Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Not All Talent Should Be Encouraged




New Atheist in the Park is a furry comic all about the terrible people that are atheists, conveniently represented by a rat . . . sheep . . . thing. I dunno, see if you can figure it out.






The face is rather distinctly sheepy, but the hands, and later the tail, are distinctly ratlike. Shouldn't the Christian be the sheep? Lamb of God and all that?



I really want that t-shirt. It says: "Ask me about your god and I'll tell you why he doesn't exist". Actually, it should say "Tell me about your god and I'll tell you why he doesn't exist". That's the t-shirt I want. Not that I would ever wear it out in public. How about underwear that says that? Then I can wear it, but nobody sees it.



"Sweet and holy mother of Dawkins"? Why on earth do fundys think we worship Dawkins? I respect Dawkins. I'd love to meet him, but not nearly as much as I want to [bleep!] Naveen Andrews.



Have you ever met an atheist who was so upset at the sight of a person reading a Bible (a very common sight in some places, mind you) that they immediately started verbally attacking that person and then stole the Bible? No, you have not. I have, however, been approached by all sorts of Christians while minding my own business and been harrassed about my beliefs, handed tracts, been touched by these people (it's called battery, it's a crime), most of whom refused to leave me alone when I asked them to.



This "artist" is imagining a world in which atheists act like Christians do in real life every day. A very good friend of mine sent me a copy of The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ. I, without thinking, brought it to read on the bus. I ended having to defend myself against a very angry man for the terrible crime of having that book on my person. How dare I?! I ended up having to pretend that I had no idea what the book was about, that I had gotten it from a coworker I hardly knew, and that I would throw it away as soon as I got home. So yeah, the above is totally accurate, but only if you reverse the characters.


"That's all folks"? You didn't even tell a story . . . dear quantum field is that atheist sheeprat thing wearing a belly shirt and short shorts?! Now that's persecution!


47 comments:

  1. Oh it is from Mariano, why didn't you say that in the first place, that would have explained a lot.

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  2. Did Mariano have that up? I found it . . . wait, do I have two Mariano blogs on my reader?

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  3. Under the link you provided:

    This essay is copyrighted by Mariano Grinbank of the website "True Free Thinker" at www.truefreethinker.com.

    It may be republished in part or in its entirety on websites, blogs, or any print media for whatever purpose (in agreement or in order to criticize it) only as long as the following conditions are met:

    1. Give credit to Mariano Grinbank of the website "True Free Thinker" and provide the url: www.truefreethinker.com/articles/new-atheist-park-%E2%80%94-backwoods-boom-town-productions.
    2. Inform me as to where it is being reproduced via the comments section or use the Trackback url: http://www.truefreethinker/trackback/1592

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  4. Huh. I don't think I've ever seen Mariano's last name. I don't doubt it's the same person, however.

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  5. Silly PF. When the other Comtesse sent my copy of TGMJaTSC, I had the good sense to read it at HOME where no one could be offended by it, just like I ought to in a decent society!

    ... Wait... what?

    The interesting thing about TGMJaTSC is that it isn't even as shocking - in some ways - as the His Dark Materials trilogy!

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  6. Have you ever met an atheist who was so upset at the sight of a person reading a Bible (a very common sight in some places, mind you) that they immediately started verbally attacking that person and then stole the Bible?

    There's a dude who sits and reads his Bible in this pleasant area by my office where I take a walk every day. I see him many times a week.

    Oddly, my only real point of caring is to hope that he one day doesn't decide to try to witness to me while I'm minding my own business. But, y'know, that's just me.

    Also, I was just taking my morning walk and for some reason doing my best, "I'm a badass, don't fuck with me," projection. All of the sudden I realized that while I was doing that I was listening to...wait for it...Sarah McLachlan (I have an inordinate fondness for Mirrorball). It amused me to no end. And I felt like sharing for some reason.

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  7. I don't know who this Mariano is, and I haven't clocked the link yet, but I am gonna take a wild guess and say that "True" Free Thinker is not a freethinker. If you have to put "true" in front of it, you're doin it wrong.

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  8. If you have to put "true" in front of it, you're doin it wrong.

    Generally if you're going with that construct you're saying, "These people say they're free thinkers, but they're just doing it to cover up their closed mindedness to the real truth."

    So, yeah. I'ma agree with you there...

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  9. Also, I was just taking my morning walk and for some reason doing my best, "I'm a badass, don't fuck with me," projection. All of the sudden I realized that while I was doing that I was listening to...wait for it...Sarah McLachlan (I have an inordinate fondness for Mirrorball). It amused me to no end. And I felt like sharing for some reason.

    LOL!

    Did you ever see Harold and Kumar Go to Whitecastle? (If not, you simply must. The meta Neil Patrick Harris alone is worth it.) There's a scene where they steal the XTREME! skater's car and when they turn on the CD player, it's set to the most ridiculously girly song ever.

