tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post929618161160182984..comments2023-09-24T07:53:50.826-05:00Comments on The Atheist Experience™: An Inspiration!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-90998746030585302872011-06-18T13:37:22.168-05:002011-06-18T13:37:22.168-05:00She's not Satan. Satan has smaller boobs.She's not Satan. Satan has smaller boobs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-30466298518757369632010-07-14T15:29:54.487-05:002010-07-14T15:29:54.487-05:00I'm having some trouble with flash on this com...I'm having some trouble with flash on this computer. Can someone please give me a hard link to the youtube video? I would appreciate it.baraerishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10243520164312160802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-18899627597226720042010-07-10T20:21:33.953-05:002010-07-10T20:21:33.953-05:00Seifer: I think that's more the ffect of the P...Seifer: I think that's more the ffect of the PC movement than it is relion's hold on society (which is still ridiculously strong...but weakening!)<br /><br />Awesome story. I'm listening to her recount it on youtube.magx01https://www.blogger.com/profile/14831638782847911405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-78346520974819194012010-06-27T05:18:50.248-05:002010-06-27T05:18:50.248-05:00@JC-Don't get me started on nuns, the nice one...@JC-Don't get me started on nuns, the nice ones are often as baffling as the nasty ones when they are as stupid, which from my experience happens to be the case quite a lot.Guillaumehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-20272152600899264772010-06-26T07:50:42.907-05:002010-06-26T07:50:42.907-05:00John:
I can't help but notice that in additio...John:<br /><br />I can't help but notice that in addition to having "Christ" in your last name, you also share the messiah's initials, "JC"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-45649859535325578362010-06-26T07:17:01.194-05:002010-06-26T07:17:01.194-05:00And yes, it was our conversation i was referring t...And yes, it was our conversation i was referring to, as i did say to you TH that i don't heckle.... and when i saw the nuns i thought of you! Sarah was having none of it though, i think an aged christian must deserve more respect than a younger one, eh?<br /><br />Not in my view, they are the best to hold conversation with, you know that they are the ones with the longest term served, or sentence as it might as well be called, in a life stunted by religion! <br /><br /><br />JCxChristalogicalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09247049850326658563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-86151046100924350142010-06-26T07:09:40.970-05:002010-06-26T07:09:40.970-05:00@ Guillaume, yes i concur totally, in my own exper...@ Guillaume, yes i concur totally, in my own experience the facts are the same, they (nuns) don't even seem to carry the sweet old lady syndrome that you might expect from a good doer, they actually appear to me to be cantankerous and hostile, unless you're a nun also.... Perhaps we should don wigs and habits ourselves and see what reaction we can get, perhaps dress as them but promote atheism instead, with the same, know all, ignorant attitude they, or any catholics who are my favourite (in entertainment terms) of Christian!<br /><br />Imagine how i feel, my surname has Christ in it ~ Irony or what! :D<br /><br />JxChristalogicalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09247049850326658563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-41689964747598461522010-06-26T04:59:48.224-05:002010-06-26T04:59:48.224-05:00@JohnnieChristal and Tracie-From my experience, th...@JohnnieChristal and Tracie-From my experience, the nuns are often the dumbest, stupidest, senilest, clueless, least educated of Catholics. I don't want to sound chauvinistic or abusive here, my mother has many nuns friends (as do most people of her generation in Québec), and they seem smart enough, but I so often met frustratingly silly nuns, because their mind could not think outside their credos and what they had been taught in catechism as a child. They were basically 50, 60 year old Catholic children. I think it is the way women were brought up in the Catholic Church, the more devout you get the more brainwashed you are and you assimilate the machism of the Church. <br /><br />When I was a teenager (back in the 90s), my latin class (a bit less than ten people) went to a weekend trip in Quebec City with our teacher and a friend. Both were nuns. We got seriously drunk that night in the field next to the house where we were staying and they never noticed it. Not that night, not in the morning when they cooked us breakfast and we were all seriously hangover.Guillaumehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-23258370837311565552010-06-25T16:55:42.424-05:002010-06-25T16:55:42.424-05:00I ran into a street preacher for the first time ev...I ran into a street preacher for the first time <i>ever</i> last weekend. First time I ran into the 3 of them, the young man was up there preaching at the crowds going by, without addressing anyone directly. So I responded: "How do you know?" and similar. After a few minutes of getting preached at, I wished him luck and moved on. Later the same night, I happened across them again, and this time someone else was preaching while the young man was holding their sign of Bible verses. I was just going to walk by, but he stopped me and said, aren't you the one from earlier? So we had a very nice conversation, which we're now continuing in email.