March 2012
12 posts
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It's a Big Bucket
my future wife is having a moment. she’s wondering whether anything atheists do matters. she’s wondering if, as atheists, we’re just spinning our wheels. i sympathize. monotheism, in particular, is also monolithic. in the sense that there are millions more theists than atheists, not in their strains of belief. we’re being asked to move a very large mountain. it’s...
Ever get this letter? →
if you’re new to this whole atheism thing, and your family is full of religious crazies, Kristina Hansen’s Truth and Oblivion comic is for you.
kid ostracized for essay on Frederick Douglass →
let’s just say the young student in question has an issue with telling people too much truth.
February 2012
87 posts
Growing Number Of Americans Can't Afford Food,...
why do you assume people who present liberal views don’t have jobs? it seems to me that you do that an awful lot, and actually don’t say anything of substance. hmmmm….gee dan, are you unemployed? and no, genius, that was rhetorical. i wouldn’t believe you if you said the sky was blue.
just like religious crazies, you’re so sure you’re right, you haven’t...
Vatican Requests 1,500-Year-Old Bible Held In...
“In the instance at hand, their ARE characteristics of the child that I wish to incorporate in to my approach, my attitude” well, of course you do. once you can do that, you can say santa isn’t real and god is real in the same breath w/o your head exploding from the contradiction.
look, believe what you like, but the fact is that the bible is myth, and by believing it,...
Rick Santorum Questioned Obama's Faith In 2008,...
it DOES NOT FOLLOW that because there are “literally tens of thousands” of christian denominations that any at all are correct (or even incorrect), NOR DOES IT FOLLOW that because many wars have been fought over whose interpretation is ‘right’ that any of them are right.
the 10 commandments are unambiguous, and these 10 things have never been in dispute as to either their...
The Jesus-Eating Cult of Rick Santorum
actually, anything that is worshiped is an idol. as far as being settled, well yes. the catholics killed everyone who disagreed with them at the time. an ‘idol’ is not a ‘false god’, dipstick, it’s anything that you worship. and in point of fact, even if i take your absurd definition as binding, every single christian on earth, every single muslim, and every single...
Vatican Requests 1,500-Year-Old Bible Held In...
“They are real or fictitious as I allow”—see that? it’s called solipsism, next to nihilism the one truly moronic pseudo-philosophy. yes Mr. Kelsey. we’re all in the matrix. gimme a break. and for the record: you mistake yourself. i am no theist. i merely have no patience for pseudo-intellectualism.
Vatican Requests 1,500-Year-Old Bible Held In...
“if there’s serious doubt as to the legitimacy of a text, not including it is not subversion. “—see that? that’s a load. ALL biblical texts are fairy tales. the church is zero authority on the veracity of any of them—they are all fairy tales. some xtian community somewhere considered each and every apocryphal text to be definitive at some point or other in...
Lent for Atheists
so, theist, what you’re saying is that you don’t all believe, but you don’t want us to attack you because you believe. what a crock of $h!t. the fact is, if you actually knew anything, you’d know that atheists who live in England, and see the rising problem of Islam in their midst, they attack Islam. Secular Jews, many of whom are atheist, are attacked, and therefore fight...
Lent for Atheists
“The whole point is being free to do what you want and not care.” no, that’s not the point, that’s nihilism, it’s rather childish, and frankly, i expect more from you, if you’re going to call yourself an atheist. the point is to underline the silliness of believing in fairy tales. the evidence available to us from neuroscience, psychology, and even biology, all...
Washington School Shooting: Bremerton 3rd Grade...
1: that’s right, elementary school teachers aren’t all physicists. but then, if you hadn’t been home schooled, or aren’t homeschooling your own kids, you wouldn’t be making the very simple mistake of thinking that elementary school children study particle physics, advanced bio-chemistry, or the philosophical implications of a materialist view of the mind, for example....
Kelly Thomas Beating Death: Fullerton Police Not...
no, no, no, sling blade. the issue is this: “The furthest I’ll go is say MOST or MANY of them are good and well-intentioned” and “The same is true in any profession”— which are both BS statements. if you managed to keep them to yourself, that would be fine, but every time you feed this crap to others, you perpetuate the erroneous idea that somehow, ordinary...
Bob Morris, Indiana Lawmaker, Stands By Comment...
so…you get your info from hate groups? awesome. go ahead, hate me too: i support the girl scouts, gay marriage, open borders, and a limited welfare state. now hate this: i was a US Marine, i pay my taxes. i went to college and grad school. i’m in favor of public education, and affirmative action. just put an asterisk next to my name. i don’t want your knuckle dragging posse to...
Washington School Shooting: Bremerton 3rd Grade...
not talking about inner city schools? i’m shocked. saddened that now rich white kids have to live under the same deplorable conditions and with the same indignities that inner city schoolchildren undergo ON A DAILY BASIS. and you thought white flight was supposed to take care of that.
i can only hope your lil’ punkin’ isn’t scarred 4 life by a cancelled rally. it truly...
