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Captain Steroid

2013-03-30 01:01:05 PM

Wow. O_O

Chariset

2013-03-30 01:21:24 PM

Nope. No trolling there. None whatsoever.

Godscrack

2013-03-30 01:28:37 PM

It wasn't me.

gilgigamesh

2013-03-30 01:34:49 PM

As Christians find joy in "the sacrifice of the figure of Christ Jesus," Moore adds, "your Humanist siblings are likewise jubilant at the death of God, and we embrace the necessity of sacrifice from one for each other, in the interest of advancing a human-centered ethic that benefits us all."

Now that's how you troll.

FloydA

2013-03-30 01:37:58 PM

That one's pretty dickish.

Last year's "Our Families Are Great Without Religion" was a good one; it was a positive message about atheist families. This is just assholiness and trying to piss off the god botherers.

Rule number one of atheist advertising should be "don't be an asshole."

GAT_00

2013-03-30 01:57:35 PM

This makes no sense. Why would atheists say that something that never existed is dead?

Shostie

2013-03-30 01:58:14 PM

FloydA: Rule number one of atheist advertising should be "don't be an asshole."

As far as I'm concerned, that's rule number one of life.

FloydA

2013-03-30 02:13:38 PM

Shostie: FloydA: Rule number one of atheist advertising should be "don't be an asshole."

As far as I'm concerned, that's rule number one of life.

True. It's particularly important for despised minority groups who are trying to gain social acceptance, of course.

Krymson Tyde

2013-03-30 02:44:37 PM

That will surely convince every Christian they are wrong.

Lionel Mandrake

2013-03-30 02:45:39 PM

Seems like a silly waste of time, energy and money.

Should have used it to feed some hungry people or something.

EnviroDude

2013-03-30 02:56:35 PM

2/10. The funniest one I read this week is "Judas is the Reason for the Season"

xanadian

2013-03-30 03:00:35 PM

The flowers and butterflies were a nice touch...

Krymson Tyde: That will surely convince every Christian they are wrong.

Well, hell, as long as it makes this group of atheists feel good about themselves while they pat each other on the back for a job well done, nothing else really matters.

pxlboy

2013-03-30 03:19:47 PM

Chariset: Nope. No trolling there. None whatsoever.

This. I was expecting something funny, though the use of the pastel colors was the only thing they got right.

There's something I never thought I would type.

pxlboy

2013-03-30 03:21:24 PM

GAT_00: This makes no sense. Why would atheists say that something that never existed is dead?

LOL

Stuff like this is why I stay out of the atheism, tipping, tattoo, and Facebook threads.

/carry on

alwaysjaded

2013-03-30 03:22:42 PM

I bet I know what the other topic of Sundays service will be.

"We're winning you guys! The atheists are scared. They are attacking us but we shall remain vigilant. We're taking this country back. Now pass the collection plate and we now take Visa or MasterCard."

Peter von Nostrand

2013-03-30 03:30:33 PM

*you'renothelping.jpg*

Lorelle

2013-03-30 03:39:05 PM

I LOLd.

Ennuipoet

2013-03-30 03:49:12 PM

Leave Easter alone, let 'em have it. We won the War on Christmas, we can be magnanimous in the this low dollar value holiday!

ekdikeo4

2013-03-30 03:58:13 PM

FloydA: That one's pretty dickish.

Last year's "Our Families Are Great Without Religion" was a good one; it was a positive message about atheist families. This is just assholiness and trying to piss off the god botherers.

Rule number one of atheist advertising should be "don't be an asshole."

Yeah, absolutely. This is really dumb. Also, to be dead, one has to have first existed, right? Therefore, they are professing their belief in God now.

Lionel Mandrake

2013-03-30 04:01:34 PM

ekdikeo4: FloydA: That one's pretty dickish.

Last year's "Our Families Are Great Without Religion" was a good one; it was a positive message about atheist families. This is just assholiness and trying to piss off the god botherers.

Rule number one of atheist advertising should be "don't be an asshole."

Yeah, absolutely. This is really dumb. Also, to be dead, one has to have first existed, right? Therefore, they are professing their belief in God now.

Either that or they're referencing Nietzsche, whose declaration that God is dead is meant metaphorically.

The_Forensicator

2013-03-30 04:14:19 PM

Trolling? Check?

Douchebaggery? Double check.

Saying "God is dead" would imply he was once alive, therefore existed.

These chaps may want to re-tool their message.

DeltaPunch

2013-03-30 04:17:04 PM

GAT_00: Why would atheists say that something that never existed is dead?

For the same reason you tell people that your sex life is dead.

BraveNewCheneyWorld

2013-03-30 04:19:48 PM

See everyone, it's just like not collecting stamps!

entropic_existence

2013-03-30 04:20:37 PM

Yup. It should be positive messaging about how lack of religious belief doesn't make you in any way defective. It shouldn't be about denigrating other people's beliefs.

whidbey

2013-03-30 04:21:35 PM

ekdikeo4: Also, to be dead, one has to have first existed, right? Therefore, they are professing their belief in God now.

