Atheists, agnostics most knowledgeable about religion, survey says

I had to re-educate one of my religious former co-workers about this ridiculous chain e-mail he sent me earlier today:

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/photos/martyr.asp

Not that anyone so wrapped up in their pet irrational hatreds will ever listen. Fuck but I get fucking sick and tired of dealing with this retarded stuff and with the gullible fucktards that keep fueling it. I'm convinced by this point in history that there's just as many (if not more) stupid and shit-ignorant followers of Jesus out there that really want a world-ending war as there are followers of Mohammed. There's a wealth of information out there that easily debunks all this non-stop lying in about a minute's worth of intarwebz searching. But no, that's too fucking hard to do. Some of us still prefer instead to take the word of anonymous e-mails that were sent out by people like Pamela Geller or some KKKlansman.

can't say I'm very surprised. Most atheists were raised in religious households and took a serious look at religion on their path to atheism. Most religious people simply accept what their parents and preachers teach them and never question their religion.

I saw THANOS email link. If this shop was in NYC his glass door might mave been kicked in before people realized that none of the highjackers were named ALI.


The lack of knowledge though is suprising.

I looked at Thanos' email link, too. What impressed me is the abject ignorance of the store owner who had absolutely no idea that 9/11 was a date of consequential meaning in his adopted country.

Yes, If I was him I would have posted a sign saying I'm Close on Sept 11 to Commemorate people who died on this date. That would have satisfied him and certainly be understandable to American rather than risk him getting his glass door kicked in.

I don't really get that from the story. But even if so, you mean they can't honor their religious figure from antiquity because the day happens to fall on 9/11? Now Muslims can't have mosques near ground zero and can't worship as they usually do on that day?

The original poster starts off: "I only go to Harwin Drive to buy rhinestones..." Tells you a lot right there. Just another rhinestone cowboy(girl).

Somehow I doubt that anyone back in World War 2 who had a birthday fall on December 7 was subjected to the same sort of cultural nuttiness that's unfortunately begun to wrap itself around Sept 11. Sept 11 is obviously not just another day and it's a special day of grieving and memorial. But that does not mean it has to become a day where the entirety of human activity comes to a halt or a day where any other specialness or uniqueness that historically fell upon it (eg. the Shi'a association to the death of Imam Ali) has to be completely jettisoned. This silly type of thinking is now all part and parcel of the same collosal ignorance that's led some on the political/religious right to basically deify the Constitutional Founding Fathers as evangelical prophets without apparently even having the slightest awareness that these men deliberately set up a secular and reason-based system of governing that would not be subjected to (and therefore hopelessly ruined by) religious extremism.

The lack of intellectual curiosity and unwillingness to even try to understand anything that falls outside of religious devotion is exactly why too much religiosity is the worst bane to ever afflict the human race.

You can't beat certainty.

I don't really get that from the story. But even if so, you mean they can't honor their religious figure from antiquity because the day happens to fall on 9/11? Now Muslims can't have mosques near ground zero and can't worship as they usually do on that day?

The original poster starts off: "I only go to Harwin Drive to buy rhinestones..." Tells you a lot right there. Just another rhinestone cowboy(girl).

The thing is, a little sensitivity and common sense is in order.

Just like it would be a not-so-good idea to post a sign in Montreal that you're closing on September 13th to remember British war dead.

What's 'tricking' you into staying alive? And would you mind if I ruined it for you?

Spoken like the good communist that you are.