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  • aircooled

    Aug. 26, 2008 10:47 a.m. aircooled Dork

    I found some of these interesting, particularly 13, 62 and 80:

    101 Atheist Quotes

    1. The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. - George Bernard Shaw
    2. Faith means not wanting to know what is true. - Friedrich Nietzsche
    3. I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. - Frank Lloyd Wright
    4. We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes. - Gene Roddenberry
    5. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. - Isaac Asimov
    6. A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows. - Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
    7. Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. - Seneca the Younger
    8. Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. - Anonymous
    9. Not only is there no god, but try getting a plumber on weekends. - Woody Allen
    10. If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul. - Isaac Asimov
    11. Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. - Edward Abbey
    12. With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. - Steven Weinberg
    13. I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. - Doug McLeod
    14. The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence. - Abu’l‐Ala al Ma’arri
    15. Since the Bible and the church are obviously mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust them to tell us where we are going? - Anonymous
    16. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. - Susan B. Anthony
    17. The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike. - Delos B. McKown
    18. Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer. - Anonymous
    19. Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. - Francis Bacon
    20. The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. - Richard Dawkins
    21. A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was tyrant. If God is seen as a self in a world of his own, an ego that relates to a thought, a cause separate from its effect. he becomes a being, not Being itself. An omnipotent, all‐knowing tyrant is not so different from earthly dictators who make everything and everybody mere cogs in the machine which they controlled. An atheism that rejects such a God is amply justified. - Karen Armstrong
    22. It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image. - Ludwig Feuerbach
    23. People ask me what I think about that woman priest thing. What, a woman priest? Women priests. Great, great. Now there’s priests of both sexes I don’t listen to. - Bill Hicks
    24. All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science. - Matthew Arnold
    25. Blind faith is an ironic gift to return to the Creator of human intelligence. - Anonymous
    26. Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. - Richard Dawkins
    27. What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. - Christopher Hitchens
    28. In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. - Friedrich Nietzsche
    29. It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible. - George W. Foote
    30. On the first day, man created God. - Anonymous
    31. I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. - Stephen Roberts
    32. You do not need the Bible to justify love, but no better tool has been invented to justify hate. - Richard A. Weatherwax
    33. What’s “God”? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God’s the guy that ignores you. - Steve Buscemi (From the movie “The Island”)
    34. As far as I can tell from studying the scriptures, all you do in heaven is pretty much just sit around all day and praise the Lord. I don’t know about you, but I think that after the first, oh, I don’t know, 50,000,000 years of that I’d start to get a little bored. - Rick Reynolds
    35. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish. - Anonymous
    36. Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color. - Don Hirschberg
    37. God should be executed for crimes against humanity. - Bryan Emmanuel Gutierrez
    38. To say that atheism requires faith is as dim-witted as saying that disbelief in pixies or leprechauns takes faith. Even if Einstein himself told me there was an elf on my shoulder, I would still ask for proof and I wouldn’t be wrong to ask. - Geoff Mather
    39. I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. - Mark Twain
    40. Of all religions the Christian is without doubt the one which should inspire tolerance most, although up to now the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men. - Voltaire
    41. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence. - Bertrand Russell
    42. Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? - Epicurus
    43. I’m a polyatheist - there are many gods I don’t believe in. - Dan Fouts
    44. If it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever. - Woody Allen
    45. A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it. - David Stevens
    46. Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a God superior to themselves. Most Gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. - Robert A Heinlein
    47. I refuse to prove that I exist,” says God, “for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing. - Douglas Adams
    48. It ain’t the parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain
    49. He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave. - William Drummond
    50. Remember, Jesus would rather constantly shame gays than let orphans have a family. - Steven Colbert
    51. Which is it, is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s? - Friedrich Nietzsche
    52. Religion does three things quite effectively: Divides people, Controls people, Deludes people. - Carlespie Mary Alice McKinney
    53. Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea. - Anonymous
