What to do if you meet an atheist:
Yep, I’m the one in the bathrobe. They must have had an amazing sketch artist to work from a photograph like that.
And I’m not sad all the time. Really. It’s just that, right as they knocked, I had been trying to put a contact lens in. The noise distracted me and I poked myself in the eye.
I’m so sorry
We don’t really think that most of the time..
The fact is, though.. most atheists (yourself excluded) I have met are extremely bitter (see: Matt in early ExMormon mode) when religion is mentioned.. and a kid who is sharing their faith could be shaken down by people like that.
Still, it is an offensive way to put it, and I’m not a big fan of “advanced witnessing techniques”.
Curious.. what church is that from?
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Not just atheists
Pretty much, anyone who’s left one religion for another may well exhibit tendencies to be bitter to the old religion. Case in point, Mr. Timpane’s opinion of the Catholic church. 🙂
Dude..
I don’t hate the catholic church.. they just are unwilling to really discuss theological problems and have left a bitter taste from my experiences. I know a LOT of awesome Catholics and a LOT of good churches.
I LOVE St. Bede’s for instance.
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Dude…
I never said “hate”. You did.
We were talking about “bitter.” Which you just corroborated by saying that the Catholic church left you with a bitter taste from your experiences.
Now while that’s a completely valid position to have, it also goes towards what I was originally saying before: that anyone leaving a religion, be it Mormons who become atheists or Catholics who become Protestants, are going to have a propensity towards bitterness.
Which is why the Grumpy Goat warning is so erroneous, because atheists certainly do not have the monopoly on bitterness.
Also, just as you point out that you’ve met a lot of awesome Catholics, I’ve met a lot of awesome atheists, who hold no grudge whatsoever against religion.
What makes me laugh…
The part that makes me laugh is the caption.
“Bah! I don’t believe in anything! I’m staying home on Sunday!”
I believe in a lot of things. And I don’t tend to stay home on Sundays. And that describes most of my irreligious friends, too.
As I put it some time ago,
The runway is my chapel. The wind is my prayer. The coffee is my sacrament. And for a few minutes at a time, I am at one with the gods.*
(*Like Einstein, just because I like the poetry of talking about God or gods doesn’t mean I believe in an anthropomorphic one.)
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Matthew P. Barnson
The church…
It was from a Christian webhosting service. The site has since been shut down. There were a lot of questions as to whether this was a hoax or not. I don’t care, either way it’s funny to me.
Your Angel in the Tree is still scary.
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Matthew P. Barnson
ANGELUS
I gave him some egg nog and he may have experienced perfect happiness.. wait.. what is that.. it.. erk..
sljkdhdgfkjfl (Me dying)
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Stop that!
Don’t you go bringing perfect joy to any vampire-with-a-soul in your neighborhood, now. Because knowing how you’re the star in your own life, you would live and be battered, bloody, and bruised but fundamentally intact while Kelly washed your bloody T-shirts, and friends around you suffer gouged-out eyes, broken necks, and suspicious bite-marks that land them in the hospital.
And those people might be someone I care about. Or even me. I don’t want to be the redshirt in your episode.
So take that eggnog away!
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Matthew P. Barnson