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Religions > Atheism |
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"*nemo*" |
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27 May 2004 04:16:09 PM |
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aa - The polls are open! AQOTM for May 2004 |
I'm already ready for a vacation. But it will be close to another month
till I can get away. Drat. Oh well, at least we can all sit back and
enjoy the Quote of the month contests, eh?
Here are the nominations for Atheist Quote of the Month for May 2004.
Vote for your favorite by responding to this thread. Votes will be
accepted until midnight, May. 31. See rules below. Questions? Comments?
Email me.
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1) In response to:
And the bit where she says it's offensive to hear chants from a mosque
- may she remember that the next time someone complains about
Christian prayer at a public function.
She won't...Chrisrters never do. They are always right...billions of
people, practicing thousands of other religions are wrong...I guess
that's the cross they bear.
To protect my irony meter I have, removed the batteries, disassembled it
(no worries...I took plenty of photos...it's rather complicated), placed
the parts into a lead lined safe, some guy named Geordi set up something
called an "irony dispersal field"...whatever....oh, and I shall STILL
spend the week in Miami so I don't get hit with pieces when this one
goes up. Christers are pretty tough on these things.
By: zamboni
Nominated: stoney
Seconded: Tink
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2) In response to:
I forgot. Which Commandment says "Thou shalt stick thy nose in thy
neighbor's business"?
Any one of them. Remember that you have to Believe!! to be able to
correctly INTERPRET them.
This is, of course, indistinguishable from pulling it out of one's *****.
By: Doc Smartass
Nominated: Kate
Seconded: TCS
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3) Evolution is a fundamental concept in Biological Science.
Creationism is a crazy religion invented ca 1960 A.D.
Imagine the hippopotami and all the rest in the Ark
By: Bernard
Nominated: Iain
Seconded: Alun Harford
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4) Yup, Citizen. Thank goodness that teacher was vigilant and
recognized a matter of internal security that transcended boyish
behavior. Before you know it, the whole school could have been a hotbed
of terrorists. Can't be too careful.
By: SMChristenson
Nominated: stoney
Seconded: Harry F. Leopold
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5) In response to:
I suppose you'd rather they be spiritually ignorant and expose them
to the possibility of eternity apart from all good things ...
In a Heaven with church 24/7/ infinity? No food no sex no TV just
singing/preaching all day long? these are the GOOD things? The eternal
revival meeting? Even the Muslims get some virgins, what is the
attraction of this place? No thanks, my kids learn ya gotta act morally
because it's the right thing to do and not because of some invisible
sky daddy's House 'O Pleasure. I rather not lie to my kids.
By: FlamingoMike
Nominated: nemo
Seconded: Vic Sagerquist
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6) Anyone who thinks that we are some sort of favored species that God
has designed to lord over creation just has to take a look at themselves
in the mirror when they're taking a *****.
By: Geoff
Nominated: John Popelish
Seconded: Kate
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7) Absolutely. And I'm sure all the Muslim viewers of these pictures
will forgive us, because it was only a little bit of sexual humiliation
and degrading torture. It's not like that kind of stuff is important to
Islam.
Of course it won't cause them to volunteer for more terrorist suicide
brigades. Because no one would give his life to attack us, just because
we forced Muslim men to engage in simulated sodomy and laughed and
bragged about it.
After all, invading Iraq was done to make us safe from terrorism. It
couldn't possibly be the case that they would get angry at us for
forcing their male citizens to rape each other, and thereby increase the
threat of terrorism.
All we had to do, after all, was show our true colors to the Iraqis and
the rest of the Muslim world, and we'd win their hearts and minds.
This is the Middle East, anyway. Not like it's someplace where they bear
long grudges or remember humiliating defeats. I'm sure this'll just
blow over. Nothing to worry about.
And anybody who says different is soft on terrorism.
By: eyelessgame
Nominated: stoney
Seconded: Dixit
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8) It was my interest in cultural anthropolgy as a young girl that
helped me realize I was an atheist. I loved reading about different
cultures and soon realized that each one had developed a religion to
explain what they couldn't understand. And in each one, the children
were taught that it was true, real etc. It wasn't much of a leap to
realize that Catholicism was the same thing.
By: LanaXZR
Nominated: John M Price PhD
Seconded: Liz
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9) "Culture war" is Reactionaryish for "the struggle to impose on
America a theocratic dictatorship based on MY fundamentalist doctrines,
and mine alone."
By: Gregory Gadow
Nominated: stoney
Seconded: Tink
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10) Mankind is also capable of beauty, decency, love, compassion,
creativity and rationality. Why don't you god-addled motherfuckers
preach that? Are you worried humanity won't want your bloodstained
security blankets anymore?
By: S Bibby
Nominated: raven1
Seconded: Martin Crisp
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11) In response to:
A Creationist Home School <snip>
...is a place where little minds are crushed by small people.
By: Doc Smartass
Nominated: MarkA
Seconded: Gregory Gadow
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12) In response to:
I'm 58 years old, I've been married for 35 years, I had two babies
and I watched both of them be born. I should have a clue by now.
