These are the same people that retweet anything regarding Harry Potter. #fairytales.
Chris Pratt asks followers to pray for Kevin Smith - Euphoria ensues
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Of all the atheists I know, only two actually adopted atheism after a long and thoughtful bout of philosophical rumination. The rest of them became atheists because God told them they can't shove random things (like penises) into their asses.
What I can't reconcile is the fact that the people who are yelling the loudest about God being a fairy tale are the same ones who scream that Communism and open-borders Libertarianism can work- they just haven't been implemented properly yet. And how is White Privilege any different from the idea of Original Sin? A person is born into this world bearing the stain of a transgression committed by a thoughtless ancestor. Their only hope for redemption is to believe in something transcendant and to join a collective of others who share their beliefs. I've heard it said that Social Justice is nothing more than Christianity stripped of that nasty, disapproving, won't-let-you-shove-bananas-into-your-tailpipe Christ person and with the moralism and shunning shoved way up to 11.
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Social Justice is basically a secular faith. Its tenets are endlessly interpret-able, depending on the power of the one doing the interpretating. Its tenets are vauge and ambigious and allows for easy persecution of heretics.
The funny thing is that every culture that had a 'Sins of the Father' clause had a statute of limitations on it. SJWs don't, which makes it original sin.
So Kevin Smith comes through alright, Pratt gets a shout out and a thank you from one of his long-time idols, and we get to bask in the salt of shamed fedoras screeching autistically about expressions of goodwill?
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Here is a thing about Chris Pratt. Pratt and Anna Faris' baby was born significantly premature. Long stay in the NICU.
I don't know if its true that there are no atheists in foxholes, but there are for sure no atheists in NICU. Doctors and nurses do incredible, cutting edge work in keeping little folk born too soon alive in NICU. But parents in that position sometimes are asking for more than science. They're asking for a miracle. They're asking for this tiny frail little person to beat some occasionally horrendous odds.
Pratt and Faris have talked about this before. They say they prayed. A lot. Intensely. No fucking wonder.
Praying for the sick isn't some kind of voodoo curse. It's a request to someone who may or may not be out there, who may or may not be listening, that if they are there, and they are listening, to send that bit of good fortune, even that miracle, that will let this sick person beat their odds. Let them get better. Let them live.
It doesn't mean "HURR SPAGHETTI VOODOO CURSE SHAME THE UNBELIEVER". It means "I want you to get better, and this is all I can do to try and shift the odds in your favour".
You know, actual kindness and hell, even actually kind thoughts are in short supply. Take the ones you are offered. Even if you think its BS that doesn't work. Take those good wishes where you find them. You are gonna need all the good wishes you can get in life. Don't be so quick to push them away.
I don't know if its true that there are no atheists in foxholes, but there are for sure no atheists in NICU. Doctors and nurses do incredible, cutting edge work in keeping little folk born too soon alive in NICU. But parents in that position sometimes are asking for more than science. They're asking for a miracle. They're asking for this tiny frail little person to beat some occasionally horrendous odds.
Pratt and Faris have talked about this before. They say they prayed. A lot. Intensely. No fucking wonder.
Praying for the sick isn't some kind of voodoo curse. It's a request to someone who may or may not be out there, who may or may not be listening, that if they are there, and they are listening, to send that bit of good fortune, even that miracle, that will let this sick person beat their odds. Let them get better. Let them live.
It doesn't mean "HURR SPAGHETTI VOODOO CURSE SHAME THE UNBELIEVER". It means "I want you to get better, and this is all I can do to try and shift the odds in your favour".
You know, actual kindness and hell, even actually kind thoughts are in short supply. Take the ones you are offered. Even if you think its BS that doesn't work. Take those good wishes where you find them. You are gonna need all the good wishes you can get in life. Don't be so quick to push them away.
Euphoric atheists are shit and personally, by their mere existence, smash the myth that atheists are smarter or more decent than religious people.
Random strangers over analyzing a celebrity saying, "Get well soon" on the internet. I wonder what would happen if Trump tweeted something with the word Godspeed?
