From another Atheist soldier:
Ok….I need some help. You know those little touching x-mas storiesthat always make the rounds through the internet around christmastime….the ones where someone ultimately finds religion…or renewstheir faith in their god? Well…if you come across one that is good fora “counter attack”…send it to me. i would love to send a few back atthese people around here . One that is touching and at the same timerenews some kid’s own atheistic belief .
Of course, most of these are fake, like the swimmer who finds Jesus on the diving board, only to find out later there was no water in the pool. Not a very smart swimmer, IMO.My favorite Atheistic “feel good” story comes in the face of tragedy. For instance, after the tsunami killed all those people (at Xmas time), we ALL jumped in to help, before religion stepped in. There was a time, however brief, when we as a world were hurting and helping. That’s my favorite Xmas story — the day “God” didn’t do squat and Humans helped other humans.
This has nothing to do with Christmas, but the hugely entertaining Pat Robertson often makes you feel good about being an atheist. He made these comments on “The 700 Club” after the selection of Ellen Degeneres as host of the Emmys. He is referring to Hurricane Katrina and 9/11:
In a later explanation for his comments, he said this:
I watch the 700 Club every chance I get. Most entertaining thing on TV!
Pat definelty has an obsession for predicting natural disasters as god’s punishment. Remember that Orlando was going to get hit by a meteorite because of Gay Days at Disney? I wonder if he ever considered that New Orleans was hit by a hurricane because it is in the Hurricane Belt? That’s like prediciting that Los Angeles will have an earthquake or Minneapolis a snowstorm.
Ellen DEGENERATE!! That is so clever–how come I never came up with that?
How come when natural disasters strike in the midwest–as they seem to with far more regularly than they hit dens of sin like NO and Manhattan and San Francisco–and destroy so many homes and lives, Pat doesn’t read into that as well? I might argue (if I were insane) that those are retribution for their appalling voting records and their laughable willingness to view someone like Pat as a moral leader rather than a scourge on the “memory” of their supposed savior. Just another example of selective morality, I guess.
robertson,falwell etc are frauds to the credit of many christians they are rejecting these hypocrites.sex and money scandals all the time.if we atheists strive to a high moral standard we will prevail someday against the hate and ignorance around us.the glass is half full not half empty.
I think a good one would be to send out the atheist in foxhole story that was on this blog in the last day or so.
Or, the Pat Tillman “Atheists In Foxholes” blurb that was in the American Atheists newsletter a little more than two years ago.
I posted it here:
http://www.virtualp.us/blog/?p=378
-PB
~Holiday Diet Tips ~
If no one sees you eat it, it has no calories.
If you drink a diet soda with a candy bar, they cancel each other out.
When eating with someone else, calories don’t count if you both eat the same amount.
Foods used for medicinal purposes have no calories. This includes any chocolate used for energy, brandy,
Sara Lee Cheesecake (eaten whole), And Haagen-Daz Ice Cream.
Movie-related foods are much lower in calories simply because they are a part of the entertainment experience and not part of one’s personal fuel. This includes Milk Duds, popcorn with butter, Junior Mints, Snickers, and Gummi Bears.
Cookie pieces contain no calories because the process of breakage causes calorie leakage.
If you eat the food off someone else’s plate, it doesn’t count.
If you eat standing up, all the calories go to your feet and get walked off.
Food eaten at Christmas parties has no calories
And remember STRESSED is just DESSERTS spelled backwards!
“Jesus is watching you toss your salad”
You know what. You really need to accept God and jesus. You need to accept Jesus’s love.
doglovesyou:
I HAVE accepted Jesus – he is my Mexican gardner and is doing a bang up job on my flowers!
PS: I pay him minimum wage according to federl law…
“Jesus was a hippy”