“I don’t want war! All I want is peace…peace…peace…!
A little piece of Poland,
A little piece of France,
A little piece of Austria
And Hungary, perchance!
A little slice of Turkey
And all that that entails,
And then a bit of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales!”
My religion involves telling religious people to stop trying to force their religion on others.
Sometimes they ask me, “Wait – aren’t YOU trying to force your religion on ME?”
And I reply, “No. If I was doing that, I’d be forcing you to join me in stopping other people. All I’m forcing you to do is leave people alone. You don’t have to help, you just have to not hurt.”
It’s at this point typically that either their heads explode, or they start angrily spouting insults and political buzzwords they heard on Fox News and then pelt me with beer cans.
there are two flavors of atheist: atheists (un-capitalized) are
those like me and you who don’t want to hear about religion,
and Atheists who want to make every other religion stop
existing and Won’t Stop Talking About It.
A religion is a set of beliefs and practices about a deity;
zero is a number; a belief in zero deities and no practices with
a desire to proselytize until every one is converted is a religion.
I wish the Strong Atheists would stop trying to force their religion
on other as well. They give us a bad reputation, and i never give
a damn about my bad reputation, i never made a move to
improve my station sorry i got distracted and started singing
Joan Jett. Happy Friday.
A religion is a set of beliefs and practices about a deity;
zero is a number; a belief in zero deities and no practices with
a desire to proselytize until every one is converted is a religion.
Of course, by the same argument a belief in zero deities and no practices without a desire to proselytize is also a religion. (A desire to proselytize is not a requirement of religion; many people who believe in >0 deities lack one. When I was a kid, my atheist dad had long discussions with our local Church of Scotland minister, just because they both enjoyed long discussions, and neither of them were looking to convert the other.) You wish Strong Atheists would stop trying to force your religion on other people.
I think it was Penn Jillette who said that if atheism was his religion, not collecting stamps was his hobby. The same argument applies; he has a collection of zero stamps.
I prefer agnosticism. I don’t claim to know that God exists, nor do I claim to know that God does not exist; neither is a supportable claim. I don’t know. I hope that certain things are true, but I do not profess faith or belief in those things.
…On bad days I veer toward what Phil Foglio termed “militant agnosticism: I don’t know and YOU DON’T EITHER.”
The problem with many agnostics is that they only extend this ‘maybe, maybe not’ to the Judeo-Christian god. If you believe that God may or may not exist, but Brahma, the FSM or the Celestial Teapot definitely don’t, then you’re just a christian.
My preferred way to induce head-explosions among proselytizers is to know their religion better than they do. This turns out to be surprisingly easy, as most of them seem to know very little beyond the few verses hand-picked for them by The Pastor (indeed, if this were SMBC or xkcd, I’d want to add a graph showing that scriptural knowledge times intensity of evangelism equals constant).
“Antifa” isn’t a single group or organization. It’s a categorical descriptor, applied to lots of different things. And by its very definition any Antifa group is anything OTHER than fascist.
You see, “Antifa” is a shortening of “Anti-Fascist”.
Not sure how or where you got confused about that, but I hope I helped clear some misconceptions up.
They are a loosely knit group who band together to perform fascist acts, for fascist reasons- their contempt for others, and the rights thereof. The name is no more a disguise than crossing their eyes would be. Deal.
I lean to the theory that they’re modern-day anarchists. They disguise their identity with black outfits…cover their faces with ski masks…go and commit acts of violence…then fade back into their lives thinking no one will ever catch them.
Everybody wants peace. Some’ll kill you to get it.
There’s nothing more peaceful than a dead troublemaker.
(quoted from somewhere that I can’t remember)
Probably not what you were thinking of, but I was reminded of this line from National Lampoon’s Lemmings show:
“We all believe in flowers and we all believe in peace,
And there’s endless peace and flowers in the grave…”
Mad Magazine spoof of “The Rifleman” circa early ’60’s, perhaps? – “Ain’t nothin’ more peaceful than a dead man.”
“I don’t want war! All I want is peace…peace…peace…!
A little piece of Poland,
A little piece of France,
A little piece of Austria
And Hungary, perchance!
A little slice of Turkey
And all that that entails,
And then a bit of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales!”
Keith Laumer. One of his Retief stories. ^_^
So it’s just like mainstream religions then. You, you SQUARES!
Isn’t it usually the heretics who actively kill others in mainstream religions?
Now we see the violence inherent in the system!
My religion involves telling religious people to stop trying to force their religion on others.
Sometimes they ask me, “Wait – aren’t YOU trying to force your religion on ME?”
And I reply, “No. If I was doing that, I’d be forcing you to join me in stopping other people. All I’m forcing you to do is leave people alone. You don’t have to help, you just have to not hurt.”
