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Permalink Reply by Paula T. on May 29, 2012 at 6:47pm

Great list!

I (almost) wish I had every penny I put in the collection plate over the years, but the fact is that my sons were better off in private schools rather than Detroit Public Schools. Once I taught them to think for themselves, atheism came naturally...although the garbage, nonsensical answers they got from their religion teacher helped along the way ;) In the end, they both earned Presidential scholarships to a big university here in Detroit, so I guess it all worked out to our advantage in the end.

Permalink Reply by Joseph P on May 29, 2012 at 7:06pm

#2 is a huge one.  I've heard of people tithing 25%, then talking about investing and money management.  If you got back freaking TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT of your income, how much better off would you be in life?

Permalink Reply by ChrisC on August 21, 2012 at 7:40am

Twenty-five percent better off.

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:-D

Permalink Reply by Vic Marquis on August 29, 2012 at 10:02am

25%? You are forgetting the power of compound interest!

Permalink Reply by Lillie on June 13, 2012 at 8:21pm

They can keep my money if they give back the valuable time I spent listening (or daydreaming) through all of those boring sermons.

Permalink Reply by Alex Barnham on June 4, 2012 at 7:36pm

I particularly miss sitting in a crowd of sneezing, coughing, spitting, lunatics who would kick you in the balls if you disagree with ANYTHING.  Of particular importance is keeping your mouth shut for an hour while some dink with a high school education tries to give you a prescription for your life when he/she doesn't know the first thing about life.  Unfortunately most religious lunatics are so addicted to their groupie life they couldn't kick it if they tried.

Two excellent books entitled "Prisoners of Ritual" and "Symbolic Wounds: Puberty Rites and the Envious Male" will give tremendous insight to those who are still questioning the relative importance of religious bullshit.  We still have the "right" to be "left out" of the religious crap that keeps people enslaved to a system of ignorance and strife.

Permalink Reply by Pat on June 4, 2012 at 7:50pm

Hate to admit this, but I've been in the position of #6. OK, she had already filed for divorce, had been separated for 3 to 4 months, and he was at church. What can I say?

Permalink Reply by Alex Barnham on June 5, 2012 at 5:58am

Oh yes, position #6...When a woman stands on her hands and feet, and her lover mounts her. At this time everything that is ordinarily done on the bosom should be done on the back.

Permalink Reply by Loren Miller on June 5, 2012 at 6:03am

How about:

11: Our brains work better because we haven't dulled them with a bunch of 2,000-year-old myths and superstitions.

Just a thought.  Oh, and I seriously DIG the Radcliffe quote!

Permalink Reply by Sandi on June 5, 2012 at 6:40am

"1. We're smarter and we tend to be right"

                                     ^are^

Permalink Reply by Sandi on June 5, 2012 at 8:43am

When I was in school, we were separated into groups of religion and sent to a class. My atheist parents sent me with a note excluding me from any religious activities. I spent my time in the library reading history and astronomy books. I was the only one in the entire school and I was very very lucky. This was the best thing about growing up as an atheist child.

Permalink Reply by Alex Barnham on June 5, 2012 at 10:52am

How could you attend a religious school if your parents were atheists?  I attended a christian school but no atheists were allowed?

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