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  10. Some of the commenters claim this is just a light-hearted caricature of the more strident atheists and is intended as ribbing instead of a true stereotype. But then again, most other commenters fully agree with the sentiments in that rag.

    Also, “True” Freethinker is the new blog by Mariano, the braindead operator of Atheism is Dead, so that’s probably indicative.

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  11. I forgot to add (an “edit” button! —Google): Either way, it’s painfully unfunny and falls well into that most damnable of all categories of failed attempts at humor …

    Laaaaaame.

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  12. Did you ever see Harold and Kumar Go to Whitecastle? (If not, you simply must. The meta Neil Patrick Harris alone is worth it.) There's a scene where they steal the XTREME! skater's car and when they turn on the CD player, it's set to the most ridiculously girly song ever.

    Oh, come now. I saw that in the theater opening weekend. I own it on DVD. I still refer to Kal Penn as "Kumar." And whenever I see the guy who played Harold I call say, "Hey, it's Harold."

    And Sarah McLachlan is way less emasculating than the song in that scene. Also, I'd way rather get caught listening to her than Coldplay...

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  13. I cannot think of either Kal Penn or [that other guy] as anything other than Harold and Kumar. Which made watching House kinda weird for a while. And then when they killed Kumar off, I yelled, "Kumar would never kill himself!"

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  14. You two are making me wanna watch H&K to see what all the fuss is about.

    Or, it’ll probably be covered by the Nostalgia Critic before long.

    (Watching his new review of The Room [2003]. Perhaps the only film in history where you cheer in joy at the main character putting a gun in his mouth. And no, that’s not a spoiler; it’s the only thing that will make watching the damn thing bearable.)

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  15. Also, another late-ass edit: I wanted to add that the “New Atheist” in the aforementioned comic appears to be a possum.

    (For pedants: Is it “possum” or “opossum”? Or are both pretty much acceptable?)

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  16. And then when they killed Kumar off, I yelled, "Kumar would never kill himself!"

    I'd given up on House by then, but that was exactly my reaction when I learned that was an upcoming plot point.

    You two are making me wanna watch H&K to see what all the fuss is about.

    Do it. Do it.

    Okay, that's a completely different random movie reference...

    (Also, this is now the third time I'm attempting to make this post. What the fuck, Blogger?)

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  17. I say it's possum, but that's just my pinion.

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  18. It’s just … so bad.

    So very, very, completely, utterly, wholly, unrepentantly, unacceptably, unimaginably, incomprehensibly, indescribably, intolerably, mind-meltingly, gut-expodingly, face-twistingly, blood-chillingly, eye-rollingly, tragically and disastrously …

    … bad.

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  19. So very, very, completely, utterly, wholly, unrepentantly, unacceptably, unimaginably, incomprehensibly, indescribably, intolerably, mind-meltingly, gut-expodingly, face-twistingly, blood-chillingly, eye-rollingly, tragically and disastrously …

    … bad.


    But enough about my love life...

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  20. WATCH. IT. TODAY.

    opossum? what an obscure animal to pick. i think you're right, but if so, why didn't he play dead when "attacked"?

    They really do that, btw. My dog lunged and barked at an oppossum once during a walk when we lived out by the woods and it did indeed promptly flop over sideways as if dead.

    Funniest thing I've ever seen.

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  21. Possums are commonly stereotyped as creepy critters that scrounge around in dark alleys and dig in dumpsters and make messes everywhere and so forth, so I suppose its natural a possum would be used to characterize an unpleasant character in a comic.

    And yeah, I know their natural reflex when threatened is to play dead. I’ve seen Over the Hedge, after all. ;-)

    And, FINE, I’ll get the movies. Happy nao?!

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  22. And, FINE, I’ll get the movies. Happy nao?!

    Yes.

    Also, make PF a sammich.

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  23. No, YOU make her a sandwich.

    All I have are Doritos.



    Hey, they’re mine!!

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  25. You know, I think that somewhere, DM would make a psychiatrist very happy. And rich.

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  26. there's an entire pharmaceutical industry that DM would make very happy.

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  29. Y'know what I find funny? I actually forget DM exists, then he does his thing, at which point I briefly think, "What makes that dude tick?"

    Then, after about five seconds, I forget he exists again.

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  30. Hey, who you callin’ “little”? I’m bigger than you, biatch!

    *grabs DM (who looks like a shriveled gnome), throws him into garbage can, kicks can down steep hill, watching it bounce around like a bouncy ball before coming to a stop, all twisted and dented; out tumbles dizzy DM-gnome, who promptly trips over a balustrade and falls down the Niagara Falls (which magically appeared there)*

    *claps hands in satisfaction*

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  32. Possums don't just play dead, they smell dead too. My brother-in-law thought he killed one once and it had babies, so he brought the "corpse" and babies home. The corpse got up during the night and trashed their house. He then really did kill it. They raised and released the babies.

