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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 12:58 PM
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There's a Bible Belt... Why not an Atheist Belt?
I mean... there are so MANY of us, right? I think we should have our own swath of the country, where you don't see a church on every corner.
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 12:59 PM
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1. Didntcha know?
It's in the north and California. :eyes: The blue states are were those dern liberal hethens live. (/sarcasm)
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MissB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 12:59 PM
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2. Oregon.
Most unchurched state in the Union, apparently.
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demnan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 01:01 PM
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3. We do, it's called the Internet
Edited on Thu Apr-21-05 01:02 PM by demnan
and this:



http://www.churchofreality.org/
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 01:04 PM
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4. Thanks for the link... I'll check it out.
:thumbsup:
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mr blur Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 01:05 PM
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5. We don't believe in them (nt)
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 01:17 PM
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6. You don't believe in what? Belts?
:shrug:
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mr blur Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 04:31 PM
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28. That's right,
if you have faith then your trousers will stay up.
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 01:20 PM
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7. How would they keep their pants up?
I mean, I've never seen an atheist wear a belt buckle.
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 01:28 PM
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8. I kinda like the Gospel one :)
if you take out the dove, the word, the crosses and the bible. :)
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TheMightyFavog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 03:04 PM
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19. Actually, that lookls to me like a book of sheet music, not a Bible...
End of Line.
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 04:18 PM
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26. You're absolutely correct... must have been a knee-jerk atheist reaction..
on my part. :D
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 01:30 PM
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9. You think those guys are religious,
where I've just been in India, there are so many temples. (They call them mandirs). There'll be a big one every few streets, and every single street will have one or two tiny little ones just big enough for a deity or two or maybe just some pictures. It's quite something. They're quite relaxed about it though; nobody ever beats you up about it.
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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 01:31 PM
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10. isn't that a bit insensitive
to the cuLtists and faux-reLigious here on DU?
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 01:32 PM
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11. Yes, I'm sorry, please forgive me...
what shall my penance be? :shrug:
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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 01:37 PM
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15. your pennance is
cLick this Link
http://www.democraticunderground.com/forums/rules.html
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 01:42 PM
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16. ROFLMFAO
:rofl:

:bounce:
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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 01:33 PM
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12. my back yard
:P
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 01:35 PM
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13. Dang... to think that I'm even farther away from such a refuge than before
but we're still getting married there... ;)
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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 01:35 PM
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14. WWWWOOOOOOHHHOOOOOO
:bounce:
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 01:46 PM
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17. It doesn't mean you get to watch anything you know...
Will Mrs. Matcom be there? :evilgrin: :bounce:
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u4ic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 02:51 PM
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18. Wouldn't that be north of the 49th?
Canuckistan?
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kwassa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 03:06 PM
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20. Atheists wear elastic waistbands, don't they?
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SOteric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 03:13 PM
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21. Tsk. There is.
2 Fingers of scotch, neat. :7
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progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 03:20 PM
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22. I dunno - but I don't want to have to meet in any ugly buildings
Some of those churchs are kinda dullsville.
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MountainLaurel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 03:39 PM
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23. Can I come?
I'm a nonprosletyzling, rarely practicing pagan engaged to an atheist. If I keep my eeevil pantheist ways to myself, can we move into the Atheist Belt?
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 03:44 PM
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24. How About Some Atheist Suspenders?
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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 04:10 PM
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25. We do - the coastal Northwest
Oregon and Washington have the highest percentages of atheists in the country. Which is just fine with me. :)
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 04:25 PM
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27. I was thinking today of starting Atheist Witnesses.
We'd go around knocking on Jehovah's Witnesses doors and try to talk them out of being JH's.
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 05:06 PM
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30. What a great idea! I can't count the number of proselytizers that have
come knocking at my door.
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mr blur Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 05:18 PM
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31. Can you imagine the "moral outrage"
there would be if we knocked on their doors and told them they believed in fairy tales and fantasy? Why, the very idea! Hassling people at home and cluttering up their doorsteps with Stepford Children just to tell them they're not going to hell? Outrageous!
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 04:53 PM
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29. Some of us prefer to think of "The Bible Belt" as
The Booble Belt.
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