If it was better worded it would obviously say something like "Chances of an Agnostic saying a little prayer". On a more serious note, I think many people who were belivers and became agnostics, and even (proclaimed) atheists would say a prayer if, say they had a gun to their head or their house burnt down. I wouldn't, you probably wouldn't either, but when you're in an irrational situation, your brain tends to work irrationally.
I genuinely didn't get it until I read some comments on the original site explaining it.
I would have no problem admitting to prayer, the onus is on those who "believe" to follow a strict religious path. By not believing in a god to please or offend, I live with total freedom to "go through the motions" of any religious service and not feel bothered by hypocrisy.
The "Atheist" in the title of the piece seems bolted on. It's soft satire at its worst. I wouldn't be surprised if it originally had "Christian" in the title and was in reference to most "Christmas Day" Christians out there.
If the creator (ha!) of the piece had any bit of comedic intelligence, they could have made the piece both funnier and easier to understand by putting as the title for the 100% item "Stuck in a foxhole". But what would I know.
More interestingly (and something which I've been meaning to post about since late 2007) is whether or not Richard Dawkins ever shouts "oh God!" when he orgasms. This kind of stuff keeps me up at night, you know! I can't seem to work it into a snappy post title though. Maybe something like: "Oh God, I'm cumming!" by Richard Dawkins?
Des: I'm trying out a few different things with commenting here. Rest assured my stance on censorship is still as liberal as ever :) I'm just trying to get the to weed out the spam. I hate having a capchta for commentators to figure out. I think it inhibits commenting.
Too bad you're not on wordpress installation that you're managing yourself. You could've A) Allowed users with one valid comment o post again. B) (More importantly) have installed "Hashcash" which would solve the spam problem in one go.
If it was better worded it would obviously say something like "Chances of an Agnostic saying a little prayer". On a more serious note, I think many people who were belivers and became agnostics, and even (proclaimed) atheists would say a prayer if, say they had a gun to their head or their house burnt down. I wouldn't, you probably wouldn't either, but when you're in an irrational situation, your brain tends to work irrationally.
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ReplyDeleteComment moderation now eh ?
I genuinely didn't get it until I read some comments on the original site explaining it.
ReplyDeleteI would have no problem admitting to prayer, the onus is on those who "believe" to follow a strict religious path. By not believing in a god to please or offend, I live with total freedom to "go through the motions" of any religious service and not feel bothered by hypocrisy.
The "Atheist" in the title of the piece seems bolted on. It's soft satire at its worst. I wouldn't be surprised if it originally had "Christian" in the title and was in reference to most "Christmas Day" Christians out there.
If the creator (ha!) of the piece had any bit of comedic intelligence, they could have made the piece both funnier and easier to understand by putting as the title for the 100% item "Stuck in a foxhole". But what would I know.
More interestingly (and something which I've been meaning to post about since late 2007) is whether or not Richard Dawkins ever shouts "oh God!" when he orgasms. This kind of stuff keeps me up at night, you know! I can't seem to work it into a snappy post title though. Maybe something like: "Oh God, I'm cumming!" by Richard Dawkins?
Des: I'm trying out a few different things with commenting here. Rest assured my stance on censorship is still as liberal as ever :) I'm just trying to get the to weed out the spam. I hate having a capchta for commentators to figure out. I think it inhibits commenting.
ReplyDeleteToo bad you're not on wordpress installation that you're managing yourself. You could've
ReplyDeleteA) Allowed users with one valid comment o post again.
B) (More importantly) have installed "Hashcash" which would solve the spam problem in one go.
The last person who suggested Wordpress got told if they weren't careful I'd switch to livejournal!
ReplyDeleteI could always do:
C) Disable all commenting. Enough of that Web 2.0 shit!
Too much haxxing on Wordpress anyway.