One of the best counters to exclusivist / literalist / fundamentalist religion is the intuitive skepticism that arises from learning about the other 5+Billion religious adherents that think you are completely wrong. The sheer number of souls that god fails to “save” is startling.

The dragon comic isn’t accurate – in real life, the dragon guy would either conclude that the dragons are invisible or that the light wasn’t really on (because you can’t see any dragons). Or maybe he’d have just shut his eyes.

You know, I never heard that word until I moved to Springfield.

Actually lumping them into a group is easy- any one who isn’t an atheist is a theist. Of course, deists and pantheists don’t fall into the whole category- but there are so few of them anyway it is a drop in the bucket.

You’re kidding right? 900 million Hindus, 376 million Buddhists, 394 traditional Chinese (e.g. Confucianism, Taoism, ancestor worship, etc.), and 400 million indigenous animist/polytheists (none of which fit traditional “theism”) are just a drop in the bucket? What a very American thing to say.

Not to mention the immense differences among theists as well that such a statement just glosses over.

(btw stats are from adherents.com)

I’m really tired of seeing satire that lumps all ‘religion’ into a group and then demeans it all.

Any religion that fits this cartoon needs to be lumped together.

I’ll admit I laughed at the second cartoon, but I’m really tired of seeing satire that lumps all ‘religion’ into a group and then demeans it all. I feel like that’s the sort of thing that theists expect from atheists and leads them to write us off as snarky and mean.