The same thing that happens when he tweets literally anything: THE END OF THE WORLD OMG NAZI RUSSIAN HACKERS PEE PEE TAPE OMG
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This what hurts me about Penn Gillete, guy is very smart and funny...when not demonizing religions.
Try telling that to the people wanting to tell Chris that "Prayer no good! Doctor master race!". It almost makes me wonder if they'd act like this if someone who actually knew Kevin would do the same. Or hell, if it ever happened to one of their own family members.
Twitter might as well ban all praise, because they're doing a good job being moody and angry fucks to anyone who wants to spread a little hope and happiness.
I bet you that even after Kevin has thanked Chris for his prayers and told everyone to quit bashing Chris, they are not going to let up.
That’s the Twitterverse for you.
That’s the Twitterverse for you.
Chris Pratt is a cool, handsome movie star with lots of money.
Seems like praying is working out pretty well for the guy, or at least, it's not hurting him.
Seems like praying is working out pretty well for the guy, or at least, it's not hurting him.
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Nah, this is something else. It’s just edgy fedorafags being edgy fedorafags. There’s a fucking flying spaghetti monster reference in one of those tweets. The only people that find that shit funny outside of it’s absurdism are dumb atheists who think they’re smart.
Seriously, these pseudo-intellectual twats piss me off so much. Oh shit bro, you can name the acids that treat heart aches?!?! You’re such a genius!!!
What I always want to ask is "So how many of you folks are actual scientists or medical professionals?". Seems that most people in those fields are a little too busy working in their respective fields to get on Twitter and tell an actor off. Euphoric atheists are trash.
I used to be a cringy euphoric atheist in my teens and twenties. I'd say I'm an agnostic now but I can see why people have faith. There are things that science can't explain. It's not bad, it's just something that's outside the realm of science. To put all your faith in science is just as bad as a fanatic who puts all of his faith into his religion and won't budge.
I never got why people would get upset if someone says they're praying for them. If you don't believe in that stuff then it won't affect you. If it makes the person praying feel better and it might just work, hey why not?
The problem is that most atheists tend to be angry at something instead of really examining why they don't believe. I myself don't know if there is a God. I could very well be wrong and there is one. Having grown up Pentecostal I have a very good understanding of the bible since we had to read it constantly. I use it to run circles around people who are Christians who do not understand their own bible. At the same time I point out the good stuff in there to fedora aheists who think it's all doom and gloom. The bible has a good message to it. Unfortunately no one seems to really read it these days when they spout off their shit cannon about it.
Pratt did a nice thing and wished Smith well and since he's not a doctor he offered what he could in support. The fact people attack that and sneer just reminds me why I became an agnostic instead of an ardent atheist. They have a level of fanaticism that is usually worse than your average Christian.
I never got why people would get upset if someone says they're praying for them. If you don't believe in that stuff then it won't affect you. If it makes the person praying feel better and it might just work, hey why not?
The problem is that most atheists tend to be angry at something instead of really examining why they don't believe. I myself don't know if there is a God. I could very well be wrong and there is one. Having grown up Pentecostal I have a very good understanding of the bible since we had to read it constantly. I use it to run circles around people who are Christians who do not understand their own bible. At the same time I point out the good stuff in there to fedora aheists who think it's all doom and gloom. The bible has a good message to it. Unfortunately no one seems to really read it these days when they spout off their shit cannon about it.
Pratt did a nice thing and wished Smith well and since he's not a doctor he offered what he could in support. The fact people attack that and sneer just reminds me why I became an agnostic instead of an ardent atheist. They have a level of fanaticism that is usually worse than your average Christian.
Because accepting their prayers would mean they’re condoning something having to do with Christianity, and apparently that’s not a good look when the rest of your peers are edgy douchebags.
Dawkin's trumpet is that a person can be perfectly moral without religion. He himself is not an example.
Reasonable people: Hey, conservative representatives, it seems patronizing and useless for you to offer "thoughts and prayers" in the wake of all of these mass shootings, considering that you are in a position to actively create ANY sort of legislation to prevent them and fail to do so.
The rest of the Internet: PRAYER BAD!! PRAYER HURT AND NO GOOD!! CHRIS PRATT KILL KEVIN SMITH!!!
On the other hand, celebrities and politicians are more or less the same now.
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