    54. When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life. - Sigmund Freud
    55. They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it’s a good thing. - Steven Weinberg
    56. Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains. - Robert G. Ingersoll
    57. History teaches us that no other cause has brought more death than the word of god. - Giulian Buzila
    58. Atheism is a non-prophet organization. - George Carlin
    59. We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. - Richard Dawkins
    60. A believer states everything must have a creator but fail to say how he was created. - Anonymous
    61. “There are no atheists in foxholes” isn’t an argument against atheism, it’s an argument against foxholes. - James Morrow
    62. People will then often say, ‘But surely it’s better to remain an Agnostic just in case?’ This, to me, suggests such a level of silliness and muddle that I usually edge out of the conversation rather than get sucked into it. (If it turns out that I’ve been wrong all along, and there is in fact a god, and if it further turned out that this kind of legalistic, cross-your-fingers-behind-your-back, Clintonian hair-splitting impressed him, then I think I would choose not to worship him anyway.) - Douglas Adams
    63. Properly read, the bible is the most potent force for Atheism ever conceived. - Isaac Asimov
    64. If all the Christians who have called other Christians “not really a Christian” were to vanish, there’d be no Christians left. - Anonymous
    65. An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. - John Buchan
    66. Gods dont kill people. People with Gods kill people. - David Viaene
    67. If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself. - Alexandre Dumas
    68. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma. - Sam Harris
    69. I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose - Clarence Darrow
    70. No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. - Annie Wood Besant
    71. I refuse to believe in a god who is the primary cause of conflict in the world, preaches racism, sexism, homophobia, and ignorance, and then sends me to hell if I’m ‘bad’. - Mike Fuhrman
    72. Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions. - Frater Ravus
    73. Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-o, and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have. - Penn Jillette
    74. Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power but absolute power is corrupt only in the hands of the absolutely faithful. - Anonymous
    75. Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. - Chapman Cohen
    76. The inspiration of the bible depends on the ignorance of the person who reads it. - Robert G. Ingersoll
    77. When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. - Robert Pirsig
    78. I wonder who got the E36 M3 job of scouring the planet for the 15000 species of butterfly or the 8800 species of ant they eventually took on board Noah’s Ark. But at least we got that magical rainbow for all their trouble. - Azura Skye
    79. I have no need for religion, I have a conscience. - Anonymous
    80. Man has always required an explanation for all of those things in the world he did not understand. If an explanation was not available, he created one. - Jim Crawford
    81. I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. - Richard Dawkins
    82. What has been Christianity’s fruits? Superstition, Bigotry and Persecution. - James Madison
    83. The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. - Penn and Teller
    84. If god is the alpha and the omega. The begining and the end, knows what has passed and what is to come, like it states in the bible, why do people pray and think it will make any difference. - Mark Fairclough
    85. The finality of death is the coldest truth one must face. Religion makes the perfect distraction. - Anonymous
    86. Religion is the opiate of the masses. - Karl Marx
    87. If God created the world, then who created god? and who created whoever created god? So somewhere along the line something had to just be there. So why can’t we just skip the idea of god and go straight to earth? - Ryan Hanson
    88. If we expect God to subscribe to one religion at the exclusion of all the others, then we should expect damnation as a matter of chance. This should give Christians pause when expounding their religious beliefs, but it does not. - Sam Harris
    89. Atheists will celebrate life, while you’re in church celebrating death. - Anonymous
    90. Animals do not have gods, they are smarter than that. - Ronnie Snow
    91. I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever. - Daniel Boorstin
    92. I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God. So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake… Religion is all bunk. - Thomas Edison
    93. Fundamentalism, of any type, due to its prerequisite lack of intelligent thought, could prove to be the worst weapon of mass destruction, of all. - David J. Constable
    94. To really be free, You need to be free in the mind. - Alexander Loutsis
    95. Most religions prophecy the end of the world and then consistently work together to ensure that these prophecies come true. - Anonymous
    96. Jesus hardly made the greatest sacrifice. He knew he would be resurrected anyway. - Anonymous
    97. Religion is like a virus that affects the behaviour of its host in such a way as to propagate itself further. - Jack Pritchard
    98. Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing. - Anonymous
    99. Today’s religion will be the future’s mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever. - Steven Crocker
    100. The Bible - A Fairytale book of rules brainwashing millions. Obliviously used to help create war, kill, hate, judge and discriminate. - Anonymous
    101. Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? - Douglas Adams
  • captainzib

