History PlayingWith / FlatEarthAtheist

** [[HollywoodAtheist Bob]] meets God and explains to Him that He doesn't exist. [[LogicBomb God agrees]].

** Bob is so staunch to refuse to believe that his natural reaction to anything that would make him believe is to undergo SanitySlippage as his mind [[LogicBomb Logic Bombs]] itself into oblivion.

** Bob thinks God is a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien whose technology [[ClarkesThirdLaw only seems godlike]].

** Bob believes that God is actually a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien whose technology [[ClarkesThirdLaw only seems godlike]].

** Bob exists in a universe with SufficientlyAdvancedAliens. While God exists, Bob just assumes [[ClarkesThirdLaw He's an alien with technology that seems godly.]]

** Bob uses the exact same tactics religious organizations perform to try to spread his message of atheism, [[KnockingOnHeathensDoor such as going door to door handing out pamphlets and annoying people with lectures]]. [[TheHorseshoeEffect In the end, he is absolutely lacking in differences with the people he claims to hate]].

* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob refuses to believe in God,... despite God being his next door neighbor... and the coach for the local little league baseball team... which Bob's son plays for. The rest of the neighborhood think Bob is a little weird, needless to say.

* '''Defied''': Bob is smart enough to recognize the existence of a higher power when the evidence is overwhelming, [[NayTheist even if it's begrudgingly so]].

** Bob is a big skeptic, but he nevertheless is very religious on the off chance that deities are real and he doesn't wants to end in Hell ([[https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/ Pascal's Wager]]).

** Bob is a big skeptic, but he nevertheless is very religious on the off chance that they are real and he doesn't wants to end in Hell ([[https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/ Pascal's Wager]]).

** Bob is skeptical of deities, but he nevertheless is very religious on the off chance that they are real and he doesn't wants to end in Hell ([[https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/ Pascal's Wager]]).

** Bob officially doesn't believes in deities, but he nevertheless is very religious on the off chance that they are real and he doesn't wants to end in Hell ([[https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/ Pascal's Wager]]).

* '''Subverted''': Bob's atheism begins to weaken after several incidences of direct divine intervention.
* '''Double Subverted''': However, Bob is still a pretty stubborn guy and refuses to give in.

'''Basic Trope''': In a world where it is proven on many levels that gods exist and personally created the cosmos, a couple people will flat-out disbelieve these facts.

** God himself doesn't believe in God!
** Bob's disbelief is so powerful that it creates an AntiMagic field, which obviously loops into making his disbelief even stronger.
** Bob's '''dis'''belief in God is so strong that, in a situation where God [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly needs someone to believe in Him]], He ''still'' gathers power from it. [[MST3KMantra It's probably best not to try]] [[MindScrew to understand]] [[BellisariosMaxim how that works]].

* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob's faith in God changes wildly depending on the situations he's in.

** Bob is so staunch to refuse to believe that he develops a murderous BerserkButton for people who try to convince him otherwise.

** Bob believes in God even when its been logically proven God can't exist.

* '''Deconstructed''': Bob's fierce disbelief in the supernatural gets shattered when he realizes that he's had a direct, verifiable encounter with the divine.
* '''Reconstructed''': ...However, Bob then dedicates his life to studying these beings in an objective a way as possible, intending for them to be [[SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic so well-understood]] by the world that they're no longer considered mysterious, otherworldly, or "divine" at all.

** NayTheist

** Or he's an atheist or agnostic, but there's no {{In-Universe}} evidence of God's existence, leaving his choice the rational one.

** While Bob has seen {{Physical God}}s and believes them; he insists there is are scientific explanations for their power.

** Bob is [[{{Muggle}} incapable of recognizing]] [[InvisibleToNormals a divine presence]]

** Bob believes in God even when its been logically proven by all scientists that God can't exist.

* '''Reconstructed''': ...however, Bob then dedicates his life to studying these beings in an objective a way as possible, intending for them to be [[SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic so well-understood]] by the world that they're no longer considered mysterious, otherworldly, or "divine" at all.

'''{{God}}''': "[[GodIsGood No problem, Bob!]]"

** Bob goes bowling with God every Friday while angels fly about mages operate the bowling alley and God performs physical defying bowling feats. Bob insists he's a simply a talented stage magician.

** God himself doesn't believe in god!

** Bob's belief system allows for the possibility of phenomena which current scientific research cannot yet explain -- however, he believes that a sufficient amount of scientific research will eventually uncover the solution, and is unwilling to accept an 'unsatisfactory' answer like the character with power being a God.

** Bob is a HollywoodAtheist activist/philosopher/author/professor/political leader, or any other job where he might lose respect with his colleagues or be fired if he believes in God.

** God [[HeroicSelfDeprecation doesn't believe in himself]].

** Or he's an atheist or agnostic where he would accept God's existence once revealed.

* '''Deconstructed''': Bob knows that Gods actually exist but thinks of them as nothing more than [[JerkassGods spoiled arrogant assholes]] and refuses to acknowledge or worship them.

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** Or he's an atheist or agnostic where there is no definitive proof of God's existence.