Just a couple of weeks ago -- the weekend before Thanksgiving, in fact -- the annual Skepticon conference was held ... one of the largest gatherings of atheists and skeptics in the country ... owner of the ice cream shop Gelato Mio ... took offense ... And he put a sign on the door to his shop, reading, quote, "Skepticon is NOT Welcomed To My Christian Business." ...Dear God!
So what happened?
Atheists brought the nuclear smackdown.
Someone took a photo of the sign, and within minutes it was Facebooked, Tweeted, G-plussed, texted, blogged, emailed, and probably sent by smoke signals and carrier pigeon. It raced through the atheosphere like a wildfire on meth. Gelato Mio was inundated with angry calls and emails; their ratings on Yelp and UrbanSpoon sank to the basement; on UrbanSpoon, their "most popular menu item" was quickly voted as "Bigotry."Gelato for all atheists is secured!
...
And Drennan apologized.
Atheists will not be fucked with.
I dunno, maybe I should be more sympathetic to my godless brethren, but, uh, okay, this is the title of the article:
2 Shocking Attacks on Atheism -- And How Atheists Fought BackNo, not really seeing the "not to be fucked with" cred there. Or the shock or the attack for that matter...
UPDATE!
My error. Turns out the guy who ran the gelato place was ADOLF HITLER and he was working on a Pan-Skeptic Gelato Removal Ray*. Seems the ray itself was three seconds from bathing the continent in unearthly treat-denying radiation from its orbital platform when Glasses O'Fingerpoint somehow tweeted the shutdown code through an avalanche of licorice and caramel corn, thus saving the atheist community from potential having-to-think-of-a-different-snack. Also I think the second shocking attack I didn't mention was about a lampshade factory and missing atheists, so my apologies to the families and their little dogs too.
*ACME™ brand parts, may not work on road-runners
18 comments:
Oh yeah? Well Chris Hitchens is still dead.
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Tragic!
Oh yeah? Well Chris Hitchens is still dead.
And he's insufferably smug about it too.
Someone wrote a hyperbolically-titled blurb about a small victory for atheists! KAPOW!-- Substance put the smackdown on her!
I know it's a small victory, but it's a nifty victory IMO. I have no idea where that title came from. You'd think we'd just appointed an atheist to the Supreme Court or something.
I know it's a small victory, but it's a nifty victory IMO.
It's not wrong for the guy to be forced into an apology. It's awfully low on the justice register when people are having their houses stolen. It's not like anyone hosed an atheist in the eye with jalapeño gelato, and it's not like the atheists couldn't have gone into the gelato store and gotten gelato in any case.
Well, yeah, but it think you can say that about almost anything. It's the old "Don't worry about this--worry about THIS " trick.
I think this story basically had the ending it should and I don't blame some people for celebrating. But I don't think it's some momentous, game-changer either.
That's all I meant. If you read the post it's all hyperbole and I demand MEDIOCRIBOLE.
Here's a hyperbolic Jesus freak, did wonders for the ratings of "Trading Spouses"...
http://youtu.be/Qjl54v1irbs
Ooo, I actually saw that one! It was awesome.
http://youtu.be/Qjl54v1irbs
My life is better for having seen that. Holy fucking shit.
She should open up a yogurt shop.
I always thought Jean Teasdale was fictional, until now.
Jean, how should we take your article entitled: "Hershey Highway Sounds Good To Me!" ?
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hershey%20highway&defid=7741
While it is tempting to believe Jean is real, alas she is not.
Oooh. Oooh. Can I maybe get some takers on an agnostic billboard? I'd like to start with
I don't know about this Yahweh guy. He seems kinda harsh and like maybe he has too many anger issues to be the divine being and creator of the universe.
Just sayin'.
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Here's a hyperbolic Jesus freak, did wonders for the ratings of "Trading Spouses"...
Shooting out the walls of heartache, indeed!
I always thought Jean Teasdale was fictional, until now.
Some knucklehead named John Byrne:
The Onion lost all credibility for me a while back when they did a “story” on the Hudson River cleanup GE was forced to do. As some of you may recall, one of my neighbors is a GE veep, and he was directly in charge of this, so from him I found out all kinds of details the press did not bother to pass along to the public. Since The Onion apparently gets its info from other papers, the story was full of inaccuracies.
What are they, Michael Moore?
Anyway, I stopped reading The Onion from then on.
Oooh. Oooh. Can I maybe get some takers on an agnostic billboard?
I don't know.
Some knucklehead named John Byrne:
Weird. You'd think the former host of Bizarre would be able to recognize satire.
Gulliver's Travels? Upon my conscience I do not believe one word of it.
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