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filthy
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Posted - 10/15/2006 :  03:47:46  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message
According to this article, atheists are suddenly coming out of the woodwork.
quote:
When Richard Golden put the word out that he was starting a group for atheists in Walnut Creek, Calif., about a dozen people showed up. Two years later, 80 are dues-paying members and several more drop in on twice-monthly meetings to chew on everything from particle physics to court cases.

Horrified by escalating religious violence and alarmed by the Bush administration's "faith-based initiatives," which make government money available to religious organizations, atheists are coming out of the closet -- and organizing.

"Local groups are springing up all over the place," said Ellen Johnson, president of American Atheists. Active groups have grown by about 90 percent over the past six years, she said.

But don't read too much into it; we'll never be in the majority. Kind of a nice, if minor, nose-tweak for our friends the super-fundies, though.

On a completely unrelated matter, my elder step-grand daughter got hitched yesterday -- one down, four to go! I did not do the ceremony, rather a deep-water, hard-shell Baptist preacher said the words. It was a good service and he didn't at all think that I was a minion of the Antichrist. Interesting guy to talk to.....





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Dave W.
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Posted - 10/15/2006 :  08:20:49   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message
Congrats, filthy!

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filthy
SFN Die Hard

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Posted - 10/15/2006 :  10:17:39   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message
Thanks Dave!

Mandy at first wanted me to tie the knot, as it were, but I and her father talked her out of it. My son-in-law's family is quite religious and it wouldn't have been appropriate.

It was an outdoor service at Kerr Lake and very nice. The reverend mercifully limited himself to only a couple of Bible quotes and did almost no preaching. Hell of a nice guy, actually, if he is a fundie.

I've been told that I will do the next one -- Elizabeth. But she won't be due for a little while yet. Damn, but don't they grow up fast!




"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)

"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres


"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude

Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,

and Crypto-Communist!

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beskeptigal
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Posted - 10/15/2006 :  13:19:39   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send beskeptigal a Private Message
So you have that preacher fooled, you clever little a minion of the Antichrist. But you can't fool me!

Since when do these 4 more step-grand-daughters need to get married as you seem to be implying? Do they live with you and you're waiting for them to move out? Or are you just waiting to get the dreaded weddings over with?
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