Silence is a political stance. It is a full throated endorsement of the status quo.

wordywalt comments on Jan 8, 2018:

Hear! Hear! Any person with any semblance of a moral backbone MUST speak out against Trump and today's morally bankrupt Republican party!

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 8, 2018:

@wordywalt telling the truth is no insult and is most civil

I think we couple as a cultural habit that insists on it because of paternity assurance and heredity...

AccursedHalo comments on Jan 8, 2018:

Unfortunately, there are a lot of dumb people everywhere that try and trap their lover in the relationship by getting pregnant like not using birth control and etc without telling him or poking a hole in the condom, etc. And that's only a small percentage. There are people who don't need to become ...

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 8, 2018:

I am so sorry your mother shook you. ...theocracy is nationalizing your ovaries and uterus. ...fight back for Feminism over rapist rights to impregnated crime victims. ...both popes belong in prison for covering up evidence of rapist priests. ....more women are teaching younger "sisters" to social economic justice RIGHTS. ...stay strong and heal

Silence is a political stance. It is a full throated endorsement of the status quo.

wordywalt comments on Jan 8, 2018:

Hear! Hear! Any person with any semblance of a moral backbone MUST speak out against Trump and today's morally bankrupt Republican party!

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 8, 2018:

@GreenAtheist Carter taxed and spent a little ReaGUN LIED and BORROWED AND SPENT 3 TRILLION every conservative lies inside USA pretending ReaGUN is better than Carter both did monstrous harm to USA differently

Silence is a political stance. It is a full throated endorsement of the status quo.

wordywalt comments on Jan 8, 2018:

Hear! Hear! Any person with any semblance of a moral backbone MUST speak out against Trump and today's morally bankrupt Republican party!

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 8, 2018:

@wordywalt Jimmah introduced church election corruption de-regulated trucking bus lines airlines causing wild inflation. ...ReaGUN escalated church election corruption and as you said spoke with forked tongue turned Carter 55 billion deficit into 400+ billion deficits all 8 years each

Should churches pay taxes? Ask Pat Robertson.

azzow2 comments on Jan 7, 2018:

In some respects the better churches from what I gather put out just as much as they collect with food banks clothing donations buss passes and counselling etc.

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 8, 2018:

@azzow2 boy Bush did zero in 8 years to stop NAFTA crimes against Americans. ...Clinton paved the evil road designed by daddy Bush corporations

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VictoriaNotes comments on Jan 7, 2018:

Probably the experience I had with my late husband. The complications and symptoms of traumatic brain injuries, e.g., how a traumatic brain injury resulted in two neurological disorders with hyper-religiosity as a major feature, and how common mental disorders of this nature (where delusions and ...

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 8, 2018:

@VictoriaNotes aircraft carriers air bases even loud engines inside tanks or ships ARE ALL DEAFENING NOISES OF WAR as CONCUSSION is a Shockwave inside the skull coming from the outside. ....technology is confirming SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME brain fluid forced into un'natural areas .....no human can escape violent traumas through helmets or earplugs or dose conditioning

Does it matter anymore who makes the first move?

DUCHESSA comments on Jan 8, 2018:

A friend of mine...whom according to her own words has been called "ugly" one too many times....told me she will never make the first move a) afraid of being rejected and b) no to give a man the satisfaction of approaching him.

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 8, 2018:

Taking revenge on others for one bad prick is not fair to us Feminist Penis pals

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Brio77 comments on Jan 7, 2018:

Professional: The process of current infrastructure management in the United States: highways, transportation facilities, water and waste water treatment facilities, utilities, with side notes on facility assessment. Just for fun: Stories and anecdotes related to DC and University of Virginia ...

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 8, 2018:

I want to meet the woman who is hot for us bureacrats making sewers snow removal highways and bridges sexy. ...Robert Waller made old wooden Madison County Iowa covered bridges sexy and Dirty Harry made Meryl Streeps DAY with camera not 45 caliber bullets

Do you trust easily or do you trust no one?

M121 comments on Jan 8, 2018:

I guess in the grand scheme of things if someone wants to hurt you. They will and there's nothing you can do to avoid it. That's why I'm of the opinion that trust everyone regardless.

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 8, 2018:

I sorta trust voters like that on campaign trails risking every door knocked or phone called

Does it matter anymore who makes the first move?

