Found on the National Review Online is Goldberg’s interest in what would Atheists opinions be on whether Vampires have rights? You can read his analysis in the link to the title of this post.At least he gets one point down right, just as supernatural angels and demons don’t exist, neither do the undead. Folks got to quit thinking Buffy was a reality show. It was a piece of SciFi/Horror. Ann Rice writes fiction, not non-fiction.The best line of course is:
Interestingly, if you could prove that vampires are real and that their vampiric status derives from supernatural forces, you would have done yeoman work in proving the existence of God.
So what do you think? Do imaginary fictitious characters have rights? I’d like to see a vampire get identification papers so it could get a job, go on a trip, or vote in America. Remember the good ole days when America was the home of the free? McNuts says he won’t restore habeas corpus rights for Americans if elected as well. And he will have the telecoms continue to rat us all out for using phones and emails. Anyone remember the old days when the government had to get a warrant to search or seize a persons property? Not anymore, the conservatives are now worrying over whether their imaginary friends and demons have rights. Shit, how could they? We’re not imaginary and we don’t even have any rights in this nation.Peter Nuhn
Vampires might not have rights but us faeries do (at least in CA and MA)
Seriously, what sort of stupid question is this? Vampires, like witches and gods, are not real. Some people might be attracted to, and even think that they are, vampires or witches but this is just goth or emo fantasy and these people are not really supernatural beings.
Alex
How many faeries CAN fit on the head of a needle?
Vampires have the right to exist as an abstract concept in the minds of believers. Just like God.
What,
The important question is, how many needle operators would want a single gay man standing on their penis?
I think that needs some emphasis for comedic purposes:
The important question is, how many needle operators would want a single gay man standing on their penis?
“Folks got to quit thinking Buffy was a reality show.”
Bite your tongue, blasphemer! Buffy was the most intelligent show I’ve seen in decades.
There are no vampires; the question is illogical. Therefore there is no answer.
Buffy was a great show, and its creator Joss Whedon is an atheist:
http://www.celebatheists.com/index.php?title=Joss_Whedon
And after all that, using the psuedo-scientific based description of vampire creation, they are of man, and would have rights, right up until they committed a crime. Could a vampire deny his thirst and avoid committing crimes? Another illogical question, so there is no answer. Answer: Blade, Angel, Spike, Ultraviolet.
Can’t help it: If vampires existed, life would suck.
GW, Condi, Dick, Rumsfield, the pope are all sucking life out of the planet. McCain has a drop of blood at the corner of his lips and he’d love a long drink. Say it aint so.
I didn’t know the planet was alive…but tell me, exactly how this is occuring?
Google the Gaia Theory.
What really impresses me is the fact that in this time and age people still pounding on real stupid inventions. I would like to encourage anyone who can read and understand the spanish language, to read a great book by Paul Tabori (hungarian writer) called “Historia de la Estupidez Humana” (The History of Human Stupidity). It can be downloaded for free at:
http://www.portalplanetasedna.com.ar/sociales.htm
I couldn’t find the english version anywhere.
Do imaginary fictitious characters have rights?
I’m all for granting Santa Claus citizenship, even though he’s an illegal alien who invades households in the middle of the night.
Harry Potter could be naturalized, too, IMHO. But we really should deport Cheney, er, Voldemort, and his Republican’t base, er, Death Eaters, as soon as possible…
Comment from: phreedm
GW, Condi, Dick, Rumsfield, the pope are all sucking life out of the planet.
I didn’t know the planet was alive…but tell me, exactly how this is occurring?
Amazing! Apparently, if you believe in one set of pagan occult superstitions, you’ll believe that any allegorical comments vaguely resembling them might be reality based. Maybe we should just say that Jeebus told us that the planet was alive – then you wouldn’t even question it!
I’m still trying to figure out if brain dead Republican’t Putsch fellators who do nothing but spout Republican’t propaganda are truly alive, or merely zombies going through the motions in the hope that it will make their existence lifelike.
I was pondering this very question the other day, “Would the existance of vampires prove the existance of gord?”
We may someday unlock the secrets of aging, and the extended life may ne similar to that of vampires; therefore, my answer was–only if holy water burns the shit out of their skin. It satisfied me.
DUMBSHIT!
Absolutely vampires have rights. They have all the same rights leprechauns have.
Christians use vampire symbolism, in which christians are the vampires. Are they worried as they know they are losing mind share, that they will also lose their rights due to their vampire ways? Are they simply testing the waters of the future they see as a minority interest?
If vampires were real, they technically are no longer human, despite their nationality, and only humans have rights under the US Constitution and international law.
How about the question “Do Human Beings have rights?” and “Do Atheists know of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?”
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
http://www.un.org/rights/
If Atheists were better educated, we might have more resistance to illegal wars, the erosion of US civil rights and criminal support of the zionist faith-based apartheid & ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
secularman
the muslim must be secularized as was done in turkey which must not be allowed to backslide into islamism.
I made it to DC to greet that old huckster the pope. Catholicism is in trouble because although folks are bringing their faith with them up from Mexico, they don’t have any money to throw in the collection plates.
The pope is a parasite. He’s got nothing to give but that sad old guilt trip and he’s always got his hand out. He’s just a sophisticated begger in a silly costume. All he needs is a set of those fake fangs. He could have his own unreality show. Maybe “Dancing With Idiots” or “Dead or Undead”. He could open little briefcases looking for blood money.
GW,Condi and crew are top notch war criminals conducting the corporate worlds affairs. Talk about parasites. Just imagine if a small fraction of the money that has gone into the Iraq occupation had been used for R&D on alternative energy and conservation. We wouldn’t need the oil in the Middle East.
America is the latest empire making the exact same mistakes. Corporate America employed Saddam Hussein when he was fighting Iran. We know he had weapons of mass destruction because the Pentagon still has the receipts. America, Russia, France, Germany ,etc. were all selling the latest hardware to the gangster Hussein. They probably had to stretch his neck pronto so he couldn’t explain why Rumsfield was shaking his hand. Vampires are fictional, parasites are real.
Then of course there is Osama who was our boy when he was fighting the Russians. Corporate America created the Taliban, armed them, trained them and funded them. After the Russians pulled out of Afghanistan America walked away and left a handful of Stinger missles. Thats just business.
If any of you are familiar with Platos allegory of the cave you will understand what level people like phreedm are operating on. He can only see the shadows on the wall because he is afraid to look out into the sunshine. Those people can only parrot mouth what they’ve been told to believe. You know what they say about arguing with a fool.
People like phreedm really have nothing to say. He probably couldn’t get anything published anywhere so he steps into this room to vent and feel important. Who knows, phreedm could be a frustrated 23yr old ineligeable for the military or he could be a 63yr old Jesuit priest keeping the discussion away from trashing the Bad book. After all, just what do the Christians have other than their faith and the Bad book? And yes of course their politicians.
Using orthodox theist reasoning then, their inability to prove the existence of vampires implies that there is no god! Thanks, Jonah!