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If you open up a dictionary and looked up religion, you just might find a picture of an atheist.
For a man who despises religion so much, Edwin Kagin sure does like dressing up like a monk, while holding a hairdryer called “Reason and Truth” at an annual American Atheists Convention. (Photo by ABC News)
In a stunning display of Catholic metaphors and irony, during a recent annual American Atheists
American Atheists Web site Convention one of atheism’s “priests” Edwin Kagin used a hairdryer labeled “Reason and Truth” and blown fellow atheists’
hair in a symbolist gesture — de-baptizing if you will — of drying the decades old holy water that was once put on their heads when they were baptized as children, reported ABC News
ABC News.
Funny, isn’t it? Kagin, who is American Atheists’ national legal director, is against religion so much, even calling its teachings “child abuse,” that he actually sounds like a religious zealot himself.
“And in my opinion, they are engaged in terrorism by weakening our nation and our understanding of science and things with which we can defend ourselves and progress. If it had not been for these fools we could have been at the stars 2,000 years ago,” Kagin told the crowd.
Right, because we actually had the knowledge and technology to build a sophisticated space craft back in the year 10. Please, even without religion a pen would still be a bit too complicated for our technology-challenged ancestors.
Kagin also told his devotees and followers, who can purchase his books on his Web site
Cutline Info just like many religious leaders peddle on theirs, that religion does a dangerous job of “teaching children that the world works in other ways than it does.” Very much what he’s saying, isn’t it? Sounds like a little Yin and Yang myself.
Sure we can start the tired-old debate of science vs. religion, atheism vs. religion, or even Star Trek vs. Star Wars, but there is no reason.
We should just all have a good laugh at how very much atheism is like its foe religion. After all, while Kagin made a mockery of religion, going so far as dressing up as a monk in this supposed age of tolerance, just how different are religious people and atheists since they both preach what they think is the truth?
It’s funny how you really can become what you despise so much.
Irony, thy name is atheism.
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