It's Ask an Atheist Day!

[beam me up scottie]

https://secularstudents.org/AaAday

Which one of the following previously asked questions taken from um, somewhere else is your favourite?:

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	Is New Atheism an anti-Muslim, white supremacy movement?
	1 (20%)
	What part of the Roman Empire do you want to resurrect?
	0 (0%)
	Why are fundamentalist/militant atheists so angry?
	0 (0%)
	Are atheists who criticize islam racists?
	0 (0%)
	Why are you alienating Democrats and costing us elections?
	1 (20%)
	Why do you believe religious people when they say their bad behaviour is motivated by religion?
	0 (0%)
	How does our botched understanding of 'science' ruin everything?
	1 (20%)
	Dakwinzomgwtfbbq?!?
	2 (40%)
	Why are you such an ignorant slut, bmus?
	0 (0%)
	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[Warpy]

1. Glad to cast the first stone, er, vote

I hear the same thing about feminism, demanding minimum wage increases, wanting civil rights to apply equally to everyone, and proposing taxes on all the rich pricks who have strip mined this economy so thoroughly that there is nothing left to pay all the people who create the wealth.

[beam me up scottie]

2. It's already started in GD.

Found a few snarky comments to feminists and glbt people today.

[bvf]

3. Genius poll, bmus. n/t.

[beam me up scottie]

4. Thanks!

Hope I didn't leave out anything important.

[LostOne4Ever]

5. The part of the Roman Empire that fed Christians to the lions 3:)

*For the inevitable alert from the humor less...this post was a work of humor

[beam me up scottie]

6. Ikr?

I was going to post that, but I'm not done rofling yet!

bmus, still lmao...

[Warren Stupidity]

10. It turns out that there were actually very few christians meals

for lions in the Roman Empire. Mostly they were tolerated, although there were a few periods of suppression.

[LostOne4Ever]

12. You are absolutely correct

[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]Not a single christian was fed to any lions in the Colosseum. It wasn't completed until after the Roman empire had become Christian.

If I recall correctly, and for those interested, the few that were sentenced to Damnatio ad bestias during those periods of suppression were mainly fed to the dogs in the Circus Maximus.[/font]

[Leontius]

27. You got your time period wrong

The Colosseum was begun by Vespasian and completed by Titus about 80 AD some three hundred years before the Empire became Christian. You are right about no record of Christians being fed to lions there.

[edgineered]

7. Could not resist going with the belief option here,

although the slut comment brought back horrible memories of how I once tried to explain the difference between a slut and a whore to two very close friends. You see, the strings from an early indoctrination to righteousness can leave permanent scars and are not easily corrected. The answer is neither, you are neither one bmus, and except for humor among your own friends gawd help anyone who says you are. During my moment of genius both friends were not believers in anything except my own bad behavior, and thus gracious enough to forgive.

[beam me up scottie]

19. Why thank you, edgineered.

I was never indoctrinated so I can't imagine how awful it must be to feel guilty because you're human.

My ex was raised to believe the good girl/bad girl bullshit. Good girls don't like sex, you have to "trick" them into doing it, and bad girls love doing the nasty but you can't respect them and you certainly don't want to marry one. He also grew up believing that he was going to hell.

Sorry, to me that's child abuse.

[edgineered]

41. Anyone who mentions going to heaven cements my desire not to go.

"I'm sorry, but my ideas of a perfect world don't have me catering to you" is the first place my thoughts go and it gets worse from there, like the present. And should the past become the topic, it's probably too late to run. A pair of custom fit jeebus shoes awaits you, head on down to the water and get yourself baptized. You are now ready to completely forgive your potential spouse's every misdeed and thought, so start asking about those deepest secrets, there's always one more hidden in there somewhere. The good and forgiving soul that you have become will wash those ugly sins away, you will forget all about them, say a prayer, and never mention them again. It's a blessing that works every time. Don't let evil sinners tell you otherwise.

In the real world though, you got through it with your sanity intact. I hope you didn't have to suffer very long.

[beam me up scottie]

42. Yeah, my ex mil really tried to get to me.

I wasn't an anti-theist until then.

Nothing cures you of religion faster than being subjected to true believers' "love".

Ugh.

[DetlefK]

8. "Why do you insist on explaining everything? Sometimes it's best to marvel without explanations!"

"You are killing the magic in the world! Won't somebody think of the children?"

[Arugula Latte]

18. When you 'splain stuff, you take away our argument that not everything can be explained

through natural evidence! That is mean! We like our supernaturalotherwaysofknowingwoomythologicalbullshitI'mdeeperthanyou superiority!

[beam me up scottie]

20. Scientific materialists!!11!

What's so great about reality anyway?

[Warren Stupidity]

9. Roman Empire!

'cause that way we could have "Gods that embody human traits", a cultural feature entirely lacking from western civ.

