Category Archives: Atheism

Attention scientists! I’ve discovered an alternate reality!

“So many of the Jews in this country are atheists.”

“The Jewish vote in this country is so confused.”

“Most of the Jews in this country are far left.”

“Their hearts are with this president…they’re with him on all the issues, abortion, all the things that you might list.”

“They like the identify [of Judaism] for some reason — they still want the identity.”

“Some of the Jewish atheists…who have some dealing with Judeo-Christian ethics sometimes turn out to be the worst enemies of this country in my perspective in terms of its future and its goals, in terms of its moral issues.” (emphasis mine)

This all clearly shows that I’ve caught a glimpse of some sort of alternative world, where the white, God-fearing people of America are the only ones who are morally correct, and are the ones who should calling the shots in the United States. Anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-Semitic, and anti-sex attitudes all seem rife in this reality.

I’m surprised no one mentioned the Illuminati.

(Sandy Rios is the former president of Concerned Women for America and a Faux News commentator. The grey-haired yahoo on screen is the AFA‘s very own Bryan Fisher.)

History lesson

“I’ll tell you what you did with atheists for 1500 years. You outlawed them from the universities, or any teaching careers, besmirched their reputations, banned or burned their books or their writings of any kind, drove them into exile, humiliated them, seized their properties, arrested them for blasphemy.

“You dehumanized them with beatings and exquisite torture, gouged out their eyes, slit their tongues, stretched, crushed, or broke their limbs, tore off their breasts if they were women, crushed their scrotums if they were men, imprisoned them, stabbed them, disemboweled them, hung them, burnt them alive.

“And you have nerve enough to complain to me that I laugh at you.”

–Madalyn Murray O’Hair

Let’s travel back to 1306…er, I mean 2006

You’d never know it in Texas these days.

I'm so sorry, Bill.

Bill Nye (“the science guy!”) of public television fame was giving a series of speeches in Waco TX for McLennan Community College’s distinguished lecture series. In one of those speeches he mentioned that the moon did not shine by its own light, but by reflected sunlight. He did this by quoting Genesis 1:16:

And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also.

He mentioned that the moon wasn’t actually a light but a reflector.

Well.

There were a number of people who then left. One of them did a hairflip as she flounced out, declaring, “We believe in God!”

I know this happened years ago, but I still feel that, on behalf of native Texans with a positive IQ, I should apologize to Mr. Nye.

Pray to Joe Pesci for those who observe today’s National Day of Prayer.

First off, these jokers could teach courses on how to design a crappy website. Why they felt that having the Great Seal of the United States is in the background is a mystery that is beyond me.

And of course they want money:

Second, a word about prayer from the Funny Man (NSFW):

Then there is Christopher Hitchens, now in the final stage of esophageal cancer, as he renders his signature Hitchslaps about religion and prayer:

Richard Dawkins throws a thoughtbomb into the concept that atheism cannot contain a proper morality:

…and of course there’s always Harold Camping and his bunch of wingnuts:

You may recall that Camping first predicted that Armageddon would occur in 1994. His followers sold off their goods and awaited rapturous transport to heaven back then. Of course it didn’t happen, and it’s not any more likely to occur on 21 May this year,although followers are again selling off personal property again and waiting anxiously for that Heavenly Bus to take them away.

Again.

“No one can prove there isn’t a teapot in orbit about Mars, but it isn’t very likely, is it?”

From Richard Dawkins, my favorite in-your-face skeptic, thinker, and atheist, from his TED talk in 2002:

“We’ve reached a truly remarkable situation–a grotesque mismatch between the American intelligensia and the American electorate. A philosophical opinion about the nature of the universe that is held by the vast majority of top American scientists. and probably the majority of the  intelligensia generally. is so abhorrent to the American electorate that no candidate for popular election dare affirm it in public. If I’m right, that means high office in the greatest country in the world is barred to the very people best qualified to hold it, the intelligensia, unless they’re prepared to lie about their beliefs. To put it bluntly, American political opportunities are heavily loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.” (emphasis mine)

“I’m not a citizen of this country, so I hope it is won’t be thought unbecoming if I suggest that something needs to be done.”

He went on to suggest a wholesale “coming out” of American atheists from their philosophical closets. And to an extent, that has been happening in the last 10 years:

Thomas Jefferson quotes, with no comment

Lots of good quotes from the Sage of Monticello here:

“In no instance have the churches been the guardians of the liberties of the people.”

“Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law.”

“The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and ingrafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man.”

“The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error.”

“Every Christian sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that, without a revelation, there would not be sufficient proof of the being of god.”