Thanks SFOGuy. Nothing my father told me about how the dishwasher worked is true. I didn't see ONE ANT in that machine let alone thousands! Mom was right. "Don't believe your father. And yes, the stork brought you."

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Golden Eagles: the anti-Storks

It's very appropriate that you would bring this point up in a Hitchens thread. I can't speak for the rest of the atheists here but, for myself, this isn't about tolerance. I don't tolerate religious faith, much like I don't any other number of things I find completely and utterly ridiculous. What I do tolerate is you (as an example, you, or shiny, or whoever represents those beliefs). I tolerate your right to believe that nonsense, I tolerate your right to live your life according to that nonsense and teach that nonsense to your children, but I will never tolerate the actual nonsense, I will never stop calling bullshit on that nonsense.

Much like you would probably never tolerate, say, I dunno, racism? (hopefully). The racist has every right to be racist and has every right to live his life in peace as a racist, that doesn't mean we shouldn't stomp our feet in rage at the garbage that pours through his mouth. That is the basis of the pursuit of knowledge, asking a forward thinking person to intellectually accept religious belief would be like asking a grown man to accept that sometimes babies come from storks.

>> ^Morganth:

>> ^MaxWilder:
>> ^shinyblurry:

... Like any other slack jawed yokel idiot ... All those who delight in wickedness will be punished for it ... People with no scruples or charity, characterized mainly by their lack of tolerance and narrow mindedness ... it's an ugly thing you do, to yourself and to others. It's a shittier world that you create. So don't be surprised when you get shit in return.

Projecting much? It is you who think you know it all. It is you who judge others. It is you who defines wickedness and sin to match what you wish to be true.
And most importantly, it is you who lack tolerance. I will keep my beliefs to myself just as soon as all you nutjob faithers stop judging my life and stop telling me that you are better than me because you know all the rules.
Faith. The belief in something without any evidence. No proof, no truth! Yet you people throw the word "truth" around like you own it. Go read that ancient, human-penned book you cherry pick quotes from. I did. And that's why I'm no longer a believer. Thank god.


What you're describing has nothing to do with faith. Faith is not "belief in something without any evidence." Faith is trust, the act of being true to something, loyalty. You have faith in a chair when you choose to sit on it - faith that it will hold you. You are faithful to your spouse when you remain true to your marriage vows. Furthermore, faith is built on experience, not blindness. You have faith in the stability of a chair because of your past experience with chairs - they have proven themselves to have the capability of holding you. You have faith in your spouse that he/she will remain true to you because of the history of your relationship together. You do not put your faith in a stranger.

And you think you have tolerance?? Tolerance applies to those who have beliefs different from your own, not the same(Here's a hint: how you treat people like shinyblurry shows how tolerant or intolerant you are).

"I will keep my believes to myself just as soon as all you nutjob faithers stop judging my life..." Do you see what you don't here? Judging someone as being a nutjob for believing in God and expressing an opposing opinion here on the sift, as opposed to all the sane, rational, non-nutjobs who are people that don't believe in God. Would you care to be the pot or the kettle this time?

Those gigantic stork legs made me lmao.

God/Storks/Whatever doesn't do RMA.

Disappointed Stork is Disappointed...

And this is why storks don't bring babies anymore. There's just no sense of accomplishment.

Sorry what's he saying? "Why don't you become a stork like me and deliver babies?" Christ, someone's got to do the paperwork.

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I was expecting a stork (shudder!)

Ummm...the Haitian deal with the devil is a propagated myth spread in France and among Christians about Haiti's victorious fight for independence.

He didn't pull it out of thin air. It's stupid, but then so are stories about storks delivering children, Santa Claus and O.J. Simpson's book "(If) I did it"

Fools, do you not recognise the disipline of a Stork Ninja Mastah?

Little Johnny comes home from school one day and asks "Mommy, where do babies come from?"

His Mother replies "A little stork brings them."

"Who Fucked the Stork?"