Catching Flack

[Doubting Thomas]

Just this past Saturday, as I attempted to sleep in, right at 8 AM I got a knock on the door. Standing there were a couple of guys wearing white shirts, black pants, and black ties. They took off their bicycle helmets and said, "Hi, we're deists, and we just wanted you to know that there is a god who doesn't answer prayers and doesn't interact with the universe in any way."

"Uh, thanks," I said.

"OK, we'll be on our way, have a good day," they said, and left.

[Cinjin]

Just this past Saturday, as I attempted to sleep in, right at 8 AM I got a knock on the door. Standing there were a couple of guys wearing white shirts, black pants, and black ties. They took off their bicycle helmets and said, "Hi, we're deists, and we just wanted you to know that there is a god who doesn't answer prayers and doesn't interact with the universe in any way."

"Uh, thanks," I said.

"OK, we'll be on our way, have a good day," they said, and left.

lol

Yeah, we really need to try a lot harder or at least get an old book full of lies to scare people into becoming members of our unorganized religion.

[Minimalist]

Just this past Saturday, as I attempted to sleep in, right at 8 AM I got a knock on the door. Standing there were a couple of guys wearing white shirts, black pants, and black ties. They took off their bicycle helmets and said, "Hi, we're deists, and we just wanted you to know that there is a god who doesn't answer prayers and doesn't interact with the universe in any way."

"Uh, thanks," I said.

"OK, we'll be on our way, have a good day," they said, and left.

And I bet he doesn't need any money, either!

[Esquilax]

lol

Yeah, we really need to try a lot harder or at least get an old book full of lies to scare people into becoming members of our unorganized religion.

You could probably scrape by with a pamphlet. Just so long as it's appropriately portentous.

[Psykhronic]

That bitch sounds like she just was pissed at you and wanted to accuse you of something as a result.

[Tonus]

We've been hatching a plan to bring you into our little cult Min. You'd be quite a trophy at our annual deist barbeques.

Don't do it, Min! He's gonna shove an apple in your mouth and toss you on the grill!

[NoraBrimstone]

I was mocking Christianity, as I often do, with some friends of mine (atheists). I was overheard by an acquaintance of an acquaintance who proceeded to give me grief about mocking what I assume is "her religion."

She assumed I was an atheist and I corrected her, explaining that although I practice atheism when it comes to religion (no worship), I have deistic beliefs. She proceeded to berate me and call me a hypocrite because I was pushing deism on her while mocking christians for their proselytizing. Apparently, simply explaining to someone what your opinion is (upon being accosted), is now dubbed an outreach ministry of some kind.


Is there anyone here who has EVER felt that I have tried to push deism on them in any way shape or form?

Haha! You sound too nice. All she would have got from me is a "Fuck off and get out of our conversation, you stupid fucking cunt."

[Angrboda]

That bitch sounds like she just was pissed at you and wanted to accuse you of something as a result.

That never happens.

[Psykhronic]

My sarcasm detector is broken, for I cannot tell the seriousness.

[JesusHChrist]

http://debunkingchristianity.blogspot.co...e-and.html

Professor Keith Parsons joins with others in advocating ridicule. He advocates this as one response to fundamentalism. He writes:
“A single belly-laugh is worth a thousand syllogisms” said H.L. Mencken. Fundamentalism and fundamentalists should be ridiculed in the media, by comedians, or wherever. You don’t have to worry about fairness, since, as Poe’s Law famously notes, no satire can possibly be more absurd than the real thing. Come on. You just can’t come up with anything more ridiculous than someone who honestly thinks that all human woes stem from an incident in which a talking snake accosted a naked woman in a primeval garden and talked her into eating a piece of fruit. Again, most ridicule would consist of pointedly drawing attention to what they really believe. Nothing could be fairer than that. As a sign admonished on The Simpsons, put the fun back in fundamentalism. Laugh it to death.

Yeah, keep yucking it up funny boys/girls. Allah has a fiery furnace waiting for you. Or perhaps Yahweh/Jesus/Ghost will give Satan a bright, shiny new pitchfork with which to prod thy toosh. Forever and ever and ever.