Tomorrow is Thursday. I suppose we all worship Thor now.

Man, Si Robertson* from Duck Dynasty really finds atheists threatening. A few months ago his brother fantasized about us being raped and murdered. Or, more to the point, about an atheist man watching his wife and daughters getting raped and murdered, because in Robertson’s world, women don’t have their own opinions but are merely extensions of their fathers and husbands. Now Si’s pulling that trick of arguing that we don’t really exist:

Robertson also said that in life-and-death situations, atheism ceases to exist. “Because if you get in a serious bind, the first thing you’re going to do is look around and say, ‘Oh (God) please help me.'”

Atheists get this one a lot, and not just from idiot Christian bigots like Robertson. I’ve heard this from people who actually have more invested in their religion than simply believing a Sky Fairy tells them everything they want to hear, whether it’s that black people like segregation or that it’s okay for grown men to marry teenagers. You hear the “no atheists in fox holes” nonsense from all corners.

It’s also just plain wrong. I can’t speak for other atheists, but I’ve had a couple of serious and scary situations in my life and never once did I pray to any god. When I had my car accident in college, for instance, I very distinctly remember thinking that if I’m going to die, then that means that I’m dead. No thoughts of afterlife, no bargaining with god. Just a simple thought that death means dead, that there will be no more thoughts or feelings. Luckily for myself and my family, I did not die. But I didn’t have that atheist in a fox hole situation, either. I’ve just never felt that there’s a god looking out for me.


http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/tomorrow-is-thursday-i-suppose-we-all-worship-thor-now/

why not ?
just as valid as all the others

korban dallas wrote:why not ?
just as valid as all the others

Like St Stevens day for instance, blow a horn then kill a cat and fox at the hearth to celebrate.

captainJane wrote:

korban dallas wrote:why not ?
just as valid as all the others

Like St Stevens day for instance, blow a horn then kill a cat and fox at the hearth to celebrate.

that made me chuckle