I'll go with this one for the lulz:

How does this create jobs or reduce the deficit?

/nobutreally

What's the official symbol for atheism again?

Impasse: What's the official symbol for atheism again?

The fact that you don't know says a lot!

Farking Canuck: Impasse: What's the official symbol for atheism again?

The fact that you don't know says a lot!

Hey, just need to include all religions, including atheism!

MythDragon: I'll go with this one for the lulz:

The Jedi are members of the Blue Oyster Cult? It about makes sense.

Impasse: What's the official symbol for atheism again?

The invisible pink unicorn?

/no idea

Farking Canuck: Impasse: What's the official symbol for atheism again?

The fact that you don't know says a lot!

It's Richard Dawkins riding a narwhal.

Then again, I'd personally attend the unveiling of that statue.

Impasse: Farking Canuck: Impasse: What's the official symbol for atheism again?

The fact that you don't know says a lot!

Hey, just need to include all religions, including atheism!

Oh I know what you were trying to say ... I was just pointing out the stupidity of the statement.

This would be mine:

abhorrent1: [media.cleveland.com image 432x297]

I wouldn't consider that the same. That's less of a, "OMG! RELIGIOUS PROMOTION" and more of, "Hey, the solider/marine/sailor/whoever that's buried here was a Christian." It isn't promotion as much as information.

Unconstitutional law is unconstitutional.

http://www.cem.va.gov/hm/hmemb.asp

All of the tombstones available for burial at any VA cemetery.

Looking forward to the first crescent and star to go up, followed immediately by rage from the bible-thumpers.

Impasse: What's the official symbol for atheism again?

It's usually an "a" symbol of some sort.

Here's one for American Atheists for example;

RedPhoenix122: Vegemite: http://www.cem.va.gov/hm/hmemb.asp

All of the tombstones available for burial at any VA cemetery.

Difference between a tombstone and a memorial. This is more directed toward having a cross with the names of soldiers who died during war inscribed on it.

Whoops my bad. No caffeine, and so on.

I'd be interested if someone were to use the cross of St. Peter (new window)

mekki: Impasse: What's the official symbol for atheism again?

It's usually an "a" symbol of some sort.

Here's one for American Atheists for example;
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As you say, that is the symbol for a group called American Atheists. They do not represent all atheists ... only their own members.

Atheists as a whole are not a group, we do not have a symbol and, contrary to a lot of idiotic statements on fark, atheism is not a religion.

There needs to be a Constitutional amendment that if you vote for a law that is unanimously overturned in the Supreme Court you get punched in the throat.

The American system: congress can make pretty much any unconstitutional law it wants and it will for the most part be in effect until some crotchety atheist/objector/rational person goes to a heck of a lot of trouble (time/cost/ridicule) to challenge it. And then, if you're like michael newdow, the supreme court goes to extraordinary lengths to avoid actually dealing with the issue at hand but rather to try to weasel out of it by dealing with sideshow issues (in his case, his marginal right to stand in court).

JUDICIAL REVIEW BEFORE PASSAGE OF LAW PLEASE.

"Our Constitution protects the freedom of religion, not freedom from it," Rep. Brian P. Bilbray (R-Carlsbad), a bill co-sponsor, told his colleagues.

If you don't have freedom from religion, you don't have freedom of religion. If you want to erect religious symbols on your own dime, go right ahead. Force me to pay taxes or face criminal prosecution to pay for it? That's another story.

Impasse: What's the official symbol for atheism again?



Found it!

RedPhoenix122: Put the farking flag on the memorial and leave everything else off.

I would agree with that. Pull the religion out all together and just put a small flag on it instead. Why do war memorials have to have a religious tone?

Farking Canuck: As you say, that is the symbol for a group called American Atheists. They do not represent all atheists ... only their own members.

Atheists as a whole are not a group, we do not have a symbol and, contrary to a lot of idiotic statements on fark, atheism is not a religion.

Right now with all the crap that's going on, I'm starting to think the facepalm is our official symbol

AnubisMan: Impasse: What's the official symbol for atheism again?

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Found it!

My preferred one ;)

RedPhoenix122: ComaToast: If you don't have freedom from religion, you don't have freedom of religion. If you want to erect religious symbols on your own dime, go right ahead. Force me to pay taxes or face criminal prosecution to pay for it? That's another story.

As a veteran, if I died overseas, I wouldn't want my name on some one's giant cross they built to lord their religion over other people.

Agreed.

RedPhoenix122: Put the farking flag on the memorial and leave everything else off.

What a religious symbol may look like:



/not all belief systems come with a code of ethics

Except judicial review often won't work - didn't one of the Supremes rule that the cross is not a specfically Christian symbol recently in a similar case? Which is as obviously boneheaded as throwing out the first half of the second amendment because you don't agree with it (remember, they're only activist judges if they're to the left). Yep, here it is - http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2010/04/28/supreme-court- rules-that-a-cross-is-not-a-symbol-of-christianity/

Simple solution: leave existing memorials as they are, and don't put religious imagery on future memorials. Done.

I think it's been done.

RedPhoenix122: Impasse: AnubisMan: Impasse: What's the official symbol for atheism again?

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Found it!

My preferred one ;)

So, where would that make the place of worship, 4chan?

Politics tab works too, they're not real strict on the rules of worship

Okay then....

RedPhoenix122: Impasse: AnubisMan: Impasse: What's the official symbol for atheism again?

[media.comicbookmovie.com image 329x300]

Found it!

My preferred one ;)

So, where would that make the place of worship, 4chan?

/b/ is the Mecca of lulz

Vegemite: Why do war memorials have to have a religious tone?

Pretty sure that God told us to kill those guys.

alowishus: [upload.wikimedia.org image 220x300]

+1

This makes sense.

Religion is the cause of most wars.

Why shouldn't we acknowledge that fact on war memorials?

How about using this as an atheist symbol?



Or maybe a star formation nebula?

King Something: Looking forward to the first crescent and star to go up, followed immediately by rage from the bible-thumpers.

already done. It's number 17. The wiccan pentagram is number 37. I was stunned to see the number of religions with accepted logos for headstones.

grist from the VA as to Available Emblems of Belief for Placement on Government Headstones and Markers