Here are the nominations for Atheist Quote of the Month for January
2006. Vote for your favorite by responding to this thread. Votes will be
accepted until midnight, Jan 31, 2006. See rules below. Questions?
Comments?
Email me.

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1) In response to:

Typical atheist behavior. Why should anyone be sponsoring
non-reproductive sex?

Marriage is not about sex. It is about forging a life with someone. It
is about trust, respect, and friendship. It is about being willing to be
there in the worst of times as well as the good. It is a public
acknowledgment of the union of two people into a unit.

I've know couples married 40 years who could not physically have sex.
Their love and devotion to each other was an inspiration when I got
married. Due to my cancer, my own sex drive is very low. My wife and I
still care for each other, support each other, and work together to make
a better life for ourselves.

We also annoy each other, do things that drive the other one crazy, and
occasionally really ***** the other off, but that's life.

By: Douglas Berry
Nominated: stoney
Seconded: George Ricke

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2) In response to:

Do you still claim, in an atheist sort of way, that you can eat God?

You think "god" is interested in foreplay? From what I've seen, "god"
only wants to unzip and ***** your mind dry.

By: Uncle Vic
Nominated: G-Ride
Seconded: Hannele Huigens

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3) In response to:

Atheism is the religion of non-religion.

A non smoker is a smoker of non smoke

By: Les Hellawell
Nominated: Ben Goren
Seconded: Sanity's little helper

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4) The rapture did occur and the only person worthy was Jimmy Hoffa.

By: Witziges Rätsel
Nominated: Enkidu
Seconded: Uncle Vic

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5) In response to:

It seems to me that it is obvious that I am not more powerful than the
world around me.

It's pretty obvious that you're also not more intelligent than the chair
you're sitting in.

By: John Baker
Nominated: Douglas Berry
Seconded: Harry F. Leopold

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6) re "enforcement" of physics laws:

Of course. It's the physics police force. You just try levitating in
public, and they'll have you into physics court on a felony charge so
fast you'll experience time dilation.

By: Sara Brum
Nominated: stoney
Seconded: Neil Kelsey

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7) In response to:

And clergy send drooling cretins about babbling their *****. Better
to do that rather than the priests put their bodies and massive egos at
reactive risk. They casually show others grave disrespect then can't
figure out why the result is negative reactions. The stupid fuckers can't think.

A necessary qualification for the job. The first thing they do in the
seminary is give the candidates an intelligence test. If they get more
than three question right they are told god has not called them and sent
home.

By: Les Hellawell
Nominated: stoney
Seconded: Hannele Huigens

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8) in reply to:

Christians don't hate people.

They just decide anyone they don't like...aren't people.

By: Paul Duca
Nominated: Panama Floyd
Seconded: Ben Goren

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9) In response to:

The only way to see God's existence with your eyes open is with the
assistance of an opiate or a narcotic.

Indeed. And what's more, we should all stop and ask ourselves what kind
of deluded wing-nut someone has to be in order to stand there and
blandly assert that 'science has nothing to say on the question of the
existence of God': fact is, the Judaeo-Christian 'god', like every
other, has had its imaginary ***** whipped so many times that it has
gradually -- and rather recently! -- been forced to change into
something that is so conveniently and charmingly 'metaphysical' that it
now *can't be tested for*. Prior to this vital re-definition, of course,
their 'God' was very physically and very decisively *all over the
place*: he would smite, speak, shout, burn, knock down, blow over, part,
raise up, appear, disappear, command, make ill, make well, kill,
resurrect, turn to salt, and even show his 'rear parts' -- yes, the
very same buttocks that, if they ever went so far as to actually fucking
*exist*, would be smarting from the protracted smacking that science
has given them. And under the impact of this multi-dimensional
scientific onslaught on ancient stupidity -- the 'War on Error', as we
ought to call it -- there soon came to be *nothing left*: the 'God'
these people still love to speak of is nowadays *utterly unconnected*
with the terrible figure feared by the ancients. He's now nothing but a
milk-sop, pantywaist idol; a god that *can't ever do anything*; an
*impotent, non-interventionist phantom* -- who, though he is grandly
supposed to have first 'created' our entire universe (something which,
incidentally, the 'Bible' doesn't actually claim), and then to have
spent century upon century controlling it and interfering in it on a
daily basis, now can't be held actually to *do* or *be* anything that
has *any empirically detectable aspect whatsoever*!!

