The noosphere (/ˈnoʊ.əsfɪər/; sometimes noösphere) is the sphere of human thought. The word derives from the Greek νοῦς (nous "mind") and σφαῖρα (sphaira "sphere"), in lexical analogy to "atmosphere" and "biosphere". It was introduced by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in 1922 in his Cosmogenesis.
00:33: Woo Botox of Gerund 7? What on Earth is he doing there? I thought the Imperial Council of Weetabix IV had already taken care of him, but I obviously must have been relying on outdated sources.
+Fomalhaut Beer Yes, he was killed by grebulian holograms for his crimes against cybersnails from Pertynoole 2 but everybody knows that reincarnation is common on Gerund 7. What do they teach you in schools these days...
Not even the Vatican teaches that genesis is exact fact. It is writing that is the same style as parables. Story with a truth. Natural law teaches most of the particulars. The rest do require faith, however by comparing the teachings of the bible to natural law you find that the bible's morals would be a good choice for society even if we chucked God out of the picture.
i don't know why everyone expects christians (catholics) to be not offended by such provocations, whereas every parody of the islam or mohammed is condemned to be racist or at least inappropriate by the same people. double standards ftw! regardless of the content of the video (which is imo simply not very funny), i am glad that this can be posted on youtube. freedom of speech is a great thing =)
I'm comment on this video purely in the self indulgent hope that this comment will be read out at BUG next week. Hello India! (that's my girlfriend, not the country, although hello to India the country as well, I like your food (the country, not the girlfriend (although the girlfriends food is good, also))).
Nowhere did I say that. What I was saying was that that's the reason religion still exists today and hasn't been completely abandoned, the fact that the possibility of a deity, or a creator is not ruled out.
Now begins the sixth of the twentyeight stages of metageneration for Jessle the Tri-felge Utenahd, ruler of Kozakh and the Outerlands, destroyer of the non-sphere and the architect of the Treaty of Hwoa Tak'ka Uursnee.
Natural Moral law is anything that any person can recognize as beneficial to society through logic. And no logically bears mauling children is a bad thing. I am not picking and choosing. If you believe in God great you will follow the morals of the bible. If not you should anyway because they benefit society. And I didn't say there was no revelation. The nature of God is a mystery to man, and so through the bible he because known, if not understandable.
Banning abortion would be a good thing. The world has gone from overpopulating to killing itself. America is only growing because of immigration. Europe is now SHRINKING. The economy of tomorrow will be dominated by an almost nonexistent workforce. The whole premise of social security is that there are more workers than retirees, but what happens when that is not the case. Also I question the use of the word psychopath. Finding life before birth is not hard to do, which is why abortion is murder
'Dinosaurs'. The one word that dispels all creationist theories. That and 'incest' - as in "who did Cain and Able mate with apart from their own mother Eve?" Heavy stuff. Give me a triceratops over half remembered fairy stories about carpenters and loaves any day. I can prove they existed and they inspire me a darn site more. Nice bicka cake.
I doubt that you are "very scientific" (whatever that is) if you don't understand statistics and averages. What you personally are doesn't fall into account here. Only because you are religious and like science doesn't mean that you can claim that this statistic is false. It has been measured over a scientific reasonable amount of people.
A very good point, although I'd argue that it is not for the sake of homosexuality that people are being attacked, beaten, imprisoned and murdered (as I said in the comment to which you appear to be replying, "in the name of homosexuality", in contrast to what has been done in the name of religion). Anyway, people aren't being killed due to homosexuality any more than people were lynched due to blackness: it's not the victim who is at fault. People are being killed because of /ignorance/.
I used to be but I am very disappointed with the Catholic Church. Look at the fancy buildings and the number of servants aiding all these Cardinals. Why is there a grown man holding a microphone for the pope? The Catholic Church should have listened to Martin Luther and reform, to be closer with the people. I pray for another reformation, until the true Catholics re-emerged victorious in a cleansed and purified religion. There is too much corruption and exploitation in the name of God.
That's just it though. They choose to believe in a system that punishes people that don't deserve it. Then they ask me to respect this system. I will respect their beliefs when they stop or change a system based off the idea that they are right and everyone else will burn. Remember, this is the same system that condoned a 9 year old girl because she had a life saving abortion after being raped by her father. How do you respect that? Please tell me because I'm having a hard time swallowing that.
