible evidence to the contrarythey will hold their epistemic water like misers. Be slow to believe and quick to doubt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1692675446091964724)  2023-08-18T23:10Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"Theists incur the burden of proof for "personal spiritual experience" precisely for the same reason that courts do not accept "God made me do it" as a valid excuse - because there is no external corroboration and you are the only hearsay witness. Solo hearsay is proof of nothing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1692924805836607681)  2023-08-19T15:41Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@XoLocomoto "to believe that nothing created everything" LOL you're doing your intellectual credibility no favors. https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1672989030663983110 Why do theists think that the Big Bang Theory implies that "something came from NOTHING" The singularity is theorized to have contained ALL the energy and spacetime of the Universe at infinite density which would merely imply that "everything came from EVERYTHING". https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1672989030663983110 Why do theists think that the Big Bang Theory implies that "something came from NOTHING" The singularity is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1692937939716583655)  2023-08-19T16:33Z 12K followers, [--] engagements


"For many theists "atheist" has merely become a convenient equivocation for one or more of the following: apostate degenerate dissenter freethinker gentile heathen heretic infidel pagan progressive rebel reprobate skeptic unbeliever woke"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1692968501441413612)  2023-08-19T18:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"That theists wholeheartedly mock the idea of "something coming from nothing" (which is an ignorant interpretation of scientific theory anyway) but enthusiastically believe in a supreme omniscient Deity who himself is uncreated is quite possibly the most laughable irony in theism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1692981397059727456)  2023-08-19T19:26Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"The fact that anyone can think evolutionary theory has been debunked signifies an egregious failure of our educational systems"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1693272552871985376)  2023-08-20T14:43Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"God is: Absent Petty Hateful Jealous Vengeful Mercurial Unjust Bigoted Volatile Illogical Incompetent Inconsistent Misogynistic Patriarchal FICTIONAL Hes worthy of skepticism and disdain now & forever. Amen. Happy Sunday"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1693286206497608121)  2023-08-20T15:37Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"A theist asking "If not God then what" is posing a false dichotomy between the obligation of having an answer right now or accepting absurd answers in the meantime. There's a third option - admitting that we don't yet know. The fact that questions remain does not imply a God"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1693302828155236840)  2023-08-20T16:43Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"For the "something can't come from nothing" crowd: "In [----] electric fields were created in a simple laboratory setup leveraging the unique properties of graphene enabling the spontaneous creation of particle-antiparticle pairs from nothing at all.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1693627405229834411)  2023-08-21T14:13Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"I don't mock God for being hypocritically evil. I don't believe God exists. I mock the delusion of theists who put their adoration and faith in a God who THEY believe exists and whose revered holy text describes in detail the atrocities that THEY believe their God committed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1693643611190211046)  2023-08-21T15:17Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


""We've now already added enough fossil-fuels to the atmosphere to hit the [---] C Paris limit. This guarantees increasingly extreme weather events and rising seas." To all you climate change deniers out there: Fuck you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1694036708084564324)  2023-08-22T17:19Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"I asked ChatGPT to write a limerick about believing in God: Committing to God with great zeal Is a flaw some find hard to conceal In faith they confide With their hearts open wide Believing what's false to be real"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1694044741753782387)  2023-08-22T17:51Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Atheist: Why do you believe in God Theist: I've experienced Him. A: How do you know it was God T: His Spirit convicted me of the truth of his Word. A: How do you know it was His Spirit T: His Word says it was. A: How do you know it's His Word T: His Word says it is. 🔄♾"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1694106440397721650)  2023-08-22T21:57Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"There are roughly [---] major ecclesiastical traditions of Christianity worldwide grouped into [--] main categories. If there were really an infallible God guiding and inspiring his believers wouldn't such a God be capable ofand loving enough to provideat least a tad more unity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1694368034918641846)  2023-08-23T15:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The Bible clearly illustrates the concept that reason must be sacrificed and even attacked in order to create a workable sphere of influence for faith. The Biblical message is clear: logic doubt and criticism must succumb to credulity blind obedience and fear of punishment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1694439427647631720)  2023-08-23T20:00Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Your "spirituality" is nothing more than your conscious perception of your neural activitya self-referential and purely physical apprehension of the internal effects of your cognition. The feeling that it has a "supernatural specialness" is nothing more than a wishful illusion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1694737382061560080)  2023-08-24T15:44Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"One question that always occurs to me when watching the Republican or Democratic debates is "Are these TRULY the best people we can come up with to represent our nation" Picking a candidate from either side has merely become an exercise in guessing the least horrible option"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1694809297195311456)  2023-08-24T20:29Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"No theist I will not respect your beliefswars genocide bigotry misogyny patriarchy autocracy science denial environmental indifference forced parenting and other real-world harm results from your beliefs. Your beliefs are to be fiercely challenged not respected"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1694918880454660267)  2023-08-25T03:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@EverlastingMan4 "Love having a baby nostalgia for a good event in your childhood a song that gets you pumped gratitude for the beauty of nature but no one to thank etc." None of those are spiritual in the least. There's no credible reason to believe in "spirits" or "souls""  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1695075412995428768)  2023-08-25T14:07Z 11.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@InfiDale3476 @geostylegeo You need one more so that you can light and place them at the five points of a pentagram on your floor then a high camera angle so that we can see both the lighted pentagram and the full play of reflected light on your magnificent forehead"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1695464369931616365)  2023-08-26T15:53Z 10.8K followers, [--] engagements


