Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

I have discussed this concept with a few friends privately and they all generally agreed it was solid (that says something about my friends I realize, but that is another matter). Here I present the Atheist Express Concept to the general populace (ok you pendant, to the 3 people that may visit TotSP this week).

The AEC is a new abstract approach to security in general (which can be applied to airline security, for example) where atheists have an express lane. This is to say that atheists willing to prove they are godless heathens should have a fast track through security at any event (including at the airport).

Follow me here, say you can visit the AEC office and recite that God is an illusion and that religion is a meme virus whose concept *evolved* from creation myths supported by group reciprocity and trust and that all of it is a giant shared delusion. Then you can further solidify your case by cursing the Buddha or Jesus, or whatever satisfies the persons on duty that day and jerking off to some provided pornographic material.

After all that they stamp your AEC card that this dude/chick is the real atheist deal, no way they are going to replace logic and reason and rationale with some religious nonsense and blow something up while they are around. Approved for express lane.

This concept is of course based upon the fact that all terrorists, be they Muslim, Christian (Catholic or Protestant or born again US nut-jobs of various persuasions), Hindu, Zoroastrian or Pastafarian (yes the pasta crowd is generally mellow but the same replacement of logic for the higher power does exist, have to include them) have always asserted that their god is the one true god and that he/she/it will martyr them in the hereafter after they commit what we nonbelievers perceive as despicable acts of violence. And atheists just dont do that shit.

Now before you get all bent out of shape for whatever reason think about this a second. Even YOUR line will be shorter if a few atheists have their own express lane! And it is true that the atheists, nutty in their own right, just are not going to blow stuff up or start shooting, so in addition to getting there faster you are a little safer (and we can take this even farther, atheist only flights, an atheist only airline, with no terroist attacks EVER!, etc).