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struggle4progress

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22. What? That atheists don't eat babies?

Reply to cleanhippie (Reply #21)

Mon Dec 12, 2011, 04:27 PM

Dec 2011

I'd actually never heard this particular meme before! And I'd bet most people haven't! But I bet if you focus-group tested it on a random sample of folk, you'd find a majority of them afterwards had a tendency to to free-associate "atheists" with "eating babies"

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The Top Ten Misconceptions About Atheists [View all] cleanhippie Dec 2011 OP

Quite honestly, if I didn't see every one of those 10 items in here consistently... trotsky Dec 2011 #1

#12 PassingFair Dec 2011 #2

And mountains. Goblinmonger Dec 2011 #3

Yeah, mountains....and BIG lakes... PassingFair Dec 2011 #4

And caves. iris27 Dec 2011 #16

And ninjas! Silent3 Dec 2011 #27

And time, one of the meanest things ever Warpy Dec 2011 #25

bookmarked to read later. nt raccoon Dec 2011 #5

He's denying the existence of gnostic atheists in #3. rug Dec 2011 #6

Yep.. Fumesucker Dec 2011 #7

I don't actually know any gnostic atheists. PassingFair Dec 2011 #9

I know you probably never go there, but the Atheist group Goblinmonger Dec 2011 #13

Is it appropriate to claim to speak for all atheists in this way? struggle4progress Dec 2011 #8

I don't have a problem with it. nt PassingFair Dec 2011 #11

Just some dude posting stuff. Goblinmonger Dec 2011 #14

not like he's making any great statements, so it's w/e. deacon_sephiroth Dec 2011 #18

I'm not speaking for all atheists. cleanhippie Dec 2011 #20

He's speaking for himself and claiming to speak for a group, some of whom would reject these claims saras Dec 2011 #10

And he has no control of the group for whom he is speaking Goblinmonger Dec 2011 #15

Maybe you can just take away from the OP what is being said. cleanhippie Dec 2011 #21

What? That atheists don't eat babies? struggle4progress Dec 2011 #22

I guess you missed the last part. cleanhippie Dec 2011 #23

The occasional baby gets eaten now and then... Silent3 Dec 2011 #28

Generally speaking i agree. rrneck Dec 2011 #12

"1) We are not a minority.... we may even be upwards to 24% of the population." - n/t Jim__ Dec 2011 #17

Did you read the next sentence? n/t Goblinmonger Dec 2011 #26

Yes. - n/t Jim__ Dec 2011 #29

Then I guess I don't understand your point. Goblinmonger Dec 2011 #30

Mary Midgley has shown #2 to be quite nonsensical and itself based on preconceptions (including the MisterP Dec 2011 #19

Thanks for posting this here. I appreciate having some.. MarkCharles Dec 2011 #24