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Why I don't read the local newspaper. (Well, also, it's... Bloomington-Normal. Still.)
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What. The fuck.
Why not set up a gilded shrine to the Goddess of Reason clutching her offspring - Self? Around her position several bowing figures of famous atheists such as Nietzsche, Marx, Ingersoll, Russell, Huxley, Mao, O'Hare, Sagan, etc.
Our atheist friends could then make their own religious statement without dragging in Christianity which they detest anyway.
Man, I'm not even an atheist and seriously. What the fuck. I can hear the writer insisting that he was just trying to be nice, just trying to give some advice. I can hear it. "I don't know why atheists should be offended when I say that they're Communists, worship themselves, and universally hate Christianity! Everyone knows that's true!" I mean, I'm surprised there was no suggestion that if atheists aren't going to have moral codes, moral codes being the province of divinity, the least they could do is blah blah blah fuck you.
I'm not even an atheist. I'm agnostic! And I'm still pissed off! What am I supposed to do, build a gilded shrine to confusion? I mean, I really like mazes, but it doesn't seem terribly practical.
(To be fair, there are some atheists who do hate Christianity, like Dawkins, and there are magical traditions/religions that explicitly worship the self, like LaVeyan Satanism. But I can't imagine the Satanists getting along well with Dawkins, and I can't really blame them. He seems like kind of an ass.)
...ironically, I am going to church on Sunday for the first time ever (minus that one funeral) this week. But I'm going with Katie so she's not lonely, and it's Unitarian Universalist, so I know there will be superintelligent gerbils.
I should post about my classes, I guess. But basically everything's been going well, except I keep sucking at Karate and Weightlifting. Because I have them on the same days as all of my other classes.
But! I got my room mostly decluttered and semi-decorated, and I finished Feet of Clay, which was excellent. I'm not caught up on Discworld, I never am, but the books tend to hit me at just the right time to fully appreciate them. That and I get distracted by rereading Small Gods. Anyway, right now I'm halfway through The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, which has disappointing golems and alchemy -- well, I mean, next to Pratchett, anything is a little disappointing -- and kind of cardboard characters. But it works as mind-candy. Still, I'm missing my good YA. I need to dig out my Bruce Coville books next time I'm home, and I have to read all those Young Wizards books I missed when I was busy taking myself too seriously back in high school.
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What. The fuck.
Why not set up a gilded shrine to the Goddess of Reason clutching her offspring - Self? Around her position several bowing figures of famous atheists such as Nietzsche, Marx, Ingersoll, Russell, Huxley, Mao, O'Hare, Sagan, etc.
Our atheist friends could then make their own religious statement without dragging in Christianity which they detest anyway.
Man, I'm not even an atheist and seriously. What the fuck. I can hear the writer insisting that he was just trying to be nice, just trying to give some advice. I can hear it. "I don't know why atheists should be offended when I say that they're Communists, worship themselves, and universally hate Christianity! Everyone knows that's true!" I mean, I'm surprised there was no suggestion that if atheists aren't going to have moral codes, moral codes being the province of divinity, the least they could do is blah blah blah fuck you.
I'm not even an atheist. I'm agnostic! And I'm still pissed off! What am I supposed to do, build a gilded shrine to confusion? I mean, I really like mazes, but it doesn't seem terribly practical.
(To be fair, there are some atheists who do hate Christianity, like Dawkins, and there are magical traditions/religions that explicitly worship the self, like LaVeyan Satanism. But I can't imagine the Satanists getting along well with Dawkins, and I can't really blame them. He seems like kind of an ass.)
...ironically, I am going to church on Sunday for the first time ever (minus that one funeral) this week. But I'm going with Katie so she's not lonely, and it's Unitarian Universalist, so I know there will be superintelligent gerbils.
I should post about my classes, I guess. But basically everything's been going well, except I keep sucking at Karate and Weightlifting. Because I have them on the same days as all of my other classes.
But! I got my room mostly decluttered and semi-decorated, and I finished Feet of Clay, which was excellent. I'm not caught up on Discworld, I never am, but the books tend to hit me at just the right time to fully appreciate them. That and I get distracted by rereading Small Gods. Anyway, right now I'm halfway through The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, which has disappointing golems and alchemy -- well, I mean, next to Pratchett, anything is a little disappointing -- and kind of cardboard characters. But it works as mind-candy. Still, I'm missing my good YA. I need to dig out my Bruce Coville books next time I'm home, and I have to read all those Young Wizards books I missed when I was busy taking myself too seriously back in high school.