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	<title>Comments on: The Coexist? Comedy Tour</title>
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		<title>By: eMerly</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/11/25/the-coexist-comedy-tour/#comment-113259</link>
		<dc:creator>eMerly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear James,

If you aren&#039;t smart enough to understand Tapan, you shouldn&#039;t watch his comedy.

Do you get the Fox news reference?

NO. Because you are stupid.

I don&#039;t even think you are a real atheist, because everyone knows only smart people are atheist. Please return to your mormon roots.

xoox

eMerly</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear James,</p>
<p>If you aren&#8217;t smart enough to understand Tapan, you shouldn&#8217;t watch his comedy.</p>
<p>Do you get the Fox news reference?</p>
<p>NO. Because you are stupid.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t even think you are a real atheist, because everyone knows only smart people are atheist. Please return to your mormon roots.</p>
<p>xoox</p>
<p>eMerly</p>
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		<title>By: Keith Lowell Jensen</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/11/25/the-coexist-comedy-tour/#comment-113237</link>
		<dc:creator>Keith Lowell Jensen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think that perhaps Tapan&#039;s jokes didn&#039;t come off as jokes when you READ them and weren&#039;t able to hear his tone of voice. 
I am one of his best friends and also his business partner and I am an atheist (and a honkey to boot.)
He went on stage at an atheist solstice celebration and part of his act was just chattin&#039; with the audience. He was very honest about what he did and didn&#039;t know about atheism and he listened when audience members answered him. It was an enjoyable chat on both sides of the mic. 

As for him being racist, he talks about race a-lot on his act. He&#039;s an Indian man who came to America in his early twenties. Race is a big and fascinating issue here (and around the world) and he has a unique and very open/refreshing way of expressing how we can all put our b.s. aside and get along. It would be easy to take him out of context, but when he&#039;s performing with his white, black, Mexican, Arab, Asian comedian friends we all riff on each other since it&#039;s obvious from the get go that we&#039;re all pals standing up together. 
As a member of an interracial marriage, the father of an interracial baby and a member of an interracial comedy troupe I think he does pretty good at being an example of getting along despite race.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think that perhaps Tapan&#8217;s jokes didn&#8217;t come off as jokes when you READ them and weren&#8217;t able to hear his tone of voice.<br />
I am one of his best friends and also his business partner and I am an atheist (and a honkey to boot.)<br />
He went on stage at an atheist solstice celebration and part of his act was just chattin&#8217; with the audience. He was very honest about what he did and didn&#8217;t know about atheism and he listened when audience members answered him. It was an enjoyable chat on both sides of the mic. </p>
<p>As for him being racist, he talks about race a-lot on his act. He&#8217;s an Indian man who came to America in his early twenties. Race is a big and fascinating issue here (and around the world) and he has a unique and very open/refreshing way of expressing how we can all put our b.s. aside and get along. It would be easy to take him out of context, but when he&#8217;s performing with his white, black, Mexican, Arab, Asian comedian friends we all riff on each other since it&#8217;s obvious from the get go that we&#8217;re all pals standing up together.<br />
As a member of an interracial marriage, the father of an interracial baby and a member of an interracial comedy troupe I think he does pretty good at being an example of getting along despite race.</p>
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		<title>By: James Quinn</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/11/25/the-coexist-comedy-tour/#comment-113132</link>
		<dc:creator>James Quinn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hello,

I just wanted to leave a message with you regarding the comedian Tapan Trivedi. 

I am an Atheist myself. I am happy to have come across this site. I think that the title &#039;Friendly Atheist&#039; is also a wonderful one. It helps to dispel the stereotype regarding &#039;the angry Atheist.&#039; 

However, on the Atheist tribe Tapan Trivedi has said some things which borders on a maniacal hatred of Atheists. He has made claims that Atheists should not be allowed to handle money, because the words &#039;In God we trust&#039; are written on it. When I mentioned Pascals Gambit, Tapan told me that I am not allowed to use the name &#039;Pascal&#039; since Pascal was not an atheist. 

Tapandy says:

P.S. Pascal wasn&#039;t an atheist you can&#039;t quote him !!

(Someone mentions him flying the colors of the Idiot flag.)

Tapandy says
:
And the atheist racism comes out.
Oh I am a colored guy now .

Out of curiosity - how many of you guys are not caucasian ?
As a percentage - How many of you guys are minorities ?
Is Atheism a luxury only afforded to the affluent white majority ?
Of the 788 members of this tribe - how many of you guys are
minorities ? And I mean racial minority - not religious . 