I certainly should have thought so!
By: Circe
Nominated: stoney
Seconded: Charles R Ward
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13) Claiming victory in defeat has been a xian tradition since Jesus
'defeated Satan' by getting his sorry ***** nailed to a cross.
By: spakka
Nominated: Kevin Anthoney
Seconded: Jez
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14) In response to:
"And having food and raiment let us be therewith
content." I Tim 6:8
So many today are discontented, never have what
they want or enough of it.
If humanity had had this attitude, we'd all still be living in caves.
By: nemo
Nominated: raven1
Seconded: Mike Smith
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15) Soooo....they gave a scientific doctorate to a fundamentalist
Christian, for killing thousands of people, including hundreds of his
country's own citizens and endangering and destabilizing the rest of the
world for his own personal crusade??? Oh yeah...you just automatically
want to send your kids off to that place to be educated!!!
By: The Clayton, The ***** And The Wardrobe Drinker
Nominated: stoney
Seconded: Tink
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Here are the rules for the Quote of the Month Contests.
RULES
1. Only atheists and agnostics may participate in the contests.
2. A quote is a valid entry for the contests if:
a. The quote is a brief piece of text;
b. The quote has recently been written in alt.atheism (verifiable);
c. Nomination of the quote is made by an atheist or agnostic
in alt.atheism
d. Nomination of the quote is supported by at least one other
atheist or agnostic in alt.atheism;
e. The quote is not nominated or seconded by the person who wrote it
in
the first place (no one is allowed to nominate him- or herself,
but a person
can vote for the quote he or she wrote.)
3. There will be two categories: 'Atheist Quote of the Month'
and 'Theist Quote of the Month'. The category for which a
quote must be nominated must be mentioned by the atheist or
agnostic who wants to nominate it.
If a quote is miscategorized (e.g. an atheist quote is mistakenly
nominated in the Theist QOTM category), the quote will be re-directed
to appear in the correct category, with approriate notification.
4. Nominations can be made until five days before the first of the
next month. If quotes are nominated after this period, they will be
considered as entries for the contest of the next month.
* When making a nomination, please use this format for the subject
line:
"aa - <A or T as applicable>QOTM Nomination (was: <original thread
name>)"
5. Each atheist or agnostic who visits alt.atheism has one vote to
cast for each category (two votes total).
6. Voting starts 5 days before the end of the month. During the month,
votes will be ignored. This way, all nominees will have equal chance of
winning.
7. The two winning quotes will be published in the QOTM Archive.
SUMMARY
A nomination must contain the following information:
1. The lines of the quote.
2. Who wrote it.
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4. Which category this nomination is for.
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6. The original thread title must appear in the subject line.
Publish the nomination or support for a nomination in a designated
thread, preferably called "[T/A]QoTM Nomination for [month]." You can
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VOTING
1. In the last five days of the month you can cast your vote in both
categories.
2. Votes must either be placed in the designated thread.
--
Nemo - EAC Commissioner for Bible Belt Underwater Operations.
Atheist #1331 (the Palindrome of doom!)
BAAWA Knight! - One of those warm Southern Knights, y'all!
Charter member, SMASH!!
http://home.earthlink.net/~jehdjh/Relpg.html
Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus
Quotemeister since March 2002
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| User: "Mike Smith" |
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| Title: Re: aa - The polls are open! AQOTM for May 2004 |
27 May 2004 07:48:52 PM |
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#14
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ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ
Mike Smith | aa #1164 | Founder of SMASH
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ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
- Psa. 14a
Whoever saith 'thou fool' to his brother shall
be liable to burn in hellfire. - Matt 5:22.
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| User: "John Popelish" |
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| Title: Re: aa - The polls are open! AQOTM for May 2004 |
27 May 2004 07:27:10 PM |
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#6 still tickles me, so I vote for it.
6) Anyone who thinks that we are some sort of favored species that God
has designed to lord over creation just has to take a look at themselves
in the mirror when they're taking a *****.
By: Geoff
Nominated: John Popelish
Seconded: Kate
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John Popelish
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| User: "Denis Loubet" |
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27 May 2004 05:27:06 PM |
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"*nemo*" <nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote in message
news:nemo0037-A1E64B.17160927052004@news05.east.earthlink.net...
(snip)
For the most succinct deflation of theist arrogance, I have to vote:
6) Anyone who thinks that we are some sort of favored species that God
has designed to lord over creation just has to take a look at themselves
in the mirror when they're taking a *****.
By: Geoff
Nominated: John Popelish
Seconded: Kate
--
Denis Loubet
dloubet@io.com
http://www.io.com/~dloubet
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| User: "Yang, AthD \h.c" |
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29 May 2004 03:20:27 AM |
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"*nemo*" <nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote in message
news:nemo0037-A1E64B.17160927052004@news05.east.earthlink.net...
6) Anyone who thinks that we are some sort of favored species that God
has designed to lord over creation just has to take a look at themselves
in the mirror when they're taking a *****.
