(Insert rapture joke here.)

""They say there's no atheists in foxholes, but there's probably no atheists in rockets," said Catholic astronaut Col. Mike Good, who said his belief in God as creator was solidified by the awe-inspiring views he saw from space."


I'm not sure I get the context of this quote. It sounds like he's making fun of people that suggest an atheist can't fight for the military, as well as the fact an atheist will never be an astronaut.

Am I missing something here?

+1

As a Dawkin's level atheist cum reformed Catholic. fark everything about this.

dj42: ""They say there's no atheists in foxholes, but there's probably no atheists in rockets," said Catholic astronaut Col. Mike Good, who said his belief in God as creator was solidified by the awe-inspiring views he saw from space."



I'm not sure I get the context of this quote. It sounds like he's making fun of people that suggest an atheist can't fight for the military, as well as the fact an atheist will never be an astronaut.

Am I missing something here?

Science - A Catholic Invention.

All us Atheists are down here thinking, "Heh, what's the point of going into space, we have plenty of evolution to keep us occupied."

I'd personally tell him to go pound sand considering how much religion has held back science over the centuries.

I realize it was aphoristic, but I'm pretty sure there are atheists that look up to the sky, know that trillions of planets are out there, and don't cry in a ball or resort to dumb religions, but they are vigilant and determined to explore.

What an arrogant fark to assume someone would need his god, his religion to do something that will probably result in death, for the greater good.

dj42: I realize it was aphoristic, but I'm pretty sure there are atheists that look up to the sky, know that trillions of planets are out there, and don't cry in a ball or resort to dumb religions, but they are vigilant and determined to explore.

What an arrogant fark to assume someone would need his god, his religion to do something that will probably result in death, for the greater good.

So if the dali lama called you to say "hey, I think what you're doing is awesome, I'm going to say a prayer for you" you would tell him to fark off?

To The Escape Zeppelin!: So if the dali lama called you to say "hey, I think what you're doing is awesome, I'm going to say a prayer for you" you would tell him to fark off?

I'm a looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-lagunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.

Groaning is almost laughter.

swahnhennessy: Groaning is almost laughter.

Would of got a slightly more pleasant groan if it was "He says even though Catholics in space are weightless they still have mass"

fark the pope. fark him in his nazi-youth pedophile stupid grinning face.

To The Escape Zeppelin!:
So if the dali lama called you to say "hey, I think what you're doing is awesome, I'm going to say a prayer for you" you would tell him to fark off?
Yes. Him too. I don't need his pointless prayer if I'm already doing something awesome.

Fank, be careful, his prayers extend faster than the speed of light, trillions of miles away, to the baby jesus.

I went to a Catholic wedding yesterday. Not my first, but I finally swore to my wife that I wasn't doing that ever again.

It's farking creepy all those rituals and mob chanting. I get so down trying to figure out why the fark all these people adhere to this shiat--and I don't know which is worse, if they really believe in it or if they're just going through the motions through some perverse sense of tradition or obligation.

Yep. Typical responses. sure is buttmad in here. Never change, guys.

/Buzz recieved communion on the moon. You biatch about religion in your basement.

dj42: ""They say there's no atheists in foxholes, but there's probably no atheists in rockets," said Catholic astronaut Col. Mike Good, who said his belief in God as creator was solidified by the awe-inspiring views he saw from space."


I'm not sure I get the context of this quote. It sounds like he's making fun of people that suggest an atheist can't fight for the military, as well as the fact an atheist will never be an astronaut.

Am I missing something here?

The quote in question is poking fun at the stereotypical atheist for being shallow. The original was coined back when war was a much more serious business.
When ten guys could walk into a field, three walk out, and those in charge called it a good days work.

I suspect that being in such an absurd situation makes one think about life in a different light. Your also exposed to heavy doses of religion by those around you trying to cope.

I've always taken it to mean that when the shiat gets real, even the most self serving douche will find God (or some kind of substitute).

You jump on a rocket and make it to the ISS, you've officially become one of less than a hundred luckiest creatures in the known universe... It's probably hard to come back from that thinking it's all random chance when you've just won the cosmic lottery, at a few hundred trillion to one odds.

/Or so the Pope happens to think.
/YMMV

randomjsa: I'd personally tell him to go pound sand considering how much religion has held back science over the centuries.