Thats just it though. Believing that the rest of us is going to hell because we dont agree with you cant get much more disrespectful. Sure it doesnt effect me, so I dont really care. But this belief system is based on disrespecting anyone that doesnt agree with you. Asking us to respect a religion that believes the rest of us deserves to burn does not deserve respect. The core of your belief system is based on disrespecting others that dont share that belief. How do you not see this?
Do you realize that because we dont follow this belief system, we are supposedly going to burn in hell for all eternity in that systems eyes. How is that in anyway respecting someone elses belief system? Catholics have already judged us simply for questioning or choosing to believe something else. I would respect this belief system, but why should I when they dont respect anyone elses?
Your religion is offensive in far more ways than this, the idea that we should devote our lives to living in a certain way because we shall be punished if not by someone that overlooks people suffering unimaginably all over the world is incredibly ignorant. Your religion, and all religions offend me. Maybe all the non-religious people should start a lawsuit against the ignorance of all religious people.
Not that I care, but hopefully this Pope will have firmer grip on the realities of the world he's inherited. The Catholic Church must change or be left in the dust bin of history. It must address and eliminate its financial and criminal problems before it can sit in judgement of others. It must accept the reality of gays who are also Catholic and build a bridge of respect and communication to the growing Muslim World. Good luck, dude...
Well I don't believe that to be the case (how can anyone know what time limit constricts life or even that there is a time limit?) but it is irrelevant in this discussion as I'm not defending evolution I'm simply pointing out that the position that there is a God is a illogical one to take due to a complete lack of evidence for a God existing. And simply because one cannot at this time state how life became to exist it does not follow that it must be a God (argument from ignorance).
Considering these things, anyone with the slightest education and understanding of the matter will sadly laugh at you when you tell them it is impossible and simply a matter of belief, something which i myself am doing right now, as someone who would assert these things can only be intentionally disengenuous, or willingly ignorant. I can only hope that at some point you give knowledge a chance and avoid dismissing reality because it does not agree with your imaginary beliefs.
a trap i fell in by mistake: evolution does not deal with abiogenesis, which is the emergence of life from inanimate matter. It deals with the complexity of life, and how it came about to be, and makes no statements on how life started. As for it being impossible, i'll just have to state again that you are ignorant on the matter, as there is a plethora of evidence that evolution is correct, such as observable data and ability to reproduce the event in a lab on a smaller scale
Where are you getting the odds for that? (I'm not disputing it, I'm just curious) So there is a chance? As long as there is a chance of something then it is better answer (also has evidence pointing towards it) than going with God did it which has zero evidence. The watch maker argument is easily refuted - Hume points out we don't have another universe to compare ours with so it is illogical to state the universe looks designed.
I didn't put Dawkins on any mighty pedestal, I simply used his example that despite his public perception isn't a 100% atheist. In fact, I wouldn't trust anyone who says there 100% is or isn't a God. I'm sorry but atheists do not need to show how the Big Bang happened, a scientific atheist would say "As it stands there is no good evidence to show a God exists" nothing more. The burden of proof is on a believer to show their is a God lest you forget the Tooth Fair example.
Really? So Richard Dawkins is the almighty master of opinion. In order for Atheists to make a solid arguments against a God they would first need to prove that the Big Bang happened through chance alone which in my opinion is more unsound then any religion out there. I used to idolize men like Mr. Dawkins but through unbiased research I find that everything is a lot more complex than what he or others claim them to be.
" faith: a belief in something, even through a lack of or contradictory evidence" That's an atheist definition of faith. The Catholic definition involves direct knowledge of a god. "Atheism is defined as the lack of belief" , that's a novel definition of atheism. Traditionally it was "To deny the gods/God", as in to believe that there is no god. Your definition is effectively a type of agnostic. The new OED definition is "To deny/disbelieve in the gods/God" which is clearly a corruption.
Intolerant, arrogant individuals? Are you really so blind to the irony of that statement, given that on this page the only one badmouthing people in a very arrogant fashion, is you yourself? And since when are all atheists hipsters? Whilst I'm sure there's plenty of atheist hipsters around, I don't know how you came to the conclusion that that was a defining characteristic. Pure nonsense. And no, it's not a set of beliefs. If you disagree, try naming said beliefs. I'm sure that'll be amusing.
