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The Jews have fun too. They have festivals with lots of good food and laughter and dancing and the guys let their hair grow in those crazy curls on their head and they have hats. Very good hats. We have hats too.
Hats with cool names. We have miters and birettas and zuchettos (which means little pumpkin in Italian.) and I have a saturno made out of Norwegian beaver dont worry he died a natural death and one made out of straw.
Name one atheist hat. Just one. See you cant.
Longeneckers entire argument boils down to: Silly atheists. They care too much about being honest, no matter where it leads. We religious people rely on bullshit to keep ourselves happy.
But you know what? He's wrong! Atheists have awesome holey hats!
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)That they are really just mocking religion?
rug
(82,333 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)truebrit71
(20,805 posts)...the gnarly colander is simply an added bonus...
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)I thank the op for his honesty.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)I've pointed that out to you before. I don't believe, and I'm an ordained minister.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)I find it amusing and demeaning.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)The only alternative in this state is to become a circuit court judge.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)phil89
(1,043 posts)you believe an innocent person was tortured an murdered for your sins and you think that's ok... You have some very odd values.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)But yes FSM is a parody and can be seen as demeaning to people of faith.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)trotsky
(49,533 posts)struggle4progress
(118,334 posts)May 19, 2015 by Fr. Dwight Longenecker
... In religion you have curious things like happy little elephant gods or those holy water bottles with Mary and the crown unscrews at the top. I mean Hindus have festivals where they fly kites and light lanterns and douse each other with paint. They swim naked in the Ganges and say its something holy -- and are they wrong? ... Think of the Catholics. Especially the ones in Spain. They have that huge tomato fight every year and chase bulls around in the street ... Weve got snake handlers and people who speak in tongues and faith healers and televangelists. Thats all very interesting, and thats just the Protestants ... Have you ever seen the head of St Catherine of Siena? ... And weve got monks and nuns and St Simeon Stylites who sat on top of a pillar in the Syrian desert for 35 years ... Show me an atheist stylite. Show me just one who lives in a cave and eats locusts and throws himself into stinging nettles naked ...
It sounds to me like he doesn't take himself too seriously
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)struggle4progress
(118,334 posts)I share your perplexity at many of the indicated behaviors and read Longenecker also as sharing that perplexity
The difference lies here: while you seem content to notice people engage in what you call "stupid shit," Longenecker seems interested in people and in their behavior; when he pokes fun at them, he does so with a bit of subtlety and turns the humor back against himself and his own religious context as well -- because ultimately he feels a sympathy for them
okasha
(11,573 posts)Our A&A Puritans don't.
skepticscott
(13,029 posts)and AA can easily decide for themselves which group has a sense of humor, and which group takes themselves with comical seriousness.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)And i must admit i don't read AA as much as I used to so i can not speak to your group.
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)Unintentional comedy is the funniest of all.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)Do you literally stay on DU all day and night? I cannot remember the last time I made a response to one of your posts that you didn't immediately reply.
I know that you almost single-handedly keep DU running, but seriously man, you should take breaks occasionally.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)We can't all lead the exciting life you do.
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)You should try it.
YMMV
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Not a good thing to do.
Please rise above this.
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)Curious question: What do you do for a living?
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)Deflection speaks volumes.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)And my personal life remains none of your business.
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)Relax, Justin. It's just an anonymous message board.
To most, anyway.
YMMV
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)mr blur
(7,753 posts)Trading snide, laboured, self-congratulatory, unfunny one-liners with the other half of your comedy double act hardly qualifies as having a sense of humour, after all.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Your snark is rather legendary here.
Reading you guys' posts right here in Religion. As a whole, you're a dour bunch.
longship
(40,416 posts)And their exemplar, Tom Cruise. Lots of crazy in that guy, and L. Drunkard Hubbard.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)Serious hat.
Serious hat.
Seriously?
Response to trotsky (Original post)
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gcomeau
(5,764 posts)...like a 5 year old's argument for why kids are better than grown-ups?
"And we have Harry Potter, and Harry Potter's like super fun, and the stupid grown-ups don't believe he's real so they don't have as much fun as we do... and also they want us to do homework and go to school... so kids are better and grown-ups are wrong about everything!!!"
okasha
(11,573 posts)Learn to laugh a little. Your blood pressure will go down.
gcomeau
(5,764 posts)It's pretty damn obvious from the read that he also thinks he's making a legitimate point about religion bringing more value and enjoyment into the lives of believers and that that somehow lends religion greater legitimacy over dull boring atheism.
I laugh plenty, I just don't find stupid funny.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)okasha
(11,573 posts)You're welcome and i will pass on the thanks.
longship
(40,416 posts)As the Friendly Atheist said.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)So out of style. Religion is obviously for people with no fashion sense so they have to be told what to wear.
Beside, the Atheist thinking cap looks so good on anyone.... as long as it's authentic thinking.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Those hats really push the point that Girls Are Icky and don't deserve equal power and rights 'cuz they don't have schlongs.
rug
(82,333 posts)Cartoonist
(7,323 posts)before you had Xmas.
struggle4progress
(118,334 posts)http://www.patheos.com/blogs/standingonmyhead/hilarity-and-holiness