ERMAHGERD COOKIECOTT 2014

[Ben Shapiro]

Damn.

[Suu]

I tend to have very little sympathy for people who feel the need to fill their lives with artificial happiness, be it drugs or religions.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I tend to have very little sympathy for people who feel the need to fill their lives with artificial happiness, be it drugs or religions.

I do.  I have loads of sympathy for people like that.  Anyone who actually doesn't is an ASSHOLE, and you don't seem like too much of an ASSHOLE.  The reason I say this is that life's tough and the universe is a bad neighborhood at 3 AM.  I'm for whatever gets you through the night, whether that's Baby Jesus or a bottle of bourbon.

Now, the moment someone insists that THEIR method of getting through the night is THE method, and I have to agree with that or at least not say anything that might cause them to even DOUBT it, however unintentionally, then all that sympathy vanishes in a puff of smoke and then the chewtoy and the screaming and the plugged up drains and the cleaning lady trying to get all the horror off the ceiling. 

By accident.  Naturally.

[Suu]

I tend to have very little sympathy for people who feel the need to fill their lives with artificial happiness, be it drugs or religions.

I do.  I have loads of sympathy for people like that.  Anyone who actually doesn't is an ASSHOLE, and you don't seem like too much of an ASSHOLE.  The reason I say this is that life's tough and the universe is a bad neighborhood at 3 AM.  I'm for whatever gets you through the night, whether that's Baby Jesus or a bottle of bourbon.

Now, the moment someone insists that THEIR method of getting through the night is THE method, and I have to agree with that or at least not say anything that might cause them to even DOUBT it, however unintentionally, then all that sympathy vanishes in a puff of smoke and then the chewtoy and the screaming and the plugged up drains and the cleaning lady trying to get all the horror off the ceiling. 

By accident.  Naturally.

Anytime a chewtoy is involved it's usually an accident.

That makes a lot more sense put that way though, I DO have sympathy, just not for that kind of attitude.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

a friend from high school who converted to born-again after a heroin addiction messaged me after I posted that link to the Trail Life article, and he called me all sorts of amazing names and told me that he was sick of me "hating" Christians and their precious values, and I wasn't thinking of the children and shit. Oh, and that he was going to unfollow my posts because I hurt him all the time.

My response, "Look, I'm really glad that Christ was able to cure you of your addiction, but it's clear to me now that so could have the Church of Scientology."

Blocked. 



This kid signed my high school yearbook telling me that Dogma was the greatest movie ever because it told us everything we needed to know about organized religion in 2 hours.

True Believers in one thing are the quickest to convert to True Believers in something else.

I couldn't tell you how many strident Atheists I have known to convert to equally strident Born-Again Christians, and sometimes back again. Occasionally hitting a couple of other religious/philosophical sticks on the way.

True Believers are looking for something outside of them to give them a sense of rightness and importance. I am pretty sure that's why they ban so quickly when their dogmas are challenged or questioned.

[Suu]

He firmly believes that God made him an addict to lead him to Christ. 

Granted, I was raised Roman Catholic, not Evangelist, but um...last I checked, that ain't God's style. But hell, to each their own sales pitch.