""Sensus divinitatis" is merely apologetic nonsense foisted on the credulous BY the credulous. Humans don't have a sense of anything "divine" they merely have a sense of wonder at the magnificent complexity of the natural world in relation to their perplexing place in it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1695467549973238117)  2023-08-26T16:05Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"It's ludicrous how much time and energy people spend believing in an impossible and fictional God. If they would only spend the same amount of time and energy thinking making loving and learning "God" would die a slow death of attrition and leave the world a better place"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1695487534577627162)  2023-08-26T17:25Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"An "educated mature view of the Bible" is called "atheism""  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1695526526606073981)  2023-08-26T19:59Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"There are no credible arguments for "God" outside of the Bible and the Bible is bunk. The same goes for the Qur'an"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1695540476693328270)  2023-08-26T20:55Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"The historicity of the Bible is irrelevant to its central themes of God's existence the supernatural aspect of reality and the godhood and resurrection of Christ. Thus a theist arguing any supernatural point by appealing to the historicity of the Bible is posing a red herring"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1695829654140244267)  2023-08-27T16:04Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"Theists condone murder when God does it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1695837363627491540)  2023-08-27T16:35Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"@erichovind Theists criticizing evolution are presenting a red herring. Even if nothing about evolutionary theory is correct (it is) there is still no sufficient "probable cause" to posit an omnipotent Creator. Evolution is completely moot to the question of God's existence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1695875069472584053)  2023-08-27T19:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"What is God like Why is God hidden Why does God allow evil Why did God create humans Why does God allow suffering Why does God ignore prayers Why did God create the universe How simple all these questions become when you consider the idea that God does not exist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1695933907827634211)  2023-08-27T22:58Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


""God" is merely the answer given to stop further questions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1695949774489628880)  2023-08-28T00:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


""When I was a child I used to speak like a child think like a child reason like a child; when I became a man I did away with childish things." [--] Corinthians 13:11 Yes indeed I followed this exact trajectory and became an atheist. Sometimes the Bible is right. ;)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1696208968279081338)  2023-08-28T17:11Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"Oh the irony. Reading the Bible many times over is one of the main reasons I became an atheist. Christians often presume that reading the Bible leads to conviction and faith when in reality it leads many to the complete deconstruction of their faith. The Bible is absurd. ;)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1696252737166663684)  2023-08-28T20:05Z [----] followers, 15.2K engagements


"I have ZERO faith in science. That's the point of science"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1696357216553672890)  2023-08-29T03:00Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Occam's Razor: The idea that the simplest explanation is often the most plausible. RE the existence of God: Positing that God doesn't exist requires many fewer assumptions than positing that God exists. Thus the non-existence of God becomes a much more reasonable proposition"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1696528659161751847)  2023-08-29T14:22Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"@UnwiseApe [--]. Wrong. "Faith" is polysemous so it doesn't JUST mean one thing. [--]. And no I don't have trust in science. I don't have to. Science negates the need for trust by being independently demonstrable falsifiable repeatable and verifiable. https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1677110930776412160 Definitions of "faith": Complete trust or confidence in someone or something Strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof When someone says atheism is a faith just know that they're equivocating these [--] definitions."  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1696683508637585643)  2023-08-30T00:37Z 11.6K followers, [--] engagements


