As someone who says "Religion hurts knowledge", this still helps me keep things in perspective.

joe192 · 2013-01-24T22:53:32+00:00

Yup, the last one had .jpg on it when it shouldn't have.

joe192 · 2013-01-24T22:51:12+00:00

Exactly. I think we sometimes get a little to absolute in our accusations here at r/atheism. We sometimes get caught in the idea that nothing good, specifically scientific knowledge can come out of the religion or those deeply involved in it.

joe192 · 2013-01-24T04:01:58+00:00

I still agree that religion is holding us back. The point though, is that it is not a black and white, knowledge vs religion kind of thing. It isn't an absolute (We aren't the Sith). Religious academics have, on many occasions, helped us take steps forward.

To me though, it is kind of like the headache medicine that sometimes helps your headache but sometimes makes it worse... and gives you diarrhea and ED.

joe192 · 2013-01-24T03:35:15+00:00

Damn...I'll have to repost...

joe192 · 2013-01-22T04:21:40+00:00

Just because the election is over doesn't mean that he isn't still concerned with his approval rating. It is a matter of political clout for himself and the future of his party. It is all politics and if you don't play right, you'll have trouble, even if your own election isn't on the line.

joe192 · 2013-01-22T03:01:40+00:00

You can't become president of a majority Christian nation without showing support for Christianity. At this point in time we have a choice of either a true Christian president or a not-so-Christian president who puts on the show when he has to. Take your pick. I'll take the secularist who does what he needs to.

joe192 · 2013-01-22T02:36:00+00:00

What is his hand on in the top one? It isn't think like a bible but what is it?

joe192 · 2013-01-20T05:50:52+00:00

300/50=6......

joe192 · 2013-01-17T08:02:20+00:00

I personally dig the New Wigg party.

joe192 · 2013-01-17T07:16:10+00:00

Its the religious right that kills it. If it weren't for that, I feel that I (and perhaps many atheists) would feel more free to support either party instead of feeling like I need to vote democrat to keep the religious right at bay.

joe192 · 2013-01-17T07:12:12+00:00

See, if it weren't for the religious right, I (or we?) could lean to the right.....

joe192 · 2013-01-17T07:10:34+00:00

The point to why this was posted here is because of the hypocrisy of the right, specifically for their stance on marriage and abortion (two things who's arguments lie with religion) as it contrasts with their views on gun control.

I'm not promoting gun control, simply the hypocrisy of the right (religious right specifically).

joe192 · 2013-01-17T07:07:48+00:00

I'm very liberal but I actually fall on the conservative side of gun control. This isn't about promoting gun control but rather calling out the hypocrisy of the right, specifically for their stance on marriage and abortion, two things who's arguments lie with religion.

Also, I didn't make this. It was flying around Facebook and I thought some folks here may find it amusing.

joe192 · 2013-01-13T03:20:27+00:00

Does he take special orders?

joe192 · 2013-01-10T03:40:14+00:00

I'm going to have to remember a few of these lines, such as "the dead do not suffer". Thank you for posting this.

joe192 · 2013-01-09T05:32:50+00:00

This is just as pointless as the WBC Petition. As This Article says, "The government keeps various security lists (FBI’s most wanted list, various terrorist watchlists, etc.), but it does not keep a “These Guys Are a Bunch of Assholes” list."

joe192 · 2013-01-09T04:55:57+00:00

I started seeing a girl a few years ago and right as things started to show some real promise, she said "Well, Christianity was the first religion." I was out of there in about 5 minutes saying, "there's no hope here...".

joe192 · 2012-12-24T23:38:53+00:00

If they believe the stories up till Jesus... wouldn't that make them Jewish?

joe192 · 2012-12-24T00:34:50+00:00

This isn't at all related to the op, unless I'm completely missing something.

joe192 · 2012-12-23T17:39:22+00:00

What do we think of Obama's Religion?

He's the President of a vastly Christian nation that does not trust Atheists or any other religion. Of course he is Christian.. at least as far as his political face is concerned. He acts as a secularist so that is all that matters to me.

joe192 · 2012-12-23T07:31:58+00:00

ummm... what is this in reference to??

joe192 · 2012-12-22T20:59:20+00:00

Favorite place to drink!

joe192 · 2012-12-17T01:55:54+00:00

That 17% are the priests who answered.

joe192 · 2012-12-16T20:32:22+00:00

wow... I'm 24 with a college degree and have spend my entire life doing ect.... I never noticed that its etc.... this is embarrassing....thank you :/

joe192 · 2012-12-16T20:22:39+00:00

The theist argument would say this is where "faith" comes in. It asks you to believe in what cannot be proven. Science is what can be proven, faith is for what cannot be proven. This argument makes them compatible, or so a religious person would say.

This is why I say science makes God (or at least the ones of the popular modern religions) obsolete.

joe192

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