[An ironic reply to "I am an intellectual atheist, (meaning I was raised in the Xian church and saw it through for the scam it was at an early age)"]
This is the most inane statement I have ever heard in my life. Even when I was a die hard atheist I had to admit in my searches that Christianity had by far the most learned, intelligent people in history on their side and we got idiots like Darwin on ours. Sorry to burst your bubble but Darwin was one of the least intelligent men of science of his time. His methods were absurd and his conclusions ridiculous and if what he stated did not have fervent fundamentalist atheist backing would have been rejected as the pure drivel it is. I knew this when I read it. I simply thought to myself "Well this is just one more example of someone stepping in poop and coming out smelling like a rose." ie getting the right result using totally wrong methods. I see better now. So NO son you are not an intellectual atheist. You are a fundamentalist of the highest order and there is no logic reason or critical thinking in your mindset. Sorry.
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Even when I was a die hard atheist
Now that's a lie right there.
Darwin was one of the least intelligent men of science of his time
Do, please, give us an informed critique of CD's work on barnacles (still regarded as the definitive work on the subject today), with especial reference to the lack of intelligence displayed therein.
And while we're at it ...
Christianity had by far the most learned, intelligent people in history on their side
Plato, Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Confucius, Moses Maimonides, Baruch Spinoza, Voltaire, Shelley, Marlowe ...
WOW - there's some extraordinary history revision going on right there.
Sentence 1. 1 lie.
Sentence 2. 6 lies. Lie detector reaching critical!
Sentence 3. 2 lies. Lie sink initiated, normalising parity
Sentence 4. 5 lies. Whooop! Whooop! Whooop! Overload imminent!
Sentence 5. 2 lies in seven words. Danger! Evacuate!
Sentence 6. 5 lies. Meltdown imminent! Cannot compute!
Sentence 7. "I see better now", Oh crap ROTFLMAO, too weak to run away! *Flick lie mode to non-sequitur detector*
Sentence 8. Three denials. Danger subsiding.
Sentence 9. Wishful thinking, three arrows so far wide of the mark it's not funny. Projection analysis 83% and climbing.
Sentence 10. "Sorry!" BOOM!!!!!!!!!
Tiny Bulcher: Don't forget Isaac Asimov, George Carlin, Penn and Teller, Douglas Adams, Auguste Comte, Paul Kurtz, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Alfred Adler, Sigmund Freud, Carl Sagan, Democritus, Susan B. Anthony, Woody Allen, James Randi, Joss Whedon, Dave Barry, Arthur C. Clarke, Harry Harrison, Ernest Hemingway, HP Lovecraft, Ron Reagan (Ronlad Reagan's son), Salman Rushdie, Terry Pratchett and David Suzuki.
And that's not even counting agnostics, deists, skeptics and secular humanists.
Also: Darwin was an agnostic, not an atheist, there's a difference.
What's a "fundamentalist atheist?" Do you know the meaning of either of those words? Atheism is essentially an either/or proposition. One either believes in a god or one doesn't. That is it's one fundamental. What other factors could make one a "fundamentalist atheist" as opposed to some other kind of atheist?
And, yes, I AM an intellectual atheist. There is logic and critical thinking in my mindset. Your thinking, on the other hand, is a ridiculous joke.
Hawking is a self-professed atheist yes, but one with a strange tendency to express himself using religious language.
Voltaire, however, as openly anti-atheist.
I think I can identify with the original poster on being an "intellectual atheist," not meaning an intelligent atheist, but meaning I base my atheism on logical conclusions, not emotional ones, like "What kind of God could take my child?" (people who are "angry at God").
And even if you don't like Origin of species, he was also the first to discover the basic mechanisms of auxin and quite a bit about carnivorous plants as well. Amazing how he kept on getting the right results with those "totally wrong methods", isn't it?
In addition to the atheists, agnostics, pantheists, apatheists, and deists, we have theists who think that the fundies and theocrats are all raging assholes and would rather hang out with the atheists and agnostics any day. They're usually identifiable in that they're secular in terms of politics -- and they include most of the theists who have given us any real intellectual contributions.
It's baaaaaack...dumber than ever and loaded for derp.
http://www.fark.com/comments/6248012/69439753#c69439760
A gem from that thread:
Progressive liberalism as it has been since the late 1800s is a mishmash of humanistic ideals and smattering of socialism kind of ground up together. Every single plank is bad. Together the planks make a terrible house that in every society it has been tried, including ours has failed and many people have suffered terribly. Stalin Mao Hiter Mussolini, early 1900s America with very liberal social policies. Good grief many books have been written about it. Eugenics being just one part of it.
That is a statement a lot of atheists can use, silly; lots and lots of us were brought up Christians, but found that the more we actually learned about it, the less sense it made, until we could no longer call ourselves Christians .
When were you a diehard atheist, and why? If you were searching, you weren't diehard.
Darwin was a Christian, silly. He might have turned more agnostic towards the end, but that's it. Darwin is revered as one of the most intelligent people England has ever had, and he's buried in Westminister Abbey, close to Isaac Newton. Your inane opinion will do nothing to burst anyone’s bubble, stupid. Scientists have tried to disprove the ToE for 150 years now, but no-one has managed it. And no; they aren’t all conspiring to keep it; any scientist who managed to disprove Darwin’s theory might get his or her own name on the new theory; who wouldn’t want that?
Roses are fertilized with poop, silly, so if you grow roses, you will often smell like poop.
You are a nincompoop with delusions of grandeur. No-one cares what you think. You wouldn't recognize logic, reason or critical thinking even if they danced naked in front of you, wearing a tea-cozy on their heads.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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