Buddha comments on Jan 8, 2018:

I think that in todays environment, that a woman making the first move would be welcome. Perhaps even in writing .....lol

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 8, 2018:

@BeeHappy reminds me of Pat Boone LOVE LETTERS IN THE SAND another reason why I live at the beach. ...writing :"let's chat" ocean edge will be watered away by the next wave leaving no trace to fear being called aggressive by no one who didn't read but me

Should churches pay taxes? Ask Pat Robertson.

azzow2 comments on Jan 7, 2018:

In some respects the better churches from what I gather put out just as much as they collect with food banks clothing donations buss passes and counselling etc.

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 8, 2018:

@azzow2 wrong boy Bush 2nd Obusha Obombney Billary 3rd TrumpOLINI 4th in a row terrorizing the world redistributing wealth to the 1%

If you could travel anywhere for free right now where would you go?

GipsyOfNewSpain comments on Jan 7, 2018:

Where ever my soulmate is right now wishing she could find me there. With the right companion on board uhnn a Dance Cruise on the Mediterranean in the summer, including Scandinavia for the ultimate treat. Emphasis on Right Dance Partner.

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 8, 2018:

@GipsyOfNewSpain I would never call love pervert cafe

Silence is a political stance. It is a full throated endorsement of the status quo.

sassygirl3869 comments on Jan 8, 2018:

Thats why we have to make noise. Need to get on street with signs showing he is mentally ill with dementia. Isn't his doctor's apt this week?

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 8, 2018:

Demand HR 676 MEDICARE4ALL UNIVERSAL SINGLE PAYER force TrumpOLINI and Congress to all have the best identical health care

Silence is a political stance. It is a full throated endorsement of the status quo.

wordywalt comments on Jan 8, 2018:

Hear! Hear! Any person with any semblance of a moral backbone MUST speak out against Trump and today's morally bankrupt Republican party!

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 8, 2018:

Republocrats Rethuglicans RedBLUES BlueREDS zionists war criminal polluter oil Pentagon profiteering banksters have been bankrupting USA since Jimmah Carter inched the debt close to 1 trillion

Silence is a political stance. It is a full throated endorsement of the status quo.

PeppermintDreads comments on Jan 8, 2018:

“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”—-Howard Zinn

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 8, 2018:

www.jill2016.com

Did someone say Pizza?

DeanHumanist comments on Jan 7, 2018:

Pizza makes the world go round.

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 8, 2018:

Marco Polo brought noodles and pizza from China to the BOOT

Did someone say Pizza?

Vivienne comments on Jan 7, 2018:

When it comes to pizza, I'm happy to be controversial. *Must have pineapple*

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 8, 2018:

Pineapple black olives swiss cheese wood fired oven baked crust. ...my little Darrow called the holes inside the holes: " lovins " and my Courtney both age 3 now 23&42 said: "got for bout it" when she would forget about matters ....love is the pizza topping of life

Happy Sunday! Lesson for the day?

AlasBabylon comments on Jan 7, 2018:

I love puns too -- good and bad :-)

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 8, 2018:

@BeeHappy poems haiku and good songs don't work best without the silly sound or surprise twist. ....George Carlin made you tickle and think as we drive on the parkway parking in the driveway

Funny not funny..

btroje comments on Jan 8, 2018:

the 'funniest videos where people are getting hurt-not funny to me

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 8, 2018:

Charlie Chaplin mastered the art of falling down funny but in his personal life the song SMILE THOUGH YOUR HEART IS BREAKING fits politically and romantically

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richiegtt comments on Jan 7, 2018:

My father who is 101 years old has so many stories to tell from the Great Depression to being on a destroyer that was hit by a kamikaze in WW2 and having to abandon ship in the middle of the ocean .Many more interesting events to numerous to mention

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 8, 2018:

Another of us Atheists in Foxholes ? Real courage is not having a heaven escape clause

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PeppermintDreads comments on Jan 8, 2018:

How I live life with Chiari Malformation after my [now] ex-husband filed for divorce upon learning that I’ll never get better. And that the associated brain/skull/spinal surgery associated with it is not therapeutic. I’ll just bring awareness to CM period, no one’s ever heard of it. My ...

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 8, 2018:

Does feather massage help ? Gentle warm showers and light shampoo ? It always disgusts me to learn how assholes minimize then withdraw their life promises. ....I don't want "nurses with purses" as some brand our walking wounded romantic hopes. ....love is the gift of self not gold

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VictoriaNotes comments on Jan 7, 2018:

Probably the experience I had with my late husband. The complications and symptoms of traumatic brain injuries, e.g., how a traumatic brain injury resulted in two neurological disorders with hyper-religiosity as a major feature, and how common mental disorders of this nature (where delusions and ...

