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Atheist Bumper Stickers

I just don't understand why anyone would want to be a dick to random anonymous strangers that they will never even meet. I mean, I totally understand a proclamation of belief, a sticker like, "I believe X" or a symbol of that or whatever. I sticker that says, "you're wrong" is a little more confrontational, and kind of useless, but still, whatever.

What I don't get is why you would want to call someone stupid. Does that make you feel good, to know that you are putting people that you will never meet in their place? If so, I would suggest that those are incredibly antisocial thoughts and feelings, and you might want to talk to a professional. It's also just a little bit juvenile, so I would ask you to grow up.

What I'm saying here applies to everyone. A couple of quick examples of the three classes:

Class I - proclaim your belief. Examples:
1. Jesus fish
2. "I'm a vegetarian"
3. "Atheists are beyond belief"

Class II - confrontational. Examples:
1. "The big bang. God spoke and *bang* it happened" (these ones always make me groan)
2. "Eating meat is wrong"
3. "You're an atheist too; I just believe in one less god than you do"

Class III - being a total dick. Examples:
1. "YOU WILL BURN IN HELL!"
2. "MEAT IS MURDER!!"
3. "I EVOLVED, YOU DIDN'T!"

As an atheist, I'm embarrassed that there are so many antisocial dicks giving me a bad name. I wish that you would grow up and get over yourselves. If some xian puts a little fish on his car, he's not hurting you, he's not preaching at you. If you make a joke out of that fish you are intentionally insulting him - going way the hell out of your way to insult him. Why? Because you're a child inside. Because you get a sociopathic thrill out of insulting someone that you don't know and will never meet.

It embarrasses me and I honestly with you would just go kill yourself.

The worse bumper sticker I ever saw belonged to a christian. It said something like, "Allah is a false god." Ironic, isn't it? But I think the same thing about that guy. He's a dick. He goes out of his way to insult muslims that he'll never even meet. Some muslim sees that and just feels angry the whole rest of his day. And why? No benefit is incurred on the person who put that sticker on his car. He just gets his rocks off on being a dick.

A lot of atheists are like that. You're exactly like the christians. You're dicks.
 
drzeus99 said:
Must be one of them days for me.

Ummm....I'm one of them who's missing the point on your bumper sticker.

The way it's written, it comes across to me like the driver (you, in this case)
is someone who belives in their religion, and admits they'd rather be ignorant
than wrong, and they'd happily tell you that too. So, in my eyes, even though
I'm an atheist, I'd think you were a (probably) very religious person.

That's how I would take it if just quickly reading it and not giving it much thought after that.
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Right next to my bumper sticker "I'd rather be ignorant than wrong." is another bumper sticker I had made that reads, "Science is the poetry of reality."

What the first bumper sticker is saying is this: You (the religious person) think you know the answer to everything (e.g. "God did it"), while I, a person of rational thought and reason, am perfectly comfortable saying "I don't know."

In other words, I'd rather be ignorant ("not knowing the truth") than to believe stuff for which there is no evidence.
 
Tofu:
I just don't understand why anyone would want to be a dick to random anonymous strangers that they will never even meet.
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mere moments later:
It embarrasses me and I honestly wish you would just go kill yourself.
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lol
 
Retto_Pyrrah said:
Tofu:


mere moments later:


lol
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What's truly sad is that you aren't bright enough to see the difference between these two statements:

"You are a member of my group, and as a member, I chastise you for your behavior" (this is what my post said)

"You people are outsiders, and you're smelly, inbred, retards. I'm so much smarter than you! Har har, I'm better than you! I rule and you drool! Ha ha! In your face you retards!!" (this is what many atheists do - and they are giant dicks)
 
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Oh come on. It was funny. You don't always have to come out swinging.
 
There's the ever popular "Atheist on Board" magnetic one, or the alternative, "Atheist, Here - I'm Bored of All You Silly Superstitious Peasants."
 
Jeff Corey said:
There's the ever popular "Atheist on Board" magnetic one, or the alternative, "Atheist, Here - I'm Bored of All You Silly Superstitious Peasants."
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Hmm.... That's odd. Seems to me, being bored of superstitious peasants is a bit like being bored of hyenas. Perhaps not very wise.
 
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Autolite said:
It took me a minute also. "What would you do for a Klondike Bar" (chocolate snack bar) is a popular American advertisement. Folks living outside the U.S.A. might not immediately see the humour. It would be akin to you posting a joke about "Vegemite" ... :)
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The person depicted in your avatar was responsible for much stained underwear when I was of the age that this mattered. :)

M.
 
I've got one.

"Is there anything more bizarre than a squabble in a bumper-sticker thread?"


:D

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Here's one to go next to the Darwin fish and other such stuff:

"Would Jesus really key my car?"
 
Retto_Pyrrah said:
I think that you can say that science does this, just not all science.
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Science sure explains a lot of things that were once attributed to gods-- and "beyond human understanding". Scientific knowledge is very satisfying... you don't have to believe it for it to work, and it's so much more useful and awe inspiring than the murky myths of faith.

Science makes it easier to be an atheist, that's for sure. The more you understand, the more superfluous god stories seem.

I got this bumpersticker at a TAM, but I'm too afraid to put it on my car. The "miracle of life" has more to do with sex then sacred mysteries... so I find this one particularly fantastic. I had the original Darwin fish back in the early 90's when it first came out. I'm glad to see they've been evolving as well.
 

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Retto_Pyrrah said:
Oh come on. It was funny. You don't always have to come out swinging.
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I thought it was funny too-- the ones tsk tsking others for passing judgments, are often the biggest judgment passers of all.

We're all entitled to opinions, it's just that some people think you should take theirs much more seriously than they take anyone elses.
 
Well, googling reveals no end of lists of cool (and lame) atheist bumper stickers, etc.

What do you guys think of this one:

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Scarlet 'A' Dawkins Skinny Atheist Symbol Red Vinyl cut-out sticker. Richard Dawkins' new atheist logo is classy, instantly recognizable, and entirely free of 'olde-worlde' religious dogma!
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My understanding is the jesus fish was a secret sign used in a hostile environment to let sparsely scattered followers know there is a like-minded person nearby. The "Dawkins 'A'" looks like it would work as such.
 
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