I am very pleased to announce the American Atheists Scholarship has been improved (thanks to our spectacular donors).The FOUNDER’S Scholarship has been increased to $2500, with a NEW SECOND PLACE $1000 Prize.The CHINN Scholarship (Gay/Lesbian) Scholarship remians at $1000.This means American Atheists now offers three prizes for young Atheist activists! Spread the word!
That’s good news indeed. I am glad my AA membership fees are going to good use. The money I donate to AA is well spent money. Good job Ellen and crew!
Also congratulations Al Gore!
Suck it G.W.Bush (W stands for war-crimesl)!
As always, suck it Jeezuz and Mo!!!
I am a christian and just wanted you and everyone else to know that I am praying for you. If you are a Christian or not how can you bad mouth the President of the US?????? Reading all of the blogs I am convinced that being an Atheist is being a person who obviously has no care or concern for the US or for anyone who does not have the same beliefs. I thank god that you guys are the minority……….. I feel very sorry for your children.
We hate Bush because we love America. I wouldn’t expect a xian to understand, just to obey.
Moving on…
mistykinnett
we love our country and i’m sure you do to.to disagree with a ruler is not hating your country and i and many other atheists support your right to believe and practice your religion.i’m touched that you are praying for us but i would like it even more if you come to understand that we are not your enemy.
Dear Mistykinnett:
There are approximately only one out of ten adult Americans who are atheist. The vast majority of the rest are self-identified “Christians”, like yourself. But there are sure as heck more than ten percent of the population “bad-mouthing” President Bush right now, so it follows that many, many of those “bad-mouthers” are also “Christians”.
What, just because Bush is “Christian” that means you can’t point out his myriad horrible policies and actions and the terrible results they have caused? Are you that blind to the truth?
Bush has been a nightmare for this country, for civil and human rights the world over, for uninsured children right there where you live. Just because a person happens to share your religion doesn’t mean you can criticize him/her when he/she does BAD things.
oops. Should have typed “Just because a person happens to share your religion doesn’t mean you CAN’T criticize him/her…”
mistykinnett bubbled up:
Ha, Haha, HAHahahaha!
Sorry misyykinnett but I’m not laughing at you just laughing at the silly statement
You don’t get out much do you?
W is the laughing post of the world. Even Hugo Chavez kicked his sorry little ass.
Seriously, you are kidding aren’t you?
Good news. Next time it will be 5000.
Also, didn’t Britney Spears say the same thing one time? We should do whatever the president tells us. Wait a minute, doesn’t she have more free time after losing her kids? Britney? Is that you?
Misty, honey, shut the door and cower inside because life outside of the trailer park is obviously too bright and scary and thinking, is like, hard or something. What part of Kentucky did you say you were from?
Musty
BushCo is going to be tried and convicted of war crimes. Don’t forget to wear you brown shirt and jackboots to the trial.
Mistykinnett:
Don?t be to concerned that none of what they have to say addresses what you actually said. They have a very difficult time wrapping their minds around reality. They like to take what ever is said and twist it to their own agenda, their own perceptions and their own make it up as we see fit rant of the day. They kinda live with blinders on and can?t see past their own little made up world. They delight in making that very accusation of others, I believe the shrinkiedinks calls that projective identification, when you accuse others of what you are in fact doing, but I?m no psychologist, so who really knows how they get reality so severely twisted inside out.
Anyhoo, keep praying for them, standing in the gap works. Check out blogs of former atheists like The Cafeteria is Closed and Et Tu Jen. Once their eyes are opened, they become powerful witnesses to Christ Jesus and among the most devout and outspoken Christians in the bunch.
FYI, What needs extra prayer, he is particularly oppressed, he is terribly hurt and in a great deal of pain, he so desperately wants Jesus? healing in his life, but he keeps that his own little secret, way down inside where he tries to deny it himself. Pray for him in particular.
Pax Christi
“They have a very difficult time wrapping their minds around reality. They like to take what ever is said and twist it to their own agenda, their own perceptions and their own make it up as we see fit rant of the day. They kinda live with blinders on and can?t see past their own little made up world.”
I hope you weren’t being serious, because what you just described sounds just like how most of us would describe religious people.
So, we all have to like Bush just because he’s the President? Even if he does something immoral like taking a country to war under false accusations?
Hey everybody, the Empire State Building is lit up green for the celebration of Ramadan. Susan, are you celebrating too? Misty? Phree? etc…?
Excuse me, I feel the distinctive urge to heave up my coffee.
Reality Susan?
