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(Some Guy) Asinine Study: People trust atheists about as much as they do rapists. "There's this persistent belief that people behave better if they feel like God is watching them." Oh for God's sake   (theblaze.com) divider line 645
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2011-12-03 03:46:57 PM
I behave better because I am godless and know that this is my one shot to be a decent and good person and I don't wish to deprive anybody else of that same right.
 
2011-12-03 03:52:49 PM
"There's this persistent belief that people behave better are self-justified if they feel like God is watching them."

/fixed
 
2011-12-03 03:56:58 PM
i don't trust people that believe in ghosts in the sky.
 
2011-12-03 04:05:12 PM
Sure, God can watch people in the shower whenever he wants, but when I do it, suddenly I'm the pervert.
 
2011-12-03 04:08:33 PM
If there is one thing that history has shown, it's that Religion is utterly useless in preventing man's violence, depravity and cruelty.

/in before "but Stalin"
 
2011-12-03 04:10:50 PM
eyehate: I behave better because I am godless and know that this is my one shot to be a decent and good person and I don't wish to deprive anybody else of that same right.

Well said good sir.
 
2011-12-03 04:17:33 PM
Is this where I post about presidential candidates just pretending to be good Christians to get their vote?
 
2011-12-03 05:10:34 PM
Still more popular than the tea party.
 
2011-12-03 05:17:25 PM
Am I the only one making popcorn right now?
 
2011-12-03 05:25:49 PM
Prisons are just PACKED with atheists, aren't they?
 
2011-12-03 05:27:08 PM
Actual headline: STUDY: RELIGIOUS PEOPLE TRUST ATHEISTS ABOUT AS MUCH AS THEY DO RAPISTS

Way to leave out the most important word in the headline trollmitter
 
2011-12-03 05:29:26 PM
DarwiOdrade: Actual headline: STUDY: RELIGIOUS PEOPLE TRUST ATHEISTS ABOUT AS MUCH AS THEY DO RAPISTS

Way to leave out the most important word in the headline trollmitter


I have an intense distrust of religious people.
Yes subs, trolltastic headline.
 
2011-12-03 05:29:58 PM
MaudlinMutantMollusk: Prisons are just PACKED with atheists, aren't they?

i.imgur.com
 
2011-12-03 05:30:30 PM
RELIGIOUS PEOPLE TRUST ATHEISTS ABOUT AS MUCH AS THEY DO RAPISTS

See, that should be scary to people. That directly states that these people would be raping your horses and riding off with your women if they didn't have a God that they were afraid of.

/and yes it does say religious people, not people in general but that doesn't change the percentage all that much
 
2011-12-03 05:33:46 PM
Mugato: RELIGIOUS PEOPLE TRUST ATHEISTS ABOUT AS MUCH AS THEY DO RAPISTS

See, that should be scary to people. That directly states that these people would be raping your horses and riding off with your women if they didn't have a God that they were afraid of.

/and yes it does say religious people, not people in general but that doesn't change the percentage all that much


Got a citation for "doesn't change the percentage all that much"?

I don't give a damn what religious people think about atheists.
 
2011-12-03 05:34:38 PM
Mugato: RELIGIOUS PEOPLE TRUST ATHEISTS ABOUT AS MUCH AS THEY DO RAPISTS

See, that should be scary to people. That directly states that these people would be raping your horses and riding off with your women if they didn't have a God that they were afraid of.

/and yes it does say religious people, not people in general but that doesn't change the percentage all that much


I've actually had people witnessing at me who've asked me why anyone would refrain from rape and murder if there wasn't a God. This frightens me terribly.
 
2011-12-03 05:36:19 PM
Given a choice between trusting an atheist or a prosperity gospel heretic, I'd take the atheist and not look back.
 
2011-12-03 05:37:14 PM
I don't trust anybody that can't behave without feeling like someone is watching.
 
2011-12-03 05:39:58 PM
I'm more likely to trust an atheist than a non atheist. Why do the right thing when all you have to do to avoid guilt and often even natural consequences is tell some invisible being that you're sorry?
 
2011-12-03 05:40:14 PM
Mugato: RELIGIOUS PEOPLE TRUST ATHEISTS ABOUT AS MUCH AS THEY DO RAPISTS

See, that should be scary to people. That directly states that these people would be raping your horses and riding off with your women if they didn't have a God that they were afraid of.

/and yes it does say religious people, not people in general but that doesn't change the percentage all that much


Exactly.

These pathetic people need the threat of an invisible man in the sky watching over them, and a red guy with hooves and a pointed tail to punish them so they won't rape, murder, steal, and play the song "My Humps" on a 24 hour loop.

