Euphoric atheists

[ChurchOfGodBear]

Atheists: making the world look better, through bathroom graffiti.

 

[Creep3r]

I always knew Gervais was euphoric, but this kind of surprised me.

Really? We're talking about a guy who made a movie about his atheism, brings up religion regularly now as well as made this cringeworthy picture. But to be frank, as much as I find the guy to be a pretentious prick, I don't find his rather egotistical anti-religious views to be as bad or as edgy as those of his buddy Kathy Griffin, now that bitch is bitchy. The worst Gervais did at an awards ceremony was say he thanked God he was an atheist (which is sort of humorous in an ironic sort of way) although he was still rather smug all around, while Kathy outright mocks religion and religious people every chance she gets while doing her best to come off as an unlikable cunt, with one of her worst antics being at an award show which even made non-religious people look bad and her mother ashamed beyond reason. Oddly enough, both have worked together a lot on the Muppets for some reason...

But speaking of Gervais, he and Stephen Colbert had a religion-atheism debate recently.

I haven't seen it myself since I honestly don't like The Late Show with Colbert, and this is coming from someone like me who used to like the Colbert Report since it was actually entertaining unlike now where its just Colbert and his guests doing their best to act like asses.

 

[Chiang Kai-shek]

Found this on one of the regular sources of lulz.
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I always knew Gervais was euphoric, but this kind of surprised me.

"spreading reason is a noble past time," it's stuff like this that make people think atheism is a religion. Can't wait for them to create atheist churches for reasons.

 

[Creep3r]

"spreading reason is a noble past time," it's stuff like this that make people think atheism is a religion. Can't wait for them to create atheist churches for reasons.

They technically already have. Someone even posted some pics and info of them a few pages back.

There's also the whole "secular humanism" thing. Metalocalypse even parodied said groups once.

 

[sperginity]

SJWism (especially gender crap) filled the psychological void religion left in the atheism community. Started with atheism plus.


If they were more self aware they could have picked something worthwhile to embrace religiously. The atheist church option was widely criticized, I don't think it caught on.

 

[AnOminous]

SJWism (especially gender crap) filled the psychological void religion left in the atheism community. Started with atheism plus.

I think this is what sticks in people's craws most about euphorics. They act superior because they've shaken off the "delusions" of religion and then replace it with equally delusional shit.

 

[Slowboat to China]

Yeh, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Orthodox_Tewahedo_Church

Note that they are a pre-colonial church.

It gets better. Egypt was the first center of Christianity outside Israel, and solidly Christian until Muhammad rolled up. The Copts are still a thing, after all, and their liturgical language contains some of the only remaining fragments of ancient Egyptian.

(Mind you, I would argue that Egypt is part of the Middle-east rather than Africa proper, but "it's African so they were black" has been an argument for so long in Afrocentric circles that I feel comfortable using that logic here.)

 

[c-no]

Doug Tennapel, guy behind Earthworm Jim, makes some post about religion or science and a euphoric pops in.

"Reality is sad".
https://twitter.com/HughJasol2/status/1050057039391674368

"Christianity is like an absent dad".
https://twitter.com/HughJasol2/status/1050109191728353281

"We are all born atheist" and yet atheism is a taught behavior.
https://twitter.com/HughJasol2/status/1050130605722296320

"It's a ridiculous excuse" he says to a guy that believes religion is hardwired as a natural behavior.
https://twitter.com/HughJasol2/status/1050137350121111571

"You're a twisted person" he says because Tennapel made some joke to the abandoned dad comparison.
https://twitter.com/HughJasol2/status/1050130249491644416

 

[The Decimator]

Doug Tennapel, guy behind Earthworm Jim, makes some post about religion or science and a euphoric pops in.

"Reality is sad".
https://twitter.com/HughJasol2/status/1050057039391674368

"Christianity is like an absent dad".
https://twitter.com/HughJasol2/status/1050109191728353281

"We are all born atheist" and yet atheism is a taught behavior.
https://twitter.com/HughJasol2/status/1050130605722296320

"It's a ridiculous excuse" he says to a guy that believes religion is hardwired as a natural behavior.
https://twitter.com/HughJasol2/status/1050137350121111571

"You're a twisted person" he says because Tennapel made some joke to the abandoned dad comparison.
https://twitter.com/HughJasol2/status/1050130249491644416

That’s what I like about Doug. He isn’t afraid to deal with these faggots.

