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GQ has multiple covers for the October issue – a few days ago, I covered Denzel Washington’s cover and profile, and now here is Javier Bardem. Javi is promoting his work in Skyfall, the latest James Bond film, which will be out… let’s see… November 9th!! I can’t wait for it. It looks like a really, really great Bond film. The bar was set pretty low with Quantum of Solace, though. Would you like to see the latest trailer? We’ve seen most of it before, but they recut it for the international trailer, I guess. Here you go:
Javi is SO good at playing creepy. All you really have to do is put an awful wig on him, though. And all of sudden he goes from “hot Spanish dude” to “OMG serial killer”. Anyway, here are some highlights from Javi’s GQ interview. I didn’t know he was an atheist!
Javier Bardem on being in touch with his feminine side: “I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination…. I have a man and a woman in the same body; I have the male and female values in the same body. ‘Be a man’—what do you mean by that?”
On his performances and characters: “The fact that I like to make characters doesn’t mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance. I can’t even watch that f–king nose, that f–king voice, those ridiculous eyes. I can’t handle that. But when I’m doing it, I don’t see my nose or hear my voice; it’s like there’s something stronger, bigger than that. And I need to express it.”
He’s an atheist: “I’ve always said I don’t believe in God, I believe in Al Pacino.”
On how to persevere through tough criticism: “It’s the actor’s insecurity: One day you’re liked and the next it’s ah, nah, not that guy. My mom told me, ‘Just keep doing your job.’ You get something gold, thank you. You suck, thank you. You keep on moving.”
On being appreciative for what he has in life: “I’m happily married. I breathe and stay in peace. I truly thank whoever’s up there for giving me the opportunity to be loved.”
On the Spanish economy: “Many people I love and adore, who belong to my life, are going through a very horrible situation. The government raised taxes on paper and pencils. That’s f–king crazy. The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created. A quarter of Spaniards are unemployed. One in ten families are completely out of work: It’s f–king dark, it’s brutal.”
On his political activism: “I’ve always belonged to the street, and I always will. It’s in my DNA. I don’t think about it. I’m really proud of this country: People say what they feel, until they’re heard.”
[From GQ]
The GQ piece also brings up some of Javi’s previous quotes about the Catholic Church, and it’s clear that he’s really not the biggest fan. He seems like a die-hard social liberal – pro-gay, pro-social equality, pro-feminism, etc. He also talks a lot about his childhood and stuff, which I just skimmed over – you can read the full piece here.
I LOVE this photo of him. He looks gorgeous here:
Photos courtesy of GQ/Nathaniel Goldberg.
Written by Kaiser
Posted in Javier Bardem, Religion
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So hot!
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Not really. And this like the the Denzel cover. Denzel pulled it off. This guy, not so much.
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I agree Becks, very hot…
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Javier Bardem is an atheist: I don’t believe in God, I believe in Al Pacino”.
Me neither. Though my personal “god” is someone else (Leonard Cohen).
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I don’t believe in God or Al Pacino
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Eve, I have the same god as you! Damn do I LOVE Leonard Cohen. Without a doubt the greatest living poet today. Going to see him in November when he’s on tour, my first time, so cannot wait!!!
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I envy you so much right now! I don’t think I’ll ever have the chance to attend one of his concerts.
By the way, this is my “Holy Trinity”: Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits and Nick Cave
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You should check out his tour schedule, maybe he’s coming to your city or to one close to you! I know he’s touring across Canada in November, and going to a bunch of cities here. Maybe he’ll be touring in the States too? (If that is where you are from).
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I’m Brazilian. Sadly, if his tour ever came to Brazil, the concerts would (very likely) take place in São Paulo*…which is far from where I live.
*And they’d probably be very exclusive.
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I revere Leonard Cohen too, the man is a poetic genius and just a beautiful human being. I saw him in concert back in the early 90′s. I liked his music and poetry going into his show but by the time I left I was an absolute devotee, and remain so to this day. There is something very special, very rare about LC. He makes every person at his show feel so close and connected to him that you just want to go onstage and hug him afterwards. Amazing man.
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Ohh, Javi. How do I love thee. Is that him chewing on a piece of ‘jamón’ on the bottom pic? Ahh.
Just one thing: why did they have to photoshop his face into Ewan McGregor’s on that cover photo?
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Yes he is eating some Jamon! Yum!! I loved him and Penelope in that movie, thats where their love affair started!!!
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Whatever floats his boat.
I for one would be so intensely floored with the discovery of the absecence of God that would probably lose all motivation in living.
