Comments on: Bush deflects and lies – Faith-based initiatives http://atheists.org/blog/2008/01/30/bush_deflects_and_lies_faith_based_initi A Blog of Atheist Thought Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:17:38 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: dawnisis http://atheists.org/blog/2008/01/30/bush_deflects_and_lies_faith_based_initi/comment-page-1#comment-76259 dawnisis Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-76259 Bush's reason for finding jesus is the most common one used.<br /> <br /> "I used to make bad decisions and screw up my life."<br /> <br /> "Then I went to church and them there people explained to me that I shouldn't make bad decisions."<br /> <br /> "Now I'm clean and sober because jesus helped me."<br /> <br /> No you idiots, you helped yourself. <br /> <br /> This is why religion spreads through prisons, poor countries and alcoholics and drug addicts cling to it like a life preserver.<br /> <br /> You don't need jesus to know not to drink a fifth of whiskey every day.<br /> <br /> Religion is for the weak-minded.<br /> <br /> As for funding their stupid programs with my money they need to use the TITHE money they scam from the believers. That's what it's for isn't it?<br /> Bush’s reason for finding jesus is the most common one used.

“I used to make bad decisions and screw up my life.”

“Then I went to church and them there people explained to me that I shouldn’t make bad decisions.”

“Now I’m clean and sober because jesus helped me.”

No you idiots, you helped yourself.

This is why religion spreads through prisons, poor countries and alcoholics and drug addicts cling to it like a life preserver.

You don’t need jesus to know not to drink a fifth of whiskey every day.

Religion is for the weak-minded.

As for funding their stupid programs with my money they need to use the TITHE money they scam from the believers. That’s what it’s for isn’t it?

]]> By: thx1138 http://atheists.org/blog/2008/01/30/bush_deflects_and_lies_faith_based_initi/comment-page-1#comment-76260 thx1138 Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-76260 A friend of mine in Alcoholics Anonymous here in England tells me that fully half of his fellow AA attendees are atheists! Conversely, he says, he's never met an atheist when attending AA meetings in the States.<br /> <br /> AA atheists generally adopt the group as a 'higher power' symbol. My friends uses the House of Lords because, says he, like God they're completely useless! A friend of mine in Alcoholics Anonymous here in England tells me that fully half of his fellow AA attendees are atheists! Conversely, he says, he’s never met an atheist when attending AA meetings in the States.

AA atheists generally adopt the group as a ‘higher power’ symbol. My friends uses the House of Lords because, says he, like God they’re completely useless!

]]> By: alexatheist http://atheists.org/blog/2008/01/30/bush_deflects_and_lies_faith_based_initi/comment-page-1#comment-76261 alexatheist Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-76261 Hyper religiosity is a hallmark sign of recovering alcoholics who are just substituting one drug for another. Pathetic.<br /> Hyper religiosity is a hallmark sign of recovering alcoholics who are just substituting one drug for another. Pathetic.

]]> By: quantum_flux http://atheists.org/blog/2008/01/30/bush_deflects_and_lies_faith_based_initi/comment-page-1#comment-76265 quantum_flux Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-76265 It is in the vulnerability of an addict that religions prey on the most. Addicts are the people who fail the most when they are held up against a morality system that is against their particular addiction.<br /> <br /> Well, religion itself is an immoral addiction, and that fails the most when it is held up to the objective morality of atheism. Therefore, all religions are immoral in the eyes of an objective atheist, but people like George Bush keep on sinning against reason without even knowing it! It is in the vulnerability of an addict that religions prey on the most. Addicts are the people who fail the most when they are held up against a morality system that is against their particular addiction.

Well, religion itself is an immoral addiction, and that fails the most when it is held up to the objective morality of atheism. Therefore, all religions are immoral in the eyes of an objective atheist, but people like George Bush keep on sinning against reason without even knowing it!

]]> By: quantum_flux http://atheists.org/blog/2008/01/30/bush_deflects_and_lies_faith_based_initi/comment-page-1#comment-76266 quantum_flux Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-76266 <blockquote> Therefore, all religions are immoral in the eyes of an objective atheist </blockquote><br /> <br /> Nay, actually all religions are immoral in the eyes of the secular majority as legislated by the House and the Senate seems to be a better fit.

