So there’s one of these anti-theist groups on Facebook. It doesn’t really matter which one, so I’ve obscured most of the name on the screen cap below. What matters is that they’re not small and that, by their own description, they’re providing a “bullshit-free zone”.
What kinds of things do they provide that are free of bullshit? Much of it is what you’d expect from any atheist page.
Some science and images touting the superiority of science:
Some recommendations for entertainment created by atheists:
Links to news about people talking about religion or current events in which religion plays a part:
Talking about being superior to those religious people:
Unintentional irony:
And then there was this piece of anti-theist insight:
I can’t possibly imagine why women would feel less than perfectly welcome in an atheist Facebook group like this. Can you?
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researchtobedone
December 30, 2012 at 9:23 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
It’s one of those mysterious puzzle enigma conundrum mysteries.
bcmystery
December 30, 2012 at 12:03 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
But it’s funny because … um, well, you see … er.
Never mind.
PocketWocket
December 30, 2012 at 1:34 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
This sums up pretty much exactly how I feel about Anonymous’s official Facebook page, which my significant other happens to follow. Ugh.
Justin Vacula
December 30, 2012 at 4:31 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Sorry, Stephanie, if people have a different sense of humor than you do. Please never go to an open-mic comedy show…or any comedy show for that matter.
hjhornbeck
December 30, 2012 at 4:50 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
The Chilly Climate strikes again. Ooo, and a wild Vacula appears!
Good humour punches against the power gradient, hence why we ridicule lousy laws, why minorities can call themselves by their racist epithets, and why all the good rape jokes make fun of the rapists. Bad humour doesn’t realize this, and punches any which way it feels like and shields itself with the word “edgy.” You’ll find tonnes of the latter at an open-mic night, but very little in a professional comic’s act.
Humour has its standards, in other words, and I don’t think pushing the belittling stereotype that women obsess over shoes meets those standards.
thebookofdave
December 30, 2012 at 5:15 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
You’re right about one thing, Justin. This “bullshit-free zone” is a joke. Fortunately, it doesn’t meet a comedy club’s standard of humor.
sidelong skeptical glance
December 30, 2012 at 5:57 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Why would she need to, Vacula? The funny keeps bringing itself to her. Good that you have a fallback plan for a career, either way.
Stephanie Zvan
December 30, 2012 at 6:18 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Justin, my comedy tastes extend to things like Vilification Tennis. I just don’t promote them as being of general interest to atheists unless they’re talking about religion. Can you explain what The Wizard of Oz has to do with atheism? Or shoes?
TerranRich, Yet Another Atheist
December 30, 2012 at 7:12 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
For that matter, I’d like Justin Vacula to explain to the rest of us how sexism is supposed to be funny. At all.
‘Cuz I don’t find it one bit funny. That he does (or might) tells me a lot more about him than it does about anything else.
TerranRich, Yet Another Atheist
December 30, 2012 at 7:13 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Because comedy is immune to criticism. It’s all subjective, isn’t it? So it can never be wrong!
maddog1129
December 30, 2012 at 8:12 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I had read somewhere that the wizard of oz was a good example of an atheistic story. Each of the four travellers believed they lacked something and required external sourcing, but discovered that virtues come from within. The mysterious wizard turns out to be an ordinary person hiding behind a curtain. Don’t go looking for paradise as a solution to your problems; paradise lies in your actual circumstances in the real world.
maddog1129
December 30, 2012 at 8:13 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
That doesn’t have anything to do with the chick flick crack, though
Anthony K
December 30, 2012 at 11:51 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Audiences like Vacula are the reason for Sturgeon’s Law.
Illuminata, Genie in the Beer Bottle
December 31, 2012 at 10:01 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Translation: btiches ain’t shit, stephanie, but I can’t quit you. PAY ATTENTION TO MEEEEEE!!!!!!
EllenBeth Wachs
December 31, 2012 at 12:06 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Hah, I took on the admin of that page for his love of alcoholics anonymous and he has never forgiven me. Can you imagine an antitheist page giving love to a religious 12 step organization?? Yeah, neither could I but, there you have it.
WMDKitty (Always growing and learning)
January 1, 2013 at 12:39 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
EllenBeth Wachs
Oh, but AA isn’t religious, it’s “spiritual”! And it’s totally NOT a cult!
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EllenBeth Wachs
January 1, 2013 at 10:20 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Yeah, so I was told… over and over and over and over again by the holy roller spiritual but not religious AAbots for 23 years before I escaped the totally not a cult.