It seems that Seth Andrews “thinks” that Mikey Weinstein has his thumb on the pulse of religious matters in the military. Seth has a website and does a weekly podcast that he puts out on YouTube. When Seth announced several weeks ago that he was having Weinstein appear as an expert on Religion and the Military, I tried to contact Seth several times. All I heard in return were crickets of course. Mikey launched off into one of his usual rants. Evidently we are under attack by evil forces called “Dominionists”. Seth described the picture that his expert on Religion and the Military painted was like a Dr. Strange-love scenario and a “Rabid Dominionist Evangelical with his finger on the button”. You can listen to Mikey as Seth gives him a Pulpit to preach from and form your own opinion.
In my opinion Mikey sets himself up as some kind of modern Don Quixote and Seth becomes a version of Sancho Panza gleefully waging war against evil Dominionist windmills. Their battlefield seems to be littered with the remains of an Army of Strawmen. At this point Weinstein is so predictable I could have wrote the script well in advance, in fact I tried to. When I tried to contact Seth in advance I included links to this site and others in an effort to establish that I might know a thing or two about the military. Somehow Seth twisted that into me trying to promote myself. I then attempted to show that I was not an evil troll unfamiliar with his work by pointing out that I have been a supporter of his for years, I even brought up some examples of projects he did in the past that I supported. Seth basically said I was a liar.
As they say, no good deed goes unpunished. I posted “evidence” on my FB page to support my statements but oddly he has not found it necessary to respond. The father of the young lady mentioned is a United States Marine. She was a courageous young lady whom I admired. What Seth did by helping bring attention to her issue was an honor to participate in.
I know that several who post here regularly are Atheist, including myself. We also have Pagans, Mormons, Jews, and yes Christians. I know this because we have discussed the topic on these pages countless times. I am saddened that Seth did not take the opportunity to meet veterans and active military members that post here who have different views on faith but cherish a deep and abiding respect for one another. Mikey Weinstein does not paint an accurate picture of Religion in the Military. He is actually loathed by Atheists, Pagans, Jews, Mormons and Christians who serve our country.
Mikey Weinstein continues to profit from his version of evangelical, born again, rabid, pulpit pounding . But, at least I tried to shed some light on his antics. Substitute Satan, Infidel, Apostate, or even Atheist for the word Dominionist during his rant and there is little difference in the hyperbole. I guess I am just a liar who is out to promote myself and Weinstein has all veterans on his speed dial.
Anyway, in an effort to conduct scientific experimentation on the existence of the hereafter I have been trying an adaptation of Native American methods to catch dreams…nothing caught yet but I am hopeful.
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62 responses to “Mikey Weinstein and the Un-Thinking Atheist; Seth Andrews”
IMHO WHINE-slime is little more than a zit on the ass of humanity.
Speed dial? If you gave that trenchfoot-mouthed sonofabitch my phone number, I am personally going to send the worst nightmare EVER.
Yep Weinstein et al speak for my views on non-belief about the same as Liberals speak for my philosophical viewpoint.
HEY !!!
You stole that Dreamcatcher pic from me !!!
That was my dreamcatcher, all I’ve gotten out of that thing was the friggin’ crabs…
HAHAHAHAHA, so not only am I a LIAR I am also a thief !!!!
Dave, did you take those panties from one of Hondo’s Honeys? If you did, better be watchin’ your six, buddy…
They might actually belong to HONDO, one never knows…or does someone?
At least I know they were put to good use!
if you take that lace and roll in a double Jackson, you WILL likely catch something; hopefully treatable with antibiotics.
I want one of those dream catchers!
You can get the wreath form at a hobby craft shop like Hobby Lobby or Michael’s.
You might want to add an empty box of Godiva chocolates to the dropped stuff.
How ’bout an empty bacon package and an empty beef jerky bag as well?
Aside from Dave, and that’s not at all certain, is anyone going to watch that two-hour long video? Cripes. As for the evil ones, the Dominionists, I would guess they have a leader. You know where I’m going, to a theme park.
LMAO, I can imagine it is torture for some to watch. If you click on it, I edited down to just Weinstein at the end of the show.
Still, it is a labor to watch.
Mikey Weinstein:
The Al Sharpton of Atheists…
*PING!* Bulls-eye! A perfect hit, HERE’S YOUR CIGAR!
Fuck Me !!!! I should have used that. Stealing that too.
“Fuck Me !!!!…”
NO! You’re not built right for that!!!
A lot of fucking going on here. That hillbilly dream catcher really does work.
Or are those wet dreams showing themselves.
Photo’s on the ” fuck me ” or it didn’t happen.
Duh, whatsa “dominionist”? (Maybe Mikey’s starting to attract “demonologists”… and ghostbusters, LOL?)
