Have to talk to religious fundies?
Dec. 20th, 2004 12:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
naruki_oniHate being bored sitting there waiting for them to give up trying to convert you by telling you what an unholy bastard you are? Well, be bored no longer, sinner! Now you, too, can play the game that's sweeping the enlightened nation: Fundingo!
Just print it out and keep a copy with you whereever you go. When beseiged by a Fallwellian, just surreptitiously pull it out and start marking off squares. When you get a line of 5, shout Fundingo! You may also slap them in the face at the same time.
Just print it out and keep a copy with you whereever you go. When beseiged by a Fallwellian, just surreptitiously pull it out and start marking off squares. When you get a line of 5, shout Fundingo! You may also slap them in the face at the same time.
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Date: 2004-12-19 10:26 pm (UTC)I'll have to make sure to keep a printout of that in my purse...
Keep going, I've almost got fundingo...
Date: 2004-12-20 08:41 am (UTC)You say "the idea of something coming from nothing is not reconcilable", yet you believe in it (i.e., a god came from nothing). Furthermore, you think it was powerful enough to create a lot more something from nothing, though it may no longer exist? Um.
Your "explanation" is not better. It's just more superstitious and simpleminded, no offense intended. It's based on the imagination of very primitive peoples who wanted to explain things they didn't understand (science was not really around yet), so they came up with magic and gods.
Some of them "explained" where the gods came from, but that just pushed the mystery one layer deeper. Instead of making things better, they simply did what they could to shut people up. Death? Oh, some god made that. Light? Some god made that. Suffering? God's mad at you or testing you. Why keep on living? Oh, um, well... Hey! Heaven! Yeah, that's the ticket.
An atheist is one who believes that there is no such thing as a god, nor ever was. You appear to believe that one used to exist, but may have died or quit existing for some reason. That would not make you an atheist. A deist, perhaps.
Heh
Date: 2004-12-20 11:02 am (UTC)*cracking up*
Date: 2004-12-20 06:57 pm (UTC)Hmm...
Date: 2004-12-20 09:46 pm (UTC)My usual technique for surviving the holidays is to just let Potatoe argue for me (since I'm not allowed to argue with relatives unless I want Very Angry Parents). Potatoe is about three and a half inches tall (four and a half if you count the spikes on her head), bright green, has pink spikes on her head, bulging eyes, yellow feet with black sandals, and a big yellow grin. She speaks fluent Squeakytoyese. If you have not encountered Squeakytoyese before, it is the only known language in which it is syntactically impossible to make a fallacious or refutable argument. Which is why nobody ever tries to argue with her. If only the land of squeaky toys had a written alphabet... imagine what she could do in the realm of internet debates! Maybe someday we'll work out a system to transliterate Squeakytoyese with English letters, but for now, alas, her genius is squandered on explaining to Grandma that the fact that we added "One nation under god" to the dollar bill in the 1950's does not mean the founders intended the US to be a Christian nation.
It must be a very difficult language to learn.
Date: 2004-12-21 08:07 am (UTC)Re: It must be a very difficult language to learn.
Date: 2004-12-21 04:15 pm (UTC)no subject
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