What kind of fucking come-down is *that*...?!? He 'really, really,
really, exists', oh yes; and he's 'really, really, really great and
all-powerful' -- but the moment these credulous fools actually risk
claiming that he's *doing anything specific in the world*, they're sunk
-- because the unavoidable empirical traces of such 'doing' will be
*completely and crushingly absent*...

To those of us who live in the real world, science actually has *this*
to say 'on the question of the existence of God': "Look, every time we
search in a place you say your 'god' is, for signs that you say we'll
find of the things that you say your 'god' has done, all we discover is
that you idiots have suddenly changed the definition again to prevent it
being 'a problem' that we didn't bloody find anything. You're *wasting
our time*: you have a 'god' without actions; a 'god' without qualities'
-- a 'god' who isn't even fucking *there*..."

By: Bonfire of the Deities...
Nominated: Harry F. Leopold
Seconded: Sanity's little helper

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10) No! You cannot blow people up in the name of your mythical being.
No! You cannot kill doctors who choose to help women regain control of
their lives. No! You cannot divert money that should be healing the sick
to spend on your costumes and buildings. No! You cannot tell me how to
think anymore. No! You cannot claim that your damn stupid, lame, small
minded little creation myth has equal value to Darwin's evolution and
modern cosmology. The time has come to leave the nursery, cast off these
childish, dangerous stories and grow the ***** up!

By: Les Hemmings
Nominated: Denis Loubet
Seconded: erikc

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11) In response to:

Re: what's your most compelling reason for being an atheist?

I find lying to oneself to be extremely unethical and an impossible
platform on which to base an ethos.

By: Kate
Nominated: stoney
Seconded: Tink

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12) Oh, and by the way, your creationist predecessors *did* deny
micro-evolution. The simple fact is that even most fundamentalists have
been forced to concede that obvious truth, and so have retreated and
drawn a new battleline. You'll lose here too. The only reason you
haven't yet is because you're in the same state of denial as the black
knight from the Holy Grail;
"Look, you stupid b*****d, you've got no arms left".
"It's only a flesh wound".
"What are you going to do? Bleed on me?"

By: Matt Loughran
Nominated: Tink
Seconded: Hannele Huigens

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13) So when you said it was based on the differences between humans and
chimps you were lying. As is the ICR when they say their views are based
on the evidence. As are all creationists when they claim it is science.
I don't know how you get "not special" from biology. But I do understand
that you need, so very much, to have something that says you are special
in this world. The small minded fear of creationists and fundamentalists
is rather obvious and rather sad. You have no faith in God at all and
have to put all your faith in some interpretation of some text.

By: Matt Silberstein
Nominated: stoney
Seconded: Tink

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14) In response to:

There are many theories as to how the world began; all should be
explored in the classroom.

Sure; some in the religion classes, some in the science classes, some in
the abnormal psych classes.

By: Bert Hyman
Nominated: Tink
Seconded: stoney

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15) In response to:

They [Christian Trolls] cannot be destroyed.

They are actually a manifestation of the famed 'Usenet hydra': you cut
off one head, and *a stupider one* grows back...

By: Bonfire of the Deities...
Nominated: Harry F. Leopold
Seconded: towelie

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16) Prologue: We as a species will not rest until we know *how* this god
of yours did what you claim. As we learn along the way, we become the
god's we imagine, decrementally diminishing the god you imagine. We also
prove that, if a god existed that could do such things, perhaps these
are the mechanisms by which they were achieved. But why wait around for
god, we can do it now too! So, I guess we have forever to wait around
for your god to show, but in the meantime, we'll just keep writing the
story...thanks for your help, and have a nice day...

By: William Wingstedt
Nominated: erikc
Seconded: Chris Johnson

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17) In response to:

We are living in God's world and we have to accept what we see here
as God's work.

I wish there was a way to convince people like you that atheists and
other non-believers are not governed by the gods of your beliefs, but
there isn't so I'll have to be satisfied in telling you to *****.

