December Winner:
13) An alcoholic who wanders into an AA meeting slobering drunk and
starts shouting at everybody else to try a drink isn't winning any friends
and isn't going to convince anybody that sobriety was a bad idea.
You are the same for religion. You wandering into a "sober" newsgroup
sloberingly religious will never going to achieve anything but show what
religion does to the brain and that it is absolute poison.

By: AZ Nomad
Nominated: Smiler
Seconded: Olrik

March Winner:
4) Other people's gods mean nothing to atheists. Because we're not
bound by bronze age rules and myths, we're free to live in today's
world. Because our actions aren't proscribed in any way by meaningless
rituals or pointless calendar observations, we can experience life in
full. Save your condescending pity for the Christians who can't even
think certain thought without being damned, or the Jews who can't push
buttons or cook on Saturdays, or the Moslems whose lives come crashing
to a halt five times a day. We don't need it.

By: L. Raymond
Nominated: Denis Loubet
Seconded: Frank Mayhar

August Winner:
9) Faith may not move mountains, but you should see what it does to
skyscrapers...

By: Panama Floyd
Nominated: raven1
Seconded: Backyard Astronomer

August Winner:
9) Faith may not move mountains, but you should see what it does to
skyscrapers...

By: Panama Floyd
Nominated: raven1
Seconded: Backyard Astronomer

November Winner:
12) When your doctrine forces you to claim that God's reactions are
identical to those of a universe without God, you have nothing left to
defend.

By: Free Lunch
Nominated: Panama Floyd
Seconded: 655321

November Winner:
12) When your doctrine forces you to claim that God's reactions are
identical to those of a universe without God, you have nothing left to
defend.

By: Free Lunch
Nominated: Panama Floyd
Seconded: 655321

September Winner:
10) Religion is like venereal disease. I don't hate you because you
have it, but if you're actively trying to spread it, you should be
locked up for the good of society.

By: Panama Floyd
Nominated: Liz
Seconded: Christopher A.Lee

12) When your doctrine forces you to claim that God's reactions are
identical to those of a universe without God, you have nothing left to
defend.

By: Free Lunch
Nominated: Panama Floyd
Seconded: 655321

August Winner:
9) Faith may not move mountains, but you should see what it does to
skyscrapers...

By: Panama Floyd
Nominated: raven1
Seconded: Backyard Astronomer

August Winner:
9) Faith may not move mountains, but you should see what it does to
skyscrapers...

January Winners:

1) In response to topic:

I dont have enough Faith to be an Atheist

That's like not having enough dogshit to cook a steak.

By: Doc Smartass
Nominated: AZ Nomad
Seconded: Robibnikoff

August Winner:
9) Faith may not move mountains, but you should see what it does to
skyscrapers...

December =A0Winner:
13) =A0An alcoholic who wanders into an AA meeting slobering drunk and
starts shouting at everybody else to try a drink isn't winning any
friends and isn't going to convince anybody that sobriety was a bad idea.
You are the same for religion. =A0 You wandering into a "sober" newsgroup
sloberingly religious will never going to achieve anything but show what
religion does to the brain and that it is absolute poison.

By: AZ Nomad
Nominated: Smiler
Seconded: Olrik

June Winner:
7) So. How you liking them late Stone Age Middle Eastern myths, you
ignorant little *****? Working well for you, are they? Did they
build that fucking computer for you? Did they cure polio? Smallpox?
Did they make childbirth a routine part of life instead of a game of
craps with death? Did Jesus put your rubber on the road, polyester
on your back or latex on your *****? All praise to Him who lets you
hear a sermon anywhere in the world instead of just your little
mud-hut village, right? Oh, wait, that was a different Italian. But
still, we got images of the virgin Mary on tortillas. She MUST be
real! We got speshul underwear and crystal cathedrals and prayer
vigils and TV prophets who profit from your particular and
especially abhorrent brand of stupidity. Our only hope is that you
and your skanky bitches inbreed enough to eventually become the race
of subhumans you so dearly long to become; slaves to an invisible
sky pixie who will punish you or reward you for all eternity
depending on its current slime-coated whim. (Falwell's dead. I guess
you'll need to find another spiritual speculum.)

