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When Atheists Attack

Reblogged from elitebeatagent

bonerdelrey:

  • just because you’re an atheist doesn’t mean you can shame religious people for their beliefs
  • just because you’re an atheist doesn’t mean you can shame religious people for their beliefs
  • just because you’re an atheist doesn’t mean you can shame religious people for their beliefs
  • just because you’re an atheist doesn’t mean you can shame religious people for their beliefs
  • BASICALLY DON’T BE A FUCKING ASSHOLE

I’ve never shamed anyone for having “beliefs”. People are free to believe any sort of nonsensical gibberish they like in the comfort of their own homes without having to deal with atheists knocking on their door asking them if they’ve let the light of independent thought into their lives. This is all true.

However, I’ve shamed people (regardless of religious affiliation, although there does seem to be a strong correlation) for being assholes. For instance, if I make fun of you for voting for Prop 8, you can’t complain that I’m attacking your religious beliefs. Because when you vote on something like this, it affects everyone, not just the people who have minds as tiny as yours. That’s not exercising your beliefs, that’s just being an asshole. That’s dictating to others that they must live with your religious ideas of morality, plucked straight from the second century in the B of C. 

If being mocked for repeated violations of the “asshole” rule, for the huge tranche of violent, homophobic, sexist gibberish makes you angry, well good. It’s supposed to make you angry. And there is a really easy way to make all of it - ALL OF IT - go away. I strongly recommend you alter your life to make sure none of this stuff is directed towards you again. 

Posted April 1, 2013 at 1:38 pm 144 notes

#atheism#Religion#prop 8#homophobia#sexism#this made me feel like I was watching a Daft Punk clip

Opinions =/= Facts

Reblogged from siryouarebeingmocked

social-darwin-awards:

blonde-swanson:

You have the right to your opinion. Opinions do not have the ability to be correct or incorrect. Nobody has to agree with you. By publicly expressing your opinion, you are giving others the right to disagree with it and criticize it. If you are so sensitive that you cannot react to criticism without rage, you probably should keep those opinions to yourself.

This has been your daily dose of “lessons the rest of us learned in grade school that Tumblr somehow missed”.

As I read the responses to this post, it became extremely apparent to me that people did not understand what blonde-swanson was saying. On my ride home I realized the problem: People don’t know the difference between fact and opinion. Obviously, this lesson being based on that difference, if you fail to comprehend it, you will not understand the lesson. 

I have no idea why this is so difficult to understand. Words have meanings. There is a difference between a fact and an opinion. Some opinions are better than others. All these statements should be axiomatic. 

Think of it like this: if you codify facts, you get science. If you codify opinions, you get religion.

Posted March 18, 2013 at 5:21 pm 1714 notes

#science#religion#facts#opinions

Reblogged from alexorue

alexorue:

Hate Group Leaders Tony Perkins & Bryan Fischer Cheer Uganda

For Uganda’s life imprisonment plan for homosexuals, of course.

I think they’re confusing “American liberals” with “decent human beings”, but that’s not new. In other news, they seem less inclined to draw parallels with other countries that prosecute homosexuality with the death penalty, such as Iran or Saudi Arabia.

I wonder why that is?

HINT: Always remember that the problem is not any particular issue or opinion - it’s religion.

Posted November 26, 2012 at 7:56 pm 127 notes

#Iran#Saudi Arabia#religion#Christianity#Islam#homophobia

Gay is Equally Haram and Treyf, Apparently.

Reblogged from anarchowario

socialjusticeally:

magnusmacguyver93:

Guess what, Libs? HOMOSEXUALITY IS LEGAL IN ISRAEL, but PUNISHABLE BY DEATH in every other fucking Arabic country, those “POOR MUSLIMS” YOU WHINE ABOUT! Also, in every other motherfucking Islamic country, women ARE CONSIDERED PROPERTY. How’s that for your precious Middle-Eastern countries and screwing over ourONLYremaining ally in the Middle East?

In the war between the civilized and the uncivilized…

Oops sorry your doublethink doesn’t work here please just gibber quietly in the corner now.

Also, Israel isn’t exactly the most welcome place for homosexuals either. But it’s nice to see that the hardcore Jews and the hardcore Muslims can agree on something.

PRO TIP: The problem isn’t what country you’re in: it’s religion.

Posted October 5, 2012 at 7:39 pm 101 notes

#religion#gay#Israel#islam

Reblogged from keenpeach

Dara O’Briain explaining the obvious for the hard of thinking.

(Source: bouncingdodecahedrons)

Posted September 16, 2012 at 2:45 pm 43446 notes

#Islam#religion#jokes#Catholics

hatefulatheist: ih8religion: “New York City train commuters may soon see new anti-Islam advertisements on the city’s Metro North line. The American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) created an ad campaign to raise awareness about Jihadist activities against Israel and the United States, highlighting the number of Islamist attacks since Sept. 11, 2001, and a growing number of deaths that have resulted.” - read more “But Islam is a religion of peace!” Sure, sure it is, maybe if Islamic fundamentalists kill enough people that says otherwise everyone will believe that. I’ve said this before, but it bears repeating:  I have no problem slamming the multiple retardations of Islam, but I will not listen to a word of that shit from people aligned to other religions which glorify massacres or encourage murder, such as Christianity or Judaism. And neither should you. Never forget that the threat here is not Islam, but religion in general.

Reblogged from hatefulatheist

hatefulatheist:

ih8religion:

“New York City train commuters may soon see new anti-Islam advertisements on the city’s Metro North line.

The American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) created an ad campaign to raise awareness about Jihadist activities against Israel and the United States, highlighting the number of Islamist attacks since Sept. 11, 2001, and a growing number of deaths that have resulted.” - read more

“But Islam is a religion of peace!” Sure, sure it is, maybe if Islamic fundamentalists kill enough people that says otherwise everyone will believe that.