By: Uncle Vic
Nominated: Christopher A. Lee
Seconded: L.Roberts.

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18) In response to:

***** JESUS!

Now I'm not one to judge (without provocation), but honey -- Jesus had
twelve boyfriends. He was really into the group thing, so you don't
really know where he's been, per se. Ergo, major health risks for you.
IMO, you could do a lot better, even if you've got a raging case of the
hornies. 'K? Great!

By: Bonnie *****
Nominated: Hannele Huigens
Seconded: Steve Knight

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19) Man, your God has done a lousy job of making Himself plausible, if
reading the drivel that goes down here can make a kid toss Him over.

I mean, whatta we got here?:

a) in this corner: the most powerful, aware, intelligent,
knowledgeable and resourceful Being in the entire universe.

b) in this corner: me.

I mean, that's David vs. King Kong. Pokemon vs. Smaug. The Jiminy
Cricket up against Dow Chemical. I'm definitely the long-shot
undermonkey here. If my posts can outshine His, then the Boy is in
SERIOUS need of a good public relations firm. Whatever HAS He been doing
with all that ability, spending eternity trying to reach the next level
in Quake? Man, talk about a failure to apply yourself...

By: Cary Kittrell
Nominated: Enkidu
Seconded: Olrik

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20) If their GodŽ is not omnipotent, there is no reason to believe that
he can save them.

If there is no salvation, there is no reason to worship.

Therefore, since they worship, GodŽ is omnipotent.

By: Liz
Nominated: stoney
Seconded: Hannele Huigens

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21) In response to:

Well, the true irony is that Billy has deceived far more people than
Madame Zorba ever did.

And the hypocrisy is that Graham and all the other prophets and doomsday
preachers are in fact fortune tellers. Maybe "misfortune teller" would
be a more accurate title.

By: Witziges Rätsel
Nominated:

all religion is a crock of *****

Sure is! I agree. Religion is the cause of 9/11, and terrorism in
general. It truly is the root of all evil. When people start to wise
up, you guys are done. Buh-Byeee. How many zeus worshippers do you see
walking around these days? How many osiris temples? Buh-Byeeee. All
things change, including popular social belief systems. In due time,
your precious gawd will be a thing of the past, just like zeus, osiris,
and the thousands of 'gawds' that have come and gone. Societies also
EVOLVE!

By: DaveJr
Nominated: Tink
Seconded: Harry F. Leopold

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23) The proper question to ask is why Intelligent Design advocates have
to continually lie, even obvious blatant lies, even lies under oath, to
promote what they claim is not only true, but moral?

By: Matt Silberstein
Nominated: Sara Brum
Seconded: Liz

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10) No! You cannot blow people up in the name of your mythical being.
No! You cannot kill doctors who choose to help women regain control of
their lives. No! You cannot divert money that should be healing the sick
to spend on your costumes and buildings. No! You cannot tell me how to
think anymore. No! You cannot claim that your damn stupid, lame, small
minded little creation myth has equal value to Darwin's evolution and
modern cosmology. The time has come to leave the nursery, cast off these
childish, dangerous stories and grow the ***** up!

By: Les Hemmings
Nominated: Denis Loubet
Seconded: erikc

2) In response to:

Do you still claim, in an atheist sort of way, that you can eat God?

You think "god" is interested in foreplay? From what I've seen, "god"
only wants to unzip and ***** your mind dry.

By: Uncle Vic
Nominated: G-Ride
Seconded: Hannele Huigens

Here are the nominations for Atheist Quote of the Month for January
2006. Vote for your favorite by responding to this thread. Votes will be
accepted until midnight, Jan 31, 2006. See rules below. Questions?

19) Man, your God has done a lousy job of making Himself plausible, if
reading the drivel that goes down here can make a kid toss Him over.

I mean, whatta we got here?:

a) in this corner: the most powerful, aware, intelligent,
knowledgeable and resourceful Being in the entire universe.

b) in this corner: me.

