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The Hoopiest Atheist?

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I'm a little sick of trying to find which religion is the worst, which religious figure was the most hideous and which atheist tells the most lies, so I'm turning it around and attempting to find the "100 Hoopiest Atheists, Ever!"

There are lots of lists of atheists, famous atheists, celebrity atheists, magician atheists, etc., but there appears to be no list of the hoopiest ones.

(Hoopy = a really together guy; source DNA)

Personally, I'm only going to list my top three, in no particular order:

#1 DNA. Has to rate as the funniest, most mickey-taking atheist. "Who is this god person anyway?"

#2 David Gilmour. While being by far the hoopiest frood in the list, he must lose first place to his late mate, DNA. Gilmour only misses the top spot because other than saying he's an atheist, he hasn't done anything creatively involving atheism.

#3 Bertrand Russell. Odd one to class as hoopy, maybe, but I he was a first-class philanderer as well as being the intellectually smartest athiest ever (in my totally non-humble opinion) and therefore gets third.


Anyone wanting to play, please list your three hoopiest atheists, along with reasons for their hoopiness - all in your purely subjective opinion!
 
1) Me, because pride is my favourite deadly sin.
2) God. Well, I don't know if he's an atheist or not, but you have to admit a self-doubting deity would be pretty hoopy.
3) The most recently born human on the planet, because I'm hoping to start another argument about whether babies are atheists or not.
 
1) Anton Szandor LaVey: Hefty pair for starting a religion called Satanism, great organist, looked fantastic until his dying day.
2) Ayn Rand: Whether or not you agree with it, Objectivism can start fistfights. Also pissed off Mike Wallace by simply existing.
3) Siddhartha Gautama: "Buddha? Oh yeah, he's God, right? Wait. What? He's not?"
 
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1. L Ron Hubbard - he showed that believing nothing can make you lots of money.

2. Mother Teresa - she showed that believing in nothing can make you a saint.

3. Pope John Paul II - he demonstrated that acting is not just a job.

 
1. The late, great Linda Smith, for saying: if God had meant us to believe in Him, He'd have existed.

2. Linda Smith again, for getting elected president of a humanist association she had forgotten to join.

3. Er... that's it.
 
Kilgore Trout said:
1) Anton Szandor LaVey: Hefty pair for starting a religion called Satanism, great organist, looked fantastic until his dying day.
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Youm mean Howard Stanton Levey?

Or, as he has been referred to, "Anton Oy Vey"!

Interested to see how promoting Satanism makes him have a "hefty pair"? Of chalices?
 
1) James Randi

2) Penn Gillette

3) Christopher Hitchens
 
Lord Muck oGentry said:
1. The late, great Linda Smith, for saying: if God had meant us to believe in Him, He'd have existed.

2. Linda Smith again, for getting elected president of a humanist association she had forgotten to join.

3. Er... that's it.
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Seconded.
 
1) Jody Foster - Incredible actress. She has gone on record stating that the beliefs of the character she portrayed in Contact matches her opinion. She also knows the term "god of the gaps". If I were a lesbian . . .

2) James Gleick - I have read all of his books. Great science writer.

3) George Carlin - Come on, he's George Carlin!
 
The Atheist said:
#2 David Gilmour. While being by far the hoopiest frood in the list, he must lose first place to his late mate, DNA. Gilmour only misses the top spot because other than saying he's an atheist, he hasn't done anything creatively involving atheism.
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Cripes, the solo on Comfortably Numb buys him at least a tie for the top spot. Of course, he also had absolute proof of the nonexistence of any god of the good and merciful type, thanks to being stuck in a band with Roger Waters...
 
Hokulele said:
1) Jody Foster - Incredible actress. She has gone on record stating that the beliefs of the character she portrayed in Contact matches her opinion. She also knows the term "god of the gaps". If I were a lesbian . . .
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I've been tempted several times to have a sex change so I could become a lesbian, just for her!

Definitely my favourite dyke atheist.

JoeEllison said:
Cripes, the solo on Comfortably Numb buys him at least a tie for the top spot. Of course, he also had absolute proof of the nonexistence of any god of the good and merciful type, thanks to being stuck in a band with Roger Waters...
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Nah, that's a bit harsh, Waters was just fulfilling his own self-prophesy which he started on the gravy train in Wish You Were Here (and maybe even in DSTM) and culminated with the collapse of the wall [and band].

If you've ever heard Radio KAOS, you know he's not completely nuts.

Comfortably Numb is something I have to listen to at least once a week. Lots of The Wall I can leave alone quite happily, but CN and the tracks either side of it do it for me.
 
Was Asimov an atheist? If so, make him my number 1.

(1) Asimov (If he was an atheist...I'm not entirely sure)

(2) Carl Sagan (For popularising science, promoting skepticism, and showing us how in the grand scheme of things, we are but a 'pale blue dot')

(3) James Randi (for his promotion of skepticism and for taking on frauds)
 
Mobyseven said:
Was Asimov an atheist?
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Oh yes:

Asimov said:
I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.
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Mobyseven said:
Was Asimov an atheist? If so, make him my number 1.

(1) Asimov (If he was an atheist...I'm not entirely sure)

(2) Carl Sagan (For popularising science, promoting skepticism, and showing us how in the grand scheme of things, we are but a 'pale blue dot')

(3) James Randi (for his promotion of skepticism and for taking on frauds)
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Asimov yes. Not sure about Sagan. I think he considered himself an agnostic. But still a very hoopy frood none the less.
 
The Atheist said:
#3 Bertrand Russell. Odd one to class as hoopy, maybe, but I he was a first-class philanderer as well as being the intellectually smartest athiest ever (in my totally non-humble opinion) and therefore gets third.
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I sas that hoopy Bertrand Russell. There's a frood who really knew where his towel was.
 
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