To be honest, if the idiot hadn't mentioned the being offended thing I could have conceded that he had a point. Surely if religious stuff is not allowed in the library a case could be made for not allowing these mints. However once he starts with the "I am so offended" stuff I'm afraid he loses all cred.
Alice, reality land may not be as perfect a place as we would like it to be but unfortunately it is compulsory that all of us live there. People like you who fail to understand that cause real people real harm by pretending that there is an alternative. There isn't, and it would be a great help to everyone if you could realise that and grow up.
The correct way to draw the fish is to take a pair of compasses and draw an arc. You then place the point of the compasses on the arc and draw a second arc. If you set your compasses at 153 of whatever units of measurement that you choose to use, the distance between the nose of the fish and the cross at the rear between the body and the tail will be 265. 265 over 153 is the square root of three, accurate to four decimal places. 153 is the smallest number that gives a reasonable level of accuracy. I could explain why this is so but it is a bit complicated, it has to do with Pythagorus' theorum, you know the one about triangles. The point of all this is that the stories in the Gospels have hidden meanings that Christians are completely unaware of.
So there you are Mr. Estes, the Bible says that there is no afterlife and that you should do everything in your power to enjoy this life as it is the only one you are going to get. This is what most of us atheists do anyway. Oh and you didn't come back to me on the fish symbol and the number153, have a clue, they stole the symbol from Pythagorus.
On the subject of only reading one book, the Bible is actually a collection of 66. OK so most of it is cack but you can find the odd gem such as Ecclesiastes Ch. 9 Vs. 4-10 (Omitting verse eight 'cause it's rubbish:
But he who is joined with the living has hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion. For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward; but the memory of them is lost. Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and they have no more for ever any share in all that is done under the sun. Go, eat your bread with enjoyment, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already approved what you do. Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life which he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun. Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
Yes, it doesn't seem that god believers can quite get their heads around the fact that atheists actually believe that he doesn't actually exist. Jesus and Mo have actually covered this problem recently.
Just curious shaun, did you lose the ability to spell and punctuate properly at the moment of your conversion? I don't usually comment on such things as I don't feel that it is too important as long as people get their meaning across but it does seem to be a bit of a Christian trait.
Mr. Estes, don't flatter yourself that you come high enough up on the intellectual scale to make any of us feel the need to engage in a debate. To be a believer of your calibre requires ignorance on a literally cosmic scale. Tell me the significance of the number 153 mentioned in John 21:11 and how it relates to the Christian fish symbol and I might begin to take you seriously.
I have to agree that it is a bit of a cheap shot to make fun of the guy's name, especially when there are so many other things about him that could be made fun of, but honestly Tom Estes? what the hell were his parents thinking? Surely with a name like Estes the problem must have been thought about before.
War, famine and natural disasters are blamed on belief in evolution? Are these people totally mental? There were wars, famines and natural disasters in the Old Testament, are they going to claim that there were people going around believing in evolution in Old Testament times? These people actually accuse atheists of being arrogant in claiming to be more intelligent than they are, Hell's effing bells.
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