I mean, that's David vs. King Kong. Pokemon vs. Smaug. The Jiminy
Cricket up against Dow Chemical. I'm definitely the long-shot
undermonkey here. If my posts can outshine His, then the Boy is in
SERIOUS need of a good public relations firm. Whatever HAS He been
doing with all that ability, spending eternity trying to reach the
next level in Quake? Man, talk about a failure to apply yourself...

By: Cary Kittrell
Nominated: Enkidu
Seconded: Olrik

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9) In response to:

The only way to see God's existence with your eyes open is with
the assistance of an opiate or a narcotic.

Indeed. And what's more, we should all stop and ask ourselves
what kind of deluded wing-nut someone has to be in order to stand
there and blandly assert that 'science has nothing to say on the
question of the existence of God': fact is, the Judaeo-Christian
'god', like every other, has had its imaginary ***** whipped so
many times that it has gradually -- and rather recently! -- been
forced to change into something that is so conveniently and
charmingly 'metaphysical' that it now *can't be tested for*.
Prior to this vital re-definition, of course, their 'God' was
very physically and very decisively *all over the place*: he
would smite, speak, shout, burn, knock down, blow over, part,
raise up, appear, disappear, command, make ill, make well, kill,
resurrect, turn to salt, and even show his 'rear parts' -- yes,
the very same buttocks that, if they ever went so far as to
actually fucking *exist*, would be smarting from the protracted
smacking that science
has given them. And under the impact of this multi-dimensional
scientific onslaught on ancient stupidity -- the 'War on Error',
as we ought to call it -- there soon came to be *nothing left*:
the 'God' these people still love to speak of is nowadays
*utterly unconnected* with the terrible figure feared by the
ancients. He's now nothing but a milk-sop, pantywaist idol; a god
that *can't ever do anything*; an *impotent, non-interventionist
phantom* -- who, though he is grandly supposed to have first
'created' our entire universe (something which, incidentally,
the 'Bible' doesn't actually claim), and then to have spent
century upon century controlling it and interfering in it on a
daily basis, now can't be held actually to *do* or *be* anything
that has *any empirically detectable aspect whatsoever*!!

What kind of fucking come-down is *that*...?!? He 'really,
really, really, exists', oh yes; and he's 'really, really, really
great and all-powerful' -- but the moment these credulous fools
actually risk claiming that he's *doing anything specific in the
world*, they're sunk -- because the unavoidable empirical traces
of such 'doing' will be *completely and crushingly absent*...

To those of us who live in the real world, science actually has
*this* to say 'on the question of the existence of God': "Look,
every time we search in a place you say your 'god' is, for signs
that you say we'll find of the things that you say your 'god' has
done, all we discover is that you idiots have suddenly changed
the definition again to prevent it being 'a problem' that we
didn't bloody find anything. You're *wasting our time*: you have
a 'god' without actions; a 'god' without qualities' -- a 'god'
who isn't even fucking *there*..."

By: Bonfire of the Deities...
Nominated: Harry F. Leopold
Seconded: Sanity's little helper

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3) In response to:

Atheism is the religion of non-religion.

A non smoker is a smoker of non smoke

By: Les Hellawell
Nominated: Ben Goren
Seconded: Sanity's little helper

14) In response to:

There are many theories as to how the world began; all should be
explored in the classroom.

Sure; some in the religion classes, some in the science classes, some in
the abnormal psych classes.

By: Bert Hyman
Nominated: Tink
Seconded: stoney

14) In response to:

There are many theories as to how the world began; all should be
explored in the classroom.

Sure; some in the religion classes, some in the science classes, some in
the abnormal psych classes.

By: Bert Hyman
Nominated: Tink
Seconded: stoney

12) Oh, and by the way, your creationist predecessors *did* deny
micro-evolution. The simple fact is that even most fundamentalists have
been forced to concede that obvious truth, and so have retreated and
drawn a new battleline. You'll lose here too. The only reason you
haven't yet is because you're in the same state of denial as the black
knight from the Holy Grail;
"Look, you stupid b*****d, you've got no arms left".
"It's only a flesh wound".
"What are you going to do? Bleed on me?"

By: Matt Loughran
Nominated: Tink
Seconded: Hannele Huigens

3) In response to:

Atheism is the religion of non-religion.

