Why everyone loves atheists!!!

It must be their tolerance and good humor and willingness to respect diverse beliefs....

...or maybe not.

//An Air Force two-star general is being blasted by a civil liberties group for speaking in uniform about how God has guided his career.

Video posted on YouTube shows Maj. Gen. Craig Olson speaking at a National Day of Prayer Task Force event May 7. In the speech, Olson refers to himself as a "redeemed believer in Christ," who credits God for his accomplishments in the Air Force.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has called for Olson to be "aggressively and very visibly brought to justice for his unforgivable crimes and transgressions" by a court-martial, adding that any other service members who helped him should be investigated and punished "to the full extent of military law."//

From the "How come people don't like joy-killing, puritanical, pimples on the nether of humanity" file...

...another example.

The obligation to respect and tolerate doesn't include an obligation to be mocked, and when an atheist disingenuously invoked Thor and describes his beliefs as scientific and rational and religious belief as superstitious, it would take a very dim person - or a Bright - not to perceive the mockery.

Atheism - How can normal people not love these puritanical, joy-killing pimples on the arse-end of humanity?

It is Christmas season...so it's time for the American Atheist Association to piss on Christian joy.

Share the Angst and Misery of the Season!

More atheists enlisting the power of the state to punish Thoughtcrime. 

Tolerance is not enough - YOU.MUST.SUBMIT!

Freedom from Religion Foundation sues pizza parlor over church bulletin discount.

Another day in the place that used to be America...

...another example of how atheists are better at not being offended by religious symbols/texts in the public square than everyone else.

When did free-thinkers begin to favor the suppression of books?

//The order was hailed by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. The FFRF had filed a complaint with the military—claiming the presence of the Bible "amounts to a government endorsement of that religious text."

"FFRF is pleased to learn that NEXCOM has taken seriously its constitutional obligation to remain neutral toward religion as a representative of our federal government," FFRF Sam Grover told me. "By removing Bibles from Navy-run lodges, the Navy has taken a step to ensure that it is not sending the impermissible message that Christians are favored over guests with other religious beliefs or over those guests with no religion."

The Bibles had been placed in the rooms, free of charge, by Gideons International.

An active-duty service member contacted me and alerted me that the Bibles were being taken out of hotel rooms, and a lodge housekeeper told American Family Association the same thing.

"They told us to put them in boxes where they would be taken to a donation center somewhere," the housekeeper told AFA.//

Tolerance - the moment between breathing out one orthodoxy and breathing in another.

The New York Times is tolerant of atheist attacks on Catholicism....

....but absolutely won't permit ads identical to attack ads on Catholicism to be run against Muslims.

//The article points out that this is the second FFRF ad attacking Catholicism and that the NYT refused to run an identical ad re Islam.

//At least one conservative group pointed out an apparently cowardly double standard at work within the Times, noting that while the paper has eagerly and regularly run the FFRF's anti-Christian advertisements, it turned suddenly reluctant when approached by a group that wanted to run an ad critical of Islam, assumedly because it feared violent backlash from militant Islamists.

The Media Research Center linked to a 2012 blog post by libertarian David Volokh, who showed how the Times had run the FFRF's ad titled “It's Time to Quit the Catholic Church,” but demurred when approached with a similar ad, titled “It's Time to Quit Islam,” submitted by a duo of groups, the American Freedom Defense Initiative and Stop Islamization of Nations (SION), both of them creations in part of anti-Islamist activist Pamela Geller.

Geller wrote that in response to her groups' ad, Bob Christie, Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications for the New York Times, called “to advise me that they would be accepting my ad, but considering the situation on the ground in Afghanistan, now would not be a good time, as they did not want to enflame an already hot situation. They will be reconsidering it for publication in 'a few months.'”

Predictably, the “few months” have turned into two years, and the Times has yet to run Geller's ad — while it continues to roll with the FFRF's ongoing paid anti-Catholic diatribe.

