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I am an atheist, in fact, I describe myself as a Humanist for I believe in the good in people, not mythical beings.

Places to avoid

This is a section for establishments that openly promote religion:

National Chains
Chick-fil-a
In-n-Out Burger
Alaska Airlines (include bible quotes with meals)
Forever 21 (puts John 3:16 on their tags)
Country Bob's sauces (look who the CEO is)
Edwards frozen pies (bible verse on pie tin)
Desert Essence (beauty products)
Estes (aquarium stones)
Food for Life (baked goods)
Brim's Old South (chips and the like)
Daniel Chapter One (look at the mission statement at the bottom)
Curves (gyms, leaves bibles in workout areas)
Aldi Foods (has buybull verses on the inside of egg cartons)

Local
Carter Brothers Bar-B-Que North Carolina

Franchises (companies who don't seem to be religiously affiliated but might have franchisees who do)
Subway

If you know of any others, please send me a message giving me the name of the company and if possible a link to the company's website showing that they promote religious ideas.

For example http://www.incrediblepizza.com/about.php If you look at bullet number 3 under the mission statement. "We operate our business by Christian principles". The alternate of this would be if they have a religious symbol on their products and/or building. In the case of the pizza company, they have the jebus fish on the doors as you walk in.

I have to give credit to the religutards over at http://www.prophecyfellowship.org/archive/index.php/t-147138.html who posted most of these for me to find so easily!

*Megaplex Theatres is owned by the Larry H Miller Corp who gives 10% of their earnings to the LDS church

If you have the name and possibly a website of a company who proseltyzies a religion and would like me to add it, please comment on this post: http://yamipirogoeth.blogspot.com/2010/07/places-to-avoid.html

Monday, December 28, 2009

Sayings

So I've been thinking lately (oh no, don't tell the fundies, they'll accuse me of being heretical), about a lot of things, but for this post, specifically sayings people will say as an exclamation.

Some examples:
Crap
Shit
Dammit
What the hell
Gah (personal favorite)
Oh my god

It's the last one that I was mostly thinking about. I said it after seeing some absolutely horrendous driving and thought to myself "hmm...what would happen if I said that around someone who was even moderately religious let alone could be described as a fundie" Of course I don't have anyone that I can really ask in person cause all the people I know are either apathetic to religion or are fairly religious but have learned NOT to bring up religion with me (mostly cause they keep losing all the debates they have with me).

But, my ultimate thinking is...why should I say "oh my god" when I'm an atheist (unless I take a solipsist approach at which point I guess I would be a god to everything I experience), and why should I say something along the lines of "oh my hell".

I have actually gotten myself away from saying "oh my god" and saying "oh my hell" instead, much to the confusion of people around me (not to mention using OMH online has produced some hilarious results).

So, at this point, I'd like to ask anyone who reads my blog what your take is. Do you still say OMG or would you feel better saying OMH (being that you're atheist or any variation thereof)?
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2 comments:

  1. BudJanuary 4, 2010 at 12:41 PM

    HI. Found your blog over at Friendly Atheist. "Oh my god" has become a figure of speech, a colloquialism, and even religious people who use it are generally not crying out to their god when they say it. For most it's just another way of saying "oh wow" or expressing an emotion.

    I say "damn" and "hell" all the time, and their origins are biblical. I'm not evoking religious language necessarily, just using phrases common to our conversational language.

    I don't think an atheist is hypocritical if she says "oh my god," and I can understand why an atheist would want to refrain from using even harmless, passing references to god. Use whatever language you feel comfortable with.

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  2. SakuraJanuary 4, 2010 at 9:06 PM

    That's what I figured is that it's more a figure of speech rather than an invocation of a deity...

    This mostly stemmed from some article I read that people (I'm willing to bet mostly fundies)assume that an atheist who says "oh my god" isn't an atheist at all...so, my natural curiosity made me wonder what other atheists think

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