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Bad things tend to happen, but some are so bad that some characters can't refrain from concluding that there can't be a God in this universe, or if there is then he's insane or malevolent. Please note that this trope is about questioning a benevolent God's existence because of a single bad event or series of them. If God is confirmed not to exist in this particular universe, it's Religion Is Wrong. When God is confirmed to exist and also confirmed to be good but lets the bad event happen anyways, you have the Omniscient Morality License. To counter this idea, the faithful may choose to believe that God works In Mysterious Ways, so He may allow bad things for a higher purpose. One common argument is that evil results from God allowing people to have their own free will. There is also evil existing as a Secret Test of Character. Alternately, perhaps God Is Flawed. A thing to note about this trope is that it presupposes the existence of a singular deity, or at least of a more-or-less united pantheon, that has absolute or at least very significant control over reality and the things happening with it. As such, most uses of it are notably rooted in either Abrahamic monotheism or fantasy religions more or less explicitly based on it. In contexts where divine powers or spirits are believed to have more limited control over reality or to work at cross purposes to one another, this isn't usually a natural reaction to misfortune. Please note that this trope has some rather Unfortunate Implications; portraying atheism as a position one takes only after enduring truly horrendous hardships can give it a very vindictive and spiteful subtext. This can make it seem slightly illegitimate as a belief, since it's portrayed as an emotional reaction forced onto a person by going through a Despair Event Horizon, rather than a position deliberately decided on by weighing the evidence for and against. (Rule of Drama tends to work against this, however, as giving characters personal, powerful, emotional reasons for their beliefs almost always creates more engaging storylines.) Sometimes this is the result of a game of Religious Russian Roulette. See also Crisis of Faith. The direct opposite is, of course, There Is a God! Compare God Is Dead. Also compare A God I Am Not, where a godlike being refuses to be called "God". May be related to Good Running Evil. Often this results in a Hollywood Atheist, whose sole reason for railing against religion and God is born from crushed hopes or unanswered prayers. Compare Faith–Heel Turn, which is when this trope leads to the character actually becoming evil. See also Break the Believer, in which someone's core beliefs are proven wrong. Opposite of Turn to Religion, where a crisis leads someone to become a believer. |
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Unlike his movie counterpart, in Fight Club, the intense and self-destructive Tyler Durden uses this to explain why he does what he does. | |
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Rorschach from Watchmen. When he was pushed over the Despair Event Horizon by a particularly gruesome crime he declared there was no God and life had no meaning "save what we imagine if we stare at it too long", and that he was free to impose his own will on the "morally blank world". | |
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Magneto, of Marvel's X-Men, lost his faith in God while being interned at Auschwitz, forced to watch as his family were taken away to the gas chambers. | |
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Alluded to at the end of CSI: NY's "Yahrzeit." A Holocaust survivor says that the soldier (Mac Taylor's father) who rescued him by carrying him out of the camp from which he was liberated and who gave him a Hershey bar to eat "put back some of the faith I had lost. My grandchildren put back the rest." | |
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The podcast God Awful Movies reviews bad religious movies, almost always Christian. They've started to joke about how apparently every atheist's mother has cancer since this is used to invoke the trope in so many of these movies. | |
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In The Simpsons episode "Last Exit to Springfield," when the school photographer gets Lisa to smile for her school photo and sees the horrible 19th-century style braces she's wearing (because there's no dental plan at the Power Plant where Homer works) he gasps out "There is no God!" | |
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Perry Mason: In this Perry Mason reboot, Perry starts out as a world-weary PI and a Shell-Shocked Veteran after serving in the trenches of World War I. When Sister Alice, a charismatic evangelist, tells Perry that God is with him, Perry shoots back with "God left me in France." | |
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Faust: Love of the Damned: After artist John Jaspers' girlfriend is murdered by a group of criminals, he becomes a suicidal nihilist. He is then approached by M, who remarks that selling his soul shouldn't mean anything for someone who believes in nothing anyway. | |
