Atheists & Agnostics

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts) Sun Feb 12, 2012, 03:18 AM Feb 2012

oh good lord...

I am surfing DU, and the wife left the TV on and fell asleep. Some show is on about how to witness to your Jewish friends. A book they cited was "You can't think your way to god". This is just a small bit of the insanity that is entering my right ear.

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oh good lord... (Original Post) awoke_in_2003 Feb 2012 OP

This just in from the juxtaposition files: I'm watching David Cross. darkstar3 Feb 2012 #1

I'll take a look. nt awoke_in_2003 Feb 2012 #4

You've been in the "Pornography and Perversions" group again, eh? HopeHoops Feb 2012 #2

Nah, just surfing the Atheist group... awoke_in_2003 Feb 2012 #3

"You can't think your way to god"... Curmudgeoness Feb 2012 #5

Even when I was a believer... awoke_in_2003 Feb 2012 #6

I think most of us were heretics Curmudgeoness Feb 2012 #7

lots of stories... awoke_in_2003 Feb 2012 #8

It was magic. Curmudgeoness Feb 2012 #9

Well said. JNelson6563 Feb 2012 #10

Sounds like my mother. iris27 Mar 2012 #11

darkstar3

(8,763 posts)

1. This just in from the juxtaposition files: I'm watching David Cross.

Reply to awoke_in_2003 (Original post)

Sun Feb 12, 2012, 03:24 AM

Feb 2012

There's plenty of his stuff on YouTube if you're looking for a little religious palette cleanser.

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)

4. I'll take a look. nt

Reply to darkstar3 (Reply #1)

Sun Feb 12, 2012, 02:30 PM

Feb 2012

HopeHoops

(47,675 posts)

2. You've been in the "Pornography and Perversions" group again, eh?

Reply to awoke_in_2003 (Original post)

Sun Feb 12, 2012, 12:43 PM

Feb 2012

I'll lock your threads there.

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)

3. Nah, just surfing the Atheist group...

Reply to HopeHoops (Reply #2)

Sun Feb 12, 2012, 02:29 PM

Feb 2012

and hearing the tv talk about bring Jews to Jesus. Reminds me of the time I gave the "Jews for Jesus" website the email address to a coworker who annoyed me. They spammed the hell out of him

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)

5. "You can't think your way to god"...

Reply to awoke_in_2003 (Original post)

Sun Feb 12, 2012, 07:09 PM

Feb 2012

Bwahahahaha!!!!

No shit.

If you think....well, we all know what happens.

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)

6. Even when I was a believer...

Reply to Curmudgeoness (Reply #5)

Mon Feb 13, 2012, 08:53 PM

Feb 2012

I always held the "dangerous" question in my head- "Why should man be punished for eating from the tree of knowledge?". Guess I have been a heretic longer than I realized. I find it funny that so many of the fundies I work with use Apple computers, and look right past what their logo implies.

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)

7. I think most of us were heretics

Reply to awoke_in_2003 (Reply #6)

Mon Feb 13, 2012, 09:04 PM

Feb 2012

longer than we realized. If we ever had beliefs, or were raised to believe, there was a time when we started to think nasty thoughts about what we were being told. Few of us stepped across that line in a single step.

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)

8. lots of stories...

Reply to Curmudgeoness (Reply #7)

Mon Feb 13, 2012, 09:09 PM

Feb 2012

like feeding 5000 people with a couple of fish and a loaf of bread really bothered me.

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)

9. It was magic.

Reply to awoke_in_2003 (Reply #8)

Mon Feb 13, 2012, 09:21 PM

Feb 2012

How that magician finds a rabbit in an empty hat bothers me too.

JNelson6563

(28,151 posts)

10. Well said.

Reply to Curmudgeoness (Reply #7)

Mon Feb 13, 2012, 10:08 PM

Feb 2012

iris27

(1,951 posts)

11. Sounds like my mother.

Reply to awoke_in_2003 (Original post)

Sun Mar 4, 2012, 01:43 AM

Mar 2012

Her one attempt at bringing me back to the fold ended with, "Well, I guess you just got too smart for your own good. If God made logical sense, we wouldn't need faith."

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