/thread

Forbidden Doughnut

2013-03-30 04:22:42 PM

Lionel Mandrake: ekdikeo4: FloydA: That one's pretty dickish.

Last year's "Our Families Are Great Without Religion" was a good one; it was a positive message about atheist families. This is just assholiness and trying to piss off the god botherers.

Rule number one of atheist advertising should be "don't be an asshole."

Yeah, absolutely. This is really dumb. Also, to be dead, one has to have first existed, right? Therefore, they are professing their belief in God now.

Either that or they're referencing Nietzsche, whose declaration that God is dead is meant metaphorically.

The average "bible-thumper" south of the Mason-Dixon line has no idea who Friedrich Nietzsche was. These Atheists certainly fail at marketing, IMHO.

Lionel Mandrake

2013-03-30 04:24:56 PM

Forbidden Doughnut: Lionel Mandrake: ekdikeo4: FloydA: That one's pretty dickish.

Last year's "Our Families Are Great Without Religion" was a good one; it was a positive message about atheist families. This is just assholiness and trying to piss off the god botherers.

Rule number one of atheist advertising should be "don't be an asshole."

Yeah, absolutely. This is really dumb. Also, to be dead, one has to have first existed, right? Therefore, they are professing their belief in God now.

Either that or they're referencing Nietzsche, whose declaration that God is dead is meant metaphorically.

The average "bible-thumper" south of the Mason-Dixon line has no idea who Friedrich Nietzsche was. These Atheists certainly fail at marketing, IMHO.

Oh, yeah...no doubt about that.

bulldg4life

2013-03-30 04:25:35 PM

This group sounds like a bunch of jackbags that are no better than the fundamentalist Christians they despise.

Now, the "our families are great without religion" one is good. You can advocate your morals and ideas outside of religion without throwing stones at the Christians to piss them off.

Dr. Goldshnoz

2013-03-30 04:26:38 PM

ekdikeo4: to be dead, one has to have first existed, right?

I think if you go so far as to try to read between the lines, they meant the "idea" of god is dead. which is partially true. christians are fighting a war to keep the religion alive anyway.

The_Forensicator

2013-03-30 04:27:21 PM

bulldg4life: This group sounds like a bunch of jackbags that are no better than the fundamentalist Christians they despise.

Now, the "our families are great without religion" one is good. You can advocate your morals and ideas outside of religion without throwing stones at the Christians to piss them off.

Attention whoring is still in style.

THANKS A LOT MTV!!

Repo Man

2013-03-30 04:28:47 PM

Good Friday commemorates the day Jesus died on the cross. So, before he came back to life, danced around and went to heaven, god (or at least, one third of him) was dead. It makes as much sense as the rest of it.

whidbey

2013-03-30 04:29:20 PM

Dr. Goldshnoz: ekdikeo4: to be dead, one has to have first existed, right?

I think if you go so far as to try to read between the lines, they meant the "idea" of god is dead. which is partially true. christians are fighting a war to keep the religion alive anyway.

Yeah but if you have half the planet worshiping what they call a "God" it ain't dead.

God Is Superstitious Bullshiat would have been a lot more accurate.

winterbraid

2013-03-30 04:30:30 PM

I both agree with this sentiment, and enjoy when assholes fail to agree.

Krymson Tyde

2013-03-30 04:31:03 PM

Who?

whidbey

2013-03-30 04:32:22 PM

Krymson Tyde: Forbidden Doughnut: Lionel Mandrake: ekdikeo4: FloydA: That one's pretty dickish.

Last year's "Our Families Are Great Without Religion" was a good one; it was a positive message about atheist families. This is just assholiness and trying to piss off the god botherers.

Rule number one of atheist advertising should be "don't be an asshole."

Yeah, absolutely. This is really dumb. Also, to be dead, one has to have first existed, right? Therefore, they are professing their belief in God now.

Either that or they're referencing Nietzsche, whose declaration that God is dead is meant metaphorically.

The average "bible-thumper" south of the Mason-Dixon line has no idea who Friedrich Nietzsche was. These Atheists certainly fail at marketing, IMHO.

Who?

I believe he was the inventor of the moustache.

AliceBToklasLives

2013-03-30 04:32:55 PM

I wonder if they have considered what precisely Nietzsche meant by the phrase "God is dead"? Or care about the statement's context?

_{/yeah I know the ideas goes back at least to Hegel - whatever}

whidbey

2013-03-30 04:34:19 PM

AliceBToklasLives: I wonder if they have considered what precisely Nietzsche meant by the phrase "God is dead"? Or care about the statement's context?