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Setsuna F. Seiei from Mobile Suit Gundam 00 believes that there is no God after his traumatic childhood. To summarize, he (and a number of other children from his hometown) were convinced to become Child Soldiers by an Axe-Crazy mercenary in what he described as a "holy war." | |
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Brassed Off: Mr. Chuckles, after memorably screwing up a children's party: | |
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Cracked loves this trope. Especially in lists of Top X Things That Are Somehow Unpleasant To Even Read About, often with the caption of "Where is your god now?" | |
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SCP-1983-2 are living, heart-stealing Shadows that can only be killed by silver bullets fired accompanied by prayer. Doesn't matter who you're praying to while you shoot, just as long as you mean it. When the Foundation sends a team into their Eldritch Location, they get picked off one at a time, and the last one to die makes it as far as their nest. After seeing how 1983-2 are born, he can't pray anymore. Not pray and mean it. | |
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(Mario) The Music Box -ARC-: While Luciano Evangelisti was still alive, he was the victim of a bad omen where same-sex twins carried a curse. He was forced to live in exile as a baby with the Evangelisti family's maid, and when he had conceived his and his girlfriend's son out of wedlock, they were chased out of the village and Luciano was forced to give up his son. When he eventually reunites with his twin brother, Marchionne, he tells him that he does not believe in God, because he cannot believe that a just God would allow him to live such a miserable life. This proves to be the straw that broke the camel's back, as he is soon condemned by his own brother to burn to death. | |
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Detective Frank Pembleton from Homicide: Life on the Street slowly loses his once-steadfast faith due to the brutality he sees on the job, making him increasingly angry that God has allowed such a Crapsack World. He eventually renounces his faith entirely, and refuses to even step in a church afterwards. | |
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Penny Arcade: Gabe joins the priesthood in one strip after the "twin blessings" of The Chronicles Of Riddick and Full Spectrum Warrior convinces him of God's love. This lasts until Tycho points out that Microsoft cancelled the anticipated MMORPG True Fantasy Live right on the threshold of completion, and Gabe sadly concludes that there is no God and humanity is nothing but soulless sacks of meat and water doomed to toil in misery. | |
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In Deadwood, Reverend Smith is suffering from some kind of brain disease but doesn't do himself any favors by continuing working and thinking it's God's will that he got sick. Doc Cochran says "If this is God's plan, Reverend, He is a son of a bitch." He later yells at God for allowing people like the reverend and the dying soldiers he met in the Civil War to suffer so badly. | |
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The Reaping: Katherine, currently trying to disprove God’s existence by debunking miracles, was once a preacher, until on an expedition, her husband and daughter were both killed by a religious cult. By the end of the movie, however, Katherine has regained her faith. It helps that she has encountered an actual angel. | |
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Higurashi: When They Cry uses an extremely dark take on this in the backstory of Miyo Takano, making this trope the root cause of both her megalomania and as a result the Endless June. | |
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Warframe: The vivacious and extravagant Ticker of the Solaris debt-slave enclave speaks profoundly on manners of personal faith, love, and hope... and reserves her intense and deeply hidden contempt for the Temple of Profit which preaches that the already-indebted people of Solris should give the Temple their money to earn 'blessings from the Void'. The unrestrained disgust in her normally easygoing voice is actually somewhat shocking. As a result of what the Corpus did to her and the man she loved, she rejects the organized religion of the Corpus and instead supports private, personal displays of care, faith, and connection. | |
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Persepolis: After her beloved Uncle Anoosh is executed by the fundamentalist regime as a communist dissident, Marjane tells God that she hates him and doesn't want to see him anymore. He still pops up from time to time, however. | |
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In Cube Zero, at the end of the titular Death Trap filled labyrinth any survivors are asked if they believe in God. If they say "no", the Cube's operators press a button marked "No" which causes the survivor to be incinerated. When the new operator asks what the button marked "Yes" does, the other, much older operator says he doesn't know: no one has ever said "yes". | |
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Des Esseintes in A Rebours draws from the German pessimist Schopenhauer and cites that the misery of the world is why he rejects belief in God. Huysmans, who was also an atheist when he wrote A Rebours, would eventually become a Catholic and retract this conclusion in a preface reflecting on the book twenty years after its publication. | |
