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I've only attended a few church services in my life and there was only one which really pissed me off for a stupid lecture. A priest was baptizing a kid and he brought out the full fire and brimstone bit which really burned my ass.
We celebrate the death of this infant and receive him into the bosom of Christ.
Who knows, something like that. He was going on about the kid dying and being reborn and I'm just thinking, 'could be dispense with the theatrics and get on with baptizing the little fucker?'
He had no right to play that with me. We came as family and not for him to pick on the ones he doesn't like. So, he was an asshole but that hasn't been my experience in general. Dismissing all preachers as condescending fuckwads is neither fair nor accurate.
The music was cool for Catholic funerals. Man, you really knew someone had fookin' died but the music was beautiful.
Plus I saw a Baptist woman get dunked which I assumed is what made her a real Baptist rather than a random face in the novitiate. The preacher sank her in the tub and he was standing right beside her, it was a gigantic transparent fish tank and the adoring parish could watch. I was just sitting there watching and thinking, holy shit, that's a hell of a way to learn about swimming. This contraption was eight or nine feet off the floor, right at the front of the church so you couldn't miss a fishy bit of it. It looked fookin' crazy to me but, wtf, they get off on it for some reason.
2. I don’t feel severe guilt that never goes away, thinking I am the reason a good man suffered and died.
And so they came,
The Ten Greatest Hits of Atheism
The Thinker: THE TOP 10 POSITIVE ASPECTS OF BEING AN ATHEIST
1. I don’t allow myself to be told what to do and how to behave once a week like I don’t already know right from wrong on my own like I am a child.
I've only attended a few church services in my life and there was only one which really pissed me off for a stupid lecture. A priest was baptizing a kid and he brought out the full fire and brimstone bit which really burned my ass.
We celebrate the death of this infant and receive him into the bosom of Christ.
Who knows, something like that. He was going on about the kid dying and being reborn and I'm just thinking, 'could be dispense with the theatrics and get on with baptizing the little fucker?'
He had no right to play that with me. We came as family and not for him to pick on the ones he doesn't like. So, he was an asshole but that hasn't been my experience in general. Dismissing all preachers as condescending fuckwads is neither fair nor accurate.
The music was cool for Catholic funerals. Man, you really knew someone had fookin' died but the music was beautiful.
Plus I saw a Baptist woman get dunked which I assumed is what made her a real Baptist rather than a random face in the novitiate. The preacher sank her in the tub and he was standing right beside her, it was a gigantic transparent fish tank and the adoring parish could watch. I was just sitting there watching and thinking, holy shit, that's a hell of a way to learn about swimming. This contraption was eight or nine feet off the floor, right at the front of the church so you couldn't miss a fishy bit of it. It looked fookin' crazy to me but, wtf, they get off on it for some reason.
2. I don’t feel severe guilt that never goes away, thinking I am the reason a good man suffered and died.
Nah, I feel guilt for all kinds of other reasons. Humans aren't happy unless we're guilty about something (cough).
3. I don’t believe I am worthless, useless, and unworthy of love without a “certain someone” in my life.
She's sitting on the couch. Give up a little bone once in a while and you won't be pissing away time on philosophy. Um, define 'worthless.'
4. I don’t believe I am a “sheep.”
Nah, I just like how they feel when we cuddle.
5. I don’t feel paranoid, thinking all my thoughts and activities are constantly monitored by an ever-watchful contemptuous police officer-like figure observing my every move.
Relax, it's the NSA. They do it to everyone ... don't they?
6. I realize that the best way to knowledge and understanding isn’t to live in continual fear of someone, but to seek it out for its own sake.
Hate to break it to you, pal, but you've only sought out Philosophy 101 so far.
7. It’s the intellectually honest position to hold.
Only because you don't believe alternatives, Andy Griffith.
8. I do not allow my intellect to be insulted. I realize that I can, indeed, rely upon my own understanding.
We assume evidence of that intellect will be forthcoming since it has not manifested itself thus far.
9. I take ownership for my own shortcomings. I do not shift the blame onto someone else who I imagine and am told is constantly trying to tempt me and trip me up so I’ll stumble. I accept responsibility when I err.
Really not sure who is being blamed for what but the author doesn't seem sure either. See above about paranoid.
10. And this one may be the most important one of all: Many Christians tell me how sorry they feel for me when they find out I’m an atheist as if they think I’m not happy and I can’t be happy because I don’t believe in God.
That continues but he goes into full-blown Atheist Jerry Falwell, preaching his little atheist heart out. (The Thinker: THE TOP 10 POSITIVE ASPECTS OF BEING AN ATHEIST)
There's not much you can do with the postulates to shrink Christians but you could amuse yourself trying to shrink the author as he denies quite a bit, doesn't it.
I don't do this and I don't do that. Man, I don't even masturbate. The reasoning mind does not permit it.
(Ed: covers mouth and says 'bullshit')
Yep. That's a lot of not doing things which we weren't thinking about doing anyway. Really makes you think, doesn't it.
(Ed: nope)
So, did you hear about Lewis Hamilton. It's a shame it is not so exciting when someone has a clear lead. For the connecting with the immense feeling of 10/10ths driving it should be just the same ... but it isn't.
Now there's some existential for you. It shouldn't be that way but humans seem to be like that.
As to knowledge of atheism, it's not important to me and doesn't show much beyond a singular lack of imagination. The list amused me because it's such a pile of self-serving crap. In general, atheism is boring and not scientifically interesting. If an inquiry into anything closes, any good scientist will want to know why.
In summary, the Atheist Paradox: it's logically impossible to prove something does not exist. It makes no difference how much intellectual bandwidth is focused on a problem which has no logical proof.
There's not much you can do with the postulates to shrink Christians but you could amuse yourself trying to shrink the author as he denies quite a bit, doesn't it.
I don't do this and I don't do that. Man, I don't even masturbate. The reasoning mind does not permit it.
(Ed: covers mouth and says 'bullshit')
Yep. That's a lot of not doing things which we weren't thinking about doing anyway. Really makes you think, doesn't it.
(Ed: nope)
So, did you hear about Lewis Hamilton. It's a shame it is not so exciting when someone has a clear lead. For the connecting with the immense feeling of 10/10ths driving it should be just the same ... but it isn't.
Now there's some existential for you. It shouldn't be that way but humans seem to be like that.
As to knowledge of atheism, it's not important to me and doesn't show much beyond a singular lack of imagination. The list amused me because it's such a pile of self-serving crap. In general, atheism is boring and not scientifically interesting. If an inquiry into anything closes, any good scientist will want to know why.
In summary, the Atheist Paradox: it's logically impossible to prove something does not exist. It makes no difference how much intellectual bandwidth is focused on a problem which has no logical proof.
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