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CFI Announces Blasphemy Contest Winners
www.centerforinquiry.net/news/blasphemy_contest_winners/
"Faith is no reason."
The Center for Inquiry (CFI) is pleased to announce that Ken Peters of California is the Grand Prize winner of its Blasphemy Contest, which asked contestants to submit statements of no more than twenty words critical of religious beliefs. The entry Mr. Peters submitted was: "Faith is no reason." In announcing the award, CFI president and CEO Ronald A. Lindsay said "This entry, using only four words, summarizes nicely one of the key principles of post-Enlightenment thought. Beliefs should be based on evidence and reason. Faith is not a basis for logically sound belief."
...In addition to the Grand Prize winner, there were four other winners. Their entries were:
"There’s no religion like no religion," submitted by Daniel Boles of Thailand;
"I wouldn’t even follow your god on Twitter," submitted by Michael Hein of South Carolina;
"The reasonreligious beliefs need protection from ridicule is that they are ridiculous," submitted by Michael Nugent of Ireland;
"I survived the God virus," submitted by Perry Bulwer of British Columbia, Canada.
...HONORABLE MENTION:
"Think outside the pew."
Gerry Stearns
"GodLess is more."
Harout Markarian
"Minds harbor incongruous memes:
Religion and fairytale dreams.
Relentlessly nutty,
They turn brains to putty,
Inculcating scurrilous schemes."
Kate Jones
"A fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.'
A wise man shouts it from the rooftops."
Mark Palmer
"Jesus has all the answers...to your vague, non-specific questions to which you already know the answer."
aaoe98 (no name accompanied the email)
"God is incredible."
J. Laudig and George Tipton (submitted separately)
"A perplexing entity, God
Exhibited properties odd
A generous savior
With wrathful behavior
Both Barney and Marquis de Sade."
Tim Harrod
:–) <-- Muhammad
Nicholas Rinard
"Religion is the blasphemy of reality."
Joe
"Our Father, Heavenly King
Stop watching me sleep.
It's creepy.
Amen"
Jacky Chow
Finally, the judges decided that a blasphemous joke uttered by CFI Founder Paul Kurtz at a CFI event in early November merited special mention—even though the joke is longer than twenty words...:
A priest and a nun went golfing. On the priest's first swing, the ball went wide off the green.
"Shit," said the priest. "I missed!"
"Oh Father, please don't speak like that," said the nun. "God wouldn't like it."
On the priest's second swing, the ball went into the rough.
"Shit," said the priest. "I missed!"
"Oh Father, you mustn't curse," said the nun. "God will strike you dead if you use such language."
On the priest's third swing, the ball went right into the water hazard.
"Shit," said the priest. "I missed!"
Suddenly it got very dark. Black clouds boiled up. There was a flash of lightning, an ear-splitting crack of thunder.
And the nun was gone.
"Shit," said a great voice from above. "I missed!"
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