Meme of the Week – January 4th

[NeoGreen]

Meme of the Week
Selected from postings at Atheist Meme Base for the Week of December 30, 2014 to January 4th, 2015.
http://www.atheistmemebase.com/

1) Irony


2) We Can Do Better


3) LDS Fun Fact


4) Source of True Morality


5) None of the Above/Other (please post example)

7 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Time expired
	Irony
	0 (0%)
	We Can Do Better
	1 (14%)
	LDS Fun Fact
	1 (14%)
	True Morality
	5 (71%)
	None of the Above / Other
	0 (0%)
	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[mr blur]

1. Woah, tough choice this week.

But you can never have too much irony..

[Scuba]

2. I had to go with "Irony" but "We Can Do Better" was also a great choice.

[onager]

3. Really tough choice, but I gave the LDS a vote

Partly because it had no votes and I like to help the underdog.

Bonus Mormon Hijinx, for those normal people who don't obsess over true crime stuff:

Here's a story almost as unbelievable as Joseph Smith's magic spectacles. Only this all happened for real, and left 2 people dead.

Meet Mark Hofmann, the swindler who bilked $$$ out of rich Mormons by "discovering" (forging) old documents potentially embarrassing to the LDS. He also "discovered" an unpublished poem by Emily Dickinson!

http://www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/forensics/mormon_forgeries/index.html

[AlbertCat]

4. I voted LDS too....

Because it and Scientology should never even be taken seriously by the government. (or anyone else)

Like Betty Bowers said "Atheism, the only belief about god that is taxed by the US government."

[Warren Stupidity]

7. I was going to vote for LSD but it is trailing.

[RussBLib]

9. 10 Things You Don't Know About

did a show on the Mormon's. The series is on the History2 channel. All sorts of interesting stuff:

1) the US gov't tried to exterminate the Mormons, e.g. genocide
2) Mormons helped the Mafia finance the building of Las Vegas
3) Mormons have run brothels
4) Mormons massacred 100+ pioneers in the Utah territory
5) Mormons were kicked out of the United States, and moved to Spanish lands (in the Utah territory)

can't remember the others

10 Things You Don't Know About

[Curmudgeoness]

5. What a difficult decision.

I had to go with True Morality, since this is something that I repeat often to people who think that they are better than I am because they believe in God. Of course, I go further by saying that I am a "better" person than they are since I do the right thing without any other reason than that it is the right thing...no god involved.

But I really wanted to pick LDS, because it was too funny, as well as pathetic to think it is taken seriously by so many (and our government).

[bvf]

6. True morality gets my vote.

Doing the right thing in order to save one's own skin seems like pretty self-centered, cover-your-ass behavior.

[Promethean]

8. Voted morality.

The belief that they have the moral high ground is all that is keeping theists afloat. I've been watching debates and interviews and the morality question always comes up. There are even debates where the atheist literally has the theist admitting that morality exists outside of their religion but they go back to it rewording it a bit later as if that is a different issue. It is the issue that theists think they have an unassailable position on so every time we can chip away at it all the better.

[deucemagnet]

10. Wow, I think I'm actually voting with the majority for once.

It's a great quote, very succinct and to the point, and I like the design.

[JDDavis]

12. All of these memes are fine

Thanks for the opportunity to vote on this.

I wonder just how many people from some other place come here to read and see these and get all upset seeing them. Then they say we're "arrogant" for posting true stuff like this?

[NeoGreen]

13. I see it as one of the small side benefits...

...derived from my attempts to evoke discussions of ideas and concepts here within A&A.

And if they want to Troll, let them Troll, at their ecumenical or spiritual peril.

[JDDavis]

14. Another side benefit is knowing so many of us heathens

smile or laugh just seeing and reading your nominations.

Keep making us smile and laugh.

[NeoGreen]

15. Well, there is that...

...then.

Thanks, will do, enjoy.