As to your point that natural law coincides with Biblical morals... First, I'd challenge that's untrue, unless you think it's right that kids should be mauled to death by bears for mocking someone's baldness. Again, if you're going to pick and choose, you've got to have a more honest and rigorous criterion than "I don't like the sound of that bit". But, even if true, doesn't that only tell us that there's no great revelation in the Bible, if it's all just natural and obvious stuff anyway?
The problem with this picking and choosing of what to take literally and what to consider merely symbolic - which, apparently, we do simply on the basis of what we find plausible - is that the Biblical story is, overall, a narrative and later bits do depend on the veracity of earlier bits. Jesus died to atone for humanity's sins. That's central to Christianity. You can't take that bit out. So, "original sin" and the fall of humanity. Symbolic parable or literally true? Think very carefully.
If Eve did not eat the fruit of the Tree - if she did not commit "the original sin" - and if it is not true that "the sins of the father are visited upon the son" - that is, if God's law is not that sin is blindly inherited - then what did Jesus die for exactly? The big problem with "Genesis didn't literally happen" is that the Crucifixion, which is deemed historical fact and is central to Christian faith, was to atone for something that never actually happened and is only symbolic?!?
I searched it, the first thread was about the ten commandments. Dear god. Just...wow. I'll give you an example: Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain. Their recommended punishment: Capital. And it's ranked as level "high", the second highest. I think I'm dead about seven hundred times over by their laws.
This video in no way criticised or belittles religion, so I don't really know where this angst of yours came from. It's just like as if I saw a line of raindrops across a garage door, thought they looked like an audience, and decided to make a video out of it. It's just seeing with your imagination and coming up with a amusing take on something normally serious.
Religion is based on faith: a belief in something, even through a lack of or contradictory evidence. Atheism is defined as the lack of belief- irreconcilable with the prior definition. The pushy and intolerant people you refer too are irreligious, a subset of atheism that is not necessarily a majority and certainly not representative of the whole.
I've started reading Dune, and parts of it sound sort of like this :D
Praise to Jessel, the Trifeldge Putihnahdt, for sparing Lord Ypsulot of Tong.
WTF
What were the Al'iq'klon'a doing? Shouldn't they have taken this oportunity to strike when the third Klonqian magistrate lies so defenseless?
I've just discovered this. Thank you Adam for making me laugh until I had a hernia.
I wish for my brain to be preserved in a jewel encrusted ceremonial stasis orb.
Personally, I think it's a huge embarrassment that Sublord Ultilax or Supercommader Dek Lazer weren't in attendance at the ceremony.
I just learnt that David Lynch was almost down to direct Return Of The Jedi. This sort of feels like how it would have rolled out...
The funniest thing about is it didnt take much editing to make the whole thing look even more ridiculous than its reality.
Before you proceed further down in the comment field; don't. :)
Does he say, "Destroyer of the nonce-sphere"?
The noosphere (/ˈnoʊ.əsfɪər/; sometimes noösphere) is the sphere of human thought. The word derives from the Greek νοῦς (nous "mind") and σφαῖρα (sphaira "sphere"), in lexical analogy to "atmosphere" and "biosphere". It was introduced by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in 1922 in his Cosmogenesis.
He did say "nonce sphere". A touch of irony don't you think?
A ticket to hell has never been funnier.
Blair, at the time representing the United Kingdom, little did they know he was thinking, "Yes, this is what I've been looking for."
00:21: I love the way he says "and architect of the treaty of Khua t'ka Uzny"
They're going to have to go through all this again now that Jessel is retiring.
this actually makes more sense than Catholicism
There are ever so many things to parody so that a new pope: episode II can be made. Please please do so!
One of my favourite ever Internet things!!
00:33: Woo Botox of Gerund 7? What on Earth is he doing there? I thought the Imperial Council of Weetabix IV had already taken care of him, but I obviously must have been relying on outdated sources.
+Fomalhaut Beer
Yes, he was killed by grebulian holograms for his crimes against cybersnails from Pertynoole 2 but everybody knows that reincarnation is common on Gerund 7. What do they teach you in schools these days...
fuck. That was hilarious. I watched it three times.
How can the comments section for such a beautiful work of art be so pitiful?
Episode 1: Rise of the Pope, Episode 2: The Pope Strikes Back, Episode 3: The Pope Retires...