 

[Creep3r]

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Satan-considered-the-angel-of-music
https://www.quora.com/profile/Thomas-Dow
https://www.quora.com/In-mythology-who-is-the-god-of-music

No wonder fundamentalists religions are jealous of music and try to repress its power by linking it with Satan. It is a major rival and succeeds where religion fails.

Nice to see non-offensive questions on Quora being answered with such high levels of smug and sass while ignoring religion's own contributions to music... Even the music section on the site is full of euphoria even when looking up non-religious subjects. Or ask about gods of music and instead get why Christians were un-creative with their "musical deities" while Allah gets nice nods of approval or indifference. Why does Islam always get a pass from fedoras despite still doing things they hate other religions for doing hundreds of years ago? I get the whole "Muslims are brown you racist" but it feels like there's more to it than that. As if they like Islam for also hating the same religions they hate, as in "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" kind of mentality.

Edit:
https://www.quora.com/topic/Christianity
Its a euphoria gold mine. Who knew?

Because Muslims are uniquely at risk in the West, and Christians are not. Christians are perfectly capable of defending themselves. Nobody is getting tooled up and looking for Christians to kill. (Dylann Roof was looking for black people; the fact that they were Christians was incidental.)

The current Republican administration is extremely Islamophobic, and when you act like that, you give legitimacy to homicidal bigots.

That’s why.

Well there's my answer apparently. I guess its fine to let people become suicide bombers and do what they want because Muslims are defenseless and people are being too Islamophobic.

 

[ChurchOfGodBear]

Muslims are not capable of defending themselves?

What's the current death toll from the Iraqistan Wars again?

 

[Vorhtbame]

Christian god of music stuff

Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock. His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and pipe.

It's like they think we do something wrong in neither pretending Jubal was a deity, nor attributing his discovery to some supernatural being. Totally backwards to credit ordinary humans for things like this, I guess.

Not to mention how we hate music so much, we don't include it as an entire book of the Bible--one which these idiots love to quote to pretend Christianity is a nasty bloodthirsty religion about revenge.

And then there's this thing nobody's ever heard of, proving how much Christianity despises music:

But, y'know, facts and shit.

 

[BestUserName]

Gotta love the right-wing KiwiFarms Jesus freaks, who think that criminalizing adult consensual same-sex sexual activity is totally equivalent to saying mean things on-line. Maybe if you talk enough shit about atheists, it'll make all the gay people you drove to suicide rise from the grave like your savior?

 

[Muh_Soggy_Knee]

Gotta love the right-wing KiwiFarms Jesus freaks, who think that criminalizing adult consensual same-sex sexual activity is totally equivalent to saying mean things on-line. Maybe if you talk enough shit about atheists, it'll make all the gay people you drove to suicide rise from the grave like your savior?

Wow.

 

[c-no]

Gotta love the right-wing KiwiFarms Jesus freaks, who think that criminalizing adult consensual same-sex sexual activity is totally equivalent to saying mean things on-line. Maybe if you talk enough shit about atheists, it'll make all the gay people you drove to suicide rise from the grave like your savior?

But I can't be a homophobe, I want people to load my pumpkinhole.

 

[Chiang Kai-shek]

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Satan-considered-the-angel-of-music
https://www.quora.com/profile/Thomas-Dow
https://www.quora.com/In-mythology-who-is-the-god-of-music

Nice to see non-offensive questions on Quora being answered with such high levels of smug and sass while ignoring religion's own contributions to music... Even the music section on the site is full of euphoria even when looking up non-religious subjects. Or ask about gods of music and instead get why Christians were un-creative with their "musical deities" while Allah gets nice nods of approval or indifference. Why does Islam always get a pass from fedoras despite still doing things they hate other religions for doing hundreds of years ago? I get the whole "Muslims are brown you racist" but it feels like there's more to it than that. As if they like Islam for also hating the same religions they hate, as in "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" kind of mentality.

Edit:
https://www.quora.com/topic/Christianity
Its a euphoria gold mine. Who knew?

Well there's my answer apparently. I guess its fine to let people become suicide bombers and do what they want because Muslims are defenseless and people are being too Islamophobic.

I think it's because in textbooks (at least American ones) Islam is described as being tolerant of other religions, how despite keeping slaves for centuries longer than the west their slaves were treated better and somehow got paid, and islam gave women rights despite being forced to cover themselves up completely. Basically, while Christianity is enslaving people and shit, islam is just a lovey dovey peaceful religion (unless you're a hindu or some other polytheist religion in that case get fucked). Then there's the supposedly islamic golden age and how sweet the moors treated the jews. So it's the fact they've been taught that Islam is this peaceful tolerant religion while Christians have done nothing but evil apparently. Combine that with the fact they hardly dive deep into any religious text that isn't the bible and Islam is a dindu nuffin. That's my theory at least. (supposedly one islamic jurist said homosexuality is okay because he couldn't find homosexuality in the quran. I say supposedly because the Quran actually does mention homosexuals as being the sole reason Sodom and Gorrah got destroyed and not raping angels. That story sets off red flags for my bullshit detector.)

