they definitely have the hottest chicks. 

Ha ha, yeah...ironic in light of their own beliefs, I'd say. 

How can you not love that ? 

The best part is that they're atheist.

My favourite has to be the Breatharians.  I'm not entirely sure it's a unified cult, but certainly anyone who thinks they can live off of just air (and sometimes water), classifies as humorous in my books.  Of course, the fact that all the people who've gone out to prove that they can be Breatharians are dead (just do a google search) only adds to the hilarity.

Sorry to break with the facetious nature of this thread but my vote goes to the Branch Davidians for blowing the shit out of that corrupt and devious Federal law enforcement agency known as the BATF. In spite of overwhelming odds the Davidians showed that they had the balls to fight back.

You know ATF, the law enforcement agency whose rules of engagement echoed those of the Christian crusaders... "Kill all of them, God will recognize his own!"

Let me be clear, as an atheist I have nothing in common with this admittedly bizarre religious group nor do I support any of its alledged illegal activities.

Nevertheless I could never condone the police state tactics used against them. Hell the Russians used more "humanitarian" methods against the Chechens and the Russians were fucking brutal.

I just fucking hate bullies, no matter who the victims are.

Can you say overkill ?

A "rescued" hostage...

Sorry for pontificating and being a general downer, the OP sparked a completely different train of thought than what was probably intended.

    .... How can you not love them ?

Love yes, agree no. 'Aliens did it , then left us to be ? '

, well at least it's a progressive idea ... 

, the Zen Buddhists seem the wiser,

My comments in regard to the Raelians circa April, 2007:

The Raelians have the hottest chicks besides women that are just atheists.

Plus, one of their charities is allegedly fixing female circumcisions performed by muslims. Even if the fix is superficial, at least they're trying.

It's just that whole visited by aliens that taught us how to clone people stuff that requires a 'rocket launch of faith'. I'm incapable of that kind of faith.

Hmmm. YAY!

Depends how you like your women I guess.

Raelian women = bathed, eat healthy, and deluded

FSM piratettes = raunchy, pasta eating, and deluded

[best Jason Mewes impersonation]They're all sluts. BAONG![end impersonation]

I think a Raelian woman would expect you to do the work while a FSM chick would throw you down and TAKE it. Just my guess. It's all speculation.

BTW, I have the Playboy issue with the story and an interview with Rael. 

LOL, I need to tell you guys the story about how I went to a raelian meeting in toronto. Anyone interested?

Btw, they were nice and polite, I`m not gonna flame them.  

I wanna ear the story.

I use to know a raëlian coulpe ("know" is a big word let's say I saw them a couple of time) and they were the nicest people. What was funny about them is that anytime you went to their place, there was always a porn movie playing in the VCR (yeah VCR... it was a long time ago).

Okay, shortly after I did my blasphemy challenge, the raelians appeared and started to do the same thing. I thought it would be cool to go to one of their meetings and tape a bunch of them in one place doing the challenge.

I spoke with sapient and he said he was cool with the idea,  contacted the raelians through the lady's video that you posted and I was invited to one of their seminars here in Toronto. When I showed up it was about 10 people, most of them from Quebec. They spoke a bit about their beliefs, had a group meditation, showed a bunch of pictures on a projection screen and just hung out for a bit and socialized. No one took the challenge on my camera but they used my idea later at other raelian meetings.

I was then invited to a "sensual potluck", which is a party where everybody brings food that is supposed to look, smell,feel and taste good. To enhance the senses, no one said or implied that it would turn into an orgy, but i wouldn't have been surprised if some starting having fun with each other. I never went however for various reasons.

Overall they were very nice and polite people,friendly even. 

Naw, I treated them like i would any other group of people I meet for the first time, politely. When I meet catholics I don`t go on about how they are suppousidly cannibals and blood-drinkers. I'm Canadian, I'm supposed to be polite after all.  

Well I'm a rootin-tootin Texan.

Yee-Haw!!

*gunshots*

Only if it's not your house.

So yeah, motels are out.  Hotels are out.  Bathrooms in planes are out.  Public building are out.

Really kills the mood. 

My favorite religious belief is the Big Heads of the Iroquois Indians.

The Big Heads were demon gods. They were giand heads without bodies that flew around in storms. They ate livestock and people.

Sounds like those Iroquois Indians might have gotten ahold of some bad LSD.

Oooookay...Prozac, just take a minute and concentrate on calming your breathing for a minute.

Let's just calm down a notch.

I'm sure he didn't mean it as bad as you took it.  On your side, I thought his post was a little out of bounds in regard to both mine and your posts on the Branch Davidians.  However, that's no big deal.  It wasn't anything big and is easy to let slide.  Don't ratchet it up with going even further out of bounds in response with his post.

