what you should do if you find an atheist
Everyone is linking and emailing this image around today, but there is no source attributed. So, I guess there is no one to be angry with. Just sit back and enjoy the brainwashing tactics of the religious retards in our country.
I think this analysis is spot on actually. I am personally grumpy at all times and I do lash out at children. So, please, please, run and get your parent or pastor to confront. It will work out well for everyone.
[via mike, digg, and others.]
“Religious retards.”
Enough said.
What should they do if they meet an agnostic?
I love how they accuse atheists of “thinking they’ve got it all figured out.” Unlike all those totally open-minded Christians, of course.
“What should they do if they meet an agnostic?”
Tell them to stop being a pussy and get off the fence.
source: http://objectiveministries.org/kidz/
i really thought it was a parody. i thought, how in the world can this be a serious thing?
i’m proud to be Mr. Gruff, the atheist
okay, upon further inspection this site is definitely a parody. you can buy a Mr. Gruff t-shirt and “don’t forsake the baby jesus” thong panties (i was on the site and actually bought a pair of those a few years ago)
http://www.cafepress.com/objectivemin/561030
http://www.cafepress.com/objectivemin/568765
Well said Andrew.
Now let me go finish watching Joel Osteen brainwash thousands of people and get them to buy his new book. Praise Jesus!
You’re all goin’ to hell.
Can I get an evite?
This obsession over religion is the source of at least 90% of the world’s problems, I am convinced of it. Alluh Akbar!
grumpy is as grumpy does, and nobody loves a zealot. fanatacism is the evil, not religion per se. and because it is so difficut to prove the absence of something, agnosticism albeit lame, trumps atheism.
Robin, and others, if you want to know why atheists come across as grumpy, read this girl’s blog entry. I consider religion to be an evil, poisonous man-made method of human control and her excellent writing covers many of the reasons why.
http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2007/10/atheists-and-an.html
May I propose a fourth way? Call it, if you like, athgnostism.
If religion is on the right, and atheism is on the left, with agnostism bang in the middle it’s, well, sort of, hanging somewhere above them all.
If the right yells: ‘I believe!’
And the left counters: ‘I don’t!’
While the middle murmurs: ‘Erm, I’m not sure…’
Then the athgnostiscs amongst us merely tut. Because, when all’s said and done, we really don’t care.
‘Let the baby have his bottle’, quoth Homer Simpson (the closest we athgnostics have to a prophet).
Or not. Tut.
Or, if I dare: ‘Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.’
Just leaveth me the fuck out of it.
Because what you choose to believe – or not; or disbelieve – or not; what you remain undecided upon – or not. Well, that’s your concern. I really – really – don’t give a shit. Nor should I. And – here’s the kicker, folks – the same rules should apply in reverse.
So please, whatever it is you believe in, disbelieve in, or are simply unsure about…it’s all good. Just keep it to yourself. Don’t witness, proselyte, or in any way try and bring me around to your way of thinking. I will, gratefully, return the favour. And then we can all just keep on keeping on.
Which, for some of us, will mean being downright evil, racist, bigoted, misanthropic sons (or daughters) of bitches. While others amongst us may rise above it all and reach for the limits of our true potential – at the same time neither believing, disbelieving, nor, frankly, caring whether we should be thanking god for our progress.
Just like the bumblebee. And, the above notwithstanding, bumblebees are perfectly aerodynamic. Funny how otherwise well-informed people can be taken in by widely-accepted myth.
Read into that what you will.
[…] It’s funny how often Atheists hear the same argument from Agnostics. That Atheism requires faith in and of itself because it espouses that there is definitively no god, and that Agnostism is really the only reasonable belief since it is open to any new evidence of the supernatural. Even the typically very intelligent and very reasonable Robin from our own comments wrote in response to my ‘What to do if you meet an atheist’ post, “because it is so difficut to prove the absence of something, agnosticism albeit lame, trumps atheism.” […]
Robin, I think that you are misusing the terms “atheist” and “agnostic”. Atheists do not necessarily believe that there is no god. Atheists that believe this are called “gnostic atheists”, and are the group to whom people commonly refer as atheists. Agnostic atheists are atheists that don’t think that it is possible one way or the other but choose not to specifically believe in a god. Likewise, gnostic theists are theists that “know” that there is a god. Agnostic theists (who people commonly call “agnostics”) are those people that believe that there is a god, but also believe that it is impossible to prove what god exists or even that one does exist. Finally, those that are dead against religion are more properly called “antitheists” or “militant atheists”.