There is more, much more for you to see regarding this. I hope you don&#039;t think I am over-reacting about this. There is more evidence of Tapan&#039;s ignorant and prejudiced views, hateful views regarding Atheism and Atheists which you can view at our discussion site. After &#039;googling&#039; his name, I have found examples of his &#039;humor&#039; which only confirm what I had ascertained. This man is a racist bigot, and all of his humor involves racist and bigoted remarks.

Thanks for your time,

James&lt;a href=&quot;http://nogod.tribe.net/thread/f0348f7d-f612-411e-a69e-22da6ea801b3?newpostingid=8623a0f2-4141-464e-93fe-00e846f0003d#8623a0f2-4141-464e-93fe-00e846f0003d&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I just wanted to leave a message with you regarding the comedian Tapan Trivedi. </p>
<p>I am an Atheist myself. I am happy to have come across this site. I think that the title &#8216;Friendly Atheist&#8217; is also a wonderful one. It helps to dispel the stereotype regarding &#8216;the angry Atheist.&#8217; </p>
<p>However, on the Atheist tribe Tapan Trivedi has said some things which borders on a maniacal hatred of Atheists. He has made claims that Atheists should not be allowed to handle money, because the words &#8216;In God we trust&#8217; are written on it. When I mentioned Pascals Gambit, Tapan told me that I am not allowed to use the name &#8216;Pascal&#8217; since Pascal was not an atheist. </p>
<p>Tapandy says:</p>
<p>P.S. Pascal wasn&#8217;t an atheist you can&#8217;t quote him !!</p>
<p>(Someone mentions him flying the colors of the Idiot flag.)</p>
<p>Tapandy says<br />
:<br />
And the atheist racism comes out.<br />
Oh I am a colored guy now .</p>
<p>Out of curiosity &#8211; how many of you guys are not caucasian ?<br />
As a percentage &#8211; How many of you guys are minorities ?<br />
Is Atheism a luxury only afforded to the affluent white majority ?<br />
Of the 788 members of this tribe &#8211; how many of you guys are<br />
minorities ? And I mean racial minority &#8211; not religious . </p>
<p>There is more, much more for you to see regarding this. I hope you don&#8217;t think I am over-reacting about this. There is more evidence of Tapan&#8217;s ignorant and prejudiced views, hateful views regarding Atheism and Atheists which you can view at our discussion site. After &#8216;googling&#8217; his name, I have found examples of his &#8216;humor&#8217; which only confirm what I had ascertained. This man is a racist bigot, and all of his humor involves racist and bigoted remarks.</p>
<p>Thanks for your time,</p>
<p>James<a href="http://nogod.tribe.net/thread/f0348f7d-f612-411e-a69e-22da6ea801b3?newpostingid=8623a0f2-4141-464e-93fe-00e846f0003d#8623a0f2-4141-464e-93fe-00e846f0003d" rel="nofollow"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Keith Lowell Jensen</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/11/25/the-coexist-comedy-tour/#comment-98795</link>
		<dc:creator>Keith Lowell Jensen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Emerly, dearest fan, creepiest stalker, we didn&#039;t forget, we just like to change it up, experiment, roll with a night thats new.
Ah who am I kidding? So we forget a joke here or there, we have plenty to spare. ;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Emerly, dearest fan, creepiest stalker, we didn&#8217;t forget, we just like to change it up, experiment, roll with a night thats new.<br />
Ah who am I kidding? So we forget a joke here or there, we have plenty to spare. <img src='http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: eMerly</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/11/25/the-coexist-comedy-tour/#comment-96589</link>
		<dc:creator>eMerly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh yeah, what happened to the No Fly joke?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh yeah, what happened to the No Fly joke?</p>
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		<title>By: eMerly</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/11/25/the-coexist-comedy-tour/#comment-96587</link>
		<dc:creator>eMerly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You guys were fucking BRILLIANT last night. Congrats on the sold out show. You guys need to be on TV. Everyone I came with had a great time. Maybe I will come to your SF show, you know, since I haven&#039;t seen this show enough already...

I&#039;m like the queue to laugh girl. I get the giggles when I know something funny is coming up.

