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Maybe the answer is the 'privatisation' of atheism.

I mean, I have no objections to people being atheists, but I really think they should keep their (lack of) faith out of public view.

Somehow I can't help thinking that petermorrows post is just slightly silly flame baiting.

Sorry to here that you can't help it PeterK, but maybe the alternative interpretation is a 'tongue firmly in cheek' p-take on the privatisation of religion malarkey I hear regularly.

Then again come to think of it would it count in the 'find a way to make a point' test you gave me, or is my comment too offensive?

I see, it was just silly flame baiting then.

But don't worry, I'm not that easily offended. :)

PeterK

It's in the same category as my comments on the supernatural weight loss thread.

Anyway as for 'flame baiting', why would a tongue in cheek comment provoke an angry response?

An Ulster comedian once had an appropriate catch phrase - "It's a cracker!"

This is the same silly nonsense were graveyards are actually segregated (something I hadn't realised until recently) between Protestants and Catholics. Personally, I couldn't care less who I was buried next to and what religion (or lack there of) they were. As Davy Dunseith often says, "You're a long time dead". Quite correct Davy.

It seems to me as a lifelong atheist that a true atheist doesn't care where his or her body is burried after death or for that matter if it is burried at all. Once I'm dead, that will be someone else's problem anyway.

Here lies Marcus Arelius II

He Came, He Saw, He Blogged.

I Blog, therefore I am :-)

Good point, why should an atheist care where he's buried?

He's gone, and, were he correct, any meaning his life might have had is also gone too, so he has no need to worry about primitive supernaturalism. it'll not effect the worms appetite, i wouldn't think

"I Blog, therefore I am :-)"


ahaha, very good...Bloggito, Ergo Sum

I think the funniest bit is the presumption in Derry that an atheist should be buried with the protestants.

Of course if humanists want their own graveyards they should create them - where is Brian McClinton and his shovel when you need them - though based on their other services I suspect they would be very pricey burials.

But of course that's not what they want - they would want to do away with religious graveyards - that's the sort of pluralism they tend to want.

Smasher

I put some comments arguing that Catholic belief in the Real Presence was rational on the PZ Myers thread. I would appreciate it if you could give them a glance, to make sure I haven't totally misrepresented your beliefs.

GV