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Atheism Memes

MarkCorrigan said:
Greatest. Jesus face. Ever.

ETA: I love Good Guy Lucifer:

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Gawdzilla said:
I considered that, and decided on "proof", because there has been none. There have been assertions that proof has been found, but there has been nothing that fits the name.
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[insert boilerplate rehash that 'atheist' and 'agnostic' are answers to different questions and not different points on a continuum of belief to unbelief]
 
quixotecoyote said:
[insert boilerplate rehash that 'atheist' and 'agnostic' are answers to different questions and not different points on a continuum of belief to unbelief]
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Because I have no where else to put this...

The problem with agnosticism is many current religions define their gods as unknowable. To believe that the question "does god exist" can not be knowingly answered is to agree with an aspect of religious claims of the properties of their god.

And I can't seem to find a meme for ignosticism. :(
 
ehcks said:
Because I have no where else to put this...

The problem with agnosticism is many current religions define their gods as unknowable.
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None of the Abrahamic religions do. They may tuck the descriptor in there somewhere, but the religions claim to know what the god wants, know what the god doesn't want, know typical emotional states of the god, know historical actions of the god, know rituals for interacting with the god, know favored spokesmen for the god, etc.

And from what less I know of the others, they have plenty of claims of what their god or god-equivalents are like as well.

Quite a stretch from 'unknowable' and not at all what is meant by 'agnostic'.
 
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Orphia Nay said:
Post your memes here!

meme
/mēm/
Noun
1. An element of a culture or behavior that may be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, esp. imitation.
2. An image, video, etc. that is passed electronically from one Internet user to another.
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Actually, "meme" refers to an in-joke, not the actual image or video referencing the in-joke. For instance, Condescending Wonka is a meme. The actual images using the meme are called "macros".
 
ehcks said:
Because I have no where else to put this...

The problem with agnosticism is many current religions define their gods as unknowable. To believe that the question "does god exist" can not be knowingly answered is to agree with an aspect of religious claims of the properties of their god.

And I can't seem to find a meme for ignosticism. :(
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Because, ironically enough, most people don't know what that means.
 
ehcks said:
Because I have no where else to put this...

The problem with agnosticism is many current religions define their gods as unknowable. To believe that the question "does god exist" can not be knowingly answered is to agree with an aspect of religious claims of the properties of their god.

And I can't seem to find a meme for ignosticism. :(
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I don't understand why defining gods as unknowable is a problem. I don't believe in things that I don't know about. If your god is unknowable, cool beans. I still don't believe in it, and it still doesn't matter.
 
Orphia Nay said:
Of course, Mary could have been raped by another man as well as God.
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It's curious, of course, that the Bible suggests that Joseph suspected (perhaps because he was not a total idiot) that Mary had been with someone else (Matt. 1:18-19), and he decided to divorce her quietly. But Joseph changed his mind after being given information from an angel that the fetus's father was the Holy Ghost (Matt. 1:20), and not, say, Matthias the pizza delivery boy. Joseph was told that the gender of the child would be male and that his name ought to be Jesus. How Joseph knew this messenger was an angel is not explained, nor that he knew who the Holy Ghost was, nor why he thought that the perp being the Holy Ghost excused the whole business, nor that Joesph had any inkling about something being a wee bit strange about a ghost impregnating a girl. And to top it all off, the information was conveyed in a dream, where most people realize they experience a whole bunch of really weird stuff but they shrug it off when they wake.

Joseph didn't shrug it off. So maybe he was a total idiot after all.

But then, in those days, conveying important information through dreams may have been the way it was done. In the very next chapter of Matthew, information is conveyed to the wise men and to Joseph by way of dreams on no fewer than four occasions. They all take the dreams seriously and do or act upon what was conveyed to them in the dreams.

But poor Pontius Pilate, instead of the dream going to him, it went to his wife (Matt. 27:19), and Pontius paid no attention to it. According to standard Christian dogma, however, it's a good thing that the dream went to a silly woman rather than a sensible man, for if Pilate had received the dream himself and acted upon it, then all of humanity would today be damned.
 
Brown said:
It's curious, of course, that the Bible suggests that Joseph suspected (perhaps because he was not a total idiot) that Mary had been with someone else (Matt. 1:18-19), and he decided to divorce her quietly. But Joseph changed his mind after being given information from an angel that the fetus's father was the Holy Ghost (Matt. 1:20), and not, say, Matthias the pizza delivery boy. Joseph was told that the gender of the child would be male and that his name ought to be Jesus. How Joseph knew this messenger was an angel is not explained, nor that he knew who the Holy Ghost was, nor why he thought that the perp being the Holy Ghost excused the whole business, nor that Joesph had any inkling about something being a wee bit strange about a ghost impregnating a girl. And to top it all off, the information was conveyed in a dream, where most people realize they experience a whole bunch of really weird stuff but they shrug it off when they wake.

Joseph didn't shrug it off. So maybe he was a total idiot after all.
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Reading this made me wonder if Jesus was a creation of Joseph. Imagine growing up in a household where your dad has to rationalize your birth with this Holy Ghost and angel stuff.

It's an interesting thought - the Jesus of legend and lore, a product of a zealot father trying to save his pride in a culture with premarital sex taboos. Not so strange really. Especially when you read about how Jesus is treated in his home town.
 
marplots said:
Reading this made me wonder if Jesus was a creation of Joseph. Imagine growing up in a household where your dad has to rationalize your birth with this Holy Ghost and angel stuff.

It's an interesting thought - the Jesus of legend and lore, a product of a zealot father trying to save his pride in a culture with premarital sex taboos. Not so strange really. Especially when you read about how Jesus is treated in his home town.
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Should Mary have been stoned to death for adultery?
 
marplots said:
Reading this made me wonder if Jesus was a creation of Joseph. Imagine growing up in a household where your dad has to rationalize your birth with this Holy Ghost and angel stuff.

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I'd be enough to give a kid a Messiah Complex.:)
 
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