You are a joke. You are a laugh. You drag the rest of us down with
you. You and all the other cretins who infest not only this
newsgroup (a.a.) but the entire world, who make your unfounded
beliefs the reason to blow up buildings, maim women and children,
kill innocent civilians, justify planet-wide genocidal pogroms in
the name of fictional comic book characters (and even real comic
book characters like that clearly insane medieval monster Mohammed,
the currently vogue superhero child rapist and murderer). I'm with
Christopher Hitchens on this one. I only hope there IS a hell so
that people like you will spend all eternity screaming in agony,
begging that your cartoon gods had actually let you use the brains
they gave you to do some real good in the world instead of more of
the same putrid, sewage-filled redolent hideousness that personifies
all you believe in. You and your cult of death should be
exterminated like a swarm of ants so the rest of us can get on with
the real business of pest-free living. (That being said, I actually
have more respect for a colony of ants than I do you and your
"brethren." The ants are just doing what ants must do to survive.
You have a whole different purpose [Cf. polio, smallpox, &C.].)

I wish I knew where you lived, because I have a 2x4 that's a perfect
fit for the back of your skull. And why not? You ain't using it.
Don't be shy. Don't be afraid. Don't you believe Jesus will protect
you?

Nah, you don't believe in your storybook god that much, do you, you
little chickenshit *****.

I think the word I'm looking for here (after so much soul-searching
and a double dose of my non-diety-approved hypertension medication)
is FOAD!

And soon, please. We need the oxygen you're wasting.

By: chibiabos
Nominated: Smiler
Seconded: Uncle Vic

August Winner:
9) Faith may not move mountains, but you should see what it does to
skyscrapers...

By: Panama Floyd
Nominated: raven1
Seconded: Backyard Astronomer

As I promised, I thought it would be cool to try something new this
month. I have compiled a list of all the monthly winners for our two
main categories. These lists will now be the ballot for the Quote of the
Year contest for 2007. Here are the Atheist quotes. The voting will
continue until midnight, Jan 12, 2008. As always, post your vote as a
reply to the thread. See rules below. Questions? Comments?
Email me.
* * * * *

1) In response to topic:

I dont have enough Faith to be an Atheist

That's like not having enough dogshit to cook a steak.

By: Doc Smartass
Nominated: AZ Nomad
Seconded: Robibnikoff

November Winner:
12) When your doctrine forces you to claim that God's reactions are
identical to those of a universe without God, you have nothing left to
defend.

By: Free Lunch
Nominated: Panama Floyd
Seconded: 655321

June Winner:
7) So. How you liking them late Stone Age Middle Eastern myths, you
ignorant little *****? Working well for you, are they? Did they
build that fucking computer for you? Did they cure polio? Smallpox? Did
they make childbirth a routine part of life instead of a game of craps
with death? Did Jesus put your rubber on the road, polyester on your
back or latex on your *****? All praise to Him who lets you hear a
sermon anywhere in the world instead of just your little mud-hut
village, right? Oh, wait, that was a different Italian. But still, we
got images of the virgin Mary on tortillas. She MUST be real! We got
speshul underwear and crystal cathedrals and prayer vigils and TV
prophets who profit from your particular and especially abhorrent brand
of stupidity. Our only hope is that you and your skanky bitches inbreed
enough to eventually become the race of subhumans you so dearly long to
become; slaves to an invisible sky pixie who will punish you or reward
you for all eternity depending on its current slime-coated whim.
(Falwell's dead. I guess you'll need to find another spiritual
speculum.)

You are a joke. You are a laugh. You drag the rest of us down with you.
You and all the other cretins who infest not only this newsgroup (a.a.)
but the entire world, who make your unfounded beliefs the reason to
blow up buildings, maim women and children, kill innocent civilians,
justify planet-wide genocidal pogroms in the name of fictional comic
book characters (and even real comic book characters like that clearly
insane medieval monster Mohammed, the currently vogue superhero child
rapist and murderer). I'm with Christopher Hitchens on this one. I only
hope there IS a hell so that people like you will spend all eternity
screaming in agony, begging that your cartoon gods had actually let you
use the brains they gave you to do some real good in the world instead
of more of the same putrid, sewage-filled redolent hideousness that
personifies all you believe in. You and your cult of death should be
exterminated like a swarm of ants so the rest of us can get on with the
real business of pest-free living. (That being said, I actually have
more respect for a colony of ants than I do you and your "brethren."
The ants are just doing what ants must do to survive. You have a whole
different purpose [Cf. polio, smallpox, &C.].)

I wish I knew where you lived, because I have a 2x4 that's a perfect
fit for the back of your skull. And why not? You ain't using it. Don't
be shy. Don't be afraid. Don't you believe Jesus will protect you?

Nah, you don't believe in your storybook god that much, do you, you
little chickenshit *****.

