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I am outraged!

Category: Godlessness • Humor
Posted on: February 21, 2006 3:55 PM, by PZ Myers

Atheists will not be mocked, and I expect much fury in response to this disrespectful joke.

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heh heh

Posted by: sally | February 21, 2006 4:15 PM

As an agnostic, I'm not sure how I feel about that one.

Posted by: Roadtripper | February 21, 2006 4:18 PM

very good! so is roadpripper's.

Posted by: King Spirula | February 21, 2006 4:25 PM

I don't believe in blank sheets of paper.

Posted by: Rick @ shrimp and grits | February 21, 2006 4:25 PM

sorry...roadTripper's

Posted by: King Spirula | February 21, 2006 4:26 PM

Well, everyone knows that a blank white piece of paper depicts a polar bear eating snow, and all fierce defenders of hungry animals are gonna be honked off...

Posted by: isabelita | February 21, 2006 4:53 PM

This concept of blank paper confuses and infuriates me.

Posted by: Steve Sutton | February 21, 2006 4:55 PM

That's funny, why would all those atheists be so upset about a cartoon of the Holy Ghost?

Posted by: Fernando Magyar | February 21, 2006 5:04 PM

There is actually a real cartoon associated with this - it is posted over at OneGoodMove. The comments are funny - someone really did take it the wrong way!!

Posted by: NonProphet | February 21, 2006 5:05 PM

#10

Is it a part of the joke that the link won't load?

Posted by: Magnus Malmborn | February 21, 2006 5:08 PM

#11

Hmmm. No. I've just clicked on it and it seems to work fine. Anyway, here is the URL... http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/2006/02/atheists_join_c.html

It could be that the site is slow because a horde of angry atheists is clicking through from here... Perhaps OneGoodMove has been "Pharyngulad".

Posted by: NonProphet | February 21, 2006 6:11 PM

#12

roadtripper: As an agnostic, I'm not sure how I feel about that one.

I've always said there's nothing an agnostic can't do if he really doesn't know if he believes in anything or not. -Graham Chapman ...

Posted by: harv | February 21, 2006 6:21 PM

#13

I think this one is kind of cute; I must be a wimpy sort of atheist. I can be roused, though: I really don't like the one about the bear and the atheist. (The bear is about to eat the atheist, the atheist cries out to God, God freezes the action & asks the atheist what he expects him (God) to do; the atheist concedes that it's presumptuous of him to ask God for help, but suggests perhaps that God could make the bear a Christian; God accepts & the bear (ha ha!) begins to say grace.) Mind you, there is a very nice dig at Christianity in there, alongside the irritating crap...

Posted by: Bryson Brown | February 21, 2006 6:28 PM

#14

Perhaps OneGoodMove has been "Pharyngulad".

You mean he's now Pharyngulaman's eager young sidekick?

Posted by: BronzeDog | February 21, 2006 6:31 PM

#15

Why would atheists riot over a picture of someone's god? Or of the Holy Ghost, as stated above. Hell, I'd be happy if 15,000 atheists would declare themselves in ANY American city!

Posted by: ElGordo | February 21, 2006 6:34 PM

#16

"I really don't like the one about the bear and the atheist"

Just ignore it. If you can't, just point out (to whoever is telling the anecdote) that the thing about fiction is: the ending is made up by the author. How does that prove anything?

Posted by: John Marley | February 21, 2006 7:27 PM

#17

In other news, only theists can be transferred into an insane and unlawful terrorists when shown various cartoons...

Posted by: Jeebus | February 21, 2006 7:40 PM

#18

"everyone knows that a blank white piece of paper depicts a polar bear eating snow,"
Global warming denial, now?! It just gets worse and worse!
: )

Posted by: Dan S. | February 21, 2006 7:46 PM

#19

The worst thing that might happen to a blog on a small server is that Pharangula links to you. :)

Posted by: AndyS | February 21, 2006 8:13 PM

#20

Have you seen this - quite similar.

Posted by: coturnix | February 21, 2006 8:31 PM

#21

Everyone agrees that God doesn't hear the prayers of atheists.

