Kentucky Students Forecefully Baptized

[Heretical Rants]

Will, you forget:  The cake is a lie.

Tasty, though.

[karadan]

We should develop an unbaptism ceremony for people new to atheism. It would be a nice way to celebrate the end of a person's journey to free-thinking and to piss off people like those mentioned in the OP.

Maybe what we can do is have someone get their head wet, and then dry it off with a towel that has the scarlet A on it? Then we can have cake. Or we can have someone read the silly parts of his or her religious text. Then we can have cake. Or we can have friends and family each say a short statement about how proud we are or how we also made it. Then we can have cake.

Hang on. I'm not baptized. Does that mean i don't get cake?

[SSY]

If you un-baptize someone, you are bound to have the crazies say " Oh no, no silly towel can get rid of GOD'S righteousness!!!!1111oneone"

You have to go over the top, have the new atheist do something themselves, like piss on their holy text, that's a rejection right there.

[Ultima22689]

If you un-baptize someone, you are bound to have the crazies say " Oh no, no silly towel can get rid of GOD'S righteousness!!!!1111oneone"

You have to go over the top, have the new atheist do something themselves, like piss on their holy text, that's a rejection right there.

I think it would be better if it was done in a subtle manner opposed to outright pissing on the bible or other "holy" text. Literal Bible bashing just makes us atheists look bad.

[LoneMateria]

Maybe we can employ an old religious technique, who want to roast some marshmallows over someones holy book?

[Ultima22689]

Maybe we can employ an old religious technique, who want to roast some marshmallows over someones holy book?

Then we'd be book burning, that's a BAD idea.

[LoneMateria]

Maybe we can employ an old religious technique, who want to roast some marshmallows over someones holy book?

Then we'd be book burning, that's a BAD idea.

No, were not trying to stunt knowledge, there are 500 billion copies of the bible we aren't destroying anything.   Were just publicly showing our dissatisfaction with it.  Kinda like flag burning.  MMM i'm getting hungry for smores now.

[Ultima22689]

Maybe we can employ an old religious technique, who want to roast some marshmallows over someones holy book?

Then we'd be book burning, that's a BAD idea.

No, were not trying to stunt knowledge, there are 500 billion copies of the bible we aren't destroying anything.   Were just publicly showing our dissatisfaction with it.  Kinda like flag burning.  MMM i'm getting hungry for smores now.

hmm, good point.

[andrewclunn]

If you're going to go religious style then the first thing would be to write a book in biblical style that explains how the universe REALLY came to be what it is today.  It should also end with someone being visited by God in a dream telling them a secret revelation, that people believed in too much crazy crap for people to actually know what real 'good' is, so God wants people to be atheists.

[LoneMateria]

If you're going to go religious style then the first thing would be to write a book in biblical style that explains how the universe REALLY came to be what it is today.  It should also end with someone being visited by God in a dream telling them a secret revelation, that people believed in too much crazy crap for people to actually know what real 'good' is, so God wants people to be atheists.

Does it have to be written in 17th century Elizabethan English?  Or should it be like the originals and written in a dead language?

[andrewclunn]

Let's do it in the language that needs it the most, Arabic.

[Ultima22689]

Let's do it in the language that needs it the most, Arabic.

, this should be done and sold around the world. XD

[LoneMateria]

Whats the point in writing a book like that if the people around you can't read it >.<?  I say do it in modern English, I'll make it easy.  Heres a rough draft.

I woke up this morning like every other morning.  Only today was special.  I realized it was up to me to get rid of superstition in the world like I've seen in my dreams.  I summoned my wife who came with a pen and paper ... just yanking your chain she brought me my laptop.  Pen and paper yeah right.  Then I wrote down the steps needed to make this world a peaceful world.

1: Make sure your actions cause the least amount of suffering possible to others.
2: Think critically before taking action.
3: Never stop trying to learn and strive to believe as few false things as possible.
4: Embrace what is different, our diversity makes us strong, don't waste time hating those who are different.
5: Willful ignorance and superstition are for those who lived in the bronze age, not us.

The End

[andrewclunn]

It's one thing to just say things.  It's another to provide stories that illustrate that illustrate the ideas.  Also, then you have a text, you can quote from and claim that your holy text is superior because it corresponds with science.  Also, there are a lot of tax perks to being a religious organization (at least in the states.)

[iNow]

If you're going to go religious style then the first thing would be to write a book in biblical style that explains how the universe REALLY came to be what it is today.

One already exists.  It's called "The Bible According to Einstein."

Check it out:  http://www.jupiterscientific.org/science/bae.html