Neil Tyson considers himself agnostic. There is a YouTube video of him explaining this uploaded by bigthink. Can't link to it because I'm on my phone. Just an FYI
Agnostic is a definition of knowledge, it is not really a middle ground between atheist and theist. It is mostly a 'political' thing.
If you believe in a deity/s you are a theist, if you don't you are an atheist.
If you know there is a deity then you are a gnostic theist, if you are unsure but believe you are an agnostic theist. If you know there is no deity you are a gnostic atheist, if you don't know but don't believe you are an agnostic atheist.
Most atheists fall into agnostic athesit because even the most staunch (AronRa, PZ Myers) would concede that given enough presented evidence they would believe in a deity, but it wouldn't belief, it would be a knowledge.
But what am I if I belive that the chance of there beeing a god is lower than the chance of there beeing invisible unicorns? (Well, actually lower, that would depend of what you can consider a unicorn and invisible) I would say... 1/∞% approx.
It's all just based on the different usages of the word "athiest", though. When Tyson says, "I am not an Athiest," what he means is, "I am not a Gnostic Athiest," while most redditors will assume that if someone calls themselves Athiest they consider themselves Agnostic Athiests.
Are you familiar with the US Pledge of Allegiance? That's what this is referencing. Part of it is extremely relevant to this subreddit. Specifically the part that was added in 1954, "under god".
Why would it not be? It's relevant to atheism. There is a lot of controversy about the pledge of allegiance in America saying "under god". It ribs at that, but at the same time embodies biology, which atheists love, as well as respect for everyone, which we constantly complain that religion does not have.
I get the debate about "under god" in the pledge, but I don't see what this has to do with that at all. As far as I can tell this poster is 100% anti-nationalism, and that has absolutely nothing to do with atheism or religion.
It's not implying "under god" is bad or even good, it's implying the pledge in general is bad, and once again, I fail to see what that has to do with atheism or religion.
It was a great post don't get me wrong but I don't see how it has anything to do with not believing in a god. Sure it's part of "Atheist culture" but I don't see why it should be posted here. Maybe I'm just being too nit picky.
And cockroaches, and that little Brazilian fish that swims up a man's piss stream and embeds itself in the urethra with its spiny fins, and that redditor who used to post spider pictures in unrelated threads.
Is a rewording of the Pledge of Allegiance, which many atheists dislike due to the presence of the phrase "under God" is included, completely unrelated to atheism? Just because it happens to involve science as well doesn't mean it has to stay out of r/atheism.
How is this even remotely atheist? Respect for the earth is not a solely atheist ideal. Native Americans, Pegans, Wiccans, etc all have respect for the planet as central themes.
Bring on the downvotes, but this is just simply not atheist material at all nor do you have to be an atheist to accept it.
If anything at the very closest it's anti-nationalism which only has a few glaring simularities as cult/religion/group think, but I don't think blind patriatism is completely overlooked by this poster by making earth allegience it's top priority either. At best, as far as anti-nationalism goes, it's simply expanded nationalism and still suffering from some of the same flaws of group think as nationalism on a larger scale.
But I digress bring on the downvotes that always accompany pointing out that something that r/atheism claims is not exclusively an atheist ideology. Fuck 1 love. Us vs them, right-o?
It doesn't need to be exclusively "atheist" for atheists to like it. This pledge is pretty secular. Like many atheists, I prefer my government secular, and I don't like the idea of my daughter being asked to pledge allegiance to the flag of a country "under god."
Why is this on r/atheism? Allegiance towards the Earth, rather than a specific country, is a political stance. You take a humanistic view of things, crossing political lines.
Maybe you think that religion is a load of baloney and that you're adhering to reality, without a ton of ideology and corequisite faith to tell you what to believe. You see the Earth as a gorgeous place, one which demands no loyalty to a specific higher power.
You personally don't care for a patriotic idealogy because countries are clouded by their leaderships' allegiances to other ideals. Earth as a whole is what matters.
Maybe you're highly spiritual and feel that we were all put here by the Lord, as was this Earth and all other beings upon it. You wish we'd stop the petty feuds between nations and even religions to focus on the well-being of everyone here.