<br /><br />But what really struck me about this was the difference in his demeanor between the preaching and the conversation. From heated to calm. He even said as much, that he had a hard time having a one-on-one conversation with anybody when he was in "preaching mode." It made me wonder how he intended to convert or convince anyone by talking <i>at</i> them instead of talking <i>with</i> them.entilzhahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10829740319490964645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-63866434748240512732010-06-25T15:58:09.489-05:002010-06-25T15:58:09.489-05:00>i saw two nuns collecting for children at the ...>i saw two nuns collecting for children at the supermarket tonight, asked the wife if i could go have an atheist debate with her - denied permission, that was of course today after we'd chatted about the fact that i don't heckle, last night! Thanks TH x<br /><br />Wondering if I'm implicated in this somehow? Really glad to see your post!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-46480618600105309422010-06-25T14:33:13.525-05:002010-06-25T14:33:13.525-05:00@StrawberryPatchBug-I am dying with jealousy. I ac...@StrawberryPatchBug-I am dying with jealousy. I actually wanted to be Satan... on a stage, playing Mephostopheles, either in Goethe's play or singing in Gounod's Faust (maybe my voice was too high). I neither became a professional actor or opera singer, so it will never happen. <br /><br />But for the rest, I wish I had acted like you when I was bothered by preaching Christians. I remember many nights of heavy drinking at the university bar where the Christian Union was making toasts and tea and trying to preach to us. I challenged them over the Bible (many of them were creationists) but then I was already drunk and pretty nice.Guillaumehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-68640468313110614522010-06-25T11:04:10.798-05:002010-06-25T11:04:10.798-05:00Crazy as such, and not unexpected, certainly the r...Crazy as such, and not unexpected, certainly the reference to Satan being common regarding anything to do with anything anti-religion, even when it's simply put, and as in this case, without the mention of the word atheism! I'm all to eager to let on the secret that i'm atheist, perhaps that is a reflection of my personality, i saw two nuns collecting for children at the supermarket tonight, asked the wife if i could go have an atheist debate with her - denied permission, that was of course today after we'd chatted about the fact that i don't heckle, last night! Thanks TH xChristalogicalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09247049850326658563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-17086215042269075052010-06-25T10:04:15.038-05:002010-06-25T10:04:15.038-05:00HEY FOLKS! This is Satan herself! I just wanted to...HEY FOLKS! This is Satan herself! I just wanted to let you guys know how much I appreciate everything you've had to say about my little story. <br />@Thomas: it's funny that you should phrase it as cock-blocking Jesus! that's exactly how my best friend worded it when I frantically called him immediately after this happened!<br />@Guillaume: I think you can see it in my face in my video how please I was about being called Satan. I couldn't contain a big fat smile when the guy said it and couldn't hide how ecstatic I was when recounting it.<br />Thank you again everyone! All of your kind words and encouragement have only added to the experience!GiaBughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06932341689721087835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-74421356489784179182010-06-25T03:29:24.395-05:002010-06-25T03:29:24.395-05:00He replied that I didn't know what was in the ...<i>He replied that I didn't know what was in the Bible, and that I must be Satan.</i><br /><br />Isn't it a thing in the mythology that Satan knows what's in the Bible better than almost anyone?<br /><br />Anyway, great story. I think every atheist who wants to confront this kind of thing should have such passages memorized (or rather, where the passages can be found). Asking to borrow the other person's Bible and showing them exactly where this awful thing has <i>always</i> been printed in their "moral guidebook" is like doing street magic these days.Dorkmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13927199693571387920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-4770954354218497452010-06-24T18:17:00.140-05:002010-06-24T18:17:00.140-05:00Satan was a lady...Satan was a lady...Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17933545393470431585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-10329960026698471042010-06-24T16:43:35.592-05:002010-06-24T16:43:35.592-05:00Another thought: I kind of envy PamAnnJet for bein...Another thought: I kind of envy PamAnnJet for being called Satan. How many of us have been labeled Satan, seriously? Matt was accused of being a Satanist at least once on the show, but that's not nearly the same. Personally, I have been accused to fall for Satan, here and there (particularly by fundamentalist muslims), but Satan? I wish!Guillaumehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-30106190347627641702010-06-24T16:29:21.742-05:002010-06-24T16:29:21.742-05:00Great story and it is indeed an inspiring one. I a...Great story and it is indeed an inspiring one. I agree with Martin: she stripped those Christians from their sugarcoat and show their true nature, the one of mindless, debilitated fanatics, unable to think beyond the clichés of their religion.