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Happy pagan sex holiday or whatever it was called before it was hijacked by Christians.

Happy egg-shaped chocolate day to all!

When I read things like this I am ashamed to be an agnostic myself. Atheist culture is going downstream alongside religion. Are we not called on to set a better example instead of sinking on the same level of hatred and intolerance? Depressing!

I think he's serious and there IS the problem with a lot of modern atheism rather than trying to seriously discuss the point of religious belief and discuss several issues, it prefers to just create memes and mock religion, just because religious people must be complete idiots that probably have no brains.

Even if they are natural science professors. Though myself, as a Catholic, I am ashamed that one of our most prominent politicians (though mostly because of that , he was luckily mostly mocked by both Catholics and atheists aside) for a few years was a biology professor who discussing evolution said that he is not a descendant of a monkey, but his human-being mother. Yes, a biologist rejecting evolutionism. I do wonder myself which flea market did he get his PhD in, but that's another matter.

There are several science (not just humanities, natural scientists) professors that are pious Catholic at that and somehow nobody tends to mock them on that basis in their community, some of them are in fact very much respected in the scientific community.

It's very, very sad that most of religion-atheism discussion, if it may be called so, resorts to "You're an idiot" and "You... you will go to hell" arguments without having anything sensible to say. There are social science professors (like Jurgen Habermas) which opt for religion and atheism to function alongside and I think that's a good thing, because I honestly think that this world needs both. I read an interview with a biologist, who tried to say that evolution as a concept disagrees with religion, which is bullshit, because Catholicism adopted evolutionism after a while and it's a huge part of modern theology.

But yeah, it's easier just to mock, rather than look into things. Modern Catholicism accepts a miracle only if it is assessed by a few scientific sources and even then, often underplays the potential miracle (case in point - the bread given to communion in a church somewhere in Poland accidentally fell on the floor of the church, by rule it's collected and no longer used in liturgy. It was put back in the box, a few weeks or months later it was opened, to notice that the napkin on which the bread is laid was completely red, given to scientists for assessment, it was, as per tests conducted by... 3 or 4 laboratories, found out to be human tissue. Nobody has access to that box at any time, so it is not known how did the bread end up featuring human tissue and human blood, but the Church of the area stays mum about it and it's still not accepted as a miracle, they don't want to accept it that easily), which would be easy food for thought (and actually the described incident which was only known until recently by the parish where it happened and religious faith and Mass attendance soared in the next few months). But so what it was assessed by 4 independent laboratories. It's still something to mock, because why not.

Also: chocolate is scientically proven to stimulate endorphines, hence me greatly preferring Allah laying chocolate eggs. (I would say Jesus, but he apparently prefers turning old bread in old meat, which sounds just yucky to me!).

Ishtar approves.

POTATO CHIPS!!!

allah snackbar

Admiral Allah Ackbar

Mmm, squid wrap.

Eh?? It's not already a prerequisite in Belgium?

Your case about humour about religion is a good one. For my part, I enjoy it, when I sense it's good natured at heart. When all I sense is scorn, tarring with the worst brushes, and a lack of understanding that one man's scribble is another man's moral philosophy (with no clear reason why both can't be happy), it's a bit disappointing. I'll still turn the other cheek, because I can't see a better way to disarm it. But the critique of faith-based living - whether in earnest or foolery - can be easily cheapened in the delivery. (And I sense you agree with this with your thoughts towards the end.)

I am surprised at the good Captain's response. If indeed he was serious, it's analogous to being ashamed of having a brain because people think bad thoughts! (Or a harmless, good-natured one this case.)

In fact, Stalin was an atheist!