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A symbol for atheists

Kilted_Canuck said:

A better symbol is the ALMIGHTY, Holy Goddess, The Invisible Pink Unicorn
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The problem with the IPU as a symbol is that if you tossed it into your sock drawer it would be lost forever.

No one would actually KNOW that you are wearing it either.

Actually, now that I think about it, I guess I AM wearing it right now!
 
elliotfc said:
If you believe in demonic spirits (maybe you do, maybe you don't, just work within the belief for a moment), it is possible to believe that they would take the glorious moment of Christianity (crucifixion/resurrection), and debase it earlier in history by associating it with something inferior.

Oh my god, this is funny. So now the demons are traveling through time to debase Christianity! That's the funniest damn thing I've read in a long time. Thanks! :D
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Re: Nice and Simple

crocodile deathroll said:
Here is one , nice and simple but at least you instantly know what it means.
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That works well, simply because most atheists tirade against Christianity mainly.

And yes, I know it is the most common religion, but for a group of superior thinkers (the atheists), it still seems odd to focus primarily on Christianity.
 
T'ai Chi:
And yes, I know it is the most common religion, but for a group of superior thinkers (the atheists), it still seems odd to focus primarily on Christianity.
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Well in America Christianity is the most common religion that we seem to focus on, because they seem to be on every street corner with their bible thumping and telling us how we should live our lives. So I don’t think it’s odd to focus primarily on Christianity at all.



BTW, I dont think that I'm a superior thinker, just someone that doesn't believe in any old story someone tells me.
 
How about.....No. All atheists share is a LACK of belief in God. To me, that isn't nearly enough to group together for. This just gives the religious peoples fuel for their misguided opinion that Atheism is just another religion.
 
urstardust said:
T'ai Chi:

Well in America Christianity is the most common religion that we seem to focus on, because they seem to be on every street corner with their bible thumping and telling us how we should live our lives. So I don’t think it’s odd to focus primarily on Christianity at all.

BTW, I dont think that I'm a superior thinker, just someone that doesn't believe in any old story someone tells me.
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"seem to be on every street corner", ummm, I'm glad I don't view the world through your distorted lens.

Statistically, I'd say that most street corners are not inhabited by people "bible thumping", and even if they were, there is something called freedom of speech. Sorry.
 
T'ai Chi said:


"seem to be on every street corner", ummm, I'm glad I don't view the world through your distorted lens.

Statistically, I'd say that most street corners are not inhabited by people "bible thumping", and even if they were, there is something called freedom of speech. Sorry.
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Well T'ai Chi in Dallas, Texas (aka bible belt) you are right bible thumpers aren't on every corner. But I do run into a lot of bible thumpers that like to tell me that I'm going to burn in HELL if I don't ask some old dead guy name Jesus into my heart and ask him for forgiveness. So I'm sorry that you thought I really meant street corner in a real sense. As an Atheist I get tired of Christens using their freedom of speech to tell me and our children that a man 2000 years ago is coming back to take only believers off to heaven and if you don't believe in him you will die in the fiery pits of hell for all eternity. I also have that freedom of speech and think that it's rude to tell someone I don't know what they should do or judge their lives on a belief.

I'm glad I don't view the world through your distorted lens.
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I feel the same way T'ai Chi.;)
 
I think Emsworth had the right idea. Most symbols refer to something. They're a graphic representation of an idea, however vague the idea may or may not be.

If you're speaking of atheism, how do you represent that? What would you choose to represent which does not exist in your mind?
 
urstardust said:
Well T'ai Chi in Dallas, Texas (aka bible belt) you are right bible thumpers aren't on every corner. But I do run into a lot of bible thumpers that like to tell me that I'm going to burn in HELL if I don't ask some old dead guy name Jesus into my heart and ask him for forgiveness. So I'm sorry that you thought I really meant street corner in a real sense. As an Atheist I get tired of Christens using their freedom of speech to tell me and our children that a man 2000 years ago is coming back to take only believers off to heaven and if you don't believe in him you will die in the fiery pits of hell for all eternity. I also have that freedom of speech and think that it's rude to tell someone I don't know what they should do or judge their lives on a belief.
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I used to live in Texas, and just visited there a while ago, and yes, there are a lot of religious people. In fact, I stayed about 20 miles from Hagee's huge place. However, I was back there for over a month, and I didn't get pestered, not even once, and I was in the country-side and in down town areas many times.