Humans are lovely creatures because they display variety, I guess.
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what a bang’n hot dude.
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Anyone remember that Denny Duquette character off Grey’s Anatomy? I had to do a double take at the cover photo, he looks a dead ringer.
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I was so excited to discover how much javier bardem and jeffery dean morgan look alike. It’s like the doublemint twins, but for the ladies.
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YES. Although he also looks like someone else, too. I can’t quite put my finger on it. It’s a shame they felt the need to photoshop the hell out of his beautiful face.
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I still have troubles to tell who’s who, it’s very strange how they look alike.
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan is the love child of Jarvier Bardem and Robert Downey Jr — he’s like something in the middle: not as rugged as daddy Bardem, not as pretty as daddy Downey.
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Oh Eve…now that is a perfect descriptor! lol
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Spot on, Eve!
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PERFECT, Eve! You’re like the resident hottie expert. I just officially appointed you, although I may not technically have the authority to do so.
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Exactly!
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Right, girls? I remember thinking: “he reminds of Javier Bardem, but also of someone else…”.
Then I had an epifany when I saw a still from “Watchmen” (which is odd because he’s wearing a mask in it *shrugs*). I pointed that out — for the first time — back when I used to post on Popsugar.
@ Kitten:
I will not so humbly accept the title.
P.S.: I also had an epiphany of my current obsession Benedict Cumberbatch (will mention it when there’s a post about him).
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That’s it! (jumping up and down)
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I don’t think they look that much alike.
I do get confused over Joaquin and the one he looks just like though.
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Do you mean Joaquin & the actor who played the crazy pharmacist on Desperate Housewives? Cause I can’t tell them apart
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No. The other one
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I prefer Denny. And I never can remember jfeffery dean Morgan’s name for some reason. It’s a good name! I guess like Michael Clark Duncan, his name was hard to remember too.
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@Lem – Mention Joaquin (you are talking about Joaquin Phoenix right?) and my heart skips a beat! You mean Joaquin and Bardem look alike? I don’t see it. I think Joaquin and Dermot Mulroney kind of look alike.
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@Shitler @Mira
Rufus Sewell – my God – took me all day to remember his name
Joaquin Phoenix and Rufus Sewell are doppelgangers
I’m nearly positive you have watched Rufus in a movie and assumed you were watching Joaquin. I have
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Javier Bardem is no Denzel Washington. Thank God.
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Oh, I love him even more now.
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good man.
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Wait,wait! when did he get so hot ? and toned ? And hot ? *faints*
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LOL
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you should see Hamon Hamon if you didn’t, he is soooooooooooooooo hot but like wine with age he gets better and better
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is he really an atheist though if he says “I truly thank whoever’s up there for giving me the opportunity to be loved” .. I thought atheism is the belief in no deities? I mean I don’t care either way, it just seemed odd..
Regardless of what he does or doesn’t believe, he is one of my favorite actors, and he looks good in these pictures..
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agnostic would be more correct: they believe in an entity, but they don’t have a particular church.
As you’ve correctly said atheist means “without God”.
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He’s def. agnostic based on that statement. I would still hit it though.
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No, being an agnostic means believing that we don’t know either way – if there is a god or not – it is essentially unknowable. That means it’s entirely possible that there is a god, but we have no proof of it, but it’s equally possible that there is no god at all. Agnostics just don’t want to espouse or dismiss either possibility.
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That is not what being agnostic means. Being agnostic means you cannot know for sure if there is a god or not. Which is technically true, however the notion of a deity is pretty unsupported so you can be agnostic-atheist becasue you can’t know, but don’t believe.
* Gah Momo got there before me*
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@Arlene: I think atheism is a much more extreme position,an atheist refuses even the chance that there can be a god, or something similar. A lot of scientists are atheists.
Someone agnostic is someone who accetps the idea of a God or of a superior entity, the idea that “there can be something else”, but an agnostic doesn’t have a codified religion like a catholic or a jew can have.
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Just to set the record straight:
Agnostics are not those who accept the idea of god but don’t have a religion; those people are called deists.
An agnostic simply accepts the premise that no one can know.
A hard atheist thinks god does not exist, and denies any existence of god, while a soft atheist accepts the premise that no one can know but also thinks that god is unlikely enough that they accept that as well, ie there most likely is not a god.
Does everyone understand now?
Theist: religious.
Deist: non-religius but believes in a god.
Agnostic: does not know.
Soft atheist: does not know but does not believe in a god.
Hard atheist: does not believe in a god.