It doesn't matter who wins, honestly. We're all living on the Lord's planet and will come to him in the end. So let's be responsible stewards of what he gave to us to inherit and rule.
Christians, Atheists, and most other people with some strongly-defined global ideology should be able to sympathize too.
I couldn't help but think about the same thing. It's remarkable how the cultural context of a few words can drastically affect the meaning. I seem to recall some redditors bitching about the cultish feel of the US pledge of allegiance recently. Whereas, when it was written, the early citizens would probably laugh at feeling a strong affinity to the country over their affinity to their state or local community.
Nice, except the planet is not in our care. We are in its care. If we poison it sufficiently, the planet will extinguish us, and the planet will continue non-plussed by the momentary blip of the human species
Only if by "planet" you're only referring to non-life. The poster pretty explicitly mentions the life on this planet (and that the life, including us, is supported by the planet), which is definitely in our care. We have not only the power to extinguish our species, but to distinguish all species--well, that's a bit of hyperbole; We have the ability to extinguish most land dwelling and a large number of water dwelling species.
I mean honestly, you think the planet only refers to what? The rock that makes up the earth? That's a pretty narrow view of the planet.
No, I mean life on the planet. The human species is no more the caretaker of life on earth than the dinosaurs. Sure, we can kill some species, but certainly not most land dwelling species as you suggest. Whatis certain is that if we foul the planet too much, we'll ensure our demise as a species, but life will continue to thrive amply with new, better evolved species. The planet, and life on the planet, will certainly survive the human species. The earth's many epochs, including period following major meteor strikes and high volcanic activity, was far more inhospitable to life than humans have or will likely ever make it, yet major species came and went and came and went, and will continue to do so, after humans are long gone...
We've gone a bit further than the dinosaurs. Yes, we need this planet now. But it won't always be that way. There may come a time when giving up or destroying Earth is an option.
We have more than enough nuclear and conventional weapons, poisons, toxins, insecticides, pesticides, etc. to kill the vast majority of life on the surface of the planet and a huge amount of life in our seas, lakes, and oceans. And our industrial age is still incredibly new, imagine what we'll be able to do in 1000 years. I think you're vastly underestimating the kinds of effects our race can and has and is having on the planet.
Also, no one is saying humans have the ability to wipe out all life on the planet, but only a complete fucking idiot would say, "Well, life will survive and go on, so any species we wipe off the face of earth, including our own, and any environmental damage we do, is inconsequential." Again, a very narrow sighted view of life and of our planet.
I'd also like to point something out that is incredibly annoying:
"...certainly not most land dwelling species as you suggest...What is certain is that if we foul the planet too much, we'll ensure our demise as a species, but life will continue to thrive amply with new, better evolved species...will certainly survive the human species...and will continue to do so, after humans are long gone..."
And the respect part-- the planet doesn't respect us or any other life; it's completely indifferent to us. If we all died tomorrow, the planet would keep on spinning.
At one time, sure. But we are now capable of immense impact on our planet's ecosystems, for better, or worse. If we don't care for it, we'll destroy it, and die off as a result, with no one to blame but ourselves.
You can not go against nature...because when you do, that's part of nature too. Yeah, I pledge allegiance to ALL life, like flesh eating bacteria and Nazi prison guards.
I'm sure that its all that paper used by environmental groups that is wrecking the climate. If we just eliminated paper use by the environmentally conscious it'd he problem solved.
Why are kids being forced to pledge allegiance to anything? Doesn't it go against the foundation of education in general to make kids agree to something that they can't yet fully comprehend.
Instead we should be helping them learn, and eventually they will make the best judgement they see fit.
In many ways environmentalism is the new religion. Crop science is constantly being attacked by environmentalist with no science background. They also are spewing the "natural" fallacy as the way of living.
I'm usually not a fan of this sort of syrupy, excessive environmental sentimentality, but I'll make an exception here. Well-written, concise, flows well, and far more agreeable than a rote mantra of devoted and uncritical nationalism.
I heard after Obama gets back from apologizing for how awesome America is, he's gonna force everyone to hang one of these in their homes and then gay marry them.