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Eek! The Cat: A Christmas Episode features a gift destined for an orphan falling from Santa's sleigh and Eek has an Imagine Spot where said orphan, as a result of not receiving said present, starts doubting there's a savior. | |
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Revy from Black Lagoon explains that she used to be very devout when she was a child until the day she was beaten half to death for no reason by a group of corrupt cops. | |
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Negativland's Don Joyce, sound collage master and culture jammer par excellence, proclaimed in the episode of the group's weekly KPFA radio show Over the Edge immediately following the September 11, 2001 attacks that God did not exist, judging by the horrific deeds done in His name. Joyce had probably been 90% convinced of this long before, but this clinched it. He started a new continuing theme for the show, "It's All In Your Head," and another called "Your Brain Is God," inviting listeners to call in and discuss it. "It's All In Your Head" also became a series of live stage showsnote the setting has a radio station proclaim there's no God just to get publicity and attract listeners!, a 2006 album assembled from these shows, and a 2014 studio album (entirely recompiled, recrafted, and packaged inside an actual Bible). One of Don's recurring sound clips was of someone (perhaps himself) howling "There — is — no — GOD!!!" | |
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The Walking Dead: The priest, Gabriel, slowly begins to lose his faith the more he experiences the apocalypse. He finally loses it by Season 11 when he said that God isn't with them anymore to a Reaper asking for forgiveness. | |
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Colin Macleod wears this on his sleeve in Highlander: The Search for Vengeance after antagonist Marcus kills his wife. | |
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In Caddyshack, one of the club members (who happens to be a bishop) has his perfect game of golf (in the middle of a raging storm) ruined by a single bad putt, turns to curse the heavens, and is struck by lightning immediately. The next day, he's shown as a drunken mess proclaiming that there is no God. | |
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Just a Pilgrim: the titular pilgrim, an ex-Special Forces type who found the Lord in prison, survived the end of the world when the sun moved closer, drying up the oceans, and found the last remnants of humanity hiding in the Mariana Trench. His faith in God wouldn't be out of place in Warhammer 40,000, but he finally snaps when a mutant race of jellyfish takes over a little girl. His last act before his Heroic Sacrifice is to toss out the Bible he wanted the survivors to take. | |
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Arthur Lester from Malevolent stopped believing in God (at least, the Abrahamic God) after Bella and Faroe's deaths. After the events of the first two seasons and meeting real actual gods who are cold and indifferent to humanity, he becomes a Nay-Theist. | |
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In Shadow Hearts the Big Bad of the game was a former Cardinal in the Catholic Church who became a warlock. Between witnessing first-hand the corruption of the Catholic Church and (as revealed in the sequel Shadow Hearts: Covenant) a pupil of his who turns evil he loses his faith in both Christianity and basic humanity. At that point summoning down God to demo the entire planet with the Apocalypse and start fresh seems like the best play. | |
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Father Willibald from Vinland Saga is a Catholic priest. After witnessing too much suffering on Earth, he came to the conclusion that God Is Evil for permitting all this evil and as a result, his faith became twisted. Wanting to prove himself wrong he vacillates between seeking an Act of True Love, and getting roaring drunk to dull his pain. He manages to convince Canute of the same, leading the latter to commit to a Rage Against the Heavens. | |
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World War Z: One of the interviewees is a Muslim from Egypt who had been radicalized into hardcore anti-semitism, which was completely shattered when his family fled to Israel during the early stages of the outbreak and made it through the war. Not only did he discover that everything he had been told about Israel was false, they were some of the only ones who had any idea what they were doing and took the threat of the living dead seriously. After the war, the man abandoned not only his extremism but religion entirely, viewing the lies he had been told and the horrors of the zombie apocalypse as proof that it was all lies. There is also an Iranian pilot who recounts how the zombie outbreak also led to a nuclear war with Pakistan. |
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On Carnivà le Brother Justin's faith is shaken when the church he built is burnt down. As he tells reporter Tommy Dolan at a hobo fire, "I lost my God." When he regains his faith it will be as a full-on Dark Messiah. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: Stannis Baratheon tells Davos Seaworth that he lost his faith in the Seven, or any god for that matter, after witnessing his parents dying in a shipwreck. He only let Melisandre and her R'hllor followers in because they help advance his crusade to claim the Iron Throne. | |
