it ended yesterday. Now, I didn’t read every post in every thread, but I guess I must have missed the SDMB’s coterie of angry atheists making puerile jokes at the expense of the Muslim holiday. Surely you must have done so. Otherwise, I would have to conclude that you are just a clusterfuck of lapsed Xians who are still mad that your parents made you drop your cocks and grab your socks because it was time to go to church.
So, you abstained from your meds for 30 days?
When muslims ram their holidays/religion in my face as often as Christians do, you can be sure I’ll make a comment or 2. As long as they leave me alone, it’s all good.
Well that’s fucking bitter and angry at the world.
There were a lot of terrorist attacks during this Ramadan. Does that help you?
Now, I don’t read every post in every thread either, but I guess I must have missed the SDMB’s coterie of angry atheists making puerile jokes at the expense of religious holidays in general.
Yes, if somebody pops up proselytizing then a lot of Doper atheists make anti-religion remarks, but I don’t recall any “coterie” of atheists just gratuitously bashing Christmas or Easter or Rosh Hashanah or Passover or Diwali celebrations, etc., every time they roll around. Is this a thing?
*“And speaking of Ramadan… yes? You want to hear it? Speaking ― I’m just talking, I’ll give you a bigger Ramadan present, you’re going to be saying ‘Merry Ramadan’ again, Okay? You’re going to be able to say ‘Merry Ramadan.’
You know, you go to the stores, and they have the quarter-moons and they have the decorations made by Ed Mubarak, and they even have the oriental carpets, the whole thing. But they can’t say ‘Merry Ramadan.’ They say ‘Have a nice fast!’
I want them to say: ‘Merry Ramadan, everybody.’ They could say ‘Happy Easter’ or ‘Have a nice Spring’, or ’Ramadan Kareem’, but I like ‘Merry Ramadan.’ We’re going to say it again, folks. We are winning the War on Ramadan, it’s happening already.”*
Rush Limbaugh parody? (Cuz that’s the voice I heard it in.)
Sorry, I’m only a part-time atheist (because mostly I don’t think about it), but I like Christmas, and I greatly respect those committed to Ramadan, or Lent. Maybe I can do some mild scoffing next Michaelmas, if that helps?
Isn’t Ramadan the one where Mohammed flys around the world on his horse delivering 72 white raisins to all the good little martyrs?
Who hurt you in your butt, OP ?
Umm, I don’t really care about Ramadan. It doesn’t really affect me other than I have a cadre of co-workers who aren’t going to be having lunch with me. Christmas? Ehh, I still kind of like it, to be honest. Easter? I get those chocolate/coconut nests, so I ain’t bitchin, much*.
If any of these groups (or others) decided I needed to agree with them on public policy? Oh yeah, I’d tell them they were fools to their faces. I haven’t been to church other than for a funeral or someone else’s wedding since before I could drive, sugar pants. If you get me in there again without those circumstances, they’re going to have to be handing out free excellent weed and decent beer, and there’s a good band playing. No fairy stories that don’t include the previous libations as a requirement in all ceremonies will entice me to worship there.
Even then, it’s gonna have to have a really good backstory that differentiates itself from the silly so-and-so created the universe - so he’s awesome! stories. If he’s awesome, whatever created him must really be the tits! I’ll worship that as soon as you come up with a convincing story about that entity that also includes at least the previous sacraments, if you can include some good barbecue, it’ll be even more convincing.
BTW: I’m not into dietary restrictions. If you’ve got those, this whole discussion is over. Fuck off.
So, I basically didn’t make fun of Ramadan because I didn’t notice. If you want to skip lunch, that’s your business. If you’re butthurt because someone didn’t make fun of a particular religion, well I’d suppose you’d better start making fun of it, now shouldn’t you?
*Ok, they deleted the jellybeans. I don’t care that they never stuck and just rolled off. I feel cheated.
Nice, I’ll give it a 9/10. 
Sorry. My Muslamic Raygun is out for repairs.
Aside from that… I’m supposed to be angry about Christmas, now? Should I get mildly peeved about Easter, or should I be incandescent about Easter because it’s the more religious holiday, despite the pagan name? Of course, Christmas has even more pagan accretions, despite the Christian name; the Easter Bunny is Lutheran, whereas Christmas has a Yule log and mistletoe. What were we talking about again? Oh, yes: How atheists don’t know about religion because we have a morality centered around the Golden Rule, as opposed to thinking innate characteristics are somehow the subject of morality even though that’s logically incoherent and represents a gross misunderstanding of what morality even is. I mean, if someone were to imply that having attached earlobes was immoral, would you debate the morality of earlobe shapes? No! You’d think that person had a completely broken definition of “morality” for even imagining that ears could be immoral!
Now where were we? Oh, yes. My Muslamic Raygun got knocked out of calibration Tuesday last when I tried to heat up some rabbit and Pfalzer flung theses at me. Damn things gummed up the works but good.
90% of the posts have been how cool Bette Midler is, so yeah I guess we forgot Ramadan this time.
“Ed Mubarak” was a particularly nice touch.
Ed was the Welsh cousin. His dad was from Iraq some generations ago.
Yep, this. The only part of the holidays that regularly get dissed are the secular parts, like puerile Christmas music and how much earlier shopping season starts…
I think Ramadan is silly to the same extent that any secular or religious observance is. People choose to do things and to challenge themselves for so many reasons that to single out Ramadan for ridicule seems pointless. As long as what a person does is of their own volition and affects no-one but themselves then I really do not care.
The only interaction I’ve had with Ramadan was when asking a waiter in a Thai restaurant a few weeks ago about how busy it was. He explained that it was the last weekend evening before Ramadan and so many muslims were making the most of it. He said he was not looking forward to working with food all day when Ramadan started and I commiserated, especially as the food was particularly excellent.
I somehow forgot to call him a fucking religious idiot, I guess my atheist membership is revoked.
OP, when I grow up in an Islamic setting where clerics lie to me and rape my classmates then I’ll rip Islam when I grow up. Promise.