The Atheism Thread - Part 7

[KevanG]

Right, so this isn't an issue with the name at all.

That's why I was confused. Your post made it seem as though it was the name, "Columbian Mammoth," rather than the specific wording of the bill, that was at issue.

No, my issue is that they can't just use the existing name on it but they demand an inclusion of their religion to be a forced addition to it.

 

[redhawk23]

The whole Columbian thing isn't religious, more of a nationalism based thing, designating the Mammoth as specifically American as opposed to just being a general mammoth.

 

[KevanG]

I know that, I'm fine with the name but I'm not fine with them demanding to add that BS onto it.

 

[Doctor Evo]

The whole Columbian thing isn't religious, more of a nationalism based thing, designating the Mammoth as specifically American as opposed to just being a general mammoth.

Yeah, I don't see a problem with that at all. Common names are often misleading and meaningless. That doesn't really bother me all that much.

 

[Doctor Evo]

I know that, I'm fine with the name but I'm not fine with them demanding to add that BS onto it.

The thing is that you keep mentioning the name as though the religious BS is somehow related. From the phrasing that was presented, it doesn't sound like the religious spin will be incorporated into the name at all. It's just the wording of the bill itself that is the problem. Two completely separate issues.

 

[MrsKent26]

I just don't like when religion comes into anything "official" like this at all. The name is fine, but religion should never be a factor in it IMO. The wording of the bill and the fact that religion was a factor (and thus mentioned at all) are the issues.

 

[Lighthouse]

I watched "Last Temptation of Christ" recently(which is my favorite Scorcese movie) and if evangelists want to convert non-believers, this is the best place to start. The fact that Christians violently protested this movie totally confounds me. I saw this movie 10 years ago for the first time, saw the ending and contimplated, "Am I a Christian again?" I'm not, but seriously, of all the films about Jesus, this one has gets the message of Jesus, and is the most triumphant tale about Him. The fact that this movie was protested to the point of violence baffles me.

 

[KevanG]

I would have thought Jesus Christ Superstar would have been a bigger issue.

 

[Fyrfytr998]

Even Athiests like Easter Candy.

 

[jaymes_e06]

That candy looks cheap and tasteless. And atheists wonder why people find them joyless... just kidding


Kind of.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

That stuff would probably solidify in my intestines and kill me.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Just looking at that candy gives me the impression that there is no God.

 

[Alex_Spider]

Why not just call mammoths "sixth day hairy-phants"?

lol

 

[MrsKent26]

That candy looks cheap and tasteless. And atheists wonder why people find them joyless... just kidding


Kind of.

Not sure what the "kind of" is supposed to mean. I've been called joyless before, but I've never had it equated with atheism. In fact, I've never heard that people find atheists particularly joyless unless a belief in God is required to experience joy.

 

[regwec]

Christians tend to be the biggest kill-joys you could hope not to meet.

 

[SV Fan]

I watched "Last Temptation of Christ" recently(which is my favorite Scorcese movie) and if evangelists want to convert non-believers, this is the best place to start. The fact that Christians violently protested this movie totally confounds me. I saw this movie 10 years ago for the first time, saw the ending and contimplated, "Am I a Christian again?" I'm not, but seriously, of all the films about Jesus, this one has gets the message of Jesus, and is the most triumphant tale about Him. The fact that this movie was protested to the point of violence baffles me.

The movie of Jesus getting beat up for 2 hours seems to be their favorite. I guess they a bunch of sadists

In all honesty I believe Christianity at it's core is nothing more then a death cult. It seems like Jesus' death gets more focus then his actual teachings during his life. Hell look at the rest of the bible it's nothing but stories about people dieing in one fashion or another.

 

[Llama_Shepherd]

In fairness, the story is about his death for humanity. It meant that imperfect people would be rescued from sin. The dying god is a part of many mythologies.

 

[KevanG]

Not according to some fanatics. The dying god and it's rebirth had to have started with christianity. No other religion ever did that. No siree bob.

 

[BestGirl]

On that note, A bill in South Carolina, proposed in response to an 8 year old girl's suggestion that the Woolly Mammoth be named South Carolina's State fossile has be been derailed by creationists in the state.



http://www.livescience.com/45060-creationist-debate-south-carolina-state-fossil-bill.html


Really? I mean really?

I don't get the insistence that Woolly Mammoths be called Columbian Mammoths. Is the word "Woolly" forbidden among fundamentalist Christians?

 

[SV Fan]

In fairness, the story is about his death for humanity. It meant that imperfect people would be rescued from sin. The dying god is a part of many mythologies.

If he was God though couldn't he find another way to rescue people from sin? He is God after all.

 

[KevanG]

I don't get the insistence that Woolly Mammoths be called Columbian Mammoths. Is the word "Woolly" forbidden among fundamentalist Christians?

"And Lo! Was the word Wooly stricken from the vocabulary of the faithful as fluffy was considered a nicer word."

If he was God though couldn't he find another way to rescue people from sin? He is God after all.

What's a better way to say people were saved than having someone brutalized then murdered over the course of several days?

 

[jaymes_e06]

Not sure what the "kind of" is supposed to mean. I've been called joyless before, but I've never had it equated with atheism. In fact, I've never heard that people find atheists particularly joyless unless a belief in God is required to experience joy.

It was a joke. You know...haha.

Did not intend to offend.

 

[MrsKent26]

It was a joke. You know...haha.

Did not intend to offend.

Not offended, just unsure if you meant anything by the "kind of" or not.

 

[SV Fan]

What's a better way to say people were saved than having someone brutalized then murdered over the course of several days?

I don't know, maybe like snap your fingers and they are saved

 

[regwec]

I don't get the insistence that Woolly Mammoths be called Columbian Mammoths. Is the word "Woolly" forbidden among fundamentalist Christians?

Yes. It reminds us of public hair, particularly sinful women's.