Denman

Humans have an inherent need to belong to groups.

Bill O'Rights

True. We, as humans, do have an inherent need to belong to groups. So...we make groups up.

But that's not what atheism is. Atheism is more about not belonging to a specific group, or sub-group, and not so much about "belonging" to a different group.

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"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." - Susan B. Anthony

"Hedonism with rules isn't hedonism at all, it's the Republican party." - JumpinJesus

It is indisputable that true beauty lies within...but a nice rack sure doesn't hurt.

Plan9

I've always thought that "Atheism" was a gnarly clubhouse where you and your friends can hang out and drink Kool-Aid and talk about fresh greenbacks, toe-curling orgasms, and Ye Old Box That Casts A Blue Light like maybe they are the holy trinity of the "real" universe.

...

Oh, look... I'm one of those of people.

I think the TV should be the symbol of American Atheism simply because other religions already have cool pointy symbols.

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Whatever you can carry.

"You should not drink... and bake."

Baraka_Guru

The TV... I like that.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

debaser

BRIAN:
Look. You've got it all wrong.

You don't need to follow me. You don't need to follow anybody! You've got to think for yourselves. You're all individuals!
FOLLOWERS:
Yes, we're all individuals!
BRIAN:
You're all different!
FOLLOWERS:
Yes, we are all different!
DENNIS:
I'm not.

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Plan9

(references the late '70s Misfits song entitled "TV Casualty")

It is a religion to most of America.

The only thing they actually commune with and worship regularly.

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Whatever you can carry.

"You should not drink... and bake."

Mondak

I am partial to my Chrome Flying Spaghetti Monster that is firmly affixed to the back of my Jeep.

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All truth passes through three stages:
First it is ridiculed
Second, it is violently opposed and
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER (1788-1860)

Willravel

4 years ago, I would have said a Cylon. Apparently, they're monotheists. It came as quite a shock.

Mondak

All hail the motherboard. May she bless us with her benevolence and her bounty.

May Baltar die a fiery death.
/threadjack

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All truth passes through three stages:
First it is ridiculed
Second, it is violently opposed and
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER (1788-1860)

Crack

How about this one?

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Crack, you and I are long overdue for a vicious bout of mansex.

~Halx

Plan9

Calvin and Hobbes could come up with a great one.

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Whatever you can carry.

"You should not drink... and bake."

sapiens

I have never liked the Darwin fish. First, Darwin or more appropriately, a recognition of biological evolution, might often co-occur with an atheist position, but it is not equal to the atheist position. Second, the Darwin fish seems negative to me. It pokes fun at the Jesus fish. Is it necessary to make fun of a Christian symbol to assert an atheist position? Why a Christian symbol? Why not something positive?

Baraka_Guru

What's more, Darwin was agnostic, not atheist.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

Denman

Ah... but by not belonging, that puts us in the group of non-belongers. (is that a word?)

By the way, Bill O'Rights... you look mahvelous.