1. Banishing the Green-Eyed Monster

Comment #92395 by MrsCogan on November 30, 2007 at 12:17 pm

All though Missouri is beautiful enough to be the site of the Garden of Eden, I keep getting visions of Adam with seed ticks in his butt crack.

2. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, etc. were atheists, and they were terrible! Answer that!

Comment #81390 by MrsCogan on October 24, 2007 at 4:43 pm

This is how I usually answer it:

While it is true that a few secular governments (Hitler was NOT an atheist) have been totalitarian, ALL theistic governments have been bloody nightmares. ALL free, open societies have been secular. Every one. There are no exceptions that I know of. The more religious a society is, the more tyrannical it is without exception. There are no modern bloody dictatorships that are as oppressive as any European government in the 11th century when religion and the government were one thing.

Stalin would have wept into his pillow with envy of the kind of social control wielded by the governments of Iran or Saudi Arabia. Imagine if Torquemada or John Calvin had had Hitler's modern technology. No more Mr. Nice Guy!

Considering the track record of religious governments I'll take my chances with an "atheistic" government any day.

3. Response to My Fellow 'Atheists'

Comment #77444 by MrsCogan on October 9, 2007 at 10:23 am

I generally refer to myself as a humanist rather than atheist because humanism *is* something. But I kind of enjoy being called an atheist (it's pushy and outrageous. Where's the down side?) and I think the bickering is silly. I knew Sam would take heat for that part of his talk. I'm surprised he didn't take heat when he pitched meditation.