Burn a bush already. That’s always inspirational

However, I think that bashing Christianity because Grandpa John is a dork who didn’t think of the unintended implications of the metaphor is in extremely poor taste, and beneath us here. You know, abusus non tollit usum and all that? It’s not Christianity’s fault that this guy employed a hilariously inept metaphor.

In case it matters: I’m a neoPagan, and have never been a Christian. I do have many Christian friends, and they would laugh their (non-glowing) asses off about this demo!

I’ll just be over here. *hangs head in shame*

I ask you Grandpa John, is that pickle really free?
Free to move? Free to think… free to not have gases and juice spitting out of it?

Secondly, those of you who use Voltaire’s words don’t seem to know much about Voltaire or his way of thinking. Voltaire was a polemicist, he often argued positions he didn’t believe in, simply to provide a means of tearing apart bad logic.

Voltaire wasn’t anti-Christian in much the sense that everyone here is mentioning, in fact he’s the first person to provide a legal precedence of freedom of religion. He helped find justice for a family of Huguenots who had several family members murdered for religious reasons. His position was against a hierarchy in the church that was drunk on power. To compare the two completely ignores the cultural context.

I am actually quite disappointed in how injudicious many of these posts are, it just seems to have let the trolls out. Christians don’t all believe the exact same thing, and we have our freedom to believe and fairly reasonable points to it when they’re considered, but they don’t excuse the crackpots who abuse our belief system to turn it into something that ISN’T focused on helping people. You can’t judge an entire group based on it’s outliers.

Then you should maybe talk to your god about it, because it is my understanding from Christians that that’s what’s in store for us atheists, agnostics, and infidels: an eternity of suffering.

And there’s something I’ve always wanted to ask a Christian: If your god does promise such a hellish fate, and intends to deliver on it, why would you worship a prick like that?

Fear? Is your god of love actually a god of fear?

Snort

Please, stop. Really

Sigh

“We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights…”

The oddest thing about atheists is listening to them mock Christians as unsophisticated hicks, and then hear them denounce racism, injustice, and fight for free speech.

Friends, where do you find your “rights?” Did evolution convey equality on us all? Scientifically speaking, what is justice? Why should the strong permit the weak to speak freely?

Science answers these three questions loud and clear: 1) we are not equal, and permitting the weak to breed corrupts the gene pool 2) Justice is culturally determined and essentially meaningless 3) There is no truth to be spoken, and no freedom, all speak and act according to biological & physical determinism.

Friends, you’re the ones in the pickle…

The problem with analogies, you see, is that they rarely say exactly what you want them to. If they did say the exact right thing, they would no longer be analogies.

Most atheists, like most Christians, aren’t very religious. But the few who are…

Electrocuting anyone who is a terrorist (real or suspected or mistaken or innocent) is OK! Because, you’re putting Jesus into their hearts. The smoke and black liquid coming out is all their evils and false God(s).

Same thing for tasers. Jesus for electrocutions 08.

Thanks “Grandpa” “John”