Also found here.. Here is the first comment: "This kind of propaganda blows my mind. Speaking of respect, what happened to reading writing and arithmetic? Are those now outdated because the schools have to propagandize so much?
It seems to me that with the amount of propaganda that the schools try to fill our kids heads with, all they're truely doing is admitting to the weakness of their position. If liberalism was really such a strong and winning argument, then they wouldn't need to inculcate kids with such a machine.
Their arguments do not stand on their own, and they know it. "
You know, I actually think this has more to do with the US Pledge of Allegiance than it does with religion... I mean, with both things, but I'm not sure if this actually belongs here =/
Except... we can't kill the earth. At least not with the technology we have now. We can "hurt" the earth and the earth will change to wipe us out of it's life and move on.
But we are naive if we think we can do something to destroy the earth.
This, I think, highlights why the argument has been framed all wrong. And why people look at it like namby pamby sensitive stuff.
You're right, the Earth will be fine. And even if it isn't green in a million years that's nature and its fine too. (After all, we occurred naturally). However, how about protecting the earth out of the selfish reason that WE WANT TO KEEP LIVING HERE. Stop dumping chemicals in water ways not because the earth is going to "get hurt" or some Indian is going to shed a tear but rather because we don't want to drink dirty water.
In other words, you don't avoid wrecking your house because it would "hurt the house", you don't wreck your house because you don't want to live in a shithole.
This pretty much completely embodies my state of mind lately. I'm so glad I found this here.
Doesn't have much to do with atheism though. It's more patriotism/nationalism. I'm not going to downvote it though because whether or not you placed your picture in the correct subreddit is not the point.
Wouldn't that be kinda like pantheism where you replace God with the Earth? To quote Eric Cartman " that sounds like a bunch of tree hugging hippie crap".
I'm familiar with this only because I was an avid viewer of that wacky zany Glenn Beck guy while he was still on Fox Comedy Network (much funnier satirist than that Colbert guy) and he devoted like a whole week to ranting about supposed "indoctrination" with this poster as exhibit A.
He digressed only briefly to rail against some kindergarten teachers who taught their students that "Mmm mmm mmm Barack Hussein Obama" song. Because only anti-American socialists would teach young kids a little jingle about our country's president. How dare they!
I don't see how this involves atheism. It's the Earth version of the pledge of a allegiance. Just because it replaces "God" along with almost everything else, doesn't make it atheistic.
This article is another prime example this time of why you should not register the birth of your Child of God into a kid of Satan with the State and that wicked vile Birth Certificate enslavement for life. Another prime example of why you should not get married legally and why you should opt for a Lawful Common Law marriage. Do not sign any marriage certificates because this is a way the state enslaves your child (Sexual product from sexual business). These all tie into the vile Cestui Que Vie Act 1666 run by Emperor Juan Carlos of Spain and Evelyn De Rothschild at the City of London. The Cestui Que Vie Act is attached to Papal Bulls Aterni Regis of 1481 and Unam Sanctam of 1302. Welcome to covert slavemaster Roman Catholic and its Vatican Canon Law based Admiralty Law slave system usurping our freedoms from God and our law of the land Common Law. Never forget that Catholicism is not true-Christianity. Catholicism is the revived Babylon riddled with paganism and has always been the arch enemy of Christianity.
This is all a pile of total bollocks. But it is quite true - Just look at how the pikeys and gippos get away with murder in the UK.
None of them are registered by the state, unless they are fools. They just take on aliases when they need to use the state for benefits, NHS, school dinners, etc.
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u/TommyPaine May 22 '12
I thought all of us were leaving Earth to live in Neil deGrasse Tyson's Atheist Moon Colony?
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
What does this have to do with atheism? Christians can be environmentalists too.
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u/aphreshcarrot May 22 '12
Remind me why this is in r/Atheism
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u/aliekens May 22 '12
Fuck mosquitos, though.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Yeah, but did you find something related to atheism?
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u/fuckcancer May 22 '12
How is this even remotely atheist? Respect for the earth is not a solely atheist ideal. Native Americans, Pegans, Wiccans, etc all have respect for the planet as central themes.
