ATTN: Parents

[AFK]

Wat. Is this some kind of American phenomenon, people take their religion way too seriously even when they have none?

Basically yes.

Fucking asshats. 

[Doktor Howl]

Wat. Is this some kind of American phenomenon, people take their religion way too seriously even when they have none?

Yes.

There's lead in our plumbing.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Wat. Is this some kind of American phenomenon, people take their religion way too seriously even when they have none?

Basically yes.

Fucking asshats.

Plenty of proselyzing atheists on facebook.

Lead in the water, mercury in the tooth fillings.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Please come pick your children up from Polk County.

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/19/10761802-using-unholy-water-florida-atheists-scrub-away-blessing-from-local-road

I don't even know what to make of this. Is blessing a road stupid? Yes. Does it really do anything? No. So is it anything to get upset about?...As an atheist living in the bible belt, my answer is going to be  ABSOLUTELY NOT.

As ridiculous as that church sounds explaining themselves, HFA sounds worse. Especially here:

"We come in peace," Humanists of Florida (HFA) director Mark Palmer shouted to crowd, according to News 9. "Now that's normally what aliens say when they visit a new planet, but we're not aliens, we're atheists!"

Thoughts?

THAT FUCK?? 

Wow. It's like the Atheists and the Fundies are in a competition to out-stupid each other.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Please come pick your children up from Polk County.

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/19/10761802-using-unholy-water-florida-atheists-scrub-away-blessing-from-local-road

I don't even know what to make of this. Is blessing a road stupid? Yes. Does it really do anything? No. So is it anything to get upset about?...As an atheist living in the bible belt, my answer is going to be  ABSOLUTELY NOT.

As ridiculous as that church sounds explaining themselves, HFA sounds worse. Especially here:

"We come in peace," Humanists of Florida (HFA) director Mark Palmer shouted to crowd, according to News 9. "Now that's normally what aliens say when they visit a new planet, but we're not aliens, we're atheists!"

Thoughts?

THAT FUCK?? 

Wow. It's like the Atheists and the Fundies are in a competition to out-stupid each other.

I'm guessing a lot of atheists are disaffected fundies. Lobotomy is forever.

[Oysters Rockefeller]

Please come pick your children up from Polk County.

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/19/10761802-using-unholy-water-florida-atheists-scrub-away-blessing-from-local-road

I don't even know what to make of this. Is blessing a road stupid? Yes. Does it really do anything? No. So is it anything to get upset about?...As an atheist living in the bible belt, my answer is going to be  ABSOLUTELY NOT.

As ridiculous as that church sounds explaining themselves, HFA sounds worse. Especially here:

"We come in peace," Humanists of Florida (HFA) director Mark Palmer shouted to crowd, according to News 9. "Now that's normally what aliens say when they visit a new planet, but we're not aliens, we're atheists!"

Thoughts?

THAT FUCK?? 

Wow. It's like the Atheists and the Fundies are in a competition to out-stupid each other.

One of the few competitions you can win and still lose.

[navkat]

A quote from the article:

"Its objective is to place Holy Angels at all roads that lead into or out of Polk County," the blog post said. "A strip of anointed oil has been placed over all lanes of highway at the county line and a prayer has been given at each location asking God to have angels inspect every vehicle that travels into or out of this county and to bring under conviction to those who seek evil and we asked God to bring them to a state of submission and repentance."

The post added, "If they will not submit to God's way of living, then the prayer is to have them incarcerated or removed from the county."

If that's a county/state-sanctioned event then yeah, I understand why the atheists did it. That sentiment would annoy the shit out of me too. Who the fuck do they think they are? It sounds like an out-and-out attack on anyone who isn't Christian, in fact...a self-fulfilling prophecy that says "we've established christianity as the rule of law here and our county representatives are behind that. If you won't come to christ, it's only a matter of time before we find a reason for you to end up in jail. His will be done, Amen."

Man, fuck them. Humanists are being pretty damned funny about it and calling attention to some fucked up attitudes, IMO.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

Wat. Is this some kind of American phenomenon, people take their religion way too seriously even when they have none?

I once witnessed a ritual where people wore skirts and hairpieces made out of cooked spaghetti and used a Ouija board to contact the Flying Spaghetti Monster. They drank spaghetti sauce and vodka until they puked and spent the rest of the semester telling one and all how they'd been touched by the holy FSM's noodly appendage. Several tattoo-getting sprees and seances followed.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

A quote from the article:

"Its objective is to place Holy Angels at all roads that lead into or out of Polk County," the blog post said. "A strip of anointed oil has been placed over all lanes of highway at the county line and a prayer has been given at each location asking God to have angels inspect every vehicle that travels into or out of this county and to bring under conviction to those who seek evil and we asked God to bring them to a state of submission and repentance."

The post added, "If they will not submit to God's way of living, then the prayer is to have them incarcerated or removed from the county."

If that's a county/state-sanctioned event then yeah, I understand why the atheists did it. That sentiment would annoy the shit out of me too. Who the fuck do they think they are? It sounds like an out-and-out attack on anyone who isn't Christian, in fact...a self-fulfilling prophecy that says "we've established christianity as the rule of law here and our county representatives are behind that. If you won't come to christ, it's only a matter of time before we find a reason for you to end up in jail. His will be done, Amen."

Man, fuck them. Humanists are being pretty damned funny about it and calling attention to some fucked up attitudes, IMO.

Unholy water is lame though. Dumping horseshit would have been more eloquent and LAIL.

[Bu🤠ns]

I wonder if they have some history between each other.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

I wonder if they have some history between each other.

Polk County does have a hole-in-the-road ring to it, it's possible they've all known each other since grade school but I'm too lazy to google.

[navkat]

*Shrug* looks like they wanted to get attention and "undoing" the blessing is about the most peaceful way I can think of to make that statement, get attention but not be completely ridiculous about it. They basically said "We are not cool with a county-backed public declaration of Polk county as a "christians only" zone. You are declaring to visitors and current non-residents that if we don't come to jeebus, you hope we're incarcerated or made to leave and we're compelled to scrub that declaration off the road."

I'm kool with that. There's more to this story than simply "Atheists apply atheist juice to neutralize jesus-juice z0mfglolwtf!" They were making a statement and they chose a humorous, ironical way that forces people to think to do it. I'm 100% behind that.

[Cain]

Or,

they chose a way which will reaffirm the idea that atheists = satanists among evangelical christians and it will invariably be used as ammo for why separation of church and state is wrong and all atheists need to be expelled from the US.

I'm going with the above scenario.

[P3nT4gR4m]

The fact that, in the year 2012, there are still a significant number of people arguing about whether church and state should be kept separate leads me to believe that the human race is so far beyond fucked that the only possible reason we still exist must be divine intervention

[Cain]

I've seen a semi-decent argument for it, but it might have just been John Gray being contrary and trolling atheists, as he is wont to do.