Like Hemant and Shnakepup, I am convinced that the latest idiocy, “90 day Jane“, is nothing but another dishonest attempt by the religious to fight the “rise of eeeeevil atheism”.
Consider her description:
I am going to kill myself in 90 days. What else should i say? This blog is not a cry for help or even to get attention. It’s simply a public record of my last 90 days in existence. I’m not depressed and nothing extremely horrible has lead me to this decision. But, does it really have to? I mean, as an atheist I feel life has no greater purpose. My generation has had no great depression, no great war and our biggest obstacle is beating Halo 3.
“… as an atheist I feel life has no greater purpose”? Gee, that sounds just like what theists love to say about atheists… and what atheists either don’t say, or say literally; in other words, the lack of a “greater” purpose just means that we don’t have someone telling us what to do, so we have to (responsibility! scary!) decide for ourselves, come up with a purpose on our own.
Quoting Shnakepup:
Expect “Jane” to start laying the nihilism and hedonism on thick, all the while spouting off about how pointless it all is. Then, closer to the due date, we’ll see more and more posts featuring Jane reconsidering her godless, wasteful existence , and pondering if maybe there’s something more. Cue religious friend who sets her straight on the lie of atheism, and who tells her all the church has to offer in it’s place. Instead of killing herself on Day 90, we’ll see her changing her mind and deciding to live her life with Jesus! Warm fuzzy music plays and everybody learns a valuable lesson.
Indeed. Now, I wonder… as an atheist, I would never do something like this (say, “faking” a deconversion). Why? Because it would be dishonest, and the same love of truth that makes me an atheist prevents me from even considering something like this. The belief in “saving souls” for brownie points in heaven, even if you have to cheat, lie, and hurt people to do it, is, apparently, something very typical in evangelical Christianity.
EDIT: it was just an experiment, after all. Either that, or they aborted it because they can’t follow their plan to talk about the emptiness of atheism for 3 months and then “find Jesus” on day 90, because we were on to them on day 4. Nothing to see here, folks.
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why are you going to killyourself you must bedepressed or something i think if your gonna kill yourself just do do tell people about it
sorry for the bad english
earth is paradijs
lets drink a beer and smoke a joint
atheist?? are ther still some who think ther is a god??
yeh in the middel east the islam and in the USA the christ. we live in the modern world Europ
we no, ther is no god.
oke we have 6000.000.000 god’s on eart you and me are 2 of them. We create the live we wand.
So stay an create your live. when your in Amsterdam ill buy you a beer
I don’t know what to say…
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8636613675
I do not think you should do this. You sound smart and there are actually good things in this world. Why take your life?? Their must be somthing someone could do. Is it true you live in Los Angeles
Guys, from your comments, either you seem to think that *I’m* intending to kill myself (!), or that you’re replying to the author of 90 Day Jane. Neither is the case.
Blogger seems to have taken the blog down, or the author closed it down her/himself. Jonathan’s link seems to suggest that she/he moved to Facebook, but we don’t know.
Again: I am absolutely convinced that that thing is not for real. Either it’s a social experiment, or a Christian ploy. If it’s the latter, I expect it to be aborted (if it wasn’t already) because everyone in the atheist blogosphere saw it for what it was.
I read an article in the Times Magaizine about Consiousness last year, and there was an argument that religion actually increases the numbers of people committing suicide, especially terrorist martyrs, because they tend to relish the so-called after life, instead of value their own or other’s life here on Earth. Religion may deter some suicides, but overall, there are exponentially greater numbers of deaths thru suicide by terrorists.
If she says she is athiest then why not believe her. Not all athiest think alike.
Nevertheless, I’m sure she just wants attention. And she got it. End of story