A non smoker is a smoker of non smoke

By: Les Hellawell
Nominated: Ben Goren
Seconded: Sanity's little helper

9) In response to:

The only way to see God's existence with your eyes open is with the
assistance of an opiate or a narcotic.

Indeed. And what's more, we should all stop and ask ourselves what kind
of deluded wing-nut someone has to be in order to stand there and
blandly assert that 'science has nothing to say on the question of the
existence of God': fact is, the Judaeo-Christian 'god', like every
other, has had its imaginary ***** whipped so many times that it has
gradually -- and rather recently! -- been forced to change into
something that is so conveniently and charmingly 'metaphysical' that it
now *can't be tested for*. Prior to this vital re-definition, of course,
their 'God' was very physically and very decisively *all over the
place*: he would smite, speak, shout, burn, knock down, blow over, part,
raise up, appear, disappear, command, make ill, make well, kill,
resurrect, turn to salt, and even show his 'rear parts' -- yes, the
very same buttocks that, if they ever went so far as to actually fucking
*exist*, would be smarting from the protracted smacking that science
has given them. And under the impact of this multi-dimensional
scientific onslaught on ancient stupidity -- the 'War on Error', as we
ought to call it -- there soon came to be *nothing left*: the 'God'
these people still love to speak of is nowadays *utterly unconnected*
with the terrible figure feared by the ancients. He's now nothing but a
milk-sop, pantywaist idol; a god that *can't ever do anything*; an
*impotent, non-interventionist phantom* -- who, though he is grandly
supposed to have first 'created' our entire universe (something which,
incidentally, the 'Bible' doesn't actually claim), and then to have
spent century upon century controlling it and interfering in it on a
daily basis, now can't be held actually to *do* or *be* anything that
has *any empirically detectable aspect whatsoever*!!

What kind of fucking come-down is *that*...?!? He 'really, really,
really, exists', oh yes; and he's 'really, really, really great and
all-powerful' -- but the moment these credulous fools actually risk
claiming that he's *doing anything specific in the world*, they're sunk
-- because the unavoidable empirical traces of such 'doing' will be
*completely and crushingly absent*...

To those of us who live in the real world, science actually has *this*
to say 'on the question of the existence of God': "Look, every time we
search in a place you say your 'god' is, for signs that you say we'll
find of the things that you say your 'god' has done, all we discover is
that you idiots have suddenly changed the definition again to prevent it
being 'a problem' that we didn't bloody find anything. You're *wasting
our time*: you have a 'god' without actions; a 'god' without qualities'
-- a 'god' who isn't even fucking *there*..."

By: Bonfire of the Deities...
Nominated: Harry F. Leopold
Seconded: Sanity's little helper

Here are the nominations for Atheist Quote of the Month for January
2006. Vote for your favorite by responding to this thread. Votes will
be accepted until midnight, Jan 31, 2006. See rules below.

We are living in God's world and we have to accept what we see here
as God's work.

Here are the nominations for Atheist Quote of the Month for January
2006. Vote for your favorite by responding to this thread. Votes will be
accepted until midnight, Jan 31, 2006. See rules below. Questions?
Comments?
Email me.

10) No! You cannot blow people up in the name of your mythical being.
No! You cannot kill doctors who choose to help women regain control of
their lives. No! You cannot divert money that should be healing the sick
to spend on your costumes and buildings. No! You cannot tell me how to
think anymore. No! You cannot claim that your damn stupid, lame, small
minded little creation myth has equal value to Darwin's evolution and
modern cosmology. The time has come to leave the nursery, cast off these
childish, dangerous stories and grow the ***** up!

By: Les Hemmings
Nominated: Denis Loubet
Seconded: erikc

Here are the nominations for Atheist Quote of the Month for January
2006. Vote for your favorite by responding to this thread. Votes will be
accepted until midnight, Jan 31, 2006. See rules below. Questions?
Comments?
Email me.
Bonfire of the Deities

Here are the nominations for Atheist Quote of the Month for January
2006.

2) In response to:

Do you still claim, in an atheist sort of way, that you can eat
God?

You think "god" is interested in foreplay? From what I've seen,
"god" only wants to unzip and ***** your mind dry.