Have you really read your Babel….or are you spoon fed blurbs that try to tie day to day living with the absurdities, sexism, contractions, brutal violence, extra-ordinary claims and intolerances…
I recommend that for just a moment…remove your god glasses and read a few science books like…biology, geology, chemistry, astronomy, archaeology and a basic understanding of human history especially in regards to how humans killed each other in thy name of thy lord….
and when What needs healing he will see his doctor or psychologist…not pray to Jesus
It is you my dear that lives in a fantasy world…
Misty-
Dissent is one of the greatest forms of patriotism. I personally love America and all it has to offer, but when we have an administration that chews up the Constitution every chance it gets, I get pissed off.
You can honestly say that this country is better off with W than before?
We are one of the most feared countries around the planet. Why do you think this is so?
Also, why in the hell you would feel sorry for our children? Because we are teaching them to think critically and for themselves, instead of being good little sheep and swallowing everything that is forced into their precious little heads?
She who lives in glass houses should not throw stones. The buybull is one of the most immoral pieces of literature around, and yet we are the ones that need ‘prayed for’.
Never ceases to amaze me what goes on in the head of a xian.
Comment from: reason
Really?
From this thread alone…
Couple these comments with the actions of AA and the ACLU all in the name of a “myth”…and perhaps you can understand why “atheists” (in general) have such low approval numbers…
Perception is everything…when a group from Parsippany, NJ invades a small community in Florida, and attacks what is near and dear to the majorities heart, all in the name of a “myth”, is it any wonder many view AA as the enemy?
Why did AA attack Jacksonville, FL for a prayer vigil and yet remained silent on the prayer vigil for Virginia Tech…? I can tell you why…because if they really believed in the “myth” (instead of using it as a fund raiser), they would have sued…but they knew how much damage it would do to their already fragile image…
This is one of the most blatant examples of hypocrisy to date…
How about giving me a “positive” example of how atheism has helped America…?
Why do you think atheism should help America? What a crazy idea. Why would any sane person expect a disbelief in gods to help or hinder a country?
I know I read about 1% of phreedm’s posts – and this is exactly why.
What a waste of pixels.
Comment from: What
Wow…talk about believing in a myth…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/11/AR2007101102134.html
Now if only there were some sort of… I dunno… court case involving the teaching of… intelligent design that we could compare and contrast with. hmmmm…
If only.
Just imagine the hypocrisy that would be highlighted then…
Susan
I wrote
The religious right supported and help elect this mass murderer. It appears that you are able to tuck this fact away into some corner of your brain and deny it exists – like the frontal lobe. Polish those jackboots up. We’re throwing you a party.
Susan
Xians assert that there is only one gawd. Tells us the means by which you measured the number of gods.
And if you don’t get help here … get help somewhere.
What:
Come again with that. Your transmission was a bit garbled.
Misty,
Don’t guess you realize it, but your approach isn’t likely to change any minds here. When you chastise us for criticizing an elected official, something the founders of this nation went to great lengths to insure that all US citizens would be entitled to do, you are not only trashing we critical thinkers, but our form of goverment.
Your attitude is totally and completely unacceptable. Thousands have died for this country and the rights all US citizens enjoy–including your right to believe what you choose to believe and your right to bad-mouth those of us who excercise our right not to believe something simply because you
believe we should.
I get the feeling that you know little about the US Constitution or The Bill of Rights. I would suggest you bone up on both our rights and yours and then get back to us.
And Sweetie, you might want to enjoy your “majority” while you can. This president you are beside yourself because we DARE criticize has brought a lot of our kind out of the closet and more waiting to step out. I don’t imagine you lower yourself to watch a good many of the comedians on HBO, but trust me when I tell you that they are playing to full houses and what they are saying about that precious book your kind would kill our kind over, is getting lots of laughs. There are more of us than you know. You just don’t know you know us!
Xians only reinforce my disbelief and are actually their own worst enemy. The book “Unchristian” shows that among 16-29 year olds the words most often associated with xianity are “hypocritical”, “insensitive”, “judgmental”, “sheltered”, and “antigay”. Whatever happened to “love” and “compassion”? One or two more generations and the USA is going to resemble Europe and that is a very good thing.
DON’T FEED THE TROLLS!
david
glad to see more money for education.
susan hill and phreedm your beloved bush is now trying to get mercy for an illegal alien who helped gang rape and strangle two teenage girls.
bush has come out against saying turk scum murdered 1.5 million christians can’t upset the zionist lobby cause turkey is ally of israel.
get a clue you two its not just atheists who think bush is trash.
What:
Eh, don’t get too excited. The Nobel Peace Prize is about as meaningful as a Gold Glove in baseball, that is, not at all.
The peace prize is all about politics.
sorry david about the feeding but i get tired of people thinking that every atheist is on the left.there are plenty in center or on the right like myself.
for the clowns who think i’m antisemite let me say once again i’m for equal rights for jews and normal relations with israel.
Apple and What
british court found gore is a liar.face it guys he is just another dirtbag spoiled rich kid from the sixties.
I’m so confused. Is it wrong to criticize a guy who was almost president?