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1) What does this question tell us? It tells us that certain people
can't figure out why it's wrong to rape and kill a child. It tells us
that those people (if they are to be prevented from raping and killing
children) must be given reasons to avoid such behavior, or else they'll
have no clue there's anything wrong with it. Since these people are so
(monu)mentally retarded as to be completely unable to comprehend logical
reasons not to go around raping and killing children, the rules given
them must be very, very simple, so as not to cause undue confusion in
their very small brains.

Enter religion; for what answer is simpler than "God says thou shalt
not"?

By: Mekkala
Nominated: John Popelish
Seconded: Harry Leopold

10) What Christians do is use faith to leap the gap from ignorance to
certainty, and then confuse certainty with knowledge. They end up
still ignorant, but filled with certainty, and that's a revolting
combination. They glorify faith, but faith is just ignorance in
disguise.

By: Denis Loubet
Nominated: towelie
Seconded: Liz

Here are the nominations for Atheist Quote of the Month for January
2004. Vote for your favorite by responding to this thread. Votes will be
accepted until midnight, Jan. 31. See rules below. Questions? Comments?
Email me.

17) In response to a request for Jesus jokes:

There was this guy who created everything in perfection, but it was so
imperfect that he flooded the planet to wipe it out and start over. The
second version was equally imperfect, so he decided to incarnate himself
to free the world from the very evil he himself had created and could
magic away any time he wished. He was born of a virgin, let the
firstborn of every Jew be killed, spoke in riddles, never said a word
against slavery, racism, war, alcohol or abortion. He told everyone in
his best Schwarzeneggar voice, "I'll be back", got nailed to a cross,
and hasn't been heard from since. They call him the Son of God.

Isn't that enough of a joke?!!!

By: Budikka
Nominated: MarkA
Seconded: Levy Oates

5) Religion begets fear. And vice versa.

By: Vic Sagerquist
Nominated: Tink
Seconded: Ron Baker

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1) What does this question tell us? It tells us that certain people
can't figure out why it's wrong to rape and kill a child. It tells us
that those people (if they are to be prevented from raping and killing
children) must be given reasons to avoid such behavior, or else they'll
have no clue there's anything wrong with it. Since these people are so
(monu)mentally retarded as to be completely unable to comprehend logical
reasons not to go around raping and killing children, the rules given
them must be very, very simple, so as not to cause undue confusion in
their very small brains.

Enter religion; for what answer is simpler than "God says thou shalt
not"?

By: Mekkala
Nominated: John Popelish
Seconded: Harry Leopold

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17) In response to a request for Jesus jokes:

There was this guy who created everything in perfection, but it was so
imperfect that he flooded the planet to wipe it out and start over. The
second version was equally imperfect, so he decided to incarnate himself
to free the world from the very evil he himself had created and could
magic away any time he wished. He was born of a virgin, let the
firstborn of every Jew be killed, spoke in riddles, never said a word
against slavery, racism, war, alcohol or abortion. He told everyone in
his best Schwarzeneggar voice, "I'll be back", got nailed to a cross,
and hasn't been heard from since. They call him the Son of God.

Isn't that enough of a joke?!!!

By: Budikka
Nominated: MarkA
Seconded: Levy Oates

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10) What Christians do is use faith to leap the gap from ignorance to
certainty, and then confuse certainty with knowledge. They end up still
ignorant, but filled with certainty, and that's a revolting combination.
They glorify faith, but faith is just ignorance in disguise.

By: Denis Loubet
Nominated: towelie
Seconded: Liz

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6) This is what science is all about. Scientists have theories about
comets, they create ways to test those theories, and when they discover
they are wrong about something, they get excited over having new
evidence to work with. The antithesis to this would be how theists
react to evidence that their faith is misplaced. They squirm and
squiggle, desperately trying to come up with an explanation that allows
them to still be right, no matter how bizarre or irrational that
explanation is. For them, new data is a thing to be feared, a reason to
run away and hide, and a chance to prove their great faith by refusing
to give in to the devilish evidence.

By: L. Raymond
Nominated: Denis Loubet
Seconded: Carl Kaufmann

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10) What Christians do is use faith to leap the gap from ignorance to
certainty, and then confuse certainty with knowledge. They end up still
ignorant, but filled with certainty, and that's a revolting combination.
They glorify faith, but faith is just ignorance in disguise.

By: Denis Loubet
Nominated: towelie
Seconded: Liz

17) In response to a request for Jesus jokes:

There was this guy who created everything in perfection, but it was so
imperfect that he flooded the planet to wipe it out and start over. The
second version was equally imperfect, so he decided to incarnate himself
to free the world from the very evil he himself had created and could
magic away any time he wished. He was born of a virgin, let the
firstborn of every Jew be killed, spoke in riddles, never said a word
against slavery, racism, war, alcohol or abortion. He told everyone in
his best Schwarzeneggar voice, "I'll be back", got nailed to a cross,
and hasn't been heard from since. They call him the Son of God.

Isn't that enough of a joke?!!!

