{if FALSE} Trackback: Recruiting Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if FALSE} {/if} #43618: — 10/12  at  11:38 AM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} I'm sure tempted to buy their
2 Kings 2:24 bear. That's always struck me
as one of the most monumentally stupid bits
of the Bible. {/if}

{if FALSE} Trackback: Recruiting Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if FALSE} {/if} #43620: — 10/12  at  11:44 AM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} Good thing I am already an athiest... otherwise, I would be very unsettled right now. {/if}

{if FALSE} Trackback: Recruiting Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if TRUE} {/if} #43622: Stephen Stralka — 10/12  at  11:50 AM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} The deed is done. It's worth noting, too, that I saw this on their FAQ page:

Now that I'm a declared atheist, do I have to believe in the theory of evolution?

If the theory of evolution makes sense to you, then great. If not, fine. Read some books. Make up your own mind.

I'm not sure I like their answer all that much. They seem to be rejecting the creationist assumption that atheism and evolution are necessarily connected, and I certainly agree with that, and it's certainly true that no one is trying to compel anyone to "believe in" evolution. Still, it might not have hurt to point out that the validity of a scientific theory like evolution is not entirely a matter of individual opinion. {/if}

{if FALSE} Trackback: Recruiting Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if FALSE} {/if} #43623: — 10/12  at  11:53 AM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} Great site. But why are the sponsored links trying to counterrecruit? {/if}

{if FALSE} Trackback: Recruiting Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if FALSE} {/if} #43625: — 10/12  at  11:56 AM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} I'm sure that the US Library of Congress will be very interested to know that a random internet using Dane is an Atheist. My mother should know I am one, or she hasn't paid attention. {/if}

{if FALSE} Trackback: Recruiting Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if FALSE} {/if} #43627: — 10/12  at  11:59 AM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} Are there google ads? Those are triggered by whatever words that are in the website. I know The American Street dropped Google Ads becuase there was no control over what ads showed up (there was an ad for Scientology which lead me to debate the issue with Kevin).

I block google ads in my browser, so I don't see them any more. {/if}

{if FALSE} Trackback: Recruiting Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if FALSE} {/if} #43631: — 10/12  at  12:13 PM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} Nooooooooo..... {/if}

{if FALSE} Trackback: Recruiting Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if FALSE} {/if} #43632: — 10/12  at  12:13 PM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} Now my mom's gonna find out for sure. {/if}

{if FALSE} Trackback: Recruiting Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if TRUE} {/if} #43634: PZ Myers — 10/12  at  12:26 PM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} I think the statement about evolution is excellent. Atheism should not dictate your position on scientific issues, and neither should religion. You should go read the evidence, and not make a decision because of an irrelevant and obvious conclusion about a mythical superhero. {/if}

{if FALSE} Trackback: Recruiting Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if FALSE} {/if} #43635: Bob Davis — 10/12  at  12:28 PM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} Atheism is a troubling manifestation of god's will. As is evolution too.

Or is it that "god" is a troubling manifestation of atheistic evolution? I always forget which way it goes.

a modest experiment {/if}

{if FALSE} Trackback: Recruiting Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if FALSE} {/if} #43641: Orac — 10/12  at  12:46 PM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} The horror! The horror! {/if}

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{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE}

#43618: Jake — 10/12 at 11:38 AM
I'm sure tempted to buy their
2 Kings 2:24 bear. That's always struck me
as one of the most monumentally stupid bits
of the Bible.

My personal favorite verse is still Matt 5:5-6. Hard to beat. I'd make up a banner and wave it at football games if the local team were good enough to rate being televised. {/if}

{if FALSE} Trackback: Recruiting Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if FALSE} {/if} #43645: — 10/12  at  01:00 PM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} Oh great! Now I have to think for MYSELF? Crap. Thinkin's hard work! {/if}

{if FALSE} Trackback: Recruiting Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if FALSE} {/if} #43647: — 10/12  at  01:33 PM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} Eep! Being a more or less lifelong atheist of agnostic parents, I'd never read 2Kings 2:24 before. PZ, do you still have that Bible? If I send you a 2 liter bottle of Cherry Coke will you promise to use the results of drinking it to piss on said Bible? Preferably open to the above verse. If the good guys in the Bible go around getting bears to eat children for making fun of their hair*, what do the bad guys do?

*And what's with this guy that he's so wimpy that he has to drag a couple of bears into his crime of infanticide? Couldn't he at least have offed the innocent if obnoxious youngsters himself instead of corrupting innocent wildlife? {/if}

{if FALSE} Trackback: Recruiting Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if FALSE} {/if} #43648: coturnix — 10/12  at  01:37 PM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} Now it's official! I can sleep better tonight! {/if}

{if FALSE} Trackback: Recruiting Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if FALSE} {/if} #43649: — 10/12  at  01:47 PM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} Regarding 2 Kings 2:24, this is just the story that Elisha told the authorities after the 42 mauled youths were discovered. At first Elisha insisted that he'd been in Samaria all along and had not walked to Bethel. {/if}

{if FALSE} Trackback: Recruiting Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if FALSE} {/if} #43653: Kele — 10/12  at  02:30 PM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} Haha, that site's hilarious. {/if}