"Science is fallible imperfect worthy of skepticism and unworthy of worship but it's still infinitely more powerful than your nonexistent God"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1696904372159213600)  2023-08-30T15:15Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"The idea of "God" exists because humans want more than reality"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1696932367045370313)  2023-08-30T17:06Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"The idea of God usually involves a being that exists beyond the natural world and influences it. But no tangible empirical evidence to support the existence of such a being has ever been found so skepticism towards the existence of God is the default most reasonable position"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1697045146049954143)  2023-08-31T00:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The Bible is rife with fantastic stories and claims which disqualify it from being taken as literal truth by any but the most credulous and while it may have some historic and literary worth it simply can't be taken at face value in regard to its divine and supernatural claims"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1697259501882409067)  2023-08-31T14:46Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"The authorship of most of the Bible is unknown. The identities of the copiers redactors and editors of the Bible are unknown. The people responsible for selecting and canonizing the Bible texts are either unknown or long since dead. That means that the Bible is triple hearsay"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1697274960249749895)  2023-08-31T15:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Defending the Bible by comparing its provenance to that of other "ancient literature" commits the fallacy of False Equivalence. Other ancient literature is not taken as truth by the billions of humans who influence and comprise our governments judiciaries and school systems"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1697439674917384442)  2023-09-01T02:42Z 12K followers, [---] engagements


"If you make money by selling God or Jesus schwag you are no better than the money-changers that Jesus threw out of the temple"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1697443004582428897)  2023-09-01T02:55Z 10.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Tax the fucking churches"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1697458972020855183)  2023-09-01T03:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The Reason vs. Faith battle regarding "God" hinges on the WHOLE truth of the Bible. If the truth of ANY part of the Bible is suspect there is really nothing further to argue because there is NO credible agreed-upon metric for distinguishing the false parts from any true parts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1697642838530617486)  2023-09-01T16:09Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Cosmological arguments are the homeopathy of apologetics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1697672134154392071)  2023-09-01T18:05Z 10.3K followers, [---] engagements


"A French Catholic priest eventually speaks the truth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1697710798209249338)  2023-09-01T20:39Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"Science says nothing about the "metaphysical world" in precisely the same way that critics say nothing about Game of Thrones season #9"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1697729303172227578)  2023-09-01T21:53Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"Theists sometimes ask me "But don't you want eternal life" Sure. But wanting something has nothing to do with the truth of the something. I can't force myself to believe something I don't think is true and merely willing myself to believe isn't really believing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1697981717490065749)  2023-09-02T14:36Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"How theists view atheists who know the Bible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1698006875177148891)  2023-09-02T16:16Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@minogully Stupidity intolerance and selfishnesswhich all can be precursors to polarizationare the downfall of democracy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1698013784282145004)  2023-09-02T16:43Z 12K followers, [--] engagements


"Fossils and DNA suggest that modern humanoids have existed for 300K years and archaeology suggests that complex technology and cultures evolved 50-65K years ago so WHATEVER you believe about evolution believing that humans were created only [----] years ago is patently absurd"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1698020158479147080)  2023-09-02T17:08Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"We need to stop tacitly accepting "spirit" and "spiritual" as coherent concepts and thus legitimizing their use in debate. No logically coherent definition of "spirit" exists and no credible falsifiable evidence of any "spirit" or "spiritual essence" has ever been demonstrated"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1698128439323349057)  2023-09-03T00:19Z [----] followers, 15.4K engagements


"A God who demands worship and glorification is worthy of neither"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1698364529376436308)  2023-09-03T15:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"God is a myth. Jesus wasn't God. The Holy Spirit is a myth. Hell is a myth. Heaven is a myth. "Soul" is a myth. The Bible is fiction. "When I became a man I put away childish things." [--] Corinthians 13:11 It's time to grow up and put away fictions and myths"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1698397844594647412)  2023-09-03T18:09Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"If you consider how easy it was in the Information Age for a bunch of liars and grifters to convince a significant fraction of the public that a well-regulated election was stolen think how easy it would've been to convince folks that Christ rose from the dead in [--] A.D"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1698440858901639562)  2023-09-03T21:00Z 12K followers, [----] engagements


