Eh… they still have time to use A.I. to slap the little hat back on.

Nothing. Multitudes just loves to defend religion, while claiming to be an atheist.

I mean, he’s 77 and Scottish. I enjoy the idea of right-wing culture warriors getting whiplash from his comments, but it’s not hard to believe his views are genuine and he’s too old to give a fuck what people online think.

The mental gymnastics to explain alway, say, differences in the Gospels rather than accept that they were written by different people, at different times...

Why are you making out that his opinion is curmudgeonly and ‘edgelord’. Religion is bad. It had a use years ago before we knew stuff but is redundant now. We are shaking it off slowly and need to keep it away from government, education and life in general.

Important, yes, readable in only the most technical sense. Like most anthologies, it’s very uneven.  No non-specialist would ever crack the Book of Numbers if they didn’t believe god wrote it.

Sorry, if the people who believe in God and the people who don’t believe in God are both fucking stupid, who’s not fucking stupid? Polytheists?

“I believe you mean snuff-porn.” - Emma Keates

The “inerrant god-breathed scripture” belief is dominant;

Them using the “fulfill” quote as an abolishment of OT law makes no sense to me, especially given the context of the full passage and even moreso the one after - 

Just a warning, one of the folks here “defending” belief and trying to be edgy in championing his Southern Republican version of Christianity has already shown his ability to post pages upon pages of scat-porn over on Jezebel. 

This exactly. Not believing in God is fine and dandy. It’s when you start calling other stupid for doing it or trying to “prove” God isn’t real that you start sounding like a prick. It’s honestly just as bad as religious people that go out of their way to try to prove God is real with bad understandings of science.

Just as I finished buckling in, I realized I agreed with him. What a lame ride!

The whiplash exists purposefully to say everything while examining nothing, for clicks. It’s a schtick that bad modern bloggers use as a replacement for substance.

He’s just saying what all rational people already know, but bloggers need to frame it in the “Brian Cox Says a Thing” trend that drives so many clicks.

America is weird that way. People freaked out when Dawkins published “The God Delusion” as if it was some weird position to question religion. Meanwhile people in Europe were like “Didn’t Bertrand Russell write basically the same thing in ‘Why I am not a Christian’ about a century ago?”

I am an atheist and am excited to learn that, apparently, it now qualifies me as an “edgelord” as well. I also got whiplash from the way this article seemed to keep pivoting back and forth on whether the author thought it was the worst take, a legit take, a weird take, etc. 

It’s ‘contrarian’ and ‘edgelord’ to champion critical thinking skills now? Sounds like something a rib bone would say.

I’m sorry, but what makes his take “edgelord”? Are all atheist takes edgelord?

Another question: we know that Nasubi’s antics were broadcast during his isolation, but does the fact that he never did indicate betrayal on Tsuchiya’s part—or is it just good television?