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 8, 2018:

@VictoriaNotes veterans tbi range from tinnitus to throbbing nightmarish skull pain. ...the least the VA could do is let us have SERVICE CATs and enough money to live on. ...I cope with tbi dream management awake and remembering my musical repertoire asleep from my dreams....I memorize whole movies that last 3 hours of full R.E.M.

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Zster comments on Jan 8, 2018:

1. My late husband's 89 day cancer battle and death at 42: it's people who matter when time runs short, not status or stuff. 2. The follies of youth really do start taking a toll during mid life. I recently attended a college reunion. Most of us are now between the ages 50 and 60. Some classmates...

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 8, 2018:

@GreenAtheist rePULSED damn spelchek

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Zster comments on Jan 8, 2018:

1. My late husband's 89 day cancer battle and death at 42: it's people who matter when time runs short, not status or stuff. 2. The follies of youth really do start taking a toll during mid life. I recently attended a college reunion. Most of us are now between the ages 50 and 60. Some classmates...

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 8, 2018:

So sorry you lost your man so painfully. ...your book seized and destroyed from the library of life.....some years I let my white beard grow to the delight of toddlers suspecting I am Santa in hopes I find an Atheist mate who appreciates my age....other years I shave and younger religious women are first attracted then repuled learning my youthful Atheism that sings dances in perennial joy

Do you trust easily or do you trust no one?

stinkeye_a comments on Jan 8, 2018:

My trust is readily available to people who demonstrate impeccable integrity, authenticity, and compassion. Almost no one makes the cut. I'm fine with that.

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 8, 2018:

That describes how I negotiate and evaluate. ...good job. ...be the model for best behaviour and demand reciprocity

If you could travel anywhere for free right now where would you go?

GipsyOfNewSpain comments on Jan 7, 2018:

Where ever my soulmate is right now wishing she could find me there. With the right companion on board uhnn a Dance Cruise on the Mediterranean in the summer, including Scandinavia for the ultimate treat. Emphasis on Right Dance Partner.

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 7, 2018:

I thought I was the only romantic Atheist ready to relocate for love posting here. ...2 women please answer our prayers to you 2 but you both must be Atheists

Should churches pay taxes? Ask Pat Robertson.

Brio77 comments on Jan 7, 2018:

Pat Robertson is a Senator's son, his father was part of the Byrd Machine that ran Virginia for about 40 years as a one-party state, so if anyone is skilled at arguing for the system, it's him.

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 7, 2018:

Yes Marion Gordon Robertson JUNIOR Senator son alias Pat Robertson

Should churches pay taxes? Ask Pat Robertson.

azzow2 comments on Jan 7, 2018:

In some respects the better churches from what I gather put out just as much as they collect with food banks clothing donations buss passes and counselling etc.

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 7, 2018:

Food banks are donation distribution revolving doors and get government funds since Clinton called the faith based initiative. ...blankets for the homeless are federal property

Should churches pay taxes? Ask Pat Robertson.

ErichZannIII comments on Jan 7, 2018:

I would say that the churches that can afford to pay taxes absolutely should. Pat Robertson, Joel Osteen, those "superchurch" preachers who have huge mansions should pay taxes on their church like any businessman. Most churches don't actually make that much money. The Vatican pays priests a small ...

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 7, 2018:

This is false propaganda for all churches. ...average so called charity budgeting isv3% EVERY CHURCH CAN AFFORD taxes electricity construction costs so end the pity party for any church

Should churches pay taxes? Ask Pat Robertson.

RandyWells comments on Jan 7, 2018:

I think they should, especially when they grow to joel Olsten size, a small local church that ACTUALLY helps or gives back to their community, then no. but some of these churches own vast amounts of land and property for the free tax

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 7, 2018:

No exceptions ALL NON-profits should pay their bills. ...small churches harm more than they allegedly help THE TAXES COLLECTED should be rebated to existing tax payers who have subsidized religious fraud

Today was my Dad's girlfriends funeral.

