Jim Inhofe is a dumbass

[Sampiro]

Has anybody else gotten the Ben Stein Christmas Confessionsemail this year? The first paragraphs actually are written by Ben Stein but when it got into the crap about Bill Graham’s daughter and Madeleine Murray O’Hare* I knew before even snopesing** it that Ben Stein, while I don’t like him and think he’s a whining dipwad, is way too smart to write this appendage (not to mention thatDr. Spock’s son did not kill himself***- that one’s been around at least since I was in high school).

*Why her so damned particular in all these emails? She’s been dead for years and was basically just an ornery old bitch for decades before that; there’s plenty of more powerful atheists.

**Do most people just not know about snopes or just not care? Pretty much everybody I know on first name basis is familiar with it.

***He had a grandson who committed suicide, but the grandson was a diagnosed schizophrenic, which regardless of the merits or lack of with Spock’s books has nothing to do with rearing.

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

@Ichbin_Dubist

I don’t know what I was expecting that symbol to be, but that wasn’t it. I would totally wear than on a silver sash over my unitard, though.

I think it should be a biohazard symbol.

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@Ichbin_Dubist

I don’t know what I was expecting that symbol to be, but that wasn’t it. I would totally wear than on a silver sash over my unitard, though.

Not a fan of that one, myself. I’d go with #32, the Humanist Emblem of Spirit. It’s more commonly known as the Happy Human.

[Rachellelogram]

@DianaG

IMO, people’s annoyance with Christianity in particular is entirely based on it’s practitioners’ ridiculous insistence on how persecuted they are.

So seriously, quit your bitching.

It’s the faith-based initiative of dick-measuring contests.

“My cross is bigger than yours!”

[John_Mace]

@Diogenes_the_Cynic

Look at number 16 on that list. It’s not a Darwin fish, but the point remains that an atheist marker is avaliable (not that a Darwin fish is necessarily atheist anyway).

I’m sure #23 is historically accurate, but it sure is Nazi-ish. Not that the Nazi’s invented the swastika…

We have a Christmas Parade where I live. Technically, it’s a Holiday Parade, but I don’t know anyone who calls it that. My Jewish friends call it the Christmas Parade, My Hindi friends call it that. I’m sure there are a few offenderati who insist on calling it the Holiday Parade, but there are a tiny minority. Fact is, Christmas is the sine qua non for the parade.

I don’t think there are any religious floats, although I’m sure the Catholic schools have their marching bands and stuff. Most of the floats are commercial in nature, and they may pay lip service to the secular aspects of Christmas, but basically it’s a day for the kids to have fun and for the adults to drink.

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@Darth_Hamsandwich

The evidence supporting the theory of evolution is too voluminous to ignore, so I’m in that camp.

C’mon, I may be delusional but I’m not fucking crazy.

Whoosh, I guess.

[wonky]

@Darth_Hamsandwich

The vitriol leveled at Christianity/Catholicism on these boards is unprecedented compared to other religions, IMHO. As atheists, why not bash them all equally?
Wasn’t there a thread not too long ago where the OP suggested a mass genocide of Christians/Catholics and how the world would greatly benefit from it? I can’t remember who that poster was.

I think this post is a prime example of people remembering or seeing special Christian persecution where it doesn’t exist. Why? Because the title of the thread was:

All religious people should be executed

The way I’m thinking this is that all of the religious people in the world should be executed. Now I’m aware that there are a lot of religious people in the world - probably the majority. So if the population of the world is 6 billion I would estimate that about maybe 5 billion of them have some sort of religious belief.

So they would be the ones for the chop.

[Fear_Itself]

Now if we can just come up with something for Inhofe to be insulted by on every other day of the year, he will stay home all the time.

[Brown_Eyed_Girl]

See, I’m an agnostic (probably leaning more towards atheism these days) who was raised in a Jewish/Christian non-observant household. To me there are two Christmases: the secular Christmas with its shopping, trees, lights, shopping, red + green decor, Santa Claus and his elves + reindeer, retail sales, candy canes and feasting, wish lists, Christmas movies and songs, and The Nutcracker; then there is the religious Christmas with its angels + trumpets, nativity scenes, Christmas Mass, butt-hurt Christians (some, thankfully, not all), church plays with kids playing Mary + Joseph (I played Mary one year at my aunt’s Baptist church), and glurgy songs.

I’m pretty sure that 99% of the time I hear the word Christmas, I’m thinking of the secular one. 99.998% of the time I say it, I’m talking about the secular one. That being said, I like Christmas and I wish people would stop making it such a big fuss over it. Really, where’s your holiday spirit?

[The_Tooth]

@Fear_Itself

Now if we can just come up with something for Inhofe to be insulted by on every other day of the year, he will stay home all the time.

I understand he’s not a big fan of science. Perhaps that can be of some use.

[user_hostile]

I started looking for the Muslim one (#98) and come to find it “Not shown because of copyrights.” Those crafty Muslims, I bet images of Muhammad are copyrighted, too!