Also, isn't music technically haram in Islam? And didn't Christianity help lay the foundations for music? Gregorian and Bzyantine chants are things too.

 

[Adamska]

I think it's because in textbooks (at least American ones) Islam is described as being tolerant of other religions, how despite keeping slaves for centuries longer than the west their slaves were treated better and somehow got paid, and islam gave women rights despite being forced to cover themselves up completely. Basically, while Christianity is enslaving people and shit, islam is just a lovey dovey peaceful religion (unless you're a hindu or some other polytheist religion in that case get fucked). Then there's the supposedly islamic golden age and how sweet the moors treated the jews. So it's the fact they've been taught that Islam is this peaceful tolerant religion while Christians have done nothing but evil apparently. Combine that with the fact they hardly dive deep into any religious text that isn't the bible and Islam is a dindu nuffin. That's my theory at least. (supposedly one islamic jurist said homosexuality is okay because he couldn't find homosexuality in the quran. I say supposedly because the Quran actually does mention homosexuals as being the sole reason Sodom and Gorrah got destroyed and not raping angels. That story sets off red flags for my bullshit detector.)

Also, isn't music technically haram in Islam? And didn't Christianity help lay the foundations for music? Gregorian and Bzyantine chants are things too.

Honestly? Islam is not really talked about in school textbooks; a ton more effort is put into talking about the ancient cultures from around the world (6th grade) and then the history of the Americas, focusing on the US (8th grade). The only period in time it might get talked about as well as other medieval states (around 7th grade) is taken up more with lessons on how our government works, civics, and other themes like geography, movement, and so on. Add that in with literacy lessons getting chucked in thanks to Common Core, and you really don't talk about the Muslims that much.

Anyways, the tolerance thing probably came from very early on in their theology, where they came up with the idea of the dhimmi; the protected minority. The logic for it was that Christian and Jews, unlike those shitty pagans, at least on some level worship the same God. This is reinforced in scripture where they describe their books as earlier, incomplete variants of the full truth. Therefore they are afforded some protections due to this, but not full rights since they are non-believers. Peoples with some value to the Muslims often got dhimmi status pretty easily (Armenians and Greeks actually being great examples, with the former being skilled traders and the latter often used by the Ottomans as naval personel and merchant marine). There also was an Islamic Golden age, in that there were established houses of wisdom that revived and expanded on the Greco-Roman ideas, and integrated with what they took from Indo-Aryan findings (the earlier Golden Age of India). This started to fall apart when the Mu'tazila school fell apart, mainly due to being forced on the masses of peasants and in a stupidly harsh way. It got worse given the very contentious way that succession in most Islamic states were, and finally strangled when the Mongols did what they did best.

But that's not to say that it was progressive as hell; the Dhimmis were taxed like shit and back, and often were ignored in reality when massacred or persecuted. The Quran is also as flawed as the Bible, also containing horrid things like massacre, genocide, regressive law, and sex perversion. The current schools also are still very conservative and more akin to fundie Christianity than anything else, which results in bad things from the more militaristic and prone to being shit Muslims. So playing softball with Islam is pretty stupid on the euphoric's part.

 

[Positron]

Or ask about gods of music and instead get why Christians were un-creative with their "musical deities" while Allah gets nice nods of approval or indifference. Why does Islam always get a pass from fedoras

They don't know Islam is in general extremely restrictive about music do they?

 

[Trilby]

Honestly? Islam is not really talked about in school textbooks; a ton more effort is put into talking about the ancient cultures from around the world (6th grade) and then the history of the Americas, focusing on the US (8th grade). The only period in time it might get talked about as well as other medieval states (around 7th grade) is taken up more with lessons on how our government works, civics, and other themes like geography, movement, and so on. Add that in with literacy lessons getting chucked in thanks to Common Core, and you really don't talk about the Muslims that much.

In the pre-Common Core days, I was learning a good deal of American hsitory even before going into junior high. I recall it being world history during 7th and/or 8th grade, then having specific social studies classes in high school of different topics like current events, government or WWII.

 

[Kamiii]

These people make athiesm look fucking "retarded"