How the Closet Corrupted Arizona Sheriff Babeu
agreed, but a lot of that we bring on ourselves with the whole ‘easier to herd cats’ BS. lots of people would come out as atheist if we had as sophisticated an infrastructure as theists have to support their own. i envision a future where a building in every city has a huge red “A” on the front lawn, and no one who’s afraid to be an atheist today would have to worry...
Missions: Most Christian Missionaries Are American
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i would put to you that you’re scared of a universe w/o a god to tell you who and what to be. if it turns out i’m wrong, i’m more than happy to say “$h!t everyone, I was wrong about the whole god thing”, the issue is, why are you seeking your creator? don’t you know where your parents are? why are you taking that act of love between 2 people and turning...
Missions: Most Christian Missionaries Are American
you just don’t get it, do you? i don’t hate you. i don’t even know you. what you believe in IS a fairy tale. what you have IS an imaginary friend. you and every other human being on earth is the product of something much, much greater than a capricious, evil war god could ever create. you’re the product of millions of years of slow trial and error. you’re a specimen...
Supreme Court To Revisit Affirmative Action In...
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5. you’re just fighting tooth and nail to not have to accept the fact that if AA encourages the beneficiaries to do the bare minimum, one logical corollary is that those that do not benefit from such policies, and are also left behind, are also doing the bare minimum. unless you believe that there is something fundamentally and essentially different about the 2 groups, such that one...
Supreme Court To Revisit Affirmative Action In...
1. the logical process whereby one knows what another person’s underlying assumptions are is called ‘entailment’- you can’t believe taxes are a good thing, for example, if you believe the government has no right to your money. you can’t say you’re a christian if you don’t believe that jesus existed. see? certain beliefs require other beliefs.
2....
Missions: Most Christian Missionaries Are American
where is your proof that cccclearly’s comments aren’t a lie? go ahead. prove that the person isn’t lying.
i got rid of my ignorance the day i decided i’d rather be rational than believe in fairy tales. what you ‘experienced’ isn’t proof, it’s not even evidence. i’d say that you’re clearly lying as well. go ahead. prove you aren’t....
Gainesville High School Students' Racist YouTube...
wait….this girl is a cubana? no dear, you didn’t have a dirty, flea ridden life. your parents lives were good. that’s why mum and dad ran away after castro took their toys. they loved their country so much that they ran.
piensalo bien, little girl, there’s as much black blood in you as there is in a great many non-whites. you’re skin is white, but you and your...
Missions: Most Christian Missionaries Are American
oh yes, w/o a doubt my statement is something of an oversimplification, but no more than i think some of these yahoos deserve. i would posit that the longer history of the Eurasian continent with regard to warfare, diplomacy, and coexistence, rather than our history of colonization and subsequent asymmetrical warfare against indigenous populations instead of against more capable adversaries...
Mormon Baptism Targets Anne Frank -- Again
it only took being murdered in a death camp. great. we can all plan trips to death camps so the mormons can save us. i’m tired of advocating for rational public, domestic and foreign policy. let god fix this crap. he screwed it up in the first place.
Mormon Baptism Targets Anne Frank -- Again
“what the heck is wrong with them” —-they’re religious.
Missions: Most Christian Missionaries Are American
i’ve been given to understand as much from some of my Ukrainian and Russian students (i sometimes tutor English to non-native speakers). i would venture to guess that a sense of complacency has paved the way for US ‘christians’ to become almost as (and in some cases, just as) radicalized as some of the people they hate most.
nowadays, i think that jeebus, if he ever bothered...
Franklin Graham Calls Obama's Religious Beliefs...
“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” —- Gandhi
Amy Poehler Returns To 'Weekend Update' For...
you don’t pay for it now, genius. or maybe that’s too factually accurate for the conservative mind?
WATCH: Amy Poehler & Seth Meyers Sound Off On... →
Missions: Most Christian Missionaries Are American
sigh…sorry mike, it’s called the ‘no true scotsman’ fallacy. maybe reading a book other than the bible would help? maybe, just maybe, instead of trying to defend the indefensible, you’d do the christian thing, and voice opposition to the use of your faith as an excuse to kill people? maybe that would make anything you say credible.
and by the way, i challenge you...
Missions: Most Christian Missionaries Are American
you’re a propagandist, don’t fool yourself. you’re not helping anyone for free. it’s disgusting that you should even pretend otherwise. and by the way, there’s no such thing as a “credible first hand source”— all missionaries are brainwashed, and all they do is brainwash. you can color it any way you like, but all you’re doing is...
Missions: Most Christian Missionaries Are American
“The locals will walk for hours to come to a Church service. They’re hungry for the word too.” ——see this thing right here? that’s called a LIE.