...yet the Atheists are the bad people.

This is why we haven't grown up out of the religion fairy tale yet. Without the fairy tale, the majority of people really would be savages. Of course, the fairy tale doesn't help people be better toward someone that doesn't believe in their particular brand of fairy tale, or if someone does something or lives in a way that their book of fiction doesn't agree wit.
 
2011-12-03 05:42:56 PM
sometimes I really wonder if authoritarians are sane.
 
2011-12-03 05:44:01 PM
If one considers, on the other hand, that every original community
requires a high degree of fearlessness in its members in other
respects, then it becomes clear that what is to be feared in the
case of morality must inspire fear in the very highest degree.
Therefore mores have been introduced everywhere as functions
of a divine will, hiding under the fearfulness of gods and demonic
means of punishment - and being immoral would then mean:
not fearing the infinitely fearful.

Of anyone who denied the gods, one expected anything. He
was automatically the most fearsome human being, whom
no community could suffer because he tore out the roots of
fear on which the community had grown. It was supposed
that in such a person desire raged unlimited: one considered
every human being without such fear infinitely evil. -- Nietzsche
 
2011-12-03 05:44:05 PM
cchings: I'm more likely to trust an atheist than a non atheist. Why do the right thing when all you have to do to avoid guilt and often even natural consequences is tell some invisible being that you're sorry?

It's much more complicated than that. Sometimes you have to confess to a pedophile, recite prayers while fingering beads, and give the church a cash donation before you are absolved.
 
2011-12-03 05:56:30 PM
Why would I act differently if I thought a omniscient pervert was watching me?
 
2011-12-03 06:00:09 PM
AbbeySomeone: cchings: I'm more likely to trust an atheist than a non atheist. Why do the right thing when all you have to do to avoid guilt and often even natural consequences is tell some invisible being that you're sorry?

It's much more complicated than that. Sometimes you have to confess to a pedophile, recite prayers while fingering beads, and give the church a cash donation before you are absolved.


It used to only require a cash donation.

Then some Luther jackass got involved.
 
2011-12-03 06:00:57 PM
dahmers love zombie: I've actually had people witnessing at me who've asked me why anyone would refrain from rape and murder if there wasn't a God. This frightens me terribly.

To counter, ask them to pretend for a moment that there is no God and never was - and then ask them if they would murder or rape a family member - if they wouldn't, ask them why.

swaniefrmreddeer: Well said good sir.

Thanks, amigo.
 
2011-12-03 06:05:28 PM
My own moral compass guides me and it's a whole hell of a lot better than worrying over what spiritual Santa is doing.
 
2011-12-03 06:06:32 PM
I'm an atheist and let me tell you, I steal pillage, rape, murder, and rape whenever the urge strikes me...

It's liberating not to have to worry about burning in hell for eternity just because I want to blow off some steam once in a while.
 
2011-12-03 06:08:53 PM
eyehate: if they wouldn't, ask them why.

ahhh, that's a good tactic
 
2011-12-03 06:10:47 PM
Eddie Adams from Torrance: I'm an atheist and let me tell you, I steal pillage, rape, murder, and rape whenever the urge strikes me...

It's liberating not to have to worry about burning in hell for eternity just because I want to blow off some steam once in a while.


Oh yeah? I am an atheist and I steal, pillage, rape, murder, pillage, steal, murder and rape constantly.
 
2011-12-03 06:12:35 PM
It is sometimes argued that these beliefs are rather unimportant than either good or bad. It is said that great masses of the human race have done without any or with negative beliefs on these subjects. Interesting sketches are given of the creeds or no creeds of savage tribes, of educated men in classical times, of Buddhists, and others. Here, it is said, are cases of people living without reference to a God or a future state. Why cannot you do the same? A strong social impulse, a religion of humanity will fill your sails as well as the old wind which is dying away; and you will then think of these questions which now seem to you all-important as of insoluble riddles, mere exercises of ingenuity with which you have nothing to do.

--James Fitzjames Stephen
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
 
2011-12-03 06:17:46 PM
This old rapist gets called into religious debates by his religious friends to act as a referee.
 
2011-12-03 06:18:11 PM
Sabyen91: Eddie Adams from Torrance: I'm an atheist and let me tell you, I steal pillage, rape, murder, and rape whenever the urge strikes me...

It's liberating not to have to worry about burning in hell for eternity just because I want to blow off some steam once in a while.

Oh yeah? I am an atheist and I steal, pillage, rape, murder, pillage, steal, murder and rape constantly.


You said pillage twice.
 
