I don't get it? Its like athiesm is becoming a religion.....

Whatever happened to good old just not giving a fark.

That's my position.

Even if there is a god, who cares?

So bloggers can make up awards now?

Pocket Ninja: It actually astounds me that there has not yet been an atheist reality show. I think a good premise would be to put a bunch of atheists in a remote house along with an undisclosed amount of people of faith, so nobody knows who's truly an atheist and who's truly religious. Even the audience doesn't know. Over the course of the season, though, the Faith Moles work at converting the atheists. Each week, there would be tearful Atheist Truthouts where the atheists confess in the Truth Room that they were strong in their atheism when they arrived but now they're starting to question their unbelief, and at the end of the week the audience would vote for who was making the most Faith Progress. The losing atheist would have to leave at the end of the week (and if one of the Faith Moles got voted off, that would be a win for Team Atheist). The season would end when either there were no more Faith Moles left or there was only one atheist left on the verge of conversion, and the final episode would be the Faith Moles baptizing him. I think it could work.

Win

OtherBrotherDarryl: I don't believe it.

DAMN!!

I was coing here to say that

You know something? I'm actually glad that Madalyn Murray O'Hair is dead. She was a foul, nasty, money-grubbing death hag who acted like all of atheism had to revolve around her and was holding the movement back with her selfishness.

Truly, he has achieved immortality.

I'm sure he's looking down from heaven and smiling at the honor.

We can have different categories.

Most Reasonable Debater. (Also open to religious folks)
Most Adamant.
Best Sneer. (Might have to share this with Liebruls)
Best Schoolboy.

That way everyone can vote for somebody, even if they don't like atheists.

Ah yes the Hitchens Award for Most Pretentious Dickwadness in Atheism

SoCalSurfer: I don't get it? Its like athiesm is becoming a religion.....

Whatever happened to good old just not giving a fark.

That's my position.

Even if there is a god, who cares?

The award is for the person most resolute in their lack of faith.

For the sake of discussion, let's break up the population of non-believers with certitude into "little a atheists" -- e.g., "I don't believe and because I don't, your delusions are a matter of apathy and indifference to me" -- and "Capital A Atheists," such as Mr. Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Madeline Murray O'Hare, and the others who find it so vitally important that you share their contempt for those dumbass churchgoers who are all just sitting around bombing heathens.

One notes from the outside looking in that the Capital A Atheists, while they maintain that there is no way that their movement can be considered a religion, are now in possession of the following:

1) A symbol for gravestones
2) Acknowledged thought leaders whose words are gobbled up as important messages
3) An absolute certitude as to the ultimate nature of reality
4) A self-identification around these things that create a community who have shared ideas about ethics and values
5) A conviction that the whole world will be better if everyone is brought to believe what they believe, and an impetus -- dare we call it a missionary impulse -- to convert others to those values and beliefs.


There is, of course, no way that this could be mistaken for a religion. No similarities between this and, for instance, the Puritan movement. And there is certainly no similarity between a leaderless movement that obsesses over ethics and Judaism.

/cough

I was a good boy this year, pick me! I even allowed JWs to witness to me because I don't like being rude/confrontational.

DanInKansas: 3) An absolute certitude as to the ultimate nature of reality

I'm absolutely certain that you've never actually heard a single one of them say or imply this.

PC LOAD LETTER: Pocket Ninja: Faith Moles

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Are they raping him? WTF?

SoCalSurfer: I don't get it? Its like athiesm is becoming a religion.....

Whatever happened to good old just not giving a fark.

That's my position.

Even if there is a god, who cares?

Four posts in and already no one call spell "atheist".

If someone truly has faith in God and His Laws, then they couldn't bear false witness to play this game. They'd have to have someone else do it.

Just because you don't believe atheism is a religion, doesn't make it so.

SoCalSurfer: I don't get it? Its like athiesm is becoming a religion.....

Whatever happened to good old just not giving a fark.

That's my position.

Even if there is a god, who cares?


