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The Boondocks drawing the comparison between Jesus and Santa.
As Ceasar in the comic strips said
“No, Jasmine, you got it all wrong. Santa is a white dude who lives up there and gives you something based on his judgement if you’ve been good or not, Jesus is…uhh…let me start over again”.
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Hey what about this:
All Religion and the Refusal to Shoulder the Burden of Proof Which Has Not Been Satisfied?
That sounds about right.
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I love him. He was hilarious and an amazing person.
A gay Gibson County couple said they were assaulted when they tried to attend church services at the Grace Fellowship Church in Fruitland, Tennessee last Wednesday.
“I went over to take the keys out of the ignition and all the sudden I hear someone say ‘sick’em,’” said Gibson County resident, Jerry Pittman Jr.
Pittman said the attacked was prompted by the pastor of the church, Jerry Pittman, his father.
“My uncle and two other deacons came over to the car per my dad’s request. My uncle smash me in the door as the other deacon knocked my boyfriend back so he couldn’t help me, punching him in his face and his chest. The other deacon came and hit me through my car window in my back,” said Pittman. He said bystanders did not offer assistance. He said the deacon yelled derogatory homosexual slurs, even after officers arrived. He said the officers never intervened to stop the deacons from yelling the slurs.
Pittman said the attacked was prompted by the pastor of the church, Jerry Pittman, his father.
So much for loving your neighbor.
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Wait, it get’s even better, they have shot glasses (proceeds going to Pastafarians at UFC and Missouri State Branch of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (R’AMEN)).
(I expected the Sparklehitch glass to be larger…but very well).
My Atheist Pony: Friendship, a totally empirically testable phenomenon actually.
(Thank you to the anon who submitted this).
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George Bernard Shaw
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Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason.
We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake. We do not hold our convictions dogmatically: the disagreement between Professor Stephen Jay Gould and Professor Richard Dawkins, concerning “punctuated evolution” and the unfilled gaps in post-Darwinian theory, is quite wide as well as quite deep, but we shall resolve it by evidence and reasoning and not by mutual excommunication.
We are not immune to the lure of wonder and mystery and awe: we have music and art and literature, and find that the serious ethical dilemmas are better handled by Shakespeare and Tolstoy and Schiller and Dostoyevsky and George Eliot than in the mythical morality tales of the holy books. Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and—since there is no other metaphor—also the soul.
We do not believe in heaven or hell, yet no statistic will ever find that without these blandishments and threats we commit more crimes of greed or violence than the faithful. (In fact, if a proper statistical inquiry could ever be made, I am sure the evidence would be the other way.) We are reconciled to living only once, except through our children, for whom we are perfectly happy to notice that we must make way, and room. We speculate that it is at least possible that, once people accepted the fact of their short and struggling lives, they might behave better toward each other and not worse. We believe with certainty that an ethical life can be lived without religion. And we know for a fact that the corollary holds true—that religion has caused innumerable people not just to conduct themselves no better than others, but to award themselves permission to behave in ways that would make a brothel-keeper or an ethnic cleanser raise an eyebrow.
Most important of all, perhaps, we infidels do not need any machinery of reinforcement. We are those who Blaise Pascal took into account when he wrote to the one who says, “I am so made that I cannot believe.”
There is no need for us to gather every day, or every seven days, or on any high and auspicious day, to proclaim our rectitude or to grovel and wallow in our unworthiness. We atheists do not require any priests, or any hierarchy above them, to police our doctrine. Sacrifices and ceremonies are abhorrent to us, as are relics and the worship of any images or objects (even including objects in the form of one of man’s most useful innovations: the bound book). To us no spot on earth is or could be “holier” than another: to the ostentatious absurdity of the pilgrimage, or the plain horror of killing civilians in the name of some sacred wall or cave or shrine or rock, we can counterpose a leisurely or urgent walk from one side of the library or the gallery to another, or to lunch with an agreeable friend, in pursuit of truth or beauty.