GreenAtheist comments on Jan 7, 2018:

Nothing spoils relationships and mortality more THAN LIAR religionists infesting our communities with their incompetent cold blather

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 7, 2018:

@misstuffy religion is living in denial of reality. ...My mother came once with me to the Unitarian Universalists Congregation in Des Moines ONCE. ...and it was a fair sample of re-worded hymns and hUUmanists sermon poetry philosophy with a short story for the kids before they were sent back to their classes. ...I made zero comments and drove my mom home after the coffee & cookies. ....her only comment was : " nothing was sacref" and said there was no reason to return. ....integrity honesty universal values are sacred to me but mom wanted heaven miracles and confessions. ...at her funeral even my religious sister complained about the ritual and miracle talk WANTING THE EVENT TO BE A CELEBRATION OF 88 YEARS. ...GREEK WORD EULOGY MEANS praise the dead and I was not invited to fill that bill

Would you date someone religious or is that a dealbreaker?

HeathenFarmer comments on Oct 11, 2017:

I have and they are now an atheist, too. The intelligent deluded came be converted.

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 7, 2018:

@HeathenFarmer I do not trust women who say they are converting. ....Atheism IS NOT ON THE BUFFET OF FAITHS to put on a plate and diet. ...critical thinking is how Atheism works and we just don't have beliefs for spouses to adopt. ...I am not the least interested how believers fuck or kiss

Regarding the bible, the ultimate problem is that the pious insist even the errors of the many ...

BrigittaCuadros comments on Jan 3, 2018:

Personally, there is no point in arguing about imaginary beings. But the point is that religion is a fraud, which leaves people with a an unimaginable void that is not there. It is a condition named Stockholm Syndrome. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome Maybe we should look at the ...

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 7, 2018:

@BrigittaCuadros doing nice things for people DOES NOT PROVE HEAVEN BRIBES OR HELL THREATS ARE TRUE but the poor ignorant folks eagerly join the racist religions in exchange for the help

Who among us has cut the proverbial TV cord?

HippieChick58 comments on Jan 7, 2018:

I cancelled cable after I saw Ted Cruz's face in my living room during the Iowa primary. I have a Roku, I stream Netflix and Amazon Prime and a few other. I have DVD and other stuff I don't remember the TLAs for. All in all I watch less than 5 hours of TV per week. Best part, No commercials.

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 7, 2018:

Raphael Cruz JUNIOR his daddy was FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA with Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans

Who among us has cut the proverbial TV cord?

HippieChick58 comments on Jan 7, 2018:

I cancelled cable after I saw Ted Cruz's face in my living room during the Iowa primary. I have a Roku, I stream Netflix and Amazon Prime and a few other. I have DVD and other stuff I don't remember the TLAs for. All in all I watch less than 5 hours of TV per week. Best part, No commercials.

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 7, 2018:

Raphael Cruz alias Ted married to Heidi Cruz stole million$ from taxpayers through the Goldman Sachs bailout and she paid for his TX race to US SENATE

Who among us has cut the proverbial TV cord?

Alliegirl comments on Jan 7, 2018:

I cut it because of the cost and I seemed to watch the same shows over and over. Now I have Netflix and Amazon Prime. I’ve rarely missed cable. I’ve actually been thinking about cutting the internet completely, but will have to wait until my boys move out.

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 7, 2018:

I buy cable to watch local government LIVE and produce free public access channel programs

Your thoughts on gun ownership?

RobCampbell comments on Jan 7, 2018:

"The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed".

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 7, 2018:

Better to have infra red scope rifles than street sweeper semi automatics

Your thoughts on gun ownership?

Bam85 comments on Jan 7, 2018:

In US cities with the highest crime rates, taking guns away from the citizens has not lowered the homicide rate. All it has done is to make it easier for criminals to operate.The 2nd amendment is not about duck hunting, or deer hunting. It is about having the ability and the right to defend oneself ...

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 7, 2018:

Defend from enemies foreign AND DOMESTIC

Your thoughts on gun ownership?

Leutrelle comments on Jan 7, 2018:

I can see that I am a minority. First off to own an automatic fire arm you have to be vetted by the ATF which is a long process and costs at least 200$ for the stamp. Secondly before buying the stamp one must first buy the automatic fire arm which there is a VERY limited supply, and were made I ...

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 7, 2018:

We need the MILITIA to deter the Chinese fromega invading USA given TrumpOLINI and Obusha Obombney have borrowed 6 trillion from Beijing our interest payments pay for 2 aircraft carriers built in Shanghai each year

Your thoughts on gun ownership?

DUCHESSA comments on Jan 7, 2018:

I kind of agree with you....but I know that guns don't kill people....people do. Also, mostly anything can be used as a weapon....from sharpened screwdrivers and glass to rat poison .