This is pretty much the way I think. I'm not sure if I'd call atheism a religion though. Most people grow out of that militant atheism by their mid-late 20s. It's generally a product of having religion crammed down your throat for years, so once you get to college and away from people who can force you to go to church, you're like "fark religion. It's all lies. Let's go burn down some churches!"

Eventually you leave college, get a real job and are too busy with grownup problems to give a shiat anymore. If people get too Jesus-y around me, I might make a shiatty comment about religion being like Santa Claus for grownups, but that's about it. I can't be bothered to do much more. And I'm certainly not going to read a book about not believing in God. I don't need Richard Dawkins patting me on the farking back for how smart I am.

This is "some guy" on "some website's" award. Being an atheist I find it rather silly/stupid. But he hardly speaks for everybody who doesn't believe in Santa^WGod...

I don't believe in anything unfalsifiable. Is that a religion?

DanInKansas: There is, of course, no way that this could be mistaken for a religion. No similarities between this and, for instance, the Puritan movement. And there is certainly no similarity between a leaderless movement that obsesses over ethics and Judaism.

Atheists have tried the "just sit thee and be quiet" method and look at what is happening to this country (and the world) as a result. The religious nuts have been able to run amok, unchecked by reason or even ethics. Atheism isn't a religion, it's just a bunch of people that don't believe in god and are tired of watching the lunatic-right-fringe run the show.

It used to be called the "POMPOUS ASS AWARD" but then all of the atheists wanted one.

SoCalSurfer: I don't get it? Its like athiesm is becoming a religion.....

Whatever happened to good old just not giving a fark.

That's my position.

Even if there is a god, who cares?

Live and let live I always say. I'm not a non-believer so I can congregate with other non-believers and give out awards. It's a personal decision based on a lot of critical thought and sound reason. I can't make a better argument than this...

Heinlein said it best when he wrote:

'It meant that an ignorant, stupid lout who seldom bathed and planted his corn by the phase of the Moon could claim to know the final answers of the Universe. That entitled him to look down his nose at everybody else.'

Exactly. Our best scientists cannot claim to know, so how in the world is some savage barely out of the stone age gonna know where the bear shiats?

Now for those of you who do have faith, I'm cool. You can get a prayer rug, rosary, or a yarmulke and hang out anytime. Heck I have copies of the Bible, Torah, and Quran in my home. They're good reads. But I'm not going to believe what they say any more than I believe Babar was a real elephant king.

So no, athiest should not have awards for the best of us because there is no 'us'. There's just me and my personal decision. Bet ya didn't see that one coming hey Kazan?

Hitchens was great at a lot of things but he should've just kept his mouth shut about atheism. His entire argument usually boiled down to either "I don't believe in God cuz he is mean" or "Christians are mean and scientist have figured everything out, so there"

I just assume the douche bag with the Che shirt and iPad (ironic but not in the way they think) is an atheist. Is that wrong?

Bevets: As host of The Atheist Experience, Dillahunty often takes Christian callers and delivers sharp and decisive rebuttals to all questions while at the same time making a positive case for non-belief.

BBBBut:

"Bald is not a hair color

Atheists simply 'lack belief'"

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. ~ Philip Dick



Umm, WTF? Did anyone else spot that Bevets is now quoting PKD?

Quantum Apostrophe: SoCalSurfer: I don't get it? Its like athiesm is becoming a religion.....

Whatever happened to good old just not giving a fark.

That's my position.

Even if there is a god, who cares?

Four posts in and already no one call spell "atheist".

Spell atheist.

Happy now?

OtherBrotherDarryl: I don't believe it.

I don't either. But I want to.

"Atheist of the Year" - is that the one that ignores evidence of God the best?

Remember, just because the world is not perfect doesn't mean there's no God. Atheists are like children sticking their fingers in their ears and yelling "LALALALA, I can't hear anything!" The proof of God is all around - God is experiencing HerSelf through you and everything else. (:

I have to admit I take some pleasure in seeing how much butthurt people feel at the very mention of atheism. I'm sorry my lack of belief causes such insecurity in you folks.