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Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 625 Joined: 12 Jul 2008     | |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1146 Joined: 27 Aug 2008     |
The way a lot of people practice their "atheism", it functions the same way as a religion, but wanting to spread your beliefs is not the salient characteristic of religion: believing whatever it is without proof, is. So, yeah, bribing people to say they believe or don't believe something = silly. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1341 Joined: 19 Jun 2008   | Is it me or have the atheist groups been more active lately? I'm seriously annoyed with them mostly because they have no balls. If they were serious about ridding the world of the concept of God, the they'd be setting up those same anti-God messages during Ramadan. But they don't. Anyway, yeah, this pizza thing is stupid. I mean, pizza's awesome and all but there are better ways of doing stuff like this. And it kinds of defeats the purpose of atheism. Atheists are against organized religion, so why are they having organized evangelical atheist parties? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1649 Joined: 26 Nov 2008    | If anyone is going to take pizza over religion, then they really weren't ready for it. It seems to be a hell of a lot more about fun than any actual spreading. And deliciousness. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1685 Joined: 7 Feb 2008    | Science is my religion. I'm also anti-stupid. And the hosts of that even fall into my stupid category. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 457 Joined: 22 Sep 2008  | Uh... Don't you think the event was supposed to be ironic? Oh, and just about every event on college campuses in the history of college has offered pizza as an incentive. I'm not surprised. |
On the Record  Posts: 6111 Joined: 25 Jan 2008    | So where do I get my free Pizza? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1416 Joined: 9 Jun 2008  |
Or booze, I'm surprised to hear this event didn't offer up some "blood of some French Grapes" to go along with their athiest Pizza. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1636 Joined: 21 Nov 2008  |
since when did this happen, i must be out of the loop. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1602 Joined: 13 Oct 2008   |
Agreed, and I'm an atheist. In all honesty, I could give two shits about religion, just so long as it doesn't govern the way I, or anyone else lives. If I wanted to live in a theocracy, I'd move to Saudi Arabia!!! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2275 Joined: 13 Sep 2007  | The Trinity is ridiculous, now mail me some pizza. I'm Agnostic, but that doesn't make the Trinity any less weird. And I'm hungry. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1649 Joined: 26 Nov 2008 |
Yeah, exactly. People are missing the point horribly. |
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Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 741 Joined: 4 Nov 2008 | Atheism AND pizza, well that sounds just wonderful, I wholeheartedly approve. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1636 Joined: 21 Nov 2008 |
its not about religion, its about PIZZA!!! |
BANNED  Posts: 4378 Joined: 21 Aug 2008    |
Is art film a religion if people who hold film festivals do it to spread their beliefs of what good film is? User was banned for: Microsoft and the World Domination of Gaming&Communication. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2768 Joined: 18 Sep 2007  | The Trinity is, in my opinion, one of those exercises in pure (ungrounded, save within its own canon) logic like the whole argument about the number of angels that could dance on the head of a pin. It's a concept with no external referents and no testable conclusions. I could argue that there's an imperceptable elephant standing behind you right now and back it up just as well as a theologist could back up the Trinity. If you want to believe it's real, that's fine by me; but it would take a bona fide miracle to convince me that it's more than a philosophical hamster wheel. Now, where's my pizza? -- Steve |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 609 Joined: 12 Sep 2008   |
Atheism is not a religion because it involves logical thinking, not jsut accpeting fairytales, and is not dogmatic. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1649 Joined: 26 Nov 2008 | You do understand that talking like that really, and I mean really hurts the Atheist cause, right? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2279 Joined: 16 Aug 2008   | Aww... I thought I was going to get a pizza :( |
Infamous Scribbler Posts: 625 Joined: 12 Jul 2008 |
The irony does not escape me, but that doesn't mean that I can't think that the idea is hilariously misguided. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 187 Joined: 19 Nov 2008   |
true atheism(lol) would be lying regardless of who was offering the pizza, after all being atheist "belief" just means zero, nothing, dark space, nada. it seems as if people have a hard time grasping the concept of nothing(no-thing) as in there is no santa, not negative santa but just_____santa |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2492 Joined: 18 Sep 2008     | Bah college students will do *anything* for pizza. And I mean anything. You should have seen the lesbian gay bisexual transgendered association pizza events... |
Infamous Scribbler Posts: 625 Joined: 12 Jul 2008 |