Actually made this ceremony look like it made sense... 🤪😄😂
Not even the Vatican teaches that genesis is exact fact. It is writing that is the same style as parables. Story with a truth. Natural law teaches most of the particulars. The rest do require faith, however by comparing the teachings of the bible to natural law you find that the bible's morals would be a good choice for society even if we chucked God out of the picture.
Its not that, its funny as its a serious situation made even more serious with his commentary, comparing it to star wars turns it into serious comedy
This is easily one of my favorite UA-cam videos, knee deep in Rohan
I've never seen so many self important people in one place.
Thank you! This is great. I especially liked the Dickey Dodgers with the flashers in their head.
I hope Jools holland still does the Trifelge Hootenage this year.
Adam Buxton should direct the new "star wars" movies
Still no more ridiculous than the real ceremony.
Who else is hoping for a new Pope 'Stephenus' ?
i don't know why everyone expects christians (catholics) to be not offended by such provocations, whereas every parody of the islam or mohammed is condemned to be racist or at least inappropriate by the same people.
double standards ftw!
regardless of the content of the video (which is imo simply not very funny), i am glad that this can be posted on youtube. freedom of speech is a great thing =)
Oh man! This is so awesome! Faved and liked.
I'm comment on this video purely in the self indulgent hope that this comment will be read out at BUG next week. Hello India! (that's my girlfriend, not the country, although hello to India the country as well, I like your food (the country, not the girlfriend (although the girlfriends food is good, also))).
I think i laughed way more than i should
Nowhere did I say that. What I was saying was that that's the reason religion still exists today and hasn't been completely abandoned, the fact that the possibility of a deity, or a creator is not ruled out.
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Now begins the sixth of the twentyeight stages of metageneration for Jessle the Tri-felge Utenahd, ruler of Kozakh and the Outerlands, destroyer of the non-sphere and the architect of the Treaty of Hwoa Tak'ka Uursnee.
i prayed to God for a new car. Then I realised He didn't work that way, so I stole a car and asked for forgiveness.
This is comedy gold
As a catholic - I'm sharing this pearl with everybody I know.
You should totally make more of these. its the best thing ever.
haha. The sith are actually the real evil ones on that planet. Funny how he pointed that out.
Better than the new trilogy.
Let's not turn this into a religious debate and just enjoy the genius that is Dr. Buckles.
That was surprising, though. I thought sith only step down when they got destroyed by their disclipine.
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL !!!!!
You made me laugh really good. thanx for that.
My god. This is BRILLIANT.
or sutin
It should of said "Protector of the Nonse Sphere" instead of "Destroyer"
Thought of this today whilst watching the Pope step down.
THE POPES DONE A LANDO!!! Lmao
Please please continue to cover this story. I want more.
Well done. I am a Jedi, awaiting my moment to strike with a witty comment.
NONSCENCE NONSCENCE NONSCENCE. Excellent work Count Buckulees
every video where Christianity is dishonored is amazing video
This is awesome!Great job man...
He's got the biggest hat, after all!
Natural Moral law is anything that any person can recognize as beneficial to society through logic. And no logically bears mauling children is a bad thing.
I am not picking and choosing. If you believe in God great you will follow the morals of the bible. If not you should anyway because they benefit society. And I didn't say there was no revelation. The nature of God is a mystery to man, and so through the bible he because known, if not understandable.
Banning abortion would be a good thing. The world has gone from overpopulating to killing itself. America is only growing because of immigration. Europe is now SHRINKING. The economy of tomorrow will be dominated by an almost nonexistent workforce. The whole premise of social security is that there are more workers than retirees, but what happens when that is not the case. Also I question the use of the word psychopath. Finding life before birth is not hard to do, which is why abortion is murder
And weirdly makes about as much sense as any religion.
Manifold blessings of Great Smouldering Spod upon thee.
I laughed tears!
Me too!
Does a great job of putting it all into perspective!!!
havent laughed this hard since snowball 2 fell down the stairs
hahaha! This hilarious :D
Well done Adam! and good luck with all the comments!
Hopefully they will be good fodder for your next BUG!
xxx
This is probably the best video on the internet at the moment.
I'm like the other guy, I thought that was real! Faith in humanity level has increased slightly!
Lmao how did I miss this.
