{"id":4833,"date":"2015-03-24T17:35:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T22:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4833"},"modified":"2015-03-24T17:35:07","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T22:35:07","slug":"there-are-no-atheist-castration-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4833","title":{"rendered":"There are no atheist castration victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/2\/24\/Male_mallard_duck_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"172\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This time, brought to you by the vivid imagination of Duck Dynast, Phil Robertson (from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/phil-robertson-hypothesizes-about-atheist-family-getting-raped-and-killed\">Rightwingwatch<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/phil-robertson-rape-murder-atheists\">TPM<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll make a bet with you,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Robertson said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Two guys break into an atheist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s home. He has a little atheist wife and two little atheist daughters. Two guys break into his home and tie him up in a chair and gag him. And then they take his two daughters in front of him and rape both of them and then shoot them and they take his wife and then decapitate her head off in front of him. And then they can look at him and say, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcIsn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it great that I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to worry about being judged? Isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it great that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nothing wrong with this? There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no right or wrong, now is it dude?\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Robertson kept going: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Then you take a sharp knife and take his manhood and hold it in front of him and say, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it be something if this [sic] was something wrong with this? But you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re the one who says there is no God, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no right, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no wrong, so we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re just having fun. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re sick in the head, have a nice day.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153If it happened to them,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Robertson continued, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<strong>they probably would say, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsomething about this just ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t right<\/strong>.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the subjunctive tu quoque, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.academia.edu\/593058\/Tu_quoque_arguments_subjunctive_inconsistency_and_questions_of_relevance\">here<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0And <a href=\"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=1713\">here<\/a> for the original post. \u00c2\u00a0Come to think of it, this is a variation of the no-atheists-in-foxholes argument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time, brought to you by the vivid imagination of Duck Dynast, Phil Robertson (from Rightwingwatch via TPM): \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll make a bet with you,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Robertson said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Two guys break into an atheist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s home. He has a little atheist wife and two little atheist daughters. Two guys break into his home and tie him up in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4833\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">There are no atheist castration victims<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1815,721],"class_list":["post-4833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-phil-robertson","tag-subjunctive-tu-quoque"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4834,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833\/revisions\/4834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}