I especially like his call to insult, mock, and attack those who are religious. This is the face of your religion, folks. Enjoy!
Nice man!
JMS
No, officially, this is the face of my religion:
"Others cannot endure their own littleness unless they can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level." ~ Ernest Becker "Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death." ~ Simone de Beauvoir
I can't resist quoting myself (thanks to Tarski's sig line):
When believers want to give their claims more weight, they dress these claims up in scientific terms. When believers want to belittle atheism or secular humanism, they call it a "religion". -Beastie
We hate to seem like we don’t trust every nut with a story, but there’s evidence we can point to, and dance while shouting taunting phrases.
jskains wrote:I especially like his call to insult, mock, and attack those who are religious. This is the face of your religion, folks. Enjoy!
??? So people who call for insults, who mock, and who attack are suddenly elevated to the status of prophet? Not only that, but their beliefs, or lack thereof, are automatically redesignated as a religion?
That's news to me. Where in the rulebook does it say that?
Also, NEVER FORGET: If you think that Atheism is a religion, then you also think that infertility is parenthood.
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
Truly it is a sad day when atheism is compared with religion. I remember in WWII after carrying my badly wounded best friend hundreds of yards through enemy territory where machine gun fire ripped the clothes off me, only to have him die in my arms. As he died he implored me to teach America’s youth about the evils of atheism. To honor his memory I dedicated every home run I hit for the Cardinals to his memory and to the never ending fight against atheism. No Sir!!! Atheism is not a religion and neither I nor the 300 men whose lives I saved in Vietnam who join with me in this holy crusade against the Godless will ever allow it to become one.
Stormy Waters wrote:Why is it when some religious people want to insult atheism or atheists they accuse it of being a religion? I'm not asking rhetorically, I want to understand the thought process behind it.
I like when religious believers say, "I don't have enough faith to be an atheist."
Another favorite, "Christianity isn't a religion, it's a relationship."
They know that faith and religion have negative connotations, so they try and distance themselves from the terms while attaching them to their enemies.
Paul H Dunn wrote:Truly it is a sad day when atheism is compared with religion. I remember in WWII after carrying my badly wounded best friend hundreds of yards through enemy territory where machine gun fire ripped the clothes off me, only to have him die in my arms. As he died he implored me to teach America’s youth about the evils of atheism. To honor his memory I dedicated every home run I hit for the Cardinals to his memory and to the never ending fight against atheism. No Sir!!! Atheism is not a religion and neither I nor the 300 men whose lives I saved in Vietnam who join with me in this holy crusade against the Godless will ever allow it to become one.
Well, I hope you comforted his mother with tales of eternal life too.
"And the human knew the source of life, the woman of him, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, 'I have procreated a man with Yahweh.'" Gen. 4:1, interior quote translated by D. Bokovoy.
Paul H Dunn wrote:Truly it is a sad day when atheism is compared with religion. I remember in WWII after carrying my badly wounded best friend hundreds of yards through enemy territory where machine gun fire ripped the clothes off me, only to have him die in my arms. As he died he implored me to teach America’s youth about the evils of atheism. To honor his memory I dedicated every home run I hit for the Cardinals to his memory and to the never ending fight against atheism. No Sir!!! Atheism is not a religion and neither I nor the 300 men whose lives I saved in Vietnam who join with me in this holy crusade against the Godless will ever allow it to become one.
Well, I hope you comforted his mother with tales of eternal life too.
LOLing 4 realz
~Those who benefit from the status quo always attribute inequities to the choices of the underdog.~Ann Crittenden ~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~
