Atheists: 9 Baptists: 0

[trof]

Four more Baptist churches burned in Alabama today.
I think it's a Vast Atheist Conspiricy.
Either that or it's the Methodists pissed off about something or other.
:sarcasm:

[Dave Reynolds]

1. Honest occifer,

I do not have any accelerants on my person.

[trof]

2. It really is kinda spooky.

ONLY Baptist churches.
Somebody's pissed about something.
The place is crawling with ATF and FBI.
After all, this is George's BASE!

[Dave Reynolds]

3. Who would dislike Baptists so much, I wonder.

Strange indeed.

[MountainLaurel]

18. Former Baptists?

People whose parents or spouses used the Bible as justification for beating them? People who were taught they were inferior because of their genitalia? People who still have panic attacks about the Rapture?

[Benfea]

27. I know a lot of former fundamentalist deconverts...

…and while they always seem to harbor an incredible amount of hostility towards their former religion, they gain their vindictive delight from engaging fundamentalists in debates, as they are intimately familiar with each and every logic hole.

[Benfea]

22. Pretty much any non-Baptist living in the South, I'd imagine

I lived in the South, and any time you brought up, say Catholicism, Baptists would inevitably call the pope "the Left Hand of Satan" or "the Voice of Satan." Their comments about other Christian sects weren't much nicer. I have to imagine there's only so much of that crap a religionist can listen to before going ballistic.

[DanCa]

23. Maybe it's someone who is chronically Ill?

And needs the medical research that the Baptist are against.? RE. Stem Cell Research?

[Benfea]

25. Ooooh, now there's another possibility

@$#% fundamentalists and their endless anti-science crusade.

[DanCa]

28. Well as someone who is sick

I can't drive past a fundamentalist church without getting angry. Hell if I believed in violence... I am shuddering at my own thoughts right now. Hmm the fundies believe in a eye for an eye don't they?
*Moves his wheel chair back and forth (for visual effect)*

[Benfea]

32. I don't make the distinction

When I pass a church I have no way of knowing what's going on inside, and I simply don't have the inclination to learn about all the different sects and who preaches what. When I drive past any church I get really angry.

[SofaKingLiberal]

4. Not anymore, eh?

[Dave Reynolds]

5. Well, if you want to get all technical,

this is an EMPTY gas can.

[Reverend_Smitty]

6. Were they black churches?

if so I smell the klan at work. If not, your guess is as good as mine but someone is pissed off at them

[trof]

8. Both flavors. Some black, some white.

Kind of an Equal Opportunity thang.
;-)

[Reverend_Smitty]

9. very strange indeed...

the vast atheist conspiracy is surely at work here!

[mzteris]

11. unless it's some preacher

trying to drum up business and hatred against the godless heathern (r intentional)

[trof]

7. "Authorities are looking for a dark colored SUV."

WKRG Channel 5 News (Mobile).
OK, I was wrong about the Vast Atheist Conspiricy.
It's a civil war between (among?) Bush** supporters.

Now...what is it the SUV clan has against the Baptists?
Inquiring minds want to know.

[XemaSab]

12. I knew the word "colored" would come into this somehow!

x(

[Benfea]

10. The fact that the fires are limited to one sect of one religion...

…suggests that this is not the work of atheists.

If atheists were doing it, the fires would be happening to as many sects of as many religions as possible. The fact that the fires are so targeted points at other Christians as suspects.

[RebelOne]

13. We atheists do not go around burning churches.

We could care less what you worship, just don't go shoving Jesus and god in our faces.

[realisticphish]

14. ah!

so you speak for all atheists everywhere, i see

edit: i'm not saying i think atheists did it, i just think it's a little extreme to just flat out say "we don't do things like that" and claim that as all the evidence needed

[Benfea]

24. Indeed

There is no dogma attached to atheism, no philosophy or way of looking at the world that we all agree on, so you can't really make sweeping statements like that about us.

[Benfea]

15. MOST atheists, yes...

…but if there's one thing you can say about atheists, it's that we're all very different from one another, and can only agree on one thing. You can't really make blanket statements about us except to point out that we don't believe in magic sky fairies.

Besides, the no true Scotsman logical fallacy is never a valid argument. The salient point here is that the attacks are limited to a particular sect.

[Arugula Latte]

16. But ... but ...

No magic sky fairy? ... :cry:

[njdemocrat106]

17. Actually, aren't fairies feminine?

And God is supposed is supposed to be asexual, no matter what the fundies say. (I have my own reasons for believing in a God. It's not something I suddenly decided on, either. It's something I did give much thought to.)

[Strong Atheist]

20. Lol! nt.

[Strong Atheist]

19. Actually, we don't agree on one thing. Go to R&T and check out

the debates between "weak" or "soft" atheists and "strong" or "hard" atheists about certainty...

[Benfea]

21. It's usually "strong" vs "weak"

And I'm well familiar with that very silly, useless and meaningless argument.

[Strong Atheist]

26. Ah. Well, the weak atheists seem to say (as I understand it)

that you can't be CERTAIN of ANYTHING, but especially whether or not
god(s) exist. This is what I always thought of as an agnostic position. :shrug:

People like me are certain.

[Shell Beau]

29. Whoever it is needs to be caught and stopped.

Burning any building is dangerous. And this is hurting many people whether or not you agree with their religion or not. This is not the way to go about it.


On edit, I am not implying that you think burning the building is okay. And on further edit, my bets would be that it isn't an atheist at all. But it IS obviously someone who has major issues with the Baptist religion.

[ghostsofgiants]

30. Yeah! Blame the atheists!

Those Godless bastards won't think twice about burning churches!

:eyes:

Remeber kids: Scapegoats and generalizations expose ignorance.

[Kellanved]

31. The Baptists just can't find the Atheist churches

The sneaky bastards hid them.