Let's not start a war here, eh?

[EDITED TO REFLECT EDITED QUOTED POST]

I've worked for the "government" pretty much my entire adult life. Based on my own personal experience I believe you're wrath is misplaced and you are as wrong regarding "fault" on this subject as it's possible for a person to be.

R/

Lenny

edited to tone down hostility 

     ProzacDeathWish  getting down !

Yeah the government is often too heavy handed.

The gov is outta control by our own retarded greedy "design", as we are mostly fools ....

, quite fancy it all is, and sad ....

who's to blame ? kill a million more ? for who ?

who's TV is that anyway ?

, spaceship earth , sheezzzzzzzzzzzzz

No offense Subdi Visions but working for the government could mean anything from being a postal carrier to being a high ranking General working within the bowels of the Pentagon. You failed to clarify your job description and why it would it would provide you with any special insights concerning the Waco debacle.

I never attempted to put a spin on the Davidians or attempted to portray them as anything but who they actually were....cultists.

They were criminal suspects who were dealt with in a most brutal fashion and under circumstance that were shrouded in much mystery and confusion, hence the Congressional investigation which attempted to sort out the governments own misgivings concerning ATF's / FBI's behaviour toward the captive Davidians.

For some peculiar reason the surviving Davidians who fired back at the agents were not prosecuted by the GOVERMENT for murder but only for "voluntary manslaughter" which indicates mitigating circumstances...can you guess what those mitigating circumstances could have been ? ( answer: self defense under special circumstances )

I reject acts of governmental genocide / brutality no matter who the victims were, cultists or otherwise,

During highly publicised matters of malfeasance most government agencies act solely in their own interest in order to maintain their credability with the public that they supposedly "serve". And rarely do government offenders endure any real repercussion for their "mistakes":

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

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

BTW, having Law Enforcement investigate the wrongdoings of its own agents is as foolish as having John Gotti investigate the wrong doings of the New York Mafia. Can you say Conflict of Interest ?

As far as my scathing tone I was very legitimatly replying in kind to my fellow atheist, MattShizzle, who at that time determined to phrase his reply to me in a most "retarded" and totally fucked up way. That's just who he is, apparently..whatever.

As it is sometimes stated by RRS staff to the more delicate member of this forum, if you can't stand to have invective thrown in your face then perhaps this forum isn't the place for you. Well at least for the moment I felt like being a monkey at the zoo and I decided to reach behind my ass and fling some shit right back at a fellow shit-slinger.

Incidentally I went and removed the more heated terminology from my reply to Subdi Visions because I later felt that it was unwarranted since he addressed me in a much more respectful way.

( EDIT: I ProzacDeathWish publicly apologize to SV for my severe over-reaction to his measured comments and concede that I was indeed the guilty party in our exchange and that he bears no responsibility for provoking me. Please accept my gesture of contrition. )

In general terms, I don't take kindly to childish insults whether they come from atheists, theists or anyone else....talk to me as an adult and I take no offense, talk to me like I'm a "retard" and my vocabulary undergoes a profound change.

Anyone else want to rationalize away my point of view feel free to do so, knock yourself out.

Peace.

..stands to reason !

I've been meaning to ask someone about this: is it just BC that doesn't have bagged milk anymore? I was sort of broken up about this...

Back on topic:

My favourite religion of the past would have to be that of the Ancient Egyptians. Think about it - if you were the pharaoh, you had so much power you could convince your people to bury you with all your stuff. And with your servants too. Pharaohs had it made.

Of the present, I'll be boring and say Scientology. But come on! El Ron said all of those things about religion, was proven a complete nutjob, wrote SCIENCE FICTION for a living, and yet still managed to convince people to give him money for his unbelievable crap. He is my hero! Then again, I think Tom Cruise is letting the side down a little. While I admit that Scientology breaks any capacity you have for reasoning, he could at least *try* to look sane.

And of the future, my favourite cult will be the Cult of nen. Essentially I, as lord supreme of the Earth, will guarantee the immortality of your soul so long as you wait on me hand and foot throughout my mortal life to accomplish my every desire.

It will be awesome.

I'll have to go with Heavens gate. Interesting how you can get people to believe such a far out thing like a UFO chasing a comet and that they need to buy new Nike shoes, carry $5 in quarters, etc and commit a mass suicide. I'll give an honerable mention to the mormon church and $cientology as well as Warren Jeff's Fundamentalist LDS church. Nothing like Warren Jeff getting arresting in Las Vegas (where he forbade his followers to go) after a traffic stop where he was driving a red SUV (he also preached to his followers about not driving a red car).