I think the word I'm looking for here (after so much soul-searching and
a double dose of my non-diety-approved hypertension medication) is FOAD!

And soon, please. We need the oxygen you're wasting.

August Winner:
9) Faith may not move mountains, but you should see what it does to
skyscrapers...

February Winner:
3) =A0Lack of evidence may not be evidence of lack but it sure as hell
isn't evidence of existence.

By: Mark K. Bilbo
Nominated: Panama Floyd
Seconded: Doc Smartass

As I promised, I thought it would be cool to try something new this
month. =A0I have compiled a list of all the monthly winners for our two
main categories. These lists will now be the ballot for the Quote of the
Year contest for 2007. Here are the Atheist quotes. The voting will
continue until midnight, Jan 12, 2008. As always, post your vote as a
reply to the thread. See rules below. Questions? Comments?
Email me.

October Winner:
11) =A0In fact, I often wonder why the omni-being is never said to be
omni-understanding. It seems to me that it would not even be possible
for an omnipotent, omniscient, all-wise God to take offense at anything.
He'd be above it all. He'd know the roots of all transgression, and he'd
work not to punish people but to guide them to correction, and to
redress the harm caused by people's mistaken actions. Indeed, he'd know
how to effect all necessary repairs at once, and the fact that the world
is so broken and hostile seems a good indication that all the omni-talk
is omni-baloney.

By: Brian E. Clark
Nominated: Brenda Nelson
Seconded: Smiler

August Winner:
9) Faith may not move mountains, but you should see what it does to
skyscrapers...

By: Panama Floyd
Nominated: raven1
Seconded: Backyard Astronomer

As I promised, I thought it would be cool to try something new this
month. =A0I have compiled a list of all the monthly winners for our two
main categories. These lists will now be the ballot for the Quote of the
Year contest for 2007. Here are the Atheist quotes. The voting will
continue until midnight, Jan 12, 2008. As always, post your vote as a
reply to the thread. See rules below. Questions? Comments?
Email me.

November Winner:
12) =A0When your doctrine forces you to claim that God's reactions are
identical to those of a universe without God, you have nothing left to
defend.

By: Free Lunch
Nominated:PanamaFloyd
Seconded: 655321

As I promised, I thought it would be cool to try something new this
month. I have compiled a list of all the monthly winners for our two
main categories. These lists will now be the ballot for the Quote of the
Year contest for 2007. Here are the Atheist quotes. The voting will
continue until midnight, Jan 12, 2008. As always, post your vote as a
reply to the thread. See rules below. Questions? Comments?
Email me.
* * * * *

June Winner:
7) So. How you liking them late Stone Age Middle Eastern myths, you
ignorant little *****? Working well for you, are they? Did they
build that fucking computer for you? Did they cure polio? Smallpox? Did
they make childbirth a routine part of life instead of a game of craps
with death? Did Jesus put your rubber on the road, polyester on your
back or latex on your *****? All praise to Him who lets you hear a sermon
anywhere in the world instead of just your little mud-hut village,
right? Oh, wait, that was a different Italian. But still, we got images
of the virgin Mary on tortillas. She MUST be real! We got speshul
underwear and crystal cathedrals and prayer vigils and TV prophets who
profit from your particular and especially abhorrent brand of stupidity.
Our only hope is that you and your skanky bitches inbreed enough to
eventually become the race of subhumans you so dearly long to become;
slaves to an invisible sky pixie who will punish you or reward you for
all eternity depending on its current slime-coated whim. (Falwell's
dead. I guess you'll need to find another spiritual speculum.)

You are a joke. You are a laugh. You drag the rest of us down with you.
You and all the other cretins who infest not only this newsgroup (a.a.)
but the entire world, who make your unfounded beliefs the reason to blow
up buildings, maim women and children, kill innocent civilians, justify
planet-wide genocidal pogroms in the name of fictional comic book
characters (and even real comic book characters like that clearly insane
medieval monster Mohammed, the currently vogue superhero child rapist
and murderer). I'm with Christopher Hitchens on this one. I only hope
there IS a hell so that people like you will spend all eternity
screaming in agony, begging that your cartoon gods had actually let you
use the brains they gave you to do some real good in the world instead
of more of the same putrid, sewage-filled redolent hideousness that
personifies all you believe in. You and your cult of death should be
exterminated like a swarm of ants so the rest of us can get on with the
real business of pest-free living. (That being said, I actually have
more respect for a colony of ants than I do you and your "brethren." The
ants are just doing what ants must do to survive. You have a whole
different purpose [Cf. polio, smallpox, &C.].)

