Templeton's atheist

[Titus Templeton]

Templeton's atheist is an experiment, usually described as a paradox, devised by True Christian™ Titus Templeton in 2011. The experiment presents an atheist that might become a Christian.

The Experiment:

An atheist is penned up in a steel chamber, along with a burning candle. Once the candle stops burning a relay releases a hammer that shatters a smal flask of hydrocyanic acid. There is also a 1611 King James Bible in the box.


Templeton's experiment poses the question, how an atheist reacts when he faces his own death. Does he do nothing and waits on his death or is he trying to save his soul with the Bible?

Titus Templeton:" Atheist thinking is a construct that is full of contradictions. Over the time the atheist believes that this construct is logically. Therefore i created this experiment. Once an atheist face his own death in that extreme situation, his own atheist thinking will collapse. He is able to see that errors in his thinking, they will pick up the Bible and repend to Jesus Christ. We might do this experiment with thousands of atheists, im sure at the end we have thousands of dead Christians.

[Yolanda]

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Really depends on the person. If they're a coward they'll give into the fear mongering and try repenting and all that jazz, if they're not they'll stick to their guns.

This isn't a paradox - just a really stupid scenario relying on fear.

[wait_what]

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Really depends on the person. If they're a coward they'll give into the fear mongering and try repenting and all that jazz, if they're not they'll stick to their guns.

This isn't a paradox - just a really stupid scenario relying on fear.

This is actually genius.

How many atheists are nothing more than death bed repenters?

I know many atheists who quietly pray to the God that they claim not to believe in.

They say they are atheists because some douchebag in Portland, OR told them it was trendy to not believe in God. They haven't tasted their own Kool-Aid, much less drank it. Atheism is as powerful and lasting as the Macarena. Just another bad idea that swept the nation capturing the hearts and actions of the feeble minded.

[Rev. Jim Osborne]

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Now, that is a thought experiment! Excellent work, Brother Templeton. And how dare "mainstream" colleges laugh at your Ph.D. in Creation Science when it has obviously afforded you a gifted mind!

It truly is a paradox. Now, the atheist can give in to the inner voice inside of him that says he is wrong. Thus, he succumbs to fear, and reads the Bible begging for forgiveness. On the other hand, the atheist is also, by definition, a stupid human being, so they may not be aware of the gravity of the situation and instead just sit idly by, humming and playing with their thumbs.

So, does the atheist know he's wrong (deep down all atheists do)? Or is he too stupid to comprehend the situation (like all atheists)? I don't think there's a sufficient answer. This is just like Schrödinger's Cat.

[Alvin]

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So, does the atheist know he's wrong (deep down all atheists do)? Or is he too stupid to comprehend the situation (like all atheists)? I don't think there's a sufficient answer. This is just like Schrödinger's Cat.

Actually, I don't think Schrödinger's Cat is the proper analogy - after all, some people have argued that the probability waves already collapse before the experimenter opens the box because the Cat's consciousness (or lack thereof, being dead) would have provided the required "conscious" observer.

But I'm certain the Honorable Reverend Jim Osborne did not mean to imply atheists could claim to possess a "consciousness" anywhere near the level of a cat - after all if they did, they wouldn't be "Atheists" but praising the LORD's mysterious ways instead...

Putting an atheist rather than a cat into Schrödinger's - or rather Templeton's - Box might resolve the problem of a hypothetical conscious observer...

I believe Brother Templeton has come up with a great contraption to make Psalms 9:15 a reality and both prove the unbelievers wrong and kill them with their own "science" for the benefit of their eternal soul:

The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

Now, I know secular law would probably have some minor qualms with this, but if only we could turn it from a brilliant thought experiment into a real tool of glorious mass-deathbox-conversion...

Why - if we excavated a deep enough hole at Landover and place many boxes together - say into a large cube - in such a way that the individual boxes moved around and offered different traps in each box to confront a small group of atheists with differing moral dilemmata, they might even discover that their so-called "atheists" morals - not being founded on the LORD's eternal word - are rather fickle.

If only someone could make this "Moral Relativity Cube" a reality - it would be worth showing the atheists the error of their way and save the souls of many...

I shall pray for this!



Alvin

[Yolanda]

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This is actually genius.

How many atheists are nothing more than death bed repenters?

I know many atheists who quietly pray to the God that they claim not to believe in.

They say they are atheists because some douchebag in Portland, OR told them it was trendy to not believe in God. They haven't tasted their own Kool-Aid, much less drank it. Atheism is as powerful and lasting as the Macarena. Just another bad idea that swept the nation capturing the hearts and actions of the feeble minded.

Actually the trendy thing as far as belief in omniescient beings has been Christianity.

[wait_what]

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Actually the trendy thing as far as belief in omniescient beings has been Christianity.

Is there a sentence here? I have no idea as to what you are trying to say.

[Cursed]

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Actually the trendy thing as far as belief in omniescient beings has been Christianity.

You think the millions of people who've given their lives for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ did so because it was "trendy?"

For shame, sir.