By: Geoff
Nominated: John Popelish
Seconded: Kate
Incisive.....
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| User: "Roger Andrews" |
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28 May 2004 11:55:32 AM |
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6) Anyone who thinks that we are some sort of favored species that God
has designed to lord over creation just has to take a look at themselves
in the mirror when they're taking a *****.
By: Geoff
Nominated: John Popelish
Seconded: Kate
This one has my vote.
Roger
aa#1477
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| User: "dummie" |
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27 May 2004 11:02:22 PM |
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*nemo* <nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote in message
13) Claiming victory in defeat has been a xian tradition since Jesus
'defeated Satan' by getting his sorry ***** nailed to a cross.
By: spakka
Nominated: Kevin Anthoney
Seconded: Jez
Lucky number 13 made me chortle.
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-Mike#1375
BAAWA Knight!
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| User: "Bob Dog" |
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28 May 2004 10:52:43 AM |
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*nemo* <nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote in message news:<nemo0037-A1E64B.17160927052004@news05.east.earthlink.net>...
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11) In response to:
A Creationist Home School <snip>
...is a place where little minds are crushed by small people.
By: Doc Smartass
Nominated: MarkA
Seconded: Gregory Gadow
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LanaXZR *almost* had my vote until this gem came along.
Bob Dog
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| User: "Brenda Nelson" |
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28 May 2004 03:50:44 PM |
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*nemo* <nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote in message news:<nemo0037-A1E64B.17160927052004@news05.east.earthlink.net>...
7) Absolutely. And I'm sure all the Muslim viewers of these pictures
will forgive us, because it was only a little bit of sexual humiliation
and degrading torture. It's not like that kind of stuff is important to
Islam.
Of course it won't cause them to volunteer for more terrorist suicide
brigades. Because no one would give his life to attack us, just because
we forced Muslim men to engage in simulated sodomy and laughed and
bragged about it.
After all, invading Iraq was done to make us safe from terrorism. It
couldn't possibly be the case that they would get angry at us for
forcing their male citizens to rape each other, and thereby increase the
threat of terrorism.
All we had to do, after all, was show our true colors to the Iraqis and
the rest of the Muslim world, and we'd win their hearts and minds.
This is the Middle East, anyway. Not like it's someplace where they bear
long grudges or remember humiliating defeats. I'm sure this'll just
blow over. Nothing to worry about.
And anybody who says different is soft on terrorism.
By: eyelessgame
Nominated: stoney
Seconded: Dixit
This one gets my vote.
Brenda Nelson, A.A.#34
Chief Wrangler and Ramrod Emeritus
(and Professor of Feline Thermometrics)
EAC Equine Transportation Command/Carne Seca Division
in the Prefecture of Baja, Arizona
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| User: "Fred Stone" |
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| Title: Re: aa - The polls are open! AQOTM for May 2004 |
27 May 2004 08:48:08 PM |
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*nemo* <nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote in news:nemo0037-
A1E64B.17160927052004@news05.east.earthlink.net:
13) Claiming victory in defeat has been a xian tradition since Jesus
'defeated Satan' by getting his sorry ***** nailed to a cross.
This one.
--
Fred Stone
aa# 1369
Cthulhu for President! Why vote for a lesser evil?
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| User: "Doc Smartass" |
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27 May 2004 04:21:36 PM |
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*nemo* <nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote in news:nemo0037-
A1E64B.17160927052004@news05.east.earthlink.net:
6) Anyone who thinks that we are some sort of favored species that God
has designed to lord over creation just has to take a look at themselves
in the mirror when they're taking a *****.
By: Geoff
Nominated: John Popelish
Seconded: Kate
This one.
--
Dr. Smartass
BAAWA Knight of Heckling -- a.a. #1939
Dr. Smartass is unnaturally high in carbohydrates, fats, and sodium.
Consult your physician before consuming Dr. Smartass.
Try New "Religion Pockets!" Flaky crust with a tasty ***** center!
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| User: "Woden" |
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27 May 2004 08:04:30 PM |
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*nemo* <nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote in news:nemo0037-
A1E64B.17160927052004@news05.east.earthlink.net:
I'm going with Doc Smartass this month. Just have to decide between #2
and #11...
Ok. #2 gets my vote.
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2) In response to:
I forgot. Which Commandment says "Thou shalt stick thy nose in thy
neighbor's business"?
Any one of them. Remember that you have to Believe!! to be able to
correctly INTERPRET them.
This is, of course, indistinguishable from pulling it out of one's *****.
By: Doc Smartass
Nominated: Kate
Seconded: TCS
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11) In response to:
A Creationist Home School <snip>
...is a place where little minds are crushed by small people.
By: Doc Smartass
Nominated: MarkA
Seconded: Gregory Gadow
--
Woden
"religion is a socio-political system for controlling people's thoughts,
lives and actions based on ancient myths and superstitions, perpetrated
through generations of subtle yet pervasive brainwashing."