    Aug. 26, 2008 11:08 a.m. captainzib New Reader

    I like a lot of these. 26, 31, 34 and 35 are probably my favorites.

    I'll add my own as I was raised to be Muslim, and in revealing that I am an atheist to one cousin I said, "Life is a journey and death is the destination. We are all going to the same place but I will never ask for directions from someone who's never been to where I'm going, nor will I offer my own unless asked."

  • ignorant

    Aug. 26, 2008 11:08 a.m. ignorant UberDork

    62 is nice.. thanks for posting.

    but I find this list disturbing. There is no mention of a father and naked cycling.... What a cop out.

  • Salanis

    Aug. 26, 2008 11:21 a.m. Salanis Dork

    16 is my favorite. A bit too scary though.

    I love telling religious people that I'm a Monist (I believe that everything is a single unified All) and explaining to them how, if you're a creationist, Monism is the only logical view of the world. The argument goes:

    We can all agree that you can't get something from nothing. You make new things out of what already exists.

    So where did the world come from? ("God made it.") What did he make it out of? ("Nothing. He just made it.") But we already agreed you can't do that. He had to make it from something.

    What existed at the beginning? ("Nothing.") No, God existed. Right? ("Well, yeah.") So what would God have made everything out of? ("...[mental cogs spin for 30 second]... But he's God! He can do anything he wants!")

    No, I do not believe in Creationism. I just like using it to disprove itself.

  • walterj

    Aug. 26, 2008 11:35 a.m. walterj HalfDork

    Gene Roddenberry knows a thing or two about bad storytelling so if he can see thru the plot holes... why isn't it obvious to everyone?

  • GameboyRMH

    Aug. 26, 2008 11:40 a.m. GameboyRMH Dork

    So many good ones! About a quarter are worth highlighting. I think 18, 20, 27 and 39 make the best of the best list.

    50 is kind of wrong though. It was probably meant to be humorous but Jesus never said a thing about homosexuality.

  • Aug. 26, 2008 11:41 a.m. SVreX UltraDork

    The something from nothing argument works against both Creationists and Evolutionists.

    So where did the world come from? ("It evolved.") What did it evolve from? ("A primordial soup of enzymes, proteins, and chemicals.") But where did the enzymes, proteins, and chemicals come from? ("Nothing") But we already agreed you can't do that.

    What existed at the beginning? ("Nothing- A Big Bang.") No, the ultra dense initial condition existed, as well as several presupposed assumptions, such as the universality of physical laws, and the Cosmological Principle. Right? ("Well, yeah.") So what would have "banged" if there was nothing? ("...[mental cogs spin for 30 second]... But it's natural law, it can do anything it wants!")

  • GameboyRMH

    Aug. 26, 2008 11:50 a.m. GameboyRMH Dork

    SVreX wrote:

    The something from nothing argument works against both Creationists and Evolutionists.

    So where did the world come from? ("It evolved.") What did it evolve from? ("A primordial soup of enzymes, proteins, and chemicals.") But where did the enzymes, proteins, and chemicals come from? ("Nothing") But we already agreed you can't do that.

    What existed at the beginning? ("Nothing- A Big Bang.") No, the ultra dense initial condition existed, as well as several presupposed assumptions, such as the universality of physical laws, and the Cosmological Principle. Right? ("Well, yeah.") So what would have "banged" if there was nothing? ("...[mental cogs spin for 30 second]... But it's natural law, it can do anything it wants!")

    Let me show you how this works by hooking up your paragraphs:

    So where did the world come from? ("It evolved.") What did it evolve from? ("A primordial soup of enzymes, proteins, and chemicals.") But where did the enzymes, proteins, and chemicals come from? --- A Big Bang.") No, the ultra dense initial condition existed, as well as several presupposed assumptions, such as the universality of physical laws, and the Cosmological Principle. Right? ("Well, yeah.") So what would have "banged" if there was nothing? the "superforce"

    More info in an easy-to-read format:

    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080531055135AAARXms

    Of course you can ask what came before that, but a chicken-and-egg argument doesn't prove anything other than the finite nature of human knowledge. If the finite nature of human knowledge is evidence for the existence of God to you...well, have a nice day.

  • Salanis

    Aug. 26, 2008 11:58 a.m. Salanis Dork

    SVreX wrote:

    The something from nothing argument works against both Creationists and Evolutionists.

    So where did the world come from? ("It evolved.") What did it evolve from? ("A primordial soup of enzymes, proteins, and chemicals.") But where did the enzymes, proteins, and chemicals come from? ("Nothing") But we already agreed you can't do that.

    The enzymes, proteins, etc are all basic elements organized into useful structures. We know they came from the environment.

