Atheists & Agnostics

onager

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12. "I'm an atheist butt..."

Sun Jan 10, 2016, 10:17 AM

Jan 2016

And people who start off that way usually are. Butts, not atheists.

Speaking of us becoming trendy - I've been watching the new Reelz channel series "Demons In The City of Angels." About various murders etc. in Los Angeles.

This week's episode covered the horrible death of 91-yr-old screenwriter Robert Lees in 2004. It included some footage of Lees at an Atheists United meetup, where he was awarded a prize for his parody of the Bible. I was watching that and thinking: "Not too long ago, they would have probably deleted that footage. So as not to offend the Xians."

Lees was an interesting guy. He was blacklisted by HUAC in the 1950s and had to re-boot his career using a pseudonym. And no one deserves to die the way he did...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lees

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