By: Budikka
Nominated: MarkA
Seconded: Levy Oates

17) In response to a request for Jesus jokes:

There was this guy who created everything in perfection, but it was so
imperfect that he flooded the planet to wipe it out and start over. The
second version was equally imperfect, so he decided to incarnate himself
to free the world from the very evil he himself had created and could
magic away any time he wished. He was born of a virgin, let the
firstborn of every Jew be killed, spoke in riddles, never said a word
against slavery, racism, war, alcohol or abortion. He told everyone in
his best Schwarzeneggar voice, "I'll be back", got nailed to a cross,
and hasn't been heard from since. They call him the Son of God.

Isn't that enough of a joke?!!!

By: Budikka
Nominated: MarkA
Seconded: Levy Oates

6) This is what science is all about. Scientists have theories about
comets, they create ways to test those theories, and when they discover
they are wrong about something, they get excited over having new
evidence to work with. The antithesis to this would be how theists
react to evidence that their faith is misplaced. They squirm and
squiggle, desperately trying to come up with an explanation that allows
them to still be right, no matter how bizarre or irrational that
explanation is. For them, new data is a thing to be feared, a reason to
run away and hide, and a chance to prove their great faith by refusing
to give in to the devilish evidence.

By: L. Raymond
Nominated: Denis Loubet
Seconded: Carl Kaufmann

6) This is what science is all about. Scientists have theories about
comets, they create ways to test those theories, and when they discover
they are wrong about something, they get excited over having new
evidence to work with. The antithesis to this would be how theists
react to evidence that their faith is misplaced. They squirm and
squiggle, desperately trying to come up with an explanation that allows
them to still be right, no matter how bizarre or irrational that
explanation is. For them, new data is a thing to be feared, a reason to
run away and hide, and a chance to prove their great faith by refusing
to give in to the devilish evidence.

By: L. Raymond
Nominated: Denis Loubet
Seconded: Carl Kaufmann

It's cold and dreary and cold. Good time to do the Quote of the Month
polling. Maybe in February, I'll be warm enough to have some
interesting thoughts. Not tonight, though...
17) In response to a request for Jesus jokes:

There was this guy who created everything in perfection, but it was so
imperfect that he flooded the planet to wipe it out and start over.
The second version was equally imperfect, so he decided to incarnate
himself to free the world from the very evil he himself had created
and could magic away any time he wished. He was born of a virgin, let
the firstborn of every Jew be killed, spoke in riddles, never said a
word against slavery, racism, war, alcohol or abortion. He told
everyone in his best Schwarzeneggar voice, "I'll be back", got nailed
to a cross, and hasn't been heard from since. They call him the Son
of God.

Isn't that enough of a joke?!!!

By: Budikka
Nominated: MarkA
Seconded: Levy Oates

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17) In response to a request for Jesus jokes:

There was this guy who created everything in perfection, but it was so
imperfect that he flooded the planet to wipe it out and start over. The
second version was equally imperfect, so he decided to incarnate himself
to free the world from the very evil he himself had created and could
magic away any time he wished. He was born of a virgin, let the
firstborn of every Jew be killed, spoke in riddles, never said a word
against slavery, racism, war, alcohol or abortion. He told everyone in
his best Schwarzeneggar voice, "I'll be back", got nailed to a cross,
and hasn't been heard from since. They call him the Son of God.

Isn't that enough of a joke?!!!

By: Budikka
Nominated: MarkA
Seconded: Levy Oates

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15) I'm working on a hypothesis (it's different than a theory) that the
greatest tool of the chronically fallible is the use of the implausible
to explain the incredible.

By: Klowmhundur
Nominated: Lord Calvert
Seconded: lizzard woman

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6) This is what science is all about. Scientists have theories about
comets, they create ways to test those theories, and when they discover
they are wrong about something, they get excited over having new
evidence to work with. The antithesis to this would be how theists
react to evidence that their faith is misplaced. They squirm and
squiggle, desperately trying to come up with an explanation that allows
them to still be right, no matter how bizarre or irrational that
explanation is. For them, new data is a thing to be feared, a reason to
run away and hide, and a chance to prove their great faith by refusing
to give in to the devilish evidence.

By: L. Raymond
Nominated: Denis Loubet
Seconded: Carl Kaufmann

10) What Christians do is use faith to leap the gap from ignorance to
certainty, and then confuse certainty with knowledge. They end up still
ignorant, but filled with certainty, and that's a revolting combination.
They glorify faith, but faith is just ignorance in disguise.

By: Denis Loubet
Nominated: towelie
Seconded: Liz

10) What Christians do is use faith to leap the gap from ignorance to
certainty, and then confuse certainty with knowledge. They end up still
ignorant, but filled with certainty, and that's a revolting combination.
They glorify faith, but faith is just ignorance in disguise.

By: Denis Loubet
Nominated: towelie
Seconded: Liz

12) You believe in God, even with no 'proof' correct? So why can't
atheists believe in morality?

By: RainLover
Nominated: Randy Day
Seconded: Roy Sinnamond

9) In response to:

"The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.' "

If even a fool can figure it out, what's your excuse?

By: Fred Stone
Nominated: Daniel Kolle
Seconded: Meteorite Debris

It's cold and dreary and cold. Good time to do the Quote of the Month
polling. Maybe in February, I'll be warm enough to have some interesting
thoughts. Not tonight, though...

