The one place I feel should be boycotted is the YMCA. Since they are a religious based institution they have tax-exempt status (just like churches). They use their tax advantages to push out similar businesses.
Hobby Lobby is a christian based arts and crafts retailer in the US. They play christian music over the radio on a continuous loop which I find most annoying. Even though I am annoyed with them, they are the only store around that I can buy art…
I can relate to this.
In 5th grade I was considered a behavioral problem because I would finish my math homework before the teacher would finish explaining how to do it. I would turn in my papers while she explained things and sit back down and…
Some of my all time favorites are the basics:
goddammit
jesus christ
motherfucker
shit
fuck me
When someone sneezes I like to just look at them in disgust.
If something surprises me I like to say "great zombie jesus"
I'm a huge fan of Futurama. Much like the Simpsons, they discuss religion in a comical way.
"Some of the great religions of the 20th century include Scientology and Oprahism."
I agree that the story is pretty unoriginal. I see it as the story of Pocahontas wrapped in a Ferngully mask. Even though the story is unoriginal, the storytelling is amazing. I've seen the movie three times now and I still feel like I could…
I don't feel socially restricted because of my atheism. I'm a pretty outgoing person in general so I'm sure that helps. One of my best friends is in seminary right now to become a catholic priest, a few others are atheists, and others…
I never had anything like that in school either. The closest I had was a world class cosmosphere in my home town. We have a lot of stuff from the various space missions and an SR-71 Blackbird mounted in the building. Lots of neat space stuff to see.
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH KANSAS? NOTHING THAT A FEW WELL ORGANIZED AND CONNECTED ATHEISTS CAN'T FIX. FROM ENDING THE PRACTICE OF CHURCHES BEING POLLING PLACES, TO KEEPING IDIOTS FROM POLLUTING OUR SCIENCE STANDARDS..
Hi, and a friendly welcome to Ross from Kansas.
Very glad to have you here among the sensible, rational people of this world.
This is the great Nexus meeting place with its thousands of bright people like you who recognise religion for the superstition and brainwashing fraud that it is---
and that gods exist only as fictions inside people's heads.
Terry Meaden
originator of the busy discussion group
"ORIGINS: Universe, Life, Earth, Humankind, Fossils, Religion, Evolution, Darwin..." with its over 240 discussion topics.