(July 27, 2010 at 3:29 pm)superstarr Wrote: "I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church"
-Thomas Paine
Presumably, this is meant to be like the Niacene Creed in reverse. Well, how about an atheist version of the Lord's prayer?
Our Father,
Who sure as hell art not in heaven,
Vishnu, Thor, Allah, Jehovah, Zeus, Ra or Buddha be thy name?
Thy secular democracy come;
Thy will be done,
In front of witnesses, before Nietzsche finds thee dead.
Give us today something a bit better than bread, thou stingy bastard,
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we chase with a shotgun those who trespass against us.
Lead us not into temptation,
(Though it'd be fun every now and then),
And deliver us from the evil thou created, in thy mercy.
For thine be the secular democracy,
The Inconsistent Triad, and the glory,
Until entropic heat death,
A-non-gender-specific-noun.
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