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| User: "Pat Kiewicz" |
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28 May 2004 06:28:46 AM |
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*nemo* said:
#8 gets my vote:
8) It was my interest in cultural anthropolgy as a young girl that
helped me realize I was an atheist. I loved reading about different
cultures and soon realized that each one had developed a religion to
explain what they couldn't understand. And in each one, the children
were taught that it was true, real etc. It wasn't much of a leap to
realize that Catholicism was the same thing.
By: LanaXZR
Nominated: John M Price PhD
Seconded: Liz
--
Pat K. aa#1154 ('someplace.net' is comcast)
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
(attributed to Don Marti)
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| User: "olrik666" |
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27 May 2004 10:26:33 PM |
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*nemo* wrote:
5) In response to:
I suppose you'd rather they be spiritually ignorant and expose them
to the possibility of eternity apart from all good things ...
In a Heaven with church 24/7/ infinity? No food no sex no TV just
singing/preaching all day long? these are the GOOD things? The eternal
revival meeting? Even the Muslims get some virgins, what is the
attraction of this place? No thanks, my kids learn ya gotta act morally
because it's the right thing to do and not because of some invisible
sky daddy's House 'O Pleasure. I rather not lie to my kids.
By: FlamingoMike
Nominated: nemo
Seconded: Vic Sagerquist
Another good month. I'll go with this one.
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| User: "Kevin Anthoney" |
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27 May 2004 04:25:30 PM |
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*nemo* wrote:
I'll go for this one:
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8) It was my interest in cultural anthropolgy as a young girl that
helped me realize I was an atheist. I loved reading about different
cultures and soon realized that each one had developed a religion to
explain what they couldn't understand. And in each one, the children
were taught that it was true, real etc. It wasn't much of a leap to
realize that Catholicism was the same thing.
By: LanaXZR
Nominated: John M Price PhD
Seconded: Liz
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Kevin Anthoney
kanthoney[a]dsl.pipex.com
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| User: "MrD" |
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| Title: Re: aa - The polls are open! AQOTM for May 2004 |
27 May 2004 07:14:08 PM |
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13) Claiming victory in defeat has been a xian tradition since Jesus
'defeated Satan' by getting his sorry ***** nailed to a cross.
By: spakka
Nominated: Kevin Anthoney
Seconded: Jez
Lucky 13 for me.
MrD
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| User: "Alan Hobson" |
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| Title: Re: aa - The polls are open! AQOTM for May 2004 |
01 Jun 2004 09:04:53 AM |
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7) Absolutely. And I'm sure all the Muslim viewers of these pictures
will forgive us, because it was only a little bit of sexual humiliation
and degrading torture. It's not like that kind of stuff is important to
Islam.
Of course it won't cause them to volunteer for more terrorist suicide
brigades. Because no one would give his life to attack us, just because
we forced Muslim men to engage in simulated sodomy and laughed and
bragged about it.
After all, invading Iraq was done to make us safe from terrorism. It
couldn't possibly be the case that they would get angry at us for
forcing their male citizens to rape each other, and thereby increase the
threat of terrorism.
All we had to do, after all, was show our true colors to the Iraqis and
the rest of the Muslim world, and we'd win their hearts and minds.
This is the Middle East, anyway. Not like it's someplace where they bear
long grudges or remember humiliating defeats. I'm sure this'll just
blow over. Nothing to worry about.
And anybody who says different is soft on terrorism.
By: eyelessgame
Nominated: stoney
Seconded: Dixit
I vote for #7
-Alan
aa#1608
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| User: "bogie" |
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28 May 2004 09:33:59 AM |
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8) It was my interest in cultural anthropolgy as a young girl that
helped me realize I was an atheist. I loved reading about different
cultures and soon realized that each one had developed a religion to
explain what they couldn't understand. And in each one, the children
were taught that it was true, real etc. It wasn't much of a leap to
realize that Catholicism was the same thing.
By: LanaXZR
Nominated: John M Price PhD
Seconded: Liz
Yahtzee!
bogie
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| User: "The Clayton, The Bitch And The Wardrobe Drinker" |
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27 May 2004 07:42:21 PM |
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13) Claiming victory in defeat has been a xian tradition since Jesus
'defeated Satan' by getting his sorry ***** nailed to a cross.
By: spakka
Nominated: Kevin Anthoney
Seconded: Jez
This one.
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| User: "Robert Schneider" |
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27 May 2004 09:01:15 PM |
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14) In response to:
"And having food and raiment let us be therewith
content." I Tim 6:8
So many today are discontented, never have what
they want or enough of it.
If humanity had had this attitude, we'd all still be living in caves.
By: nemo
Nominated: raven1
Seconded: Mike Smith
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I vote for #14.
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AA #2149
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| User: "Mushinronsha" |
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27 May 2004 07:44:12 PM |
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10) Mankind is also capable of beauty, decency, love, compassion,
creativity and rationality. Why don't you god-addled motherfuckers
preach that? Are you worried humanity won't want your bloodstained
security blankets anymore?
By: S Bibby
Nominated: raven1
Seconded: Martin Crisp
It has a nice beat, and is easy to dance to.
