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| So I bought bumper stickers.
"Evolution is a theory - like gravity!"
and
"God protect me from your followers!"
My parent's first reaction was "Are you trying to get jumped?"
I find this sad.
I see the Jesus fish or the Jesus fish eating the Darwin fish almost every single day. I bet these people never got asked "Are you trying to get jumped?" Why? Because people respect the rights of Christians to express their beliefs.
Atheists, on the other hand, with apologies to Dangerfield, don't get no respect.
What is it about lacking belief in your particular bearded sky dude that suddenly makes us fair game? If I was to even criticize your fish for being ugly, I'd get called out for "Persecution." Yet, the first expectation when I express my opinions openly is that I'll get jumped? There's an inequality here: Someone IS being persecuted.
But it ain't you bloody sods.
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| So I got a new sword for Christmas. I'd be overjoyed, except that there's some people I'm seriously considering using it ON.
See previous rants for some of them, but most of all the most recent. I'm sick of it. Of people, really. Somehow, the majority of people on this Earth have managed to convince themselves that only their invisible fairy in the sky is real. That you need some voyeur watching you all the time to keep you from doing anything "bad." Oh, and the "bad" is also only defined by these people. And frankly, their definition of bad is rather skewed.
Going to war for lies: Good. Go President! God is with us, etc.
A boob on TV: So evil that it will harm children forever. You know, despite being one of the first things a baby sees. Yep. Those evil boobs. They'll kill us all.
And they have the conjones to call us "strange."
As for God being the only thing keeping us moral, I must point out that the divorce rate and crime rate are MUCH lower among professed atheists. Besides, didn't someone rather important say "Judge not, lest you be judged?" They judge me, so I judge them. And though I am mortal and fallible, I can safely say that I find them lacking.
Before you condemn anyone else as going to hell, take a look at your own deeds, your own actions, your own beliefs. Are you really any better than me? I may lack belief, but that means I have violated no decrees: You, on the other hand, are probably violating at least 5 by standing very still and staring at a wall.
"I contend you and I are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why
you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I
dismiss yours"
-Stephen Roberts.
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The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it."
-Terry Pratchett
Oh, and merry whatever-the-hell-you-celebrate.
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| After a looong hiatus, I finally found something that actually got me sufficiently riled to post here again.
http://www.ur.umn.edu/FMPro?-db=releases&-lay=web&-format=umnnewsreleases/releasesdetail.html&ID=2816&-Find
As most of you know, I am an atheist. For obvious reasons, this news, while, frankly, unsurprising, is absolutely disgusting. America prides itself as being the bastion, the beacon, the symbol of liberty, democracy, all good things ending in y. Yet, within this country there are people so distrusted that they could never hold public office under their true feelings, because people, for some reason, feel that they cannot be trusted for what they believe. Somehow, their lack of faith automatically makes them evil and immoral, child molesters, murderers, and the goddamn bogeymen under the beds rolled into one big prejudicial package.
We're the atheists. Nice to meet you. We promise not to eat your children.
Apparently we're the newest whipping boys of those who need a safe target. The homosexuals have stocked their closets with verbal ammunition, the blacks are organized, the liberals are fighting back, so, those who need an easy target no one will support have turned to the atheists. Look at them! They have no god! CLEARLY they must be ebil bastards who wish to turn America into a godless country of debauchery and hedonism and EVIIIIIILLL! AND THEY'RE SUCCEEDING! And I'm YELLING! SO I MUST BE RIGHT!
Meanwhile, the atheists are wondering how the fuck they have that much influence, when they can't even get the President to apologize for calling them unworthy to be citizens, or the Army for claiming that there is no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole.
I'm an atheist. I'm a moral man, for the most part. I do immoral things, from time to time, but so does everyone. Some claim that since we have no god, we have no morality, but yet, as I recall, no one has been killed in the name of atheism. No one has been burned to death on an accusation due to atheism. No one has blown himself up in a crowd because of atheism. No one has used atheism to hide raping children. No one has claimed that atheism told him to murder people.
We are not the problem. We accept religions, for the most part. We accept that you pray to something that we don't think is there. It is YOU, the religious, who are the problem. We accept that you differ from us. You cannot accept that we differ from you. It is YOU, the majority, who cannot accept us. WE have not declared war on YOU: YOU are attacking US. We defend, as best we can, and you cry out that you are being persecuted!
I'm sorry, but there is no right to force your religion on others. Get away from me. Get it out of my face. I don't care if you think I'm going to hell: Every second you try to convince me of such, I'm already there. Go preach to someone else: You'll find no faithful here.
We're here to stay. And you'd best get used to it.
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| Our bus driver is retarded.
That is all.
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| My house is being repainted, right? Stuff has got to be moved, etc. That is why my room now looks like this.
Yeaaaaaaaaaah.
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