Such a heartwarming, touching tale of religious bigotry, shared at the 'Value Voters Summit'.

[AtheistCrusader]

I'm not sure which is more disgusting, her performance, or the fact she and her husband were invited to speak, or the crowd's reception.

I hope they are forced to pay every penny of that fine.

[trotsky]

1. There's also disgust from the fact that some here on DU...

level claims of "religious bigotry" against others for disagreeing with their religious beliefs and suggesting we should oppose them.

And Koresh forbid you propose that someone find a church which better matches their personal views!

[AtheistCrusader]

2. It's an interesting quandary.

How is one supposed to nitpick or disprove certain elements of an individual's religious faith, when your starting premise that you must accept to move forward, is that the magical, invisible, imaginary friend exists in the first place, to then proceed to work on 'what the imaginary friend actually said, or actually meant'.

It's like having to accept that invisible dragons exist, so that we can argue out what the invisible dragon's mating dance looks like.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

3. Then there's that invisible teapot.

It orbits the sun and we know it exists.

Bertrand Russell told me it exists, so it must be true!!

[NeoGreen]

4. I read about it in a book...

... so there you go!

Plus, it is my belief that the teapot is painted with a nice plaid,


but the plaid is more like:


And isn't some bland pasty white tea pot:


'cause, that would just be weird.

Oh, and because DAWKINSSS1, told me so....

[AtheistCrusader]

5. No sir, the tea pot has no lid. I'm afraid I'm going to have to put your heretic sect of teapotism

to the sword.


( :Sarcasm: for the jury)

[NeoGreen]

7. Oh YEAH, well...

...my teapot has a crazy naked dwarf hiding inside which pops up from beneath THE LID from time to time to shoot lasers-of-logic from out of its breasts at you infidels and kafirs!

So there you...piffle of a nincompoop!

(humor, for the droll (not drool or troll) impaired)

[trotsky]

8. You can't prove it has no lid!

What are you, some kind of rigid fundamentalist?

[AtheistCrusader]

9. No, I'm interpreting it the correct way. It's you people with your tea cozies, and tea infusers that

are the fundamentalist heathens.

[mr blur]

12. But if you use tea bags rather than leaf tea is it still, ipso fact, tea?

The Progressive Theaists would have us believe so, but those of us brought up in Britain, certainly, would take issue with this watering-down of our traditions.

[trotsky]

13. You Brits teabag with the best of 'em.

[mr blur]

15. True, but No True Brit would make a pot of tea with bags! (see what I did there?)

Or, for that matter, drink it out of a mug.

[trotsky]

17. I am sipping tea out of a mug right now.

That I made with BAGS.

But then, I am not British, so it's OK. I don't have to conform to your rigid stereotypes. You don't get to define me.

[opiate69]

18. Splitter!!!!!

http://m.

[mr blur]

19. Heretic!!1!

[trotsky]

20. LMAO! n/t

[DavidDvorkin]

14. Of course, Russell's point was that you can't prove it doesn't exist.

[mr blur]

6. Typical atheist, accusing them of bigotry just because they are bigots.

Don't you know that their god hates gays and they are forced to do whatever they think it says in the Magic Book (if, in fact, they've ever opened one)?

[rug]

10. GD thread.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025620712

[AtheistCrusader]

11. Sort of. But I cited the Pakman show, analysis, not just the VV video.

[Warren Stupidity]

16. what does this have to do with religion?

Plus:

DAKWINS!!1!!

[mr blur]

21. Good Lord!

You're such a Fundamentalist!