Comments on: We’re the Elite… Kind of

By: Tim D.

Tim D. — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:52:05 +0000

You know, I wonder if they didn’t say “humorless atheists” just to see if the atheist community would respond harshly….

By: Maria

Maria — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:19:24 +0000

wow, let’s stereotype an entire website and an entire group of people. geesh…….what is it with this magazine?

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:57:37 +0000

And it can’t be lame… I’m on it! ME too

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:30:35 +0000

All I know is, I never laughed so much or so consistently in church society as I do in atheist circles. Not even close. We took ourselves VERY seriously in church and Sunday school. We were on a mission to convert souls and it wasn’t a laughing matter: Eternity was at stake, after all!!

By: Siamang

Siamang — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:50:13 +0000

Hemant,

Your picture on there looks pretty humorless.

Also:

Tired: Wired.

Also:

Atheism: It’s like being Wired Magazine in the 90’s.

By: Aj

Aj — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:21:05 +0000

The best comedians are atheists, nearly all good comedians are atheists (Carlin, Hicks, O’Briain, Gervais, Fry, Thomas, Black, Steel, Izzard, Cross, Allen and many more). Atheist blogs are hilarious, including this one. There’s such humour to be had at religion’s expense. The Flying Spaghetti Monster, pirates stop global warming!

I haven’t been on the Richard Dawkins Social Network, so perhaps that’s where all the humourless atheists go. Strange, because reading the God Delusion makes it obvious that Richard has a good sense of humour. The book is dedicated to Douglas Adams. Alternatively, perhaps the author of the article at wired is an arse.

By: James W.

James W. — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:50:13 +0000

Who You’ll Meet: Humorless atheists

What’s Annoying: Don’t these people realize the earth is only 6,000 years old?

There’s a joke there some people aren’t going to get .

By: Skeptigator

Skeptigator — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:14:55 +0000

Humorless atheists… hmmm sounds like a tired stereotype.

I think this guy went through a list of social networking sites, visited a few and applied a stereotype to the ones he didn’t visit. Plus he missed one

Jaurol.com
What it is: A place for Mexicans to meet and greet
Who you’ll find: Lazy Mexicans
What’s annoying: If they can’t speak English they shouldn’t be on the internets

Oh that’s not acceptable? How about

What it is: Wired Magazine
Who you’ll find: Lazy Reporters
What’s annoying:Contains little of interest since I know all about whatever they are reporting on by the time they get it into print. But don’t worry the fresh stuff is all gated on their website.

Oh crap, i am a humorless atheist

By: BlackSun

BlackSun — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:06:45 +0000

Wired has been slamming atheists ever since their cover story by Gary Wolf, The Church of the Non-Believers. I think it's absurd for a science/tech magazine to take that position. But they've always taken the timid politically correct road. Don't want to hurt anyone's feelings, now. They even have a column called The Luddite where curmudgeon Tony Long bashes all things modern, especially web culture and the blogosphere. We're debasing language and dumbing down the tone of civilized debate. Sitting on the fence in the name of "journalistic balance," you see.