# Atheist, we need a slogan. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 4, 2008, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheist-we-need-a-slogan/443989 "2008-04-04T21:59:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheist-we-need-a-slogan/443989/41 "2008-04-05T04:45:01Z")
[QUOTE=Revenant Threshold] Atheists: The Other White Meat. [/QUOTE] Better: God, the Other White Meat! In No One We Trust! What’s God Got to Do With It? What’s God but a Second Hand Emotion? I’ll Buy God AND Your FLorida Swampland! ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheist-we-need-a-slogan/443989/42 "2008-04-05T05:02:52Z")
Most of us aren’t assholes, despite how it may seem This life is all we have, so live it well ---
**Author:** ![TimeWinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@TimeWinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeWinder)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheist-we-need-a-slogan/443989/43 "2008-04-05T05:08:08Z")
[QUOTE=SSG Schwartz] Could we get Jon Denver to sing that… [/QUOTE] If so, everyone in this thread is in serious trouble. He (Mr. Denver) has been dead for a decade or so. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheist-we-need-a-slogan/443989/44 "2008-04-05T05:16:26Z")
[QUOTE=TimeWinder] If so, everyone in this thread is in serious trouble. He (Mr. Denver) has been dead for a decade or so. [/QUOTE] Nah, zombis are pretty easy to outrun and you can shoot 'em in the head! 😃 Ooooh! That reminds me of the best _Family Guy_ bit where Peter says, “Christmas is that magical time of year where Jesus rises from the dead to feast on the flesh of the living.” Put _that_ on a T-shirt! ---
**Author:** ![NightRabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@NightRabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NightRabbit)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheist-we-need-a-slogan/443989/45 "2008-04-05T05:47:56Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] Darwin 3:16 [/QUOTE] Haha! I like this one best! ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheist-we-need-a-slogan/443989/46 "2008-04-05T05:51:45Z")
I personally like the “I Just Believe In One Fewer God Than You” approach, but for one point. One of my coworkers is a Buddhist 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheist-we-need-a-slogan/443989/47 "2008-04-05T06:21:44Z")
[QUOTE=TimeWinder] Back: “At _least_ 5999 of them must, logically, be wrong.” [/QUOTE] Not to go all GD here, but is this really logically sound? I mean, I’m not arguing that we’re in one of those fictional worlds where every pantheon actually existed and the ones that aren’t worshiped anymore are in some cosmic retirement home - I’m just not sure that this is a logically supported conclusion. I mean, at the LEAST, out of 6000 religions, there must be at least a hundred or so where you don’t suffer any negative effects if you don’t believe, rendering that point of the argument moot. (Yeah, yeah, then there’s no point in believing in them, but that’s not the issue at hand.) All the more reason to use the shortened version **olivesmarch4th** proposed. ---
**Author:** ![TimeWinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@TimeWinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeWinder)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheist-we-need-a-slogan/443989/48 "2008-04-05T07:56:13Z")
[QUOTE=Leaper] Not to go all GD here, but is this really logically sound? … I mean, at the LEAST, out of 6000 religions, there must be at least a hundred or so where you don’t suffer any negative effects if you don’t believe, rendering that point of the argument moot. (Yeah, yeah, then there’s no point in believing in them, but that’s not the issue at hand.) … [/QUOTE] Yes, I think it is logically sound, because of what the shortened version removes. The even longer version is in how that particular source quantified a religion. I can’t find it now for an exact quote, but it was more or less: - A system of beliefs about the supernatural, held by at least 100 people, whose particulars differ from all other belief systems in at least one (contradictory) way.\* It’s possible I’m adding the word “contradictory” from memory, but regardless, it seems as good a way as any to “count” religions. Christianity probably forms several hundred religions by that criteria, but that’s OK: little quibbles about whether or not God can forgive certain sins, the existence of hell or purgatory, and exactly which neighbors aren’t included in “love thy neighbors” I think are sufficiently important to mandate their own count for this purpose (the original source counted about 6000 extant religions, and a few thousand more extinct ones). As apology for the sidetrack, allow me to offer: “Athier than the rest of you.” (And I like the shortened version, too). ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheist-we-need-a-slogan/443989/49 "2008-04-05T08:04:07Z")