Posted by: bad Jim | February 21, 2006 9:07 PM

#22

But does He hear the prayers of agnostics? I just don't know...

Posted by: Jess | February 21, 2006 9:24 PM

#23

"everyone knows that a blank white piece of paper depicts a polar bear eating snow"

Nooooo, come on. A blank piece of paper is always a picture of a cow eating grass. The grass, of course, is gone because the cow ate it. And the cow is no longer there because after she ate, she left ;-)

Posted by: Emily | February 21, 2006 9:55 PM

#24

Pharyngula sure gets a lot of humorous people making comments! It is such a fun group.

Posted by: Torris | February 22, 2006 12:08 AM

#25

Time to get organized :-)

http://www.thepaincomics.com/weekly060215a.htm

Posted by: Mike | February 22, 2006 7:42 AM

#26

Well, before I can become properly offended, I have to examine the evidence.

Now, which side of this paper is supposed to be the offending blank side?

(Seriously, I just dropped by to post an url to another comic: http://www.redmeat.com/redmeat/2006-02-21/index.html )

Posted by: just john | February 22, 2006 7:48 AM

#27

Hmm, now what embassy are we supposed to burn in outrage? Can I pick one at random? (Lichtenstein's been gettin' uppity lately...)

Posted by: UrsulaV | February 22, 2006 7:51 AM

#28

I don't believe in embassies .. .

Posted by: Dan S. | February 22, 2006 7:59 AM

#29

Won't somebody think of the unbelieving children?

Posted by: aiabx | February 22, 2006 8:34 AM

#30

You don't believe in embassies, or you consider the question of the existence of embassies to be fundamentally either unknowable or unimportant?

Posted by: UrsulaV | February 22, 2006 9:03 AM

#31

I would prefer not to ...

Posted by: Bro. Bartleby | February 22, 2006 9:04 AM

#32

THere's an invisible, floating, incorporeal fire-breathing embassy in my garage. If you don't draw something on the offending blank paper, it will burn you.

Posted by: Rick @ shrimp and grits | February 22, 2006 9:41 AM

#33

Why don't they hold the piece of paper over the toaster to reveal the secret message scrawled in lemon juice?

Posted by: Kristine | February 22, 2006 9:45 AM

#34

Cartoonist spills ink on sheet of paper. Blot looks like either a hippo having unprotected sex with a butterfly or the Virgin Mary. Followers claim that touching the Blot will heal warts. Home of cartoonist is turned into a shrine. He charges $10 a head to worship at the blot and retires to the Bahamas. Church takes no position on the blot but refuses to allow it to be carbon date tested.

Posted by: Shyster | February 22, 2006 11:08 AM

#35

That Pain Comics guy would like to push the envelope, it seems. Not laugh-out-loud funny, but if you grit your teeth it isn't bad.

Posted by: Jason Powers | February 22, 2006 12:24 PM

#36

Funny, the version of the bear joke I heard involved a minister.

It doesn't make sense for an atheist to ask God to make the bear a Xian, does it?

Posted by: Graculus | February 22, 2006 1:32 PM

#37

Another disrepectful joke.

Q. What do you get when you cross an atheist with a Jehovah's Witness?
A. Someone who comes knocking on your door for no reason whatsoever.

Posted by: david | February 22, 2006 3:25 PM

#38

Hmm, now what embassy are we supposed to burn in outrage? Can I pick one at random? (Lichtenstein's been gettin' uppity lately...)

Well, we're supposed to burn all embassies.

Posted by: Alon Levy | February 24, 2006 4:59 PM

#39

I just wanted to share one of my favorite quotations from J. Michael Straczynski (creator of Babylon 5, and a man with a name even harder to spell than PZ Myars):

When was the last time you heard of an atheist car bombing an embassy because he thought it would bring him closer to the void? When was the last time you heard of an atheist murdering his entire family because he didn't hear the voice of god talking in his head?

Posted by: arensb | March 8, 2006 8:40 PM