    We don't know for certain the process that allowed these chemicals to organize themselves into organic structures because we were not there to observe it and can't answer with 100% certainty. But our best understanding is that a stew with the basic chemicals in organic composition in water were irradiated or something and bonded together into organic compounds. Radiation and chance further mutated these things until basic organic structures formed.

    What existed at the beginning? ("Nothing- A Big Bang.") No, the ultra dense initial condition existed, as well as several presupposed assumptions, such as the universality of physical laws, and the Cosmological Principle. Right? ("Well, yeah.") So what would have "banged" if there was nothing? ("...[mental cogs spin for 30 second]... But it's natural law, it can do anything it wants!")

    No, natural law can't do anything it wants. We just don't understand what happened at the beginning of the big bang. And the answer is not that there was nothing. The answer is that there was a superdense something, but we have not yet been able to develop models that can accurately depict what that something was.

    With science you don't need the answer right now because we understand that our knowledge will expand.

    With things like relativity and string theory, there's the possibility that the core that exploded was not mass but a sudden conversion of cosmic energy that reorganized itself into a form of mass.

    Science also does not presuppose that this is the only universe. Another may well have existed and collapsed upon itself prior to the Big Bang.

  • Aug. 26, 2008 12:01 p.m. SVreX UltraDork

    Methinks he doth protest too much.

    The finite nature of human knowledge is evidence of neither the existence of God nor the non-existence of God.

    It is simply the finite nature of human knowledge.

    The point was that the something from nothing disproves absolutely nothing.

    Salanis' claim was that he could disprove the existence of God. His argument works both ways.

    BTW, it is absolutely impossible to prove a negative. If the presuppostion is that there is no God, it can't be proven.

  • Duke

    Aug. 26, 2008 12:07 p.m. Duke Dork

    SVreX wrote:

    BTW, it is absolutely impossible to prove a negative. If the presuppostion is that there is no God, it can't be proven.

    Correct. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. But there's also no reason to believe in something that can't be proven.

    If all imaginable things cannot be proven NOT to exist, then how do you determine which ones to believe in? If you believe in Jehovah, or Allah, or Buddah, then how can you NOT also believe in the Keebler Elves, Cthulhu, the Cosmic Tortoise, or anything else among the infinite possibilities of human imagination?

  • Salanis

    Aug. 26, 2008 12:10 p.m. Salanis Dork

    SVreX wrote:

    The point was that the something from nothing disproves absolutely nothing.

    Salanis' claim was that he could disprove the existence of God. His argument works both ways.

    BTW, it is absolutely impossible to prove a negative. If the presuppostion is that there is no God, it can't be proven.

    No, I did not claim to disprove the existence of God. I claimed that a Monist paradigm is much more logical than a Creationist one. My Monist paradigm does not presuppose the existence or non-existence of "God", although it does run counter to the concept of a deity.

    Claiming that something came from nothing is a gaping hole in a logical model.

  • GameboyRMH

    Aug. 26, 2008 12:10 p.m. GameboyRMH Dork

    SVreX wrote:

    The finite nature of human knowledge is evidence of neither the existence of God nor the non-existence of God.

    It is simply the finite nature of human knowledge.

    The point was that the something from nothing disproves absolutely nothing.

    I can agree with all that, but you CAN prove a negative. Why couldn't you?

    http://departments.bloomu.edu/philosophy/pages/content/hales/articles/proveanegati...

    Case in point: Prove that a liquid in a jar is not nitroglycerine.

    How it could be done: Drop a burning match in the jar. If there is no explosion, the liquid is not nitroglycerine.

    So if you drop the match in the jar and there is no explosion, the liquid is not nitroglycerine. You don't know what it is, but you can safely say that it is definitely not nitroglycerine. On the other hand if it does explode, you could safely say it is definitely not water.

  • GlennS

    Aug. 26, 2008 12:16 p.m. GlennS HalfDork

    Duke wrote:

    SVreX wrote:

    BTW, it is absolutely impossible to prove a negative. If the presuppostion is that there is no God, it can't be proven.

    Correct. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. But there's also no reason to believe in something that can't be proven.

    If all imaginable things cannot be proven NOT to exist, then how do you determine which ones to believe in? If you believe in Jehovah, or Allah, or Buddah, then how can you NOT also believe in the Keebler Elves, Cthulhu, the Cosmic Tortoise, or anything else among the infinite possibilities of human imagination?