"from God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens.
I love this quote because it’s so…elegant in dispelling many preconceived notions, stigma, and misconceptions about atheists.
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It took a lot of balls to say this way back in the age of darkness
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C. *All* religion is bigoted and discriminatory? I’m sorry. Wasn’t the leader of the Civil Rights Movement a reverend? Was the leader of the Indian independence movement not a practicing Hindu? Are we forgetting the humanitarian work of Mother Teresa?
I personally find…
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This week, the Alabama town of Bay Minette will implement a bizarre and unconstitutional way of keeping minor offenders in check — go to church or go to jail:
Operation Restore Our Community or “ROC”…begins next week. The city judge will either let misdemenor [sic] offenders work off their sentences in jail and pay a fine or go to church every Sunday for a year.
If offenders elect church, they’re allowed to pick the place of worship, but must check in weekly with the pastor and the police department. If the one-year church attendance program is completed successfully, the offender’s case will be dismissed.
Huh? What Constitution?
The law of conservation of energy claims that energy is perpetual, or infinite within the 4th dimension. The second law of thermodynamics dictates that entropy increases over time.
So, energy existed, entropy increased, energy became unstable and expanded. While expanding, some energy was converted into matter. Gravity rearranged the matter into stars and planets and shit.
Abiogenesis occurred. Cells formed. Evolution happened. Few billion years later, dinosaurs!
Basically, OP is flaunting their ignorance to the world, proudly, in a wildly unsuccessful attempt to make fun of something they have no fucking idea about. It’s not the first time a theist has done so, and I’m fairly certain it will not be the last (cough cough creationists cough cough “it’s just a theory” cough cough)
I’m smiling, it’s incredible how fast when we think we know everything everyone else becomes ignorant and has no “fucking idea”. Actually, I’m very open minded and have studied up on evolution and abiogenesis. So pack your opinions back up your assholes.
But have you studied the definition of atheism which mandates no trust in modern scientific theories? Based on your posting of this photo, no, not really. You don’t understand the philosophical stance of agnostic atheism, nor have you opened a dictionary and read the definition of gnostic atheism, so why the fuck are you running your mouth?
Let’s start with your failure to properly accord to the law of conservation of energy. It states twofold that energy in an isolated system remains constant. The universe is isolated? Whoa. Slow down there… tell me when you’ve found the dimensions of said isolated universe, thanks.
Most cosmological theories which do not assume multiverses assume that the universe is an isolated thermodynamic system.
Time for the second part. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, yet it can only be transferred from one source to another. Now tell me, oh high and mighty commenters, wherefore did this energy source get transferred from? I’m not denying a big bang, perhaps that was the transfer of energy, but where was that energy transferred from to those particles which collided at infintismal capacity? You see, I’m no stuck up, God-fearing, blind-eyed, fat Vatican man who doesn’t comprehend and see things. But I do know Atheism is a weak basis for support of how life began. All it does is push ideas farther and farther back to find a source that isn’t named as a deity and isn’t some kind of worshipful master that others follow. Incredible. The facts proven about abiogenesis can very well be true! In the bible it says no where how God created life, how long a day (a man made measurement) was in which he created a part of the world. In that time anything could have occurred. Next time think before calling me a stuck up asshole. Ok? This picture is just a harsh way of calling people to think twice about naming things “nothing.” I’ve seen harsh pictures about Christianity too, shut your mouths.
Ever read about a gravitational singularity? You’re arguing for a first cause, but you have yet to demonstrate that the universe, or the energy of which the universe consists of, is of a causal start. Also, if a deity is from where the energy was transferred from, and energy cannot be created or destroyed,then that would beg the question where God got the energy of which he held transferred from.
To go even further, your claiming that you are correct within theistic parameters because science, not atheism, cannot answer every question. That’s a logical fallacy known as God of the Gaps, your argument is, to put it simply, quite invalid.
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