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NeoGreen

(4,031 posts)
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 08:06 AM Oct 2014

Meme of the Week - October 13th

Meme of the Week
Selected* from postings at Atheist Meme Base for the Week of October 7 to October 13, 2014.

1) No Magic Required


2) The Other is Satan


3) Einstein


4) 2 Pi R Squared



5) None of the Above/Other (please post example)

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No Magic Required
2 (50%)
The Other is Satan
0 (0%)
Einstein
2 (50%)
2 Pi R Squared
0 (0%)
Other
0 (0%)
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Meme of the Week - October 13th (Original Post) NeoGreen Oct 2014 OP
No magic required AlbertCat Oct 2014 #1
it also bears directly on why the "you can't prove god doesn't exist" argument Warren Stupidity Oct 2014 #6
Einstein set himself up Cartoonist Oct 2014 #2
they will always grasp at straws RussBLib Oct 2014 #3
I liked the Einstein one, but... LostOne4Ever Oct 2014 #4
I liked him too Gelliebeans Oct 2014 #8
A very difficult choice. Warren Stupidity Oct 2014 #5
I also choose "no magic" Curmudgeoness Oct 2014 #7
Also, I really like House. AlbertCat Oct 2014 #9
Oh no! Not terribly British. Curmudgeoness Oct 2014 #10
I voted for #1 EvolveOrConvolve Oct 2014 #11
 

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)
1. No magic required
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 09:37 AM
Oct 2014

I voted for the 1st one because I came to atheism through rejecting anything supernatural. (as opposed to, say, hating religion) Anything supernatural is just superfluous. Every single instance where god or something supernatural was assumed to be present has be debunked with science and common sense.

But the Einstein quote is also delicious. But since it had so many votes already...I went to the anti-supernatural.

 

Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)
6. it also bears directly on why the "you can't prove god doesn't exist" argument
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 01:01 PM
Oct 2014

is foolish or dishonest or both.

Cartoonist

(7,316 posts)
2. Einstein set himself up
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 10:33 AM
Oct 2014

when he said, “God does not play dice with the universe”.

Foolish people, like some in the other group, will claim that means he believes in God. How dare they call Albert a theist!

RussBLib

(9,013 posts)
3. they will always grasp at straws
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 11:11 AM
Oct 2014

...because straws are all they have. I think they see the writing on the wall but will kick and scream all the way to the dump.

I don't believe that I have ever "hated" religion. I do, however, don't well understand how those who traveled the same road as I have continue to believe. The evidence against faith in a deity is so great that it becomes a willfull ignorance.

I do harbor anger and vitriol at those who try to push their religion into places it does not belong, like government and public spaces. You want to believe in your fictitious God? Fine. Go to church. Pray in your closet like your ancient book tells you to do.

Gelliebeans

(5,043 posts)
8. I liked him too
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 04:22 PM
Oct 2014

Isn't that strange how people say there is no evolution and then they get a shot at the local Walgreens for a new strain of virus annually. Hmm. Boggles the mind.

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
7. I also choose "no magic"
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 04:03 PM
Oct 2014

because that is the whole reason that I moved away from a belief in any gods. Also, I really like House.

It was a hard choice though, since the others were excellent. I almost went with Einstein, except that I always had a problem with the weak responses he always had, using the term "personal God". That has always left the door open for people to say that he still believed in God as a creator or as the master of the universe.

 

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)
9. Also, I really like House.
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 08:07 PM
Oct 2014

You realize Hugh Laurie is terribly British.

You should see him in "Black Adder the Third"... the 3rd season of the hysterical Black Adder series.

He plays the Prince Regent... later George IV.

(He's in the middle)

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
10. Oh no! Not terribly British.
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 08:21 PM
Oct 2014

As opposed to delightfully British? Well, that does it, I can't like House anymore.

EvolveOrConvolve

(6,452 posts)
11. I voted for #1
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 07:47 PM
Oct 2014

Because Doctor House is my favorite TV character of all time (right above Archie Bunker). Gregory House is the shiznit yo.

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