Well, I’ve gotten spam before, but never quite like this:

This is message is critical. And nobody wants your money, or any information from you. It is about your life, is more serious than a heart attack, and you only spite yourself to not carefully read every word here, and more, as the truth will be proven to you.

First, there is no such thing as an intelligent atheist. Anyone who states there is no God does so in ignorance. Such a person may say, “Prove to me there is a God!” A person who believes may say, “Prove to me there is no God!” Whatever the case, it is clear the atheist cannot really know there is no God, the atheist having no objective evidence this is so, or, likewise, any real experience of the transcendent from within the confines of a limited material world and existence. Atheism is therefore an unintelligent stance. A person can only intelligently hold an agnostic position, or a position of faith.

What it even less intelligent, then, is how a person can blindly go about all the transient and vain pursuits of a mortal life, knowing full well the rumor that there is an afterlife, a place called heaven, another called hell, yet learn precious little, if anything, of the substance behind these rumors. This is more than a physical life or death matter! This is a matter of eternal destiny, joy or misery, salvation or damnation! Would you not think that, just on the chance there is, especially, a place called hell, any intelligent person would at least read everything there is to know about such a claim, before deciding what to do, put aside every vain pursuit whatsoever, to get the full story behind where they may be ultimately destined, forever?

It is time for you to wakeup to a very serious matter. You need to be thinking about where you are headed and where you will truly be when your life in this world is over, your mortal life like a flower that will wither and die, a life that could possibly end this very hour. Then what?

Then I hope they take my rotting body, put it on a boat, set it on fire, and let it drift over the horizon.

You amuse me. Why do you worry if I am wrong? Seems like Heaven would be a whole lot less crowded without us atheists up there. My rejection of Judeo-Christian mythology and fanciful tales of imaginary superbeings worried about my earthly pursuits occurred around the same time I realized Santa Claus wasn’t real, either. My rejection in no way impinges on your hopes for an afterlife, does it? You don’t lose Jesus points if I don’t convert, do you?

I know, I know, you’re compelled to witness the Gospel to us unbelievers. Fine. You witnessed. You did your Christian duty. Now move along with your superstitions and worry about your own standing in the Book of Life. Revel in the belief that someday, you’ll be playing harp with Gabriel in a cloud, looking down on my sorry ass in a Lake of Fire. For your rather long sermon on my lack of faith is really all about the central point of organized religion — building power. You want more recruits for your God club. You want less intelligent writers making compelling cases against religion. Otherwise, why do you care what I believe?

As to your point: no one can prove a negative. However, in scientific circles, there is the mantra that “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” You and the Bible make all sorts of extraordinary claims that are supposed to be accepted not only on faith and lacking any real evidence, but actually contrary to real, provable, existing evidence! For one very simple example out of thousands, you expect us to believe the entire Earth was covered in Noah’s flood, yet geologic evidence shows this to be untrue, physics shows this to be impossible (where did the water come from? where did it go? what happened to all the thermodynamic energy involved?), and simple math shows it to be impossible to house two of every creature in a 300-cubit boat (not to mention the lousy gene pool such a breeding population would leave, not to mention where did Noah store the food and the poop?)

Anyway, I deny your position that there is no intelligent atheist. You are confusing “lack of belief” with “denial of belief”. As an atheist, I don’t deny that such a thing as God may exist, I merely find no logical reason to believe He does. An agnostic also believes that God may or may not exist, but believes the ultimate knowledge of that possibility is by definition unknowable. But if we can’t prove a negative, and we can’t prove the positive, then what’s the point in believing?

Now that I’ve wasted four paragraphs (since you obviously believe in the literal inerrancy of millennia old multiply-mistranslated oral histories kept secret for centuries by a literate priest caste from the illiterate masses and used for political ends), I’ll add you to that list of people I find very fascinating. People who believe everything they are told by authority figures. People who do not question obviously impossible and fanciful legends because they’re “religion” and everyone else buys ’em. People raised with such a sense of self-loathing for their own natural human impulses that they feel the need to be “saved” from something (themselves? Satan? Evil?) People so terrified of the unknown that they must have an imaginary father figure to explain it all for them. People who feel so separate and above the natural order that they (and only they; not dogs, cats, horses, or Pagans) escape the very natural and final end that is death, and are so special they spend eternity as immortals hanging out with the very maker of the Universe. People who are so obsessed with the private personal morality of others they feel compelled to write emails to total strangers in a lame attempt to save their soul.

In other words, Christians.

Final question: why is Jehovah real, but Odin, Zeus, Jupiter, and Amun-Ra are fake?