<br /><br />I had a few encounters with Christian preachers of different confessions, usually I simply cut it short, telling them curtly that I don't believe in God and that's it. I remember one of those encounters back in 2005, my future wife and I were walking in the street and there was a Baptist Church having a worship session outside, some of the worshippers were on the pavement outside the church's ground. An old man gave us a leaflet, telling us to read "all the Bible" and praying to God and stuff. We politely accepted the leaflet, only to mock its empty prose when we got back. I thought then we had been too nice, but I just didn't want to make a scene (my wife wouldn't have appreciated it). Now I know for sure I made a mistake then. I should have told him, as I had wanted, that while he had the right to worship, invading public place to preach to passersby was borderline harassment and that he should mind his own bloody (or Godly) business.Guillaumehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-53636415869744008112010-06-24T11:37:03.246-05:002010-06-24T11:37:03.246-05:00Of course they were angry. She just cock-blocked J...Of course they were angry. She just cock-blocked Jesus!<br /><br />But seriously, it was good that she stopped to provide support for their "mark"Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14299046445235601258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-79353157002966878082010-06-24T09:42:18.236-05:002010-06-24T09:42:18.236-05:00Martin: Thanks. I hope that people don't inf...Martin: Thanks. I hope that people don't infer from what I said that it's okay to go up and rudely or harshly confront theists. PamAnnJett certainly didn't.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-73090533655540204682010-06-24T09:07:04.476-05:002010-06-24T09:07:04.476-05:00Strangelove: Picky detail, but remember name calli...Strangelove: Picky detail, but remember name calling is not the same thing as ad hominems.<br /><br />Seifer: Also remember that she was never confrontational in a rude way, just honest. I'd hate (and so would she) for people to get the wrong idea and use her example as motivation to go up to anyone they see street preaching and totally jump their case.Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17933545393470431585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-66536707716081808522010-06-24T08:24:49.573-05:002010-06-24T08:24:49.573-05:00Here's how wrapped around it's finger reli...Here's how wrapped around it's finger religion has this society: you can interrupt people who are rudely bothering and outnumbering someone in the park, and yet somehow you suspect you might be the rude one. Regardless, awesome video, I wish more people would have the guts to go do that. There have been two Mormon guys wandering around my apartment complex prosthelytizing the past two days, so maybe I'll get a chance at this later today.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-38477409126978787582010-06-24T07:47:47.017-05:002010-06-24T07:47:47.017-05:00Sometime I can't help but feel sorry for these...Sometime I can't help but feel sorry for these street preacher types. Their brains have been taken over by a religion virus whose sole purpose seems to be to propagate itself, infecting more brains. And they are not the least bit aware of it, the virus itself gives them all the comfort they need.<br /><br />This story was indeed quite inspirational and it's good to know that in this case a contagion has probably been prevented.<br /><br />The hostile reaction of these street preachers only revealed that although they were aware of those embarrassing bible passages they had nothing in their script to address them. How very Christian to immediately resort to ad hominems.Strangelovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02873585969202391288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-65861245909018205182010-06-24T07:02:20.452-05:002010-06-24T07:02:20.452-05:00Well done, this is something I never thought of do...Well done, this is something I never thought of doing myself but I will in future...Funkyzxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06230060222726535433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-17559782156287978782010-06-24T06:09:29.982-05:002010-06-24T06:09:29.982-05:00Yeah I'm with Martin on this one. These street...Yeah I'm with Martin on this one. These street preacher types like to fancy themselves as the brave, grass-roots advocates for jesus from biblical times. As if they're walking in the shoes of the legendary founders of Xianiity, etc.<br /><br />But they're mostly just shouting, screaming morons with, like, no jobs, futures or brains.<br /><br />I remember those guys that used to park out on the UT campus across from the drag and shout their messages of hate. Most of the time they were just ignored, but sometimes people would engage them. Don't know whatever happened to them; I moved from Austin 4 years ago, maybe they've come back?<br /><br />The laward just can't seem to get his shit together with His advocates. They seem so easy to take down...<br /><br />I'd have loved to have seen this woman engage a couple of those guys too. Warms my heart, very inspirational story....<br /><br />Llshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17901508236729383702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-40190028372834680002010-06-23T16:16:19.256-05:002010-06-23T16:16:19.256-05:00Well, trying to be the angel's advocate here, ...Well, trying to be the angel's advocate here, as she tells the story, she could have asked a curt short question near the beginning as to whether these were actually proselytizers rather than friends instead of (correctly as it turned out) guessing. That is I think what she suspected was rude and asked the question. <br /><br />Of course this is said with hindsight, and as a pointer to others inspired to possibly repeat this, like me. It is not at all rude to interrupt a brainwashing session in public.<br /><br />By the way, if this person is willing to reveal the video, I'd like to watch it. If she doesn't want to make it completely public she can message me on Youtube (same moniker, "Cafeeine")Cafeeine Addictedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02011016176276511661noreply@blogger.com