    There is a teapot in orbit around Jupiter. You cant prove its not there.

  • GlennS

    Aug. 26, 2008 12:21 p.m. GlennS HalfDork

    SVreX wrote:

    The something from nothing argument works against both Creationists and Evolutionists.

    So where did the world come from? ("It evolved.") What did it evolve from? ("A primordial soup of enzymes, proteins, and chemicals.") But where did the enzymes, proteins, and chemicals come from? ("Nothing") But we already agreed you can't do that.

    What existed at the beginning? ("Nothing- A Big Bang.") No, the ultra dense initial condition existed, as well as several presupposed assumptions, such as the universality of physical laws, and the Cosmological Principle. Right? ("Well, yeah.") So what would have "banged" if there was nothing? ("...[mental cogs spin for 30 second]... But it's natural law, it can do anything it wants!")

    btw, the theory of evolution does not explain the origin or life, the earth, or the universe for that matter nor does it try to. Why you would ask the theory of evolution to explain these things i dont know.

  • GregTivo

    Aug. 26, 2008 12:25 p.m. GregTivo New Reader

    16 I think describes it for me. I think we'll all be better off when we stop trying to describe our existence and start enjoying it.

  • Duke

    Aug. 26, 2008 12:28 p.m. Duke Dork

    GlennS wrote:

    There is a teapot in orbit around Jupiter. You cant prove its not there.

    That's effectively correct. But why should I believe that it IS there, based on zero evidence of its existence? Why should I found the basis of my philosophical life on it? Why should I consider the orbiting teapot my god?

    If you can't prove that any given something doesn't exist (which is semi-flawed logic to begin with, as the linked article shows) and you are still willing to believe in it, then you obviously have to decide what you'll believe in without evidence.

    So, out of the myriad gods that have been imagined, believed in, and forgotten - let alone the infinite number of gods that could be imagined - how do you decide which one is THE god?

    Because the positive evidence demonstrating the existence of each and every potential god is identical - nil.

  • GregTivo

    Aug. 26, 2008 12:29 p.m. GregTivo New Reader

    GlennS wrote:

    There is a teapot in orbit around Jupiter. You cant prove its not there.

    I think it was part of the UK's space program. There's a cricket bat and bowler cap somewhere in syncronous orbit.

  • GameboyRMH

    Aug. 26, 2008 12:29 p.m. GameboyRMH Dork

    42 and 20 describe it for me.

  • Salanis

    Aug. 26, 2008 12:30 p.m. Salanis Dork

    Duke wrote:

    So, out of the myriad gods that have been imagined, believed in, and forgotten - let alone the infinite number of gods that could be imagined - how do you decide which one is THE god?

    The Flying Spaghetti Monster. Because pasta is good, and pirates rule!

  • Salanis

    Aug. 26, 2008 12:31 p.m. Salanis Dork

    GameboyRMH wrote:

    42 and 20 describe it for me.

    Shouldn't Douglas Adams have been quoted for #42?

  • Duke

    Aug. 26, 2008 12:32 p.m. Duke Dork

    Salanis wrote:

    The Flying Spaghetti Monster. Because pasta is good, and pirates rule!

    Besides, Pastafarian Heaven has a stripper factory and a beer volcano. How bad could that be? That's worth believing in!

  • Salanis

    Aug. 26, 2008 12:33 p.m. Salanis Dork

    Or we could worship the Sun. We know it exists, and it has brought us roadsters and bikinis!

    Arguably, that's what I'm doing every time I drive my Miata while wearing a bikini... errr... forget that last part.

    [Edited: "believe in" to "worship".]

  • GregTivo

    Aug. 26, 2008 12:34 p.m. GregTivo New Reader

    Salanis wrote:

    Or we could believe in the Sun. We know it exists, and it has brought us roadsters and bikinis!

    and if we want to get technical, those so-called God's "Sorry, my bad" rainbows.

  • Duke

    Aug. 26, 2008 12:38 p.m. Duke Dork

    I'd guess that SVRex and other religious folks see this as belittling their faith, but (at least in my case) it's honestly not intended as such. It's certainly not intended as a personal attack.

    But it simply boggles my mind how so many people can turn a willfully blind eye to the fundamental absurdity of picking a particular flavor of deity from among the literally infinite range of "not disproven" possibilities. I'm really just trying to demonstrate that.

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