"Real meaning of life...stuff" - Daniel Jackson
Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Opportunistic ass hat: Dinesh Dsousa

“Where is Athiesm when bad things happen?”  Are you serious?  All atheists hear is “shut up, you need to shut up, this isn’t your country, you better shut up”.

Remember the CNN “panel” on atheism that didn’t have a single, solitary atheist on it?  You had a Jewish woman and three Christians standing around nodding at each other for several minutes going “They need to shut up.  It’s our country and they need to shut up.”

And now the atheists are bad because they don’t get up uninvited and say something?  Because they don’t stand up and try to inject their personal beliefs into other people’s grief?  Because they don’t get on TV and use the bodies of thirty innocent victims to advance their pet political agenda?

And anyway, why would you want an atheist to try to spin the “meaning” of such an event to emphasize why you should think like they do?  Televangelists and pundits are enough, I would think.

Maybe Dinesh Dsousa should say something comforting, and stop using the bodies of thirty dead innocents as a cudgel to bludgeon atheists with.

(Hat Tip: Pharyngula)

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 4:55:34 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00) | Comments [4] | #
Wednesday, April 18, 2007 7:34:22 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
I was tempted to write something along these lines but felt that love in a time of pain would be a better approach.

The atheists definitely have a problem when it comes to finding meaning in this and others evils. For even if Richard Dawkins had spoken words of confort, those would have been his words only. Another atheist could've found a different meaning.

In Christ, we have an absolute and transcendent meaning.

Good write up though.

Edgar,
Wednesday, April 18, 2007 9:01:59 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
Whose "WE" Kemosabe? :-)
Thursday, April 19, 2007 9:27:11 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
Quenosabe - it's Spanish for 'that doesn't know' ;)

It could also have been Qui(en)nosabe, and then got shortened, in which case it would mean 'who doesn't know'.

I'm not really sure about the mechanics of the development

(Do I get the prize for useless trivia???)
Thursday, April 19, 2007 10:49:48 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
Karen,

You are the undesputed reigning queen of usless linguistics trivia on this blog. :-)

Also, the useful kind.
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