I should expect as much from an Atheist. The poor things have no imagination at all.
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...got LOL WUT pear?
*looks at the original quote*
Fuck! They're everywhere, even Superdickery!
*shakes head in disbelief*
I have a blind watchmaker you might like to meet. He's pretty imaginative.
Also, second what Scion said. Roddenberry was a creative genius. And Asimov, and Adams... the list goes on.
Unlike Fundies who tend to have an overabundance of it.
Robert Heinlein, L Ron Hubbard, Harlan Ellison, Gene "Great Bird" Roddenbury, J Michael Straczynski just to name a few great men, who happen/happened to be Atheists, with great imaginations. Anne Rice too before she 'found' religion.
To the list we can add Carl Sagan, John Varley, Adam Savage, Jamie Heineman, Mencken, Mark Twain...yeah, that's a pretty un-creative group you got there.
...or Arthur C. Clarke, who, despite identifying himself as an atheist, still had thoughtful and non-threatening insight on religion, or lack of it.
("Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains; they made him feel nearer to God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented." - The Songs of Distant Earth, ch. 22)
"I should expect as much from an Atheist. The poor things have no imagination at all."
Well, a quick Google search found this .
It's already been said, and alot of good ones were mentioned, but Asimov was the first one that came to my mind too. But this guy is just blind and stupid. Atheists have to have a great imagination to have created all the things they have (stating the obvious). But I'm disturbed by the fact that he seems to imply that fundies DO have loads of imagination, because the Bible is just so full of fantasy and fiction, I guess.
@Nowonmai.
Never, ever describe L Ron Hubbard as a great man.
The founder of Scientology was nothing short of a con man whose dianetics bullshit amounted to nothing more than a polygraph.
Fundamentalism is igorant, stupid and sometimes insane.
Scientology is harmful, hurtful, expensive, life destroying, corrupt, evil and if you get on the wrong side of them, murderous.
Bullshit!
Just because we dont jump up and say that imaginary friends that you worship that were invented by bronze age goat herders is real doesnt mean we lack imagination.
In fact, religion has a knack for curbing the imagination because it places up so many boundaries about what you should and should not think.
P.S. - It doesnt look good for you to suggest we dont have any imagination at all then claim that your god ISNT imaginary. We call this a Freudian slip.
"Youve got to have an imagination to worship my imaginary friend." is what Im getting from this.
@Waiting for God
He was a fruit loops, and if he was any more tapped he would have been a keg of beer, but he was able to parlay mediocre SciFi (and I'm being polite about it being mediocre) into a multimillion dollar ripoff. That ain't too shabby.
But JMS and Gene are the great men, I missed an AND between them. Heinlein was good too, but he and L Ron had their bet (along with Ellison) so not 'great'.
Plenty of atheists have great imaginations; it's just that they have enough sense to understand the difference between imagination and reality.
Fundies, on the other hand, have very limited imaginations. They can't even invent a good fantasy of their own but instead buy into the imaginations of ancient goat herders without even understanding that the writings of said goat herders are indeed a product of others' imagination. Morons.
Phillip Pullman is an atheist, and he's pretty imaginative.
There are a number of other atheist fiction writers.
Many atheists have plenty of imagination, we just know the difference between imagination and reality. Unlike you.
Context:
"Either Ducky thinks the Earth actually hangs or sits on something, or he's taking the wording way too literally. I should expect as much from an Atheist. The poor things have no imagination at all."
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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