Tag: Atheism

  • Believing Bullshit: How Not To Get Sucked Into an Intellectual Black Hole

     

    Originally posted on Think Atheist

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  • Do you deserve to be stoned to death? – Tweet of the day

    Atheists can cite the bible, too. Actually, we can do this quite well…

    Here’s the Twitter link.

    … quite well as to annoy the jeebus out of the Christians who’d rather not hear about these less popular verses of the bible.

    See, I do challenge people beliefs, I mean if you believe this is your god’s love talking, then that’s fine by me, *whispers* not entirely, but kinda… sorta.

    So, just in case you are not fully aware of what your religious affiliation includes – and you really shouldn’t be – that’s where my tweets come in handy.

    I kinda enjoy the reactions these tweets generate, like this lady’s reaction, who though this tweet was full of anger.

    ***facepalm***

    See, I didn’t say anything really offensive, I mean, it IS offensive, but I didn’t make it up, did I? The problem here is that this person is taking offense from ME instead of whom, allegedly, is the author of such offense – her loving god.

    Well, most Theists will say that it’s me agan picking and choosing, or that the verse is taken out of context, but it’s a long-ish piece of reading so, if you don’t believe me, here is what Deuteronomy 22:13-21 actually says. There are only so many ways you can twist a verse to make it mean something different than what is written.

    So, Dear Christian lady, were you a virgin before you got married?