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(OneForTheRoad man under glass, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 21:52, archived)
# Yay for Dawkins!
As a minor TJ, if Amoebaboy's about, I just got this shared by my 'Merkin chums on facebook: verydemotivational.memebase.com/2010/12/06/demotivational-posters-we-shall-call-him/
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 21:56, archived)
# Oooh
Happy candles mate
(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 22:01, archived)
# Cheers
I posted this especially
www.b3ta.com/board/10283610
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 22:11, archived)
# Hahaha
He's such a cunt
(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 22:20, archived)
# This is why I need to start looking back further than just the last hour when I visit the site
:D
(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 22:58, archived)
# Happt b3taday. Have some booze.
(I helped save b3ta! Captn Hood-Butter is not dead yet., Wed 15 Dec 2010, 22:02, archived)
# Booze always welcome
:)
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 22:10, archived)
# I like this bloke
(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 22:02, archived)
# Hooray for Dawkins.
Though there are very few atheists that don't celebrate Christmas. Christmas was celebrated long before the babyjesuschrist is supposed to have popped out of the immaculate womb.
Romans soldiers celebrated the birth of a chap called Mithras on the 25th, and the whole lot of them partied on down around that date, even if they didn't dig the Mithras. Pagans have been putting up tree decorations, mucking about with Yule logs and admiring spirits that distributed gifts to all overnight, and all without a nod or a wink towards the chap with the perforated hands.

Merry christmas!
(I helped save b3ta! wheelybird mreee!, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 11:58, archived)
# Christmas was moved from the actual birthday so that the Catholic church could more easily convert the pagans
truefact that
(Canazza is mostly listening to Yes, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 16:08, archived)
# Erm... paganism isn't atheism, and is neither big nor clever.
Attributing significance to logs, spirits, Mithras, or to any particular date is still hinting at some sort of belief in the supernatural, and just as silly as worshipping a probably fictional bloke with metacarpal ventilation. Just because a tradition's older doesn't make it cooler or more sensible.

I s'pose the most honest. po-faced, atheistic thing to do would be to get pissed and have fun simply because the solstice means winter is more or less half-over (presumably one thinks winter is a bad thing).
Or if you like winter, maybe a hoe-down because it's only half-begun. But no worshipping or veneration of anything, ta very much.

I'd much prefer to wish people a Merry Hitch-mas. I love him. Dawkins is a nob.
(lonelybadger, Fri 17 Dec 2010, 22:07, archived)
# Has anyone realised...
...how much Richard Dawkins looks like Julian Assange?
(I helped save b3ta! Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 13:42, archived)
# This is woo
and clicky
(Safety Hamster What happens in the future, stays in the future, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 15:27, archived)
# Richard Dawkins
I feel sorry for the great man this year, his dad died recently :(
(Mackeson_drinker, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:41, archived)
#
Isn't 25th december father christmas' birthday?
(engekomkommer, Fri 17 Dec 2010, 20:34, archived)
# Happy Dawkinsmas, brother atheist.
(I helped save b3ta! The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sat 18 Dec 2010, 1:40, archived)