Oh yeah. Um, John forgot the part about saying bye Uncle Slim Jim, Tissa didn&#039;t do the slutty joke, I think you need to have the Muslim or the Jew earlier, because people don&#039;t seem to be comfortable laughing at all the religious jokes about each other until after they come on, ummmmm and you all forgot stuff but now I am forgetting everything I noticed.......oh yeah when Tippan said that thing about seven lives, some frat boy near me said &quot;Fuck that&quot; which was really funny.

I&#039;ll be back</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You guys were fucking BRILLIANT last night. Congrats on the sold out show. You guys need to be on TV. Everyone I came with had a great time. Maybe I will come to your SF show, you know, since I haven&#8217;t seen this show enough already&#8230;</p>
<p>I&#8217;m like the queue to laugh girl. I get the giggles when I know something funny is coming up.</p>
<p>Oh yeah. Um, John forgot the part about saying bye Uncle Slim Jim, Tissa didn&#8217;t do the slutty joke, I think you need to have the Muslim or the Jew earlier, because people don&#8217;t seem to be comfortable laughing at all the religious jokes about each other until after they come on, ummmmm and you all forgot stuff but now I am forgetting everything I noticed&#8230;&#8230;.oh yeah when Tippan said that thing about seven lives, some frat boy near me said &#8220;Fuck that&#8221; which was really funny.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll be back</p>
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		<title>By: Keith Lowell Jensen</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/11/25/the-coexist-comedy-tour/#comment-96584</link>
		<dc:creator>Keith Lowell Jensen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You know, you&#039;re right! No Snake Peni. Damn! I&#039;m guilty of false advertising. I will find out what the hell happened to snake peni.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know, you&#8217;re right! No Snake Peni. Damn! I&#8217;m guilty of false advertising. I will find out what the hell happened to snake peni.</p>
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		<title>By: Roger McPheron</title>
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		<dc:creator>Roger McPheron</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I caught these guys in Sacramento last night. 
This is an AWESOME show and me and my wife
had a LOT of fun. All of them were really good.
Well except the Jew guy was a little bit flat but 
the rest of them were GREAT !

Roger
P.S. I didn&#039;t hear the aforementioned snake peni joke from the Hindu. Did he miss telling us that ?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I caught these guys in Sacramento last night.<br />
This is an AWESOME show and me and my wife<br />
had a LOT of fun. All of them were really good.<br />
Well except the Jew guy was a little bit flat but<br />
the rest of them were GREAT !</p>
<p>Roger<br />
P.S. I didn&#8217;t hear the aforementioned snake peni joke from the Hindu. Did he miss telling us that ?</p>
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		<title>By: Keith Lowell Jensen</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/11/25/the-coexist-comedy-tour/#comment-95600</link>
		<dc:creator>Keith Lowell Jensen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Stephanie,

Yes indeed, Tapan Trivedi, our hillarious Hindu will be in attendance. 
And he&#039;s got a great new joke about Snake Peni, so it&#039;s worth seeing us a second time.

Peni = plural of penis?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Stephanie,</p>
<p>Yes indeed, Tapan Trivedi, our hillarious Hindu will be in attendance.<br />
And he&#8217;s got a great new joke about Snake Peni, so it&#8217;s worth seeing us a second time.</p>
<p>Peni = plural of penis?</p>
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		<title>By: Freethoughtguy</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/11/25/the-coexist-comedy-tour/#comment-95198</link>
		<dc:creator>Freethoughtguy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hemant, thanks for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://sfatheists.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;San Francisco Atheists&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;strong&gt;Coexist? Comedy&lt;/strong&gt; plug.  We&#039;re going to have our best &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sfatheists.com/wintersolstice2007.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Winter Solstice Party&lt;/a&gt; ever with this hilarious troupe.  We in the freethought community are a natural audience for this material.  

All are welcome to our annual party on December 15.  Just $12 &quot;entertainment fee&quot; and buy your own food/drinks.  Come one, come all, and bring your friends!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hemant, thanks for the <a href="http://sfatheists.com" rel="nofollow">San Francisco Atheists</a> / <strong>Coexist? Comedy</strong> plug.  We&#8217;re going to have our best <a href="http://www.sfatheists.com/wintersolstice2007.htm" rel="nofollow">Winter Solstice Party</a> ever with this hilarious troupe.  We in the freethought community are a natural audience for this material.  </p>
<p>All are welcome to our annual party on December 15.  Just $12 &#8220;entertainment fee&#8221; and buy your own food/drinks.  Come one, come all, and bring your friends!</p>
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