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Subject:Re: Could It Be...Yes I Think It Is....IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN...
Date:Fri, 28 Nov 2003 10:14:43 -0500
From:Tink <kjgrish@comcast.net>
Newsgroups:alt.agnosticism,alt.atheism,alt.atheism.satire,alt.athiesm,alt.binaries.godless-heathens,alt.blasphemy,talk.atheism
Clayton the Yogurt Based Beverage wrote:
> It's time for....
> 
> THE FOURTH ANNUAL "PUT YOUR DOGMA ON A LEASH" AWARD FOR THE LOONY THEIST OF
> THE YEAR
> 
> Yes, folks.  It's almost December and that means it's time for the godless
> Usenet to nominate and vote for those proud people who demonstrate the most
> insane aspects of theism and award them for their outstanding efforts in
> showing that there is a unique kind of mental illness found only in theism.
> It's time to start thinking of who you want to see up for this prestigious
> award.  Nominations start on December 1st and voting takes place from Dec
> 26th to Jan 1st.  Don't let your favourite loony to go
> unnominated...remember the year Pastors Dave and Frank weren't nominated and
> so many were disappointed that they couldn't vote for them.
> 
> As has become tradition, each year I add a new category, so take a couple of
> days to think about who you want to put on the card in each one.  This year
> the four categories are....
> 
> THE USENET LOONY OF THE YEAR:   For those loonies closer to home.  Those
> weird lil trolls and proselytisers who haunt the godless net.
> 
> THE REAL LIFE LOONY OF THE YEAR:  A much wider category involving the whole
> world's most prominent loonies.
> 
> THE LOONY GROUP/ORGANIZATION OF THE YEAR:  Governments, organizations,
> terrorist groups or general collections of raving religious nuts who rake
> the world with their horrid religious claws.
> 
> and the new category...
> 
> THE LOONY THEIST EVENT OF THE YEAR:  Which single event committed in the
> name of theism or for which theism was obviously responsible, that has
> wrecked havoc on humanity deserves to be recognised.
> 
> 
> All nominations will be considered by myself.  I will then choose ten in
> each category for which all godless Usenet regulars can vote.  The winner
> will be announced in the new year.  Ok folks...get your thinking caps on and
> get ready to nominate from the first day of December up until Christmas.
> 
> 
> 

Two words:  Roy Moore.

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a vacuum.

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