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What Lacie said.
Regardless, if you’re pointing to the sky and thanking someone “up there” you’re not an atheist by any stretch of the imagination.
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I agree with Lacie’s description. I’m an atheist, probably a hard one, but I frequently use expressions (in my mother language, which isn’t English) like, “for the love of god” or “thanks god” because these expressions are commonly used to express emotion in my country, even by atheists, and I was raised catholic (though I realized when I was 12 that I didn’t believe in god anymore).
Maybe it’s the same for Javier. Spain is a catholic country, religion if part of the culture and traditions, but a huge percentage of the population is atheist, at least in Barcelona, where I lived for a year. All my Catalan friends or friends from other parts of Spain where atheists. However, expressions using “god” are pretty common in Spanish too.
And BTW, in my opinion, he and Penelope are the hottest couple in the movie world, and Marion Cotillard and Guillaume Canet are the most beautiful one.
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Typically atheists don’t believe in God – as in dude created all in 7 days, resurrected, knocked up a virgin a gazillion years later…
Doesn’t make them unbelieving, just unbelieving in the tale as told & the many concepts it perpetuates. GOD AS GOD so to speak. Doesn’t mean the don’t believe in something or even a higher power, just not God as such.
Also- many agnostics will say atheists when it’s not technically what is meant. “Atheists” tends to get the point across whist “agnostic” often requires discussion – sometimes it’s easier to avoid that discussion- and atheist cuts it off
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There are a lot of people who believe in God but not the Christian view of him. Some people believe the “higher power” is God. It’s weird bc when I think of God I don’t even realize that some people may think I’m referring to the Christian concept of God.
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Lem,
As an atheist, I have to respectfully disagree. There is no ambiguity here. Atheists do no believe in any god of any form whatsoever, higher power or even the concept of god, period. But we respect the feelings of those who do believe.
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Yes. You are correct. Completely!! I do not disagree
Many young, particularly here in the Midwest, admit to something closer to an agnostic belief system. Atheist is a more common term. Many learn ‘atheist’ as soon as they realize they don’t believe in God, then stick with the terminology even when it doesn’t quite fit their beliefs.
Older atheists (after college age) tend to be hardened atheist, who know exactly what they mean. Many agnostics will at times use the term atheist, because it shuts down the conversation more quickly. Atheist and agnostic both also fill the void in terminology for those who believe in all sorts of things, yet not God, per say.
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Yeah, he completely contradicted himself there.
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My husband’s an atheist (I’m not), and he would never refer to anybody ‘up there.’ Maybe Javi is indeed agnostic. But it could be a linguistic hang up peculiar to Catholic countries. I’m an Orthodox and in our case even the non-believers thank, curse, and appeal to God every other sentence.
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@ Lem & videli
well said!
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I think it’s more a cultural than a religious thing.
Either way, ‘love him.
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@marie – He is not contradicting himself. He is an atheist. He said “truly thank whoever’s up there.” The emphasis is on “whoever.” It can be Al Pacino for all we care. It’s fuzzy because people are trained to think that up there is “God,” someone supernatural, divine and sacred. Bardem is not recognizing that someone up there as God. He is thanking the whoever. The whoever does not have a name, it’s undefined. If you are looking at Atheism solely around the “idea of God” or the term “God,” then you’ll find him contradicting. Otherwise, no.
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@Mira – i thought this thread would be really polarising. It’s kind of nice to see more people coming out of the woodwork to discuss it.
i wonder when that happened….
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@LAK – Last time when we had a thread on a related topic, we were discussing it in the context of Scientology and any mention of CO$ gets people worked up. It’s not the case this time.
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He seems so smart and adorable, and he is freaking hot. DO WANT!!
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I am a proud agnostic myself. Not necessarily the same thing, more like cousins. I really love his attitude about life as a whole. Oh, and he is very hot.
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He seems like a cool guy.
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Would an American actor admit to being an atheist, maybe Sean Penn but otherwise American celebs all have to assure the public how much they love God.
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Woody Allen, Gene Kelly and Kevin Bacon?
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I’ve seen a number of American celebrities say they’re atheist.
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Why is this so? The need to assure that they believe in god, I mean.
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I’m sure it’s PR crap, fear of alientating their religious fanbase etc etc.
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Bruce Willis, Katharine Hepburn, Jodie Foster, Jack Black do it for ya?
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I think Brad P said he was.
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Yeah if he is thanking “whoever’s up there” he’s an agnostic, not an atheist.