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 7, 2018:

Fuck TrumpOLINI pandering to the gun obsessed

Ever been discriminated against because you were a non-believer?

sassygirl3869 comments on Jan 7, 2018:

The last company I worked for actually had Christian philosophy in its manifesto. I faced criticism from superiors at a National Sales Training at their headquarters in Temple, TX. I was too vocal and didn't blend with the other participants. Within ten months of being with the Company I got sick...

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 7, 2018:

Jews and Atheists get a clue Jeebush Geehobah GhostHoles is in charge

Ever been discriminated against because you were a non-believer?

CrankyAntie comments on Jan 7, 2018:

yep-just recently. The VFW Auxiliary will not permit me membership because this veteran AND veteran's daughter AND former active duty spouse is an atheist. Formally. They discussed this issue at their national conference even last year and still deny nonbelievers!

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 7, 2018:

@Tecolote gawd & country is enforced @ American Legion....duh these theocratic pricks R NOT giving an inch away from McCarthyism

Today was my Dad's girlfriends funeral.

GreenAtheist comments on Jan 7, 2018:

Nothing spoils relationships and mortality more THAN LIAR religionists infesting our communities with their incompetent cold blather

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 7, 2018:

We can get along with the religious if they are honest respectful of genuine relationships NOT SELLING THEIR FAKE FAITHS

Today was my Dad's girlfriends funeral.

GreenAtheist comments on Jan 7, 2018:

Nothing spoils relationships and mortality more THAN LIAR religionists infesting our communities with their incompetent cold blather

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 7, 2018:

@misstuffy sorry you can't piss or poop without the cannibalistic xians ruling roosts

Sexual relationship or relationship with sex?

GreenAtheist comments on Jan 7, 2018:

That boy has no clue how lucky a man he would be if he respected your relationship potential rather than his penis professions. ...this one is only a tiny bit more evidence our patriarchy keeps boys in the dark away from our natural Feminist heritage. ...real men want mutual love giving not ...

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 7, 2018:

@Neraven Gore Vidal praised "the idle encounter of JFK" and himself with gay men

Sexual relationship or relationship with sex?

GreenAtheist comments on Jan 7, 2018:

That boy has no clue how lucky a man he would be if he respected your relationship potential rather than his penis professions. ...this one is only a tiny bit more evidence our patriarchy keeps boys in the dark away from our natural Feminist heritage. ...real men want mutual love giving not ...

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 7, 2018:

@Neraven my message to Allie your reply to it ??? No stereotype applies here. ....real commentary on real dialogue. ...Feminism embraces all lifestyles of all women LGBT and beyond excluding misogynistic male entitlement

Do you think that some people just pretend to be non believers to "rebel" against parents, ...

HippieChick58 comments on Jan 6, 2018:

I think some people will do anything for drama, so yes it is possible.

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 7, 2018:

Decades ago a woman insisted we meet for dating insisting of her "atheist compatibility" ....calling into my Dial An Atheist I finally accepted an invitation for home made CHILI. ....I arrived at her lovely home and insisted I sit in her dad's rocking chair. ....then she complained gawd did not stop the cancer that killed him......when I replied I hoped to marry a co-Atheist leader fighting theocracy and tax exemption her pretense to Atheism melted for her dream of a tall guy like me to hide in her closet and celebrate xmas everywhere

Do you think that some people just pretend to be non believers to "rebel" against parents, ...

DeanHumanist comments on Jan 6, 2018:

Yes, I have met people claiming to be atheists without a strong intellectual foundation that supports their views; some simply too lazy to go to church :-)

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 7, 2018:

Hating a preacher or complaing over un-answered prEyer is not close to examination of evidence for alleged gawds gott god. ...leaving Methodist attendance for astrology dalliance is NOT Atheism. ....worshipping the moon to become a lesbian is not an Atheist path out of xmas or Ishtar

Sexual relationship or relationship with sex?

GipsyOfNewSpain comments on Jan 6, 2018:

I Like the woman who wants it all. Because I believe I got a lot to give. Less than that I will be just a tool. Not that a tool does not have his use and yes I gave it masculine pronoun. ***In a different but similar subject Liz Taylor claimed she only had sex with men that became her husband, 7 ...

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 7, 2018:

Twice to Richard Burton

Sexual relationship or relationship with sex?

Gatovicolo comments on Jan 6, 2018:

I can’t speak for the every guy, but no. Sex is important for men in general, but if that’s all your interested in after 25, then you’re pretty shallow.

