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Religions > Atheism |
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"Enkidu" |
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18 Dec 2005 11:19:02 PM |
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Salman Rushdie, rational atheist. |
"God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth
year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. ..and afterwards, to prove my
new-found atheism, I bought myself a rather tasteless ham sandwich, and
so partook for the first time of the forbidden flesh of the swine. No
thunderbolt arrived to strike me down. [...] From that day to this I have
thought of myself as a wholly secular person."
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Enkidu AA#2165
http://www.musings.leaddogs.org/
EAC Chaplain and ordained minister,
ULC, Modesto, CA
PGP ID: 0xC4CE8CF0
A man didn’t understand how televisions work, and was convinced that
there must be lots of little men inside the box. manipulating images at
high speed. An engineer explained to him about high frequency modulations
of the electromagnetic spectrum, about transmitters and receivers, about
amplifiers and cathode ray tubes, about scan lines moving across and down
a phosphorescent screen. The man listened to the engineer with careful
attention, nodding his head at every step of the argument. At the end he
pronounced himself satisfied. He really did now understand how
televisions work. "But I expect there are just a few little men in there,
aren’t there?"
-Douglas Adams spoofing creationism, as retold by Richard
Dawkins
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| User: "Abhi" |
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| Title: Re: Salman Rushdie, rational atheist. |
19 Dec 2005 09:01:27 AM |
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Enkidu wrote:
"God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth
year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. ..and afterwards, to prove my
new-found atheism, I bought myself a rather tasteless ham sandwich, and
so partook for the first time of the forbidden flesh of the swine. No
thunderbolt arrived to strike me down. [...] From that day to this I have
thought of myself as a wholly secular person."
Nonsense logic. Do anything, if bolt does not strike, God does not
exist!
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| User: "Uncle Vic" |
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| Title: Re: Salman Rushdie, rational atheist. |
19 Dec 2005 01:01:51 PM |
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Once upon a time in alt.atheism, dear sweet Abhi
(Abhijit_B_Patil@hotmail.com) made the light shine upon us with this:
Enkidu wrote:
"God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth
year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. ..and afterwards, to prove
my new-found atheism, I bought myself a rather tasteless ham
sandwich, and so partook for the first time of the forbidden flesh of
the swine. No thunderbolt arrived to strike me down. [...] From that
day to this I have thought of myself as a wholly secular person."
Nonsense logic. Do anything, if bolt does not strike, God does not
exist!
It works the other way around with Mark 16:17-18 in the Christian bible,
too. Not one Christian will take the challenge.
--
Uncle Vic
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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Only the atheist realizes how morally objectionable it is for survivors of
a catastrophe to believe themselves spared by a loving God while this same
God drowned infants in their cribs. - Sam Harris
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| User: "Fester" |
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| Title: Re: Salman Rushdie, rational atheist. |
19 Dec 2005 04:55:07 AM |
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Enkidu wrote:
"God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth
year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. ..and afterwards, to prove my
new-found atheism, I bought myself a rather tasteless ham sandwich, and
so partook for the first time of the forbidden flesh of the swine. No
thunderbolt arrived to strike me down. [...] From that day to this I have
thought of myself as a wholly secular person."
Reminds me of a dinner I enjoyed with my Mom and some of her friends.
One of the guests, a heck of a nice guy, was talking about how when he
was younger, he sat through religious services in Hebrew and it didn't
make sense to him. He said that one day he went to a temple where the
service was in English, and that day religion started to make sense for
him. I laughed and told him that the day I started to understand what
was really being said and all was the day that religion *stopped* making
sense to me.
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| User: "Uncle Vic" |
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| Title: Re: Salman Rushdie, rational atheist. |
18 Dec 2005 11:35:14 PM |
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Once upon a time in alt.atheism, dear sweet Enkidu
(jdwnx4702@sneakemail.com) made the light shine upon us with this:
"God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth
year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. ..and afterwards, to prove
my new-found atheism, I bought myself a rather tasteless ham sandwich,
and so partook for the first time of the forbidden flesh of the swine.
No thunderbolt arrived to strike me down. [...] From that day to this
I have thought of myself as a wholly secular person."
Gotta do some diggin' on Angelina Jolie, one of my favorite atheists.
--
Uncle Vic
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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Only the atheist realizes how morally objectionable it is for survivors of
a catastrophe to believe themselves spared by a loving God while this same
God drowned infants in their cribs. - Sam Harris
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