"Inferring the existence of a supernatural Creator based upon the fact that we don't understand the universe is not only illogical and unjustified but it explains nothing and invokes more mystery than it seeks to explain. "God" is an evasion rather than an explanation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1698717590083010979)  2023-09-04T15:20Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"It is never rational to jump from X is unexplained to Therefore a supernatural power must have caused X. Explanations by their very nature must fall within the realm of natural causality. To posit the supernatural as an explanation is to posit a non-explanation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1698739890882842735)  2023-09-04T16:48Z 11.6K followers, [----] engagements


"One is never justified in asserting that a phenomenon falls outside the realm of natural law b/c such an assertion would require the claimant to be omniscient. While one may assert that something is unexplained one may never conclude that something is inherently unexplainable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1698768084637778150)  2023-09-04T18:40Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"Jesus said "There be some standing here which shall not taste of death till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom". In the ensuing [----] years God has been silent and there's been no sign of Christ's return. The silence would be deafening if it weren't so predictable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1698840693312254007)  2023-09-04T23:29Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@essentialMess There's no moral law"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1698896435943755909)  2023-09-05T03:10Z 10.8K followers, [--] engagements


"If your hope for the 2nd coming of your Messiah rests in the fulfillment of a Bronze Age prophecy about the birth of a red heifer in Israel that was enabled by cows from Texas you can be confident that you are in a cult and that your brain has been thoroughly laundered"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1698899792792059995)  2023-09-05T03:24Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"I am memeatheist with little to no exegetical training in the Bible Hear me roar. And to be clear whether I'm stupid and arrogant or not what's blocking me from the truth about Jesus is the lack of truth about Jesus"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1698904157175074841)  2023-09-05T03:41Z 12K followers, [----] engagements


"As Tweeters know sometimes a rubbish Tweet goes viral while a stellar one (so you think) languishes due merely to the trends du jour and the vicissitudes of social media. Christianity Islam and Judaism are merely the rubbish theistic memes that went most viral. That is all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1699065427652214892)  2023-09-05T14:22Z 11.6K followers, [---] engagements


""We are governed by a high command of usurers and speculators from Bill Gates. to George Soros. and along with Hunter Biden" "The Antichrist will be king not president" Vatican please come get your archbishop. He needs a juice box and a nap"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1699073440094072849)  2023-09-05T14:54Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Atheism is not nihilism. Nihilism is the position that life is meaningless. Atheism is the position that WE give life meaning not some fictional deity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1699101980357173313)  2023-09-05T16:47Z 11.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Daily repentance for sin that is a merely a figment of belief in a fictitious God is a regrettable way to spend a life yet that's exactly how I spent the first half of mine. Say no to gods - they don't exist and even if they did they wouldn't be worth worshipping"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1699460950137659681)  2023-09-06T16:33Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"The fact that theists seriously make "arguments" like this is more a sign of the abysmal failure of their education and/or intellect than it is a statement of any theological stance. Such perspectives are akin to the intellectual void of Flat Earthers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1699578058897006835)  2023-09-07T00:19Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


""There are some glaring contradictions which are sufficient to show the story of Jesus Christ to be false. The Gospels have been manufactured as the books of the Old Testament have been by other persons than those whose names they bear." Thomas Paine Age of Reason"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1699816235226292371)  2023-09-07T16:05Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"People often ask me why I speak out so much about a God I don't believe in. The post below is a good example of why. OTHER PEOPLE believe in God to such an absurd degree that they want all things to be subsumed under their version of theism. I will not be silent about that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1700143394939420839)  2023-09-08T13:45Z [----] followers, 59.7K engagements


"Atheism is not proposing a truth atheism is rejecting a lie"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1700270628748853619)  2023-09-08T22:11Z [----] followers, 11.3K engagements


"@RudyCerda God is genocidal. God is fictional. Jesus may've been real. Jesus was not God. The Holy Spirit is fictional. The Bible is real. (Agreed) The gospel is real. (Agreed) The Bible is fiction. The gospel is false. Salvation is a pipe dream. Heaven is imaginary. Hell is preposterous"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1700339634121871591)  2023-09-09T02:45Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Theists often talk as though atheism is a choice. What one truly believes or doesn't is no more a choice than trying as an adult to "believe" in Santa Claus. You might really WANT to believe but can it reasonably be said that you actually have an actionable CHOICE to believe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1700520442241704229)  2023-09-09T14:44Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


