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Limbaugh Takes a Shot at Atheists/Agnostics

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I don't listen to Rush Limbaugh - I can't stand the man.

But KFI 640, the Los Angeles station which plays his show, is currently running a commercial with a quote from him that really pissed me off.

I don't have exact quotes, because I wasn't paying close attention to it, and it wasn't until the last sentence that I got angry.

First, he goes on about a liberal judge going easy on a rapist, and talks about how sexual crimes are getting nastier and nastier.

In the last sentence of the quote, he seemed to blame much of this on atheism/agnosticism.

Damn, if I hear it again, I'll get the quote.

How I hate that man.
 
Yes, because Ed knows that no one of a religious bent ever committed a sex crime....we'll maybe a few priests...but no where near the vast army of athiests out there rapping and pilaging as they go...
 
headscratcher4 said:
athiests out there rapping and pilaging
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break it down...

I learned about God through a local pastor
He said I'm a sinner cuz I thought I'm the master
Of my own destiny
Jus' like satan don'cha see?
But I didn't fight with him, it'd be a disaster.

Yeah, boooyyyy...

:D

(I can't rap)
 
Jimbo07 said:
break it down...

I learned about God through a local pastor
He said I'm a sinner cuz I thought I'm the master
Of my own destiny
Jus' like satan don'cha see?
But I didn't fight with him, it'd be a disaster.

Yeah, boooyyyy...

:D

(I can't rap)
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I think it might have been " raping and pillaging" Catchy rap though
 
Robert,

Was this the gem you heard?

http://atheism.about.com/b/a/082331.htm
A transcript of Rush Limbaugh's April 22, 2004 show reads:

You know, I have to tell you something, folks. How many of you, we hear all these people running around talking about the environment is this and that and man must do what it can to protect it and so forth, and I'm all for that to a certain extent, but have you ever thought about the irony that the militant environmental wackos are secularists, maybe even atheists?
They don't believe in God; they don't believe in creation; they believe that nature itself has some sort of deity characteristic to it. Yet I don't know about you, but if I run into anybody that doubts the existence of God or creation, all you have to do is take them somewhere in the midst of nature. Show them. Have a doctor explain to them what happens during open heart surgery with the human body and what doctors have to do to protect the human body during open heart surgery, bypass surgery, what have you. All you have to do is get into the miraculous functioning of all this to understand that the odds of this being an accident are next to impossible, and yet the people who are the environmentalist wackos try to tell us that all of this is so precariously balanced.
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You'd really think the prisons would be overflowing with atheists and agnostics but instead they are usually the more educated, higher wage-earning members of society.

There sure are a lot of prisoners with Jesus tats. Not many with a Darwin fish though.
 
HarryKeogh said:
You'd really think the prisons would be overflowing with atheists and agnostics but instead they are usually the more educated, higher wage-earning members of society.

There sure are a lot of prisoners with Jesus tats. Not many with a Darwin fish though.
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And every one of them "Finds god" as soon as the door closes behind 'em...
 
"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."

Steven Weinberg, quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999
US physicist (1933 - )
 
But wait, there's more. Here's a flashback from the War on Christmas. No Jerry, don't jump on that brightly colored package!

http://mediamatters.org/items/200512090012
Limbaugh continued, asserting, "There's a movement against public displays of Christmas" and that "the ones trying to stamp Christmas out" are "a bunch of liberals and most of them are Democrats --[a] bunch of secularists and atheists and so forth."
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Well, as Keith Olbermann said; "when you spend 90 minutes each day in free association, you'll drive off the pier once in a while."

(or something to that affect in an article he wrote about Limbaugh). It was linked in this forum sometime last Fall.
 
More from the big man.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/menu/thepassion/limbaugh_institute_2.guest.html
As to Andy Rooney, I think somewhere -- this is an e-mail I got. I really don't know if this is true. I said the other day that I thought he was Catholic. Irish Catholic. Turns out I've gotten a number of e-mails, "No, he's an atheist," and reading what he said about this and about God and afterlife and all this, I think he is an atheist. I think that's what's behind his belief here. I've always thought atheists are probably cloaked in fear.
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Emphasis added.
 
The only time I listen to Limbaugh is when I need a traffic report. Our local news station, KFBK, only has traffic on at the top and bottom of the hour after the morning news.

Sorry, but Limbaugh is a waste of flesh.
 
Yet more from the pie-hole'o'rhetoric.

In terms of the pope or Terri Schiavo, if you don't understand who religious people are and how it is that they arrive at their beliefs -- I would submit to you that people on the left are religious, too. Their God is just different. The left has a different God. There's a religious left in this country, and the religious left in this country hates and despises the God of Christianity and Catholicism and whatever else. They despise it because they fear it, because it's a threat, because that God has moral absolutes. That God has right and wrong, that God doesn't deal in nuance, that God doesn't deal in gray area, that God says, "This is right and that is wrong." A lot of people on the left don't want to hear that. They want to define that for themselves, and they don't want to be judged and they don't want anybody casting judgment on them and forcing anything on them so there's fear. All this fear prohibits and gets in the way of people understanding who other people are. But, you know this business of imposing freedom on people or imposing views on people, it's not an imposition, freedom isn't. Life is not an imposition. I guess it is to some people on the left, but life is not an imposition, but some people look at it as though it is. Those people on the right were simply standing up for their beliefs just like you do on the judges, just like you do on abortion, just like you do on whatever else. Now, we're not afraid of people on the left. We want to defeat you, but we want to defeat you in the arena of ideas. We want to convince a majority of Americans to agree with us in the arena of ideas, not by a bunch of judges telling you that you're wrong about something and giving you nothing you can do about it in the arena of ideas. It's very simple. You just have to cast aside your fear and you'll be able to understand it plain as day. Religion is not something that's a fabric of our society. You only think it is because of your fear.
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