Considering what man has done with a lot of the byproducts of science; it might be the only thing that has kept us from farking blowing ourselves out of existence.

way south: The quote in question is poking fun at the stereotypical atheist for being shallow. The original was coined back when war was a much more serious business.
When ten guys could walk into a field, three walk out, and those in charge called it a good days work.

I suspect that being in such an absurd situation makes one think about life in a different light. Your also exposed to heavy doses of religion by those around you trying to cope.


In other words, what I was asking was rhetorical?

That it's an affront to all intelligent and capable individuals that do not happen to be religious, that someone might suggest they can't fight and can't be astronauts.

Yeah it was once a belief. A very stupid one, that people that didn't believe in a God or another mythological Deity couldn't get behind a cause.

dj42: way south: The quote in question is poking fun at the stereotypical atheist for being shallow. The original was coined back when war was a much more serious business.
When ten guys could walk into a field, three walk out, and those in charge called it a good days work.

I suspect that being in such an absurd situation makes one think about life in a different light. Your also exposed to heavy doses of religion by those around you trying to cope.


In other words, what I was asking was rhetorical?

That it's an affront to all intelligent and capable individuals that do not happen to be religious, that someone might suggest they can't fight and can't be astronauts.

Yeah it was once a belief. A very stupid one, that people that didn't believe in a God or another mythological Deity couldn't get behind a cause.

I dunno if it has to be a diety, but wouldn't you agree it has to be something?

War is a trial of faith. Going without one is unthinkable to religious people. It's like saying your going to go mountain climbing without rope.
Yea you could... But would you? On a REAL mountain?

If your one that studies the stars and sees trillions of places your atoms could have ended up besides here, can you really believe it's nothing but roles of the dice that brought us here?

Yes it's possible, but it's not a very romantic view of things.

so benny the dick licker distracts people from the whole st. john pedophile the second thing by calling major tom from scandal control? what a prick.

/penis

way south: I dunno if it has to be a diety, but wouldn't you agree it has to be something?

i didn't suggest it was one.

and no, i don't think there's something that must "be" that "was responsible."

The entire Earth is like a tiny little grain of sand as far as we know.

Wouldn't it be amazing to you to be a little thing like some bacteria running around on the beach, not realizing there is actually more than the one grain of sand you live around, and someone goes, "Hey, we are actually part of a something we like to call a 'beach,' and we think there might be things like water, and land, and maybe we're a part of it!"

And then some of you go "Oh, well, we just deal with this particle sand-bit, and don't want to be informed about other shiat, because it makes no sense to us!"

And then you listen to the astrophysicists and string-theorists (if at all) and just go "they are nuts! who could imagine other shiat going on in other grains of sand! God and all that has told us so!"

And one day, maybe your little bacterium of shiat farks detects another little bacterium shiat-fark. fark, maybe, it was because of some unknown force... and you two groups meet and you go "JEALOJOWIEINWFWEFWEF."

And the people that knew there was life, that knew there were more grains of sand, knew about the tides, and knew about animals and creatures and everything you don't know about because you are a tiny, tiny little thing... they just laughed.

dj42: ""They say there's no atheists in foxholes, but there's probably no atheists in rockets," said Catholic astronaut Col. Mike Good, who said his belief in God as creator was solidified by the awe-inspiring views he saw from space."


I'm not sure I get the context of this quote. It sounds like he's making fun of people that suggest an atheist can't fight for the military, as well as the fact an atheist will never be an astronaut.

Am I missing something here?

No, it's typical Catholic claptrap. I hear it all the time whenever I bring up outrageous notions like marriage equality. See, from the Catholic perspective, everyone else is just plain wrong, and there's nothing more to discuss.

He is making fun of atheists, yes, because to him, it's unimaginable that anyone could lead a responsible adult life without believing in some kind of supernatural intelligence, preferably the same one that he does.

Many religious people absurdly believe that anything with a big wow factor is "proof" of God, because it's apparently unbelievable that anything completely natural might impress an ordinary human being. I have to say to that that the only things I've seen as memorable as great natural works are the horrors that humans perpetrate -- which must be evidence of something pretty big, I'll agree.

"Hey Bob, why are we wasting time talking to the dude in the funny hat? Don't we have science to do?"

Sylvia_Bandersnatch: dj42: ""They say there's no atheists in foxholes, but there's probably no atheists in rockets," said Catholic astronaut Col. Mike Good, who said his belief in God as creator was solidified by the awe-inspiring views he saw from space."


I'm not sure I get the context of this quote. It sounds like he's making fun of people that suggest an atheist can't fight for the military, as well as the fact an atheist will never be an astronaut.