I’ve said this before, but it bears repeating: 

I have no problem slamming the multiple retardations of Islam, but I will not listen to a word of that shit from people aligned to other religions which glorify massacres or encourage murder, such as Christianity or Judaism. And neither should you.

Never forget that the threat here is not Islam, but religion in general.

Posted September 7, 2012 at 5:05 pm 40 notes

#Islam#murder#religion

Scientists From Ages Ago Were Religious!

Reblogged from closertothelost

closertothelost:

atheismforthewin:

atheistcartoons:

During discussions of religion, all our clever arguments and wondrous bullshit-smashing tools are often rendered useless by the fact that religious people refuse to respect the same rules of reality that the do in all other areas of their lives.

We often look forward to engaging these people in a real, meaningful dialogue, and are as often disappointed by the willful denial of everything they know to be true.

↑↑↑

“Religious people refuse to respect the same rules of reality that they do in all other areas of their lives.”

(Aquinas)

(Augustine)

(LeMaitre)

(Mendel)

At the time all these people were walking and talking, religion was the only path to any sort of education, so claiming that scientists from hundreds of years ago were religious is axiomatic and not very useful. However, the fact that they managed to work out anything at all about reality is a testament to their ability to ignore certain aspects of their religious instruction. In other words, the examples you’ve quoted merely strengthen my point.

Currently, the more scientific training and education you have, the more likely you are to be atheist. This is a fact, which you can check for yourself. The question I have for you is: Why do you think that is? 

Posted September 1, 2012 at 7:23 pm 70 notes

#religion#science#bullshit

"I have nothing at all against either a philosophically-informed atheism or a casual atheism that arises from a simple lack of religious temperament. There is little that annoys me as much as that smug atheism whose adherents refer to themselves as “freethinkers” or “brights.” I have met a lot of these people, and not one—not a single one—has ever had the slightest idea what he was talking about."

Reblogged from thecaseforgod-deactivated201210

Michael Robbins

How comforting these words must be to those who have, by definition, resigned themselves to oppose freethinking on general principle - to spread among your friends the fiction that anyone who isn’t religious doesn’t know what he’s talking about. It would probably be more accurate to say that you personally don’t understand it, or can’t relate to it, which is fair enough, but you can’t hold someone else responsible for that.

Religious is, by definition, the death of free thought. If you don’t understand why this is true, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.

In unrelated news, I will agree that calling me a “bright” because I don’t believe in any god is a bit weird. (Don’t do that. Thanks.) I have known many religious people who were various degrees of intelligent, but none of them were freethinkers. Obviously.

Posted June 16, 2012 at 8:02 pm 92 notes

#Religion#atheism#intellectual#lies

Reblogged from chaosofcontingencies

chaosofcontingencies:

Ok, I would normally leave this alone but schools out so I have nothing else to do, also I’m not too happy with the tone taken here.

The tone is irrelevant.

First off if you are going to call m out on my sources your first rebuttal should not be to go look at a  wikpidia page. I too have looked at other wiki pages that directly contradict that page…becuase it’s wikipedia and not reliable like that. 

The fact that Wikipedia is well-understood to be a shaky resource was the point of that example. You didn’t even have that shoddy level of sourcing…

  Also the books you suggested I have heard of, and I have many books as well that support the connections between the religious scriptures.

You’ve heard of them? Well I guess that’s a start. Also, I was not arguing against the connection between religious scriptures. In fact, in my post, I accepted that without question. This leads me to believe that you may have either misunderstood my post or failed to read it all the way through.

When it comes to religious practices you can find almost any opinion masquerading as academic that supports your claim or mine.

It doesn’t matter what you “find” as an “opinion”. What matters is the quality of the research and the resources. You didn’t do the research and you still, despite criticizing Wikipedia, haven’t provided your sources. I’m not making a “claim”; I’m explaining why you’re wrong. And I provided sources.

However common sense tell me that it is far more likely that christianity was developed from older religious practices of the region, than a man named Jesus walked around performing miracles and only the Christians caught on. 

Common sense is not a source and means nothing.

Let’s start this again: You posted these images which claim to show specific parallels between Jesus and figures from other mythologies. These parallels, for the most part, do not exist. There’s no point in getting defensive about that, or telling me you used common sense, or that you’ve “heard of” books that discuss the matter in depth, or that you don’t like my “tone” - that’s all irrelevant bullshit.What you need to do is either back up the claims with something other than hearsay and emotional opinions or retract the post.

Unless you’re some 12-year-old kid who’s just discovered Google and the idea that there are other religions, you have no excuse for promulgating this sort of gibberish. (If you are a 12-year-old kid, by the way, then I’m sorry about all this. Don’t do drugs. Stay in school.)

TL;DR Citation needed (still).

(Source: grandmayetta)

Posted May 11, 2012 at 7:52 am 4877 notes

#reply#Jesus#Religion#sources

Reblogged from chaosofcontingencies

chaosofcontingencies:

I did an essay on this. I found the overlap in religious construction yo be fascinating, and our ability to overlook it frightening. 

Then you need to work on your sources, because it’s bullshit. There are many general parallels between all mythologies, but there is nothing like the direct relationship between specific details as these photos imply. The Wiki page of Jesus parallels (which explains that at least in the case of Horus, it’s based on a combination of very basic misunderstandings and what I would call “making shit up”) would have been a good place to start, but you could also have read The Golden Bough by James Frazer or pretty much anything Joseph Campbell wrote (but I’d start with The Hero with A Thousand Faces).

TL;DR Citation needed.

(Source: grandmayetta)

Posted May 10, 2012 at 12:25 am 4877 notes

#citation needed#Jesus#religion#bullshit