Fuck You Francis Bacon

"The Scripture saith, The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God; it is not said, The fool hath thought in his heart; so as he rather saith it by rote to himself, as that he would have, than that he can thoroughly believe it, or be persuaded of it; for none deny there is a God, but those for whom it maketh that there were no God. It appeareth in nothing more that atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man by this, that atheists will ever be talking of that their opinion, as if they fainted in it within themselves, and would be glad to be strengthened by the consent of others; nay more, you shall have atheists strive to get disciples, as it fareth with other sects; and, which is most of all, you shall have of them that will suffer for atheism, and not recant; whereas, if they did truly think that there were no such thing as God, why should they trouble themselves"

I'll refrain from archaic English as it will basically be mockery at this point.

The scripture might well say the fool has said in his heart there is no god. But the scripture says not to judge else you be judged. What you have levelled at atheists is that you're only an atheist because you have simply removed god from the equation. Something that that is easily shot back at anybody who believes in any god. They have simply added god to the equation.

Furthermore, he goes on to accuse atheism as looking for approval and preaching to recruit followers. What would Francis prefer to be accused of in regard to recruiting, irony or hypocrisy? People are creatures of community and look for their ilk wherever they go. As for the approval of Christians (in Bacon's case), is it too hard to expect that a set of people who are considered by the men with all the land, influence and privilege that they could stuff into their mitres as more evil than any other mortal thing in the bible for a spot of approval. Without seeking it they may well end up on the wrong side of burning stake.

He accuses atheism as all lip and no heart. Its true there's no heart to it because its a reasoned logic. You can't quantify god so it doesn't exist. You might well be able to feel it in your heart but then maybe you should shut up and leave others alone when they can't. As for the lip-service, you'd never notice a quiet atheist, the same way I never notice a quiet fundamentalist.

His final point is that some will endure suffering (imposed upon them by the followers, of what is described by them as, an all-loving and ever-loving god) for their atheism and that if they truly believe in no god they wouldn't bother to uphold that. When you suggest lies for so long to a populous it has been seen throughout history that the liars have had dissenters wanting to die for truth and die free of tyranny. Some have had few, some have had many and its only really the numbers that bear any significant progress to their point of view. Sometimes your lies and your subterfuge to get us to conform to your books and scripts pain us so far that some have to stand against it at the ultimate cost. Go fuck yourself Francis Bacon. You dead prat.