""To attribute the 'fine-tuning' of cosmological constants to an intelligent creator is futile as it merely shifts the question to how the intelligent creator itself is fine-tuned." Richard Dawkins"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1700535585734271003)  2023-09-09T15:44Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"@RevJimRPierce Any opinion not underpinned by belief in God is going to seem like sophistry to the theist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1700536735955026156)  2023-09-09T15:48Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Theism can't establish the validity of its own myths so how can it assert the truth Buy what authority are fantastic theistic claims called truth By a hidden God attested to only by ancient texts written by unknown authors A theist's credulity far exceeds that of any atheist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1700555662584140213)  2023-09-09T17:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Here's an example of a false dichotomy where a binary choice is wrongly asserted. In this case there's at least a 3rd choice - admitting that no one knows how life first arose and simply reserving judgement until further info becomes available without affirming a conclusion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1700641911005192500)  2023-09-09T22:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@DrFrankTurek "Why are so many youth abandoning Christianity" Because Christianity is false and the stigma historically associated with admitting and committing to that is lessening so folks young and old are finally having the confidence to observe that the Emperor has no clothes. ;)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1700733140250333451)  2023-09-10T04:49Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@_nomadic_soul "Push" So drama much embellish. Only your own doubts can threaten your faith. ;)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1700736202893300106)  2023-09-10T05:01Z 10.8K followers, [--] engagements


"@_nomadic_soul I humbly cede the field to your threatened faith"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1700736924376617106)  2023-09-10T05:04Z 10.8K followers, [--] engagements


"@_nomadic_soul Nah. A lot of beliefs are just plain stupid. Respect the believer and their right to believe not the belief"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1700738494937903228)  2023-09-10T05:10Z 10.8K followers, [--] engagements


"@minogully It all depends upon the stakes involved and how much emotional investment one has in a given belief. Those heavily invested in a belief will sometimes tell themselves and others ANYTHING to preserve the belief"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1700740628467138692)  2023-09-10T05:18Z 11.7K followers, [--] engagements


"Jesus was a militant theocrat not a socialist. He claimed to be God the way the truth and the life and declared the sovereignty of his kingdom over which he would rule eternally AFTER destroying the current world. Make no mistake Jesus was about as fascist as they come"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1700883576240447687)  2023-09-10T14:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Circa [--] A.D. Jesus said "There be some standing here which shall not taste of death till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom". In the ensuing [----] years God's been silent and there's been no sign of Christ's return. What's a reasonable grace period for such claims"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1700900961341129109)  2023-09-10T15:56Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


""Evil" "sin" and morality are red herrings when offered as arguments against atheism. Atheism asserts absolutely nothing with regard to any of these concepts - it merely rejects the theist's claim that any of these concepts relate to a god"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1700936221130940509)  2023-09-10T18:16Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"@xmasmartin In large part because billions of people vote according to their theistic ideology and thus influence our governments judiciaries and educational systems with the same autocratic ideology espoused by Christ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1700962632457765293)  2023-09-10T20:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"If you thank Jesus for a touchdown you are exactly the type of petty hypocritical Christian that makes a mockery of both your Messiah and your faith in him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1701028257712456024)  2023-09-11T00:21Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@SteveTiger999 Of course I believe the entire Bible is bunk but I think it's arguable that taken as a whole mainstream Christian doctrine (both Protestant and Catholic) holds that Christ wasand indeed claimed to be even if arguably implicitlyGod"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1701040102242488510)  2023-09-11T01:08Z 11.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@look2Christ That proves the point of the OP. Petty and hypocritical makes a mockery of your faith"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1701053256615780781)  2023-09-11T02:01Z 11.7K followers, [--] engagements


"@look2Christ "I coach soccer. When our team scores I thank God. All glory to God." I find that patently ludicrous petty superficial and sacrilegious. LOL Christianity is farcical posturing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1701055118576320530)  2023-09-11T02:08Z 10.8K followers, [--] engagements


