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And what is left, when you take away the godless heathens, are orthodox people who can actually think and whose religion isn't opposed to rationality and science at every turn.

We godless heathens dominate the internet. They're walking into a battle they cannot win.

*Maniacal laughter*

good church going people who would rather vote Democrat than see anything with a little adult content

Come on, at least get your stereotypes straight! It's good church-going Republicans who want to burn the vile pornographers and fornicators at the stake to please Jesus Christ Our Lord And Savior. Democrats hate porn because they're all secret Muslims who are paving the way for President Hussein's upcoming declaration of sharia law ... or because they're under the thrall of the Godless man-hating hairy-legged feminists, I can never remember which.

The dinosaurs were obviously devout Christians, with a few strays here and there. That 'small pocket' of dino-heathens died a sad, godless death after The Rapture.

What I am trying to say is that the analogy fails because it implies atheism requires inaction or no thought. At some point an atheist has concluded that the evidence for atheism is great enough to accept it as their current paradigm (or that all other evidence for contrary paradigms is weak enough).

The English word "Atheism" comes from a French word (of Greek origin). As a French guy (born and educated in France, but currently living in the United States), I do believe I know a little more French than you do (or even a little more Greek for that matter).

Atheism(e) means "without god" (or "godless"). There is no talk of proof, or evidence, it's not like one can prove a negative anyway. At least, "without god" is what it used to mean, and it still means that in France right now. And fine, I understand that language evolves, and language changes over time, especially in America or with English. That said, there is still a large section (if not most) of American atheists who still use that word in its original sense. So if you or your church are going to change the meaning of the English language, that's fine, feel free to call us anything you want, or explain it however you want. After all this is not France/French, it's not like you're going to have the language police, or some historical society, show up angrily on your doorsteps. So call us agnostics, no-gnostics, anti-god, infidels, assholes, idiots, or whatever... just don't expect all of us to agree to it (or use it on ourselves, although some of us may -- many of us just won't).

The editors are getting nostalgic for the good old days of the Red Menace.

I have to admit, life's just not as much fun any more without some pinkos to get riled up about. Venezuela is working on it, but it's just another two bit banana dictatorship like Cuba. There's nothing that says "screaming Communist hordes out to rape and enslave" or "godless heathen Juggernaut" like the Red Chinese.

Those Godless, meatball-eating bastards, corrupting our youth one condom-carrying Jezabel at a time!

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So, I guess what I'm saying at the end of the day is, kind Sir: FUCK YOU ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK YOU GODLESS MOTHRAFUCKER!

Watch it, dude, that's socialism! Don't you see? Your township is now on the slippery slope to becoming a pinko commune filled with evil godless heathens hell bent on destroying the American way of life! Soon enough, you'll be French, and then what'll you do??

Today people not agreeing with the idea of the Fed being all-powerful (i.e., Conservatives, Christians) are to be considered suspicious by the Homeland Security Dept.

No, I'm not making this up.

(But, since this is a godless crowd who blindly believes whatever science says without thinking, you'll never see this message.)

We were in a 7 rack server room about 20 feet by 12 feet. The AC unit had failed and the room was pushing 92 degrees. That wasn't the bad part. I was scripting some audit crap and my buddy was writing a web front end for the script about 2 weeks before Y2k. The AC guys needed parts and were waiting in there also. The DBA for some GODLESS reason decided to go get Taco Bell and a Dairy Queen dipped Cone. He ate the Taco Bell and the icecream. The SOB was lactose intolerant or something because between the TB and DQ the room smelled with a rotting stench that anyone "who has sat through an autopsy (twice here) on a dead guy who's refigeration unit was about 10 degrees too warm" could appreciate. Now any saine individual would have bolted for the door but as the DBA was cracking wind the AC guys had a ladder in front of the door while working in the dropdown ceiling. The room was boderline 100 degrees now and the worse possible thing happened. My buddy who was coding the web front end, couldn't take the smell anymore and threw up in the trash. Now at 100 degrees, Taco Bell stench, vomit stench, and the heat, I was starting to get dizzy.

After about an hour they (the AC guys) finally got the ladder out of the way and we hauled ass out of there. Took about an hour to get the room back to normal temp but I swear the DBA did that on purpose... the entire time that fat sob was laughing his stench ridden ass off...

I disagree. An argument based on hard numbers and evidence of present actions is much more sound than a nebulous hand-waving about potential threats that don't yet exist (as you admit here) and one which you haven't even accounted for external factors (as you admit in the next point).