By: Uncle Vic
Nominated: G-Ride
Seconded: Hannele Huigens

9) In response to:

The only way to see God's existence with your eyes open is with the
assistance of an opiate or a narcotic.

Indeed. And what's more, we should all stop and ask ourselves what kind
of deluded wing-nut someone has to be in order to stand there and
blandly assert that 'science has nothing to say on the question of the
existence of God': fact is, the Judaeo-Christian 'god', like every
other, has had its imaginary ***** whipped so many times that it has
gradually -- and rather recently! -- been forced to change into
something that is so conveniently and charmingly 'metaphysical' that it
now *can't be tested for*. Prior to this vital re-definition, of course,
their 'God' was very physically and very decisively *all over the
place*: he would smite, speak, shout, burn, knock down, blow over, part,
raise up, appear, disappear, command, make ill, make well, kill,
resurrect, turn to salt, and even show his 'rear parts' -- yes, the
very same buttocks that, if they ever went so far as to actually fucking
*exist*, would be smarting from the protracted smacking that science
has given them. And under the impact of this multi-dimensional
scientific onslaught on ancient stupidity -- the 'War on Error', as we
ought to call it -- there soon came to be *nothing left*: the 'God'
these people still love to speak of is nowadays *utterly unconnected*
with the terrible figure feared by the ancients. He's now nothing but a
milk-sop, pantywaist idol; a god that *can't ever do anything*; an
*impotent, non-interventionist phantom* -- who, though he is grandly
supposed to have first 'created' our entire universe (something which,
incidentally, the 'Bible' doesn't actually claim), and then to have
spent century upon century controlling it and interfering in it on a
daily basis, now can't be held actually to *do* or *be* anything that
has *any empirically detectable aspect whatsoever*!!

What kind of fucking come-down is *that*...?!? He 'really, really,
really, exists', oh yes; and he's 'really, really, really great and
all-powerful' -- but the moment these credulous fools actually risk
claiming that he's *doing anything specific in the world*, they're sunk
-- because the unavoidable empirical traces of such 'doing' will be
*completely and crushingly absent*...

To those of us who live in the real world, science actually has *this*
to say 'on the question of the existence of God': "Look, every time we
search in a place you say your 'god' is, for signs that you say we'll
find of the things that you say your 'god' has done, all we discover is
that you idiots have suddenly changed the definition again to prevent it
being 'a problem' that we didn't bloody find anything. You're *wasting
our time*: you have a 'god' without actions; a 'god' without qualities'
-- a 'god' who isn't even fucking *there*..."

By: Bonfire of the Deities...
Nominated: Harry F. Leopold
Seconded: Sanity's little helper

11) In response to:

Re: what's your most compelling reason for being an atheist?

I find lying to oneself to be extremely unethical and an impossible
platform on which to base an ethos.

By: Kate
Nominated: stoney
Seconded: Tink

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4) The rapture did occur and the only person worthy was Jimmy Hoffa.

By: Witziges Rätsel
Nominated: Enkidu
Seconded: Uncle Vic

Here are the nominations for Atheist Quote of the Month for January
2006.
3) In response to:

Atheism is the religion of non-religion.

A non smoker is a smoker of non smoke

9) In response to:

The only way to see God's existence with your eyes open is with the
assistance of an opiate or a narcotic.

Indeed. And what's more, we should all stop and ask ourselves what kind
of deluded wing-nut someone has to be in order to stand there and
blandly assert that 'science has nothing to say on the question of the
existence of God': fact is, the Judaeo-Christian 'god', like every
other, has had its imaginary ***** whipped so many times that it has
gradually -- and rather recently! -- been forced to change into
something that is so conveniently and charmingly 'metaphysical' that it
now *can't be tested for*. Prior to this vital re-definition, of course,
their 'God' was very physically and very decisively *all over the
place*: he would smite, speak, shout, burn, knock down, blow over, part,
raise up, appear, disappear, command, make ill, make well, kill,
resurrect, turn to salt, and even show his 'rear parts' -- yes, the
very same buttocks that, if they ever went so far as to actually fucking
*exist*, would be smarting from the protracted smacking that science
has given them. And under the impact of this multi-dimensional
scientific onslaught on ancient stupidity -- the 'War on Error', as we
ought to call it -- there soon came to be *nothing left*: the 'God'
these people still love to speak of is nowadays *utterly unconnected*
with the terrible figure feared by the ancients. He's now nothing but a
milk-sop, pantywaist idol; a god that *can't ever do anything*; an
*impotent, non-interventionist phantom* -- who, though he is grandly
supposed to have first 'created' our entire universe (something which,
incidentally, the 'Bible' doesn't actually claim), and then to have
spent century upon century controlling it and interfering in it on a
daily basis, now can't be held actually to *do* or *be* anything that
has *any empirically detectable aspect whatsoever*!!

