I am outraged!

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

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

By Roadtripper (not verified) on 21 Feb 2006 #permalink

very good! so is roadpripper's.

By King Spirula (not verified) on 21 Feb 2006 #permalink

sorry...roadTripper's

By King Spirula (not verified) on 21 Feb 2006 #permalink

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...

By isabelita (not verified) on 21 Feb 2006 #permalink

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

By Fernando Magyar (not verified) on 21 Feb 2006 #permalink

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

By Magnus Malmborn (not verified) on 21 Feb 2006 #permalink

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 ...

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...

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!

"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?

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

"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!
: )

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

"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 ;-)

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

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

I don't believe in embassies .. .

Won't somebody think of the unbelieving children?

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

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.

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.

By Jason Powers (not verified) on 22 Feb 2006 #permalink

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?

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.

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.

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?