If you want to play, please feel free to pass these on through your own Facebook page, or whatever forum or social networking site you like. Or if you don't like mine, make some of your own.
Today's Atheist Meme of the Day:
Religion is a hypothesis about the world: how the world works, why it is the way it is. And it's just as valid to criticize it, question it, expect it to support itself with evidence, and make fun of it when it doesn't make sense, as any other hypothesis. Pass it on: if we say it enough times to enough people, it may get through.
Posted by: smijer | September 22, 2009 at 12:59 PM
I'm collecting quotes for the Atheist Quote box that I recently added to my sidebar. I'm adding these memes to my collection and will be posting them in the future.
Posted by: the chaplain | September 22, 2009 at 02:38 PM
I read that as "Religion is a hypnosis..."
Posted by: Crux Australis | September 22, 2009 at 02:52 PM
It's funny because my first thought is:
"Yeah I want to post this on FB!"
Then it's
"Well maybe I shouldn't...I don't want to upset anyone".
Shows how well I'm taught, huh?
Posted by: Kiera | September 22, 2009 at 06:36 PM
the idea of making fun of a hypothesis only proves that this is a vindictive attack on opposers to your views and not an objectively proposed argument for your own side.
Posted by: Hank | September 23, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Hank, I don't agree. Mockery and satire are ancient, time- honored forms of social and political criticism: from Aristophanes to Jon Stewart, from Mark Twain to Molly Ivins, from Jonathan Swift to Monty Python, from Chaucer to The Onion.
If we can make fun of elected officials, corporate executives, police, labor leaders, political movements, bad laws, silly social trends, etc. ... why shoudn't we make fun of religious ideas as well?
Posted by: Greta Christina | September 23, 2009 at 12:20 PM
Hank, it seems to me that you are being too sensitive. To make a joke about a position or argument that does not make sense is not the same as having or showing a strong or unreasoning desire for revenge. In other words, it is not vindictive.
Posted by: Jesse | September 23, 2009 at 08:33 PM