#32 was modeled after Yuri Gagarin in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.

[joebuck20]

The Daily Show had a couple of funny bits about this last night.
I especially loved the Rankin-Bass style take on the “War on Christmas” with the characters voiced by the Daily Show staff.

It seemed that with all the Peace on Earth and Goodwill Towards Men, people just plum forgot to get offended by the petty bullshit that superficially divides us. That’s right…I said bullshit.

Comedy Central The Daily Show Fan Page

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@John_Mace

I’m sure #23 is historically accurate, but it sure is Nazi-ish. Not that the Nazi’s invented the swastika…

We have a Christmas Parade where I live. Technically, it’s a Holiday Parade, but I don’t know anyone who calls it that. My Jewish friends call it the Christmas Parade, My Hindi friends call it that. I’m sure there are a few offenderati who insist on calling it the Holiday Parade, but there are a tiny minority. Fact is, Christmas is the sine qua non for the parade.

The Hindu symbol offered is Om, but members of many sects would be more likely to request a swastika.

Oh, and Hindi is a language. Your friends are Hindu.

[Bryan_Ekers]

@Darth_Hamsandwich

Why is it that Catholicism gets bashed so fervently on these boards by the Doper atheists? I’d wager that if I did a search of threads that dealt with knocking down religion, Catholicism would far outnumber any other faith. Why not hate on all of them?

We can. We do. Christianity gets more press here because it represents the majority faith in the countries most of us live in, not because it’s inherently special or any less ignorant that other faiths or any more or less desereving of dismissal.

[Tinkertoy]

@John_Mace

basically it’s a day for the kids to have fun and for the adults to drink.

That’s the “reason for the season” I celebrate.

[Wheelz]

@joebuck20

The Daily Show had a couple of funny bits about this last night.
I especially loved the Rankin-Bass style take on the “War on Christmas” with the characters voiced by the Daily Show staff.

Was this the same episode with the clips of the organizer of the Tulsa parade on FOX News with Blonde Gretchen Whatserface? The poor guy sat there like a deer in the headlights while Blondie bullied and berated him.

And it would have been so easy to put the bitch in her place, too: “It’s called a ‘Holiday Parade,’ Gretchen, because the citizens of Tulsa celebrate more than one holiday in December. Christmas is a big part of the parade, and we invite everybody who wants to celebrate Christmas to come and do so with us. But if you can’t bear the thought of sharing a parade with Jews or Africans or Muslims and decide not to show up, I won’t lose any sleep over it.”

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@Wheelz

Was this the same episode with the clips of the organizer of the Tulsa parade on FOX News with Blonde Gretchen Whatserface? The poor guy sat there like a deer in the headlights while Blondie bullied and berated him.

And it would have been so easy to put the bitch in her place, too: “It’s called a ‘Holiday Parade,’ Gretchen, because the citizens of Tulsa celebrate more than one holiday in December. Christmas is a big part of the parade, and we invite everybody who wants to celebrate Christmas to come and do so with us. But if you can’t bear the thought of sharing a parade with Jews or Africans or Muslims and decide not to show up, I won’t lose any sleep over it.”

Yep, that’s the one.

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@Wheelz

And it would have been so easy to put the bitch in her place, too: “It’s called a ‘Holiday Parade,’ Gretchen, because the citizens of Tulsa celebrate more than one holiday in December. Christmas is a big part of the parade, and we invite everybody who wants to celebrate Christmas to come and do so with us. But if you can’t bear the thought of sharing a parade with Jews or Africans or Muslims and decide not to show up, I won’t lose any sleep over it.”

He did basically say that. He was also a lot more assertive in bits of the interview that TDS cut.

[Wheelz]

@Really_Not_All_That_Bright

He did basically say that. He was also a lot more assertive in bits of the interview that TDS cut.

Well, good, then.
The only FOX News I ever watch is in the form of *Daily Show *clips. I’d have expected Stewart would have been happy to show that part.

[Darth_Hamsandwich]

@joebuck20

Yep, that’s the one.

I celebrate Christmas and the birthing of Jesus Christ. When my high school banned our Christmas pageant there was a lot of outrage from the parents in the town. Silent Night could not be sung in the pageant as well as other songs that had ANY religious context. Why? The Dopers here have admitted that 80% of the American populace are Christians. Why fuck with it? Because Christians are happy with their ideals in America? Believe it or not, it’s not all about Santa and stockings by the fire. The celebration day itself may be/is fucked up, but the argument thrown down seems to be the same: “DON’T CALL IT CHRISTMAS”.. call it a HOLIDAY. No, I’m going to call it Christmas and everyone can feel free to celebrate as they want. I’m getting a warm a fuzzy feeling about the freedom of religion thing.

You don’t like that there might be a Christmas Parade?
Start your own parade. I will be a participant. I will celebrate it. The Darwin parade that someone mentioned upthread sounds magnificent.