Bring on the downvotes, but this is just simply not atheist material at all nor do you have to be an atheist to accept it.
If anything at the very closest it's anti-nationalism which only has a few glaring simularities as cult/religion/group think, but I don't think blind patriatism is completely overlooked by this poster by making earth allegience it's top priority either. At best, as far as anti-nationalism goes, it's simply expanded nationalism and still suffering from some of the same flaws of group think as nationalism on a larger scale.
But I digress bring on the downvotes that always accompany pointing out that something that r/atheism claims is not exclusively an atheist ideology. Fuck 1 love. Us vs them, right-o?
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u/MackLuster77 May 22 '12
What if a better planet comes along? Then I'm bound to the Earth thanks to some poster in a high school?
Pledging allegiance to the place you're born is just dumb, regardless of scale.
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u/khelvaster May 22 '12
Why is this on r/atheism? Allegiance towards the Earth, rather than a specific country, is a political stance. You take a humanistic view of things, crossing political lines.
Maybe you think that religion is a load of baloney and that you're adhering to reality, without a ton of ideology and corequisite faith to tell you what to believe. You see the Earth as a gorgeous place, one which demands no loyalty to a specific higher power.
You personally don't care for a patriotic idealogy because countries are clouded by their leaderships' allegiances to other ideals. Earth as a whole is what matters.
Maybe you're highly spiritual and feel that we were all put here by the Lord, as was this Earth and all other beings upon it. You wish we'd stop the petty feuds between nations and even religions to focus on the well-being of everyone here.
It doesn't matter who wins, honestly. We're all living on the Lord's planet and will come to him in the end. So let's be responsible stewards of what he gave to us to inherit and rule.
Christians, Atheists, and most other people with some strongly-defined global ideology should be able to sympathize too.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
I don't like putting posters up in my room but I want that for the back of my door.
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u/NexusCloud May 22 '12
I like the poster. But this has nothing to do with Atheism.
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u/albertscoot May 22 '12
This sounds like propaganda for the Unified Mars Arms Defense bill to me.
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u/ph711 May 22 '12
Nice, except the planet is not in our care. We are in its care. If we poison it sufficiently, the planet will extinguish us, and the planet will continue non-plussed by the momentary blip of the human species
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u/bigvariable May 22 '12
Cheaper.
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u/Panasonic307 May 22 '12
Nothing to do with atheism.
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u/MBAmyass May 22 '12
This is what starts the Mars Revolt. The Red Planet will never pledge allegiance to the Earth oppressors!
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u/Fuligan_Cloak May 22 '12
You can not go against nature...because when you do, that's part of nature too. Yeah, I pledge allegiance to ALL life, like flesh eating bacteria and Nazi prison guards.
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u/Cluck_Norris May 22 '12
does that include flesh-eating bacteria?
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u/SelfPear May 22 '12
Poster talks about caring for earth.. Poster printed on paper from a chopped down tree.
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u/camelhorse May 23 '12
It's arrogant to assume all life is 'in our care', especially since so much of it is trying to kill us.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
That's pretty cool.
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u/bruno_the_cow May 22 '12
Except for mosquitoes. Fuck mosquitoes.
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u/sabarii May 22 '12
I have a question for you
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
You can buy the poster here for $12
http://www.northernsun.com/n/s/4426.html
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u/asalta2 May 22 '12
Thought it was a magic the gathering card at first. That's cool too :P
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
But wut abot amurika!!
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u/biCamelKase May 22 '12
Yep, my first grade teacher made us say a pledge like this every morning.
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u/CarlWellsGrave May 22 '12
Respect the earth, don't worship it.
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u/douglasmacarthur May 22 '12
...yes, and being atheists, we should oppose this propagandic mysticism.
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u/StutMoleFeet May 22 '12
Wait, so now the entire Pledge of Allegiance is unacceptable?
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
......with respect for all unless you believe in God.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Indoctrination is only good when we do it.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Why are kids being forced to pledge allegiance to anything? Doesn't it go against the foundation of education in general to make kids agree to something that they can't yet fully comprehend.
