Observations and inanities by a second-shift assistant supervisor in the Puppy-Grinding division of the Evil Atheist Conspiracy® (our motto: "Sure it's cruel, but think of the jobs!"), your host, Brent Rasmussen.
Favorite atheism T-shirts?
OK, other than the mandatory UTI Shirts, or the very stylin' Evil Atheist Conspiracy shirts (I need to get one of the "We're after your children and pets" ones), what are your favorite pro-atheism T-shirts?
I just got a couple from the folks at Vintage Cotton: By the Beard of Zeus! and It's all in your head, both in a deep blue.
Other nominations?
Jim Downey
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Not an atheist shirt as such, but..
It's kind of topical - or at least it was last week.
- No More Mr. Nice Guy!
How about the kids?
I'd love to see some kids wearing this.
Godless American
I've seen a few variations of this one. "God Bless America" with the "B" crossed out and an "n" tacked onto the end.
OOOhhh
I really really like this one.
the EAC shirts...
kinda suck, actually. too small to read.
i'd suggest saving your cash until they fix that.
Is it even a question?
Anything with a variation on "Jesus loves you. Everyone else thinks you're an asshole."
As a Canadian, I'd like this shirt...
"Jesus saves - and Gretzky scores on the rebound!"
I've seen it on a bumper sticker, how about a shirt?
lots of those
Lots of variations of "Jesus saves". My favorite is a T-shirt that says "Jesus saves - and takes half damage" or "Jesus saves - everybody else takes damage"
I'd probably make one that says "Jesus saves - please don't unplug the memory card or controller"
T-shirts
I want one that just says:
THERE AIN'T NO GODS.
Grow the hell up.
Or maybe:
We know God exists
only as much as we know
Ford Has A Better Idea,
but we speak of him
with the fervor
of the AFLAC duck.
Looks like...
..the Atheists Online folks might have something for you, Hank!
Jim Downey
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Other shirts
My faves are Jesus saves, What Would Cthulhu Do? and Blasphemy Is A Victimless Crime.
UTI in black?
Hey Brent, how about seeing about getting some of the UTI shirts in black or some other color?
Jim Downey
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I think...
I'm hoping to eventually find one with "I think therefore I am an atheist" in Latin. That should be safe to wear around my uneducated neighbors.
my closet
Here are a few I currently own (I went on an anti-religion purchasing spree last year):
"God was my copilot... but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat him"
"I (heart) Roman Lions"
"Nothing fails like prayer"
"Fuck you and your imaginary god"
"Stop talking to yourself (with a drawing of praying hands)"
tshirt
dog is my copilot
"I found Jesus... he was
"I found Jesus... he was behind the couch the whole time"
Or my personal fave, probably a misquote from Joseph Campbell:
"The god you worship is the god you deserve"
My Latin Is Pretty Rusty But....
My latin is pretty rusty but wouldn't that be:
"Cogito, ergo atheistus sum" for the guys, and "Cogito, ergo atheista sum" for the ladies? Or possibly "Cogito, ergo deus non est" (I think, therefore god is not), or "Cogito, ergo dei non sunt" (I think, therefore gods are not).
I think the problem is that "atheist" wasn't really a word in latin. But if we treat it as if it were, then the proper latin for "I am an atheist" would be "atheistus sum" and "atheista sum" depending on the gender of the speaker.
Also, "cogito" literally means "to think" or "to ponder", not really "I think". "I think" is literally translated as "ego reputa". However, I believe that "cogito" enjoyed a colloquial usage as "I think". Kind of a slang, I suppose.
Cogito
Latin verbs are typically identified by their first person singular present indicative: sum, cogito, dico, habeo. There's no a priori rule that says an inflected language must consider the infinitive of the verb the basic form the way English does; in Hebrew, the basic form is the third person masculine singular past tense. So "Cogito" will appear in the dictionary as the head word for "to think," but it actually means "I think."
Notre Dame's Latin dictionary says that the Latin word for atheist is atheus and the Latin word for infidel is infidelis, so I'd say something like cogito ergo atheus sum while a woman would say cogito ergo athea sum.