When is the last time you saw an atheist...?
standing on the street corner, showing others the joy of godlessness?
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Well, I suppose there must be mad atheists ... seem to be more religious loonies shouting on street corners, though. What, you say this is a good thing? Ooooo-kay, I'll just move away quietly now ...
We're not into that street corner ministry type of thing, dil. We have more going on than to waste out time shouting at passing cars and forcing our views on hapless pedestrians. Too bad about you, though.
@anti-nonsense
We have better things to do with our time then annoy random people.
Actually, in my home in Salt Lake, we get to see that disturbing end of the spectrum twice yearly at General Conference. Their public 'do-gooding' is just as repulsive as yours. Understand it: If I care one tiny bit about what you're thinking, I'll probably ask. Get a fucking life and stay the shit outta mine.
I do. I stand and wait with a smile on my face for traffic to move or a light to change. My demeanor is calm, my pecker is satisfied, mind head is clear, I'm working on another book, and generally life is good. What would take away my joy at that point would be someone preaching to me about how I should be living their life by a jebus freak.
Dude, we got shit to do. God isn't gonna go to our jobs, earn our paychecques, pay our bills, or drive our kids to figure skating, buy groceries, or take the cat to the vet, you know.
Never. Neither has any atheist disturbed my peace at home by knocking on my door wanting to speak about reality.
Guess atheists think religion or lack of religion should be a personal choice. None of my business what you believe, as long as you keep it to yourself. OK?
When was the last time you saw a Christian standing on the street corner, showing others the joy of Zeus-lessness?
Well, in a few weeks I will see a prominent atheist.
He will NOT be standing on the street corner, because he will be busy with much more important things.
His name is Richard Dawkins, and he will give a lecture on Atheism, showing others the joy of godlessness.
If your god makes you happy, that's great. If you want to share that joy with the world, do something useful: volunteer at a food kitchen or homeless shelter, check on your elderly neighbors, rescue stray animals. DO SOMETHING, don't just scream and shout at random passers-by. That only proves you're a lunatic.
Because we are secure enough in our positions to not feel the need to preach to others. Besides, we could be out helping the homeless and you'd never know that we were atheists, because, well, we mind our own fucking business (well at least this one does!).
Most street preachers are fuckin' crazzzzzy! Most of them are unfortunate victims of paranoid schizophrenia, which says a lot about our overall healthcare towards the mentally ill.
Now, we have an exception in my town. Downtown, we have many crazy asshole preachers (just as we did in college) but there is one guy among them all who should set the template on how you guys preach. We are lucky enough to have a heavy-set jolly black guy who just says "hi" "good morning" and "bless you" to the passer-bys and every so often, he sings a nice song.
I wish more street preachers were like that nice fellow -he doesn't act mean, pester, or try to change anyone; he's just happy with his belief and sings about it. That's the way you fools should do it.
"When is the last time you saw an atheist...?
standing on the street corner, showing others the joy of godlessness?"
As opposed to...:
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Now when was the last time you saw an Atheist doing the same as ol' Freddie-boy here, pray tell? It's okay, dillingere_p, I can wait...!
I love the smell of arguments blasted out of the space-time continuum in the morning. Smells like... victory.
While the joy of godlessness is great, it kinda wears off once you realize there are religions with gods that are better than YHWH.
And I kinda have better things to do than "un-proselytize" to others. Let everyone choose their own path, I say. And let the joy of godlessness speak for itself.
Godlessness is pretty joyful, but every time we try to show someone that, some idiot fundie tries to shut us down claiming that it's against their "freedom of religion" or something stupid. Or that this country was "founded on Judeo-Christian principles". Or some other fundie talking point that's been ripped to shreds.
Most of the ones I know leave me alone though some will debate my belief in the gods. Most though are content to talk to me about anything. My dad for example likes watching reruns of Seinfeld with me because we loved it in the 90s when I was teen. Often they do not talk about the joy of godlessness as much as talk about what they are up to, work, etc.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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