"What would Jesus do He would tell you to cut off your balls slice off your hand gouge out your eyes kill a fig tree and hate your family. But please don't listen to Jesus. He was a deluded impostor. (Mat 19:12 Mat 18:8-9 Mark 11:12-25 Luke 14:26)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1701071332220510575)  2023-09-11T03:13Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


""If forced to choose between the mandates of God or the mandates of man we will choose to obey God." This type of avowal is exactly why we as a nation must maintain the boundaries b/w church and state in order to preserve equity and freedom for the greatest number of people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1701222905374445702)  2023-09-11T13:15Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"On this anniversary of one of the most sobering modern-day examples of how theism harms the world what are YOU doing to counter (or perpetuate) the falsehood of supernatural gods Gods need to go - all of them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1701229030266319127)  2023-09-11T13:39Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"There is no "Ultimate Authority" but us. No god or state has any authority beyond what individual humans collectively give it so choose carefully what you imbue with authority and remember that the happiness and well-being of a marvelously diverse group of humans is at stake"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1701234266338713676)  2023-09-11T14:00Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Your god has no authority or power because your god does not exist. Quit imposing your beliefs on people who believe in other gods or no gods at all. Many of the world's problems stem from the immoral imposition of false gods onto those who believe differently. Stop the madness"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1701325727801737314)  2023-09-11T20:03Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@InfiDale3476 "Triggered Demonrat" would make a great gamertag. I can see the XBox channel now. "Triggered Demonrat is nearby." "Triggered Demonrat stole your kill." "Triggered Demonrat beat you down." "Triggered Demonrat wins the match." "Triggered Demonrat teabagged you.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1701372943782248454)  2023-09-11T23:11Z 10.8K followers, [--] engagements


"When you can't defend your beliefs with sound arguments you try a strawman. Theists like to call atheism a "religion" proactively and reactively because they hope to distract from the fact that they cannot credibly demonstrate their foundational premise (God exists) directly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1701399198799937598)  2023-09-12T00:55Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Here's another good example of a typical proactive theistic strawman where atheists are cast as "bitter" in order to impugn them from the outset almost always with the goal conscious or not of deflecting attention from the fact that theists simply cannot produce their God"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1701421480436015538)  2023-09-12T02:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I'm no fan of abortion but you know what I'm even less a fan of The insidious craziness of valuing unrealized unborn lives over the realized and still-developing lives of the mothers who carry them. Please support born lives first. Please support a woman's right to choose"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1701596762061095040)  2023-09-12T14:00Z 10.1K followers, [----] engagements


"That Christians support (and even hope for) the complete destruction of all life on Earth as the penultimate goal of their God's overall plan should tell you everything you need to know about the sanity and societal viability of their worldview. #GodIsALie #SayNoToGods"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1701607400124686342)  2023-09-12T14:43Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Theists either struggle to comprehend the concept of burden of proof or they intentionally attempt to inveigle or both. Regardless those claiming the existence of a supreme Agent of any ilk incur the greatest burden of proof by far. Learn it own it shoulder it FFS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1701640970058739773)  2023-09-12T16:56Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"@aishpilled The sky isn't blue. Regardless the specific wavelength of refracted sunlight through the Earth's atmosphere has nothing (zero zilch nada) to do with the existence of God so I hope you're not serious about your assertion here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1701725113820090878)  2023-09-12T22:30Z 10.3K followers, [---] engagements


"Theistic evangelizing to atheists will always necessarily be a form of gaslighting because to convince an atheist that there is a God theists must first manipulate the atheist into questioning their own perception and/or powers of reasoning"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1701731970148073740)  2023-09-12T22:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Theists can't be trusted to come to a sane conclusion about the existence of a supposedly omniscient omnipotent omnibenevolent infallible prescient supernatural Deity who can send souls to heaven or hell but SURE they can be trusted to hold public office I guess. 🤷♂🧐🤪"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1701745437471060289)  2023-09-12T23:51Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"Q: What's the difference between Jesus and Waldo A: You can actually find Waldo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1701779713348542822)  2023-09-13T02:07Z 12K followers, [----] engagements