It's not so long ago the threat was from the communists, the slogan was "better dead than red" and the real perceived problem with the communists was that they were "godless". A lot of my inlaws were killed by the Chinese during the cultural revolution. This isn't a "potential threat" that doesn't yet exist, this is something real that people of my generation lived through and that hasn't gone away yet. The most cursory examination of 20th century history would tell you that the problem isn't religion, the problem is blind ideology whatever flavour it comes in, and I'm no happier to be killed by a right- or left-wing extremist atheist than I am being killed by a religious fundamentalist.

No changes on amazon.co.uk, I can see all these "unranked" books just fine in their ranking system. Not so for the amazon.com site. Maybe you've hit on the old "SEX=BAD" problem. Another example of this is Grand Theft Auto (steal cars and kill people, totally illegal) being fine for older kids; but when it's found that the main character can engage in a sex game with his lady friend (not illegal for older kids and necessary for the existence of life) the game is banned and then later released x-rated. Go figure.

I blame obese conservative wankers in suits who think that sex only exists on Sunday evenings through a hole in a sheet, when absolutely necessary, and between a married man and woman in their late 30s who don't actually know each other anymore. These are the people who's lawns are identical and for whom "different" is a virtue of the satanic and godless heathen who deserves to burn in hell for eternity. Lets just boycott these obese wankers.

In the mean time, good luck with your amazon.com campaign. My tip: order from the UK site. You'll have to wait a while longer for your books, but with the british pound worth less than a teaspoon full of gooseshit and falling you'll probably get a good deal :P

No, this is what religion means. You are using an argument that was popular in the McCarthy era when fighting the godless commies wasn't enough they insinuated that socialists revered Marx as like a God and worshiped Lenin in some perverse personality cult. Yes, some of the top people carrying out the orders in Russia worshiped Lenin but most of the country hated him but were afraid to speak their minds.

Socialism != Totalitarianism or Religion

My sister went to school there, and after two and a half semesters there she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer.

That's nothing. My grandad went to Lourdes and only six months later he got leukemia. I want to know when people are going to take a stand against the unshielded holy radiation that causes such damage to humans.

I'm posting this AC because I just know it's going to be marked troll, and you're going to post something like "she's dead now, you jackass" as though that's relevant to the debate. But if you read the Wikipedia article you linked to, several studies have found no evidence of any increase in death due to TMI, especially compelling with the observations that cancer deaths were highest in the area with lowest fallout, and that the area around TMI has high levels of radon and so high background radiation anyway.

Your sister may have died from cancer (I don't know) and that's certainly a tragedy. Nevertheless, this is not the fault of the nuclear industry, but one of those pieces of shit that happen depressingly regularly in this amoral, godless universe. As a someone who is an engineer or an allied trade (you respect engineers after all, so you must be one) you should know statistics well enough to accept that.

Is that 1g the whole way there? or is that assuming that you only hit max speed when you are half the trip away and must brake at -1g for the other half?

The latter. It's pretty pointless to fly by at >95%c.

Unless, of course, you're planning on ramming the inhabited planet to wipe out those godless bemmies....

Yeah, Christians all have a "common book". So what? Commodore is making sweeping generalizations about "religious types", claiming that "they" fear nudity and "they" claim the US is a godless nation. Then he claims that you can learn how "they" think by listening to the radio. Hmm......

>>>Do you have anything at all to base that on other than your assumptions about "religious types"?

20+ years of church.

They fear nudity.

Plus they claim the U.S. is a godless nation, and it's up to the Christians to take-over and demand a return to the morality of the Bible, including banning all forms of pornography or even just simple nudity (playboy, nudist beaches). You don't even need to attend church - just spend a few days listening to religious radio like WJTL.com or WDAC.com - research and learn how they truly think.

And what are you? You're a right-wing-know-nothing with a dumb name and a wife that would look at home in Nazi Germany guarding prisoners.

Oh be quiet you Godless backstabbing traitor to America. You should be happy that your liberal backstabbing friends have finally ruined the United States to pave the road to your socialist plots. Some day we will have you up against the wall for your perfidy, but until then, enjoy the ruin that you have created, you jap car driving traitor.

Next time, try praying your post onto slashdot instead of using your computer to do it. I believe then you'll notice the difference. Oh, and make sure you pray to all the gods, even the ones you don't believe in so you know what us godless people feel like.