[beam me up scottie]

21. Don't forget conquest, slavery and supplanting indigenous cultures.

Damn those Romans!

Good thing christianity came along to save the world...

[mr blur]

13. "Dear atheist, how does it feel...

to have to put up with irrational, bigoted nonsense from arrogant, deluded, ignorant and just plain stupid believers?"

There's one you missed.

[beam me up scottie]

22. That's hitting a little too close to home.

I live in the bible belt, remember?

Our state just voted to make the bible the official state book.

[Curmudgeoness]

30. Oh my!

Do you live in Tennessee? I seem to remember hearing that they just made the Bible the state book of TN. My sister just moved to TN last year and wants me to move there too---fat chance. I am in an area that is Republican enough but there are Democrats here. No atheists that I can find, but you can't have everything. (You can't have anything in TN.)

[beam me up scottie]

38. Yeah, don't.

It's cheap as hell to live down here but it's a cultural wasteland. And the food, bleh.

There are a few islands of blue but they're few and far between. Most of the time it's like living behind enemy lines.

If I could I'd move north so fast it'd make Paula Deens big old head spin round like a deep fried twinkie on a stick.

[Curmudgeoness]

40. I know.

When I went to visit them last summer to see the new place (they moved from Houston and are now in BFE), I was worried about my bumper stickers. But nothing bad happened, and I was so excited to see a Democratic bumper sticker on a parked car when we went to the big city, Rogersville. They are living in the backwoods area in eastern TN....beautiful, but no way.

Come move here. It is pretty cheap to live here too.

[edhopper]

14. Can't you accept mysteries?

I translate that to; "Aren't there questions that don't need to be asked?"

[AlbertCat]

15. Can't you accept mysteries?

B-b-but isn't god supposed to be some kind of answer to mysteries?

If we just accepted mysteries....we still wouldn't have fire.

[trotsky]

16. Or, "What's wrong with having a religious belief and not being expected to back it up?"

Gee, I don't know.

[beam me up scottie]

23. Questions? Remember what happened to Adam and Eve?

Have you learned nothing from their mistake?

[edhopper]

24. I like sin

original and otherwise.

[beam me up scottie]

26. Me too.

Not being raised religious I could never understand why my friends' god didn't want them to do things that felt good.

[PassingFair]

17. Please, don't be too harsh.

Questioning does not come naturally to them.

[beam me up scottie]

25. Selective curiousity.

Religion demands perfect evidence from science but no evidence from itself.

[Curmudgeoness]

28. I had to give a little love to one of the options with no votes

but I was really really really tempted to give the other one with no votes some love, because I do wonder why you are such a slut.

[beam me up scottie]

33. Ah, you're so sweet!

I wonder if anybody got the SNL reference.

[Curmudgeoness]

34. I loved SNL back then.

That was when it was really funny.

Jane, you ignorant slut.

[beam me up scottie]

37. Dan, you pompous ass...

I was just a kid but my brothers and I never missed a show even though my parents made us watch it in the kitchen on the old black and white set.

Good times!

[Lordquinton]

43. I got the reference

but I forgot what it was a reference too. Thanks for refreshing my memory.

[Heddi]

29. oooh did someone touch a nerve???

Why are you so angry?

[beam me up scottie]

39. trotsky sure touched some yesterday.

My goodness gracious, all he did was post an interesting article to read, you'd think he impaled a wafer with a pitchfork or something.

[Heddi]

31. Have you ever read the book "Children of God?"

it's about a Jesuit priest who is part of an international crew visiting a newly-discovered planet. It deals with his crisis of faith and how he dealt with his doubt. Perhaps you've heard of it?

[beam me up scottie]

35. That one's on my list.

Big sci-fi fan, but only the hard stuff.

Too many woo woos out there trying to make a buck by peddling fantasy/romance as science fiction.

[mr blur]

44. Is that the book they're always talking about on Scooby Doo?

[Heddi]

32. Why do the billboards have to be so OFFENSIVE?

I mean, i can get behind the ones that are non-confrontational, but when you put a big ol' sign up along I-26 and it says "don't believe in god? you're not alone," I mean, that's just a big fork in the eye of believers. How terribly offensive that sign is. Why are atheists so often Anti-theists? Why can't the billboard be something nice and neutral and not even refer to religion at all?

[beam me up scottie]

36. I know, right?

Who do they think they're fooling?

Fucking atheists proselytizers.

[Promethean]

45. You left out a couple big ones.

Why do you hate god?

If there is no god why don't people just run around raping and killing each other?

[beam me up scottie]

46. Ah, see those are legitimate questions.

If the person asking them was sincere I would be happy to answer those.

My poll was focusing on questions from anti-atheist bigots who prefer the "When did you stop beating your wife?" variety.