Do you suck at your religion?

[NotAllThere]

Did you mean "aren't"?

Bugger.

Anyway, I think it fails, since it shows what an athiest thinks religious people think (very stereotypically), rather than lampooning what religious themselves say they believe. Much more fertile ground in my opinion.

[louie]

Hahah very good. Can't believe there are still people who believe religious teachings? I guess when they discovered the earth was round it took a few hundred years for weak minded to come around.

[d000hg]

How to suck at your religion - The Oatmeal

Oatmeal used to be good - look at the older stuff - but now it's just the soapbox for a bitter middle-aged man's complaints about the world.

As for this particular article... meh. Religion is such an easy target; this attack is on a level with a 13-year-old's first 'dissing religion to look cool'. It's a bad sign for a start that as a typical ignorant Yank he thinks Christianity is synomous with Religion.

He's factually incorrect about Galileo AND stem cell research, and he seems to be under the delusion people only become religious due to childhood indoctrination. Sounds to me like he has unresolved childhood issues of his own.

I don't mind humourous attacks on religion if they're done well, but this is just frothy-mouthed bile, it's the Frankie Boyle of anti-religious comedy. Hyperbole and a half is far better

Hyperbole and a Half: Dogs Don't Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving

[Sysman]

Anyway, I think it fails, since it shows what an athiest thinks religious people think (very stereotypically), rather than lampooning what religious themselves say they believe. Much more fertile ground in my opinion.

I have to agree with that.

Mind you the "purple versus green" one does remind me of when I was a nipper and my father barged into my bedroom one Sunday morning and retuned my radio off Children's Favourites to Hymns.

I immediately tuned it back.

[Spacecadet]

He's factually incorrect about Galileo AND stem cell research, and he seems to be under the delusion people only become religious due to childhood indoctrination. Sounds to me like he has unresolved childhood issues of his own.

I just dismissed that as the usual poorly researched FUD that gets peddled as an "intelligent" atheist point of view

[NotAllThere]

I just dismissed that as the usual poorly researched FUD that gets peddled as an "intelligent" atheist point of view

And alongs comes one to prove it.

Hahah very good. Can't believe there are still people who believe religious teachings? I guess when they discovered the earth was round it took a few hundred years for weak minded to come around.

Hi Russell. You might like to know that "flat earth" has never been a mainstream religious belief. The fact that the earth is round has been known for thousands of years.

[TestMangler]

Hahah very good. Can't believe there are still people who believe religious teachings? I guess when they discovered the earth was round it took a few hundred years for weak minded to come around.

And that 'paying your salary net of tax/NI' was a real bugger for some people too

[SupremeSpod]

Hahah very good. Can't believe there are still people who believe religious teachings? I guess when they discovered the earth was round it took a few hundred years for weak minded to come around.

Or the fact that given a set of instructions an idiot could follow there's always someone retarded enough to **** even that up. Eh, Russel?

[d000hg]

Bugger.

Anyway, I think it fails, since it shows what an athiest thinks religious people think (very stereotypically), rather than lampooning what religious themselves say they believe. Much more fertile ground in my opinion.

I missed this... you said it better than I tried to.

Of course there ARE people who do exactly what the comic claims - every stereotype is embodied in some people - but they are the minority not the norm. Even in America.

[louie]

Wow a lot of nerves touched, didn't realise this place was full of religopaths, makes sense given the moronic posts from some.