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In One Piece, the Minister of the Right refuses to believe that there is a god or a Buddha after Queen Otohime is shot during the most successful time of her and possibly the kingdom's life. | |
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In I Am Legend, when Anna speculates that her coming to New York to find Neville is some part of God's plan, Robert launches into a furious tirade that given everything he's seen and lost in the past three years (as the result of a viral pandemic that killed almost 90% of the earth's population and mutated more than half of the survivors into predatory monsters hunting down any immune humans left), there can be no God. | |
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In Silas Marner, the title character succumbs to this trope after being framed for robbery by his best friend and driven out by his church community, leading him to become a bitter reclusive miser. He gets better. | |
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Preacher: Zig-Zagged trope; Jesse Custer truly came to believe in God due to his abusive childhood indoctrination, hitting the Despair Event Horizon and finding God in there (Inversion - Evil Gave Me Faith). After a few years of dealing with the petty evils of his congregation as a priest, he slid back into hollow faith and Drowning My Sorrows, believing God wasn't really there after all (Played Straight). And then along comes Genesis, proving that God really does exist - and over the course of the series, that the Bible is a sack of lies glorifying an Evil Is Petty negligent deity, convincing Jesse to believe in the (former) existence of a God that he will never worship again (Double Subversion) and in fact successfully try to kill. | |
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The Dear Hunter: "No God" is a literal example of this. | |
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All in the Family: Season 8's "Edith's Crisis of Faith." Her steadfast Christianity — she defined it far better than Archie ever did or could — is one of Edith's defining traits, and makes her who she is. So when she witnesses her son-in-law, Mike, and the family's friend, Beverly LaSalle jumped and brutally beaten in a robbery attempt, and Beverly dies of his injuries, Edith wonders why God allowed the bad guys to win. She temporarily renounces her Christianity ... until Mike tells her that maybe God didn't want this to happen, but merely it was just bad guys being, well, bad guys. Edith realizes that some things aren't meant to be understood — i.e., why evil exists in the world (a large reason why Mike years earlier renounced his Catholic vows) — and that she has not only good memories of the family's friendship with Beverly ... and a lot more to be thankful for. | |
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In The Screwtape Letters, Screwtape's nephew, the lesser devil Wormwood, must have proposed trying this tactic to wrench humans away from God with the looming horrors of the Second World War, but Screwtape counters that while the horrors may affect some humans so, others wind up coming through the trial with renewed faith and many more are made to confront death - which forces them to confront those questions, thus enabling them to perceive and accept God's grace. | |
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A horrific series of famines drove a nation to this in The Reynard Cycle. | |
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Illusive Tracks: One of the nuns, after Gunnar wreaks havoc and hurts several people, including her. | |
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In Pitch Black, Imam believes this to be the case with Riddick. Turns out that, after all the harshness that has been his life, it's actually a couple of different tropes that Riddick believes. | |
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In End of Days, Jericho Cane stopped believing in God after contract killers murdered both his wife and their daughter. | |
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Justin in El Goonish Shive, upon seeing Susan's "kitty face", thinks to himself that there is no God. This is likely taken from the Simpsons example below. | |
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Apparently, this is what motivates Lex Luthor in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. He confesses that his father has abused him (perhaps even sexually), and since God didn't intervene, Lex concluded that He either doesn't exist or is evil. Hence, he cannot stand the public adoration of Superman that borderlines on religious worship, and is bent on bringing him down, exposing him as a fraud that is a) morally corrupt and b) can be killed by mortals. | |
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The Prince of Egypt: Over the years of pain and slavery he and his family endured, Aaron's faith in God has slipped away. When Moses explains that he was sent by God to do His work, Aaron scoffs at the idea that God has sent a deliverer for the Hebrew slaves. Fortunately, it's not permanent. | |
