So... the First Great Atheist Holy War, who's up for it?

[Pappa]

Stein, don't take this thread so seriously. I was only being 37% serious in the OP, and mostly I've been between 20% and 56% serious in all my subsequent posts here. That's clearly not a lot of seriousity.... like way less than half on average.

[klr]

Atheist Holy War ... shouldn't the very choice of words in the title give a little hint as to the level of seriousness to be found?

And the fact that the thread has spluttered along for almost two years with only sporadic interest ...

[Feck]

Oh I think you should be aware that we have let down, 'Positive Atheism and Secular Activism' we should be ashamed .

[Pappa]

Atheist Holy War ... shouldn't the very choice of words in the title give a little hint as to the level of seriousness to be found?

And the fact that the thread has spluttered along for almost two years with only sporadic interest ...

I've had to bump it every few months just to stop it dying forever.

[DaveDodo007]

Haha. I was pulling your leg too. Nobody felt more encouraged to indulge in massacres than the god of bible fame. Not only was he repeatedly alleged in that tome of truth to have commanded the believers to kill all men, women, and children of his followers' enemy, he even stopped the sun from setting to give them more time to continue with another slaughter.

For those who think of his son as the lovey-dovey type, forget it. From the new testament: "Jesus said, "But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me."" [Luke 19:27] And if you think he disapproved of his dad's policies, think again: "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets; I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily, I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law till all be fulfilled." [Matthew 5: 17, 18]

And by the way, two wrongs don't make a right. And this is hate speech. Think of what a bunch of Old South "good ol' boys" would sound like if they joked about "stringing up them niggers". You are joking about genocide. This matters. It's sick.

Maybe when the webmasters of the Sarah Palin web site put crosshairs on an Arizona map over Congressman Gifford's district, they intended no bodily harm. But the world of the web today is a crowded theater, and they were yelling "Fire", and it does matter, even if you're yelling it with a grin on your faces.

Do you really think the world would be a better place without Nelson Mandela? Without James Orbinski? Well, guess what? They're both believers. But they're both humanitarians too. Aren't they? How inconvenient. I guess that just doesn't count. They're believers; they die. Kinda like they're Jews; they die. Isn't it? I wonder where we've heard that before.............. (and yes, I know bloody well that Hitler was a believer).

You seem to say here that once one is a believer, one is no longer a human. What's next? Are general skeptics like me who insist that believers are still human next on your chopping block? Some here relish the thought of a rumble among us. Well, you've got one. As a skeptic, I've joined a bunch of skeptics fora over the years, and I've given all of them the link to this thread. This is sickening. Scoff about this now, if you can.

Stein

Erm...You know humour, well this is it.

This thread is INTENDED as humor, but it is POOR humor. A skeptic moderator of another skeptics forum just wrote in --

"Not something I would even joke about. Who knows what kind of nutjob might be reading and take it seriously?" (http://www.freeratio.org/showthread.php ... ost6739169)

Exactly.

Stein

So let me get this straight. The religious have spent the last 3 or 4 millennium killing by (genocide, burning at the stake, stoning, torture etc.) oppressing the non believers, women, homosexuals and anyone who didn't share their faith. This is not even including all the killing, prejudice and oppression that is still going on in religious's name even today. Though we the oppressed make a joke about the shoe being on the other foot and we are condemned, really.

Get a sense of perspective or fuck off.

[klr]

Atheist Holy War ... shouldn't the very choice of words in the title give a little hint as to the level of seriousness to be found?

And the fact that the thread has spluttered along for almost two years with only sporadic interest ...

I've had to bump it every few months just to stop it dying forever.

... and it's just shy of 15 months, not two years.

[Feck]

At least on person got the joke on the forum we were reported(I'm telling on you Bwah bwah ) to BTW .... and what's 'positive atheism ' anyway ? is that the same as Atheism 2.0 . There I was thinking not believing in gods makes me an atheist and I get all confused ..It's so hard to stay On Message ,Remind me again what is our forums stated Mission ?

[Don't Panic]

@Papa and the rest of you sick fucks here:

You shouldn't say things like what you've been saying because it upsets Stein. It upset him so much that he had to post a link http://www.rationalskepticism.org/gener ... ml#p783220 over where I normally hang out.

I guess that you people don't realize that you represent all of atheism, and the whole world is watching.

I have to admit to being a bit upset with this thread myself because Blue Cheese and Bacon is so unimaginative. If that is all you have you all should be shot.

Derby Sage is where it's at. No bacon necessary, just some crusty bread and a cold crisp glass bottle of white wine.

When did Rationalia start to "represent all of atheism"? I seem to have missed that memo, and if the "whole world is watching", then it can get back to work and stop slacking off on here.

[klr]

@Papa and the rest of you sick fucks here:

You shouldn't say things like what you've been saying because it upsets Stein. It upset him so much that he had to post a link http://www.rationalskepticism.org/gener ... ml#p783220 over where I normally hang out.

I guess that you people don't realize that you represent all of atheism, and the whole world is watching.

I have to admit to being a bit upset with this thread myself because Blue Cheese and Bacon is so unimaginative. If that is all you have you all should be shot.

Derby Sage is where it's at. No bacon necessary, just some crusty bread and a cold crisp glass bottle of white wine.

When did Rationalia start to "represent all of atheism"? I seem to have missed that memo, and if the "whole world is watching", then it can get back to work and stop slacking off on here.

... and don't mess with someone from Limerick. I have to put on an extra layer of Kevlar every time I go through there.

[Don't Panic]

@Papa and the rest of you sick fucks here:

You shouldn't say things like what you've been saying because it upsets Stein. It upset him so much that he had to post a link http://www.rationalskepticism.org/gener ... ml#p783220 over where I normally hang out.

I guess that you people don't realize that you represent all of atheism, and the whole world is watching.

I have to admit to being a bit upset with this thread myself because Blue Cheese and Bacon is so unimaginative. If that is all you have you all should be shot.

Derby Sage is where it's at. No bacon necessary, just some crusty bread and a cold crisp glass bottle of white wine.

When did Rationalia start to "represent all of atheism"? I seem to have missed that memo, and if the "whole world is watching", then it can get back to work and stop slacking off on here.

... and don't mess with someone from Limerick. I have to put on an extra layer of Kevlar every time I go through there.

Not to self: Tell snipers headshots on Corkonians.

[klr]

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Not to self: Tell snipers headshots on Corkonians.

Note to self: Don't leave the train station.

[Don't Panic]

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Not to self: Tell snipers headshots on Corkonians.

Note to self: Don't leave the train station.

Note to other self: Blow up train station.

[rachelbean]

Pappa better be serious about this stuff. It was his insatiable blood-lust for genocide, rape and baby eating that made me fall in love with him

[klr]

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Not to self: Tell snipers headshots on Corkonians.

Note to self: Don't leave the train station.

Note to other self: Blow up train station.

I can always go the other way, even if that does mean a stopover in Hell on Earth Portarlington.

[Clinton Huxley]

Sorry, I nodded off. Did we win?