Whatever happened to asking the cabin crew if they’ve ever seen a man naked?
This is standard fair from certain groups. I get emails from my in-laws with this sort of “inspirational story.” I’m sure they don’t even read it with a critical eye, they just forward whatever their Christian (meaning: good and trustworthy) friends send them. Someone out there is writing this crap, maybe the same person who writes all the inspirational stuff for Reader’s Digest, and it just gets passed around.
It works because a silly atheist, trying to crap all over everyone’s rainbow, is bested by a little girl. It isn’t even really worth hearing what the atheist has to say then, is it?
What size and shape is her poop?
Show of hands:
How many of you have sat next to someone on a plane who wanted to promote atheism?
How about someone trying to push their religion?
Might as well make a joke about a free spending Scotsman.
What a stupid little vignette.
What I hate is when those atheists come to your door on Saturday morning all dressed up nicely. Sometimes they have their kids in tow - you know, just to make you feel guilty or something.
Then they try to push their atheism on you and make you take those atheist tracts that are published by atheism international or something. And you can’t make them go away until you promise not to believe in any God or Gods. And there is a huge list of Gods you’re not allowed to believe in!
Even Eric Clapton?
I believe he’s #44 on the list, right between Susanoo-no-Mikoto and Alusi.
Did you know that atheists have to wake up at 5:00 each morning just to have enough time to list the Gods that they do not believe in before breakfast?
Can’t they just do that on Sundays?
No time. Do you know how many churches we have to not go to?
The “joke” sounds like something you’d get off Conservapedia. Comedy fail.
Glad to hear you say that. It certainly sounded like a joke that had been twisted to be a gotcha on atheists.
LOVE this!
They don’t even do it right, do they? I mean it’s obvious that the precocious, well read, and skeptical little girl is an atheist as well and she’s just tired of newbies running on about it. She also obviously knows the answer to the shit question. Although I’ll bet that the person who renovated the joke (and possibly the person who created it, as well) does not.
Given the title, I can’t believe I’m the first one to post this:
“An atheist was seated next to a little girl on an airplane and he turned to her and said, “Do you want to talk? Flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger.”
The little girl, who had just started to read her book, replied to the total stranger, “What would you want to talk about?”
" Oh, I don’t know,” said the atheist. “How about why there is no God, or no Heaven or Hell, or no life after death?” as he smiled smugly.
To which the little girl replies:
"I am tired of these motherfucking atheists on this motherfucking airplane!!!"
I heard it like this:
A priest was seated next to a little girl on an airplane and he turned to her and said, “Do you want to talk? Flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger.”
The little girl, who had just started to read her book, replied to the total stranger, “What would you want to talk about?”
" Oh, I don’t know," said the priest. “How about why there is a God, or Heaven and Hell, or life after death?” as he smiled smugly.
“OK,” she said. “Those could be interesting topics but let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff - grass. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, but a horse produces clumps. Why do you suppose that is?”
The priest, visibly surprised by the little girl’s intelligence, thinks about it and says, “Hmmm, I have no idea.” To which the little girl replies, “Do you really feel qualified to discuss why there is a God, or Heaven or Hell, or life after death, when you don’t know crap?” And then she went back to reading her book.
Say no more, say no more. A wink’s as good as a nod to a blind man.
and then some men who were REALLY religious took over the plane and flew it into the Pentagon.
Get that priest away from the little girl, quick!
No, it’s all right, she’s a girl.
I think the joke works equally well for either a know-it-all atheist or a know-it-all believer. The punchline is that neither actually knows it all.
Ugh. I went back to Facebook to see how the conversation was going. Of her Christian friends who have posted, a couple have said that the joke had a valid point and told me that “if you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.” One said that God loves everybody, even atheists, and seemed like a nice lady. An anti-theist posted insulting things about Christianity and seemed to think that I would be on his side. The friend who posted the thing in the first place “liked” all the Christian replies, whether they were ridiculous or not, and did not address any of mine.
Friend is unfriended.