by Karen on November 9, 2008
Or something like that. Claiming to be about the “anti-religion agenda” on the social sites Digg, Reddit and YouTube, all this article really does is provide evidence that atheists use social sites and that Digg seems to be dominated by atheists.
But, that’s the kind assessment. The unkind assessment is that it’s yet more “evidence” of the persecution suffered by Christians at the hands of atheists on Digg with the help of atheists on other sites.
For starters, what do those awful atheist Diggers do in service to the “anti-religion agenda”? They laugh at things like pictures of Jesus riding a dinosaur and make submissions about anti-atheist bigotry such as the one I wrote about last year and Elizabeth Dole’s recent anti-atheist ads front page news on Digg.
And for reasons that may be related to their quest to destroy religion these awful atheistic Diggers don’t appear to appreciate things they’re not interested in. Studies obviously need to be done in order to determine why this is so.
The one’s on YouTube may be worse though because there are 124,000 hits when you search for ‘atheist’ on the site. Some of these atheists may have even put up videos where they criticized Christianity. The horror!
And those ones on Reddit? They liked Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter and if wasn’t for them Vampire Jesus would’ve never made his debut on Digg much to the delight of those atheists that control Digg.
Scary, huh?
Of course, no article about evil, evil atheists would be complete without a “expert” on the ways of atheism.
“Just as religious people want to convert people to their perspective, atheist people want to convert people to their point of view,” Winston said. “The irony here is that atheism is a form of religion. You’re still in something.”
I suppose she deserves points for not explicitly using it as a slam on atheists as other of her kind are prone to do, but just the same. How many times can one say this and not realize the sheer ignorance of calling a disbelief a religion? Does she also agree that eating meat is a form of vegetarianism?
The only question left is, why is a article about atheists utilizing the Internet accompanied by a picture of a religious leader standing on some rocks taking a picture? I don’t know about you, but I kind of think it was such a ridiculous article, the poor person stuck having to pick a photo had a brain fart.
by Karen on October 27, 2008
Several years ago I used to participate in a few forums by atheists and allegedly for atheists. I don’t do that anymore. In fact, I kind of dislike them now and can’t spend more than a few minutes at a time on them.
Why?
The rape discussions started by theist men.
How many times do I, a woman and mother to a daughter, have to read a “sincere” post allegedly about objective morality where the curious theist always ask why he should refrain from raping women and girls, the latter of which he routinely disguises as “children”?
I know the majority of atheists are men, but unless you grew on a fucking tree somewhere you have a mother and Mr. Theist wants you to tell him why raping your mother is wrong. Hell, some of you even have daughters. Why in hell do you not consider having someone demand that you explain to him in objective terms (wouldn’t want to be called ‘sensitive’ now, would we?) why he shouldn’t rape her to be deeply disturbing and unacceptable???
And it’s not like these boards allow “sincere” discussions about specific crimes against other marginalized groups. I’ve tried posting such questions on the boards that allow discussions about the rape of women and girls. Not a one has went through unless you count being banned without comment as getting through.
So, what the fuck gives? Why is it okay to have “sincere” moral discussions about the rape of women and girls, but the height of impropriety to talk about committing violent crimes against non-women (aka: men)?
It makes me just want to start punching shit.
by Karen on October 4, 2008
While standing in line waiting to check out earlier today I happened to notice that the family in front of me were in the midst of their second annual family reunion. They had it written on the back of their matching shirts. Just as I was about to go back to listening to some music one of the younger ones ran past me with an adult in hot pursuit.
That’s when I saw what was written on the front of the shirt. Right under a pair of praying hands was the sentence “the family that prays together stays together”. Now I’ve heard that sentence more than a few times over the years, but today was the first day I really paid attention to it. I was struck by exactly what is being implied towards us non-believers.
If we don’t pray not just as individuals, but with our families, we run the risk of seeing or causing the destruction of our families.
I suppose it’s meant as benign, but since most believers are taught from the cradle to the grave that we non-believers are one step from being axe-murderers, I’m not too sure. So, I looked up where the sentence came from and how the believers use it.
It seems to have started with a priest back in 1943 and is always used to to degenerate non-praying families and cast blame for anything that goes wrong in family life and society. It’s not benign IMHO.
The funny thing is, guess who’s more prone to divorce. Conservative Christians who also tend to be the ones who throw this sentence around.
A recent study by the Barna Group concluded that 34 percent of non-denominational conservative Christians are divorced as are 29 percent of Baptists. Other Christian groups weigh in around 20 to 25 percent.
To top matters off, one author has said that nearly 90 percent of divorces amongst conservative Christians happens after they’re “saved”.
On the other hands, we non-believers have the lowest percentage of divorces when compared to Christians and Jews. We weigh in at 21 percent.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have anything against divorce. I’m divorced from my first husband and frankly wish one of my sisters would leave that louse she’s shackled to. Divorce is not, IMHO, a bad thing by default. It can be the best thing to happen to some one or some couple.
What I have a problem with is being told in so many words that I’m doing something harmful to my family by not praying to a being I do not believe exists. That’s pretty offensive in my book.
I wonder what they’d think if we all started wearing shirts that say “the family that sleeps in different beds ends up sleeping in different houses”. Group sleeping is the thing to do in some parts.