I dont know, if Al Pacino was my personal god I would have lost my religion after he appeared in that movie with Adam Sandler and Katie Holmes…and Gigli.
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Dear Lord (spoof), he’s so hot!
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I love him. He and I need to make beautiful atheist babies together. Like, RIGHT NOW.
*grabs coat and runs out door*
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I´m also okay with just watching (a.k.a. STARE at) this man.
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Ha–I thought you meant OK with watching the baby-making! Still giggling. Cleared up now Nothing to see here. Carry on.
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I love him!!! But I was confused by his atheism stance and thanks to whoever is up there who likes him too.
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LOL. “I swear to God, I’m an atheist!”
I too would guess he’s more agnostic. Don’t really care about his personal beliefs either way, he’s a good actor, and he’s is looking good too!
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He doesn’t believe in God but in Al Pacino, yet he thanks “whoever is up
there” for things he has? Errrr….. ok.
Why didn’t he say he thanks Al Pacino for all the things he has if he so believes in Al Pacino? And I didn’t know Pacino lived “up there” but good to know that too!
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I’d like to spend the rest of my days looking for this exact model! He is so fine, so Latin, so smart and six feet tall….
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Which Al Pacino does he believe in?
The Dog Day Afternoon and Godfather version, or the Jack and Jill version?
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Ha! Good one.
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Ha ha ha… the Jack and Jill version… *SMH*
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Hehe, that made me think of Homer Simpson: “Vengeful god, loving god. Vengeful god, loving god”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul–HgdDs7I
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Go Javier. I still think you’re a real atheist. I know Al Pacino was just hovering slightly above you when you made that comment. Or maybe on the second floor.
Anyway, I’m an atheist who sometimes says “thank god” or “oh god,” and I’m really not agnostic. It’s just that the brainwashing and indoctrinating I had as a child was THAT good
he does hail from deeply Catholic Spain after all. It’s a habit of speech.
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Exactly.
Phrases and terms of our youth tend to stick.
Because sometimes we are all trained monkeys.
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Absolutely. I’m an atheist as well, but I use religious terms as figures of speech all the time. Once someone asked me why I say “bless you” after someone sneezes. I’m not literally blessing them, it’s just something my mom taught me was good manners! Old habits die hard. I also take Jesus’ name in vain and exclaim “oh my gawd!” when the occasion calls for it. :p
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That second pic looks so much Jeffrey
Dean Morgan. that one, i love!
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Can Not! Wait For This Movie! It looks amazing!
#total bond geek!
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‘Up there’ could easily refer to parents/grandparents that have died and gone before, or it could just be a cultural expression. I’m an atheist, I say ‘oh thank god, I found my keys’ and such because I’m Irish and that’s just what we say. I don’t actually believe in any gods, but culturally that is how I talk. I also say ‘Bless you’ when people sneeze.
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THANK YOU! God-believers don’t understand that it is a habit of speech formed long before most of us realized what we don’t believe in.
+1
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+ 1.
I have a Catholic upbringing, and I occasionally use god-related expressions. But they don’t really mean anything.
I’ve been certain of my “non-believing” status since I was 14 years old — ironically, I realized that while attending a Catholic school.
P.S.: I began questioning the existence of a god when I was 10 years old (right after my first communion ceremony).
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I’m an atheist (born and raised) and for most of my life refused to say “bless you” or “thank God” but kind of gave up when I hit my late-twenties.
I look at “Bless You” as a polite nicety. “Thank God” is more acceptable to say in a corporate environment than “Boo ya!”.
I do it more for convenience/adherence to social norms. Meh.
But I would NEVER point to the sky or refer to people “going to heaven” although I have used the expression “go to hell” on a few occassions
So what was my point? I don’t know…except that my atheism isn’t defined by the expressions I use, it’s a belief system, or should I say a NON belief system
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@ Kitten:
Being born and raised in Brazil, whenever I mentioned I was an atheist I got to hear the inevitable smart-assed reply’s “logic” — you know the one: “If you’re really an atheist, how come you use expressions like that?”.
It was — and still is — annoying, to say the least.
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Boo ya! Hehe, I got to use that more often.
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@ Eve-People actually give you crap for that? Lame.
They’re expressions for a REASON-I don’t think they’re intended to be taken literally.
If you said “I’m so hungry I could eat the ass out of a dead rhino” would they take that literally too? I hope not.
Anyway, just because we’re not religious doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be allowed to utter religion-based expressions. That’s just silly.
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@ Kitten:
Yes, they do. But trust me when I say this: that’s actually nothing compared to some of the other, worse crap I got (for being an atheist). The list is just too long to be discussed here.