“No one has to convert or even listen to a sermon. It’s aid with no strings attached.”—-this thing? ALSO A LIE.
as to the rest, i’ll take your word for it—i’ve never had the...
Missions: Most Christian Missionaries Are American
you inspired me. take a look: http://www.zazzle.com/jesus_saves_mug-168246848885951957
America's Critical Role in the Spiritual Evolution...
you are demented.
Why I Support the Ban On Worship In Public Schools
“in survey after survey, Americans regularly identify themselves as the most religious of all citizens of Western democracies.” — you say that as if it were a good thing.
White Grandfather Detained While Walking With...
oh. ok. so the guy who had a broomstick shoved up his rectum, well, he wasn’t shot, so it’s ok then? no harm done.
when there are clowns to the left of you, and jokers to the right, you can be sure you’re the village idiot.
Have Catholic Bishops Turned Their Backs on the...
one more thing: if you’ll notice, not once did i mention all the historically verified atrocities the church has committed in the name of helping the poor. i don’t have to. the past 20 years of church history gives the lie to your position, even if you don’t like it, can’t accept it, and won’t admit it. so again: you lose this argument, hoss. no shame in that....
Have Catholic Bishops Turned Their Backs on the...
“what they do for the poor on a daily basis?” oh. you mean, not auctioning off even 1% of the vatican’s holdings to feed said poor people? you mean overpaying church cronies for ‘nativity scenes’? you mean dressing the pope in enough pope gear to feed a family of 4 for a year? you mean telling ppl w/too many kids they already can’t feed to skip using...
Have Catholic Bishops Turned Their Backs on the...
no, you’re still not getting it. the burden of proof is not on me to prove that churches and their employees and their adherents hate the poor. the burden of proof is on them to prove they don’t. see, there’s no requirement that i grant that this is true merely b/c you claim it is true. i don’t pander to theists. it’s your job, if you wish to undertake it, to prove...
Homegrown Muslim Terrorism Plots Decreased Again...
ALL theists suffer the same problem, and the same ignominy. every sunday, they’re completely irrational. on monday morning, they can get dressed, drive to work, feed their kids—believing in a fairy tale for which there is no evidence, but insisting there is, refusing to consider alternative viewpoints, adhering to, professing, and then defending a dogma from 2,000 yrs ago, all of...
Have Catholic Bishops Turned Their Backs on the...
get this straight genius: “I guess when they [catholic bishops] paid for all the homeless shelters, soup kitchens, clothing drives, food pantries....” YOU said it was the catholic bishops. you. not me. YOU. you don’t even know what you said? you just said it!
YOU ALSO SAID: “
…..if the bishop doesn’t go into his pocket and use his own money for charity, then...
Prop 8, California's Same-Sex Marriage Ban,...
bwah hahahahaha……wow. priceless. amazing ric. really. also, lots of people eating cabbage. could have been the cabbage, no? lot’s of people breathing air during the decline of the ROMAN empire, genius. could have been all that breathing. or the $h!tt!ng. lots of people doing that at about the same time.
it’s called correlation, genius. which is different from causation....
Prop 8, California's Same-Sex Marriage Ban,...
the truth is, i tend to refer to the atheists you speak of as pseudoatheists.
Have Catholic Bishops Turned Their Backs on the...
really? you’re unsure about this? 3 reasons:
1. religion (islam and judaism as well) fosters hatred and bigotry in their adherents
2. religion urges ppl to act, and those that are grown up enough to restrain themselves from violence apologize for the few that don’t, instead of actively purging their ranks.
3. religion encourages you NOT to think.
and for the record: i’m not a...
Students At Catholic Colleges Protest Lack Of...
Dear RCC:
please keep being obstinate about this issue. keep conflating a private health matter with a pseudo-moralistic one. for my part, i’ll keep encouraging catholics to READ THE BIBLE. we need more atheists.
thank you for your support of atheism.
Prop 8, California's Same-Sex Marriage Ban,...
“pretty simple, really.”
Pete Hoekstra Ad Draws More Criticism, Called...
4. “Your statement that I was “uneducated” without even knowing me indicates that you, in fact, believe all Americans are stupid and you lumped me in that category. When in fact there are many smart Americans”
Pete Hoekstra Ad Draws More Criticism, Called...
1. that’s not “most” CEO’s, mikey. counting should be easy for you, right?
2. infiltrated? you’re a conspiracy theorist. which is to say, you aren’t that smart
3.if it’s asians and mexicans, i’m at a loss as to what to say, except that A: i’m Puerto Rican, and B: the fact that you ‘forgot’ to add mexicans, only underscores your...
Pete Hoekstra Ad Draws More Criticism, Called...
where to begin? the cherry picked names of a few CEO’s? no. how about here: “Most American companies have been infiltrated and taken over by foreign executives who only want to plunder the companies while producing nothing”