(December 10, 2014 at 6:53 am)simplemoss Wrote: So what she's an atheist and just because of that alone, we should adore her, not ridicule her.

That's one of the dumbest statements I've read on this forum.

(December 10, 2014 at 8:20 am)F#atAndFaithless Wrote:

(December 10, 2014 at 6:53 am)simplemoss Wrote: So what she's an atheist and just because of that alone, we should adore her, not ridicule her.

That's one of the dumbest statements I've read on this forum.

fuck u

(December 10, 2014 at 6:53 am)simplemoss Wrote: So what she's an atheist and just because of that alone, we should adore her, not ridicule her.

No. There is no atheist spokesperson.

When religious people blindly support someone just because that person shares their faith, I criticize them. Atheists shouldn't support someone just because that person is an atheist either.

Because atheists are human beings, there are good and bad people who make up the population of atheists. It would be silly to support someone based only on the fact that they are an atheist.

(December 10, 2014 at 8:22 am)simplemoss Wrote:

(December 10, 2014 at 8:20 am)F#atAndFaithless Wrote: That's one of the dumbest statements I've read on this forum.

fuck u

Well, thanks for the discussion, but we don't idolize or "adore" people just because they're atheists, that sounds like some creepy theist tendency.

(December 6, 2014 at 7:46 pm)Minimalist Wrote: More shitty literature for the republibertarianeo-conazis to cum in their pants over.

Quote:It was once wryly observed by author John Rogers that “(t)here are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/new-l...-of-jerks/

I'd rather use a water park slide with razor blades embedded in it than read another Ayn Rand book. I presume in this case 'book' is pronounced in the same way a pre-vomit, anti-peristaltic spasm is?

MM

(December 10, 2014 at 6:53 am)simplemoss Wrote: So what she's an atheist and just because of that alone, we should adore her, not ridicule her.

So basically you say, we should adore someone for sharing a disbelief. Thank you very much, I still choose my role models to suit my own values. And they're certainly not anywhere close to Ayn Rand, who was bigoted enough to think of native populations as savages and who repeatedly let us in on her contempt of needy people.

I have spent the last 12 years rereading Lord of the Rings cover to cover at least once a year.

None of that time has ever felt as wasted as when I slogged through Atlas Shrugged. It's now a point on my dating scale. Do you think this is a good book? Yes? I'm nope'ing the fuck out of this situation NOW.

(December 7, 2014 at 5:39 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: Her ability to sculpt characters is perhaps the worst of any best-selling author I've ever read in my life. And shitty dialogue, too.

Clearly you never read 50 Shades of Grey. They come close to each other, but E.L. James couldn't even begin to have as complex of a thought as Ayn Rand, if that tells you anything.

(December 10, 2014 at 8:20 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: That's one of the dumbest statements I've read on this forum.

Don't feed trolls.

Quote:I don't recall anyone even implying that she wasn't a "true atheist", I don't even know what "true atheist" means.

It means she doesn't believe in god....oh, wait.


Hello, Summer.

Hello Min. How's it hangin'?

She's an atheist therefore we should respect everything she says.