Loved every second of it :D
Thank you for this! For this amazing work! This is amazing! Please do more!
XD just enjoy the funny video.
'Dinosaurs'. The one word that dispels all creationist theories. That and 'incest' - as in "who did Cain and Able mate with apart from their own mother Eve?" Heavy stuff. Give me a triceratops over half remembered fairy stories about carpenters and loaves any day. I can prove they existed and they inspire me a darn site more. Nice bicka cake.
I doubt that you are "very scientific" (whatever that is) if you don't understand statistics and averages. What you personally are doesn't fall into account here. Only because you are religious and like science doesn't mean that you can claim that this statistic is false. It has been measured over a scientific reasonable amount of people.
Catholicism is nether Judaism nor Christianity.
Why did Mr.Buxton stop making these videos? They are extremly funny.
Okay everyone it's time to place bets how long this one will last
2021... it's still here! :)
Beware the Dark Ones
I remember reading a Robert Fisk article about the pope
"Anti gay, anti abortion....anti aircraft"
I wouldn't trust a Fisk piece. Unlike Buxton, he made a lot of stuff up.
@@musicandfilms9956 I agree, but that was a good line
A very good point, although I'd argue that it is not for the sake of homosexuality that people are being attacked, beaten, imprisoned and murdered (as I said in the comment to which you appear to be replying, "in the name of homosexuality", in contrast to what has been done in the name of religion).
Anyway, people aren't being killed due to homosexuality any more than people were lynched due to blackness: it's not the victim who is at fault. People are being killed because of /ignorance/.
I used to be but I am very disappointed with the Catholic Church. Look at the fancy buildings and the number of servants aiding all these Cardinals. Why is there a grown man holding a microphone for the pope? The Catholic Church should have listened to Martin Luther and reform, to be closer with the people. I pray for another reformation, until the true Catholics re-emerged victorious in a cleansed and purified religion. There is too much corruption and exploitation in the name of God.
That's just it though. They choose to believe in a system that punishes people that don't deserve it. Then they ask me to respect this system.
I will respect their beliefs when they stop or change a system based off the idea that they are right and everyone else will burn.
Remember, this is the same system that condoned a 9 year old girl because she had a life saving abortion after being raped by her father. How do you respect that? Please tell me because I'm having a hard time swallowing that.
Thats just it though. Believing that the rest of us is going to hell because we dont agree with you cant get much more disrespectful. Sure it doesnt effect me, so I dont really care. But this belief system is based on disrespecting anyone that doesnt agree with you. Asking us to respect a religion that believes the rest of us deserves to burn does not deserve respect. The core of your belief system is based on disrespecting others that dont share that belief. How do you not see this?
Do you realize that because we dont follow this belief system, we are supposedly going to burn in hell for all eternity in that systems eyes. How is that in anyway respecting someone elses belief system? Catholics have already judged us simply for questioning or choosing to believe something else. I would respect this belief system, but why should I when they dont respect anyone elses?
Your religion is offensive in far more ways than this, the idea that we should devote our lives to living in a certain way because we shall be punished if not by someone that overlooks people suffering unimaginably all over the world is incredibly ignorant. Your religion, and all religions offend me. Maybe all the non-religious people should start a lawsuit against the ignorance of all religious people.
Not that I care, but hopefully this Pope will have firmer grip on the realities of the world he's inherited. The Catholic Church must change or be left in the dust bin of history. It must address and eliminate its financial and criminal problems before it can sit in judgement of others. It must accept the reality of gays who are also Catholic and build a bridge of respect and communication to the growing Muslim World.
Good luck, dude...
Well I don't believe that to be the case (how can anyone know what time limit constricts life or even that there is a time limit?) but it is irrelevant in this discussion as I'm not defending evolution I'm simply pointing out that the position that there is a God is a illogical one to take due to a complete lack of evidence for a God existing. And simply because one cannot at this time state how life became to exist it does not follow that it must be a God (argument from ignorance).
