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dreamer_marie ([info]dreamer_marie) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-06-24 00:10:00


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Atheists: Like Those Mean Girls in High School, in a Way
Over at the LJ community [info]dark_christian, [info]nebris reposts an article called  An increasingly outspoken community of atheists and agnostics is getting fed up with being marginalized, ignored and insulted. It's mainly about Dawkins's and Hitchens's success with their books about atheism and how it gave a lot of Americans the guts to own up to the fact that they're atheists (apparently atheism is next to communism in the good ol' USA).

It's a direct success when [info]roseross replies, in the first comment:
Militant atheists are the only group other than the Dominionists who scare me because they are so intolerant of others' spiritual beliefs. They insult people who believe differently than they do. They insist that ALL will some day believe as they do, because they're the only people who have it right. They often feel using the government to enforce their worldview is a good idea. In short, the only way to tell the difference between a militant atheist and a Dominionist is which creed they intend all of us to adhere to. For our own good, of course.
People call her on her bovine excrement, but she insists:
Can't count the number of times I've heard militant atheists long for religion to be made illegal. After all, from their point of view, spiritual beliefs are all childish delusions and it would be doing a favor to take the purple unicorns away from the silly people who have not reached the lofty state of atheism on their own. They seem to have no idea why any of that would be insulting to others, or perhaps they just don't care since the insulted folks are just braindead religious folks in the first place.
But why wank when you can have an orgy?
 [info]bobdole asks:
The only other group? So militant atheists scare you in this regard but militant Muslims, for example, do not?
The definitions of the words creed and faith need clarification. Religious scientists get their feelings hurt. People get flashbacks of being outraged. The Constitution is invoked. And much, much more for who is willing to rake through the tl;dr and the "quote-marks."
And will somebody think of the non-Abrahamicists?


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[info]joye
2007-06-24 06:41 am UTC (link)
Bingo!

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[info]queencallipygos
2007-06-25 06:40 pm UTC (link)
Wait. Brainstorm.

Maybe what we need to do is round up all the ill-fitting, narcissistic, melodramatic douchebags at the head of every movement and exile them all to a South Pacific Island, tell them all that they all have to fight it out -- and "fight" can be interpreted however they choose -- and the rest of the world will fall in with how the results shake down.

Except in reality, we'll isolate the island except through a closed-circuit television station, leave them there in perpetuity, and turn the whole thing into a reality show.

Or even better! Round all of them up and make them do an "American Idol" type of thing! Get everyone in the world to call in and vote on their favorite religious or philosophical affiliation. Sanjaya could even come back and represent the pop culture fanset!

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[info]sionja
2007-06-25 11:22 pm UTC (link)
Is there an island large enough?

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[info]aristaea
2007-06-26 12:20 am UTC (link)
Antarctica?

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[info]sionja
2007-06-26 12:21 am UTC (link)
But there are penguins there - cute, adorable penguins. D :

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[info]aristaea
2007-06-26 12:47 am UTC (link)
Probably the penguins have a highly developed philosophy, being stuck in the freezing desert. They would also be the only ones naturally able to catch food on the island. I'd watch that.

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