From: harry@timesink.chi.il.us (Harold Platypus)
Subject: Re: FLAME: atheists should mind their own damn business
Organization: Big Bulging Buffalo Bladders -R- Us
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 18:29:05 GMT

In article <1992Dec12.202025.810@abo.fi> MANDTBACKA@FINABO.ABO.FI (Mats Andtbacka) writes:
>
>      WARNING: the following is 100% napalm, and it's ablaze. Not
>recommended for sensitive readers.
>
The whole thing was rather mild IMHO... Yawn...

>In <1992Dec12.071137.16343@timesink.chi.il.us> harry@timesink.chi.il.us writes:
>
>> I don't have anything against atheists really... just leave me and
>> my world alone.
>
>      THIS, you're posting on OUR newsgroup?!? Look who's talkin',
>asshole! Matter of fact, if I hadn't seen that one line on top of all
>this drivel, I never would have responded - but you asked for it!
>
Oh, I'm so sorry to spark a controversy in alt.atheism... I didn't
mean to get y'all excited... NOT!

>> If you don't like "In God We Trust" on US Currency,
>> don't look for it - ya know it's there.
>
>      Whaddeheck you talkin' 'bout - "don't look for it, because it's
>there"? Do look for the logic in that statement, 'cos it sure ain't
>there!
>
Hmmmm... Shoulda refined that one a bit more...

>> If a religious symbol in a
>> municipal seal is offensive to you, don't seek it out... After all
>> it's not a blinking neon sign in your face, you have to look for it.
>
>      I take it you don't support the separation of church and state. I
>recommend you pack up your stuff and move to Iran.
>
I support it wholeheartedly... I simply loathe those who pick it up as
a battle cry and stir up trouble where none existed before. Sort of like
me... I'm stirring up trouble here where y'all are complacent and happy
in yer little niche. Ya know what? Y'ALL DON'T LIKE IT...

>> If a book or movie or anything in my environment offends my
>> sensibilities, I try to ignore it. Why do y'all have to stir up shit... 
>
>      Why do YOU lot have to put it there for us to stir up? If you
>wanna spend your lives in it, go do so; but get it out of OUR lives!
>
I WILL NOT! I like it here. It's now my mission to disturb your
sensibilities and make you think about other peoples feelings besides
your own... I happened to like the seal of the City of Zion, Illinois.
It gives me great pleasure to know that, after the court ruling, the
new seal was emblazened with the motto "In God We Trust". That'll show
you to what lengths the majority will go to foil your "Bah Humbug"
attitude towards the beliefs we hold dear...

>> Most of us kinda like "In God We Trust" on the currency. It's kinda
>> folksy and quaint, whether you believe it or not. Just look at it
>> as if it were saying "When things are going down the toilet, and we
>> can't stand to blame ourselves, we trust in God...
>
>      When things are going down the toilet, I prefer to put my trust in
>things that EXIST, thank you.
>
Oh ye of little faith... :-)

>> 'cuz if there
>> ain't one, we're all fucked!". That should put a new face on it...
>
>      There ain't one. That makes me an independent, adult human being -
>and you a big child who can't stand on his own legs. Yes, that was meant
>to be insulting. So was this whole posting - because so was YOUR
>posting.
>
Boo hoo... he called me a little child. Sniff... but I didn't mean to
be insulting to everyone. I despise the militant, activist atheist not
for his beliefs or non-beliefs... but for the ridiculous lawsuits they
file and the living hell they put their kids through. Like the stroke
that sued the Boy Scouts of America for crying out loud... like his
little boy is going to be made welcome now... bullshit! He will be one
alienated little boy who will be the target for all sorts of abuse at
the hands of his peers. But his dad can hold his head up high, 'cuz
he stood up for what he believes in. What a load of self-serving crap!
- Harry
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