Considering these things, anyone with the slightest education and understanding of the matter will sadly laugh at you when you tell them it is impossible and simply a matter of belief, something which i myself am doing right now, as someone who would assert these things can only be intentionally disengenuous, or willingly ignorant. I can only hope that at some point you give knowledge a chance and avoid dismissing reality because it does not agree with your imaginary beliefs.
a trap i fell in by mistake: evolution does not deal with abiogenesis, which is the emergence of life from inanimate matter. It deals with the complexity of life, and how it came about to be, and makes no statements on how life started. As for it being impossible, i'll just have to state again that you are ignorant on the matter, as there is a plethora of evidence that evolution is correct, such as observable data and ability to reproduce the event in a lab on a smaller scale
Where are you getting the odds for that? (I'm not disputing it, I'm just curious)
So there is a chance? As long as there is a chance of something then it is better answer (also has evidence pointing towards it) than going with God did it which has zero evidence.
The watch maker argument is easily refuted - Hume points out we don't have another universe to compare ours with so it is illogical to state the universe looks designed.
I didn't put Dawkins on any mighty pedestal, I simply used his example that despite his public perception isn't a 100% atheist. In fact, I wouldn't trust anyone who says there 100% is or isn't a God.
I'm sorry but atheists do not need to show how the Big Bang happened, a scientific atheist would say "As it stands there is no good evidence to show a God exists" nothing more. The burden of proof is on a believer to show their is a God lest you forget the Tooth Fair example.
Really? So Richard Dawkins is the almighty master of opinion. In order for Atheists to make a solid arguments against a God they would first need to prove that the Big Bang happened through chance alone which in my opinion is more unsound then any religion out there. I used to idolize men like Mr. Dawkins but through unbiased research I find that everything is a lot more complex than what he or others claim them to be.
" faith: a belief in something, even through a lack of or contradictory evidence"
That's an atheist definition of faith. The Catholic definition involves direct knowledge of a god.
"Atheism is defined as the lack of belief" , that's a novel definition of atheism. Traditionally it was "To deny the gods/God", as in to believe that there is no god. Your definition is effectively a type of agnostic. The new OED definition is "To deny/disbelieve in the gods/God" which is clearly a corruption.
Intolerant, arrogant individuals? Are you really so blind to the irony of that statement, given that on this page the only one badmouthing people in a very arrogant fashion, is you yourself? And since when are all atheists hipsters? Whilst I'm sure there's plenty of atheist hipsters around, I don't know how you came to the conclusion that that was a defining characteristic. Pure nonsense.
And no, it's not a set of beliefs. If you disagree, try naming said beliefs. I'm sure that'll be amusing.
As to your point that natural law coincides with Biblical morals...
First, I'd challenge that's untrue, unless you think it's right that kids should be mauled to death by bears for mocking someone's baldness.
Again, if you're going to pick and choose, you've got to have a more honest and rigorous criterion than "I don't like the sound of that bit".
But, even if true, doesn't that only tell us that there's no great revelation in the Bible, if it's all just natural and obvious stuff anyway?
The problem with this picking and choosing of what to take literally and what to consider merely symbolic - which, apparently, we do simply on the basis of what we find plausible - is that the Biblical story is, overall, a narrative and later bits do depend on the veracity of earlier bits.
Jesus died to atone for humanity's sins.
That's central to Christianity. You can't take that bit out.
So, "original sin" and the fall of humanity. Symbolic parable or literally true?
Think very carefully.
If Eve did not eat the fruit of the Tree - if she did not commit "the original sin" - and if it is not true that "the sins of the father are visited upon the son" - that is, if God's law is not that sin is blindly inherited - then what did Jesus die for exactly?
The big problem with "Genesis didn't literally happen" is that the Crucifixion, which is deemed historical fact and is central to Christian faith, was to atone for something that never actually happened and is only symbolic?!?
Just getting a rewatch in so I’m up to speed before Dune part 2 later, thanks Buckles
I searched it, the first thread was about the ten commandments. Dear god. Just...wow. I'll give you an example:
Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain. Their recommended punishment: Capital. And it's ranked as level "high", the second highest. I think I'm dead about seven hundred times over by their laws.
This video in no way criticised or belittles religion, so I don't really know where this angst of yours came from. It's just like as if I saw a line of raindrops across a garage door, thought they looked like an audience, and decided to make a video out of it. It's just seeing with your imagination and coming up with a amusing take on something normally serious.
Religion is based on faith: a belief in something, even through a lack of or contradictory evidence. Atheism is defined as the lack of belief- irreconcilable with the prior definition. The pushy and intolerant people you refer too are irreligious, a subset of atheism that is not necessarily a majority and certainly not representative of the whole.