Therefore, all religions are immoral in the eyes of an objective atheist

Nay, actually all religions are immoral in the eyes of the secular majority as legislated by the House and the Senate seems to be a better fit.

]]> By: what http://atheists.org/blog/2008/01/30/bush_deflects_and_lies_faith_based_initi/comment-page-1#comment-76273 what Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-76273 Church is a Ponzi scheme, a confidence game. What suckers! Church is a Ponzi scheme, a confidence game. What suckers!

]]> By: what http://atheists.org/blog/2008/01/30/bush_deflects_and_lies_faith_based_initi/comment-page-1#comment-76274 what Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-76274 "Less Jobs, More War" <br /> McCain for president.<br /> <br /> “Less Jobs, More War”
McCain for president.

]]> By: Hoodlum http://atheists.org/blog/2008/01/30/bush_deflects_and_lies_faith_based_initi/comment-page-1#comment-76276 Hoodlum Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-76276 I remember as a kid being forced into going to church and other religious functions and listening to people talk about how they sold drugs, had risky sex, sold their bodies, voted Libertarian ...etc until they found Jesus.<br /> <br /> My ADHD made these events utter hell, particularly since Christians have little tolerance for hyperactive kids, but I was struck by the idiocy of using these people as a spokesmen for your product. I remember as a kid being forced into going to church and other religious functions and listening to people talk about how they sold drugs, had risky sex, sold their bodies, voted Libertarian …etc until they found Jesus.

My ADHD made these events utter hell, particularly since Christians have little tolerance for hyperactive kids, but I was struck by the idiocy of using these people as a spokesmen for your product.

]]> By: quantum_flux http://atheists.org/blog/2008/01/30/bush_deflects_and_lies_faith_based_initi/comment-page-1#comment-76277 quantum_flux Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-76277 <blockquote> Church is a Ponzi scheme, a confidence game. What suckers! </blockquote><br /> <br /> If religions are borrowing money from the US government, and the US government is borrowing money from China which in turn has no regard for US copyright laws, then isn't it the American scientists and the inventors that are ultimately being screwed over here by the religious idiots.

Church is a Ponzi scheme, a confidence game. What suckers!

If religions are borrowing money from the US government, and the US government is borrowing money from China which in turn has no regard for US copyright laws, then isn’t it the American scientists and the inventors that are ultimately being screwed over here by the religious idiots.

]]> By: bernarda http://atheists.org/blog/2008/01/30/bush_deflects_and_lies_faith_based_initi/comment-page-1#comment-76285 bernarda Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-76285 An old article on a faith-based initiative by Bush that is hardly mentioned anymore. The Slate writer Easterbrook is usually an idiot, but this time he got it right.<br /> <br /> "Bush Unveils Faith-based Missle Defense".<br /> <br /> http://www.slate.com/id/101070/nav/navoa/<br /> <br /> "WASHINGTON?President George W. Bush announced an initiative to develop a faith-based missile defense. "For too long, military planners have been denied the use of the supernatural in attempting to protect American citizens from attack," Bush declared today in a speech to the National Association of Amateur Submarine Captains. "There is no reason why we cannot maintain a healthy separation of church and state while still calling on divine intervention for the Pentagon budget. Faith-based missile defense will be constitutional and fully consistent with the way the Founding Fathers expected this great nation to handle ICBM threats," the president said." . . . An old article on a faith-based initiative by Bush that is hardly mentioned anymore. The Slate writer Easterbrook is usually an idiot, but this time he got it right.

“Bush Unveils Faith-based Missle Defense”.

http://www.slate.com/id/101070/nav/navoa/

“WASHINGTON?President George W. Bush announced an initiative to develop a faith-based missile defense. “For too long, military planners have been denied the use of the supernatural in attempting to protect American citizens from attack,” Bush declared today in a speech to the National Association of Amateur Submarine Captains. “There is no reason why we cannot maintain a healthy separation of church and state while still calling on divine intervention for the Pentagon budget. Faith-based missile defense will be constitutional and fully consistent with the way the Founding Fathers expected this great nation to handle ICBM threats,” the president said.” . . .

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