{if FALSE} Trackback: Recruiting Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if FALSE} {/if} #43654: — 10/12  at  02:35 PM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} Thanks for the express ticket to hell, PZ. That's just great. I knew the atheists were up to no good. Telling my mom? That's just despicable. {/if}

{if FALSE} Trackback: Recruiting Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if FALSE} {/if} #43658: — 10/12  at  03:30 PM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} Yeesh, drag us down with you, PZ. Wreck my plausible deniability, why don't you... {/if}

{if FALSE} Trackback: Recruiting Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if FALSE} {/if} #43664: Evan Murdock — 10/12  at  04:12 PM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} I'm sticking with psalms 137:9

"How happy will be the one who grabs your babies
and smashes them on a rock!"

It's funny because it's true. {/if}

{if FALSE} Trackback: Recruiting Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if FALSE} {/if} #43665: — 10/12  at  04:19 PM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} As a matter of balance, here's a slightly cheaper light switch cover that expresses a related but contrasting point of view. {/if}

{if FALSE} Trackback: Recruiting Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if TRUE} {/if} #43667: PZ Myers — 10/12  at  04:22 PM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} That one would have to go in the bedroom. {/if}

{if FALSE} Trackback: Recruiting Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if FALSE} {/if} #43673: — 10/12  at  05:30 PM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} This site was in last Friday's Randi commentary, with some observations by the website owner:
http://www.randi.org/jr/200510/100705as.html#4 {/if}

{if FALSE} Trackback: Recruiting Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if FALSE} {/if} #43674: — 10/12  at  05:41 PM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} But your light switches are upside down! {/if}

{if FALSE} Trackback: Recruiting Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if FALSE} {/if} #43677: — 10/12  at  06:24 PM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} Euan: "But your light switches are upside down!"

Hmmm, he's right. In the UK, the switch goes up for off and down for on, the opposite of the US/Canada. You learn something new every day. {/if}

{if FALSE} Trackback: Recruiting Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if FALSE} {/if} #43679: — 10/12  at  06:29 PM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE}

Hmmm, he's right. In the UK, the switch goes up for off and down for on, the opposite of the US/Canada. You learn something new every day.

Yeah, and I bet your toilets go counterclockwise, too, huh? Or, uh, is it the other way around?

(Or do toilets in Canada and the UK go one direction and the US the other?) {/if}

{if FALSE} Trackback: Recruiting Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if FALSE} {/if} #43683: — 10/12  at  07:04 PM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} UKvian toilets don't do the swirly thing. Neither do Australian toilets, they don't go the opposite way to the US. It's a straight flush. {/if}

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{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE}

But your light switches are upside down!

I'm glad someone else noticed that because I was beginning to think you were all being rather strange. Now it turns out you were just being American. Not much difference then. (-; Just like the way you drive on the wrong side of the road (and even that's only if the pedestrians are lucky, to judge by your TV police shows!). Do I have to worry about the polarity of your electricity being reversed or you all being made of antimatter as well? :-D {/if}

{if FALSE} Trackback: Recruiting Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if FALSE} {/if} #43692: — 10/12  at  09:15 PM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE}

1. Have no gods.
2. Don't worship stuff.
3. Be polite.
4. Take a day off once in a while.
5. Be nice to folks.
6. Don't kill people.
7. Don't fool around on your significant other.
8. Don't steal stuff.
9. Don't lie about stuff.
10. Don't be greedy.

Done, I passed the test already :D and without a supernatural being looking over my shoulder.

The universe is so complex that someone must have designed it.

"I don't know -- that sentence was fairly complex but there was obviously not much thought behind it."

LMAO pwned! I love that one


Bah, if it said "I dropped my religion.." I'd consider buying it. {/if}

{if FALSE} Trackback: Recruiting Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if FALSE} {/if} #43703: coturnix — 10/12  at  10:46 PM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} Play this game:
http://www.liquidgeneration.com/games/homeless_jesus.asp {/if}

{if FALSE} Trackback: Recruiting Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if FALSE} {/if} #43707: — 10/12  at  11:48 PM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} I guess it would be confusing to put the "Jesus" plate onto a 3-way switch! {/if}

{if FALSE} Trackback: Recruiting Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if FALSE} {/if} #43722: Alon Levy — 10/13  at  07:51 AM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} Just like the way you drive on the wrong side of the road (and even that's only if the pedestrians are lucky, to judge by your TV police shows!).

No, it's Brits who drive on the wrong side of the road; Americans and (continental) Europeans drive on the right side of the road, evidently.


Now, about the lightswitch, what do I do if my light switch is a round bulge that can be sunken at the top for light or sunken at the bottom for darkness, beside which there is a rotating dial that adjusts the level of illumination? {/if}

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{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE}

#43618: Jake — 10/12 at 11:38 AM
I'm sure tempted to buy their 2 Kings 2:24 bear. That's always struck me as one of the most monumentally stupid bits of the Bible.

What? No Ezekiel 23:20 Donkey or Horse?

(For best effect, use the New International Reader's Version: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel23:20;&version;=76; ) {/if}