I was just on the National Post website. This caught my eye...
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/10/03/barbara-kay-religulous-shmigulous-turns-out-it-s-the-atheists-who-are-hilarious.aspx
I did not know that atheists were "hilarious"; quite the opposite, really. I admire anyone who thiiiinks for themself.
Imagine that!
Columnist Barbara Kay is a typical angry, right-wing, name calling... now I'm doing it.
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Since when does lampooning pomposity and narrow-mindedness make one an Atheist? If I didn't think so little of certain National Post columnists, I would be offended. More hilarity ensures in the statement: "It seems that belief in God is a prophylactic against superstition." So; we are to assume that Christians are by no means SUPERSTITIOUS? ROTFLMAO! Robert G. Ingersoll once wrote:
WHAT IS SUPERSTITION?
To believe in spite of evidence or without evidence.
To account for one mystery by another.
To believe that the world is governed by chance or caprice.
To disregard the true relation between cause and effect.
To put thought, intention and design back of nature.
To believe that mind created and controls matter.
To believe in force apart from substance, or in substance
apart from force.
To believe in miracles, spells and charms, in dreams and
prophecies.
To believe in the supernatural.
The foundation of superstition is ignorance, the
superstructure is faith and the dome is a vain hope. Superstition
is the child of ignorance and the mother of misery.
Couldn't have said it better myself. Thanks, Barb - you made my day!
In my anti-religious zeal, I missed that Barb is actually a Reconstructionist Jew (http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2007/12/26/152533.aspx).
My comment still stands, however. Perhaps more so.
Barb is a Kay, do not forget. National Post columnists -- or whatever they call themselves -- are a bunch of angry, right-wing, name calling... ahhhhh. I've turned into a mutant right-winger. I will grow 50 feet tall and stomp on all 'lefties'. Take that... leftie!
I'm an out-of-control mutant (and 50 foot tall) right-winger. I am a creature to be pitied; a creature to be despised. (Sorry, that was a little Ed Wood moment at the end.)
I think it's trendy to be an atheist. But just tonight I heard a gaggle of airhead girls in their lat teens make some kind of canned remark about religion and an older woman seated nearby interjected politely and the result was this:
"Don't put your shit on me" and a few other comments from one of the girls and they moed to stand by the next set of doors where they were free to chat, gossip and prattle on without jugement or evaluation or challenge. When two of the girls got off the third cautiously crept back to the other doors clearly making sure the older woman had left before settling in there.
In any case, I think it's healthy for religion to be challenged and questioned but atheists (the smart and informed ones as well as the airheads followers going where the party seems to be) also should expect it as well. Those girls displayed utter ignorance and finally fear.
When I hear the supposed left-wing argument that "religion causes people to do terrible things" it reminds me a little too much of the right-wing argument that "rock music, movies, TV, art, video cames or ________ cause people to do terrible things." So maybe the religious and the atheists have more in common than they think.
Each wants to feel superior and impose its views on someone else.
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