[QUOTE=Mr. Excellent] Atheism: When come back, bring evidence. And pie. [/QUOTE] My favorite one so far! Edit: I forgot to add that I saw a pretty great shirt that wouldn’t fit perfectly in this thread, but it reminded me of it. It just had one word on the front in large print. Infidel. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheist-we-need-a-slogan/443989/50 "2008-04-05T08:07:35Z")
[QUOTE=LurkMeister] I’m missing something here… [/QUOTE] Obscure religious reference to an incident in an Old Testament story about Adam, Eve, the serpent and what’s commonly referred to as an “apple”. ---
**Author:** ![TimeWinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@TimeWinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeWinder)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheist-we-need-a-slogan/443989/51 "2008-04-05T08:08:17Z")
(Missed edit): And I agree that the “pick carefully” message doesn’t apply to all of them (most, in fact, probably don’t have a penalizing afterlife) – just that at most one of them can be _true._ ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheist-we-need-a-slogan/443989/52 "2008-04-05T08:09:52Z")
[QUOTE=TimeWinder] (Missed edit): And I agree that the “pick carefully” message doesn’t apply to all of them (most, in fact, probably don’t have a penalizing afterlife) – just that at most one of them can be _true._ [/QUOTE] Yeah, can you imagine having to spend all eternity looking like a fool, just because you picked the wrong religion! Boy, won’t you be the laughing stock! ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheist-we-need-a-slogan/443989/53 "2008-04-05T09:04:35Z")
[QUOTE= Mr. Excellent] Atheism: When come back, bring evidence. And pie. [/QUOTE] I like that one ! “God Is Dead : Occam Cut His Throat.” “God Told Me The Atheists Are Right.” “Atheists : We Believe In One Less Stupid Thing.” “God Is Dead. So Of Course I’m An Atheist.” ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheist-we-need-a-slogan/443989/54 "2008-04-05T09:27:42Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] Darwin 3:16 [/QUOTE] I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheist-we-need-a-slogan/443989/55 "2008-04-05T09:44:16Z")
Religion - Giving people hope in a world torn apart by religion. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheist-we-need-a-slogan/443989/56 "2008-04-05T09:45:29Z")
[QUOTE=mr. jp] I don’t get it. [/QUOTE] It’s a play on [a sign common at US sporting events.](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_186.html) > [@Cecil Adams](#): > > Rollen’s original idea was that he would parlay this shtick into a job as a media pitchman, but his only big score was a role in a Budweiser commercial. Then he got religion. (Fittingly, he saw the light while watching a TV preacher.) He commenced to wearing and/or carrying “Jesus Saves” and “Repent” T-shirts, signs, and whatnot, hitting an average of two major televised events a week. Eventually he graduated to signs with scriptural references, such as John 3:16. (“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”) The theory is that you’ll start looking things up in the Bible to figure out what’s going on, and before you know it, you’ll have stumbled into a life of everlasting righteousness. ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheist-we-need-a-slogan/443989/57 "2008-04-05T12:05:09Z")
Atheist, heal thyself! ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheist-we-need-a-slogan/443989/58 "2008-04-05T12:34:48Z")
[QUOTE=Mosier] Edit: I forgot to add that I saw a pretty great shirt that wouldn’t fit perfectly in this thread, but it reminded me of it. It just had one word on the front in large print. Infidel. [/QUOTE] Unfortunately, a lot of American Christians who are belligerent Islamophobes wear this to show that they are not Muslims and ""what are you Muslims 6,000 miles away gonna do about it, huh? So that’s a problem with that. Darwin 3:16 could conceivably be funny if chapter three, verse 16 of Darwin’s writings said, “I don’t believe in God.” ---
**Author:** ![JustThinkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@JustThinkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustThinkin)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheist-we-need-a-slogan/443989/59 "2008-04-05T14:06:11Z")
I’m probably the only one that’d get this slogan. I pass a church sign every day and lately it says: Jesus is risen. Praise him. Every time I see it, I think: Jesus is risen. Punch him down. Y’know, like bread. Yup, it’s lame, but it makes me laugh. ---
**Author:** ![Martha\_Medea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@Martha\_Medea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martha_Medea)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheist-we-need-a-slogan/443989/60 "2008-04-05T14:22:41Z")
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