Mushy
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| User: "George Ricker" |
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28 May 2004 06:48:18 AM |
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8) It was my interest in cultural anthropolgy as a young girl that
helped me realize I was an atheist. I loved reading about different
cultures and soon realized that each one had developed a religion to
explain what they couldn't understand. And in each one, the children
were taught that it was true, real etc. It wasn't much of a leap to
realize that Catholicism was the same thing.
By: LanaXZR
Nominated: John M Price PhD
Seconded: Liz
This gem gets my vote.
--
George Ricker
"Today, at the dawn of the 21st century, the global village is finally
complete. At last it has a global village idiot." John O'Farrell, on
the inauguration of George W. Bush, The Guardian, 1/20/2001
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| User: "Rory B. Bellows" |
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30 May 2004 07:50:09 AM |
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8) It was my interest in cultural anthropolgy as a young girl that
helped me realize I was an atheist. I loved reading about different
cultures and soon realized that each one had developed a religion to
explain what they couldn't understand. And in each one, the children
were taught that it was true, real etc. It wasn't much of a leap to
realize that Catholicism was the same thing.
By: LanaXZR
Nominated: John M Price PhD
Seconded: Liz
This one.
The address is non-existant to frustrate spammers. If you know who I am, you know my real address.
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| User: "Walking on Glass" |
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28 May 2004 07:54:32 PM |
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And it came to pass that *nemo* <nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> did write
in alt.atheism, news:nemo0037-A1E64B.17160927052004
@news05.east.earthlink.net:
6) Anyone who thinks that we are some sort of favored species that God
has designed to lord over creation just has to take a look at themselves
in the mirror when they're taking a *****.
By: Geoff
Nominated: John Popelish
Seconded: Kate
#6. I'm a sucker for toilet humor...
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Walking on Glass (remove NOSPAM to email me)
AA #2053 Zymurgist #12
"If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or
you can inoculate...Try science"
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27 May 2004 11:56:17 PM |
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Great Lord *nemo* <nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net>, braving the raging
storm, scaled the mighty crag called alt.atheism on Thu, 27 May 2004
21:16:09 GMT and screamed this to the uncaring Gods.
#11 for me.
11) In response to:
A Creationist Home School <snip>
...is a place where little minds are crushed by small people.
By: Doc Smartass
Nominated: MarkA
Seconded: Gregory Gadow
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"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as
when they do it from religious conviction."
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), Pense'es, #894.
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| User: "Ron Baker, Pluralitas!" |
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28 May 2004 02:11:20 PM |
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I vote for #8.
8) It was my interest in cultural anthropolgy as a young girl that
helped me realize I was an atheist. I loved reading about different
cultures and soon realized that each one had developed a religion to
explain what they couldn't understand. And in each one, the children
were taught that it was true, real etc. It wasn't much of a leap to
realize that Catholicism was the same thing.
By: LanaXZR
Nominated: John M Price PhD
Seconded: Liz
Runners-up #6 and #13.
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27 May 2004 06:39:08 PM |
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In alt.atheism article <nemo0037-A1E64B.17160927052004@news05.east.earthlink.net> *nemo* <nemo0037@earthlink.diespam.net> wrote:
: 8) It was my interest in cultural anthropolgy as a young girl that
: helped me realize I was an atheist. I loved reading about different
: cultures and soon realized that each one had developed a religion to
: explain what they couldn't understand. And in each one, the children
: were taught that it was true, real etc. It wasn't much of a leap to
: realize that Catholicism was the same thing.
: By: LanaXZR
: Nominated: John M Price PhD
: Seconded: Liz
This one. Reasoning with data to arrive at a general principle.
Excellent. May all the theists read this and, perhaps, think.
(c) 2004. Copyright, John M. Price, PhD. All Rights Reserved.
Contents may not be republished in any form or medium without prior
written consent of the author with the express and only exception of
followup postings limited to and within usenet.
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Three great scientific theories of the structure of the universe are
the molecular, the corpuscular and the atomic. A fourth affirms, with
Haeckel, the condensation or precipitation of matter from ether --
whose existence is proved by the condensation or precipitation ... A
fifth theory is held by idiots, but it is doubtful if they know any
more about the matter than the others.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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28 May 2004 12:54:35 AM |
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In article <nemo0037-A1E64B.17160927052004@news05.east.earthlink.net>,
*nemo* <nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote:
10) Mankind is also capable of beauty, decency, love, compassion,
creativity and rationality. Why don't you god-addled motherfuckers
preach that? Are you worried humanity won't want your bloodstained
security blankets anymore?
By: S Bibby
Nominated: raven1
Seconded: Martin Crisp
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I'll vote for No. 10.
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John Hachmann aa #1782
"Men become civilized not in their willingness to believe, but in
proportion to their readiness to doubt." - H. L. Mencken
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30 May 2004 08:06:02 PM |
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In article <nemo0037-A1E64B.17160927052004@news05.east.earthlink.net>,
*nemo* <nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote:
8) It was my interest in cultural anthropolgy as a young girl that
helped me realize I was an atheist. I loved reading about different
cultures and soon realized that each one had developed a religion to
explain what they couldn't understand. And in each one, the children
were taught that it was true, real etc. It wasn't much of a leap to
realize that Catholicism was the same thing.
