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 Jul 18 2010, 11:11 AM
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 Benefitting Humanity Simply by Showing Up!  Group: Veterans Posts: 8,974 Joined: 29-December 03 From: Washington DC Member No.: 314 T3A Founder Division: Revora Job: Global Administrator  |
American atheists lined up to be "de-baptized" in a ritual using a hair dryer, according to a report Friday on U.S. late-night news program "Nightline."
Leading atheist Edwin Kagin blasted his fellow non-believers with the hair dryer to symbolically dry up the holy water sprinkled on their heads in days past. The styling tool was emblazoned with a label reading "Reason and Truth." Kagin believes parents are wrong to baptize their children before they are able to make their own choices, even slamming some religious eduction as "child abuse." He said the blast of hot air was a way for adults to undo what their parents had done. "I was baptized Catholic. I don't remember any of it at all," said 24-year-old Cambridge Boxterman. "According to my mother, I screamed like a banshee ... so you can see that even as a young child I didn't want to be baptized. It's not fair. I was born atheist, and they were forcing me to become Catholic." Kagin doned a monk's robe and said a few mock-Latin phrases before inviting those wishing to be de-baptized to "come forward now and receive the spirit of hot air that taketh away the stigma and taketh away the remnants of the stain of baptismal water." Ironically, Kagin's own son became a fundamentalist Christian minister after having "a personal revelation in Jesus Christ." "One wonders where they went wrong," he chuckled to the TV show. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/17/athei...dryers-baptize/ -------------------- Save the environment, use green text  If a man asks you for a shirt, don't give the government a coat so it can give the man a pair of pants. ~Glen Beck Behind every conquerer stands a slave carrying a golden crown who whispers into the ear of the conquerer that his "moment of success was fleeting..." ~George S. Patton |
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Jul 18 2010, 11:32 AM
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 A wizard in a blizzard of mystical machine gun fire.  Group: Division Leaders Posts: 4,139 Joined: 25-December 07 From: Sheffield, England. Member No.: 13,897 Projects: Arsencia. For Pony! Division: Creativity Job: Leader |
Pointless waste of time. I've always thought of atheism as putting one's trust in logic and reason, neither of which require ceremony of this form, and both of which in fact argue against it.
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Jul 18 2010, 11:36 AM
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 Every day the same dream  Group: Hosted Posts: 5,269 Joined: 23-October 05 From: The Netherlands Member No.: 3,683 Projects: Echoes, TDH. Artiste Nouveau |
Pretty sure it's meant to be ironiiiiic or something. Pretty harmless (and pointless) either way. But I bet FOX didn't agree!
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Jul 18 2010, 04:14 PM
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 Well...yeah. Group: Hosted Posts: 2,283 Joined: 10-June 07 From: Romania,Bucharest Member No.: 10,762 Projects: TO,and some other secret stuff. Gimme,Gimme! :P |
Guys,doncha think there's some sort of department at FOX which creates fake news?I bet that in every stupid news agency there is such thing.
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Jul 20 2010, 12:33 AM
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Benefitting Humanity Simply by Showing Up! Group: Veterans Posts: 8,974 Joined: 29-December 03 From: Washington DC Member No.: 314 T3A Founder Division: Revora Job: Global Administrator |
QUOTE (Romanul @ Jul 18 2010, 12:14 PM)  Guys,doncha think there's some sort of department at FOX which creates fake news?I bet that in every stupid news agency there is such thing. What about the department at Revora that creates fake news?  http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/atheists-c...ory?id=11109379 http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread594742/pg1 heck with that, check the entire google search. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sou...q=&gs_rfai= -------------------- Save the environment, use green text If a man asks you for a shirt, don't give the government a coat so it can give the man a pair of pants. ~Glen Beck Behind every conquerer stands a slave carrying a golden crown who whispers into the ear of the conquerer that his "moment of success was fleeting..." ~George S. Patton |
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Jul 20 2010, 06:47 AM
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Classy waste of time. Lovely.
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