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Who's your favourite atheist?
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RE: Who's your favourite atheist?
June 14, 2011 at 12:24 pm
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RE: Who's your favourite atheist?
June 14, 2011 at 2:04 pm (This post was last modified: June 14, 2011 at 2:43 pm by Darth.)
Hadn't thought of fred hollows initially, good choice.

I too am a fan of the comedians, Calin, Gervais. Youtubers (or at least those who I found on youtube/only know from youtube) Pat condel & Jeff Dee (Jeff Dee>Matt Dilihunty by a mile)

Edit: By a kilometre. Metric shall conquer all! Mwuhoohahahahahaha!
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RE: Who's your favourite atheist?
June 17, 2011 at 7:12 pm (This post was last modified: June 17, 2011 at 7:19 pm by reverendjeremiah.)
(June 12, 2011 at 3:35 pm)Castle Wrote: Comedian like George Carlin, Bill Maher and Bill Hick are not self proclaimed atheist yet hit on Religion a lot, and I do hit on them myself at times.

One of these rare atheist like Ricky Gervais, are reasonable with Christian, and do get along somewhere in middle grounds. I find my own middle ground from both extreme ends of the poles.

Bill Maher has not come out and said he is an atheist. In fact the way he speaks it sounds more like he is a deist or pantheist.

George Carlin, on the other hand, has flat out publicly proclaimed that "there is no God".

Actually..when he goes into his "something is fucked up" skit, it is EXACTLY the philosophy of absurdism. I would claim that Carlin was also an Absurdist as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeSSwKffj9o

This is EXACTLY what I expect an atheist to sound like. Carlin is an atheist.
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RE: Who's your favourite atheist?
June 19, 2011 at 9:21 am
Sagan, Bertrand Russell, Carlin, Harris, Dawkins, and my friend J T Eberhard. For those of you who don't know him, do look him up. JT works for the SSA, mainly working with high schools, he's co-founder of the Missouri FSM. He makes us proud.
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"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
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RE: Who's your favourite atheist?
June 19, 2011 at 10:23 am (This post was last modified: June 19, 2011 at 10:34 am by Kayenneh.)
Richard Dawkins - Gave me the courage to lable myself atheist
George Carlin - Wonderful and brilliant
Jim Jefferies - Owns religious people, even whilst very, very intoxicated
Pat Condell - No-nonsense kind of guy
Stephen Fry - ..I have a thing for "old", posh, British atheists, don't I? Big Grin
My Dad - A wonderful parent who encouraged me to think for myself
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RE: Who's your favourite atheist?
June 19, 2011 at 1:43 pm
Mine has to be Ricky Gervais. He's hilarious and has exactly the same views as me for exactly the same reasons.
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RE: Who's your favourite atheist?
June 19, 2011 at 2:03 pm
My favorite atheists are many I love George Carlin, Sam Kenison, Penn and Teller, and James Randi. The usual ones Dawkins, Hitchens, Dennett, and Sam Harris. But I am more partial to the atheists of old such as Robert G. Ingersol and Paul Henry Thiry aka Baron D'Holbach. And many many more!
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RE: Who's your favourite atheist?
June 19, 2011 at 4:32 pm
(June 17, 2011 at 7:12 pm)reverendjeremiah Wrote:
(June 12, 2011 at 3:35 pm)Castle Wrote: Comedian like George Carlin, Bill Maher and Bill Hick are not self proclaimed atheist yet hit on Religion a lot, and I do hit on them myself at times.

One of these rare atheist like Ricky Gervais, are reasonable with Christian, and do get along somewhere in middle grounds. I find my own middle ground from both extreme ends of the poles.

Bill Maher has not come out and said he is an atheist. In fact the way he speaks it sounds more like he is a deist or pantheist.

George Carlin, on the other hand, has flat out publicly proclaimed that "there is no God".

Actually..when he goes into his "something is fucked up" skit, it is EXACTLY the philosophy of absurdism. I would claim that Carlin was also an Absurdist as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeSSwKffj9o

This is EXACTLY what I expect an atheist to sound like. Carlin is an atheist.

George Carlin used the quote, there is no God: under the context of his comedy routine. George also has publicly announced he does not belong to any Group and he said he has never claim to be an atheist.
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RE: Who's your favourite atheist?
June 19, 2011 at 5:03 pm
Although I don't always agree with him. I always find the Hitch entertaining and informaative, whether he's speaking or writing.
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RE: Who's your favourite atheist?
June 19, 2011 at 5:27 pm
Hitchens will be much missed.
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