Obligatory Repost. Never Forget.

deja-vu-comment · 2012-09-11T09:10:17+00:00

How is this nonsense voted up so highly? This is the kind of message you all want to send to the community as a whole? The attacks on 9/11 were not simply religious in nature. Politics had a lot to do with them as well. Religion was just the vehicle used to strike up anger and fear in order to get new recruits. All violence is reprehensible, but summing up the tragedy on that day into one simple image is not only disrespectful to all those people who lost their lives, but it sets the atheist movement back a step or too.

By creating and supporting images like this, you are no better than the close-minded, misguided people [who are also religious] that you mean to attack. Note my wording carefully. Being religious and being ignorant and/or bigoted are independent events, as this submissions shows.

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BePlant · 1 day

You can replace the moon by Mars by now too.

rend0ggy · 2012-09-11T11:51:23+00:00

The rocket resembles a penis

blushingtart · 2012-09-11T02:34:54-07:00

Is it obligatory? Can it not be? Please?

sweep99 · 2012-09-11T07:09:07-07:00

Sometimes science fucks up and the rocket 'splodes. Sometimes.

PurpleSweatshirt · 2012-09-11T08:24:52-07:00

Science also creates nuclear bombs. Don't be so close-minded.

wunderbaums · 2012-09-11T17:09:14+00:00

religion dosn`t make you fly at all :)

Shizzletech · 2012-09-11T17:16:30+00:00

I never hate r/atheism, but when I do, it's always because of this post. It's horendous and so close minded. This is not how we want to show ourselves to the world.

Gibellini · 2012-09-11T10:22:48-07:00

Science can create weapons, Religion can create extremists. Although it's incredibly naive to assume that 9/11 was carried out by people who's sole stock and trade of motivation was 'Religion'. Anyway, if you're going to hate on something solely for the damage it can potentially cause, at least be consistent and hate other things solely for the damage they too cause (and ignore the possible positives).

Khut · 2012-09-11T12:08:00-07:00

Forget what? Forget WHAT???!

Samurai_light · 2012-09-11T19:52:37+00:00

This level of bigotry and ignorance is just as bad, if not worse, than fundamentalists of any religion.

First, most new science is utilized in the military before anywhere else, so "Science" is not so innocent. Secondly, less than 10% of all wars throughout history were religiously motivated.

So maybe it's just because people are evil, stupid, and are more interested in pointing out the differences in other people and condemning those differences than they are in bringing each other together.

And from what I can see, at least religion teaches people they are "supposed to" come together and love each other, unlike typical atheist philosophy.

MrPotatoHead22 · 2012-09-11T19:56:02+00:00

This is ridiculous. Science has just as much to do with flying to the moon as it has to do with flying into buildings. Science allowed us to create both the rocket and the plane. What really matters is how we as humans decide to use them.

kerdon · 2012-09-11T21:16:35+00:00

Shitty foreign policy totally played no part in this.

manuel_robot_cleaner · 2012-09-11T21:17:09+00:00

For fucks sake, we need to stop posting this! Yes, religion had a hand in the 9/11 attacks, but that wasn't all! They were being controlled by a manipulative leader who simply used religion as a tool!

Hiftle88 · 2012-09-11T14:29:56-07:00

No Judaism, No Nazis, No V-1/2 programme, No operation Paper-clip, No NASA, No voyage to moon in '69.

Pretty big over simplification I admit but you get my drift.

(FYi: not religious, not even 'atheist' just NO religion. Don't blame a religion on something devised by probably no more than 10 people. Whose to say they were even religious?)

salvu667 · 2012-09-12T00:10:46+00:00

...sigh another misinformed human being.

Amryxx · 2012-09-12T00:20:08+00:00

Third thread saying the same potentially wrong thing.

And people wonder why I'm so cynical when they say atheists are guided by logic and reason.

Kindoalkun · 2012-09-12T00:34:44+00:00

So what about nuclear weapons?

larpas · 2012-09-12T04:23:41+00:00

Science also lands you on Mars.

squigs · 2012-09-11T15:32:57+00:00

Ah yes. The divinely powered planes that work without science, and the rocket flown by the devoutly atheist Buzz Aldrin who of course performed a religious ceremony on the moon for distinctly scientific reasons. Good job we didn't rely on scientists with strong religious beliefs, such as Isaac Newton for working out the physics.

sharked · 2012-09-11T09:26:50-07:00

Government foreign policy sends airplanes into buildings.

zeamaize · 2012-09-11T14:19:49+00:00

And atheism murders millions in communist purges.

Or we could be adults, drop our bigotry and hate and realize it is politics that kill people.

SignatureSeries · 2012-09-11T08:55:55-07:00

Hating america is not a registered religion. You're doing it wrong. Mostly by spreading more hatred.

8lack5ky · 2012-09-11T16:31:36+00:00

here take my obligatory upvoat

japuteh7 · 2012-09-11T19:31:01+00:00

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Twins getting fucked hard.

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knighmare · 2012-09-11T15:58:37+00:00

Every bloody year with this, it was more than a decade ago, the people you are fighting have suffered way more civilian casualties, hell the Taliban is essentially surrendering, so much is going on yet america clings to one thing from more than a decade ago to cry victim even after they bomb the fuck out of countries that had no connection to the events.

IKnowYouAndHateYou · 2012-09-11T16:19:53+00:00

Science has never flown me to the moon, and I resent that, as apparently it does that for everyone.


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