By: LanaXZR
Nominated: John M Price PhD
Seconded: Liz
I really like this one. If only more theists would turn on their brains
just this much the world would be a better place.
Lee Dimas
aa#11101111001
Surely you can figure out my address.
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30 May 2004 09:07:10 AM |
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In article <nemo0037-A1E64B.17160927052004@news05.east.earthlink.net>,
nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net says...
I'm already ready for a vacation. But it will be close to another month
till I can get away. Drat. Oh well, at least we can all sit back and
enjoy the Quote of the month contests, eh?
Here are the nominations for Atheist Quote of the Month for May 2004.
Vote for your favorite by responding to this thread. Votes will be
accepted until midnight, May. 31. See rules below. Questions? Comments?
Email me.
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2) In response to:
I forgot. Which Commandment says "Thou shalt stick thy nose in thy
neighbor's business"?
Any one of them. Remember that you have to Believe!! to be able to
correctly INTERPRET them.
This is, of course, indistinguishable from pulling it out of one's *****.
By: Doc Smartass
Nominated: Kate
Seconded: TCS
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This one.
BDK
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27 May 2004 04:35:14 PM |
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Lots of good ones, but I'm going to toot my own horn this time (oh, get your
mind out of the gutters!)
9) "Culture war" is Reactionaryish for "the struggle to impose on
America a theocratic dictatorship based on MY fundamentalist doctrines,
and mine alone."
By: Gregory Gadow
Nominated: stoney
Seconded: Tink
--
Gregory Gadow
techbear@serv.net
http://www.serv.net/~techbear
"If you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you."
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28 May 2004 05:46:27 PM |
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Number seven.
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7) Absolutely. And I'm sure all the Muslim viewers of these pictures
will forgive us, because it was only a little bit of sexual humiliation
and degrading torture. It's not like that kind of stuff is important to
Islam.
Of course it won't cause them to volunteer for more terrorist suicide
brigades. Because no one would give his life to attack us, just because
we forced Muslim men to engage in simulated sodomy and laughed and
bragged about it.
After all, invading Iraq was done to make us safe from terrorism. It
couldn't possibly be the case that they would get angry at us for
forcing their male citizens to rape each other, and thereby increase the
threat of terrorism.
All we had to do, after all, was show our true colors to the Iraqis and
the rest of the Muslim world, and we'd win their hearts and minds.
This is the Middle East, anyway. Not like it's someplace where they bear
long grudges or remember humiliating defeats. I'm sure this'll just
blow over. Nothing to worry about.
And anybody who says different is soft on terrorism.
By: eyelessgame
Nominated: stoney
Seconded: Dixit
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30 May 2004 05:14:51 PM |
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On Thu 27 May 2004 05:16:09pm EDT, one who goes by the
pseudonym "*nemo*" said in alt.atheism:
This one:
8) It was my interest in cultural anthropolgy as a young
girl that helped me realize I was an atheist. I loved
reading about different cultures and soon realized that
each one had developed a religion to explain what they
couldn't understand. And in each one, the children were
taught that it was true, real etc. It wasn't much of a
leap to realize that Catholicism was the same thing.
By: LanaXZR
Nominated: John M Price PhD
Seconded: Liz
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27 May 2004 05:21:31 PM |
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On Thu, 27 May 2004 16:16:09 -0500, nemo* wrote
(in article <nemo0037-A1E64B.17160927052004@news05.east.earthlink.net>):
4) Yup, Citizen. Thank goodness that teacher was vigilant and
recognized a matter of internal security that transcended boyish
behavior. Before you know it, the whole school could have been a hotbed
of terrorists. Can't be too careful.
By: SMChristenson
I'm sticking with this one.
--
Harry F. Leopold
aa #2076
AA/Vet #4
The Prints of Darkness
(remove gene to email)
³We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages
down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new
vocabulary."-James D. Nicoll
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27 May 2004 05:51:37 PM |
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On Thu, 27 May 2004 21:16:09 +0000 in episode
<nemo0037-A1E64B.17160927052004@news05.east.earthlink.net> we saw our hero
*nemo* <nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net>:
6) Anyone who thinks that we are some sort of favored species that God
has designed to lord over creation just has to take a look at themselves
in the mirror when they're taking a *****.
By: Geoff
Nominated: John Popelish
Seconded: Kate
This one.
Hard choice. Lots of good ones...
--
Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
"I think it's the worst kept secret in Washington.
That everybody - everybody I talk to in Washington
has known and fully knows what [the neo-conservative]
agenda was and what they were trying to do."
[Retired General Anthony Zinni]
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28 May 2004 03:47:23 AM |
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On Thu, 27 May 2004 21:16:09 GMT the ET form known as
*nemo*<nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> sent a radio signal across the
vast expanse of deep space -._.--._.--._.--._.--._.--._.