It is people's right to tell you and your kids things. You may not want to hear those things, or believe in those things, and those are your rights. You might think them telling you is rude, and that is your right. It is also your right to tell them whatever you want, and to protest however you want.
 
sorgoth said:
How about.....No. All atheists share is a LACK of belief in God. To me, that isn't nearly enough to group together for. This just gives the religious peoples fuel for their misguided opinion that Atheism is just another religion.
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They "share", good point.

You think if they share a lack of belief in god(s, esses), that they might share other things?

Hmm...

You think that even if they JUST share their lack of belief in god(s, esses) that that is enough to form a group, club, organization, and publications?

What percentage of atheists have a naturalism worldview or a non-paranormal worldview? To say that all atheists share is a lack of belief in god(s, esses) is probabily not reality.
 
It's true that most atheists are a little more rational, especially those who used to be religious (being lied to for over a decade does that to you). But what are they going to DO? Talk about how religious people are stupid? I see these meetings as giving a bit of credibility to those who say that atheists act like they're better than everyone else, and that Atheism is some kind of religion.

I think, if you want to join a group with mostly atheists, join some kind of science group.
 
elliotfc-
But I suppose the point might not to be faithful to their beliefs. I've always believed that the Darwin fish is meant more to mock the beliefs of others, or to give certain people the symbolic mechanism to feel intellectual satisfaction.
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After re-reading your posts a few times I did manage to find a couple of things to agree with. Yes, the Darwin fish is meant to mock people who deny that evolution exists. If you consider Darwin's ideas a threat to your religious beliefs then you deserve to be mocked. The people in the U.S. who insist that this is a Christian country, who ask for I.D. to be taught in science class, who lobby for school prayer are a very vocal group. There are people who disagree with those views and the Darwin fish is a way for these people to be recognized in public.


After reading about the possibility that demons who knew how Christianity was going to play out led the ancients to verbalize, believe, or preach the ideas of virgin birth, symbolically drinking blood, gruesome death followed by resurrection, and the importance of winter solstice and spring fertilty rites.... I agree with your final statement

We all need our own coping mechanisms I guess.
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T'ai Chi said:


It is people's right to tell you and your kids things. You may not want to hear those things, or believe in those things, and those are your rights. You might think them telling you is rude, and that is your right. It is also your right to tell them whatever you want, and to protest however you want.
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Hi T'ai Chi,

To be honest most of the time when I run into a bible thumper I tell them what they what to hear, that I'm a born again christen. It's so much simpler that way then to try and get this little brain washed monkey off my back that will not leave me alone. And sometimes I'm drunk and can't help telling them the truth that I’m an atheist that is in a secret atheist organization called S.A.G.A.N.= Secret Atheists Group Against Nonsense operation “Kill Religion”. Because if the truth be known religions don’t kill people atheists kill people.
 
urstardust said:

And sometimes I'm drunk and can't help telling them the truth that I’m an atheist that is in a secret atheist organization called S.A.G.A.N.= Secret Atheists Group Against Nonsense operation “Kill Religion”. Because if the truth be known religions don’t kill people atheists kill people.
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Pssst, its called the EAC, the Evil Atheist Conspiracy
 
Re: Re: Nice and Simple

T'ai Chi said:
That works well, simply because most atheists tirade against Christianity mainly.
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Ooh, harshness. Might I add unnecessary harshness.

And yes, I know it is the most common religion, but for a group of superior thinkers (the atheists), it still seems odd to focus primarily on Christianity.
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Well, I live in America, a place where 80% of the people around me are Christians. You seem to be exercising good reasoning, seriously, what reason would an atheist have that he would need to be so preoccupied by the most popular, most powerful, and (in my opinion) most historically influencial religion of our times... they probably do it as a large inside joke or something.

Good education and reasoning skills tend to make you a superior thinker, not belief. No need to undermind the demeanor of atheism by trying to play reverse-psychologist on us now (yes, I'm fully aware of what I said above, its an unusual form of humoring myself).
 
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