Posted by Gremlin [24.8.27.194 - c-24-8-27-194.client.comcast.net] on 13 May 2004 at 13.47.26 ZuluTime:

In Reply to: Well, that makes 2. posted by Jurassosaurus on 13 May 2004 at 06.10.57 ZuluTime:

I don't think I've encountered a fundy hindi yet. But I did run into a fundy buddhist once; she made this big scene about...something about me fucking up her karma. Or dharma. Or Greg. Or something.
     I could name a number of fundy atheists, though. Or...I could name them if I remembered their names. In point of accuracy, they were actually fundy antitheists. Which I tend to group in with the fundy antidracoists, antimonocerahippists, antinanosomatists, and antisantaclausists. The only thing worse than someone trying to convince me that these myths exist is someone telling me, vehemently, that they don't. Especially when they back it with some immaterial sort of evidence of absence:
     'There is no god!'
     'Yes: I know.'
     'Well...but I can prove it: if there were, there'd be no evil in the world!'
     'There is no evil in the world; evil is a subjective adjective.'
     'But bad things happen! That's proof of no god!'
     'Or, it's proof that deities are evil by nature.'
     'But...they're not supposed to be!'
     'You mean the one you've proved doesn't exist wasn't supposed to be. Any of the others might be.'
     'What others! Prove they exist!'
     'I'm not suggesting that they exist; I'm just pointing out the flaws in your argument.'
     'There are no flaws! If there are flaws, then prove god exists!'
     And so on. The antitheists are every bit as dumb as their dopplegangers fighting the good fight for leprechauns and other mythological creatures.
--Gremlin