I've been doing atheism wrong - according to Pastor John Hagee

[intaglio]

via Friendly Atheist and Right Wing Watch

Together with a whole load of other crazy about same sex marriage and creativity Pastor Hagee thinks the following:

... It is believed that when people stop believing in God, they believe nothing. That’s wrong. When people no longer believe in God, they will believe in anything. That’s why they start hugging trees. That’s why they start staring into crystals, joining cults, running into the woods, ripping off their shirts, baying at the moon, because it’s something intellectual people do when they get frustrated.

Now I do feel that embracing trees can go too far and you should have the express consent of the tree involved but I never realised that atheism was the reason why I find diamonds attractive and have to resist the urge to stare at them. The real problem is that I have no desire to rip off my clothes and worry the local sheep.

[LiberalEsto]

1. And sometimes people stop believing in God

because they start believing in Goddess.

PS. Those embracing trees should make certain that the trees are above the age of consent.

[Turbineguy]

2. Hagee hates intellectuals.

They don't give him money.

[progressoid]

8. Pryor for the win.

[Arugula Latte]

3. We revere something real and beautiful on Earth -- nature -- rather than figments of imagination.

I guess we've been wrong, wrong, wrong, fellow deluded heathens!

[Ron Obvious]

4. I think he's quoting G.K. Chesterton there...

The Father Brown stories are quite enjoyable if you can get past rubbish like the above.

[intaglio]

5. I quite like the essay "In Defense of Rash Vows"

But yes GKC can be very hard going

[dimbear]

6. Notice the occasional appearance of our posters in the DU group "Scepticism."

Seems to not chime quite right. In other words, I doubt it.

[Curmudgeoness]

7. Oh, so this is the reason that I bay at the moon on occasion!

Thanks, Pastor Hagee, for explaining that to me.

Damn it, I can't find a baying at the moon smilie!

At least he admitted that we are "intellectual".

[LeftishBrit]

9. Well, it's some time since I ripped off my shirt and bayed at the moon!

And I know lots of intellectual people who get very frustrated when they don't get funding for their research (the norm these days) but I've never seen it result in their baying at the moon, either. Not even if they are atheists.

Does Hagee confuse atheists with werewolves or something?

[JNelson6563]

10. So much stupid

packed into that short statement. Impressive.

Julie