… From Austin Cline:
You may already be aware of the recent Paula Zahn show which included a segment discussing hatred of atheists and ended up being an example of how to get anti-atheist bigotry promoted in the national media. Just in case you haven’t seen the story yet, though, I wanted to bring it to your attention.I wrote about the January 31 show back on February 1 (the post has since been updated):http://atheism.about.com/b/a/258728.htmThere have been a lot of reactions to the story on atheist blogs and discussion groups. I have a collection of links and quotes here:http://atheism.about.com/b/a/258735.htmI hope you’ll have time to bring this to your readers’ attention.Regards,Austin ClineAbout Agnosticism / Atheismhttp://atheism.about.com
darwin,
I can just see phreedm’s next entry:
But…on page 167 of the holy yellow book…it says M Stein 24 Jerusalem Drive and J Stein 12 Isreal Street…so that proves Jesus is real!
Evil:
Waa haa…LMAO!!! To which I would reply (while placing both hands on my head…and maybe both feet too and not realizing he was quoting the Yellow Pages): “Ah believe, ah, believe, by gawd, the almighty lard, ah believe!” …Yeah, it was a nice fantasy while it lasted for all of about a half a nanasecond!
“I?ve got a heart on for Jesus!”
Atomic…no, you’ve made my point. Whatever experiment you want to site does have the potential to be flawed.
That leaves the possibility open for different results.
As I’ve stated you don’t understand a thing about the bible even though you attempt to discuss it as if you’ve really studied it. And I mean read it and not just copy and paste from your favorite site…
I’m sure you’ll be like Jonboy and claim you’ve studied it extensively…
Research? Now that’s a laugh. Another straw man argument…
Phreedm:
Unlike your imaginary gawd who is so…so…well, so impotent! It’s funny that you would go accusing an Atheist of not understanding the Bable – as if that were a bad thing or an obligation. Tell me, Phreedm, what do you understand about reality? Cold, hard reality, huh, the kind that bites you in the ass? Yet you, too, pretend to understand and want to discuss…ney, make that troll subjects you know nothing about! Back under your rock or into your dungeon, Phreedm, and away from us – one never knows, what you have could be contagious…
“Multiple exclamation marks are the sure sign of a diseased mind.”
As I’ve stated you apparently do not understand a thing about the bible and cannot defend the two more strongly worded passages I provided.
And yes, I have read it. I’d hardly call what I did “research.” It was full of bologna. I took a pad of post-it notes and wrote down my comments on contradictions I found. When I realized I was quickly running out of a stack, I started cutting them in halves and fourths and wrote on them really tiny.
Needless to say, the bible I did this with couldn’t withstand all the additional material I’d inserted. It was significantly thicker and didn’t want to close properly just after I’d gone through Genesis. The pages were almost as much yellow as they were white.
I also had to keep going back and updating contradictions I’d found when I located something at odds with a prior statement. It was getting to be way too much work, so I abandoned that approach and settled on reading (and laughing at) the remainder of the bible.
It’s time in my life I wish I could have back.
Atomic:
Was is at that point that you came to the conclusion that the Bable had been written by a bunch of goat- fucking camel herders who got together in the dessert one night while awaiting for a sand storm to pass and, while smoking hashish to pass the time, decided to concoct a real far-out story resulting in the Bable? I swear, that’s the only visual I get when I look at that shit…oh, yeah, and me wiping my ass with the softer pages!
“Where does the Bible say I have to be nice?”
It must have happened, there are biblical references to sexual encounters with animals. You don’t have to explicitly prohibit something that isn’t happening, after all.
Kind of like cabin fever?
Well, they were actually consuming psilocybin. After consuming some of that, they decided that it was “some good shit” so they decided to put it in the ark of the covenant for future storage. They managed to lose the ark over time. I think that’s similar to a modern day pot-head that smoked too much and can’t find his stash anymore.
I’m trying to avoid previously mentioned visuals. Obviously oral tradition kept the earlier history of man. The fact that it was embellished upon and that completely fictitious elements managed to creep in at the whimsy of poets shouldn’t come as a surprise. The Celts kept all their history orally and they have all kinds of stories about the creatures of faerie and the Tuatha de Danann – things that no sane person believe in today.
Well, I suppose the bible has to have some uses.
atomictesting wrote:
The god idea of fire loves the bible, that right there proves the bible is yummy.
Thanks for the web address and your thoughts on evolution. evilatheistconquerer
http://www.chimps-inc.org/faqs.html
This site is a great help because I try to learn everything I can about evolution, science, and chimps because evolution and the chimps are very fascinating to learn about and chimps are very intelligent.
phreedm,
I am happy that I evolved from a monkey of some type, at least I know I have ancestors out there that are not religious : ) For some reason religious people have a problem with anyone mentioning to them that we evolved from monkeys? I sometimes start a conversation with a religious person(they are easy to spot with that religious emblem hanging around their neck) and raise their blood pressure a little while waiting in line at our local grocery store, when I mentioned the word, “evolution and that we evolved from apes and monkeys” you’d think someone had farted, their face wrinkles up, they turn red, and they look at other people around them in awe. Then they usually answer with, “Monkeys?”
Brainwashing people to become religious, a career indeed to profit from!
Educate a religious person about evolution and you have an enemy for life : )
Darwin is and always will be right! Thank you Darwin!
For some reason, most churches are always built on hills? Do churches fear a flood of water over the horizon or do churches want to feel superior to people below them?
Get your feet wet, become an Atheist : )