Here are the nominations for Atheist Quote of the Month for January
2004. Vote for your favorite by responding to this thread. Votes will be
accepted until midnight, Jan. 31. See rules below. Questions? Comments?
Email me.
* * * * *

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8) You didn't just accept an offer - you picked one offer out of
thousands. You picked the one you liked the best. If you didn't like
it, you didn't pick it.

You also choose whether or not to play by all the rules. I know you
aren't following every rule set down in the Bible. Because if you
did, you'd be arrested. Not to mention, you picked your bible out of
the hundreds available today.

None of that was God's will as your religion as told it. All of that
was your own choice. Your choice over your God's. No Theist tells
us that he was carefully instructed by God to pick this religion and
follow those rules - the theist always explains how he himself decided
which rule was most important and which was meaningless. He even
takes great pride in his decisions. Even though often those decisions
are the exact opposite of a brother in his own church. If the
brothers choose to fight over the decisions - well we just divy up the
church into us's and them's and make 2 new churches - each with their
own seperate set of rules now.

Where does 'God's' word lie in all that? Where are your morals now?
How trustworthy to anyone can that be?

By: Kate
Nominated: Beowulf
Seconded: Icarus

9) In response to:

"The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.' "

If even a fool can figure it out, what's your excuse?

By: Fred Stone
Nominated: Daniel Kolle
Seconded: Meteorite Debris

9) In response to:

"The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.' "

If even a fool can figure it out, what's your excuse?

By: Fred Stone
Nominated: Daniel Kolle
Seconded: Meteorite Debris

9) In response to:

"The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.' "

If even a fool can figure it out, what's your excuse?

By: Fred Stone
Nominated: Daniel Kolle
Seconded: Meteorite Debris

5) Religion begets fear. And vice versa.

By: Vic Sagerquist
Nominated: Tink
Seconded: Ron Baker

Here are the nominations for Atheist Quote of the Month for January
2004. Vote for your favorite by responding to this thread. Votes will be
accepted until midnight, Jan. 31. See rules below. Questions? Comments?
Email me.

7) In response to:

First it was the flood where he killed millions of innocent humans and
animals. Then it was the murder-suicide on Golgotha. What the ***** is
next?

Flooding the world with "true believers", immune to logic, who believe it
is their divine commission to convert everyone to Xtianity? Creating a
global computer network so those evangelists can annoy people without
having to leave home?

By: MarkA
Nominated: Roy Sinnamond
Seconded: Vic Sagerquist

10) What Christians do is use faith to leap the gap from ignorance to
certainty, and then confuse certainty with knowledge. They end up still
ignorant, but filled with certainty, and that's a revolting combination.
They glorify faith, but faith is just ignorance in disguise.

By: Denis Loubet
Nominated: towelie
Seconded: Liz

9) In response to:

"The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.' "

If even a fool can figure it out, what's your excuse?

By: Fred Stone
Nominated: Daniel Kolle
Seconded: Meteorite Debris

17) In response to a request for Jesus jokes:

There was this guy who created everything in perfection, but it was so
imperfect that he flooded the planet to wipe it out and start over. The
second version was equally imperfect, so he decided to incarnate himself
to free the world from the very evil he himself had created and could
magic away any time he wished. He was born of a virgin, let the
firstborn of every Jew be killed, spoke in riddles, never said a word
against slavery, racism, war, alcohol or abortion. He told everyone in
his best Schwarzeneggar voice, "I'll be back", got nailed to a cross,
and hasn't been heard from since. They call him the Son of God.

Isn't that enough of a joke?!!!

By: Budikka
Nominated: MarkA
Seconded: Levy Oates

It's cold and dreary and cold. Good time to do the Quote of the Month
polling. Maybe in February, I'll be warm enough to have some interesting
thoughts. Not tonight, though...

8) You didn't just accept an offer - you picked one offer out of
thousands. You picked the one you liked the best. If you didn't like
it, you didn't pick it.
You also choose whether or not to play by all the rules. I know you
aren't following every rule set down in the Bible. Because if you
did, you'd be arrested. Not to mention, you picked your bible out of
the hundreds available today.
None of that was God's will as your religion as told it. All of that
was your own choice. Your choice over your God's. No Theist tells
us that he was carefully instructed by God to pick this religion and
follow those rules - the theist always explains how he himself decided
which rule was most important and which was meaningless. He even
takes great pride in his decisions. Even though often those decisions
are the exact opposite of a brother in his own church. If the
brothers choose to fight over the decisions - well we just divy up the
church into us's and them's and make 2 new churches - each with their
own seperate set of rules now.
Where does 'God's' word lie in all that? Where are your morals now?
How trustworthy to anyone can that be?
By: Kate
Nominated: Beowulf
Seconded: Icarus

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9) In response to:

"The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.' "

If even a fool can figure it out, what's your excuse?

By: Fred Stone
Nominated: Daniel Kolle
Seconded: Meteorite Debris

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9) In response to:

"The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.' "

If even a fool can figure it out, what's your excuse?