❝I broke my brother’s arm while pretending to be Scorpion from Mortal Kombat. We couldn’t tell my parents we were playing Mortal Kombat because they would think video games were a bad influence, and they’d take them away. So we told them we were acting out a scene from The Bible, hoping they’d take that away.❞
— Bill Squire
It’s the fourth anniversary of Hug An Atheist Day, so this is just a reminder:
It doesn’t matter what your worldview is, practice a little tolerance. Find your nearest Atheist, Absurdist, Agnostic, Anti-Religionist, Antitheist, Apatheist, Deist, Dystheist, Existentialist, Freethinker, Gropaga, Ignostic, Mahayana, Marxist, Misotheist, Naturalistic Pantheist, Nihilist, Nontheist, Pastafarian, Secular Humanist, Skeptic, Spagnostic, Structuralist, Buddhist, Zenbuddhist, or anyone else who doubts the existence of a god, and & give him/her the biggest hug ever!
Soooo, to you, dear reader who favor me with your visit, consider yourself warmly hugged.
My super-special-huge-atheistic-hug is for my fiancé Joshua McGee. I love you, Joshie. ♥
Faith is a device of self-delusion, a sleight of hand done with words and emotions founded on any irrational notion that can be dreamed up. Faith is the attempt to coerce truth to surrender to whim. In simple terms, it is trying to breath life into a lie by trying to outshine reality with the beauty of wishes. Faith is the refuge of fools, the ignorant, and the deluded, not of thinking, rational men.
Terry Goodkind, “Chainfire” Chapt 48, pg 489