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10) Mankind is also capable of beauty, decency, love, compassion,
creativity and rationality. Why don't you god-addled motherfuckers
preach that? Are you worried humanity won't want your bloodstained
security blankets anymore?
By: S Bibby
Nominated: raven1
Seconded: Martin Crisp
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Number 10.
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27 May 2004 06:39:19 PM |
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On Thu, 27 May 2004 21:16:09 GMT, *nemo*
<nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> in news message
<nemo0037-A1E64B.17160927052004@news05.east.earthlink.net> wrote:
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I vote for the pithy #11.
11) In response to:
A Creationist Home School <snip>
...is a place where little minds are crushed by small people.
By: Doc Smartass
Nominated: MarkA
Seconded: Gregory Gadow
Überwench #658 Now a *real* atheist!
Dame Liz the Undaunted Ath.D BAAWA
Charter Member of SMASH
and Queen of the known universe
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27 May 2004 04:52:22 PM |
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On Thu, 27 May 2004 21:16:09 GMT, *nemo*
<nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote:
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2) In response to:
I forgot. Which Commandment says "Thou shalt stick thy nose in thy
neighbor's business"?
Any one of them. Remember that you have to Believe!! to be able to
correctly INTERPRET them.
This is, of course, indistinguishable from pulling it out of one's *****.
By: Doc Smartass
Nominated: Kate
Seconded: TCS
This is a classic and has my vote
6) Anyone who thinks that we are some sort of favored species that God
has designed to lord over creation just has to take a look at themselves
in the mirror when they're taking a *****.
By: Geoff
Nominated: John Popelish
Seconded: Kate
This one was a close second....
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27 May 2004 08:40:45 PM |
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On Thu, 27 May 2004 21:16:09 GMT, *nemo*
<nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote:
13) Claiming victory in defeat has been a xian tradition since Jesus
'defeated Satan' by getting his sorry ***** nailed to a cross.
This one, please.
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30 May 2004 09:15:25 PM |
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On Thu, 27 May 2004 21:16:09 GMT, *nemo*
<nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote:
15) Soooo....they gave a scientific doctorate to a fundamentalist
Christian, for killing thousands of people, including hundreds of his
country's own citizens and endangering and destabilizing the rest of the
world for his own personal crusade??? Oh yeah...you just automatically
want to send your kids off to that place to be educated!!!
By: The Clayton, The ***** And The Wardrobe Drinker
Nominated: stoney
Seconded: Tink
This one.
--
Ed. Stoebenau
a #143
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27 May 2004 04:27:27 PM |
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On Thu, 27 May 2004 21:16:09 GMT, *nemo*
<nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote:
8) It was my interest in cultural anthropolgy as a young girl that
helped me realize I was an atheist. I loved reading about different
cultures and soon realized that each one had developed a religion to
explain what they couldn't understand. And in each one, the children
were taught that it was true, real etc. It wasn't much of a leap to
realize that Catholicism was the same thing.
By: LanaXZR
Nominated: John M Price PhD
Seconded: Liz
Nail, meet LanaXZR with hammer.
--
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thessalonians 5:21)
W. Syme (pseudonym), European, non-native English speaker, "soft" atheist.
Email will not be read.
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27 May 2004 11:07:38 PM |
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On Thu, 27 May 2004 21:16:09 GMT, *nemo*
<nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote:
I love the two that I nominated, but this one is spot-on. It gets my
vote.
7) Absolutely. And I'm sure all the Muslim viewers of these pictures
will forgive us, because it was only a little bit of sexual humiliation
and degrading torture. It's not like that kind of stuff is important to
Islam.
Of course it won't cause them to volunteer for more terrorist suicide
brigades. Because no one would give his life to attack us, just because
we forced Muslim men to engage in simulated sodomy and laughed and
bragged about it.
After all, invading Iraq was done to make us safe from terrorism. It
couldn't possibly be the case that they would get angry at us for
forcing their male citizens to rape each other, and thereby increase the
threat of terrorism.
All we had to do, after all, was show our true colors to the Iraqis and
the rest of the Muslim world, and we'd win their hearts and minds.
This is the Middle East, anyway. Not like it's someplace where they bear
long grudges or remember humiliating defeats. I'm sure this'll just
blow over. Nothing to worry about.
And anybody who says different is soft on terrorism.
By: eyelessgame
Nominated: stoney
Seconded: Dixit
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30 May 2004 05:24:55 PM |
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On Thu, 27 May 2004 21:16:09 GMT, *nemo*
<nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net>, Message ID:
<nemo0037-A1E64B.17160927052004@news05.east.earthlink.net> wrote in
alt.atheism;
15) Soooo....they gave a scientific doctorate to a fundamentalist
Christian, for killing thousands of people, including hundreds of his
country's own citizens and endangering and destabilizing the rest of the
world for his own personal crusade??? Oh yeah...you just automatically
want to send your kids off to that place to be educated!!!
