Paganism Is The New Atheism
The reality is pretty simple and yet, you Harvard-educated morons can’t seem to grasp such a simple concept. Can you please name any president in the history of the United States, any congressman or woman, any supreme court justice, or anybody else in the position to influence policy and decisions such as allowing same-sex marriage, that subscribe to no religion?!!?!? Maybe that is why they ascend to the positions of influence that they do, and the pagans who believe in nothing will not.
Your opinion is irrelevant and will continue to be so. Keep believing that your opinion is correct. It won’t make a bit of difference in enforcing real change. The people who are in a position of influenece and the vast majority of citizens of the United States who matter aren’t pagans like the liberal lunatics where you live.
Originally posted as a comment by Michelle on The Chicktionary using Disqus.
There are two possibilities:
- This girl is a troll.
- This girl is actually this ignorant.
For her own sake, I hope it’s the former. (Though I do delight in being called a “pagan.”)
I’ve noticed that my atheism has become more militant in the past year, no doubt in part due to the influence of Kennedy and Patrick. It’s unimaginable to me that I used to describe myself as agnostic. Now I can say with certainty that it’s neither possible to perform a virgin birth nor survive after being swallowed by a whale.
“Harvard has changed. When it began, it consisted of nine men preparing for lives of contemplation and self-denial in the Protestant ministry. Now, it consists of 6,700 undergraduate men and women preparing for lives of contemplation and self-denial in the current economy. With the demise of the Reason and Faith requirement in the new General Education system, religion at Harvard seems to have completed its trajectory from prime focus of the classroom to just another extracurricular activity … I would go on about how religion shapes all major international debates and conflicts, but I have never had to take a course about it, so I am not certain how it shapes the conflicts. I just have a vague, uneasy feeling that it does and that I am not being sufficiently prepared to engage with its role in the world.”
I'm really sorry to burst your bubble here.
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Me:
i want to know: do you really think im crazy for half the things i think? or do you secretly fear that i'm right?
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Jason:
there are other things that i just think you're radical. there are some things that i fear that you are right on.
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Me:
like the nonexistence of god?
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Jason:
yes.
Lent is a cruel joke
Is it really necessary to tack on an annual 40 days of abstinence when being Catholic already necessitates abstaining from pre-marital sex/contraception/homosexual acts/etc.?
“Atheism: A non-prophet organization.”
— George Carlin, reminding us this peaceful holiday season of the importance of doubt
Nothing like an old email from my sex-positive, militantly atheist best friend to make me miss her.
From: Courtney Kennedy
To: Lena Chen
Date: Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 6:05 AM
Subject: hey, you wanna… 
start an atheistic anti-true love revolution club on campus? called the Order of the Goddess?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Pink_Unicorn
http://www.palmyria.co.uk/humour/ipu.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE????
WE NEED TO RAISE AWARENESS. Religion is dangerous and awful and so is this “movement.” We need something to counter this. DESPERATELY. I’m becoming more and more convinced that we need to be actively converting people to the side of atheism. Let’s go forth and proselytize!
Also I’ve already started packing. Woo hoo! And I just started crying because I really have accepted that Sascha is gone.
Also you had better say yes to this. It’s not really a request.
We can have a whole pantheon consisting of the flying spaghetti monster, the invisible pink unicorn, and Bertrand Russell’s teapot. And we can have teas! And discussions with religious groups on campus. And promote sexual promiscuity!
Also why are you never online? Do you hate me?
We are bitter atheists.
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Me:
And then God said, "Let there be light!"
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Kennedy:
God didn't say shit. God rained downed sulfur on everyone. God's a big jerk.
“The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did. Still less can they hope to tell us the “meaning” of later discoveries and developments which were either obstructed by their religions or denounced by them. And yet—the believers still claim to know! Not just to know, but to know everything. Not just to know that god exists, and that he created and supervised the whole enterprise, but also to know what “he” demands of us— from our diet to our observances to our sexual morality. In a vast and complicated discussion where we know more and more about less and less, yet can still hope for some enlightenment as we proceed, one faction—itself composed of mutually warring factions—has the sheer arrogance to tell us that we already have all the essential information we need. Such stupidity, combined with such pride, should be enough on its own to exclude “belief” from the debate. The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.”
“[Religion] will never die out, or at least not until we get over our fear of death, and of the dark, and of the unknown, and of each other. For this reason, I would not prohibit it even if I thought I could. Very generous of me, you might say. But will the religious grant me the same indulgence? I ask because there is a real and serious difference between me and my religious friends, and the real and serious friends are sufficiently honest to admit it. I would be quite content to go to their children’s bar mitzvahs, to marvel at their Gothic cathedrals, to “respect” their belief that the Koran was dictated, though exclusively in Arabic, to an illiterate merchant, or to interest myself in Wicca and Hindu and Jain consolations. And as it happens, I will continue to do this without insisting on the polite reciprocal condition— which is that they in turn leave me alone. But this, religion is ultimately incapable of doing.”
“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, who sums up my beef with religion: it’s all fun and faith until you tell someone they’re going to hell.
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