Wielding a blow-dryer, a leading atheist conducted a mass “de-baptism” of fellow non-believers and symbolically dried up the offending waters that were sprinkled on their foreheads as young children.
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Kagin, who is American Atheists’ national legal director, firmly believes that regardless of one’s religious beliefs, each person has the right to say or do what he or she wants, provided it is within the law. In the past, he has reportedly called out parents who subject their children to strict fundamentalist religious education, referring to it as child abuse.
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“They are practicing child abuse in teaching that the world operates in ways other than it does,” he told the convention crowd. “And in my opinion, they are engaged in terrorism by weakening our nation and our understanding of science and things with which we can defend ourselves and progress. If it had not been for these fools we could have been at the stars 2,000 years ago.”
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Kagin said he thought some people might get overly offended by his poking fun at religion. “If someone is so secure in their faith, why are they the least bit concerned about some little atheist mocking them?” he asked. “I think the reason they are worried and concerned is the very deep fear that if everyone doesn’t believe it, maybe it isn’t so.”
In vaguely unrelated religious news, Hindu gods are now prohibited from trading in the stock market.
This wet versus dry religious arms race must stop.
Well, I was raised Southern Baptist and so took a whole body drenching. Will this guy blow me?
The trouble with atheists is they make a religion out of not believing in a religion.
Monk’s robes and a hair dryer indeed. And a message delivered by a lawyer? Please.
The most convincing argument for the invalidity of religion is your own life experience. Short meeting. No props. End of story.
I thoroughly enjoy and exercise my right to not believe. But when others start acting just as stupid as old men wearing funky hats while in a dress, or see jesus Fracking christ in their grilled cheese sandwich, I call them fucktards.
When he starts de-musliming muslims in whatever whimsical way (glue around the neck maybe?) I’ll take him seriously in his “atheism”. So far he is just anti-christian.
I just hope there are very few atheist that partake in giving religion credibilty by this reach around method.
A person shouldn’t really care if the church of fairy tales knows you do not believe in their fairy tales.
But if one has the need, a better demostration might be to gather a bunch of people, give them copies of Darwin’s books then attend a Sunday service with books in hand. But who wants to waste the time?
“Kagin said he thought some people might get overly offended by his poking fun at religion. “If someone is so secure in their faith, why are they the least bit concerned about some little atheist mocking them?” he asked. “I think the reason they are worried and concerned is the very deep fear that if everyone doesn’t believe it, maybe it isn’t so.”
Funny how it works the other way ’round as well.
Give a monkey a brain.
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I caught that segment. Turns out his son is a born again preacher, so this “evangelical” thing appears to be genetic? I must be a passive carrier because I was as repelled by this meaningless ceremony consistent with any other “group” ceremony.
He tried to emphasize it was all in fun but to my mind it was all social conformity-another example of conformist social thinking, aka religion. Very rare for “atheist” to celebrate/congregate over that status, much better to read a book, or take a photograph, or bake some croissants.
OTOH–his audience was the recently religious. I guess a little group ceremony will help the passage to rational thought.
That’s not a hair dryer. It’s an electric penis enlarger. I know that guy. And I am pleased with the results.
I love the bizarre and paranoid reactions that some religionists get when they are exposed to atheist humor. People should remember that one person’s religion is another person’s belly laugh.
I am an Atheist. I am also not as insecure in my non-belief as these fools as to cause me to mock the beliefs of others. Doing so is simply childish. Not to mention immoral and rude.
The “blow-dryer of reason” is unreasonable.
I’m an atheist and I think this is idiotic. I’ll discuss it if asked, but I don’t go around telling everyone, you need to not believe.
Hey JCD grap that Jesus switch pic back.
I believe (no not that word).
I think religious teaching to minors should be banned. They are too immature to properly deal with what is being placed before them.
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“I think religious teaching to minors should be banned.
They are too immature to properly deal with what is
being placed before them.”
Then let us ban ideology in the guise of citizenship and civics as well.
Utopia is as valid a reality as the existence of ghosts, Santa or rights.
None of it exists. We only believe they/it do/does until we are shown it is a lie.
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I’m a Christian but, damn, I thought that was funny.
methinks there’s no difference at all between an atheists proselytizing and someone from any other religion proselyting.
In both cases they are asking you to accept something that they can in no way prove. That’s why it’s called FAITH.
What makes ass-hats like this guy particularly annoying is that he fails to see that he’s denouncing the very activity that he participates in. Does anyone really think he wouldn’t indoctrinate HIS kids with Atheistic beliefs??
Thank you matt: the guys adult son is a born again preacher. They have a close father/son relationship and simply don’t discuss that particular issue.
If I go out on the street corner and tell people my potato peeler is the very best and will change their lives and get people to wash and peel potatoes, have I started a new religion?
Rational thought: similarities vs differences = weigh and contrast == sum up >> reach a conclusion.
Too many of you retards only get to the first similarity you find, then you leap to a bumper sticker slogan. Apply to the present real life example and get back to us.
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Well what does the term ‘minor’ imply, and why its restriction? The problem with indoctrinating minors is once they reach an age where they hopefully have mature minds as well as independence, they usually are committed to cultural obligations.
Any honest process of disengagement has various degrees of alienation.
I just wish more religions were honest in these matters.
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Of course there is a difference
prove it to me versus non doubting thomases
rational thought vs dogma
scientific process vs revealed knowledge
never sure vs always sure