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#1362386
Old Viking
I'm in favor of a state in which absolutely everyone wears a chicken suit. My hopes are growing dimmer, however.
1/1/2012 3:12:40 PM
#1362391
Reynardine
Viking: My pet rooster wears a chicken suit all the time, and there are a dozen more across the street. There are three or more such suits per person on the planet. Keep on- you're winning!
1/1/2012 4:18:20 PM
#1362394
Shax
@Old Viking:
We may be able to accomodate you.
1/1/2012 4:46:06 PM
#1362396
Wehpudicabok
Reverse Poe. Real atheists know that atheism and communism are completely unrelated.
1/1/2012 4:55:34 PM
#1362403
Osiris
Can't tell if Poe or not.
1/1/2012 6:11:59 PM
#1362411
Doubting Thomas
I think education will work better than anything at turning people away from religion.
Though I wonder if the troll who wrote this did so so that he could point to this post to show how evil those atheists are.
1/1/2012 7:21:49 PM
#1362422
Night Jaguar
If you read the discussion you see:
1) It's probably not a Poe (reverse-Poe, etc.)
2) The Pharyngulites criticize this view harshly.
_ _ _
N. De Plume [love the name btw],
…you’re not gonna make it with anyone, anyhow.
WIN!
rw23,
love moderately has been haunting Pharyngula for a while now. Sometimes he can express himself reasonably fairly and sufficiently eloquently, other times he goes off the deep end. He's just a half-troll at the moment.
QFT.
1/1/2012 9:01:39 PM
#1362425
Joey
So, no agnostics, diests, spiritualists, buddhists, or any other belief system that does no harm to others?
Actions which harm others should of course be prohibited (whether done in the name of religion or not) but prohibiting mere beliefs = thought crime = really ugly results...
1/1/2012 9:25:07 PM
#1362437
aaa
Ah, i see you are promoting a degenerated worker's state. Either you should learn how to think pragmatically or go fuck yourself.
1/1/2012 11:08:38 PM
#1362443
John-in-Oz
I'm in favour of a world order in which international conflicts are settled by competitive belly dancing.
1/2/2012 1:12:16 AM
#1362444
John-in-Oz
N. De Plume wins a platinum internet.
1/2/2012 1:12:58 AM
#1362450
@Wehpudicabok
Reverse Poe. Real atheists know that atheism and communism are completely unrelated.
Real Atheist? You mean sort of like a real Scotsman? :P
1/2/2012 1:27:32 AM
#1362483
louislois
Fail Troll.
1/2/2012 3:21:04 AM
#1362500
Lithorien
Yes, because acting exactly like the people you dislike is going to improve the world, certainly.
1/2/2012 8:45:45 AM
#1362516
Anon-e-moose
PROTIP: The slang term for Chamber Pot being 'Po(e)'.
Besides, the way the world is nowadays, secular
laws in democratic,
civilised countries are doing a fine job in destroying religious rule over people (such as it was centuries ago), as religion had everything it's own way for so long, and people eventually learned what a shitty idea Church & State
indivisible was; if anything, via such religion-destroying laws, it's now a case of people telling religion what to do (Roe vs. Wade, Kitzmiller vs. Dover etc), which is the dominant socio-political paradigm, and therefore is as things
should be.
Moral: Rule of
Law >>>>> Theocracy. Every time.
Deal with it, anti-Democracy, Nazi Dominionist fundies. [/Reverse Godwin]
1/2/2012 10:05:36 AM
#1362579
TheJebusFire
1/2/2012 7:17:51 PM
#1362606
Wehpudicabok
@1362450:
I wasn't saying "no atheist would support communism." I was saying I thought the author was a parodist. (Obviously anyone who doesn't believe in gods is an atheist regardless of whether or not they agree with me on other things.) Reading now I see that Night Jaguar and others disagree based on the thread, and since I try to stay away from Pharyngula nowadays I'll just take their word and retract my claim.
1/3/2012 12:13:29 AM
#1362666
Mister Spak
Do you also support Maoist cultural revolutions where 5 million people die of starvation?
1/3/2012 6:10:08 AM
#1362676
Raised by Horses
We don't need Maoist-style "re-education" camps. Regular education works just fine when it comes to dispelling superstition. (Which is probably why it's receiving the slash-and-burn treatment around the globe).
1/3/2012 6:33:46 AM
#1362685
Liz
I'm autistic, so the world is incredibly scary for me. I will admit to employing religious superstition in order to control my fear of the world, at least enough so that I can function. At this point, I have learned to maintain eye contact, carry on a half-decent conversation, and I have 2 graduate degrees. I wouldn't have been able to do any of that if I didn't believe that there was something helping me. That being said, I'm Pagan, so my religion is not the same as the majority of those around me, I don't believe that in proselytizing, and I don't think that religion, mine or any other, is necessarily for everyone. I think everyone has their own spiritual needs and those needs can be met in different ways.
1/3/2012 6:51:34 AM
#1362875
= POPE =
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqWuwZElgDg
Edit: @ Liz:
The world is incredibly scary for anyone who is actually paying attention.
1/3/2012 12:58:04 PM
#1362881
Non-retarded Atheist
Not sure if troll or retard...
1/3/2012 1:11:22 PM
#1363274
Steven Mading
"He still posts, though not as frequently as he used to. He's already been blocked for causing trouble on other websites. I don't know why PZ doesn't just block his ISP"
Well, maybe because he figures its not the fault of one customer of that ISP that another customer of that ISP is being an ass? Blocking an entire ISP is only appropriate when the ISP is at fault for something, not when just one of its many customers is.
1/4/2012 1:04:49 PM
#1363355
LadyJafaria
@Steven Mading: they probably mean ban his "IP address," not his "ISP." An IP address is unique and sometimes the only way to ban someone, and only affects one computer. I mean, it'd suck if you shared a computer with an IP-banned person and tried to get onto the same site, but it wouldn't be what you're thinking of.
1/4/2012 7:22:03 PM
#1363675
pretty puppy
There is so much wrong in that statement but I shall focus on this: you can not mandate a belief or lack of belief.
1/5/2012 5:59:55 PM
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