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sarcasmo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-29-09 06:37 PM
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12. Being Gay is not imaginary, your fictional god is imaginary not even close to compare the two.
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  -Seattle Atheists are starting a bus-ad campaign Are_grits_groceries  Mar-29-09 01:31 PM   #0 
  - Thats good!  rd_kent   Mar-29-09 02:27 PM   #1 
  - Kick back to the top. When ever my the fundie in laws want to bring up our fore fathers  sarcasmo   Mar-29-09 03:47 PM   #2 
  - OK - but keep your name-calling sneers regarding religion to yourself as well  Kalyke   Mar-29-09 06:34 PM   #10 
     - When it's thrown in my face at family functions I don't keep it to myself and this was a public post  sarcasmo   Mar-29-09 06:35 PM   #11 
        - The Jefferson quote is not the usual callousness that comes out  Kalyke   Mar-29-09 06:39 PM   #13 
           - Deal, but don't Generalize, all of us Atheist don't use one comment.  sarcasmo   Mar-29-09 06:41 PM   #14 
           - You just proved my point downthread.  Kalyke   Mar-29-09 06:43 PM   #17 
           - Nice broadbrush  Goblinmonger   Mar-29-09 06:59 PM   #21 
           - Oh cry me a fuckin' river  EvolveOrConvolve   Mar-29-09 08:49 PM   #30 
  - Bring some of those buses down here, please!  Pastiche423   Mar-29-09 04:51 PM   #3 
  - very nice, i don't see how those who believe in some higher being  JI7   Mar-29-09 04:55 PM   #4 
  - I have NO problem at all with quoting a Founder.  Hissyspit   Mar-29-09 04:58 PM   #5 
  - We need more of this.  Arugula Latte   Mar-29-09 05:09 PM   #6 
  - As a Christian I support this Ad and find it to be in good taste. n/t  Sanctified   Mar-29-09 05:26 PM   #7 
  - I have no problem with it, either  Lydia Leftcoast   Mar-30-09 10:36 AM   #64 
  - They had gone for years without meeting another atheist? In Seattle?  pnwmom   Mar-29-09 06:32 PM   #8 
  - I'm sure they have indeed met another atheist...  Fumesucker   Mar-29-09 09:32 PM   #35 
     - Maybe you just don't get into that kind of conversation. Young people around  pnwmom   Mar-29-09 10:24 PM   #36 
        - I doubt that my "here" is the same as your "here"..  Fumesucker   Mar-30-09 07:11 AM   #53 
           - They they must get a lot of "I don't go to a church" or "I'd rather hike on Sundays"  pnwmom   Mar-30-09 07:27 AM   #54 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Mar-29-09 06:33 PM   #9 
  - Being Gay is not imaginary, your fictional god is imaginary not even close to compare the two.  sarcasmo   Mar-29-09 06:37 PM   #12 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Mar-29-09 06:42 PM   #15 
     - Now your the one name calling not me.  sarcasmo   Mar-29-09 06:43 PM   #18 
     - I don't believe and you do, why don't you leave it at that?  sarcasmo   Mar-29-09 06:44 PM   #19 
     - You already called atheists (in a general phrase) 'fascists'  muriel_volestrangler   Mar-30-09 04:04 AM   #45 
  - Why is it fascist for me to say that your god is imaginary?  Goblinmonger   Mar-29-09 06:57 PM   #20 
  - There's a difference between saying "I don't believe in something" and "what you believe is false"  Matariki   Mar-29-09 07:04 PM   #22 
     - Considering that Christians like to tell people of other religions how false their religion is  Raineyb   Mar-29-09 08:17 PM   #27 
     - there's not a huge difference  hfojvt   Mar-29-09 08:29 PM   #28 