Plus, a couple of posts on this very thread f*cking ruined my day. So I’m off now.
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I was raised conservative christian. I’m now agnostic. I am raising my children without religion. I remember as a kid, listening to madonna for the first time thinking i was going to hell. That guilt that was part of my childhood, I have refused to pass on to my kids. I choose logic and sanity every time.
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Funny thing (or sad thing) is, there are those who call themselves Christians who use the same jargon and it has exactly the same meaning to them–none. (I try to live as a Christian, if that matters) Just comfort words or habit or what you’re “supposed” to say.
So judge people by what they do, not by what they say. By how that act, not by how they look. By how they treat you, not by what you’ve heard about them. By how they make you feel, not by how you think you are supposed to feel when you are with them. … Or something like that. Meh. This comment section and all the niceness (not uncommon @ CB) has me all soft this morning.
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Never Liked him regardless of what he believes in, and God doesn’t believe in Javier Bardem
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Really? I thought God loved all of His creatures? I guess everyone except Javier Bardem?
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Wow you’d fit right in with the Westboro Baptist Church, deciding for us who God does and doesn’t like. Your ignorance of your own religion is showing.
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Hey Eric! Does the shoe fit?
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/religion
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Idk if he’s actually an atheist or an agnostic. It kind of sounds like the atheist comment was a joke given that Al Pacino isn’t exactly something someone believes in.
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A guy is kissing his own mother ON MOUTH can believe in what he want:
http://swoonworthy.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/javier-bardem-kiss-5.jpg
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They all say they are atheist but if their son or daughter were fighting for their life in a hospital, that is when you see them secretly praying for a miracle.
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I can assure you I did not pray for a miracle when I heard my mother had terminal cancer. Not once.
I trusted (or hoped) medical science could do something for her, to make her not feel any (or not so much) pain and didn’t have to suffer through her remaining days.
I knew she couldn’t be cured, not by science…even less by something that has no real evidence to support it. And now, while reading your post, I feel like you’re mocking the pain *I* felt when I lost her.
Please, do not generalize — and even worse, call people here liars. That’s extremely disrespectful.
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Just because I would certainly hope that against the odds my loved one would survive, that doesn’t mean I believe in a divine being that could actually make that happen. I am not superstitious either but I carry good luck tokens to exams … it just gives me something to fiddle with and take my mind off being nervous.
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Well, I’ve lost loved ones in my life and I didn’t pray to anyone. You’ve a rather odd view of what it means to be an atheist Maritza.
I completely understand why a person of faith would pray, however, and I attend funerals and so forth out of respect for the person who has passed and for the family who remain.
Frankly even if an atheist did pray for a loved one I would not judge them, but would hope to understand how traumatic experience affects everyone differently.
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You guys are fantastic. Seriously. I don’t even have to say a thing
But I will..*snickers*
@Maritza-I have never prayed in my life. NEVER. I’ve faced adversity-we all have at some point in our lives. That doesn’t mean we’re going to seek solace the way you do. It’s kind of insulting to say what you said because essentially you’re saying that atheism is inauthentic and that all non-believers will suddenly renounce their atheism when faced with hardship. Sorry to burst your bubble, but it doesn’t work like that. We draw strength from a different place than you, simple as that.
Sort of like that saying “there are no atheists in a foxhole.”
I always HATED that stupid trite saying.
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What the kitten said. +1 to each and every non-praying non-delusional atheist who only looks to science, logic, and hugs to solve their problems.
Now, Maritza, why don’t you ask us what keeps us heathens from going on crazy killing sprees, raping and pillaging everywhere? I’ve gotten that one a lot.
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Nope, no secret praying going on over here. Sorry to disappoint.
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And every dying atheist has a plan B.
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Um…dying? That’s the plan. To just die. Because it doesn’t scare everyone, but those who are afraid of dying DO like to project that on us. Heythanks.
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Well said, Lacie.
It’s great though how the majority of commenters is respectful of other people’s beliefs, too bad there a still a few exceptions.
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@maritza:
The nice thing about the basic tenement of Christian religion is – IF a non believer chooses to pray in their hour of need, they have been told your God will listen. It is iffy as to whether he will help, but the premise is He hears.
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I send out prayer all the time, although to the universe, to mother nature, to Thor or Zeus, to stars, to Luna, to my ancestors, the car gods, the keeper of lost items, Jim Tressel, the time fairy, my serenity bowl. Whatever. The nice thing about my religion is I can ask for help from anyone I deem important in the situation. I might ask Luna for the light to kayak down the river or Thor for water for my gardens. I need not be burdened by feeling petty by asking one omnipresent talisman for help with mundane tasks.
