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Sunday, April 10, 2005

Unitarian Jihad

PZ Myers • 34 Comments (last page)

I'm late to the party (hey, I spent most of yesterday in a museum, I had better things to do!), but I couldn't let Jon Carroll's Unitarian Jihad article go by without acknowledgment.

It's genius.

I'd be tempted to be the aggressive committee member on the God subcommittee who pushes for a motion declaring there is a high probability, approaching certainty, that there is no god at all, but in the spirit of community in the article, I'd be content with a dissenting memorandum appended to the committee reports.

Further amendments:

People of the United States! We are Unitarian Jihad! We can strike without warning. Pockets of reasonableness and harmony will appear as if from nowhere! Nice people will run the government again! There will be coffee and cookies in the Gandhi Room after the revolution.

Note that there should also be an urn of decaf, and a veggie platter.

I have a new and appropriate identity, too.

My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Claymore of Reasoned Discussion.

Get yours.

I will refer all argument about whether this refers to the directional explosive device or the heavy double-edged sword to the Nomenclature Committee.

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Comments:

#21458: Ron Sullivan — 04/10 at 08:55 AM
I read that at breakfast the other day, giggled madly, and then went off birding instead of posting the URL to all and sundry. I'm glad somebody has a more alert memory. Then again, I'm also glad I saw that vagrant Harris' sparrow and the first orioles of spring.

Now I'm off to burn a question mark on somebody's lawn.

Sincerely,
Sister Broadsword of Courteous Debate

#21459: — 04/10 at 09:15 AM
i'll have to do a lot of spreading this around, i see. lovely, just lovely.

- Brother Gatling Gun of Compassion

#21461: — 04/10 at 09:23 AM
What would a UU exquisition look like?

Brother Cattle Prod of Patience

#21463: Ron Sullivan — 04/10 at 09:37 AM
A UU exquisition?

"Fetch hither.... the Comfy Chair... with the Hand-Embroidered Cushions!"

Sister Broad' of CD

#21464: dread pirate roberts — 04/10 at 10:08 AM
as a long time fan of brother carroll i am delighted to see you touting his work. i start my weekdays with his column (online daily). he does great cat pieces from time to time (no pictures). also, possibly separated at birth, jon carroll and philip k dick. check the pictures.

#21466: — 04/10 at 10:47 AM
Oh, dear. Ethan and I appear to belong the same sect within the Unitarian Jihad. I wonder. Brother Ethan, didst thou also grow up on a dairy farm?

Brother Cattle Prod of Mild Reason

#21468: — 04/10 at 11:14 AM
It seems the name assignment committee isn't quite liberal enough to come up with a suitable nom de guerre for a guy like me. Darn it, "Katana of Warm Humanitarianism" just ain't ME! In my heart, I know that I'm actually "Main Gauche of Enlightenment".

#21469: — 04/10 at 11:19 AM
I'm now Brother Atom Bomb of Loving Kindness, setting off my irony meter at a 5-alarm scale.

Kudos for the lovely image of Thunnus albacares on the blog today, its one of my favortie organisms, ever.

#21472: — 04/10 at 12:41 PM
Hello everybody from Brother Neutron Bomb of Patience (I must say the name fits me to a T.)

#21473: — 04/10 at 12:47 PM
What's a religious movement without a schism? There's also the First Reformed Unitarian Jihad Name Generator -- reformed because it's server-side, not JavaScript, and because it came out a few hours after the first one.

#21480: — 04/10 at 02:03 PM
Splitter!

#21490: Nullifidian — 04/10 at 03:36 PM
I am Brother Spikey Mace of Courteous Debate. I like it because it implies I'm capable of delivering crushing blows to bad arguments in a courteous debate format. It's so me.

"We are obliged, therefore, to spread the news, painful and bitter though it may be for some to hear, that all living things on earth are kindred.” Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

#21492: — 04/10 at 03:49 PM
Oh, dear. Ethan and I appear to belong the same sect within the Unitarian Jihad. I wonder. Brother Ethan, didst thou also grow up on a dairy farm?

Brother Cattle Prod of Mild Reason

Brother CP of MR,

I grew up within a few miles of dairy farm. That's as close to a cattle
prod that I've ever been. I've fantasized about it a few times, while teaching astronomy to Texans.

#21494: — 04/10 at 03:58 PM
I am now Brother Hand Grenade of Mild Reason.

#21497: — 04/10 at 04:17 PM
I would encourage the Post-Revolutionary Reception Planning Commissariat to include tea in the available refreshments. Though I'll be happy to have a cup of coffee if tea proves impracticable.

All power to the Unitarian Jihad Revolutionary Action Committees (except in such instances where the Subcommittee for Distribution of Social Capital has legitimately found a certain power to be the province of another entity),

Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate

#21501: Joules — 04/10 at 04:53 PM
Thanks for that, it made my day!

Sibling Honourable Orbital Laser of Tranquility

#21505: — 04/10 at 05:38 PM
This is a perfectly times article. I was just telling my girlfriend that the secularists needed to be more militant in confrontation with the "fundies."

I'm Sibling Malatov Cocktail of Liberal Inquiry.

Ok, I made that up.

#21506: — 04/10 at 05:39 PM
The Broadsword of Desirable Mindfulness

How great is that?

#21509: — 04/10 at 07:32 PM
I rather llike this, though a naval motif would have been more appropriate.

Brother Howitzer of Courteous Debate

#21512: John Wilkins — 04/10 at 08:42 PM
Scary! They named me

"Brother Nail Gun of Looking at All Sides of the Question"

Where's that surveillance camera set up again?

#21515: — 04/10 at 09:57 PM
Sister Rail Gun of Mild Mercy

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Our new overlords? I, for one, welcome them. Better than those crazy Unitarian Jihad people. Heh....

#21518: — 04/10 at 11:06 PM

I've fantasized about it a
few times, while teaching
astronomy to Texans.

I teach (try to teach) mathematics to Californians. The cattle prod fantasy is ever with us.

Brother Cattle Prod of Mild Reason

#21519: — 04/10 at 11:21 PM
Someday I'll know what it all means.
Until then, call me...

Sibling Dagger of Compassion

#21520: BadTux — 04/10 at 11:23 PM
Brother Cutlass of Compassion says hello. Though I have no idea why the naming comittee decided that I was an Oldsmobile.

And the tea must be chamomile herbal tea, not that gauche black stuff. I hereby call that we re-convene the refreshments committee in order to provide a set of refreshments that will meet the needs of all of our members, not just the coffee drinkers or vegans.

-- Brother Cutlass of Compassion

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