WTF? Is this Gratuitous Atheist-Bashing OP Week or what?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

First the Simpsons, and then a child with cancer. :mad:

[backscatter712]

1. For having powerful omnipotent deities on their side, they seem awfully insecure... n/t

[Mariana]

2. I think a whole lot were outraged when that student

in Louisiana had the colossal nerve to try to assert his rights. It seems to me that's what set it off. They were absolutely enraged. I'm sure you noticed that there were a bunch of gratuitous smears against the kid in particular, as well as atheists in general, on those threads.

[PassingFair]

14. Partly, but I really think it was the RAPTURE that dragged everything out into the middle of the....

living room.

They no-likey discussion regarding the buy-bull.

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[laconicsax]

5. Must not be 'antagonistic' enough.

Though I am reminded of something Skinner said about the Skeptics group--that skeptics are less fragile than woo-sters and can handle more direct bullshit and attacks.

[Lars39]

4. I alerted.

Button must be broken. :eyes:

[darkstar3]

6. Second.

[darkstar3]

7. Oh, it's not just bash an atheist week.

Note the locking pattern.

[Iggo]

8. It's alright. We can take it.

Anyway, it's easier to fight back from a defensible position, know'm say'n?

[onager]

9. Well...

[Iggo]

11. Ha!

Good point.

[skepticscott]

10. Well, according to some

atheism is a "privileged viewpoint" in R/T. Still waiting for them to explain what this "privilege" consists of.

[sudopod]

12. Guilt-free sexual relations and sleeping in on Sundy. :D

Also (perhaps counter-intuitively for some) we get to worry about dying a whole lot less.

I totally feel privileged!

[onager]

13. That almost defines us as "spiritual..."

According to what I read in R/T, anyway.

In fact, after consulting Plato, Thomas Aquinas, St. Anselm, Martin Luther, Kant, Buber, Jim Wallis, Shirley MacLaine and Sylvia Browne...plus my awesome collection of "Religion & Philosophy" links which is so large I have it stored separately on a 2 Tb external hard drive...I have formulated the following definition of "spiritual" which I'm sure everyone on DU will agree with:

Spiritual = a typical religious person who is too lazy to get up and go to church on Sunday.

[laconicsax]

15. FWIW: Serial rapists priests have guilt-free sexual relations.

Especially now that the Church released a report showing that they're really the victims.

[sudopod]

16. Alas, earwax.

What will we put on our bus ads, now?

[laconicsax]

17. I've always thought that passages from the Bible would be nice.

"Judges 19:22-29" or "Matthew 6:5" for example.