Volokh noted that the Times' response to Geller's submission is proof of one of the points Geller had earlier made: “Almost no Catholics are likely to respond violently even to harsh criticism of the Catholic Church — but enough Muslims are likely to respond violently to harsh criticism of Islam (whether the response is against the critic or against others) that the Times itself views such criticism as unsafe. There are plenty of peace-loving Muslims, but unfortunately there are also enough extremist Muslim thugs to affect what the Times is willing to publish.”//

Freethinking secular humanists are prejudiced?

Impossible!

Cardinal Dolan writes:

          Here I simply want to welcome the grey, full-page ad, and thank the anonymous militiamen at FFRF for giving me yet another handout for my students when I give my next talk on “Anti-Catholic Bigotry in the United States.”

        When I used to teach a course on American Catholic history to university students, or, when I give a conference on the topic now, there will always be an early question, “We know there used to be hatred of the Catholic Church in America, but didn’t all that end in 1960 when John F. Kennedy was elected?”

        No! In fact, historians now posit that Kennedy’s election was yet further proof of the abiding, deep suspicion of the Church found in American history—remember Arthur Schlesinger’s observation that, “Bias against the Catholic Church is the most enduring prejudice in American history”—not only because Kennedy’s victory would have been much bigger had his Catholic faith not been maligned during the campaign, but because the candidate himself felt compelled to pass the very “religious test” prohibited by the Constitution, assuring voters that his faith would never have any influence at all on his executive decisions—a statement hardly considered necessary from Baptist, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, or Quaker candidates.//

An Evangelical Business Owner Prevails...

....but atheist group decides that's no reason not to engage in some Catholic-baiting.

Because if there isn't one thing that is going to get all the right-thinking kind of people freedom from religion loving people united it is uniting to condemn a Catholic majority on the Supreme Court.

Apparently, "Freedom From Religion" means having a religious-test for the Supreme Court.

And you have to note that "tolerance" and "freedom of conscience" have passed their "best used by" date when "progressive" "liberals" warn that "liberty can be endangered by the abuse of liberty."

It may be true, but it is not an argument we heard a few weeks ago when the same Supreme Court, including Catholics, struck down the Defense of Marriage Act.

And atheists wonder why they aren't liked.

Atheist claims he was fired for atheism; school says "performance."

//Pack points to one email in particular as indicative that he was fired for his atheist identity. The email, sent from Rasler, was in regards to snow days and read: "I have been asked: 'What if we have a snow day during finals? OR What is (sic) we have a two-hour delay?' Please get on your knees and pray for four good weather days during finals. You (sic) leadership team will be once again planning the what-if Plan B. Ras."

The German teacher reportedly responded to this email by writing: "Since I'm an atheist and a mystical sky daddy has nothing to do with weather, I won't be kneeling. I will be relying on science and the oftentimes (sic) in exact (sic) science of metereology (sic). The only relability (sic) we seem to get from weather reports is how often they're reliably wrong."//

Great demonstration of "people skills."

Why did they fire him? They should have promoted him where he could "go off" on students and parents who dared - dared! - to say "God bless you" when he sneezed.

Jerk-wise, Chiponshoulderish

Another example of why Atheists are loved by everyone.

Jerry Coyne complains that a New York Time article failed to kowtow to his brand of fundamentalism.

The NYT article says:

//when Jesus is thought to have been alive.//

And:

//Those involved in the project say it immediately brought to mind a biblical verse, Matthew 4:23://

And:

//On top of that, she said, there was sufficient “circumstantial evidence” to assume that Jesus may have set foot there. //

Coyne writes:

//Maybe I’m carping a bit here, but shouldn’t there have been a caveat to the effect that “historians are divided about whether Jesus really did the things that the Bible describes”? And really, how much confidence do we have that Capernaum was “a known center of Jesus’ activities”?  After all, how would it sit with Times readers if Manchester, New York was described as “the known place where the angel Moroni showed Joseph Smitgh the golden plates”?//

Is there any division among historians that Jesus existed or that he was involved in, you know, preaching and healing?  Not that I'm aware of.  Even Bart Erhman goes that far.