/yeah I know the ideas goes back at least to Hegel - whatever

From what I gather of his work, he pretty much trolled the reader. Long before the Internets.

The_Forensicator

2013-03-30 04:34:33 PM

Some European guy.

AliceBToklasLives

2013-03-30 04:34:59 PM

Lionel Mandrake: Either that or they're referencing Nietzsche, whose declaration that God is dead is meant metaphorically.

Posted before I read your comment. Yeah, it wasn't meant to be taken literally. He was referring makers of dairy products in general.

Esc7

2013-03-30 04:35:29 PM

I'm as atheist as they come but I don't see the point of creating and mailing a Nietzsche quote on Easter to Christians. First its confusing, because they could interpret it literally, and second the metaphorical meaning about how we've ousted religion, divinity and miracles from our collective consciousness is obviously FALSE when you're mailing it to a group of people who sincerely believe in a god.

I'm thankful I live here in the godless SF bay area where the constant war between the godless and godful doesn't exist.

Our god is obliviously Steve Jobs.

/He Is Risen!
//Your vision come, your will be done, on mobile as it is in the cloud

mjjt

2013-03-30 04:36:23 PM

I like it - laughing at xians is far more productive (and fun) than arguing with them

Drawing attention to the fact that they've had 2000 years of this

I also liked the cunning conflation of "Jesus is dead" with "God is dead" - basic Fox tactic to trick the stupid

KrispyKritter

2013-03-30 04:45:44 PM

It's fun to mock peoples personal beliefs. Live and let live is for pussies.

/ morans

Krymson Tyde

2013-03-30 04:46:34 PM

whidbey: Krymson Tyde: Forbidden Doughnut: Lionel Mandrake: ekdikeo4: FloydA: That one's pretty dickish.

Last year's "Our Families Are Great Without Religion" was a good one; it was a positive message about atheist families. This is just assholiness and trying to piss off the god botherers.

Rule number one of atheist advertising should be "don't be an asshole."

Yeah, absolutely. This is really dumb. Also, to be dead, one has to have first existed, right? Therefore, they are professing their belief in God now.

Either that or they're referencing Nietzsche, whose declaration that God is dead is meant metaphorically.

The average "bible-thumper" south of the Mason-Dixon line has no idea who Friedrich Nietzsche was. These Atheists certainly fail at marketing, IMHO.

Who?

I believe he was the inventor of the moustache.

I thought that was Chuck Norris.

Lost Thought 00

2013-03-30 04:50:13 PM

Meanwhile in Memphis, the KKK is disrupting the Mayor's Easter Egg roll

Giltric

2013-03-30 04:52:17 PM

Atheists are so mad, that people practice religion, that they formed a 501c corporation?

And instead of fighting to keep religious paraphenalia off of government property and buildings they just go around mocking people who believe in practicing religion?

They sure are starting to sound like a religion themselves....I mean are they trying to convert people to atheism through shaming because that's what it sounds like they are trying to do.....

whidbey

2013-03-30 04:52:29 PM

Krymson Tyde: whidbey: Krymson Tyde: Forbidden Doughnut: Lionel Mandrake: ekdikeo4: FloydA: That one's pretty dickish.

Last year's "Our Families Are Great Without Religion" was a good one; it was a positive message about atheist families. This is just assholiness and trying to piss off the god botherers.

Rule number one of atheist advertising should be "don't be an asshole."

Yeah, absolutely. This is really dumb. Also, to be dead, one has to have first existed, right? Therefore, they are professing their belief in God now.

Either that or they're referencing Nietzsche, whose declaration that God is dead is meant metaphorically.

The average "bible-thumper" south of the Mason-Dixon line has no idea who Friedrich Nietzsche was. These Atheists certainly fail at marketing, IMHO.

Who?

I believe he was the inventor of the moustache.

I thought that was Chuck Norris.

You're right, but originally it was Agnes Moorhead.

Fart_Machine

2013-03-30 04:54:14 PM

GAT_00: This makes no sense. Why would atheists say that something that never existed is dead?

This. It's a goofy graphic.

whidbey

2013-03-30 04:54:30 PM

Giltric: Atheists are so mad, that people practice religion, that they formed a 501c corporation?

And instead of fighting to keep religious paraphenalia off of government property and buildings they just go around mocking people who believe in practicing religion?

They sure are starting to sound like a religion themselves....I mean are they trying to convert people to atheism through shaming because that's what it sounds like they are trying to do.....

Odd that you'd consider such free-thinking individuals a threat when they don't agree with your antiquated worldview. Just saying.

cc_rider

2013-03-30 04:55:57 PM

Really guys, did you have to feed their persecution complex and give Bill O' Reilly more stuff to whine about?

s2s2s2

2013-03-30 04:57:22 PM

GAT_00: This makes no sense. Why would atheists say that something that never existed is dead?

Because, for these people, atheism is a religion; therefore, atheism is a religion.

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