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 7, 2018:

SHALLOW HAL funny movie with Gweneth Paltrow dual roles one in a FAT SUIT breaking chairs

Do you consider yourself an intellectual elite or just an intellectual?

AgnosticBear comments on Jan 6, 2018:

I personally think trumps a smart guy. The fact that he won the presidency proves that. Like his politics or not. He’s got game. And to answer your question I’m neither an intellectual or an elite. I’m just a dude from California.

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 6, 2018:

@DonCoryon everyone understands you're a sellout to TrumpOLINI theocrats like Betsy deVos AmWay criminal theocrat married to war criminal Blackwater Erikkk Prince

Atheist Books

HippieChick58 comments on Jan 6, 2018:

I just finished God: A Human History, it was excellent.

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 6, 2018:

gibberish and flying unicorns poor Cat Stevens went for the throat slitting Mohammed who raped his 9 year old bride on her wedding night ALLAH AK BAR !

Atheist Books

GreenAtheist comments on Jan 6, 2018:

I escaped religion @ age 4 teaching myself to read newspaper comics sounding out my ABCs hounding my dad for help while he read the same paper. ...@ age 5 I equated Easter Bunny xmas Santa all the same lies told to gullible kids dictionaries encyclopedias science books all dwarfed obviously biased ...

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 6, 2018:

xmas is identical to Pinocchio only Santa nose does not grow telling alleged baby god lies

Religious impact nationwide

sassygirl3869 comments on Jan 6, 2018:

Well in the States trump and pence are using religion to manipulate the Republican dominated Congress. All we can do is vote them out come November. Let's make some noise meanwhile.

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 6, 2018:

Jimmah Carter was the first candidate to expressly campain in Iowa churches 1974-1980. ....once that last Pandoras Box was opened ReaGUN Rethuglicans perfected theocratic scams pouring billions into elections Nixon only spent paltry trench coat and refrigerator filled with illegal million$

Do you consider yourself an intellectual elite or just an intellectual?

AgnosticBear comments on Jan 6, 2018:

I personally think trumps a smart guy. The fact that he won the presidency proves that. Like his politics or not. He’s got game. And to answer your question I’m neither an intellectual or an elite. I’m just a dude from California.

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 6, 2018:

TrumpOLINI is intensely stupid merely repeating the cons and bankruptcy scams that cheat vendors and future taxpayers saddled with 20 trillion in debt 6 trillion to China

Do you consider yourself an intellectual elite or just an intellectual?

KKGator comments on Jan 6, 2018:

Neither. I'm just a person. I consider myself to be reasonably educated, but I also know there's a lot I don't know, and probably nearly as much that I've forgotten. However, I always knew 45 was nothing but a con man. I've been watching him for the last 40 years and he's always been a real piece ...

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 6, 2018:

Greed motivates people to go along with TrumpOLINI scams....poverty stricken Rethuglicans voters still cling to the hope of magically getting rich believing TrumpOLINI MUSSolini fascist worship of the state

I just finished a fabulous book that is so enlightening about the religion.

GreenAtheist comments on Jan 6, 2018:

Aslan is still selling Allah to believers. ...his scholarship is above average but has lost debates with Sam Harris crying dead crocodile tears

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 6, 2018:

Alleged Muslim "feminists" point to illiterate Mohammed's first wife who taught him to read and write the Quoran

I just finished a fabulous book that is so enlightening about the religion.

GreenAtheist comments on Jan 6, 2018:

Aslan is still selling Allah to believers. ...his scholarship is above average but has lost debates with Sam Harris crying dead crocodile tears

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 6, 2018:

Surely he avoids the truth Mohammed raped his 9 year old bride on her wedding night

Just got a call from my 90 yr old mother.

Buddha comments on Jan 6, 2018:

Hey, she's 90 years ol... I'd let it go, if you can..

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 6, 2018:

Nada. ...there are plenty of nice family stories to retell or invent of a gentle and lovely nature. ...graduations birth anniversary tales fun vacations happy favorite foods....if a 90 something mom is going negative state positive preferences instantly or ask her to call back with jolly news

Are atheists and agnostics intolerant?

stomato comments on Dec 26, 2017:

It's time to take a step back and review our attitudes! Being non-believers should put an extra weight on our shoulders to tolerate anyone's views. We are the outsiders that want to be accepted, yet so much of the attitude on this site has been negative and even hostile. Why? Just because someone is...