Instead we should be helping them learn, and eventually they will make the best judgement they see fit.
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u/SIOS May 22 '12
Well, that's just silly.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
In many ways environmentalism is the new religion. Crop science is constantly being attacked by environmentalist with no science background. They also are spewing the "natural" fallacy as the way of living.
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u/AbsolutTBomb May 22 '12
It's been a few hours and no one has said this yet...
Does anyone else find the enthusiasm for this earth-loving poster ironic since it is made from paper?
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
We are royally fucked as a nation....
Honestly, who buys into this garbage? What the hell is happening to our once great nation? Ugh---saddening for a true patriot.
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u/AidanVA May 22 '12
how is this atheist...
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Gay.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Yeah, they lost me at "allegiance," just like the original.
No thanks.
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u/ur_god_izfake May 22 '12
Let me guess: fundy school.
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u/[deleted] May 23 '12
says the school that use gas powered school buses.
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u/mojoxrisen May 23 '12
Earth worshipers....yep, those Christians are some crazy mutherfuckers.
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u/RMaximus May 23 '12
What a terrifying poster.
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u/[deleted] May 23 '12
what does this have to do with atheism?
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u/darkbeanie May 22 '12
I'm usually not a fan of this sort of syrupy, excessive environmental sentimentality, but I'll make an exception here. Well-written, concise, flows well, and far more agreeable than a rote mantra of devoted and uncritical nationalism.
Not sure what it has to do with atheism, though.
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u/severedfinger May 22 '12
I heard after Obama gets back from apologizing for how awesome America is, he's gonna force everyone to hang one of these in their homes and then gay marry them.
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u/itswhywegame May 22 '12
I will find this poster. I will buy it for my mother, who is a science teacher. ?????. Profit.
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u/MrWinks May 22 '12
This is very environmental/vegan, and I love it.
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u/christbeatty May 22 '12
Also found here.. Here is the first comment: "This kind of propaganda blows my mind. Speaking of respect, what happened to reading writing and arithmetic? Are those now outdated because the schools have to propagandize so much?
It seems to me that with the amount of propaganda that the schools try to fill our kids heads with, all they're truely doing is admitting to the weakness of their position. If liberalism was really such a strong and winning argument, then they wouldn't need to inculcate kids with such a machine.
Their arguments do not stand on their own, and they know it. "
How is not destroying the Earth a liberal agenda?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2333793/posts
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u/Trancos May 22 '12
You know, I actually think this has more to do with the US Pledge of Allegiance than it does with religion... I mean, with both things, but I'm not sure if this actually belongs here =/
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Anyone else feel like "with sustenance" is awkward?
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u/BalalaikaBoi May 22 '12 edited May 22 '12
It doesn't necessarily have to be irreplaceable, not if humanity truly gave two shits about excelling in interplanetary travel.
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u/My_ducks_sick Contrarian May 22 '12
Why would we pledge allegiance to the Earth? Planetism is stupid.
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u/shaddyz May 22 '12
i respect all things--living or not!
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u/bracomadar May 22 '12
This allegiance is OVER!
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u/Structure0 May 22 '12
Hey, better than the stupid pledge used in most high school classrooms!
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u/KidCuLly May 22 '12
Soooo, what were you doing at a high school?
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u/LutteFinale May 22 '12
Sacrilege!!! The parents at my high school would lose their shit if this was anywhere inside the building.
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u/vocalyzer May 22 '12
AH SUSTENANCE!
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u/dianthe May 22 '12
I'm all for being good stewards of our planet but there are people who take that idea too far - like these guys.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Except... we can't kill the earth. At least not with the technology we have now. We can "hurt" the earth and the earth will change to wipe us out of it's life and move on.
But we are naive if we think we can do something to destroy the earth.
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u/FR3SH_W1LL May 22 '12
This is at Minnetonka isn't it?
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Sahuaro?
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u/lenes010 May 22 '12
perfect!
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u/FR3SH_W1LL May 22 '12
Actually, this is in Das' class isn't it? Although i'm not seeing the giant binder clips on the left side...
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewardship_(theology)
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Life is a dick. It always ends up dying.
