# A christmas gift from us atheists to the religionists on the SDMB **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 29, 2012, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-gift-from-us-atheists-to-the-religionists-on-the-sdmb/642508 "2012-11-29T20:08:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-gift-from-us-atheists-to-the-religionists-on-the-sdmb/642508/1 "2012-11-29T20:08:49Z")
In the spirit of cooperation and understanding, we give you [_The Idiot Atheist_.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=673869) ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-gift-from-us-atheists-to-the-religionists-on-the-sdmb/642508/2 "2012-11-29T20:14:03Z")
And we didn’t get you anything! Actually I was going to present you a Christian idiot, but there were too many to choose from. Would you like a gift certificate? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-gift-from-us-atheists-to-the-religionists-on-the-sdmb/642508/3 "2012-11-29T20:15:54Z")
Hold on, am I expected to chip in for this? ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-gift-from-us-atheists-to-the-religionists-on-the-sdmb/642508/4 "2012-11-29T20:18:40Z")
… what’s he doing to my tree? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-gift-from-us-atheists-to-the-religionists-on-the-sdmb/642508/5 "2012-11-29T20:21:08Z")
I thought we had decided to go with the fruit basket. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-gift-from-us-atheists-to-the-religionists-on-the-sdmb/642508/6 "2012-11-29T20:27:03Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I thought we had decided to go with the fruit basket. We…um…sorta ate it last night on the way back from Costco. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-gift-from-us-atheists-to-the-religionists-on-the-sdmb/642508/7 "2012-11-29T20:31:45Z")
**Czarcasm** , you shouldn’t have! But is he still going to be alive by Boxing Day? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-gift-from-us-atheists-to-the-religionists-on-the-sdmb/642508/8 "2012-11-29T20:37:57Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > **Czarcasm** , you shouldn’t have! > > But is he still going to be alive by Boxing Day? ☹ At the rate he’s going, such a delicate flower might not last till Hanukkah, so enjoy him while you can. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-gift-from-us-atheists-to-the-religionists-on-the-sdmb/642508/9 "2012-11-29T20:52:07Z")
N/m Edit. God told me not to post that or else. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-gift-from-us-atheists-to-the-religionists-on-the-sdmb/642508/10 "2012-11-29T20:53:17Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > But is he still going to be alive by Boxing Day? Who’s fighting? What? ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-gift-from-us-atheists-to-the-religionists-on-the-sdmb/642508/11 "2012-11-29T21:05:58Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Hold on, am I expected to chip in for this? A chintzy gift like that? It comes out to something like 12 cents apiece. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-gift-from-us-atheists-to-the-religionists-on-the-sdmb/642508/12 "2012-11-29T21:29:09Z")
> [@Antinor01](#): > > A chintzy gift like that? It comes out to something like 12 cents apiece. Yeah, well, I still shoulda been asked. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-gift-from-us-atheists-to-the-religionists-on-the-sdmb/642508/13 "2012-11-29T21:31:34Z")
I read that thread, and clicked on the link he finally reluctantly provided which was going to prove who wrote the Bible, but lost interest when I saw the Great Wall of Text that popped up. Can someone skim through and summarize for me? Was it space aliens or the Illuminati? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-gift-from-us-atheists-to-the-religionists-on-the-sdmb/642508/14 "2012-11-29T21:40:11Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > I read that thread, and clicked on the link he finally reluctantly provided which was going to prove who wrote the Bible, but lost interest when I saw the Great Wall of Text that popped up. Can someone skim through and summarize for me? Was it space aliens or the Illuminati? It was_ **The Jews!** _ ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-gift-from-us-atheists-to-the-religionists-on-the-sdmb/642508/15 "2012-11-29T21:40:31Z")
Hey, he’s “just asking questions”! ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-gift-from-us-atheists-to-the-religionists-on-the-sdmb/642508/16 "2012-11-29T21:55:31Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Was it space aliens or the Illuminati? Never mind that. What was the _age_ of the space aliens? What _year_ did the Illuminati write it? I won’t be satisfied with superficial answers. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-gift-from-us-atheists-to-the-religionists-on-the-sdmb/642508/17 "2012-11-29T22:28:49Z")
> [@Antinor01](#): > > A chintzy gift like that? It comes out to something like 12 cents apiece. Hey, the check and stamp and envelope ain’t free, damn it. I mean goddamn it. I mean god did it. I meanHEY LOOK IT’S A GRAY-TUFTED GEEZER! ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-gift-from-us-atheists-to-the-religionists-on-the-sdmb/642508/18 "2012-11-29T22:46:21Z")
He’s an atheist now? I thought he was going to tell us God wrote the Bible. I think it was Francis Bacon. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-gift-from-us-atheists-to-the-religionists-on-the-sdmb/642508/19 "2012-11-29T23:10:36Z")
Hey could one of you assholes tell him that just because he’s a stocking stuffer, doesn’t mean he gets to walk around wearing nothing but a red sock on his wang. He’s tainting the nog. I mean, sheesh, if you’re gonna give a gift, make sure it’s not leaving short and curlies all over the furniture. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-gift-from-us-atheists-to-the-religionists-on-the-sdmb/642508/20 "2012-11-29T23:10:46Z")
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