To whoever stole my children's bicycles: Let me guess: You've been taught that God isn't real, so you think you can do whatever you want.
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Unlike Christians who think they are exempt from such laws as seperation of church and state (posting the Ten Commandments on public property, etc.), atheists do generally belief in the concept of laws, and most of us tend to obey such laws (except the speed limit at times.)
Ah, here's just the spot for my all time favourite Emo Phillips quote!
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
although...
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emo_Philips
Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.
When I wake up in the morning, I just can't get started until I've had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I've tried other enemas.
A guy hammering on a roof called me a paranoid little weirdo... in Morse code.
I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, "I'm going to mop the floor with your face." I said, "You'll be sorry." He said, "Oh, yeah? Why?" I said, "Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well."
I got a letter from the IRS. Apparently I owe them $800. So I sent them a letter back. I said, "If you'll remember, I fastened my return with a paper clip, which according to your very own latest government pentagon spending figures will more than make up for the difference."
How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.
I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there's never any gum under any of them.
I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming...They don't know I'm only using blanks.
You know, at parties, people always ask "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?" Well, I don't have an alibi!
My fundie brother in law had his father's bike stolen from his lawn and he wrote a letter to the newpaper begging for it back. My first thought was, "Why the hell didn't you take better care of it instead of leaving it laying in the yard, unlocked?" Jesus is your co-pilot, not your security officer.
My mom likes to tell me about how, when I was 3, and my little pink bike was stolen, and I spent the next several years asking every adult I met, "Are you the dickhead who stole my bike?"
Is this one of those areas in a newspaper where they get to fill up space with morons crapping on rather than doing decent journalism. I hate that shit. Opinion pages... have a purpose, I suppose, letters to the editor can serve a purpose... but just morons spilling bile? Fuck off, you bastards and write some Pulitzer worthy news.
Crazy. Are these all things that have happened to him this week, or whatever?
Because the last one on the flip side kind of baffles me.
"My food-stamp card would not swipe at Casselberry Walgreens. A woman insisted on paying for my few items."
Our newswriters (ok, our newspaper contributors..) are on foodstamps now?
Kitsune Koji: It wouldn't surprise me. I used to work for a newspaper, and I can tell you that the pay in journalism is appallingly low.
With regard to the original post: Yeah, this guy is just mad and foolish. I can relate to the anger; I was pretty mad when someone stole my bike once. (And, for that matter, when someone stole my CAR many years later. The bike, at least, I had been able to get back!) But assuming that whoever stole the bike had to be an atheist is just laughably stupid.
~David D.G.
It's a good thing that some people cling to the delusion of a real, interactive deity. For those like TO, it's safe to assume they would be committing murder and mayhem except for fear of being punished by god.
To whomever stole my gas cap:
Let me guess, you've been taught that your imaginary firend will forgive you if you just ask him. Guess what, that invisble pixie is not the one who can forgive you, the person you actually harmed is.
You've been taught that God isn't real, so you think you can do whatever you want.
Well, yeah.
WTF?
Whoever stole your kid's bicycle, probably isnt here and probably thinks that there is in fact, a god named god, who actualy exists. And they probably also think that because they are "saved by the blood of the lamb" that they can do whatever they want, and this god named god will forgive them.
My parents never indoctrinated me with God delusions.
My 4th grade teacher was a Catholic, and although it was a public school, she was rather bad about keeping her religious garbage to herself. Fortunately, she believed in the sanitized, G-rated, "feel-good" loving pablum type god of the edited Bible, not the hateful violent bloodthirsty god of the actual Bible, so it wasn't too bad. Thanks to her, I ended up believing in God, although I was already an imaginative writer, so I don't really remember how much I seriously believed there was a god named God. I was working on a story set in a polytheistic universe at the time...
After 4th grade, I grew out of the god delusions. By 6th grade, I was demanding evidence for God's existence. I considered religion to be something of a mental illness, and the cause of large amounts of violence and irrational behavior.
My parents tried to convince me otherwise, and by 7th grade or so, I figured religion was just some phenomenon, and was largely neutral.
Then I realized I was probably right about religion causing violence and irrational behavior, and found cases where religion and mental illness appear to be one and the same, although those weren't all cases.
Now, I'm an ignostic, and an atheist towards the character of God described by the Abrahamic religions. I wasn't taught that God isn't real, I figured it out for myself. I don't steal because stealing is wrong.
Your childrens' bikes were probably stolen by someone who believed that he could do whatever he wanted because God would forgive him, or who was taught that all humans are horrible sinners anyway and thus thought there was no point in being good.
"You can pray all you want for a bicycle and God will never give you one. The trick is, you have to go out and steal one, then pray for forgiveness."_________George Carlin
(On edit; @ Julian. Hmmm, maybe Emo, after all. I love both those guys!)
God has very little to do with the laws of the land.
It's prohibited to steal, therefore you should not do it, as you might go to jail.
See, no gods needed, not God, or Shiva, or Kali or any of the other thousands of gods we humans have created.
Judging by simple demographics, odds are the person that stole your kids' bicycles was a Christian.
Also, I am an atheist raised by two atheists and I was always taught to be a responsible law abiding citizen. If nothing else, because the cops will get you if you aren't.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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