I was just thinking that there may be idiots out there who think that "atheist" means someone who is against god and therefore with the devil.
Am I just being paranoid?
Am I just being paranoid?
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A problem with the word "atheist"
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No, there are a lot of people who couldn't properly define the word.
But I hate the idea of abandoning a word because of uninformed or willfully ignorant people.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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Theists sometimes have this mentality of "If you're not with us/god, you're against us/god". Of course then we have to explain that not believing that god exists doesn't always mean we hate god, or his followers. A lot of us don't hate a god we don't believe exists. We just hate what the followers of the religion do in its name.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason... http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/ Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50 A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh. http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html 
Maybe in a Lucien Greaves kinda way...And, I don’t think even he is “with the devil”.
Dawkins suggested atheists call themselves "brights". Which, to me, is a stupid idea.
I suggest we use "not dumbfucks". 
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni: "You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"  RE: A problem with the word "atheist"
January 23, 2018 at 9:22 pm
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(January 23, 2018 at 8:40 pm)Alexmahone Wrote: I was just thinking that there may be idiots out there who think that "atheist" means someone who is against god and therefore with the devil... Probably, but that's their problem.
It's amazing 'science' always seems to 'find' whatever it is funded for, and never the oppsite. Drich.
RE: A problem with the word "atheist"
January 23, 2018 at 9:23 pm
(This post was last modified: January 23, 2018 at 9:24 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 23, 2018 at 8:45 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: No, there are a lot of people who couldn't properly define the word. Yeah, besides, haters gonna hate no matter what we call ourselves.
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I am against god....or at least his asshole followers.
  (January 23, 2018 at 8:40 pm)Alexmahone Wrote: I was just thinking that there may be idiots out there who think that "atheist" means someone who is against god and therefore with the devil. The French Catholics created the word in the 1570s during one of their religious wars against the Protestants to describe the Protestants. https://www.etymonline.com/word/atheist It's now used to describe people such as myself who don't give a rat's ass about people's countless imaginary deities. |
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