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  33. Delete buttons are de best tink ever. Eksept for hets.

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  34. Sammich?

    I told our Canadian friend to do it. Then he told me to do it, but I believe that there's a legal precedence for him still doing it. I refer, of course, to the case of No Backsies v. Sore Loser.

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  36. @Geds:
    No backsies? But I never offered. *hmph*

    Besides, I manage to screw up cereals and mac and toasts. You don’t want a sammich from me, for your own good.

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  37. No backsies? But I never offered. *hmph*

    And that's why I'm the top-rated fake internet lawyer in the lower 48.

    Besides, I manage to screw up cereals and mac and toasts. You don’t want a sammich from me, for your own good.

    Technically speaking, your lack of sammich making acumen will not affect me in the least. So, at least as far as I'm concerned, the point is moot...

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  38. I meant for PF’s own good. ’Cuz I like her and wouldn’t want her to suffer from my horrible cooking.

    You? Bah. I hate lawyers, anyway. ’Specially fake Internet ones.

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  39. You know, I saw the comments count at 40 and I thought, "Uh oh. DM must be back." But here I find (in addition to DM) Jaegerspeak and talk of sammiches! So it really worked out okay, di'n't it?

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  40. I thought the same thing, CN. and then I saw a mention of the clear supremecy of hats. Clearly, DM haz lost hiz hat.

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  41. Ho, yaz! Tch, dot hat ov hiz is long gone! Mebbe he pay a visit to OMD und get himself a sammich. Dot make him feel betta, hyu vait und see.

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  42. Wow, you should do more open threads. People do like being random.

    And just so you know (110% off-topic, I know), as I wait for H&K to download, I’ve now started up on Girl Genius.

    There had better be lots of Nize Hats!. I didn’t write a reference in my revised profile description for nothing, I tells you!

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  43. Mariano is a strange bird, even for a fundy. He has produced amazing amounts of material and runs Dog knows how many websites. While he's polite and even rather courtly in private conversation (I emailed a bit with him some time ago), his rather nasty blog attacks on atheists and atheism have garnered him even nastier responses. The reason I finally stopped visiting his various blogs, though, was that he almost never responds to polite criticism- he just says his piece and disappears. Not much you can do with that attitude.

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  44. of all the people i have ever met, the ONLY group that has EVER acted like "Oppossum Atheist" are Fundy Christians.

    i have sat reading, variously, the Quo'ran, the BigBlueBook [Wicca 101...it has LOTS of names] "A History of God" that has a Star of David, a cross, and the cresent-moon of Islam; Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter [but i refuse to read anything after book 8 in public], Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov's "Essays", etc etc etc. Jehovia's Witnesses ask me about what i'm reading, and try to relate it to their "message". Mormons ask me about what i'm reading, and generally follow that with "well, it's not to my taste, but make you a deal - i'll read your book, if you'll read mine, and then we can meet and discuss both books" [and THEY DID! *BOTH* the guys read the book i was reading. the only reason i read the Book of Mormon was to get to Mormons to read "Job" by Robert Heinlein. hehehe]. Muslims have talked to me about poetry. pagans want to suggest similar books...

    but FUNDY CHRISTIANS *ALWAYS* act like that oppossum asshole.
    ALWAYS.
    they say shit like "have you met your lord and savior Jesus Christ" and then, when i say, "I'm not Christian" they start SCREECHING about how i'm "OPPRESSING" them

    in a women's studies class last year, we had to read a book "on feminism" [didn't matter the book]
    so OF COURSE a girl reads "Ruth" and "Esther", and then threw a FIT when the professor [VERY generously, i thought] told her that she needed to read a book about FEMINISM - and since, by definition, feminism started in the late 1960s [before that, it was "the suffragette movement"] books written 2,000-4,000 years ago DO NOT WORK, so she'd need to pick a different book, but the prof would give her another 3 weeks for her report.
    she called it "religious discrimination". and took it to the fucking DEAN. [who, for once, backed up a professor, telling fundy girl and her fundy parents that the teacher was WELL within her rights, that the only applicable place for Biblical books were in classes dealing with the bible and/or religion, and that if the girl wanted to read a christian book about the "evils" of feminism, that would pass muster, but it HAD TO BE A BOOK THAT DEALT DIRECTLY WITH FEMINISM. and if she couldn't do the work for the class, maybe she shouldn't take the class. because if she had been *HIS* student and pulled that shit, he'd have flunked her. period - and i am quoting, since i had been pulled into the meeting, because i had offered to help the girl find an appropriate book, so i also "discriminated" against the girl]

    i don't even UNDERSTAND what they hell they think they'll accomplish! and WHY do they do this? sigh.

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