“Dave. Dave? Dave!”
“Downstairs. I’m done here working on a project.”
“Have you seen my new lace panties? I can’t find them.”
“Dave? Dave?”
You for got Dave chanting “Ooooooommmmmmmm, DAMMIT! Where’s my damned inner peace?”
And those panties need to be in RealTree colors.
Wow… Seth believing that ass hurt Mikey has the pulse of Religious matter in the military? Maybe Seth and Mikey are taking each others pulse by holding the others little penises – in a ghey way?
Both are idiots…
Maybe they’re navigating via Dutch Rudder Steering?
I like the hand gun on the bible.
Dave knows how to please a male crowd: panties, beer, and dip. On the other hand, the panties and the beer and dip cans are empty. I think I finally got the substance of the dream.
Oh Dave,you ever clever Devil Dog: Your Redneck Flycatcher, er, Dreamcatcher, represents such a sublimely scintillating juxtapositioning of cultural icons, don’t you think?
Although I do seem to remember seeing it somewhere before–is that the Alabama State Seal?
I see what you did there. Your use of “juxtapositioning” is apropos for this post.
Never underestimate the bellicosity of an Alabamian.
Having lived on the Redneck Riviera for many years and having been an occasional customer of the notorious Florabama Lounge, I would never, ever, underestimate the belly capacity of an Alabamian.
The problem, Ex, appears to be that you tried to have some kind of intelligent discourse with an asswipe who maintains a secure echo chamber. Who else besides such a Larsist creature would consider Whinestein an expert on anything?
Good point, TOW. Now go post a bacon, hamd or pork-oriented recipe on today’s recipe thread.
I would, but I am 100% useless as a cook. I believe “culinarily retarded” is the proper term for it.
People often ask me how I’ve survived this long in a fire department without learning to cook. Wasn’t easy!
Okay, then please get the missus to help you out with a recipe, if possible.
This is what I think of when I read the screen caption.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACfNSqsi_mE
All these atheists just promoting their shows and shit…I never realized there’d be meetings and shit…I don’t want to be part of a club…
As a non-believer, I just don’t fucking believe….that’s it…do I tweak believers here and on Facebook from time to time? Yes, yes I do…sometimes speaking dissent to privilege is an important task, and sometimes it’s just a waste of time. I’ve done it when it’s both..
Do I crusade against crosses in cemeteries? Nope, do I give a shit about a nativity scene at the fire house? Nope… do I care about laws that promote one religion as opposed to another? Sure, everyone should even if it’s their religion being promoted or protected with special rules beyond the first amendment.
Folks can’t piss and moan about wanting to avoid making pizzas or cakes because it hurts their belief system and then whine about a guy who doesn’t want to handle bacon or booze or believes he ought to be able to beat his wife, or withhold medication from his kids based on his silly fucking belief system without being perceived as hypocrites…or maybe they can I’m not really clear on how all those silly fucking rules work anyway since I’ve stopped wasting time reading that shit…that’s as much of a dick as I get about not believing in fairy tales…if it’s too much for some folks, no worries they can move fuck on, no hard feelings. I’ve had christian friends who tell me they can’t associate with me for my heathen ways…haven’t missed them any more than they’ve missed me…
Its because of pacifist long haired hippie types like you that Dominionist forces are taking over our military.
I bet you are the kind of enabler that just stands silent when others decide to pray.
I had no idea the Dominonist takeover was looming so large. We need to start our own YouTube channel called “The Apathetic Atheist”. I think our mantra should be something like…Everyone can fuck off.
Sign me the fuck up right now…I could blog all day about not giving a shit…
It does not pay to sit and be silent. I do NOT want a frakkin’ Bible-thumping Holy Roller or Pentecostal showing up at my death slab of dirt on my last dying moments. If a Mormon showed up, I’d have to tell him I already know who my relatives are, and they’re all dead. Geez, you get no peace when you’re dying of boredom or starvation or metal splinters in your butt, do you?
Save me from them, willya! I’m kind of busy over here!!!
Pentecosts?
mmmm….eat the snake
I’ve got plans for the local community for when I die that’s going to turn the local community on its ear.
VIKING FUNERAL AT THE LAKE. BARBEQUE TO FOLLOW THE FUNERAL PYRE. LOTS OF MEAD. EVERYBODY INVITED.
BWAAHAAHAAHAAHAA!!!
I want my remains to be scattered around DisneyWorld and I don’t want to be cremated.
I want a closed casket, with the organist playing “pop goes the weasel” over and over.
Is my dinner ready yet?
Stop bothering my friends. You can have leftovers, figure out how to use the microwave.
How about, “Hey, who gives a shit.” I think that would be a more apropos mantra for your show title.
