Thanks to all gagillion of you who emailed me to remind me that today is Atheist Day (Madelyn O’Hair and Thomas Jefferson’s b-day). OK I forgot, OK? Maddy and Tom won’t be too pissed.
Thanks to all gagillion of you who emailed me to remind me that today is Atheist Day (Madelyn O’Hair and Thomas Jefferson’s b-day). OK I forgot, OK? Maddy and Tom won’t be too pissed.
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tim i think you are right that marxists and islamofascists are a grave threat.i would point out to you that it is liberal christian/jews who push pc.i am confident you will not find atheists
condoning the barbaric acts of islamists.
KA- muslim riots over cartoons the killing of countless moderate muslims.the western elites are always making excuses for muslim crime just like they did for red crimes during soviet era.even bush turns a blind eye to what goes on in saudi arabia.
Phideaux, that is one fine philosophy there. When theists ask me how I can live without God’s strength, I answer, “Atheists do not need God’s strength. We find our strength within.”
reason:
Tell me something I don’t already know. Sheesh.
evilatheistconquerer wrote:
Also, On Golden Pond (one of my favorites).
Tim
Find your happy place. You’re going to need it.
rna,
I always loved Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner myself. And Philadelphia Story. I always thought Katherine Hepburn was one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood because she seemed so natural and real. Plus I liked the idea of her and Spencer Tracy having that romance. Too bad he was a catholic and wouldn’t leave his wife.
I am glad somebody called one day of the year Atheist Day. Too bad we don’t beat the believers over the head with it like they do us with their holidays. We could make them all take the day off, like we do for their christmas crap. We could cloud television, radio and the newspapers with our world view for a few weeks coming up to the day. We could get the business world to make special sales and marketing to cash in on us.
You get the idea. I just wish we could force them to at least acknowledge our existence. To give us a small portion of the respect we allow them.
While Jefferson was not atheist he did cut up bibles in the white house siting at the big desk, he did so in five languages. So he did have some cool hobbies. He was deeply flawed in many ways, but he did push the 1st amendment in Virginia then the U.S. as a whole. He died in extreme d_ebt. His home was sacked to pay creditors. A group of Jews eventually bought the home to preserve the history of the man that allowed them to exist in the US. Without his influence non-christians would still be legally murdered by the state as heretics.
Obviously we all have mixed feelings about the man, but we owe him a great deb_t. We are allowed to live. Jews and Muslims are allowed to live. America is a marketplace of ideas thanks to that influence.
Personally Carl Sagan is my favorite historical Atheist. He was a great skeptic and writer who changed the world view of many people. As a child in a christian school Cosmos changed the way I thought and understood the world. I de_bt I could never hope to repay. A truly great man without the baggage of Jefferson or O’ Hair.
I think we can all find atheists we admire without considering them to be our “gurus.”
My personal choice would be (of course) Robert A. Heinlein. Not sure if he was a dyed-in-the-wool atheist, but he was certainly a skeptic and a man of science and reason. Plus, he wrote stories that make me HAPPY, and gave me my blog name (which is also my cat’s name).
His birthday is July 7 (one day after mine!). That’s MY atheist day!
I’m going to the Heinlein Centenniel convention in Kansas City, MO the weekend of 07-07-07. Let me know if any of you are planning to attend.