It’s at this point typically that either their heads explode, or they start angrily spouting insults and political buzzwords they heard on Fox News and then pelt me with beer cans.
there are two flavors of atheist: atheists (un-capitalized) are
those like me and you who don’t want to hear about religion,
and Atheists who want to make every other religion stop
existing and Won’t Stop Talking About It.
A religion is a set of beliefs and practices about a deity;
zero is a number; a belief in zero deities and no practices with
a desire to proselytize until every one is converted is a religion.
I wish the Strong Atheists would stop trying to force their religion
on other as well. They give us a bad reputation, and i never give
a damn about my bad reputation, i never made a move to
improve my station sorry i got distracted and started singing
Joan Jett. Happy Friday.
If you told Leonardo da Pisa degli figlii Bonacci that zero is a number, he might just report you to the Holy Inquisition as Moorish infidel.
A religion is a set of beliefs and practices about a deity;
zero is a number; a belief in zero deities and no practices with
a desire to proselytize until every one is converted is a religion.
Of course, by the same argument a belief in zero deities and no practices without a desire to proselytize is also a religion. (A desire to proselytize is not a requirement of religion; many people who believe in >0 deities lack one. When I was a kid, my atheist dad had long discussions with our local Church of Scotland minister, just because they both enjoyed long discussions, and neither of them were looking to convert the other.) You wish Strong Atheists would stop trying to force your religion on other people.
I think it was Penn Jillette who said that if atheism was his religion, not collecting stamps was his hobby. The same argument applies; he has a collection of zero stamps.
I prefer agnosticism. I don’t claim to know that God exists, nor do I claim to know that God does not exist; neither is a supportable claim. I don’t know. I hope that certain things are true, but I do not profess faith or belief in those things.
…On bad days I veer toward what Phil Foglio termed “militant agnosticism: I don’t know and YOU DON’T EITHER.”
The problem with many agnostics is that they only extend this ‘maybe, maybe not’ to the Judeo-Christian god. If you believe that God may or may not exist, but Brahma, the FSM or the Celestial Teapot definitely don’t, then you’re just a christian.
Even worse are the Atheists that preach technocracy and sciencism; a form of bastardized science.
My preferred way to induce head-explosions among proselytizers is to know their religion better than they do. This turns out to be surprisingly easy, as most of them seem to know very little beyond the few verses hand-picked for them by The Pastor (indeed, if this were SMBC or xkcd, I’d want to add a graph showing that scriptural knowledge times intensity of evangelism equals constant).
Ah yes, those who merely inherit their religion instead of learning it.
Just wake me when the smiting starts.
It’s unnerving how few mad scientists and transgenics there are who don’t default to “Murder The Unbelievers.”
Well, people who disagree with the mad scientist are clearly fools, and you know what needs to be done with fools. (No, not pity them: that’s Mr. T.)
If only Tip weren’t such a defender of non-human rights, he’d have already disposed of these possums, likely without a hair out of place.
Kinda remind me of that fascist group Antifa- but much classier…
Umm…
“Antifa” isn’t a single group or organization. It’s a categorical descriptor, applied to lots of different things. And by its very definition any Antifa group is anything OTHER than fascist.
You see, “Antifa” is a shortening of “Anti-Fascist”.
Not sure how or where you got confused about that, but I hope I helped clear some misconceptions up.
Don’t forget its similarity to “intifada,” the Arabic term for the Palestinian uprisings of the 1990s.
“And by its very definition any Antifa group is anything OTHER than fascist.”
Circular logic. You are assuming the label is the reality and Orwell has shown us what such an assumption is worth. u_u
They are a loosely knit group who band together to perform fascist acts, for fascist reasons- their contempt for others, and the rights thereof. The name is no more a disguise than crossing their eyes would be. Deal.
I lean to the theory that they’re modern-day anarchists. They disguise their identity with black outfits…cover their faces with ski masks…go and commit acts of violence…then fade back into their lives thinking no one will ever catch them.
Part of my brain is now trying to fit the phrase “In the Mothership’s holy thrusters” to the tune of “Rise and Shine and Give God the Glory.”
More importantly, lookit their liddle paddy-paws!
Well, I’d say this is more evidence of the Lovecraftian star-cult, but there’s too many real-world examples like this to narrow it down that far.
OK, I have to say it — every time I see “Cosmognothics”, my mind reads it as “Compsognathus”, and then jumps to:
“Compsognathus, small as a chicken, ran ’round the forest floor. It hunted for quick little lizards and bugs, this mini-dinosaur!”
(From “Wee Sing Dinosaurs”) My mind is a strange place…