For what it’s worth, VOV, my Christian upbringing teaches that your heathen ways are your own business and none of mine, and that anybody saying otherwise is a pretentious asshole. By the same token, a dickweed like Lars, who insists on flaunting his heathen horseshit just for the sake of being a self-righteous fuckwit, is also an asshole.
Either way, I try not to be an asshole.
My favorite line was that Weinstein “warts and all was an established player” – yeah, the KKK and American Nazis have been around a while and are ‘established players’ too.
Neither Mikey nor Dave nor anyone else speaks for my beliefs… and frankly, my beliefs are strictly between me and Whoever. There are, however, a lot of things I, very publicly, do NOT believe in – Islam, Joseph Smith, the Great Pumpkin, and quite a few others.
I used to pin a pair of pantyhose up to the mantle and ask Santa to fill ’em. For some reason the wife disapproved of my Christmas customs.
Shoulder doc today…. if anyone on Earth is Blessed of God, it is the fella who invented cortisone shots. Followed closely by the one who persuaded women that black tights are just the same as pants instead of being about as revealing as panty hose. Haven’t had this much fun since the ’60s.
I think it was that Yoda guy….I keep hearing these women talking about Yoda pants…the force is strong with this one I think…
You don’t believe in the Great Pumpkin?
You mean, mean, mean old meanie!! You are going to shatter Linus’s dreams!!! How could you???
Who said anything about shattering his dreams? He can believe in what he wants to.
I still believe in the hanging curve ball and long slow wet kisses that last a half an hour, too…
Only a half hour? So you get lip cramps???
Wife has no endurance any more. Gave up sex for Lent…. somehow she missed that Easter 1997 came and went.
You have my sympathies… and that’s ALL you get.
MAY Mikey Weinstein always have a never-ending parade of Jehovah’s Witnesses knocking on his door and ringing his doorbell. I PUT MY HEX ON YOU, MIKEY WEINSTEIN!!!
Mikey Weinstein worships at the altar of Mikey Weinstein. He’s made himself his own deity. I choose not to believe in him.
Wrong bait, DH. No self respecting Redneck in these parts drinks Diet Bush. ‘Round these parts its either long neck bottle Bud (neck make a good handle), or, oddly, 10 oz. Bud in cans.
I don’t the 10 oz. cans either, but there it is.
No, no, no. Guiness. Goose Island. 5 Rabbits. Baderbrau. Ten Hills Pale Ale. Honkers Ale.
Real beer, not that ‘whoossh’ latrine water.
I’ll second that, but substitute Left Hand Milk Stout Nitro for Guinness, and add in Leffe Brune and Public House’s Six Degrees chocolate porter
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What I find so amusing is the fact I knew this man’s son while attending the United States Air Force Academy. Such an amazingly dedicated man of honor that respects religion; however, his son went to services just to get out of the Friday night PT sessions. I never saw him on any other Friday night, nor after his recognition. It’s funny how religion is used by people who do not really respect it. Oh…his son’s name is Casey. I have no respect for either.
Michael Weinstein has been the topic of discussion around here for years. IMHO, he is little more than an opportunist. He appears to have seized on the opportunity to profit from a rise in the secular movement. In my eyes, he is little more than an ambulance chaser running after a cross.
His claims that nearly every member of his family has been “victimized” by religious aggression is just a wee bit too coincidental. He is a great example of self will run riot. Dominionists are lurking everywhere and will take over the military if not stopped.
Seth Andrews let him go on with his pulpit pounding basically unchallenged. It appears that Andrews is under some impression that everyone is out to ride his coat tails to fame and fortune. I am sure Seth, like most anyone that has had little success, has to deal with some of that. Seth Andrews is becoming a victim of his own little bubble. He has built a nice community and worked hard in the past to be the voice of reason. He has done great work in the years past, I was proud to support him. Sadly, he seems to be taking a slow but steady left turn in life.
Some cases Weinstein has filed have merit. But, even a blind hog finds an acorn every now and then. My major objection to this particular event has less to do with a predictable rant by Weinstein and more to do with Seth giving a pulpit to someone that most Atheists in the military find repugnant.
I understand why he invited him as a guest, I can not understand why he became so indignant when I offered him the opportunity to include the opinions of Atheists in the military. Seth launched off at me as if I was claiming to be the messiah of all Atheists in the military. I am not of course, but I did offer the opportunity for him to meet many that collectivly do form a voice. Weinstein is not Atheist, never has been and has never said he was. He is Jewish.
Seth Andrews attacked the messenger and not the message that was being delivered. There are real issues concerning religion in the military, Mike Weinstein is not the spokesman for the vast majority of those who are impacted by them. I can assure Seth that Weinstein does not have me or any Atheist I know who is or has served in the military on his speed dial.
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