As for the Smith comparison, that would be spot on comparison if the article had said "Capernaum, where Jesus miraculously healed the sick" but it didn't.

What a moroni.

Update:  Paul Leffingwell - a Facebook friend on Unbelievable nails it with this comment:

 Coyne is mad that someone at the Ministry of Truth obviously wasn't doing their job and one-too-many credulous references to Jesus slipped into public print and the gullible proletariat might be unduly influenced.

Exactly.

It's things like this, particularly during other people's holidays, that gives normal people the impression that atheists are joyless pimples on the butt of humanity.

Freedom from Religion Foundation Foundation puts up anti-Easter display in Wisconsin.

Why people love atheists.

Funny how people think of atheists as humorless, walking boils on the ass of humanity when tehy do this kind of thing.

A grieving California mom who, under pressure from an atheist group, went to the site where her son was killed to remove a memorial cross was met at the scene by a throng of supporters who planted crosses of their own.

"They said they have to take that one down," Doug Johnson, a Riverside resident who traveled to the site with his daughter and six home-made crosses, told The Riverside Press-Enterprise. "But they didn't say anything about putting another one up."

AnnMarie Devaney agreed to remove a 5-foot cross she put up on the side of a road in Lake Elsinore to honor her 19-year-old son Anthony, who was struck by a car and killed two years ago, the paper reported. The American Humanist Association in Washington, D.C., caught wind of the cross and sent her a demand letter dated March 4 calling for her to remove it. The association said that its placement on city property violates the constitutional separation of church and state.

"It's so petty and sad that they have to complain over removing a cross," she said. "It's his personal preference that he was Christian. What's wrong with having a cross up?"

Devaney was emotional when she was at the site and said she was moved by her supporters. She was joined by her family and other families that brought their own cross. A woman in attendance told the paper that she is the stepmother of the driver struck Devaney's son as he crossed Lake Street near an exit ramp, the paper reported.

The association reportedly just got a judge to agree to block the installation of a monument outside Diamond Stadium in the same town, which is southeast of Los Angeles. It depicted a soldier kneeling before a cross-topped grave.

Yay!!!  Atheists!!!

It's not just anyone these days who can be successful censor and book banner!

High-Fives All Around!!!

And, yet, they wonder why they are as popular as a incontinent, flatulent, rabid Chihuahua.

Now get back to work....those books won't ban themselves!!!

Who couldn't love mean-spirited, joy-killing fundamentalist puritanical pimples on the collective ass of humanity? 

Atheist billboard mocks Christ in Christmas.



This has become an annual thing with them.

Atheism - Who couldn't love joy-killing fundamentalist puritanical pimples on the collective ass of humanity?


Good things we have atheists or the country could fall to a theocracy:

Who couldn't love these pimples on the ass of humanity?

Making as little sense to many as removing the "G" from the Green Bay Packers' helmets, a Wisconsin co-op football team composed of the private Catholic Messmer High School and the public Shorewood High School was forced to remove its new team logo last fall. The logo affixed to the team's helmets (right) mixed the images of both schools -- the Shorewood greyhound and Messmer's bishop's hat with a cross.

As a sophomore student, Sam Pagenkopf designed the new logo, which was approved along with about 20 other logo proofs by both schools' administrations. More than a decade after the Messmer/Shorewood high school football team formed in 2000, a graphic arts class project formed to create a shared logo for the team.

And the reason for scrapping the student's logo that was already affixed to the helmets?

It "offended" a mother and her two boys who attend Shorewood.

Our favorite socially autistic, delusional, narcissistic athiest chimes in with his typically socially autistic, tone-deaf, pimple on the ass of humanity, human toothache contribution to the faux-issue of the day.

Richard Dawkins: How dare you ask me to retract my tweet about ‘heckling’ incident?

It's not his fault that the media totally invented yet another story to make the enemies of people like Richard Dawkins look bad. (This time the fatuous lie that a father of a Newtown shooting victim was heckled by gun rights activists while testifying in a legislative proceeding.

It's just really convenient.

