Utah, court rulings, atheism, praying -- Interested?

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2003-04-13 04:07pm

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... er_lawsuit

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-04-13 04:17pm

Hmm, I don't know, there should be no fucking prayer, period.

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2003-04-13 04:17pm

Among other things, the prayer asked for deliverance "from the evil of forced religious worship now sought to be imposed upon the people ... by the actions of misguided, weak and stupid politicians, who abuse power in their own self-righteousness."

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-04-13 04:20pm

It's the same thing I've advocated for a while. Every time someone talks about religious freedom meaning the right to flaunt your religious beliefs in a public manner, ask if that includes Satanism or something else guaranteed to offend the people in charge, and then rub that freedom in their faces. One good turn, as they say, deserves another.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-04-13 04:54pm

It's a really smart way to go about changing the system. They can't object to it if they want it to continue and they can't continue if they object. It's freaking brilliant.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-04-13 04:57pm

Very nicely done. Newdow could learn something from this guy.

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-04-13 05:02pm

I came close to reading the Pledge replacing "Under God" with "Under Satan" at school once, just to see what people's reactions would be.

Arrow · Post by **Arrow** » 2003-04-13 05:08pm

Beautiful man, beautiful! Lets see if the other states get the message.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-04-13 05:12pm

Freedom means the freedom to express your beliefs while allowing other people to express theirs.

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2003-04-13 05:14pm

That guy is cool. I'd like to meet him one day.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-04-13 06:51pm

We ought to send this guy a letter.

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2003-04-13 07:19pm

Darth Wong wrote:It's the same thing I've advocated for a while. Every time someone talks about religious freedom meaning the right to flaunt your religious beliefs in a public manner, ask if that includes Satanism or something else guaranteed to offend the people in charge, and then rub that freedom in their faces. One good turn, as they say, deserves another.

I think praying to the Force would be quite funny.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-04-13 07:47pm

Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:It's the same thing I've advocated for a while. Every time someone talks about religious freedom meaning the right to flaunt your religious beliefs in a public manner, ask if that includes Satanism or something else guaranteed to offend the people in charge, and then rub that freedom in their faces. One good turn, as they say, deserves another.
I think praying to the Force would be quite funny.

It'd be funnier to pray to Cthulhu, asking him to eat all the Christians first, or to Satan, asking him to tempt them with obscene pictures and cake.

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2003-04-13 08:53pm

Pray for Cthulhu to deliver long suckling pig, I think Swift had a recipe.

Queeb Salaron · Post by **Queeb Salaron** » 2003-04-13 10:18pm

Darth Wong wrote:It's the same thing I've advocated for a while. Every time someone talks about religious freedom meaning the right to flaunt your religious beliefs in a public manner, ask if that includes Satanism or something else guaranteed to offend the people in charge, and then rub that freedom in their faces. One good turn, as they say, deserves another.

Amen. [/pun]

I flaunt my Hedonism (not QUITE Satanism) regularly. I stand on street corners next to fundies and ask them if they've found Satan. More people respond to me than respond to those damned Christian fundie fucks.

BTW, making a new string about a similar encounter I had today. Called "Encounter with a Fundie." Sure to amuse.

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2003-04-14 10:53am

Well this certainly created differing responses, over at SB we have people complaining about atheist asshats:
http://kier.3dfrontier.com/forums/showt ... adid=48262