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 6, 2018:

Believers who threaten teens with hell merely for their gay or Lesbian status are worse than intolerant and are causing teen suicides. ...Jehovah Witnesses who refuse medical care for children IS NOT FREEDOM OF FAITH it is child neglect endangerment abuse

Are atheists and agnostics intolerant?

MsOliver comments on Dec 26, 2017:

I'm a fairly tolerant atheist. I don't go around trying to deconvert others, and I don't denigrate those who choose to maintain "spirituality" even if I fail to understand the need for it. I can't say that of everyone here. Some even judge other atheists as if their non-belief is somehow ...

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 6, 2018:

In 4 decades of American Atheist leadership I have found a few people caught up in counter theocratic propaganda wars. ....I lead by example and people have a right to be wrong trial and error. ...pacific believers need to respect the boundary of not harming others INCLUDING THEIR CHILDREN. ...violent believers have zero rights to be KKK xian terrorists TAMPON TERRORISTS seeking to force all women to be pregnant Muslims mutilating girls labia clitoris flesh ANYBODY amputation baby boy prepuce flesh zionists and the caliphate all must be banned like cannibals from humanity

Ginsburg Slaps Gorsuch in Gerrymandering Case | The New Yorker

GreenAtheist comments on Jan 6, 2018:

Democracy might happen if human beings replace the gangsters & zionists of US Sup Ct

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 6, 2018:

That Medicaid EXPANSION was the only part of Obusha Obombneycare ruled "unconstitutional" merely ruling it was a tax thus stripped NOT A HUMAN RIGHT rendering the tax law a welfare program for killer insurance CEOs also unhappy with the 20% profits cap. ...TrumpOLINI has repealed the mandatory tax feature leaving the greedy insurance companies desperate for more healthy people to pay into the ca$hcow $cam of in$urance HR 676 MEDICARE4ALL is a Universal Single payout to health providers to save money on 1/6th of the economy getting greed out of medicine NOT4PROFIT

Ginsburg Slaps Gorsuch in Gerrymandering Case | The New Yorker

GreenAtheist comments on Jan 6, 2018:

Democracy might happen if human beings replace the gangsters & zionists of US Sup Ct

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 6, 2018:

2-7 Sotomayor & Ginsburg ruled States have a duty to expand Medicaid and relieve hospital emergency room taxpayers for being the only fail safe provider of human healthcare saving lives from primary care needs. ...England voted for democratic health care in 1947 ReaGUN has been preaching against democracy ever since telling lies about Canadian hero Tommy Douglas

This was too funny not to share. I love being single, I always have clean underwear!!

evestrat comments on Dec 11, 2017:

Dang, if that's how sexting is in marriage ... I'd rather stay single LOL

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 6, 2018:

Someone marry me so we can prove to the world and each other love is not like the singles scoff @

This was too funny not to share. I love being single, I always have clean underwear!!

evergreen comments on Dec 11, 2017:

That 'ole ploy - blame your partner for your short ( or no shorts ) comings ...

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 6, 2018:

Is humor laughing @ what isn't or ought to be ? I only feel sad people are single who could reduce the number of unhappy singles by one each. ...my idea of life laundry and sexting is to send a coded text to my beloved what we could do next squeaky clean in our shower or bubbly tickled in our jacuzzi. ...eager to get home

Are humans designed with a purpose or we are meant to grow old and die?

GodlessArtist comments on Jan 2, 2018:

We must find our purpose and try to make that a reality. In my humble opinion.

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 6, 2018:

Humans are nurturing and nurture....this is the only guidance that Springs from families and we humans can access collective wisdom as we see fit....evil are the violent the criminal the theocratic that force upon some of us error and irrationality if not rape and trauma

Fill in the blanks-Going from Obama to Trump was like going from a ___________ to a ...

HippieChick58 comments on Jan 5, 2018:

Like going from Tiffany's to Walmart

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 6, 2018:

Trump Tower sells shit @ Tiffany priced

Where is your stance on tattoos?

HippieChick58 comments on Jan 6, 2018:

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If you like it, it is your body, just understand it is there forever. I have one, and am contemplating a second. I don't disagree with your ex about waiting til they are 18. One of my kids got her first in college and now she regrets it. She did good at hiding ...

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 6, 2018:

I dated a soldier decades ago and she had beautiful butterfly tattoos a skinny bra could not hide.....2001 a Jewish girl covered her arms with body art....I think this was her way of becoming an Atheist rebellion against rabbinical culture which is MISOGYNISTIC on it's face in daily prEyer. ...read my post in this column. ...I love some body art and for example would hate astrology art enabling pseudo-science. ...it is Art it is medical it is abused and people should learn from such experience not replicate evil

My dad brought us up with the idea that there were "men's jobs" and "women's job" and he gave us ...

