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| S.I.N. | - Acronym for" Spend It Now"
- Motto of fundamentalists who proclaim the imminent End of the World. "You can't take it with you", they say.
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| Sabbath | A day on which no work must be done. |
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| Sacrosanct | A false state of being used to claim blasphemy or heresy. |
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| Salad Bar Christian | Name given to Christians who "pick and choose" the parts of the bible they deem important. For example, believing the part about homosexuality being an abomination, while discounting the directive to kill your children if they are disrespectful to you. Applies to most every Christian not already in prison for killing his own children. |
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| Santa Claus | An imaginary super-being assumed by theists not to exist, despite the fact that his attributes are more believable than the God that they assume does exist. |
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| Satan | Corruption of Set, Egyptian God. Rebelled against his brother's authority, regarded as incarnation of Evil by the 26th dynasty. (See Ahriman) |
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| Satanist | Worshipper of Jesus Christ's alter ego. Non-Christian. Member of any Ethnic religion (i.e. a religion that is NOT one of the Middle-Eastern Trilogy). Atheist.
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| Savior | A mythical character that gives up everything, in order to save everyone, but proves his existence by never being around when you need him. |
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| ScapeGoat | Unable to blame God for anything negative, Christians often find goats to shoulder the blame. These animals are then tortured and put to death in a grizzly fashion, which God greatly appreciates. Sacrificing goats is however frowned upon in our civilized society, so theists often turn their attention to homosexuals, Jews, atheists, Muslims, music, and video games. |
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| Schroedinger, Mrs. | An early animal rights activist, credited with asking her husband, Erwin, "What have you done to the cat? It looks half dead." The rest is history. |
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| Science | A method of discovering predictable laws of nature, based on careful observation and experimentation. A replacement for Aristotle's method of deducing physical laws based on philosophy alone. Despite its obvious success, it is denounced by many theists when it conflicts with their religious beliefs. |
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| Second Law of Thermodynamics | "In a closed system, entropy increases". The reason that living things have to extract energy from their environment to stay alive, and why dead things get all icky and gross. Often misrepresented by Creationists as a reason why evolution cannot occur. |
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| Secret | How christians are required to pray (in their room or closet as opposed to on the streets or in a synagog ie where others see the prayer).This is by Christian tradition from Jesus on the "Sermon on the Mount" right before the "lord's prayer". Matthew 6. Christians that pray publically in a church, in groups, or attempt to pray over YOU are violating this. |
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| Selective Intervention | The ability of a god to save a beer toting, wife beating, gay beating, doctor killing fundy, while letting a bus load of kids drive off a cliff. |
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| Separation of Church and State | - The concept that the government's policy-making should not be influenced by the actions of any religious organization. This is supposedly promoted in the United States of America, but no evidence has been found to prove it.
- One of the many ways in which the Pinko Commie Atheist Liberals are destroying the very fabric of our blessed nation. Yea, they shall surely become a nice, roasty-toasty Golden Brown and Delicious after their deaths. Amen.
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| September 11, 2001 | The ultimate "faith based initiative". |
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| Sex | A satanic, foul and filthy act tolerable only if it is done between a man and a woman for reproduction. Homosexual intercourse is an abomination (see Homosexuality), although many of the biblical "fathers"; did engage in such acts and although it is practiced regularly in monasteries, particularly of the Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic sects.
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| Shakes the Clown | Alternate name for Pope John Paul II. |
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| Shroud of Turin | Alleged to be the burial cloth of a colorful historic figure named Jesus Christ. Though an obvious fake, it has value to "true believers" as the only tangible evidence that Jesus may have existed. |
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| Snake | A legless reptile that slithers on it's stomach as a means of locomotion. Although it has a split tongue it seems quite able to speak, but simply hasn't found anything good to talk about since God took away it's apples. |
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| Snip | In Usenet, an all too common Christian rebuttal technique. |
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| Soul | A part of the human body for which no evidence has been found. |
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| Spit | Body fluid used for healing in the Christian religion. See Mark 7-8 |
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| Stauros | A stake or post. An upright pole upon which a felon is hung to die. A common means of execution in societies lacking electricity, and usually burned after use. One would imagine that a crosspiece would not be added to such a device, as one does not generally engage in paying a carpenter to make an unnecessary addition to an object used so briefly and for such a purpose. (see cross) |
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| Stoning | - To get high on pot.
- To hit nonbelievers in one's faith with rocks.
- The punishment prescribed by God for a variety of capital offenses, such as being disrespectful to one's parents, or picking up sticks on the Sabbath.
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| Submarine Christian | The Christian that only surfaces twice a year to get Easter Eggs and Xmas presents and then submerges for the rest of the year. |
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| Sun of God | Cult figure worshipped by most agricultural societies. Symbol of Zoroaster's Ahura Mazda. (See Amun) |
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| Supernaturalism | - How ancient, superstitious, Bronze-Age goat herders explained the workings of the world around them. Still adhered to by some theists who refuse to be dragged into the modern era.
- An ancient philosophy, shown by experience to be untrustworthy, that relies on magic spirits to cause the events of the world to happen in wildly unpredictable ways.
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| Superstition | A false belief often formed by mis-attributing a cause and effect relationship between two events that are, in fact, coincidental. The error can usually be made apparent by careful observation, simple experimentation, and a willingness to consider the possibility that the superstitious belief is wrong. It's that last requirement that seems to give people the most trouble. |
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