Telling stories about not liking a persons choice of theism is irrational and illogical and goes no where.
It is dull. Debate is futile, don't like religion start killing the followers, Islamists, Christians, Pagans all of them. As the bible says, if thine religious nutter offends thee - rip them out.
1) tell them it is god's will for them to die.
2) Kill enough of them, then if gods exist then surely those gods will have to intervene for their followers.

Science has no place trying to disprove deities, so don't use science in a theological debate. Theology will however try to hold science back from it's goals and to continue to spread it's silliness regarding science and established theories.

Example. "Evolution is just a theory." answer. "So is gravity, but you are not floating away." or "Fuck off simpleton, I cannot be bothered."
( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Sun 13 Oct 2013, 12:41, 7 replies)

AH BUT WHOSE WILL WAS IT THAT APES TURNED INTO HUMANS, EH???

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Sun 13 Oct 2013, 14:01, closed)

I for one am very successful in the field of evolution theory.
But that success has only come through prayer.
( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Sun 13 Oct 2013, 14:47, closed)

Post hoc ergo propter hoc

( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Sun 13 Oct 2013, 18:59, closed)

This is a weird way to look at religions.
As if each religion was just a slip of paper with a statement written on it, like "this god exists".

Religions do make testable claims all the time, like claims about when the world started existing, when humans started existing, whether we were made out of clay or corn by something, what there is in the world and what has been there over time, etc.

I understand what you're saying about the problem of trying to argue against an unfalsifiable claim like one about an invisible entity that doesn't want to be observed and affects the world based on an undetectable decision making process, but that's like, one aspect of only some of religions. I don't know where the idea that all religions that can exist consist entirely of unfalsifiable claims comes from.

Edit: so I guess what I'm trying to say is that it's possible for people to have irrational religious beliefs that are worth refuting/disproving. There's a crazy documentary someone posted on /links once about genetic biologists who are also Mormons. Can't find it now, but it's an amazing look at that kind of belief.
( the prick of misery pierced my foot on a spiiiike on, Sun 13 Oct 2013, 16:31, closed)

Yes.

( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Sun 13 Oct 2013, 18:02, closed)

i love that answer
And i will be using it at the next opportunity.
(boarders You won't catch me with my trousers, Sun 13 Oct 2013, 18:50, closed)

That would be
an ecunemical matter
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Wed 16 Oct 2013, 12:37, closed)