Who could possibly hate this pimple on the ass of humanity?

Atheism - Who could ever love joy-killing fundamentalist puritanical pimples on the collective ass of humanity?

Apparently, the answer is: real Christians.

On the one hand you have a group that believes in caritas; on the other you have a professional toothache.

Sometimes life can take a turn that makes you see things in a different light.

A few weeks ago, Patrick Greene of San Antonio, was known in Henderson County simply as a professed atheist who threatened to sue Henderson County about the courthouse manger scene. Greene’s experience with Christians was of narrow-minded individuals who had treated him unkindly throughout his life.

“My wife and I had never had a Christian do anything nice for us,” Greene said. “Just the opposite.”

The Christians raised $400 and climbing.

Practical Darwin.

Atheism's declining numbers is based on atheists lack of "fitness," which is short-hand for the fact that women in general don't find the dregs of the science fiction/comic fanboy community attractive.

From the Dallas' Observer's big puff-piece about an atheist convention:

They just don't bring it in very large numbers. At the bar in Austin, some of the male atheists can't wait for more women to show up, probably for the reasons Watson described. Johnny and Ting, both in their late 20s and from Houston, are sitting a little glumly in a corner, several empty glasses in front of them. Johnny is a former Muslim; after he told his parents he was an atheist, his father "didn't speak to me for two years," he says. Ting is a Buddhist. He just came down for a weekend trip with his buddy.

"There are no girls here," Johnny says bluntly. "Look at these guys. Would you hang out with them? Do pretty girls want to hang out with these guys? I don't think so." Beyond that, Ting is East Asian and Johnny is Indian; this crowd, Johnny says, "is not our age group, and it's not our demographic."

But he's confident that'll change soon, he says.

"The atheist community, it's not the cool kids yet. But it will be. Right now, it's still a bad word, especially in Texas. What we're doing, we're paving the way for the cool kids to come on board."

He smiles and takes in the room, which is filling up with people. "Ten years from now, this is gonna be really big."
 

Riiiiight, because the nerd community hasn't been saying the same thing for the last 70 years.

Now, that's some kind of faith.

Atheism - Who couldn't love joy-killing fundamentalist puritanical pimples on the collective ass of humanity?

Atheists buy ad on Times Square attacking Christian belief during Christmas season.

Holiday message: Atheists dub Jesus a 'myth' on Times Square billboard

Just as midtown Manhattan comes alive with Christmas cheer, festive window displays and Salvation Army bell ringers trying to channel holiday generosity to the needy, an atheist group has a message for the masses teeming into Times Square: Jesus is a myth.
With a picture of Santa Claus above another image of Jesus Christ, the sign, sponsored by New Jersey-based American Atheists, urges passersby to "Keep the Merry!" and "Dump the Myth!" Attacks on Christianity from the group have become routine, and in the bustling heart of America's busiest city, most folks don't even waste a shrug on the sign. But some took notice, and did not approve.

“It’s a damn shame. It’s an insult,” said Anthony White, 41, a of Jersey City, N.J. said. “Why did they have to put that up?”

David Silverman, president of American Atheists, had an answer, though not one likely to please the faithful.

“Most Christians are really atheists who feel trapped in their family’s religion," Silverman told FoxNews.com. "They need not be Christian to enjoy the holiday season.”
Silverman said a private donor paid more than $25,000 to have the billboard posted above a nightclub in the crossroads of the world for one month, ending Jan. 10, 2013.

“We chose Times Square because it is a place where people go to shop and be festive, which has nothing to do with religion,” Silverman said.

Typical moron atheist: Silverman doesn't understand that "festive" comes from "feast" as in the "feast of Christmas."

In other words, in terms of Western culture, Christians invented "festive."

Atheists and secularists like to claim that the "war on Christmas" is a myth.  It is obviously not only real, but it is a "war on Christians at Christmas."

Why people love atheists.

Who couldn't love joy-killing, fundamentalist, puritanical pimples on the collective ass of humanity?

School Forces First-Grader to Remove “God” From Poem Honoring Her Grandfather