I know you're all tired of this, but ...

[Audley Strange]

Seems like Inquisitor Myers really does have no level of self awareness. He compared himself to Walter Fucking White and yet does not see that he himself is very publicly and very openly breaking bad.

I'll take a decent human being who believes in Christianity and can see he makes errors over a bitter increasingly unstable atheist who thinks his fucking ideology is objectively perfect any single day of the week.

Morbid fascination is all I have left now.

[Atheist-Lite]

Seems like Inquisitor Myers really does have no level of self awareness. He compared himself to Walter Fucking White and yet does not see that he himself is very publicly and very openly breaking bad.

I'll take a decent human being who believes in Christianity and can see he makes errors over a bitter increasingly unstable atheist who thinks his fucking ideology is objectively perfect any single day of the week.

Morbid fascination is all I have left now.

That is all I ever had to tell the truth.

[Azathoth]

I like Cali. I also like Jim and rasetsu.

Can't we all just share a gelato with Jesus?

I'm sure Jesus would like that

[Svartalf]

Cali is anything but boring

Meaning I have to meet him in person, I must admit that his passion for things entomological doesn't carry well across the internet.

[Svartalf]

It seems PZ has chucked a 'nani.

http://www.rationalskepticism.org/gener ... l#p1407956

(well worth the click through).

Damn you eyes... you brought me into that trap and I made my veryt first post on Ratskep. You happy now?

[Svartalf]

Shamelessly lifted from Dev's post at RS (thank you for posting this, Dev):

To the World:
Hello, my name is Andy and I’m the owner of Gelato Mio, a gelato shop located in Springfield, Missouri. There has been quite a lot of buzz and discussion concerning a picture of the sign I briefly posted in my front window Saturday evening. I’d like to take this opportunity to tell my story and offer a heartfelt apology to your community. I messed up, plain and simple. This is NOT an excuse, but how it happened from my perspective.
I decided to welcome the convention downtown by offering the attendees 10% off their purchases at my store. A lot of the group from the convention were stopping by, being very polite and enjoying my Gelato. Saturday night started out as a great night. Once the store slowed down, I decided to walk down the street to learn more about the convention, fully thinking it was something involving UFOs (“skeptics”). What I saw instead was a man conducting a mock sermon, reading the bible and cursing it. Instead of saying “Amen”, the phrase was “god damn”. Being a Christian, and expecting flying saucers, I was not only totally surprised but totally offended. I took it very personally and quickly decided in the heat of the moment that I had to take matters into my own hands and let people know how I felt at that moment in time.
So, I went quickly back to my business, grabbed the first piece of paper I could find, wrote the note and taped it in my front window. This was an impulsive response, which I fully acknowledge was completely wrong and unacceptable. The sign was posted for about 10 minutes or so before I calmed down, came to my senses, and took it down. For what it’s worth, nobody was turned away. I strongly believe that everybody is entitled to their beliefs. I’m not apologizing for my beliefs, but rather for my inexcusable actions. I was wrong.
Guys, I really don’t know what else I can do to express my apologies. I’ve received dozens of calls and hundreds of emails since the incident, and have done my best to reply to each and every one and express my regret for what happened. For the thousands of you whom I’ve offended, I sincerely apologize. I hope you can find it in your hearts to forgive me. This is me as a human being sincerely apologizing for my actions.
To those of you who accept my apology, Thank You; it means a lot. To those of you who haven’t, I hope you will. I’m just a 28 year old small business owner who made a big mistake. I hope you see that I have not made any excuses, I’ve owned up to what I did, and I apologize.
For what it’s worth, an Atheist reached out to me to help me work through all of this and contact your community directly. I graciously accepted his offer.
I will give everyone who comes to my store this week 10% off as a token of my apology. Really, what’s more universal than ice cream?
Sincerely, Andy

http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comment ... the_owner/

PZ Myers' response:

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... -skeptics/

Dev? you mean Devogue? the wine merchant from NI who went to NZ? or is that somebody else whose story I might then regard as other than mendacious?

[Svartalf]

I like Cali. I also like Jim and rasetsu.

Can't we all just share a gelato with Jesus?

I like my icecream real, and it would be a shame to give real gelato to an imaginary character who'll let it go to waste.

[tantamount]

Shamelessly lifted from Dev's post at RS (thank you for posting this, Dev):

To the World:
Hello, my name is Andy and I’m the owner of Gelato Mio, [...]

http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comment ... the_owner/

PZ Myers' response:

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... -skeptics/

I seriously think PZ might need to take a vacation. He's making more and more poor decisions.

Gelato guy posted a dinky little notice on his shop for 10 minutes, realized he was in the wrong, sincerely and extensively apologized (with a real apology and not a "if I offended anyone" non-apology) and made good with it by offering a discount. What more can you ask for?

If I hadn't seen PZ's responses myself and saw them quoted, I would've assumed they were parody. When you are becoming a parody of yourself, that's when it's time to "reassess."

[tantamount]

(Uh, not sure why I can't edit my previous post, anyway:)

The gelato episode and the pharyngula article is apparently from November 22, 2011 ... Why we commenting on it now?

[Bella Fortuna]

The ability to edit goes away after a period of time.

[Robert_S]

So that Rationalia's Skepticon contingent can make sure to stop by and represent the more relaxed and understanding side of us.

Fuck the atheist thought police!

[DaveDodo007]

So that Rationalia's Skepticon contingent can make sure to stop by and represent the more relaxed and understanding side of us.

Fuck the atheist thought police!

I know it's a fucking joke. All the time we have been complaining about the theists linking atheism with the mass murderers of communism. Our answer was but but they didn't kill in the name of atheism and atheism isn't an ideology. Then non dictionary atheist P Z Myers comes along and says we are/or should be a ideology. Way to shoot yourself in the foot while scoring an own goal. Fuck this, is he a secret theist or something trying to undermine atheism from the inside.

[JimC]

Fuck the atheist thought police!

As long as it's consensual, why not?

[laklak]

I like Cali. I also like Jim and rasetsu.

Can't we all just share a gelato with Jesus?

I like my icecream real, and it would be a shame to give real gelato to an imaginary character who'll let it go to waste.

Jebus Gelato repeats on you three days later.

[cogwheel]

So that Rationalia's Skepticon contingent can make sure to stop by and represent the more relaxed and understanding side of us.

Fuck the atheist thought police!

I know it's a fucking joke. All the time we have been complaining about the theists linking atheism with the mass murderers of communism. Our answer was but but they didn't kill in the name of atheism and atheism isn't an ideology. Then non dictionary atheist P Z Myers comes along and says we are/or should be a ideology. Way to shoot yourself in the foot while scoring an own goal. Fuck this, is he a secret theist or something trying to undermine atheism from the inside.

I'm sure that wasn't his plan from the beginning, but somewhere along the way he found God (himself).