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This is invoked through a bet in the Book of Job. In it, Satan asks God if Job would lose his faith in Him if he would lose everything. God offers Satan to do some dirty work to find out. It gets subverted though, as Job retains his faith in God and he is rewarded with more of what he had before. | |
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In April Showers, Sean questions what kind of God would let the school shootings that killed his friends and the girl he loved happen. | |
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Dumbing of Age: By the time the second semester begins, Joyce has lost her faith, as she comes to the conclusion that no god would let her suffer all she did in the first (a near-rape attempt, Becky getting kidnapped by her own father for being a lesbian, Joyce's own mother supporting Becky's father, Joyce herself getting kidnapped by Amber's father in a plot to make Amber drop out of school, and her parents getting divorced). She ends up avoiding telling her childhood friend Becky about her newfound atheism, however, because (if anything) Becky's faith grew stronger as a result of all those traumatic events. Becky finds out when she comes across Joyce mocking Christianity with Sarah's sister Liz, and predictably doesn't take it well, especially since Joyce is acting like a condescending Hollywood Atheist. | |
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In The Count of Monte Cristo (2002), the despairing title character gives up all hope in God, having been incarcerated in a harsh French prison for several years. | |
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South Park: The episode "Cartmanland" sees Cartman inheriting a million dollars and buying his own private theme park. Kyle is dumbfounded at the idea that God would reward such a rotten person and ends up getting a hemorrhoid. As things get better for Cartman, Kyle's condition worsens and he renounces his faith. At the point where Kyle is on the verge of death (yes, from a hemorrhoid), Stan brings him to the theme park in time to see Cartman's dream destroyed by his own greed, at which point Kyle makes a miraculous recovery. The episode also has Kyle lampshade the story of Job by asking how the God who would punish a decent man just to prove a point to Satan could possibly be considered benevolent. It doesn't help that his parents don't read the last part, where God rewards Job and gives Job more than what he had before he lost everything.note Job's original children stay dead. He just gets more of them. So... there is a god, but he might abruptly kill you just to prove a point to someone else. |
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In the Warrior Cats book Sunset, Mothwing is a medicine cat that doesn't believe in StarClan - the equivalent of an atheist priest. She explains to Leafpool that the reason she stopped believing is that her brother revealed that he'd faked the omen that made the medicine cat choose her as apprentice, and that if StarClan really existed they wouldn't let him threaten/blackmail her and do evil deeds to gain power. (They do exist in the series, they're just The Watcher and don't/can't interfere.) | |
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In the film version of Born on the Fourth of July, Ron Kovic (Tom Cruise) rants at his mother: | |
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Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night gives us Dominique Baldwin, whose Motive Rant is quoted below: | |
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Six Shooter: "I don't believe in God. Not no more." So says Donnelly, who has just left the hospital after his wife has died of cancer. | |
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Firefly: Mal was apparently a Catholic in his earlier years, but lost his faith at the Independents' crushing defeat at the Battle of Serenity Valley. His change is often described as deciding "God disagreed with him politically." | |
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The infamous Family Guy episode "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven" has Brian using Meg's unattractiveness and her abusive family as evidence of God's nonexistence. | |
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The Music Video Show does this in episode 39. "Michael Jackson. Dead. Robin Williams. Dead. Scott Stapp. Still alive. There. Is. No. God!" | |
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The Creepypasta "Why I Became an Atheist" is about a man recounting how he was involved with a cult called the Followers of the Way and converted to atheism because the cultists killed his dog and carved 666 into his arm for refusing to show his devotion to God by doing so. The bad experience causes him to conclude that there cannot possibly be a God. | |
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There was a throwaway gag in one episode of Frasier where he learnt that a radio show he hated had received national syndication. Frasier's response was something along the lines of "Well, that's great news for her - and also for the many atheists who will welcome this new proof of their theory." | |
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