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.
You Want Some Red Herring With That?
College freshman Brandon Stanley bravely and carefully crafts an imaginary atheist, stuffs him with the most putrid and objectionable straw, then energetically knocks him down with a thesaurus and stirring words of exuberant malice, as well as a call-to-arms against a defenseless tree! Bam! Biff! Take that, you dirty atheist bastards!
[link] Thus is the root of all evil in today’s America: the doctrines of unreason yet made more insidious by masquerading as reason. At the head of these forces is the force of Atheism. This is not meant to soothe the hearts of disbelief, or to call someone to faith. I will not mince word with those who would advance the putrid banner of nihilism under the cover of a cannonade of so-called reason. Atheism as a metaphysic comes to us in a variety of forms: Music, T.V, so called “American Culture”. Atheism, first and foremost, is a religion. All forms of extremist atheism, whether they are Objectivism, Marxism, or any other ism, make metaphysical claims. These claims are never challenged nor questioned. Atheism as a religion has Ten Commandments.
They are:
1) Man consists of nothing more than atoms, hence he has no essence
2) Man should therefore seek Paradise on Earth
3) Reality must be what we see in front of us
4) Religious faith is bad; but faith in fellow man good
5) We must be the judge of whether God is righteous or not
6) Eschatology in religion bad; eschatology in science good
7) Ethical judgments cannot be made; all is relative
8) The Universe is an accident
9) Evolution can never be questioned. Prophet Darwin is unassailable
10) Faith is a stupidity, and faith must be taken as “belief in something you cannot see.”Are they not patently absurd?
Heheh... "Are they not..." Too funny, Brandon. Talk like that some more and folks might one day start taking you seriously instead of simply laughing at you for being a pretentious, bigoted, asshole-in-training. But don't count on it.
Ah, youth. Heh.
Now, I must leave because I'm late for my Prophet Darwin worship service at the local EAC. We're going to discuss whether or not our sworn enemy, the Judeo-Christian God, is a really righteous dude in the accidental universe, or just bogus. Then, we're going to evolve a second penis so that we can fornicate wildly and evilly with each other's atoms, devoid of essence, morals, ethics, cleanliness and good common sense. But who cares? It's paradise on earth!
The wife and I are bringing dead Christian baby casserole to the potluck afterwards! Yum, yummy, yum-yum!
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Ya gotta love the reply to your comment:
"As for the idea that this is a strawman argument, I see nothing wrong with using it. Its done all the time to Theists. As for Godless Ethics, this is an interesting concept and should be explored."
So, there's nothing wrong with straw man arguments, huh? That sheds some light on his declaration that "the root of all evil in today’s America" is "the doctrine of unreason yet made more insidious by masquerading as reason."
So ... Godless Ethics is "an
So ... Godless Ethics is "an interesting concept and should be explored"?
Um, yeah. Let's all look into that dazzling novelty of an idea.
Now, I must leave because I'm late for my Prophet Darwin worship
D'you want the lat and long for Downe House so you can face the right way?
Hmm
And now the little twit put comment moderation on his site. Guess all those nasty little atheists need to be kept from speaking out. Oh well, another intellectual giant in the making.
- Matt
Not Too Surprising
It's interesting how often I hear the "atheism == religion" argument. We're suppose to believe religion is good, except when it's atheism, then it's bad. I guess it's just one of those old debating tricks, where you first bring the opponent down to your level.
That's also why the "ten commandments" thing isn't too interesting, although it certainly is funny. How else do you expect them to relate to atheism? That said, it's really not grounds for name-calling.
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4) Religious faith is bad; but faith in fellow man good
I like this one. I wonder why he thought it was so evil?
on the subject of non-evils
2) Man should therefore seek Paradise on Earth
i was having an argument over religion a couple months ago and the same basic argument came up. he pretty much said athiesm is evil for trying to improve life on earth...
clearly we are total bastards
I don't talk to relatives like that anymore.
Seriously. It's just not worth it.
So...very...tired of all the misrepresentations of atheism out there. Of course, the "paradise on earth" part is OK. What's wrong with trying for that? And while I don't have to necessarily see reality all the time, I do require some sort of empirical explanations for the stuff I might not "see." That's just how I gotta roll.
As far as righteous gods, I have sort of become the righteous House Finch Goddess. It all started with, "Ooh, they're so pretty, they're so cute, look at how the cats watch them," so I set out some little sunflower seed feeders. Which now get decimated in, oh, about half an hour. Then they sit on the porch rails and windowsills and doth Beseech me with chirps and glares to refill the feeders. So I do and when I come outside they fly away from my Presence so Terrible and Glorious am I in their Sight. But they're watching from somewhere because the minute I go inside they're at the feeders again.
Sometimes I'm not home, and their Beseeching is for nought. My Ways are Mysterious to them.
There was some metaphor there, but I lost track of it.
Ah, misrepresentation... *
Ah, misrepresentation...
* sigh *
I received the following lovely perspective on science education from a close relative:
SOMEBODY'S RAISING THEIR KID RIGHT! One Nation, "Under God".
One day a 6 year old girl was sitting in a classroom. The teacher was going to explain evolution to the children. The teacher asked a little boy: Tommy do you see the tree outside?
TOMMY: Yes.
TEACHER: Tommy, do you see the grass outside?
TOMMY: Yes.
TEACHER: Go outside and look up and see if you can see the sky.
TOMMY: Okay. (He returned a few minutes later) Yes, I saw the sky.
TEACHER: Did you see God up there?
TOMMY: No.
TEACHER: That's my point. We can't see God because he isn't there. Possibly he just doesn't exist.
A little girl spoke up and wanted to ask the boy some questions.
The teacher agreed and the little girl asked the boy: Tommy, do you see the tree outside?
TOMMY: Yes.
LITTLE GIRL: Tommy do you see the grass outside?
TOMMY: Yessssss!
LITTLE GIRL: Did you see the sky?
TOMMY: Yessssss!
LITTLE GIRL: Tommy, do you see the teacher?
TOMMY: Yes
LITTLE GIRL: Do you see her brain?
TOMMY: No
LITTLE GIRL: Then according to what we were taught today in school, she possibly may not even have one!
(You Go Girl!)
FOR WE WALK BY FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT" II CORINTHIANS 5:7
Don't forget to pass this on! I love this one. Everyone should
send this to everyone they know, especially today with prayer restricted in schools
The one I liked the most:
"Reality must be what we see in front of us"
It reminds me of the ultra-Orthodox tract I saw a few years ago that proclaimed "Well, it's thought that truth is telling things as they are and untruth is telling things that weren't... but in fact truth is what helps God and untruth what helps Satan."