Bumper Sticker: "FOCUS ON YOUR OWN DAMN FAMILY"

[NAO]

That one cracked me up and made my day.

It's available, along with dozens of equally sharp zingers here:

Evolve Fish
http://www.evolvefish.com

the stickers are here:
http://www.evolvefish.com/fish/stickers.html

and finally, here is an appropriate quote from "The Great Infidel", Robert G. Ingersoll, from his famous lecture "Some Mistakes of Moses", delivered in the 1890's. Ingersoll is discussing the Great Flood of Noah, and has some very pointed questions for Moses and his apologists:

Of course God knew when he made man, that he would afterwards
regret it. He knew that the people would grow worse and worse until
destruction would be the only remedy. He knew that he would have to
kill all except Noah and his family, and it is hard to see why he
did not make Noah and his family in the first place, and leave Adam
and Eve in the original dust. He knew that they would be tempted,
that he would have to drive them out of the garden to keep them
from eating of the tree of life; that the whole thing would be a
failure; that Satan would defeat his plan; that he could not reform
the people; that his own sons would corrupt them, and that at last
he would have to drown them all except Noah and his family. Why was
the Garden of Eden planted? Why was the experiment made? Why were
Adam and Eve exposed to the seductive arts of the serpent? Why did
God wait until the cool of the day before looking after his
children? Why was he not on hand in the morning? Why did he fill
the world with his own children, knowing that he would have to
destroy them? And why does this same God tell me how to raise my
children when he had to drown his?

entire text of "Some Mistakes of Moses" here:
http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/robert_ingersoll/some_mistakes_of_moses.html

[NorCalDem]

1. Great Post...

I love that quote

[flakey_foont]

2. Love it!

Thanks for sharing

[beam me up scottie]

3. I haven't read that

in so long!
Thank you for posting it!

[kliljedahl]

4. Clicked on "Some Mistakes of Moses"

That's some long article. Reading that'd be "Hard Work®"

BTW I love Evolve Fish. Wish they'd make a Reality fish eating the new * fish. Have you seen that one yet?


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[NAO]

5. Ingersoll is very easy reading

he writes in a very eloquent, but very simple style. There is much wry humor he keeps it interesting by varying his blasphemy from mild understatement to over the top.

If you want a shorter read, Why I am Agnostic" is excellent. That one pushed me over the edge from Fundamentalist Christian to Freethinker at age 19 way back in 1984.

"Why I am Agnostic"
http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/robert_ingersoll/why_i_am_agnostic.html

and if you want something really short, and arranged in nice poetic verse, I highly recommend "Declaration of the Free" (scroll down a bit to find the "Declaration"

"Declaration of the Free"
http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/inglife.htm

excerpt (only 4 paragraphs, see link for complete)

We have no falsehoods to defend
We want the facts;
Our force, our thought, we do not spend
In vain attacks.
And we will never meanly try
To save some fair and pleasing lie.

The simple truth is what we ask,
Not the ideal;
We've set ourselves the noble task
To find the real.
If all there is naught but dross,
We want to know and bear our loss.

We will not willingly be fooled,
By fables nursed;
Our hearts, by earnest thought, are schooled
To bear the worst;
And we can stand erect and dare
All things. all facts that really are.

We have no God to serve or fear,
No hell to shun,
No devil with malicious leer.
When life is done
An endless sleep may close our eyes.
A sleep with neither dreams nor sighs.

[kliljedahl]

6. I was being facetious

I copied the articles & will print them tomorrow at work to read at my leisure. The best part is the owners of my company are Bushco Reichwingers.Thanks, I wasn't familiar with Ingersoll, but the couple of pages I read before deciding to copy & print were very well done.


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[applegrove]

7. Great bumper sticker. n/t

[checks-n-balances]

8. LOL! My sentiments exactly

Thanks for sharing a moment of truth & hilarity! :applause: