RE: Atheism is a religion
October 15, 2015 at 8:53 am
(This post was last modified: October 15, 2015 at 10:07 am by Cyberman.)
(October 14, 2015 at 4:36 pm)Neimenovic Wrote: A priest I know once claimed the word idiot came from the word unbeliever, going by the 'dio'....ironic isn't it
Just for the record, the etymology of "idiot" is:
Quote:early 14c., "person so mentally deficient as to be incapable of ordinary reasoning;" also in Middle English "simple man, uneducated person, layman" (late 14c.), from Old French idiote "uneducated or ignorant person" (12c.), from Latin idiota "ordinary person, layman; outsider," in Late Latin "uneducated or ignorant person," from Greek idiotes "layman, person lacking professional skill" (opposed to writer, soldier, skilled workman), literally "private person" (as opposed to one taking part in public affairs), used patronizingly for "ignorant person," from idios "one's own" (see idiom).
Not surprising that a priest made shit up for Jesus. Did he do the Hovind classic, "The word Universe is made up of 'uni' meaning 'one'; and 'verse', meaning 'spoken word or sentence'." ?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