By: The Clayton, The ***** And The Wardrobe Drinker
Nominated: stoney
Seconded: Tink
Stoney
"Designated Rascal and Rapscallion
and
SCAMPERMEISTER!"
When in doubt, SCAMPER about!
When things are fair, SCAMPER everywhere!
When things are rough, can't SCAMPER enough!
/end humour alert
alt.atheism military veteran #11
{so much for the 'no atheists in foxholes' rubbish}
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27 May 2004 04:44:34 PM |
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On Thu, 27 May 2004 21:16:09 GMT, *nemo* <nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net>
wrote:
8) It was my interest in cultural anthropolgy as a young girl that
helped me realize I was an atheist. I loved reading about different
cultures and soon realized that each one had developed a religion to
explain what they couldn't understand. And in each one, the children
were taught that it was true, real etc. It wasn't much of a leap to
realize that Catholicism was the same thing.
By: LanaXZR
Nominated: John M Price PhD
Seconded: Liz
I vote for #8, by LanaXZR
I add an honourable mention for #13, by spakka, which has the makings of a
..sig
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13) Claiming victory in defeat has been a xian tradition since Jesus
'defeated Satan' by getting his sorry ***** nailed to a cross.
By: spakka
Nominated: Kevin Anthoney
Seconded: Jez
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One day in alt.atheism, Also Sprach *nemo*:
13) Claiming victory in defeat has been a xian tradition since Jesus
'defeated Satan' by getting his sorry ***** nailed to a cross.
By: spakka
Nominated: Kevin Anthoney
Seconded: Jez
This one for me.
--
Vic Sagerquist
aa#2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department
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It's my funeral and I'll fry if I want to...
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27 May 2004 04:28:49 PM |
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This one:
1) In response to:
And the bit where she says it's offensive to hear chants from a mosque
- may she remember that the next time someone complains about
Christian prayer at a public function.
She won't...Chrisrters never do. They are always right...billions of
people, practicing thousands of other religions are wrong...I guess
that's the cross they bear.
To protect my irony meter I have, removed the batteries, disassembled it
(no worries...I took plenty of photos...it's rather complicated), placed
the parts into a lead lined safe, some guy named Geordi set up something
called an "irony dispersal field"...whatever....oh, and I shall STILL
spend the week in Miami so I don't get hit with pieces when this one
goes up. Christers are pretty tough on these things.
By: zamboni
Nominated: stoney
Seconded: Tink
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Another Apostate
anotherapo@hotmail.com
aa #2182
"If you are ethical only because you believe in God, you are buying your
ticket to heaven or trying to tear up your ticket to hell. In either case,
you are just being a shrewd profiteer, nothing else. The idea of being
ethical is to be ethical for no reason except that that is the way to be if
you want the world to run smoothly. I think that people who say virtue is
its own reward or honesty is the best policy have the right idea."
-Issac Asimov
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02 Jun 2004 05:25:55 PM |
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Well, I generally like what I write myself, but it seems less to the
point of a.a than this:
8) It was my interest in cultural anthropolgy as a young girl that
helped me realize I was an atheist. I loved reading about different
cultures and soon realized that each one had developed a religion to
explain what they couldn't understand. And in each one, the children
were taught that it was true, real etc. It wasn't much of a leap to
realize that Catholicism was the same thing.
By: LanaXZR
Nominated: John M Price PhD
Seconded: Liz
eyelessgame
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31 May 2004 11:49:54 AM |
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at news:nemo0037-A1E64B.17160927052004@news05.east.earthlink.net *nemo*
<nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote in news:nemo0037-
A1E64B.17160927052004@news05.east.earthlink.net:
2) In response to:
I forgot. Which Commandment says "Thou shalt stick thy nose in thy
neighbor's business"?
Any one of them. Remember that you have to Believe!! to be able to
correctly INTERPRET them.
This is, of course, indistinguishable from pulling it out of one's *****.
By: Doc Smartass
Nominated: Kate
Seconded: TCS
I choose this one,
Arjen Klaver
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27 May 2004 04:45:50 PM |
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my vote:
On Thu, 27 May 2004 21:16:09 GMT, *nemo* <nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote:
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7) Absolutely. And I'm sure all the Muslim viewers of these pictures
will forgive us, because it was only a little bit of sexual humiliation
and degrading torture. It's not like that kind of stuff is important to
Islam.
Of course it won't cause them to volunteer for more terrorist suicide
brigades. Because no one would give his life to attack us, just because
we forced Muslim men to engage in simulated sodomy and laughed and
bragged about it.
After all, invading Iraq was done to make us safe from terrorism. It
couldn't possibly be the case that they would get angry at us for
forcing their male citizens to rape each other, and thereby increase the
threat of terrorism.
All we had to do, after all, was show our true colors to the Iraqis and
the rest of the Muslim world, and we'd win their hearts and minds.
This is the Middle East, anyway. Not like it's someplace where they bear
long grudges or remember humiliating defeats. I'm sure this'll just
blow over. Nothing to worry about.
And anybody who says different is soft on terrorism.
By: eyelessgame
Nominated: stoney
Seconded: Dixit
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