Bless us, Spider-Man, for we have sinned

TIL atheists have no idea what "proof" is.

noun
evidence sufficient to establish a thing as true, or to produce belief in its truth
Key being evidence.

I used to believe when I was younger (thankfully stopped believing relatively early on) and in retrospect... yeah, it's so fucking obvious that no god exists.

This post is so true. The only source is a book, literally nothing else. What makes it trustworthy? The fact that it's thousands of years old and is still relevant? And literally nothing else? Also ignoring the obvious that any god existing is dumb as hell.

It's all just a big "Trust me bro". Perhaps some of the biggest lies in history...

The fact it's so old makes it even funnier because it was clearly written by people who were considered smart at the time (maybe?) but clearly didn't know dick all about how anything worked. Yet there's still Bible literalists today, though even the ones that take it as metaphorical are IMO just in denial.
Even the philosophical stuff is undermined by the indoctrination shit, which is evident in the religious people who think there's no reason to not do evil shit if religion is false. About a third of the ten commandments boil down to "respect mah authoriteh".
Imagine accidentally creating a religion by lying that you didn't have sex when you are pregnant.
- And then having that act plagarized by a bunch of other later religions, including Christianity.

I love dropping that on theists, especially the ones who go down the line of "Well the Bible proves the history... We found Jericho!"

And I'm like "Yeah, and New York is real so Spider-Man must be real too!"

Thousands of years from now, someone is going to uncover an old Warner Brothers warehouse and will be convinced we made all these Batman and Superman statues because we worshipped them.

Whereas others will roll their eyes and say that the statues are clearly dildoes.
- Our descendants will clearly have superior anal capabilities

One will find many Peter Parkers in New York City. We cannot be certain which Peter Parker was Spider-Man, but we cannot exclude Spider-Man as an option.

We can find many contemporary, non-Marvel sources for Spider-Man. This means that even those not part of Marvel were well aware of Spider-Man. This means Spider-Man was likely a real living person.

Spider-Man appears in various government records. Those have all disappeared due to tampering in 2025 alongside other government data, but those records were described in records from other authors within a few hundred years of that time.

(Allah / Jahwe / God are all just different names for the same deity. Which makes a whole lot of shit in this world more "fun")

Go Spidergod.

There was a time in my childhood, when I wanted fiction to be real, and really hated fiction that I didn't like because it meant those bad things will be real. I thought religion was like a tale that adults also believed in.

I got somewhat more open to religion during my teen years, as far-right orgs tried to (ideologically) groom me, and of course it involved me getting bombarded with "if you're atheist, you'll be sad and suicidal" type bullshit.

You really want that poor unlucky bastard to be real? I mean, his life is pretty much just pain.

Which one are we talking about here? /s
- That's a great question, isn't it?
At least he has super powers… I don’t
- Would you tell us if you did?

Picking up a copy of Julius Caeser, by Shakespeare

Seems made up to me. I guess he wasn't real.

Flips on the movie Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter

Also a fictitious person.

In fact, as I'm working my way through these books and beginning to question whether any President has ever existed.

This is not an argument in good faith. This is not a level comparison.
Just because a clearly (that is, without serious challenge) fictionalized account exists doesn't mean we should ignore the mountains of separate, unchallenged, easily verifiable, unbiased evidence that an historical account is beyond likely. No such body of "evidence" exists for Jesus, as defined by mainstream Christians; the same as for God, Yahwey, Allah, or Odin.
- we should ignore the mountains of separate, unchallenged, easily verifiable, unbiased evidence that an historical account is beyond likely
  There's no separate, unchallenged easily verifiable evidence that contradicts the claim that a Jewish Rabbi lead a mass movement of ecumenical reformists in the 1st century AD.
  No such body of “evidence” exists for Jesus
  We have an abundance of accounts, many of them from the Roman scholars of the era, describing the movement and its members and their beliefs and activities.
  Then we have a litany of Gospels, of which the nascent church had to scrub down precisely because so many of them were believed heretical a century later.
  I'm a bit tired of hearing "Nothing exists" when what you're really saying is "I don't personal accept any of the testimony because I don't like the people saying it".
Except the authors openly acknowledged that those are fictitious works, and there aren't large groups of people trying to force the world into a new dark age based solely on the questionable moral lessons they've cherry picked from those books.
- Except the authors openly acknowledged that those are fictitious works
  Plenty of fiction is written without acknowledging its fictional nature. Hell, the spoofy historical comedies even lean into incredulity, adopting stylistic hallmarks of serious journalism and documentation.
Just because Spider-Man 616 isn’t real, doesn’t mean Spider-Man 199999 is real
- This, but I'm denying the existence of Thomas Jefferson by pointing to two different fictional depictions.
Is there perhaps some other sources than Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter that point to him being a real person?
- Sources that may be contemporary to when he was alive.
How... DARE... you!
Vampires would be the dominant species on Earth if ol' Abe hadn't handled it for us!
He died for our veins!