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Religionuts Further Atheism: Agree with Christian Fundamentalists!

August 27, 2009 · 3 Comments

The best thing for atheism is fundamentalist religious people. Atheists should be promoting this behavior everywhere and anywhere they can.  The more people see these kinds of statements and attitudes, the more they will turn away from religion.  I say rile them up and really get them going:  Agree with them!!!

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The Door Knocker Saga- Experiments with Missionaries.

June 27, 2009 · 24 Comments

I’m eating my Frosted Krispies, and Vic says he sees two well-dressed ladies walking up our street.  “They’re door-knockers”, says I.  Vic says he thinks they’re wearing too brightly colored clothes to be door-knockers, but I think he’s confusing the door-knockers with the Amish or some shit.  We get out the binoculars we use to spy on our neighbors and Vic confirms that they are indeed knocking on doors.

“Get the atheist bag” I tell Vic.  We pull out our best atheist propaganda.  I am actually excited, and in my awesome rock star black and silver leopard jammies, I start dancing in our living room.  “I hope they stop here, I hope they stop.  PLEASE knock on our door.”

Here they come, walking up the driveway!  Yes!  I open the door.  (Remember, I’m wearing my rock star jammies, my tattoos are hanging out, my mascara is smeared, my hair is all over the place.  Generally, I look awesome.)

“Hello!”

“Hello!  I am here today to talk to you about the world, do you think it’s going to get better?”

“Well, how do you mean?”

“Most people in this area were raised Christian, were you?  I’m assuming you were.”

“Actually, no, I wasn’t…”  (This is the truth.)  Pause…

“So, do you know the Lord’s Prayer?”

Here, I decide to lie.  I know the Lord’s Prayer.  Not because I’m religious, but because I have this damn good memory, and I used to take people with disabilities to church when I worked on Sundays if they chose to go…

“Um… No, can’t say that I do.”

Her spiel is ruined.  She doesn’t really know what to say.  She even says to me “Well, I guess I can’t ask you THOSE questions, then…”

I reach out my hand, which has the atheist propaganda in it.  On top is the Freedom From Religion non-tract called “Why Jesus?”  Her eyes light up:  “Oh, you DO believe in Jesus!!!”  I look at her face and really slowly and drawn out I say “Nooooo”.

She stares at the propaganda but won’t even touch it.  She says she’s done a lot of research, but if that stuff says there is no Jesus, then she can’t take it to read it.  She asks me to just tell her what’s in there.  We tell her she can read it herself.

Then Vic ruins my fun by getting curt and telling them to get away from our house and keep their silly superstitions to themselves.  Dude, I could’ve done this all day.  Wonder if they’ll ever come back?

Go lord it up in someone else's lawn, freak!

Go lord it up in someone else's lawn, freak!

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Sunny’s Great Adoption Experiment: Volunteers???

January 28, 2009 · 18 Comments

August Berkshire’s piece on abortion at the Minnesota Atheists webpage is getting some talk, including this recently made statement:

Also, every person is not born solely for their own salvation, but also to help bring the living to God. So by taking their life, you also cut off ANY opportunity they have to bring love and peace to others.

This is coupled with a video PZ posted that I found shocking, although I’d say I probably could have guessed what was coming:

Glad you’re still here.

I’d like to announce Sunny’s Great Adoption Experiment:

IF you identify as Anti-Choice instead of Pro-Choice, then please proceed:

-I challenge you to adopt at least two children who do not currently have families to live with.  Two children is a very small number, close to average, actually.

-Because of this small number, in addition to your two adopted children, I would like you to open your home as a foster parent.  This would usually only be one child at a time, so that would only be a total of three children.  That is not too many to take care of, and since there are so many of you anti-choicers, you should have this abortion problem solved in no time!  (If you’ve already adopted and are fostering, good on ya, and keep it up.  Proceed to the next step!)

-Of course, you can continue to keep your home open as a foster home as long as you see fit.  It seems there are always children in need of a loving, supportive environment.  Once both of your adopted children are grown and out of the house (hopefully by around age 18, but you never know), I’d like you to volunteer your time to a program such as Big Brothers/Big Sisters.  That way, you will be able to continue to influence children’s lives and have a positive impact on them!

Three easy steps!  I’ll outline them again in case it was too wordy for you:

-Adopt.

-Foster.

-Volunteer.

So, let’s try this experiment, and see how it works for you.  We’ll be able to cancel out all of the abortions.  (For the record, I’ve had a TON, so we have a long road ahead of us!)

Go ahead, put your parenting skills where your mouth is!  I didn’t get any takers for my first Great Amputee Experiment, I’m assuming not enough people read the post?  I hope I get more volunteers for this one.

Adopt!  Foster!  Volunteer!  Feed Me!

Adopt! Foster! Volunteer! Feed Me!

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Sunny’s Great Amputee Experiment: Volunteers??

January 16, 2009 · 20 Comments

Why Won’t God Heal Amputees has some great information and video that will tell you why god is imaginary.  It’s pretty fun and there are good points.

In spite of all of this information, I was told today on the Minnesota Atheists forum that god actually does heal amputees, and thus I have offered up a challenge to that person and anyone else who agrees with him or her to take part in my Great Amputee Experiment.

If you are a christian, and would like to prove that god does in fact heal amputees, sign up here, and I’ll help you out with that.  I will admit, I don’t have any practice cutting limbs off of people, but I’m sure I could figure something out to assist.  Then I’ll pour you a cup of coffee, we’ll sit together, and just wait for them to grow back in, no worries.

This guy must not be praying very hard!!!

This guy must not be praying very hard!!!

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