"@thisisfoster We don't need Jordan Peterson period. We don't need gurus (agreed). We don't need pastors (GTSOH). We don't need Christianity period. Christianity is false. FIFY"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1701929539675500875)  2023-09-13T12:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Yeah somehow I don't think "a nonetheless very dead corpse not decomposing as fast as usual" is quite the miraculous win for an omnipotent God they think it is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1701967953699180715)  2023-09-13T14:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"A God who remains hidden and silent during the two millennia that have brought the most suffering oppression and death to the greatest number of humans in history isn't a God - he's a farcical fictional no-show. #NoMoreGods"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1701975586040598589)  2023-09-13T15:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"If Eve ate of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil AFTER God told her not to then by the Bible's own claim she clearly had no way of discerning good from evil BEFORE she made the decision to eat and thus could not be guilty for willfully disobeying God in the first place"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1701978689809055781)  2023-09-13T15:18Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"@sparklite8 If Eve had no knowledge of good and evil when God first "told her not to" ostensibly she couldn't even have comprehended that His command was a moral ethical or behavioral (i.e. "good" or "evil") directive at all and thus that her noncompliance was an "evil" act"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1702015552334742010)  2023-09-13T17:45Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"Given the prevalence of miracles throughout the Bible does anyone even the most sincere Christian simply believe that as the time of Christ gradually receded into history and humans advanced in knowledge that the frequency of miracles just coincidentally tapered off ;)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1702100833515843861)  2023-09-13T23:23Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Telling your children that they will go to hell if they don't accept Christ is psychological terrorism. It's also false"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1702163234332295400)  2023-09-14T03:31Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"The absurdity of the Bible is moot to most theists simply because they assume the existence of God to begin with and to them this presumption outweighs even the massive counterweight of evidence reason and logic that indicates to unpresumptuous folks that the Bible is absurd"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1702426119331598572)  2023-09-14T20:56Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@ArchTheAtheist @BeatTheCult @DLgodlessbitch @evolution_1859 @FearlessExpress @Maximumatheist @SimpleS18790446 @TheUnvirgin @WhyRWeHere99 NOTE: I'll likely post more recommendations over time and each time I do I'll try to remember to do it as a quote-Tweet of the previous list (as I've done here) so that everyone can follow the chain to get the complete list. :)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1702454298464878655)  2023-09-14T22:48Z 10.8K followers, [--] engagements


"No amount of testimony alone can establish the occurrence of a miracle and any natural explanation of an extraordinary phenomenon will always have in its favor a surpassingly greater degree of probability by default than will any appeal to supernatural causes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1702481419866628229)  2023-09-15T00:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@TDisputations CHRISTIANS are the original and primary gas-lighters. Christians HAVE to gaslight because they're the ones asserting an absurd and unsubstantiated addition to reality. Thus their only recourse is to try and impugn the reason or sanity of the skeptic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1702678471422644678)  2023-09-15T13:39Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"@jerrychubb I'm truly sorry about your wife. But belief in an omniscient supernatural Deity goes well beyond the bounds of a mere perceptual or epistemic disagreement. Belief in God has been normalized to such a degree that most don't see the concept to be as thoroughly delusional as it is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1702805927148265730)  2023-09-15T22:05Z 10.9K followers, [--] engagements


"Original sin: Humans creating the concept of God Cardinal sin: Humans proclaiming God to be real Unpardonable sin: Humans telling children that they will go to hell for ANY REASON AT ALL"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1702815535082475576)  2023-09-15T22:43Z 10.8K followers, [--] engagements


"Conspiracy theorists believe in conspiracies because they need an explanation for things they cant understand. David Aaronovitch The two biggest conspiracy theories in history are that humans have a soul and that there's a God. Don't be a conspiracy theorist be a realist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1703083392613655007)  2023-09-16T16:28Z 10.8K followers, [--] engagements


"One of the theist's annoyances is that the greatest burden of explanation falls on them yet they're unable to discharge that burden. So they wrongly try to assert that atheists share an equal burden to disprove God in an effort to distract from their own inability to prove him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1703106889368895832)  2023-09-16T18:01Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@TDisputations Merely observing that the act of illegally denying legal rights to a group of people based on one's personal religious beliefs is not inherently "unfriendly" - it's inherently apt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1703113839007674844)  2023-09-16T18:29Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"The "Consciousness Is Fundamental" argument is merely the "Divine Simplicity" argument commuted to a nontheistic context. Both are bunk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1703114614584840599)  2023-09-16T18:32Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"Other than ridiculously exaggerating the number of people on the Ark I thought the A.I. did a fine job of depicting the pathos and horror of God drowning millions of men women children and infants in a global flood. "God" is a monstrosity that needs to go. #NoMoreGods"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1703130145681502361)  2023-09-16T19:34Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"@HungryBellyBwoy True dat. If folks were judicious and careful to keep God (and their beliefs about God) out of our governments judiciaries educational systems and politics it wouldn't be much of an issue. Unfortunately though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1703130807374889149)  2023-09-16T19:36Z 10.8K followers, [--] engagements


