Thursday, August 02, 2007

The crazies are running the hospital



Just another day in the WV landscape
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8 comments:

My Frontier Thesis said...

...but how does the Right Rev. Briggs really feel about it all?

8/02/2007 11:37 AM
Pepe le Pew said...

how do you mean?

8/02/2007 11:56 AM
My Frontier Thesis said...

Tried to inject a little sarcasm, thinking I was cute by intimating "what did he really mean" in response to Brigg's polemic billboard against atheists. I failed miserably.

To speak of this seriously, I don't think being an atheist is "anti-American."

8/02/2007 12:29 PM
Tecumseh said...

In all fairness, the guy doesn'r equate atheism with anti-americanism. In other words, atheist simply means "without God", not "anti-God". Am I missing something in the ethymology of the word?

8/02/2007 1:36 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...

I've seen it defined as one who does not believe in a diety. This means non-existence whereas to be "anti-God" seems more towards acknowledging the entity, but being against it.

I thought the sign was leading the reader toward this equation: anti-God = anti-American = Treason (and this is where it gets really weird) = Traitors = Civil War.

I'll bet Briggs would be an amusing dinner guest.

8/02/2007 2:31 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...

I always knew the Confederacy of Slaveholding Dunces were a bunch of Godless Heathen Communiss'

8/03/2007 2:58 AM
Arelcao Akleos said...

MFT said: "I've seen it defined as one who does not believe in a diety. This means non-existence whereas to be "anti-God" seems more towards acknowledging the entity, but being against it."

Exactly. An atheist par excellence was Karl Mark. Religion is "the opium of the masses". A narcotic that is simply not part of a healthy reality.
For a perfect example of someone who is Anti-God, take the character of Riddick in the movie "Pitch Black". A small band of losers is in deep doodoo, and one of them, an Imam, calls upon Riddick to pray with him to Allah. When he refuses the Imam angrily accuses Riddick of having no belief. This earns the Imam a graphic description as to why he is dead wrong, ending with "I absolutely believe in God. And I absolutely hate the fucker."

8/03/2007 3:11 AM
My Frontier Thesis said...

I also saw Chronicles of Riddick, the anti-hero being Riddick as AA mentioned. It followed "Pitch Black." Something about a race of alien colonizers (closely resembling us homosapians) that offered the locals the "option" to convert. Of course, if they didn't, the colonizers had the power to "take" souls. Then Riddick went on a killing spree and, well, you get the idea.

8/03/2007 9:03 AM

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