Random thought from watching House

[seriousfic]

It must really suck to be an atheist. After all, Gregory House is probably the foremost sharer of your beliefs on primetime television and he's a horrible atheist. Setting aside any possible angry-at-God-ness, he's completely disrespectful of others' beliefs and thinks anyone who doesn't agree with him is an idiot. It'd be like if there were a hit show with a prominent Christian character who was consistently shown as a foolish, bigoted hypocri--



...damn, Fox, you just hate everyone, don't you?

Comments

[geonncannon.livejournal.com]

What about Wilson and Cuddy, the wise and caring and sympathetic Jews?

[seriousfic.livejournal.com]

Oh, come on, I go through all the effort of resisting a Jew/Hollywood joke and then the first comment...

[geonncannon.livejournal.com]

Well, when it's right THERE... ;-D

[doclinus.livejournal.com]

Is that Olivia Wilde in your icon? For I must have knowledge of that photoshoot.

Scary carnal knowledge.

[geonncannon.livejournal.com]

Someone who can identify Olivia Wilde in an icon even out of context? On seriousfic's journal? Surely not! ;-D

But it is! And it wasn't so much a photoshoot as a promo picture. You can see it in all it's huge glory here. It's an awesome shot, and there's plenty of eye candy no matter what trips your trigger. ;-D

(and the icon is mine if you wish to take)

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, being an atheist doesn't lead to the same sense of identification as having a religion, I don't think. Normally, you're not raised by atheists- you may not even be one yourself until later in life. You go to a religious school in a religious country. And there's not really much culture, no traditions . . . and what's there to bond over? Though we all believe that life is meaningless and death inevitable, it's not the kind of thing you have a bake sale about. And there's only so many times you can discuss the fact we're all just ambulant proteins arranged in a way that leads to the better propagation of more proteins at a barbeque before you start to feel like a tool. And there's not the same irritation at having your beliefs misrepresented- people approach atheism differently (moral relativists etc), and the whole point of it is that even if there was a 'right' way to be atheist, who the hell cares? It's not like it matters. (It irritates me when people are wrong about the theory of evolution, though. The great apes share a common ancestor. That is not complicated, why oh why do people get it wrong?)

Plus, I mean, we're all kind of used to famous atheists also being famous dickheads at this point. That's just art imitating life, I'm afraid.

[mcity.livejournal.com]

>Fox, you just hate everyone, don't you?

They cancelled Firefly after screwing it over so hard Joss Whedon and Tim Minear still have to sit on inflatable donuts.

So, yes.