I'm an Atheist who finds all of this religion people's argument that their rights are getting infringed every time their religion falls into minor dark light horribly wrong.
For the record as an Atheist, I cannot hold office in 8 states in the USA, am forced to recognize the existence of God through the pledge, and find a mandated moment of silence another christian oppression amongst other things. Separation of Church and STATE!

One does not have to say the pledge at all. And a moment of silence is not restricted to prayer only.

Let this thread die.

Scientism

Method and empirical studies while other.aspects of life are not important. This excludes mathematics. Most mathematical.theories are not proven at moment of publication with empirism, measures.

Aristotles may have not gone very far with his obversation of nature. Some may say is because he lacked tools to measure things but it is possible to end up in same boat.

A very crude empirism example is colors. Either colors only exist as images of what we see, experience, or it is just waves that have no meaning. Both cases are extreme.

I'm an Atheist who finds all of this religion people's argument that their rights are getting infringed every time their religion falls into minor dark light horribly wrong.
For the record as an Atheist, I cannot hold office in 8 states in the USA, am forced to recognize the existence of God through the pledge, and find a mandated moment of silence another christian oppression amongst other things. Separation of Church and STATE!

Lets see. What parts of this rant is true?

"I'm an Atheist who finds all of this religion people's argument that their rights are getting infringed every time their religion falls into minor dark light horribly wrong."

Way to go. If only we had more people like you to yell and scream at people then we could have a civil conversation about this topic. Way to represent atheism.

Thank you so much for making this thread alive again.. Really you deserve a medal...

For the record as an Atheist, I cannot hold office in 8 states in the USA

Lie. Any law like that would've been taken down years ago.

am forced to recognize the existence of God through the pledge

Pledge isn't mandatory.

and find a mandated moment of silence

It's not for prayer. It's usually added as a moment of respect to those who've died in disasters, you impatient asshole.

" Don't you believe in the resurrection?"

"Of Jesus, yeah, not this thread though. "

You poor, doomed soul. Only those who believe in the resurrection of this thread will be granted eternal paradise in the afterlife. Jesus has nothing to do with it. This thread is your only true saviour. The Thread of Threads. In this thread's title, I pray for you. Repent and beg this thread for forgiveness, and your typos will be forgiven. But the only way is to beg *this thread* for forgiveness. No other thread (or random person from 2000 years ago) will be able to save you.

To quote a movie I recently saw

Edward Bloom (senior): You're lucky to get four words out of them in English, but if you were to walk through the jungle, you'd hear them speakin' the most elaborate French. Those parrots talk about everything. Politics, movies, fashion. Everything but religion.

William Bloom: Why not religion, Dad?

Edward Bloom (senior): It's rude to talk about religion. You never know who you're gonna offend.

(Big Fish if you were curious)

That is the OT forums in general, then this thread. Its rude to talk about it, everyone has their own beliefs, something my own father told me when I asked him about religion was "Who knows what religion is right or wrong, for all we know some small tribe in the middle of Australia has the right one."

Take it how it is. Nothing more nothing less.

"Edward Bloom (senior): It's rude to talk about religion. You never know who you're gonna offend."

What a rude thing to say! I'm extremely offended by that comment! If we're not free to talk about religion, how are we going to make fun of all the ridiculous religions out there? If we can't make fun of all the ridiculous religions, then how will most people, who are religious by mere accident of birth-place/birth-family, know that the religion they rarely-if-ever felt safe enough to question their whole life is worthy of serious question and doubt? How will they learn that it's a good and healthy thing to have fun ridiculing the ridiculous?

Why, it's an insult to the very idea that people should be free to think for themselves and question everything; an idea which I hold in very high esteem, certainly as high as anyone who believes in a ridiculous religion holds their own religion in high esteem. I can barely express how offensive that comment is!

After all, everyone with a modicum of intellect knows that *this thread* is the only true religion thread. All other religion threads are mere shadows of this one. Your whole post must have been one huge typo. Repent! Beg this thread for forgiveness and in its ultimate wisdom and mercy it will forgive your typos, even such a big typo as your comment was. In this thread's title, I pray.

**Eats popcorn**

**Drinks soda**

Faggot you watched the movie? The book is 1000x better. Go to hell you uneducated twit. You ought to be ashamed of yourself. You're frying your brain looking at the telly all day. Jackass.

Faggot you watched the movie? The book is 1000x better. Go to hell you uneducated twit. You ought to be ashamed of yourself. You're frying your brain looking at the telly all day. Jackass/



No, I actually read the book first, then watched the movie for continuity, I'll also be assisting in the play about it in my town. Soooooooo yeah. The only uncultured swine here....would be well, you.

Wow you're so ignorant. You're offending me! Your just trying to trigger me at this point! I'm going to sue you over this! You racist asshole! You should know better than to call an Asian "swine".

#CheckYourPrivilege

#RespectMyOpinion

Des: I agree with Genghis! You should be executed, and your entire family brutally raped and murdered!!!!

By the way, The laws are still on the books, they just have been invalidated by the supreme court, which means if the term of office is short-enough, I may not actually act in office due to court order.

Actually, I'm just demanding the removal of the term god from the pledge, as people at school view me as unpatriotic for not saying it

I just find the fact that the moment of silence is legally enforced as over the top and ridiculous, I'm not allowed to for instance use that time to answer a homework question or read.

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The pledge of allegiance serves no purpose.

But the moment of silence is when we remember the dead, and offer them our thoughts and support for the things they did, the sacrifices they made.

Removing God from the pledge of allegiance would be great. Keeps the government from trying to molest religion in its push to have people throw themselves at recruiters. Still the pledge would just be you praying to the country, still creepy and Nazi-like.

Removing God from the pledge of allegiance would be great. Keeps the government from trying to molest religion in its push to have people throw themselves at recruiters.

Don't see why all religion needs to be removed. The American government was found as a Christian country, with Christian countries. Nice to respect some heritage.