     - Would you be "tolerant" of someone who ran around claiming that the sky is pink?  Smith_3   Mar-30-09 05:06 AM   #48 
  - We might ---if we didn't have religion jammed down our throats ...  Catamount   Mar-29-09 07:49 PM   #24 
  - Where did you learn that?  hfojvt   Mar-29-09 08:37 PM   #29 
     - If you learn something  Catamount   Mar-30-09 12:36 AM   #43 
  - fuck that  Skittles   Mar-29-09 07:54 PM   #26 
  - It's not snarky to point out the obvious  EvolveOrConvolve   Mar-29-09 08:54 PM   #31 
  - Oh hush. I'm busy massacring Cambodians.  BlooInBloo   Mar-29-09 10:27 PM   #38 
  - why are some defensive christians so obnoxious? n/t  orleans   Mar-30-09 04:47 AM   #46 
  - Oh sure. Atheism per definition is anti-christian and therefore a violation of freedom of religion.  Smith_3   Mar-30-09 04:59 AM   #47 
  - I don't think facism means what you think it means.  varkam   Mar-30-09 06:46 AM   #51 
  - Go, Seattle atheists!!!! nt  Ladyhawk   Mar-29-09 06:42 PM   #16 
  - It's as annoying as fundies putting Jesus ads on public buses would be.  Matariki   Mar-29-09 07:09 PM   #23 
  - Religion is in the face of atheists daily.  Goblinmonger   Mar-29-09 09:29 PM   #34 
     - Yeah, it's as bad.  Matariki   Mar-29-09 10:40 PM   #39 
        - Then we agree on much.  Goblinmonger   Mar-30-09 08:10 AM   #56 
  - Finally---- someone speaking up for "thinking people"....  Catamount   Mar-29-09 07:52 PM   #25 
  - sounds more agnostic to me.  rucky   Mar-29-09 08:57 PM   #32 
  - Love it but get ready for the onslaught of Christian paranoia. They LOVE to feel persecuted.  liberalsince1968   Mar-29-09 09:25 PM   #33 
  - I've been here for 20 years. I never hid it.  BlooInBloo   Mar-29-09 10:27 PM   #37 
  - You're in Seattle?  Matariki   Mar-29-09 10:41 PM   #40 
  - Yuppers. Since 1979 (not inc. a 5-6 year grad school tour).  BlooInBloo   Mar-29-09 10:45 PM   #41 
  - Isn't it kind of hard to believe the statement in the OP  pnwmom   Mar-30-09 05:33 AM   #49 
     - The real world isn't like DU.  Goblinmonger   Mar-30-09 08:11 AM   #57 
     - Speaking as a Seattle atheist, no  TechBear_Seattle   Mar-30-09 08:46 AM   #61 
  - The first line of that quote would look good on a billboard as well:  IDemo   Mar-29-09 11:09 PM   #42 
  - My goodness people...  jmondine   Mar-30-09 01:03 AM   #44 
  - In other news, there's atheist money in Seattle for bus ads  crikkett   Mar-30-09 06:41 AM   #50 
  - Interesting that fundamentalist atheists have the same need to proselytize that xtians do.  Romulox   Mar-30-09 06:50 AM   #52 
  - Oh, Jesus.  Goblinmonger   Mar-30-09 08:13 AM   #58 
  - Has anyone ever given a coherent explanation for that one?  varkam   Mar-30-09 11:16 PM   #65 
  - How is quoting Thomas Jefferson an act of proselytizing?  cosmik debris   Mar-30-09 08:56 AM   #62 
  - Because proselytizing is distasteful, and since some regard this ad...  varkam   Mar-30-09 11:18 PM   #66 
  - "fundamentalist atheists" - WTF?  rd_kent   Mar-31-09 03:52 PM   #68 
  - Oh Lord, protect me from your followers.  Union Yes   Mar-30-09 08:09 AM   #55 
  - pssst  Goblinmonger   Mar-30-09 08:14 AM   #59 
  - I think an ad campaign with quotes from many different Founders would be great  TechBear_Seattle   Mar-30-09 08:37 AM   #60 
  - God dammit.  anonymous171   Mar-30-09 10:11 AM   #63 
  - My proposal: Atheists and Religous people stop putting ads on buses.  Evoman   Mar-31-09 12:36 AM   #67 
 

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