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The Atheist Bible by Nancy Sally Gardener

Postby EvilDarkMagicians » Mon Jan 25, 2010 11:50 am

The only problem is that the book came blank, and no rules or regulations have been written in it.
If you were writing an 'Atheist bible' what would you put in it?

And for the slower Generalites, the name was was intentional.

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Have a bit of a laugh with it.
You don't need to be so serious.
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Postby The Alma Mater » Mon Jan 25, 2010 11:53 am

EvilDarkMagicians wrote:The only problem is that the book came blank, and no rules or regulations have been written in it.
If you were writing an 'Atheist bible' what would you put in it?


I quite liked this one:

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The colourscheme is even identical to the Qu'ran next to it :)
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Postby Imsogone » Mon Jan 25, 2010 11:54 am

EvilDarkMagicians wrote:The only problem is that the book came blank, and no rules or regulations have been written in it.
If you were writing an 'Atheist bible' what would you put in it?

And for the slower Generalites, the name was was intentional.

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Why is blank a problem? Why is having no rules or regulations a problem?

If i were to write something in this book, it'd be along the lines of ... "this is your life, build it in a way the pleases you - without doing harm to anyone."
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Postby The Alma Mater » Mon Jan 25, 2010 11:57 am

Imsogone wrote:If i were to write something in this book, it'd be along the lines of ... "this is your life, build it in a way the pleases you - without doing harm to anyone."


"There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life." ?
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Postby Aequilibria » Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:04 pm

Why in the hell would you need rules on how to deny the existence of gods?
You don't need rules on how to not eat your cereal either. You can "not eat them" any way you like.

Stupid idea.
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Postby Northwest Slobovia » Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:05 pm

EvilDarkMagicians wrote:If you were writing an 'Atheist bible' what would you put in it?

I think the question has some dubious assumptions, at least for common uses of the term "bible". The notion that there's a single authority that could write a book of random rules and expect them to be followed solely on the basis of their authority is contrary to what atheists believe. (At least to the extent that athesists believe in reason and evidence to determine the proper course of action in a given situation.)
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Postby The_pantless_hero » Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:08 pm

I'm not sure at what point you expected an "Atheist Bible" to not be blank.
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Postby Ubernoobasaurus » Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:09 pm

If I wasn't going to write nothing as well?
Something like "There's no god. When you die you decompose and that's it" whether this would be said in more words or not would depend on how bored I was when writing such a book
Maybe something like "In the beginning, well, certain folks might say the universe is infinite and thus there wasn't a beginning and some others insist that there had to have been and that infinite things are impossible, but the point is we can agree there was no god"
It may contain things such as "You sir, are a monkey" and "Watch out for the nutcases among the religious folks"

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Postby Aequilibria » Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:10 pm

Ubernoobasaurus wrote:If I wasn't going to write nothing as well?
Something like "There's no god. When you die you decompose and that's it" whether this would be said in more words or not would depend on how bored I was when writing such a book
Maybe something like "In the beginning, well, certain folks might say the universe is infinite and thus there wasn't a beginning and some others insist that there had to have been and that infinite things are impossible, but the point is we can agree there was no god"
It may contain things such as "You sir, are a monkey" and "Watch out for the nutcases among the religious folks"


Also, add a chapter titled: "Handlebar mustaches rock!"
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Postby Athenian Republic » Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:12 pm

Atheist Bible? This should go well... not.

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Postby EvilDarkMagicians » Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:12 pm

OMG This was supposed to be a bit of a joke.
NSG Why so serious?

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Postby The_pantless_hero » Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:14 pm

EvilDarkMagicians wrote:OMG This was supposed to be a bit of a joke.
NSG Why so serious?

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Bottle wrote:Equality is a slippery slope, people, and if you give it to the gays you have to give it to the polygamists and if you give it to the polygamists you have to give it to the serial dog molesters and if you give it to the serial dog molesters you have to give it to the machine fetishists and the next thing you know you're being tied up by a trio of polygamist lesbian powerbooks and you can't get out because the safety word is case sensistive!

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Postby Helertia » Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:15 pm

The Alma Mater wrote:
Imsogone wrote:If i were to write something in this book, it'd be along the lines of ... "this is your life, build it in a way the pleases you - without doing harm to anyone."


