Adopt-an-Atheist

[Bella Fortuna]

Cos apparently you're not allowed to celebrate CHRISTmas (TM) if you're not Christian.

http://www.catholicleague.org/adopt-an- ... ns/?mid=54

"but eventually they may come to understand that they were Christian all along."

[Ayaan]

From The Catholic League:

Catholic League president Bill Donohue explains why the Catholic League is starting a new initiative aimed at atheists:

Approximately 80 percent of Americans are Christian, and 96 percent celebrate Christmas. Of the 20 percent who are not Christian, non-believers make up the largest segment, though the number of self-identified atheists is tiny. David Silverman, president of American Atheists, knows this to be true, which is why he is frantically trying to inflate his base. “We want people to realize that there may be atheists in their family,” he told the New York Times, “even if those atheists don’t even know they are atheists.”

We think there is some merit in David’s idea, even if he has things backwards, as usual. Today we are launching our “Adopt An Atheist” campaign, the predicate of which is, “We want atheists to realize that there may be Christians in their community, even if those Christians don’t even know they are Christian.”

Here’s what our campaign entails. We are asking everyone to contact the American Atheist affiliate in his area [click here], letting them know of your interest in “adopting” one of them. All it takes is an e-mail. Let them know of your sincere interest in working with them to uncover their inner self. They may be resistant at first, but eventually they may come to understand that they were Christian all along.

If we hurry, these closeted Christians can celebrate Christmas like the rest of us. As an added bonus, they will no longer be looked upon as people who “believe in nothing, stand for nothing and are good for nothing.”

[klr]

How about an "Ignore a smarmy Christian" campaign?

[Twoflower]

Merged.

[Bella Fortuna]

How about an "Ignore a smarmy Christian" campaign?

I've been participating in that for years!

[Animavore]

FAIL!

It's easy to see how a person can be an atheist and not realise it. Before I learned that's what I technically was I thought God and religion were bullshit since a child. I just didn't realise there was a name for it.
It's hard to see how that works the other way. How can you be a believer in Christ and not realise it?

[klr]

Damn, I haven't seen a thread merge as fast as that since back "you-know-where"

FAIL!

It's easy to see how a person can be an atheist and not realise it. Before I learned that's what I technically was I thought God and religion were bullshit since a child. I just didn't realise there was a name for it.
It's hard to see how that works the other way. How can you be a believer in Christ and not realise it?

Maybe because you never knew that there was any other way.

[Animavore]

I love this.

If we hurry, these closeted Christians can celebrate Christmas like the rest of us. As an added bonus, they will no longer be looked upon as people who “believe in nothing, stand for nothing and are good for nothing.”

Come to the land of your Catholic forefathers, Mr. Donohue. Witness a Catholic church ruined by controversy. Ask anyone under thirty if they give a fuck no one believes in God any more. And find out who are the ones looked down upon now.

[Bella Fortuna]

I love this.

If we hurry, these closeted Christians can celebrate Christmas like the rest of us. As an added bonus, they will no longer be looked upon as people who “believe in nothing, stand for nothing and are good for nothing.”

Come to the land of your Catholic forefathers, Mr. Donohue. Witness a Catholic church ruined by controversy. Ask anyone under thirty if they give a fuck no one believes in God any more. And find out who are the ones looked down upon now.

That quote is far more indicative of their biased views than how atheists generally feel about themselves!

[Animavore]

That quote is far more indicative of their biased views than how atheists generally feel about themselves!

Of course it is. I used to believe that's what an atheist was. Someone who believes in nothing, because that's what they, the Church, want you to think. That atheists are lost, miserable creatures who had lost their soul and needed to come home like the prodigal son. It's because of this view that I went looking into spirituality without god like Buddhism and Taoism in my early twenties because I thought you had to believe in 'something'. It wasn't until I read Derren Brown that I realised I didn't have to believe in anything at all if there was no valid reason to and an atheist was not what I was told it was. That they lied to me.

[Tero]

Hmm, I gave up on the Unitarians cause they were too fucking tolerant. Libruls gotta kick some ass!

[Ian]

Can't celebrate Christmas without being Christian?

Well then I say nobody is allowed to get drunk on St. Patrick's Day unless they're Irish.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Can't celebrate Christmas without being Christian?

Well than I say nobody is allowed to get drunk on St. Patrick's Day unless they're Irish.

Or can't lay chocolate eggs at Easter.

[Animavore]

Can't celebrate Christmas without being Christian?

Well then I say nobody is allowed to get drunk on St. Patrick's Day unless they're Irish.

[Bella Fortuna]

That quote is far more indicative of their biased views than how atheists generally feel about themselves!

Of course it is. I used to believe that's what an atheist was. Someone who believes in nothing, because that's what they, the Church, want you to think. That atheists are lost, miserable creatures who had lost their soul and needed to come home like the prodigal son. It's because of this view that I went looking into spirituality without god like Buddhism and Taoism in my early twenties because I thought you had to believe in 'something'. It wasn't until I read Derren Brown that I realised I didn't have to believe in anything at all if there was no valid reason to and an atheist was not what I was told it was. That they lied to me.

We got you?

Worth it.