Best Letter to the Editor EVER!
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Best Letter to the Editor EVER!
http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20071214/NEWS/712140305
From the Times Daily:
Dec 14, 2007
How to avoid atheists
In her Dec. 7 letter, "Beware of book," Kathy Momic tells us that children should be protected against atheism.She probably isn't acquainted with an atheist but "knows" that atheists are possessed by the devil, don't know right from wrong and don't believe in anything.
There are certain precautions she can take to protect herself and her children from these agents of Lucifer.
She could join an organization that does not admit atheists, e.g., the Ku Klux Klan, the Mafia, Christian militia groups. She could join a God-fearing terrorist group that blows up abortion clinics and high-rise buildings (Oklahoma City, World Trade Center); or she could restrict her friends to those spewing venomous hate upon individuals the Bible says should be put to death, e.g., non-believers and homosexuals.
To be on the safe side, there are havens of atheism that she should avoid: Ivy League universities; the Nobel laureate laden National Academy of Sciences; organizations concerned with the environment or civil rights; and Scandinavia, where the percentage of atheists is at least three times that of the United States.
She should stay in the Bible Belt with the highest religiosity (and highest violent crime rate) in the country.
The absurdity of religious myopia was exemplified after the 1997 school shootings in Paducha, Ky. In defense of the young killer who somebody called "godless," his pastor at the Lutheran Church said, "Michael Carnael is a Christian. He's a sinner, yes, but not an atheist."
I wonder if that made his victims less dead or the crime less wrong.
David N. Miles
Orange Beach
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In this editoral, Cherry picking and ignorance.
Whats a matter? Cant stand the fact that atheists are humans too and dont have to be Uncle Toms, or put up with bigoted arrogent statements?
YESUM MASSA, we be good atheits and be quiet fer the gawed fearen folks.
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No I'm saying that 'not putting up with bigoted arrogent statments', doesn't mean that you have to stoop to their level.
Don't you have puppies to kick?
As opposed to overgeneralization, stereotypes and institutional bigotry by the pixie worshippers?
So what, respond in kind? Of course the letter he was responding to was overgeneralization, stereotypes and institutional bigotry.
There are a few instances where a good 'ol 'fuck you' is apporiate, but these kind of letters actually re-inforce said sterotypes.
Yes because many people forget that the so called good people, can be assholes too. Let the sterotyping be, why should one have their children avoid atheists? Why is this author making a stupid statement like that? I say screw them, throw some good old sterotyping out and make them see how ridiculous it is to paste everyone the same.
Damn stereotypes - all us atheists can think of to respond with is facts, we have such a stereotypical obsession with facts and evidence...
Favorite oxymorons: Gospel Truth, Rational Supernaturalist, Business Ethics, Christian Morality
"Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings." - Sam Harris
The path to Truth lies via careful study of reality, not the dreams of our fallible minds - me
From the sublime to the ridiculous: Science -> Philosophy -> Theology
Since when are, for example, Ivy league school 'atheist havens'?
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- Pronunciation:
- \ˈhā-vən\
- Function:
- noun
- Etymology:
- Middle English, from Old English hæfen; akin to Middle High German habene harbor
- Date:
- before 12th century
1 : harbor port 2 : a place of safety : refuge 3 : a place offering favorable opportunities or conditions <a haven for artists> I dunno, sounds fairly accurate to me."The powerful have always created false images of the weak."
Atheists don't kick puppies, we barbaque kittens.....JEEEZE! You should know that by now as long as you've been here.
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For about 300 years, give or take, the oldest, of course, being Harvard. However, we should not give ourselves over to Ivy league bias, since not all of the top universities are Ivy league, yet are also atheist havens (Cal Tech, for example) which is to say that since they have the most educated people, it is not suprising that they have a high concentration of atheists.
"Physical reality” isn’t some arbitrary demarcation. It is defined in terms of what we can systematically investigate, directly or not, by means of our senses. It is preposterous to assert that the process of systematic scientific reasoning arbitrarily excludes “non-physical explanations” because the very notion of “non-physical explanation” is contradictory.
-Me
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