Atheist Image Dump II

[fester30]

Lincoln was attributed with a disdain for Christianity later in his life, but used words like "Providence" and "Creator," which were popular words with Deists.

[history_geek]

Those two cats on the right side of the picture. Are who?  ???

I see three:  Carl Sagan, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson.  One of whom was an atheist, the other two of whom remain controversial in definition.

Sagan I recognised.

There is an old movie, and an even older book by Robert Lawson, that I loved as a child: Ben & Me.  

Amos, a poor church mouse, sets out to find work, since his family of 26 is starving. He's rejected by several places and takes refuge in the run-down print shop of Ben Franklin. Quickly, he gives Ben the ideas for the Franklin stove, bifocal lenses, and the newspaper the Pennsylvania Gazette as Ben's creditors are threatening to shut him down in 24 hours. The paper is an instant hit and Ben prospers. With Amos hidden in his hat prompting him, Ben seems much brighter than he is. However, when Amos is attached to Ben's kite and gets hit by lighting, he leaves. Later, in the summer of 1776, Ben is desperate and begs Amos to return. He agrees but only if Ben will sign a contract. The next day, as they are beginning their talks, Thomas Jefferson drops by for help with the wording the opening of the Declaration of Independence, and as Ben reads the opening words of the contract, Jefferson says, "That's it!"  

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045550/

Oh, we used to have that on VHS, recorded when they showed it on tv. One of my most favorite cartoons when I was a kid Hmmmm, I wonder if its still around....

Edit: Well, look what I found

Walt Disney - Ben And Me (1/2) - 1953
Walt Disney - Ben And Me (2/2) - 1953

[Tank]

[Guardian85]

[Asmodean]

I'm so glad I took the time to decipher that. It's one of the best tats I've ever seen.

Slightly skewed though, no..? Is it just the picture, perhaps, yes?

[Siz]

[Siz]

[Sweetdeath]

Hahaha, oh man.  Did they even think before making this light cover?

[Dobermonster]

http://www.crispian.net/PTIR/Nonsense.html

Periodic Table of Irrational Nonsense

This is more of an interactive graphic, but I think it belongs.

[Tank]

http://www.crispian.net/PTIR/Nonsense.html

Periodic Table of Irrational Nonsense

This is more of an interactive graphic, but I think it belongs.

Very good. Somebody spent a lot of time creating that.

[Guardian85]

That was downright funny! Saved for future reference.

[Tank]

[Sweetdeath]

How could anyone possibly think a virgin could give birth? That myth blows my brain up into tiny pieces on the wall!!

[Amicale]

How could anyone possibly think a virgin could give birth? That myth blows my brain up into tiny pieces on the wall!!

I honestly do not understand why the Catholic church insists that Mary must have been a virgin when she gave birth. It would take nothing away from the narrative to say "Mary and Joseph married, conceived a baby, and through the power of God, the pregnancy was blessed and made holy." Which, by the way, is what more Protestants are tending to believe -- that Joseph was a human father, but that the baby was blessed and made holy. I also find it very, very odd that the Catholics (who apparently LOVE large families) insist that Jesus was Mary's only son, and that she remained a virgin her entire life! When women in her time were expected to bear children and raise several, how would she avoided it? In the Bible, the verses talking about Mary visiting Jesus along with his brothers -- Protestants say those were really brothers, Catholics say the original word means 'relative', not brother, so they were his cousins. Sigh.

It's one thing to deliberately believe a contrived myth. It's quite another to look at plain text, and deliberately read something into it that likely isn't there. I ceased to be Catholic LONG before I ceased to believe in God, because to me it wasn't the supernaturalism that did me in at first... it was the insane mental gymnastics.

[Guardian85]

Immaculate conception? Sure you don't wanna put a twenty on Joe?