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Re: These Are the Questions Bill O'Reilly Won't Answer

Servetus — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 10:53:37 -0000

You'll never find a dead religious republican in a military fox hole that didn't pray.

Re: These Are the Questions Bill O'Reilly Won't Answer

Servetus — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 10:52:27 -0000

You'll never find a Dead Religious Republican in fox hole that didn't pray.

Re: What's So Great About Portland? | Environment | AlterNet

Servetus — Fri, 27 May 2011 09:15:11 -0000

Could it be that Portland is a great city because they do not pray to a God for wisdom at their Public City Council meetings? Do they use their own thought processes and wisdom instead.

Re: John Carlson | Bigots or civil libertarians? - Bellevue Reporter

Servetus — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:54:14 -0000

Christiangrl, you remind me of the inept stubborn parent that fails dramatically in reasoning with their children yet expects them to beLIEve what they think just by saying: BECAUSE I SAID SO.

Well, I'm not your child and I require more from you than you just saying I'm ignorant. Give examples I can properly agree with or refute. We gave reasons for our position, how about taking our cue and reciprocating in turn.

Re: John Carlson | Bigots or civil libertarians? - Bellevue Reporter

Servetus — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:58:08 -0000

Excellent post Desertman50.

I like "You Go Yahweh, I'll Go Mine."

Re: John Carlson | Bigots or civil libertarians? - Bellevue Reporter

Servetus — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:56:36 -0000

DEAR BELLEVUE CHILDREN, When your parents tell you the truth about Santa one day, on that very day I want you to remember and ponder everything they also told you about Jesus and his daddy.

Re: John Carlson | Bigots or civil libertarians? - Bellevue Reporter

Servetus — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:58:17 -0000

Dear John,

I'm sorry you feel the way you do, perhaps, if you are so inclined to empathize with those who have been marginalized for 1000s of years and made to sit in the back of proverbial buses we now actually adorn with thoughtful signs, then you too would say your article lacked objectivity.

John, if I agreed with your article, we'd both be wrong. Your article was a one-sided bias slant with a pretense of defending the minds of children and written solely for you to gather agreement with your readers in an attempt to get us to shut up and go away.

First, you can be critical all you want, oh, you can deliberately ignore in your lack of mention that people of faith have been leading the way in disparaging atheists for years, and I've not read anywhere in the past nor in your article now of your disgust for such callousness. We atheists have had to put up with slanderous church marquee signs as we drive by them and read their offensive atheist statements for decades, we've had to put up with billboards telling us that we are going to burn in hell if we don't conform to John 3:16. Street preachers screaming in our ears about our depravity, and Salvation Army bell ringers begging for money for a god that claims to "own cattle on a thousand hills."

If you can take your eyes off of our bus board signs for just a week and drive around you might notice the blatant church marquee disdain heaped upon we atheists by the very people who claim to love their neighbors and enemies. We've sat and listened to recent US Presidents that declared "atheists are not Americans" and yet we fought in the wars that bolstered the very freedoms for those Commander In Chiefs to make such nonsensical mean spirited pronouncements.

If pious Christians can hatefully dish it out, they can take our humorous signs in stride sans you attempting to stir them up.

At this Winter Solstice time of giving and sharing, the Freedom From Religion Foundation's (FFRF) bus board signs were actually a gift given to 608 of the 14,000 FFRF members that came to Seattle for the 32nd Annual FFRF Convention. What a pleasant surprise and it was well received by all.

Your "homosexual" analogy was most very weak, if not silly. Apples and Oranges would be the appropriate phrase. You fail to see that our signs are apropos to the season and what homosexuality has to do with Christmas is beyond me. Seems you are reaching to find, rather, create an outrage that would match the one you wished for but is actually non-existent altogether. I do believe you are aware of the "straw man" syndrome for which you've just steep yourself in a bale of.

We don't live in the "Bible Belt" John, and then you gleefully yet shamefully write about a troubling "double-standard" in a society that is actually a haven for freedom of thoughts and ideas in an abundant Northwest atmosphere of inquiry.

Oh, lastly, We Wish You A Merry Mythmas, John, and a Happy New Year.

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Re: City May Add 'In God We Trust' To Logo - Orlando News Story - WKMG Orlando

Servetus — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:14:58 -0000

Where you christians go wrong is you don't ever question what you think. You don't question what your preacher tells you. You somehow have deluded yourselves into thinking your thinking is without question, the correct way to think. Do some research outside of your preachers influences and you'll discover more facts to set you on the path of a freethinker.

IT'S ABOUT THINKING! SOMETHING YOU WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND.

Re: Billboard of the Week: Imagine No Religion

Servetus — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:11:27 -0000

And Ed Myob, the co-president of FFRF, Dan Barker, is coming out with a new book titled : GODLESS.

You can pre-order it at Amazon.

"GODLESS" . . . How cool is that!?

Re: Billboard of the Week: Imagine No Religion

Servetus — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:36:41 -0000

I am thrilled! What a glorious day that would be when humans finally learn that religion is unnecessary. Imagine that.

It's time for Seattle's religious to know that other "Imagine" philosophies are viable and add meaning to an existence we didn't even ask. There are other viable ways to find happiness without all the dogma and fear mongering of punishment because we don't think and act like the religious do.