GreenAtheist comments on Jan 5, 2018:

I agree wall mounts for new televisions need 3 hands for ease of installation. ...when I did mine I was in love with a modern woman geek engineer knew all 8 color coded wires to modem satellite et al and had in her tool box a stud finder I did not have....her dad was also an engineer but not sexist....

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 6, 2018:

Single since 2012

Anger Management

HippieChick58 comments on Jan 5, 2018:

Golden puppies are my favorite puppies.

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 5, 2018:

My dad's last dog was a puppy Golden grew tall and long hair Benji was a loyal devoted companion

what is the best experience as an atheist you have had

ErichZannIII comments on Jan 5, 2018:

Why does the experience have to be as an atheist?

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 5, 2018:

The answer to your question is the point of this group post. ...whatever your best Atheist experience was is your answer

We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the ...

sassygirl3869 comments on Jan 5, 2018:

Magical Mystery Tour on steroids. LOL.

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 5, 2018:

Brevity is the soul of wit

If you were having a marriage ceremony, is there a specific style that would influence you?

MichaelSpinler comments on Jan 5, 2018:

being i married twice, i really dont care. if i had my way though, and my future wife was a sifi geek like i am, i may opt for a bataziod wedding, just for the shock value. lmao

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 5, 2018:

Troi wedding nudity is not shock value it is adornment with the sun leaving no barriers to empathy of every joined body nerve

If you were having a marriage ceremony, is there a specific style that would influence you?

silvereyes comments on Jan 5, 2018:

When I got married, we just went down to the courthouse... under a tree and had a little exchange of vows. I didn't blow 20k on a big wedding. I spent a few k and went on a vacation instead. Took some pictures. Had a great time with my hubby. For me a wedding seemed like a big waste of money over ...

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 5, 2018:

We saved up a weeks worth of wages bought a cake lots of food and rented motels for our Atheist Officiant Frank Zindler and other out of state wedding participants @ Bellevue State Park dedicated to a 2nd cousin up the road from Atheist Captain Potter historical sites

If you were having a marriage ceremony, is there a specific style that would influence you?

sassygirl3869 comments on Jan 5, 2018:

My last marriage was 22 years ago-we got married under a tree in our front yard and had a barbecue and a friend's band which my ex played his drums and fell off the stage in our backyard. Sign of things to come-divorced 2 years later

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 5, 2018:

I played African goat skin wood carved drums at my wedding 25 years ago. ...nothing foreboding yet I needed to divorce protecting my child from her ex and my 3 step children. ...all is well with my Darrow age 23 great career and happily married to her high school Beau and they babysit my ex mentally disabled unable to admit her betraying our marriage

How do you feel when the families of murder victims stand at the microphone in the sentencing phase ...

HippieChick58 comments on Jan 4, 2018:

The old saying is that not forgiving is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. Your bad feelings don't harm them at all. You forgive them for you, to take that load off your heart and mind. Finding forgiveness is hard, and sometimes it takes work, but it is necessary for mental ...

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 5, 2018:

Dead Man Walking Sean Penn title role has Susan Sarandon playing real Helen Prejean holding the hand of a "composite / mosaic" murder perpetrator right up to the hour of lethal injection Louisiana prison. ...Scott Walker plays prison chaplain AND the co-killer IN COLD BLOOD

How do you feel when the families of murder victims stand at the microphone in the sentencing phase ...

HippieChick58 comments on Jan 4, 2018:

The old saying is that not forgiving is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. Your bad feelings don't harm them at all. You forgive them for you, to take that load off your heart and mind. Finding forgiveness is hard, and sometimes it takes work, but it is necessary for mental ...

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 5, 2018:

I learned another new saying posted "old" drinking poison in hopes perpetrators die

How do you feel when the families of murder victims stand at the microphone in the sentencing phase ...

MyLiege comments on Jan 4, 2018:

That’s all fine and well for the victim’s family. If it gives them release. However, if a convicted murderer killed a family member, I’d want a law stating the victim’s family gets to choose punishment. I vote the sentence to be: a live medical test subject or a live crash test dummy. This ...

GreenAtheist replies on Jan 5, 2018:

Yes medical research on murderers and rapists/pedophiles and I learned something new here: CRASH TEST DUMMIES for both living popes covering up evidence against rapist priests