What kind of fucking come-down is *that*...?!? He 'really, really,
really, exists', oh yes; and he's 'really, really, really great and
all-powerful' -- but the moment these credulous fools actually risk
claiming that he's *doing anything specific in the world*, they're sunk
-- because the unavoidable empirical traces of such 'doing' will be
*completely and crushingly absent*...

To those of us who live in the real world, science actually has *this*
to say 'on the question of the existence of God': "Look, every time we
search in a place you say your 'god' is, for signs that you say we'll
find of the things that you say your 'god' has done, all we discover is
that you idiots have suddenly changed the definition again to prevent it
being 'a problem' that we didn't bloody find anything. You're *wasting
our time*: you have a 'god' without actions; a 'god' without qualities'
-- a 'god' who isn't even fucking *there*..."

By: Bonfire of the Deities...
Nominated: Harry F. Leopold
Seconded: Sanity's little helper

9) In response to:

The only way to see God's existence with your eyes open is with the
assistance of an opiate or a narcotic.

Indeed. And what's more, we should all stop and ask ourselves what kind
of deluded wing-nut someone has to be in order to stand there and
blandly assert that 'science has nothing to say on the question of the
existence of God': fact is, the Judaeo-Christian 'god', like every
other, has had its imaginary ***** whipped so many times that it has
gradually -- and rather recently! -- been forced to change into
something that is so conveniently and charmingly 'metaphysical' that it
now *can't be tested for*. Prior to this vital re-definition, of course,
their 'God' was very physically and very decisively *all over the
place*: he would smite, speak, shout, burn, knock down, blow over, part,
raise up, appear, disappear, command, make ill, make well, kill,
resurrect, turn to salt, and even show his 'rear parts' -- yes, the
very same buttocks that, if they ever went so far as to actually fucking
*exist*, would be smarting from the protracted smacking that science
has given them. And under the impact of this multi-dimensional
scientific onslaught on ancient stupidity -- the 'War on Error', as we
ought to call it -- there soon came to be *nothing left*: the 'God'
these people still love to speak of is nowadays *utterly unconnected*
with the terrible figure feared by the ancients. He's now nothing but a
milk-sop, pantywaist idol; a god that *can't ever do anything*; an
*impotent, non-interventionist phantom* -- who, though he is grandly
supposed to have first 'created' our entire universe (something which,
incidentally, the 'Bible' doesn't actually claim), and then to have
spent century upon century controlling it and interfering in it on a
daily basis, now can't be held actually to *do* or *be* anything that
has *any empirically detectable aspect whatsoever*!!
What kind of fucking come-down is *that*...?!? He 'really, really,
really, exists', oh yes; and he's 'really, really, really great and
all-powerful' -- but the moment these credulous fools actually risk
claiming that he's *doing anything specific in the world*, they're sunk
-- because the unavoidable empirical traces of such 'doing' will be
*completely and crushingly absent*...
To those of us who live in the real world, science actually has *this*
to say 'on the question of the existence of God': "Look, every time we
search in a place you say your 'god' is, for signs that you say we'll
find of the things that you say your 'god' has done, all we discover is
that you idiots have suddenly changed the definition again to prevent it
being 'a problem' that we didn't bloody find anything. You're *wasting
our time*: you have a 'god' without actions; a 'god' without qualities'
-- a 'god' who isn't even fucking *there*..."
By: Bonfire of the Deities...
Nominated: Harry F. Leopold
Seconded: Sanity's little helper