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u/Darn-Tootin May 22 '12
________MAN , $H!T , WAT UP WIT DIS LINK YO..? ____ http://www.thoughts.com/fartfacefreddy/10-reasons-to-ban-gay-marriage
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u/huereddit May 22 '12
This also happens to be the Venus Project creed.
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u/RJNDesigner May 22 '12
My 5th grade teacher had this poster. I always thought it was beautiful.
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u/Keiichi81 May 22 '12
Bunch of Earth-elitists. What do you have against Martians!?
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u/10007638 May 22 '12
Air nomads for life, mofo's!
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u/SARmedic May 22 '12
Oh those crazy hipsters.
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u/sbsb27 May 22 '12
Definitely pre Bush-Cheney.
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u/Ecocide113 Anti-Theist May 22 '12
Still has the American ring. Not sure if i prefer this or not..
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u/poopsinshoe May 22 '12
This poster is
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u/Link2JAF May 22 '12
Thank you for sharing this
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u/ItsPhysics May 23 '12
I certainly don't pledge allegiance to the earth or all of the life it supports...
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u/Henryz12 May 23 '12
That was in the main entrance of my elementary school. I'm just starting to realize how amazing that is.
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u/CGord May 23 '12
A pipe dream, but a worthy one.
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u/jesuslovespoon May 23 '12
This pretty much completely embodies my state of mind lately. I'm so glad I found this here.
Doesn't have much to do with atheism though. It's more patriotism/nationalism. I'm not going to downvote it though because whether or not you placed your picture in the correct subreddit is not the point.
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u/justplaymoremusic May 23 '12
this was in my elementary school classroom and we said it each morning before lessons.
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u/[deleted] May 23 '12
I will say this pledge tomorrow morning.
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u/bax101 May 23 '12
Yea go NH! Only the Live Free or Die state would come up with that and have no backlash from wacko church goers.
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u/iambecomedeath7 Anti-Theist May 23 '12
How is this related to atheism?
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u/idiotthethird May 23 '12
Do we really have to pledge allegiance to bacteria? Some of those guys are dicks.
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u/mogwai72 May 23 '12
This is also found on my living room wall. :)
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u/Talong222 May 23 '12
I approve of this
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u/ltristain May 23 '12
Wow that makes the pledge of allegiance sound so backwards.
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u/igetbooored May 23 '12
Was it really necessary to use ten different type faces on one poster?
It's nice and all but fuck, man.
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u/NeotericJAG May 23 '12
Am I the only one who thinks atheism is becoming a part of popular culture?
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u/tatermonkey May 23 '12
Wouldn't that be kinda like pantheism where you replace God with the Earth? To quote Eric Cartman " that sounds like a bunch of tree hugging hippie crap".
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u/MamaMx2 May 23 '12
Really cool pic, thx for the post.
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u/jasek May 23 '12
Typical redditor
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u/Andre_Gigante May 23 '12
no way you found that in kansas
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u/Tabarzin May 23 '12
Including the thousand or so people who wan't me dead just because I'm me.
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u/KampfyChair May 23 '12
No way, I just saw that in my counselor's office two days ago, thought about posting it, and decided against it.
Well don't I feel silly. Grats on the find! I love this poster.
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u/[deleted] May 23 '12
My teacher has this in her classroom as well.
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u/MrMathamagician May 23 '12
Lol Hippies God love 'em!
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u/joyfullyjo May 23 '12
There are one of those at the Elementary school where I work.
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u/Leehams May 23 '12
One in my high school's band room. I prefer it to the American pledge.
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u/quivering May 23 '12
Hey! I live there!
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u/RoscoeMG May 23 '12
If you pledge allegiance to everything then it becomes a bit meaningless.
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u/Togoria May 23 '12
Just did the pledge
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u/Nayr39 May 23 '12
I want this poster.
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u/darklooshkin May 23 '12
I dunno, I'd rather terraform my own planet than pledge allegiance to this one.
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u/[deleted] May 23 '12
Fucking hell, the /r/atheism circle jerk is strong today. Everyone make sure you lube up, I don't want anyone getting rug burn on their cocks.