Am I missing something here?

No, it's typical Catholic claptrap. I hear it all the time whenever I bring up outrageous notions like marriage equality. See, from the Catholic perspective, everyone else is just plain wrong, and there's nothing more to discuss.

He is making fun of atheists, yes, because to him, it's unimaginable that anyone could lead a responsible adult life without believing in some kind of supernatural intelligence, preferably the same one that he does.

Many religious people absurdly believe that anything with a big wow factor is "proof" of God, because it's apparently unbelievable that anything completely natural might impress an ordinary human being. I have to say to that that the only things I've seen as memorable as great natural works are the horrors that humans perpetrate -- which must be evidence of something pretty big, I'll agree.

Thanks for explaining it. I was being rhetorical, assuming people got that. Touchdown! *spikes the ball* "I want to thank God first, then my mother, and my father, and my trainer. I worked so hard to get a touchdown. Thank God for this!"

Also, I have you noted as a bisexual-fiscal-conservative-libertarian Krusty. Not that there's anything wrong with that... you're in my frien...OMG, AM IS IT FRIDDDAYY? Rebecca? WHERE AM I? What seat will I CHOOSE??!??!

randomjsa: I'd personally tell him to go pound sand considering how much religion has held back science over the centuries.

No shiat. The pope goes around spewing this garbage when everyone knows that everything has mass, and therefore nothing can ever be weightless.

VoteOrDie You can almost imagine them at the keyboard in their parents basement, tiny fists shaking with impotent rage, as they use their tears for lube while furiously masturbating over a picture of bill maher on a child, like a priest. and then the pope covers it up.

/corrected your spelling, in the office of my own house with normal sized non-molesting hands.

I thought the Space Pope was reptilian.

randomjsa: I'd personally tell him to go pound sand considering how much religion has held back science over the centuries.

Yea, religion and religious society in general has never done anything to preserve, protect, and expand knowledge. Nope, never....

I think I felt teeth: randomjsa: I'd personally tell him to go pound sand considering how much religion has held back science over the centuries.

Considering what man has done with a lot of the byproducts of science; it might be the only thing that has kept us from farking blowing ourselves out of existence.

You are absolutely right! I'd much rather have nuclear access codes in Sarah Palin's hands than in Richard Dawkins.

dj42: ""They say there's no atheists in foxholes, but there's probably no atheists in rockets," said Catholic astronaut Col. Mike Good, who said his belief in God as creator was solidified by the awe-inspiring views he saw from space."


I'm not sure I get the context of this quote. It sounds like he's making fun of people that suggest an atheist can't fight for the military, as well as the fact an atheist will never be an astronaut.

Am I missing something here?

Calm down, Francis. Don't get your panties in a bunch.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_no_atheists_in_foxholes


Also, I am patiently waiting the ACLU lawsuit that will come from this. NASA is, after all, a government agency, and this is a clear case of mixing government and religion!!!!

nekom: nekom: communine

wow not even close. Clearly I need more coffee this morning.

No, you're doing it right. We're still left after the rapture.

Do you have any useful skills or purpose?

I thought Bell made the first ever phone call?

tankjr: As a Dawkin's level atheist cum reformed Catholic. fark everything about this.

Is that a measurement of nasty? I've listened to videos of him, and the man just sounds nasty: defensive, sarcastic, in your face... iow just douchey. I'm sure he stays out of bars, since his face is whole and complete...

I've found in my 62 years that 'tudes like that generally indicate the person is defensive and unsure about what they are trying to browbeat you about. It's compensating.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo&feature=related

Tell me I'm wrong here; if I was throwing a party where plentiful alcohol was being served, neither he nor Krauss would be on the guest list. Setting aside the subject matter (atheism) and the physics/cosmology being discussed, both of these guys would emotionally come across as jerks and assholes.

Progressives are nothing but hate filled trolls. I'm glad I stopped associating with them.

dj42: Am I missing something here?

When religious people get afraid they pray to their invisible friend for help. They assume that when non-believers are in life-or-death situations, we will start praying to their invisible friend as well.

Even though they have no evidence for it actually being true (since when have they ever required evidence), they think this assertion is very witty.

/if I am ever in a dangerous situation I will spend my time trying to improve it instead of wasting time psychically begging non-existent beings for help.

God damn, I wish he had actually said that.

Excellent farkline, subby. Made me headslap myself! I love a stealth pun.