Last time, I ran this contest:
Why are atheists Tiana and Kate praying outside the Discovery Institute?

(Pic via Kate_Holden)
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Clearly, most of you decided to answer your own reworded questions… which makes deciding the winners difficult.
Ah well.
Here are the Top 5 explanations… or responses (with submitters):
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Due to an overabundance of Thetans, their bodies swelled just enough for their Mormon Temple Underpants, (don’t ask why – their lingerie is their own business), to cut off the circulation to their legs, thus dropping them to their knees. Knowing that they must restore blood-flow to their lower extremeties, they began a Buddhist clapping exercise designed to raise the heart-rate. At that precise moment, a wandering Quaker photo-essayist, working for a well-known TV medium, wandered by and snapped their pic for the medium’s brochure to put above a fictitious quote thanking him for reuniting someone with their long-dead ancestor.
Being in front of the DI was just weird luck.
(Postman)
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They’re not praying. They’re doing entropy calculations to ward off the Dembski.
(Janothar)
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They’re praying there’s a working bathroom in there.
(Matt)
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I don’t think they’re praying, I think the door only opens when you’re in the prayer stance…
(Ray)
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“Oh, you meant we should be preying on the people inside The Discovery Institute.”
(William)
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Congratulations to the winners! The top three will be receiving specially-made Friendly Atheist wristbands (in the color of their choice), sent to me by blog reader Shauna and her sister Danni!
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If you’d like to win your own wristband, here is the new contest:
A recent poll asked 1,600 British children to “name the individual they considered the biggest celebrity.”
In first place: Simon Cowell.
In second place: God.
I think that gives new meaning to the word “Idolatry“…
But it raises another question:
In what other ways is Simon Cowell better than God?
Funny and creative answers will have a shot at winning.
Good luck!
(Thanks to Gracie for the idea!)
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