"I wish we could have more of The Most Interesting Man in the World and far less of The Whiniest Most Bloviating Puff-Muppet in the World"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1703159232743559350)  2023-09-16T21:29Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


""Rights" are invented by people. There are no gods to command morality or codify rights. It's up to us to invent and protect human rights that are tolerant equitable judicious empathetic and compassionate for the greatest number of people. There are no supernatural shortcuts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1703455793495036385)  2023-09-17T17:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


""Morality" is the pearl that theists clutch most tightly. They can't comprehend and/or countenance the idea that morality is NOT an objective standard dictated by a supernatural God because doing so would remove one of the biggest crutches they use to support their worldview"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1703484210630266915)  2023-09-17T19:00Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"God won't be mocked at all. God can't be mocked. Because God doesn't exist. Only the concept of "God" can be mocked. And the concept of "God" should be mocked persistently. The concept of "God" has ruled and terrorized the world for much too long. #NoMoreGods"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1703576107080106238)  2023-09-18T01:06Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"@Sean_McDowell @biolau @biolapologetics "Studying the SOUL" is a misnomer. "Researching and contemplating the possibility of the soul" is as far as anyone can go. One cannot study what has never been shown to exist - one can only search for evidence of its existence in the first place"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1703601696004567199)  2023-09-18T02:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"That we have spent our entire history shackled by the fear of nonexistent gods is the single greatest testimony to the danger of credulous thinking. Question everything. Examine all "knowledge". Be skeptical of "experts". Above all don't fall easy prey to supernatural claims"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1703773783545491771)  2023-09-18T14:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Human rights are meaningless if there is no God This is an example of why many theists shouldn't be allowed to hold public office. Well-crafted human rights are crucial precisely BECAUSE there is no supreme arbiter (God) to safeguard justice and fairness. Morality is up to US"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1703782107796099397)  2023-09-18T14:44Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Many apologists attempt to cast their arguments in the guise of philosophy with verbose convoluted rhetorical abstractions that are difficult to tease apart in order to finagle arguments for God that sound superficially credible while simultaneously obscuring their fallacies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1704163924646793566)  2023-09-19T16:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The Bible and spiritual experience are pure hearsay. Do you know when hearsay is admissible in court Essentially only when no ACTUAL evidence is available or when gauging a witness's state of mind. Hearsay is rarely admitted to establish facts. There's no hard evidence for God"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1704174493130969235)  2023-09-19T16:43Z 10.8K followers, 15.3K engagements


"Bad answers are worse than no answers. Theism Creationism Intelligent Design etc. are merely footnotes to the larger question of Why is there something rather than nothing Answering God merely kicks the question down the road and raises bigger more absurd questions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1704238458909442154)  2023-09-19T20:58Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


""The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." Cute but I have a much more apt one: The greatest trick humans ever pulled was convincing other humans that God exists"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1704243071209333057)  2023-09-19T21:16Z 10.8K followers, [---] engagements


"Fiction compounded is still fiction. The number of copies of the gospels is irrelevant to their truth just as the number of copies of Don Quixote is irrelevant to its truth. Provenance and actual truth are the only relevant factors and the gospels have no definitive provenance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1704256312069226503)  2023-09-19T22:09Z 11.4K followers, [----] engagements


"@AlfredWessex2 @ParanormalTrev Bag o' hammers sheesh"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1704534871253860739)  2023-09-20T16:35Z 10.8K followers, [--] engagements


"@BanjoAtheist @purplegrogu The default or baseline for any doxastic position is "NO belief in X" untilat a minimumone is introduced to the concept of X in the first place. Pathway #1 involves relinquishing a ponderous raft of affirmative beliefs that were acquired through positive reinforcement"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McClureShawn/status/1704536464300851681)  2023-09-20T16:42Z 10.8K followers, [--] engagements

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