WHOOOOOOOOOOSSSSHHHHHHHH…
Methinks you need to adjust your Sarcas-O-Meter. 
Surely the “cross pen” bit should have set it off? 
Bollocks to that! Give 'em the Dakotas. Build a REALLY big fence. What’s with givin up prime costal real estate to these loons?
Should it? I can buy a Cross Pen in pretty much any office supply store. Why would or should a real brand name make me think “satire”?
In any event, it’s nearly impossible to satirize fundies since no matter how over the top you go, there’s a real fundie staring down at you from farther over the top.
Cool! I never knew us mackeral munchers were so exciting! Yippee! So could I assume then that they hate us?
They want everything. It will never be enough.
That part (at least) was right.
Uh huh, and hell has just frozen over too.
Tough shit. So long as these individuals call everyone else various names, turn about is fair play.
Maybe it was the lower-case “c”? Or maybe you just haven’t seen enough of Lib flinging “hand-stabber!” at atheists whenever they pollute his Weltanshauung.
Now, there I have to agree with you.
Hey hey hey! I sent you that check last week, it musta got lost in the mail! Are you sure you checked your mail? Are you sure you didn’t throw it away? Cause I swear I sent it!
“South Carolina” dosen’t want to secede, what it wants is not to have anybody else’s nutjobs, thanks so much. We have plenty of the homegrown sort. When the rest of you send your nuclear waste here the governor grandstands a bit and once stood in front of the trucks on the road. Maybe he’ll do that for the loonies too?
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I’m just surprised and glad they aren’t coming to Mississippi…
must be all of the darkies we have here.
As far as Libertarianism goes, Liberal, what’s the problem? I’ll even let the secceed if they want, and I’ll be willing to forgive their balance of payments to the federal government. It will be priceless, IMO.
Actually, though, in terms of population, Rhode Island isn’t the best choice, rest easy. Wyoming is the perfect choice. Don’t they have a population of around 300k? Supposedly 4 million fundies voted for Bush.
Oh, and the reason they aren’t satisfied is because they don’t have a complete Christian state. That’s the Republican’s problem. If Bush doesn’t turn America into a theocracy, or if his sucessor doen’t promise to go even further, they’ll be dissatisfied.
Please, not all of Texas!
How about just the area around Lubbuck? Wide open, undeveloped spaces.
We can even help them build a wall so they’re safe from the rest of Texas (the cities anyway).
No, can’t give them South Dakota. Way too much beautiful landscape, plus Mt. Rushmore and Crazy Horse are both there. Besides, haven’t we punished the Native Americans enough?
South Carolina?! SOUTH CAROLINA?!
Why would they want to move to South Carolina?
I would think they’d want to all move to someplace more religious. Perhaps the birthplace of their god? It’s not like anyone wants that land anyway.
Yeah, sorry for the whoosh…and I didn’t even think of the double meaning of “Cross Pen” till a few seconds after i hit submit!
That’s not what you really mean because if it were, you wouldn’t mind them calling you names (if indeed they do). I think what you really mean is that it is fair for you to call names, but not fair for them. No “turnabout” to it.
What, you want to match Christians with atheists or something? I’ll see your Eric Rudolph and raise you Josef Stalin. I’ll see your Dennis Malvasi and raise you Pol Pot. I’ll see your James Kopp, and raise you Mao Tse-Tung.
[…raking in the pot…]
Who are you and what did you do with gobear?!?
I’d put that loot back on the table if I were you. Stalin, Pol Pot and Mao Tse-Tung were all three atheists, true, but that’s not why they surpressed religion and killed its adherents; their political beliefs, paranoia and intolerance of dissent led them to that.
And, again, what support do you have for your assertion that American Atheists are violence-prone as a group?
I’m the same guy, but you just don’t get my position. I’m philosophically opposed to religion, all of it, and you will find me attacking belief in the supernatural. But at the same time, I don’t expect anyone else to live by my standards.
I recognize that each faith has its spectrum of adherents, from the spiritually transformed to the fundamentally obnoxious. I can respect the devout, even if I disagree with them, and judge them by their action, just as I woukld anyone else. I frequently go off on fundamentalists who insist on forcing other people to obey their rules, and that’s my chief problem with them. If they’d just keep their hateful beliefs in their church and off the ballot box, I’d leave them in peace.
Ot to put it another way, it ought to be understand that when I bitch about fundies, it ought to be understood that I’m not talking about Benedictine monks, or Egyptian Copts, or Minnesota Lutherans, or Nestorian anchorites. A condemnation of one set of beliefs held by a right-wing subset of the faith ought not to be read as an indictment of the whole of Christendom, and yet it often is.
I looked through all of their FAQs and I was suprised to find that “Are fucking kidding me?” was not one of them.
Yay, I converted one! Huzzah! But that Ayn Rand is a nutjob, so don’t really follow what she advises, 'mkay?
And Pascal was a weenie, since he figured that a tri-omni deity could have the wool pulled over his eyes by a rascally liar.
And the river in afterlife? A classical allusion to Brutus’s stated location.
As for everything else, despite what the righties and lefties in the States may believe, the election wasn’t won because of moral values-- it was the same old War and Terror issues.
I often disagree with him, but Charles Krauthammer makes the argument well. (Registration for Washington Post required)
Mrs. Nott has reminded me that our fundie relations moved to North Carolina, not South Carolina. I’m quite relieved.