Florida Pastor Wants to Register Atheists

Leukarktos · **Joined:** Sat Nov 28, 2009 12:36 pm **Posts:** 432

This guy is a fucking moron!

National Atheist Registry Proposed by Pastor

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pollypinks · **Joined:** Tue Feb 01, 2011 11:32 pm **Posts:** 591

What's the difference between him and those who want republicans to register with the tea party?

belaja · **Joined:** Wed Aug 23, 2006 5:54 am **Posts:** 6181

pollypinks wrote:

What's the difference between him and those who want republicans to register with the tea party?

I'm not following you here. Atheism is a psychological, mental, or spiritual (if we must) state. It's not a party somebody belongs to. It's not a religion that one must declare (and being required to "register" as a particular religion is illegal anyway).

What do the publicans and the tea party have to do with this in any way?

CV Rick · **Posted:** Sat Sep 10, 2011 2:00 am

I'm with Belaja . . . I don't follow.

truebutnotuseful · **Posted:** Sat Sep 10, 2011 7:18 am

It's been awhile since I gave an article the good ol' leprechaun treatment.

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Meet Michael Stahl, otherwise known as "Pastor Mike." Stahl lives in Miramar, Florida, and leads an online church called Living Water Church, which we think is a fancy way of saying he hangs out a lot in a Christian-themed chat room. Stahl has proposed the creation of a national registry for people who don't believe in leprechauns much like the ones in existence for sex offenders. It's almost self-evident why this is a good idea, but let's have Stahl explain it himself:

Now, many (especially the people who don't believe in leprechauns), may ask "Why do this, what's the purpose?" Duhhh, Mr. Person-Who-Doesn't-Believe-in-Leprechauns for the same purpose many States put the names and photos of convicted sex offenders and other ex-felons on the I-Net — to INFORM the public! I mean, in the City of Miramar, Florida, where I live, the population is approx. 109,000. My family and I would sure like to know how many of those 109,000 don't believe in leprechauns! Perhaps we may actually know some. In which case we could begin to witness to them and warn them of the dangers of not believing in leprechauns. Or perhaps they are radical people who don't believe in leprechauns, whose hearts are as hard as Pharaoh's, in that case, if they are business owners, we would encourage all our Christian friends, as well as the various churches and their congregations NOT to patronize them as we would only be "feeding" the lack of belief in leprechauns.

Frankly, I don't see why anyone would oppose this idea — including the people who don't believe in leprechauns themselves (unless of course, they're actually ashamed of their religion of leprechaun-disbelief, and would prefer to stay in the 'closet.').

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pollypinks wrote:

What's the difference between him and those who want republicans to register with the tea party?

If that's a dig against atheism, don't expect it to be too well-received here. I'd bet well over half the active members of this board identify as atheist, or at least hard agnostics.*

Just FYI.

*I do not have statistical data to support this claim. It is based purely on my participation here over the years.

pollypinks · **Joined:** Tue Feb 01, 2011 11:32 pm **Posts:** 591

You think I made a dig against atheism?? Phwat?? Where on earth did that one come from. You won't find anyone more liberal than me. Perhaps you expect me to crawl under my rock and encourage our present move towards a McCarthy type atmosphere. I was alluding to the fact that so many want people registered for their own political gain. And why would a universalist make a dig against atheism?? Shit.

HighMaintenanceMe · **Posted:** Sat Sep 10, 2011 4:41 pm

This guy is whacked. What's next? Boxcars and gas chambers?

MrsDoubtfire · **Joined:** Sat Jul 09, 2011 3:48 am **Posts:** 212

HighMaintenanceMe wrote:

This guy is whacked. What's next? Boxcars and gas chambers?

It would be nice to have a registry for Godwinisms.

truebutnotuseful · **Posted:** Sat Sep 10, 2011 8:17 pm

pollypinks wrote:

You think I made a dig against atheism?? Phwat?? Where on earth did that one come from.

I suppose I misread your post, which I interpreted as you suggesting that 'Voters Registering with Political Parties' is no different from 'Kooky Pastor wants Sex Offender-Style National Atheist Registry.'

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Perhaps you expect me to crawl under my rock and encourage our present move towards a McCarthy type atmosphere.

My diabolical plan has been unveiled! I might as well spill the details, then (Bond Villain-style). It's a three-step plan:

Step 1: I engage strangers on the Internet in discussions regarding the merits of national atheist registries.
Step 2: (I haven't fully worked out the details of this step, yet.)
Step 3: McCarthyism Reintroduced!

I read somewhere that the best-laid plans always fail, so I made sure that this plan was only really really well-laid.

pollypinks · **Joined:** Tue Feb 01, 2011 11:32 pm **Posts:** 591

There certainly are huge differences between political party registration and personal belief registration, or sex offender registration. I just personally think it's ridiculous that we have to register our party affiliation.

BONIFIED · **Joined:** Wed Sep 27, 2006 10:15 pm **Posts:** 347

This pastor has it wrong; these god-hating reprobates need to be outed and their livelihoods jeopardized, but registration is NOT right.

I think a list of atheist should be created from their contributions or involvement with anti-religious campaigns, movements, organizations and/or referenda. This list will include their name, profession, google map link to their home address and other misc info like their place of work or businesses interests.

With this list out there, people can inform themselves and act accordingly.

pollypinks · **Joined:** Tue Feb 01, 2011 11:32 pm **Posts:** 591

You jest, BONIDFIED.

oldfart · **Posted:** Sun Sep 11, 2011 4:14 pm

pollypinks wrote:

You jest, BONIDFIED.

Pull my finger.

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