I wish I knew where you lived, because I have a 2x4 that's a perfect fit
for the back of your skull. And why not? You ain't using it. Don't be
shy. Don't be afraid. Don't you believe Jesus will protect you?

Nah, you don't believe in your storybook god that much, do you, you
little chickenshit *****.

I think the word I'm looking for here (after so much soul-searching and
a double dose of my non-diety-approved hypertension medication) is FOAD!

And soon, please. We need the oxygen you're wasting.

By: chibiabos
Nominated: Smiler
Seconded: Uncle Vic

March Winner:
4) Other people's gods mean nothing to atheists. Because
we're not bound by bronze age rules and myths, we're free
to live in today's world. Because our actions aren't
proscribed in any way by meaningless rituals or pointless
calendar observations, we can experience life in full. Save
your condescending pity for the Christians who can't even
think certain thought without being damned, or the Jews who
can't push buttons or cook on Saturdays, or the Moslems
whose lives come crashing to a halt five times a day. We
don't need it.

By: L. Raymond
Nominated: Denis Loubet
Seconded: Frank Mayhar

August Winner:
9) Faith may not move mountains, but you should see what it does to
skyscrapers...

January Winners:

1) In response to topic:

I dont have enough Faith to be an Atheist

That's like not having enough dogshit to cook a steak.

July Winner:
8) The fundamentalist can not tolerate the idea that they might be
wrong. Other people living their lives differently and holding different
opinions constantly remind the fundamentalist of the possibility that
they might be wrong, and so other lifestyles and opinions must be
stamped out of existence so that the fundamentalist can rest secure in
the belief that the universe approves of the fundamentalist.

When a fundamentalist learns to recognize the right of other people to
peacefully disagree with the fundamentalist's most tightly held beliefs,
that person ceases to be a fundamentalist.

By: Conspiracy of Doves
Nominated: Liz
Seconded: John Popelish

June Winner:
7) So. How you liking them late Stone Age Middle Eastern myths, you
ignorant little *****? Working well for you, are they? Did they
build that fucking computer for you? Did they cure polio? Smallpox? Did
they make childbirth a routine part of life instead of a game of craps
with death? Did Jesus put your rubber on the road, polyester on your
back or latex on your *****? All praise to Him who lets you hear a sermon
anywhere in the world instead of just your little mud-hut village,
right? Oh, wait, that was a different Italian. But still, we got images
of the virgin Mary on tortillas. She MUST be real! We got speshul
underwear and crystal cathedrals and prayer vigils and TV prophets who
profit from your particular and especially abhorrent brand of stupidity.
Our only hope is that you and your skanky bitches inbreed enough to
eventually become the race of subhumans you so dearly long to become;
slaves to an invisible sky pixie who will punish you or reward you for
all eternity depending on its current slime-coated whim. (Falwell's
dead. I guess you'll need to find another spiritual speculum.)

You are a joke. You are a laugh. You drag the rest of us down with you.
You and all the other cretins who infest not only this newsgroup (a.a.)
but the entire world, who make your unfounded beliefs the reason to blow
up buildings, maim women and children, kill innocent civilians, justify
planet-wide genocidal pogroms in the name of fictional comic book
characters (and even real comic book characters like that clearly insane
medieval monster Mohammed, the currently vogue superhero child rapist
and murderer). I'm with Christopher Hitchens on this one. I only hope
there IS a hell so that people like you will spend all eternity
screaming in agony, begging that your cartoon gods had actually let you
use the brains they gave you to do some real good in the world instead
of more of the same putrid, sewage-filled redolent hideousness that
personifies all you believe in. You and your cult of death should be
exterminated like a swarm of ants so the rest of us can get on with the
real business of pest-free living. (That being said, I actually have
more respect for a colony of ants than I do you and your "brethren." The
ants are just doing what ants must do to survive. You have a whole
different purpose [Cf. polio, smallpox, &C.].)

I wish I knew where you lived, because I have a 2x4 that's a perfect fit
for the back of your skull. And why not? You ain't using it. Don't be
shy. Don't be afraid. Don't you believe Jesus will protect you?

Nah, you don't believe in your storybook god that much, do you, you
little chickenshit *****.

I think the word I'm looking for here (after so much soul-searching and
a double dose of my non-diety-approved hypertension medication) is FOAD!

And soon, please. We need the oxygen you're wasting.

By: chibiabos
Nominated: Smiler
Seconded: Uncle Vic