In the mean time I thank Mother Earth for this glorious day. I listen to the wind. Thank the rains for holding off and pray to Ray to hold out just a little longer, so I can fit a run.
I also thank my lucky stars tomatoes for all the atheists/ agnostics/ others here at CB. Religion quite often a very one sided discussion. Repeatedly here @ the b!itchy it is such an opened ended conversation. It is refreshing.
Now, if people would stop asking me to bow my head at their weddings. I didn’t ask you to dance naked in the rain at mine
Namaste
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It makes me so happy that people are finally learning to think en masse, not just blindly follow. Cheers to all of you!
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That was really ugly. Maybe you didn’t mean it that way, but didn’t anybody ever say anything to you about catching flies with honey? No wonder Christians are ridiculed. It isn’t for our faith. It’s because of the bullies and snots who decide to speak for the rest of us.
I’m sorry, ladies and gentlemen. We aren’t all like this.
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Strange when someone is lying there dying in a hospital or side of the road they yell for 2 people….Mama and God. Seen it a zillion times from any religion even a scientologist.
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I’m an atheist, but when I dropped a bowling ball on my foot and doubled up on the floor, writhing in agony, I cried out “Oh god, oh Jesus, oh my god, holy christ” — I wasn’t asking god or Jesus to make it better, I was venting pain and frustration. I also said “mother farker shiatty bowling ball” and a few other colorful phrases. Fun fact: studies have shown that cursing actually alleviates pain.
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I hope you don’t mind, but I was all snickering picturing all that.
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Atheism is a religion like NOT collecting stamps is a hobby. Get over yourself.
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I guess you don’t personally know any atheists then. If you did, you would realize how absurd your comment is.
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I love that man!!! What a breath of fresh air he is…talented, intelligent, humble…and as he is not confined to an organized religion – a free thinker!
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I love Javier, but I question whether he used this quote with the reporter on this story, this quotes was in a story that came out years ago when he was first nominated for an Oscar Before Night Falls, he was talking about making it in America and how he was a huge Pacino fan and when Before Night Falls was released Pacino called him at his home in Spain, then he quoted that he was so excited that he didn’t believe in God but he believed in Al Pacino. I think a lot of these magazines like to steal old quotes from other publications and put them in their stories to spice them up. I’m a huge Javier fan and I’ve seen him asked about that quote and he pretty much just says how much he loves Pacino. But anyhow I’m glad to see him in a movie coming out soon, he doesn’t do enough of them.
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I know what he means by being male and female..
He’s very fluid, and emotional, and he seems very open. I like that.
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It’s easier to digest his atheism if you understand his upbringing in Spain.
There are many, many, many atheists in Spain not because of any innate hostility to Christianity per se, but because they can’t forgive the Catholic Church’s complicity in propping up the brutal Franco dictatorship.
From anticlericalism, it’s very easy to slide down to atheism.
That said, there are still many devout Catholics in Spain, but hostility to the Church and/or Christianity is also very real.
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Yes, and if I’m not mistaken, Bardem comes himself from a family tradition of republican Communism.
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Is Javier the Spanish Jeffrey Dean Morgan” or is Jeffrey the “american version of Javier Bardem”?
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Love this discussion!
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I used to believe in Al Pacino and say “hooah!” all the time until I saw Gigli. I started to question his existence. Then I finally became an unbeliever when I saw Jack and Jill.
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Triple The hotness
http://www.inmirror.com/files/images/javier-bardem-robert-downey-jr-jeffrey-dean-morgan750.jpg
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Why did they Photoshop the he’ll out of this beautiful man? They made him look almost abnormal on the cover. He has meat on his bones. Not fat but real. That cover sucks.
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Agnostic here but I don’t care if he’s an atheist, agnostic or wiccan. I love him. His voice does funny things to my lower half.
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Wowser- what an interview! I’m loving the Bardem
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Yes. I believe Al Pacino exists too. I even have DVD footage to prove it. And other believers have even posted photos of him on the interwebs. Yes. There’s evidence a plenty.
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I’m an atheist, too, and I believe in Radiohead.
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Reminds me of the Diego Rivera quotation:
I never believed in god, but I believe in Picasso.
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And I believe I see a horse on the cover of GQ magazine.
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What a wonderfully intelligent, well-spoken, talented man. Absolutely adore him.
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