Religion
Related: About this forumWhy religion is more progressive than pottery.
Because pottery is inanimate, silly. I mean, what has pottery done for gay rights recently?
What else is religion more progressive than?
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(82,333 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Atheism is silent on political matters.
Like pottery, in fact.
Now, you could use pottery to make a piece of art that most certainly would have a political/cultural/social bent, just like you could base some other ideology in atheism and then extrapolate from there.
Maybe you should ask that question again about an actual ideology with political/cultural bent. Like Secular Humanism or something.
rug
(82,333 posts)The answer to the question, as you well know, is nothing.
Since atheism is silent on all, not just political, matters beyond nonbelief in god(s), that is the only possible answer.
Overall, it's a very stupid OP, as most flamebait is.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Which you can read about umpteen technical arguments clearly showing it to be invalid, in the original thread.
This thread is a satirical paraphrase. And quite effective, as you seem to have tripped to it with a principled approach that would apply to both.
rug
(82,333 posts)The difference between a dumb remark and satire is wit. I learned that in high school English.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)material it paraphrased.
rug
(82,333 posts)All remarks were about this OP.
I didn't even need an internet meme.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)I wouldn't want to defend that hill either.
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(82,333 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Well, I'm disappointed you peppered this one with what amounts to an objection, and appear to have left the other one alone. I was hoping for consistency.
But it is what it is.
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(82,333 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)For a second there... My goat was gotten.
mr blur
(7,753 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)immoderate
(20,885 posts)And so it goes...
--imm
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(82,333 posts)trotsky
(49,533 posts)Oh wait, are members of the Million Moms religious? Would that have something to do with why they are opposed to progressive ideas? Naw, couldn't be!
rug
(82,333 posts)I don't know why this is such a difficult question to answer.
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)But then again the other question is nonsensical too. Some religions are progressive and some are less progressive. If you were talk talk about specific faiths you could say "Well this faith, which has these teachings, is more progressive than a ham sandwich, but less progressive than an antique doorknob." By the same token if you picked a specific atheist organization you could say "Well this organization, which has taken these positions, is more progressive than a field of strawberries but less progressive than a flock of seagulls."
Bryant
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)Heddi
(18,312 posts)Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)Seriously. We should leave them the fuck alone.
Heddi
(18,312 posts)I watch that video like 8 times a month. Easily.
Heddi
(18,312 posts)I have had goat curry several times. I found it gamey and stringy. and full of bones. who knew goats were so bony.
ANyways.
I love goats. They're so fun at petting zoos. They eat everything! One ate part of my sweater once! What a kook!
Let's go buy some goats, Warren. We can charge people .25 for a hand-full of Goat Chow and they can feed our goats and we'll have a petting zoo. And they can climb on things and other animals.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)Goats sounds good.
stone space
(6,498 posts)Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)Warpy
(111,237 posts)would have hit the dinner table before they were out of kidhood if I kept them in my backyard.
The neighbors would have shot it.
rug
(82,333 posts)It's just as stupid.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)CHECKMATE
unf unf unf
*dances to the door*
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)...because some religions put their best foot forward and at least shoot for building a better society. Cthulhu just flips the fuck out and eats people.
Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Fhtagn!
trotsky
(49,533 posts)He'll show mercy to those he favors by eating them first.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)Yog-Sothoth knows the gate, and he is the gate.
Can't explain that!
Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)could give Cthulhu a run. I mean, sure Cthulhu eats the fuck out of his devotees but entire fucking world-wide genocide save for 7 people on a boat? Suck on that, Cthulhu.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)Cthulhu used to kick the shit out of dinosaurs just to keep in shape. Yahweh doesn't even remember creating the fucking things in the first place. Cthulhu believes in evolution, God does not. Cthulhu 1, God 0.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)"7 people on a goat" - original text.
Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)trotsky
(49,533 posts)I heard it was a goat.
That or he fell in a moat.
Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)If you don't, Chthulu will smote.
It's not up for a vote.
Can you feel the tentacles on your throat?
trotsky
(49,533 posts)I know better than to get into a rhyming contest with an English teacher, though. :-D
Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)I couldn't resist.