"There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life." ?


Someone graffited that on the walls of my school chapel :D
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Postby Mr32 » Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:18 pm

clearly haveing a book called the The Atheist Bible is intended as a joke.

In a side note I'd like to put forwards that atheist is a redundant word
as you call people by what they accept, not by what they don't.

this man's got a better explanation then i do;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0zSCpsOSSw


" accept physical evidence and reasoned logic (PEARL), the core of the scientific method."
is what I'd write
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Postby The Imperial Navy » Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:24 pm

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Postby Free-Worlds » Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:25 pm

Imsogone wrote:
EvilDarkMagicians wrote:The only problem is that the book came blank, and no rules or regulations have been written in it.
If you were writing an 'Atheist bible' what would you put in it?

And for the slower Generalites, the name was was intentional.

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Why is blank a problem? Why is having no rules or regulations a problem?

I quite like that one rule. You know, the whole, "thou shalt not kill" thing. I like that.
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Postby EvilDarkMagicians » Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:28 pm

The_pantless_hero wrote:I'm not sure at what point you expected an "Atheist Bible" to not be blank.


The part where is cost me £5.99 that's where. >:(

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Postby Mirnect » Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:56 pm

You may instead want to try The Origin of Species.

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Postby The_pantless_hero » Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:58 pm

EvilDarkMagicians wrote:
The_pantless_hero wrote:I'm not sure at what point you expected an "Atheist Bible" to not be blank.


The part where is cost me £5.99 that's where. >:(

You should check out the "god awfully high priced journals/notebook" section of Barnes & Noble.
Also, most books you can just open up and look inside...
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Postby EvilDarkMagicians » Mon Jan 25, 2010 2:03 pm

The_pantless_hero wrote:
EvilDarkMagicians wrote:
The_pantless_hero wrote:I'm not sure at what point you expected an "Atheist Bible" to not be blank.


The part where is cost me £5.99 that's where. >:(

You should check out the "god awfully high priced journals/notebook" section of Barnes & Noble.
Also, most books you can just open up and look inside...


I didn't actually buy a book. :?

Although it does actually remind me of the time I bought a Lemony Snicket book called the 'Blank Book'
and was shocked when I came home and found out it was actually blank.
I'm blaming WHSmith for putting it in the fiction section.

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Postby Chrobalta » Mon Jan 25, 2010 2:04 pm

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Postby Alsatian Knights » Mon Jan 25, 2010 2:07 pm

EvilDarkMagicians wrote:
The_pantless_hero wrote:I'm not sure at what point you expected an "Atheist Bible" to not be blank.


The part where is cost me £5.99 that's where. >:(


Now whose fault is that? I mean its not like a DVD you can open the book to see if anything is actually written...its like buying a car just less expensive and with out the diarrhea feeling the pit of your stomach.

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Postby EvilDarkMagicians » Mon Jan 25, 2010 2:11 pm

Alsatian Knights wrote:
EvilDarkMagicians wrote:
The_pantless_hero wrote:I'm not sure at what point you expected an "Atheist Bible" to not be blank.


The part where is cost me £5.99 that's where. >:(


Now whose fault is that? I mean its not like a DVD you can open the book to see if anything is actually written...its like buying a car just less expensive and with out the diarrhea feeling the pit of your stomach.

1,000 baby! HOORAH!


See above.

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Postby Whittoria » Mon Jan 25, 2010 2:14 pm

Imsogone wrote:
If i were to write something in this book, it'd be along the lines of ... "this is your life, build it in a way the pleases you - without doing harm to anyone."


That sounds like a rule to me.
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Postby Alsatian Knights » Mon Jan 25, 2010 2:14 pm

EvilDarkMagicians wrote:
Alsatian Knights wrote:
EvilDarkMagicians wrote:
The_pantless_hero wrote:I'm not sure at what point you expected an "Atheist Bible" to not be blank.


The part where is cost me £5.99 that's where. >:(


Now whose fault is that? I mean its not like a DVD you can open the book to see if anything is actually written...its like buying a car just less expensive and with out the diarrhea feeling the pit of your stomach.

1,000 baby! HOORAH!


See above.


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