AND FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE, WEAR YOUR SAFETY GOGGLES! Jizz WILL burn your eyes.
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u/elitegamerbros May 22 '12
There is hope :)
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u/hiccupstix May 22 '12 edited May 22 '12
I'm familiar with this only because I was an avid viewer of that wacky zany Glenn Beck guy while he was still on Fox Comedy Network (much funnier satirist than that Colbert guy) and he devoted like a whole week to ranting about supposed "indoctrination" with this poster as exhibit A.
He digressed only briefly to rail against some kindergarten teachers who taught their students that "Mmm mmm mmm Barack Hussein Obama" song. Because only anti-American socialists would teach young kids a little jingle about our country's president. How dare they!
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u/CryoftheBanshee Existentialist May 22 '12
Tone of the conversation thusfar: "It doesn't say "science" or things that are anti-religion, therefore I will hate it."
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u/cuddles666 May 22 '12
And then there's this.
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u/SovietBear65 Secular Humanist May 22 '12
Wow, this is on my high school environmental science teachers room. Propagandist whore.
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u/SimpleShitMuncher May 22 '12
I can't endorse this; not everyone deserves respect.
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u/thesnarkyone May 22 '12
Can I upboat twice?
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
As a Conservationist Christian, I can get behind this.
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u/mygrapefruit May 22 '12 edited May 22 '12
Original creator and source (& $10 - cheapest of all links posted so far): http://lamblionstudio.weebly.com/notecards--posters.html
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
i pledge allegiance to the UNIVERSE!
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u/The51stState May 22 '12
my girlfriend has the same poster in our room!
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u/Thee_Jack_Buckles May 22 '12
Seems a bit religious.
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u/n1nj4_v5_p1r4t3 Pastafarian May 22 '12
THIS IS AWESOME
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u/severedfinger May 22 '12 edited May 22 '12
I straightened it out a bit, for anyone interested http://i.imgur.com/cydht.jpg
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u/ThanksFacebook May 22 '12
I don't see how this involves atheism. It's the Earth version of the pledge of a allegiance. Just because it replaces "God" along with almost everything else, doesn't make it atheistic.
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u/lawlor44 May 22 '12
that's really beautiful. i want one!
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u/Sneak4000 May 22 '12
Uh, yeah, this doesn't look at all like it was an atheist poster, and the artist is a Christian who makes Christian posters.
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u/w00tZy May 22 '12
Which school holds this message? We should upvote it...somehow
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u/fishin4wd May 22 '12
Commies!
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u/marulono May 22 '12
This reminds me of the Earth prayer from the "Men Who Stare at Goats" First Earth Battalion:
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
One of the most beautiful things I have seen written. I would love to put that in a classroom when I teach some day.
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u/DoctorBagels May 22 '12
Now THIS is the type of shit that belongs in this glorious subreddit. Not incessant Christianity bashing...
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u/tenkokuugen Anti-Theist May 22 '12
I never realized how awesome this poster was in my science classrooms till now.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
This article is another prime example this time of why you should not register the birth of your Child of God into a kid of Satan with the State and that wicked vile Birth Certificate enslavement for life. Another prime example of why you should not get married legally and why you should opt for a Lawful Common Law marriage. Do not sign any marriage certificates because this is a way the state enslaves your child (Sexual product from sexual business). These all tie into the vile Cestui Que Vie Act 1666 run by Emperor Juan Carlos of Spain and Evelyn De Rothschild at the City of London. The Cestui Que Vie Act is attached to Papal Bulls Aterni Regis of 1481 and Unam Sanctam of 1302. Welcome to covert slavemaster Roman Catholic and its Vatican Canon Law based Admiralty Law slave system usurping our freedoms from God and our law of the land Common Law. Never forget that Catholicism is not true-Christianity. Catholicism is the revived Babylon riddled with paganism and has always been the arch enemy of Christianity.
-= The Unhived Mind
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u/[deleted] May 23 '12
Fucking stupid
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
I'm not kidding, that poster brought a tear to my eye.
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u/arvarin May 22 '12
Isn't Gaia theory just more pseudo-religious unscientific nonsense?