2011-12-03 06:19:13 PM
DarwiOdrade: /and yes it does say religious people, not people in general but that doesn't change the percentage all that much

Got a citation for "doesn't change the percentage all that much"?


Well I would take 100% and subtract the percentage of atheists. But I was told there would be no math.
 
2011-12-03 06:21:17 PM
Sabyen91: dahmers love zombie: Sabyen91: Eddie Adams from Torrance: I'm an atheist and let me tell you, I steal pillage, rape, murder, and rape whenever the urge strikes me...

It's liberating not to have to worry about burning in hell for eternity just because I want to blow off some steam once in a while.

Oh yeah? I am an atheist and I steal, pillage, rape, murder, pillage, steal, murder and rape constantly.

You said pillage twice.

[www.idakoos.com image 200x200]


It's not true pillaging unless you plunder as well.
 
2011-12-03 06:24:50 PM
AbbeySomeone: Sabyen91: dahmers love zombie: Sabyen91: Eddie Adams from Torrance: I'm an atheist and let me tell you, I steal pillage, rape, murder, and rape whenever the urge strikes me...

It's liberating not to have to worry about burning in hell for eternity just because I want to blow off some steam once in a while.

Oh yeah? I am an atheist and I steal, pillage, rape, murder, pillage, steal, murder and rape constantly.

You said pillage twice.

[www.idakoos.com image 200x200]

It's not true pillaging unless you plunder as well.


I was trying to keep the plundering a secret. I didn't want anybody to think I was a bad person.
 
2011-12-03 06:29:26 PM
Sabyen91: Eddie Adams from Torrance: I'm an atheist and let me tell you, I steal pillage, rape, murder, and rape whenever the urge strikes me...

It's liberating not to have to worry about burning in hell for eternity just because I want to blow off some steam once in a while.

Oh yeah? I am an atheist and I steal, pillage, rape, murder, pillage, steal, murder and rape constantly.


If neither of you guys are eating babies, well, you are just giving the rest of us a bad name.
 
2011-12-03 06:32:01 PM
Anytime I hear this, I immediately ask: "So what you're telling me is the only reason you aren't raping and killing right now is because you're afraid of God?" The answer is inevitably an indignant "No!". "So you can restrain yourself from rape and mayhem without God, therefore so can I."

They never seem to get it.
 
2011-12-03 06:33:26 PM
The only commandment worth following is:

i249.photobucket.com
 
2011-12-03 06:50:15 PM
You're way better off with an invisible man in the sky watching you at all times. Even in the bathroom.
 
2011-12-03 06:51:06 PM
AbbeySomeone: Am I the only one making popcorn right now?

I got a pizza in the oven right now.
 
2011-12-03 06:51:47 PM
Weaver95: Given a choice between trusting an atheist or a prosperity gospel heretic con artist, I'd take the atheist and not look back.

ftfy
 
2011-12-03 06:54:24 PM
ultraholland: My own moral compass guides me and it's a whole hell of a lot better than worrying over what spiritual Santa is doing.

He's making a list
And checking it twice;
Gonna find out Who's naughty and nice
He sees you when you're sleeping
He knows when you're awake
He knows if you've been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake!
O! You better watch out!
I'm telling you why
Santa Claus is coming to town
Santa Claus is coming to town

/second coming indeed
//especially "the list" = book of judgment.
 
2011-12-03 06:55:54 PM
AbbeySomeone: Am I the only one making popcorn right now?

I've got a steak that's almost done.
 
2011-12-03 07:44:30 PM
www.mrwiggleslovesyou.com
 
2011-12-03 08:04:09 PM
Winning: I've got a steak that's almost done.

it should only be medium rare
 
2011-12-03 08:07:26 PM
Sabyen91: I don't trust anybody that can't behave without feeling like someone is watching.

Here here.

On the other hand, if somebody really feels like the only thing keeping them from being a complete asshole is the belief that some god is watching them then by all means keep on believing.
 
2011-12-03 08:08:17 PM
Members of death cults hate people who oppose all death cults. News at Eleven.
 
2011-12-03 08:08:46 PM
Sabyen91: Eddie Adams from Torrance: I'm an atheist and let me tell you, I steal pillage, rape, murder, and rape whenever the urge strikes me...

It's liberating not to have to worry about burning in hell for eternity just because I want to blow off some steam once in a while.

Oh yeah? I am an atheist and I steal, pillage, rape, murder, pillage, steal, murder and rape constantly.


you said rape twice
 
2011-12-03 08:09:16 PM
Ceiling Jesus watches me masturbate.

And I like it.
 
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