Religion is excellent stuff...

[NeoGreen]

http://www.askatheists.com/atheist-quotes

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike
Delos B. McKown

"If god doesn't like the way I live, Let him tell me, not you."
Unknown

I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence
Doug McLeod

You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend
Richard Jeni

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." (adapted)
Edward Gibbon

Every great truth begins as a blasphemy.
George Bernard Shaw

[John1956PA]

1. . .

[NeoGreen]

2. One of my favorites (nt)

[Cartoonist]

8. I kind of get it

It would make more sense if one side had rabbit banners. What I see is both sides have duck banners.

I suppose if you rotate one 90 degrees clockwise it kind of resembles a rabbit. Except for the thin neck.

[Lordquinton]

12. Your duck God is going down

You will submit to the rabbit Lord!

[Pope George Ringo II]

9. I love this one, but it always makes me think of the same thing.

[Fullduplexxx]

3. Well i understand the need in some to belittle others it feeds their sense of superiority

It's a nice safe attack attacking the religious

[Cartoonist]

4. Not really

Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Cause of death: Murder

Asif Mohiuddin, a self-described "militant atheist" blogger, was stabbed near his office in Motijheel, Dhaka.

Ahmed Rajib Haider, an atheist blogger, was attacked while leaving his house in the Mirpur neighborhood of Dhaka.

Sunnyur Rahaman was injured when two men swooped in on him and hacked him with machetes. Rahaman was a Shahbag movement activist and a critic of various religious parties

Need more?

[MineralMan]

5. Not so at all. Non-believers are rarely very popular.

In many cases, their lives have been at risk, historically.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

7. I know. I dream that hopefully we get to the point in our society

where the religious can be open about their belief. Safely go to their houses of worship. Wear symbols of their belief in public. If only that existed today.

[trotsky]

10. "It's a nice safe attack attacking the religious"

Is it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Hebdo_shooting

Your post clearly illustrates the core problem: even when non-believers are careful to criticize religious *beliefs* and *ideas*, you instead try to pretend it's about attacking *people*.

This is how religion protects itself, and how moderate believers provide shelter and cover for extremists.

[Mariana]

22. This is what happens when the holy book

promises believers they will be persecuted for their faith. When it doesn't happen in reality, they feel the need to pretend.

[Voltaire2]

11. What's impressive about your post is that without

any sense of irony you engage in a personal attack against the op while misrepresenting his attack on beliefs as an attack on believers.

[guillaumeb]

13. What is truly impressive is how fast the 11th Commandment appears.

Almost magical that the same few apparently feel compelled to speak.

[Voltaire2]

14. i feel for your loss.

Could you remind me again who it was in this “choir” you keep going on about who was recently booted off of DU?

[guillaumeb]

15. Do some research.

Look among the choir members and sympathizers.

[Voltaire2]

16. How about we play hangman?

How many letters in the name?

[guillaumeb]

17. The DU name is composed of two words.

But there is no prize for guessing correctly.

[Voltaire2]

18. And has this person posted in this forum in the last

month?

[guillaumeb]

19. No.

And no more questions.

Thank you.

[Voltaire2]

20. So this major loss to the choir is somebody

who either was banned more than a month ago or who doesn’t really post here frequently.

I can see why you are reluctant to identify this person.

[MineralMan]

27. Oh, well...

The beat must go on, until the dissenters are gone...

[trotsky]

21. Jesus fucking Christ, gil.

Now it's not only a "choir" but also a legion of "sympathizers"?

Gil, these are YOUR creations. No one else has one fucking clue what this "choir" is or who is in it, other than people who have the nerve to dare disagree with you.

Honestly this is sounding more and more like McCarthy's list of communists - you've built yourself an enemies list, only in your case, there is no actual list, you just use the terms as insults and tools by which you hope to neutralize disagreement with what you dump in this forum.

No wonder you aren't taken seriously.

[guillaumeb]

23. Have you ever read about pyschological projection?

Simply asking.

Do you remember when you asked/accused me of hating atheists?

[Voltaire2]

24. Why would anyone accuse you of that?

It isn’t like you run around in this forum calling atheists who post here “the choir” and blabbering about some idiotic 11th commandment in response to their posts.

[guillaumeb]

25. I have no idea.

But one assumes that the original accuser has some idea.

[Voltaire2]

26. Yeah. No idea. Clueless.

It’s a mystery wrapped in an enigma.

[trotsky]

29. Oh, and now you've turned to insults.

What a fine Christian you are.

And yes, of course I remember, but I would like to amend that accusation to say that you probably only hate atheists who speak their opinions about religion.

Your posts in this forum are all the proof that is needed.

[guillaumeb]

30. We differ on what constitutes proof.

But you are entitled to your opinion.

[MineralMan]

28. There is no choir.

There may have been, but the membership is mostly no longer able to post.

[CanonRay]

6. Bookmarked, thanks!