If God is not real then who do atheists think they were created by?

theoctopus5 · 1 day

Who, in your opinion, created God?

ogenbite · 1 day

Dick Van Dyke, unfortunately.

LaBamba00 · 1 day

No, it's costing something.

LaBamba00 · 1 day

He's not a local lunatic sheriff, he's the local lunatic sheriff. The standard by which all other banana-crazy racist power-hungry shitbags are measured. When he dies, they're going to put him in a vault in Paris next to the kilogram.

Arpaio so consistently does such monumentally lunatic shit that it's no longer particularly newsworthy.

LaBamba00 · 1 day

I'll cheerfully settle for him going down like Byron Hadley.

oncderp · 2 days

If everyone had a comfortable living, religion would go down too. Countries with a social safety net get pretty 'meh' about religion. It's only the US among wealthy countries that can't be bothered to care for its poorest, and a lot of that is tied up in religion. Which is why American atheists need to be loud.

oncderp · 2 days

Riiiight.

malakistiri · 2 days

One of the things I really like about eclipses is that our technology for viewing them often has a steampunk vibe to it. It's like for dealing with this one thing, the 1897 solution was good enough.

youshallnotpass1234 · 2 days

There are people living today who remember a time before airplanes, television, and zippers.

TommyCollins · 2 days

Why? Because we have first-past-the-post elections in single-member districts for virtually every election more important than school boards and city councils.

If you want a viable third (or fourth or beyond) party, you need either multiple people being elected from the same district, or transferable voting.

JDX3DS · 3 days

The best combo is when you get people claiming that atheism is a religion, but Christianity is a relationship.

nattyd · 3 days

"What is this, a cattle call for The Chosen?"

Purpleiam · 4 days

Atheism is a one-question quiz. (Hint: the answer is 'no'.)

I think it's pretty common (and logical) to toss out heaven, hell, angels, spirits, and a whole pile of other stuff out with the gods, but it's by no means a necessity.

whydushootme · 4 days

It used to be a property exchange between the woman's father and the woman's husband.

It used to subsume the rights of the wife to the rights of the husband.

It used to be something that, in many jurisdictions, slaves couldn't do, or could only do with the permission of their owners.

It used to be something that a white person and a black person couldn't do together.

It used to be a shield for rape.

It used to be a lot of things that it isn't anymore, just in this country in the past 200 years.

Rendez · 4 days

Schizophrenia exists. Liars exist. Charlatans, fools, knaves, and con artists exist. And people, who are otherwise sane and committed to the truth, can misinterpret their experiences and sensations so wildly as to create a lot of incredible stories.

So yes, in the same way that I believe in no gods, I believe in no supernatural phenomena. The more parsimonious explanation, to use the vernacular, is that people be trippin'.

miked12 · 4 days

Depends. How much prep time and information do the humans get? How much space, and what kind of space, do they have to work with? I guarantee there's a winning strategy for humanity, even if it requires a casualty rate of 75% or so.

A_santa_at_nasa · 6 days

With 6% sales tax, a pre-tax order of $6.28 comes out to $6.66. With prices ending in 9, it's relatively easy to get to that total - one item for $4.99 and one for $1.29.

I worked as a cashier in Michigan for a number of years, and I'd say that about 25% of the time, a person who got that total would buy a candy bar or something to change the total.

beebhead · 6 days

Note that this is for this year only, to cut out a travel day, in order to fit the extra round of playoffs in.

Next year it goes back to "Higher seed gets games 1, 2, and 5 at home".

FunctionBuilt · 6 days

"Creationist make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night." --Isaac Asimov

supernopantsman · 9 days

The knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena that I should rather believe the most extraordinary events to arise from their concurrence than admit of so signal a violation of the laws of nature. --David Hume

CottonNero · 12 days

Boombatta and Dagoth, actually. Andre the Giant was the guy in the monster suit at the end. Kind of a weird kaiju moment.

Tendie · 14 days

Interestingly, there's an anti-marriage vein running through Paul's letters, but it gets pretty thoroughly ignored in practice.

BoardatWerk · 14 days

Whoa. Really?

kvothe_1 · 15 days

Yes. If there is no evidence either way, both choices are valid.

But, from what we know of the universe, if a god remotely like the Christian one exists, it is either immoral, insane, or ineffectual. Nonexistence is the only good excuse.

MidgetGeezus · 15 days

That smells like bullshit of the highest order.

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