I would pay good money to see that. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1449 Joined: 26 Mar 2008  | Lol nearly as bad as the Conservative group at my college offering cake to people who come to there meetings. I didnt go. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2873 Joined: 25 Aug 2008 | You simple fools do not see the true wonders of Georgism and all it can offer you. But seriously this atheist stunt is making atheists look bad. Just how the nutty American evangelists spoil it for the other Christians. |
Press Junketeer Posts: 457 Joined: 22 Sep 2008 |
I have to say I disagree. Often times religious groups will offer food and other incentives to go to their group meetings. So, in essence, they're trying to get you to convert to a certain religion and luring you in with food. The fact that the atheist group is being upfront about it makes this even more painfully obvious. I can't imagine that they said to themselves, "Boy, I hope free pizza will make someone denounce their religion today!" They're pointing out the ridiculous nature of such meetings. That is the irony of the event. |
BANNED  Posts: 3780 Joined: 9 Sep 2008   | I'm an atheist-ish agnostic, but I wouldn't spread my beliefs as long as faith doesn't get in my way. Death is a terrible thing and if someone is truly not afraid of it because some myths or fairy tales, good for him. It's not like it matters anyway. User was banned for: We are all related? a odd little theory. (Permanent) |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 414 Joined: 11 May 2008     | It seems these Atheists are just Anti-Christians posing as Atheists. A real atheist shouldn't try to force people to 'deny the trinity for pizza'. They are just hate mongers trying to cause trouble. Its the same as the Christian Society at my University. They tried to get people to come to a 'question and answer' session with free donuts. Needless to say, many turned up for the donuts and left... My lack of religion is a result of my analysing each religion and realising the words and methods behind it do not work with my own moral beliefs, plus any 'questions' about life I have can be answered by science. I personally live my life by an evidence based systems (IE if A infers B and A occurs then B is true). I fear these people are making atheists look bad by trying to divide themselves away from society. They are trying to cause conflict where there need not be any. Atheists should try to get along with Christians and other religions as much as possible, because at the end of the day we are all human. Religion is made into a big issue when it doesn't need to be. And Atheism isn't a religion. It is the LACK of religion. It is going on something proved to exist rather than pure belief. If someone could prove without a doubt that god existed, I would obviously have to acknowledge them right, but since god is a being based soully on belief this is impossible. In the end though, it doesn't matter what you believe, provided you don't let your beliefs cloud your judgement. In the end, we are all born, live and die the same way. What happens inbetween is what really matters. |
Infamous Scribbler Posts: 625 Joined: 12 Jul 2008 |
I know, but I still think it's stupid. That's my opinion. It's the same as my refusal to appreciate most abstract art. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 378 Joined: 10 Jun 2008    | Every ontological flavor has its share of idiots who don't even understand the tenets of the banner they are rallying under. It's the rallying that's important to them, you see. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1931 Joined: 9 Sep 2008    | The reason Atheism seems to be targeting Christians, whilst ignoring Muslims, Hindus, Snake Handlers and Pastafarians is that their parents were, for the most part, Christians of varying levels of faith. If teenagers didn't have that instinctive desire to rebel against their parents for the sake of, then Atheism would be for academics and philosophy students. |
BANNED  Posts: 12958 Joined: 30 Jan 2008 |
Thats different - Atheism isn't a belief, its a lack of a belief. Its more akin to people with no culture or taste getting together to celebrate that. User was banned for: Poll: What is your opinion on the Metal Gear Solid storylines?. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2693 Joined: 6 Jun 2008  |
So could many Christian Protestants as most Protestant faiths renounce the idea of a Trinity. It leads to many holes in their belief but it's religion, it doesn't have to make sense. Like River Tam said, the Bible is broken. |
Muckraker  Posts: 304 Joined: 18 Jul 2008  |
Also, this is going on in America. Where most of the religious community is Christian/Catholic. The idea is to target the most people at once. Sweden and England are also growing in anti-Christian atheism because those areas have Christianity as the dominant higher power. |
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This is not a topic for discussion on religion, I just wanted to share with you guys an event that I thought was hilarious.
Recently, the college's resident atheist group hosted a free pizza party for anyone who would deny the Christian Trinity.
Some observations:
1) Any Buddhist, Muslim, Jew...ANYONE who is not a Christian could get that free pizza and not violate their own beliefs.
2) The event targeted Christians. If the guys who put this whole thing together had any balls, they would have included Muslims and Jews in this event.
3) If Atheism isn't a religion, why the hell are these guys trying to spread their beliefs?
4) It's ineffective. I could just as easily offer free pizza to atheists who will say that they believe in God, but that wouldn't mean they had a change of faith.
5) It's a great idea! We Christians should've tried offering free pizza instead of burnings at the stake. We could have conquered the world with food!