Friday, December 16, 2011
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Cat Calls
My Cat told me today she would like to formally challenge William Lane Craig to a debate. She figured she has a pretty good chance of winning because in her words "I'm just as accomplished at spewing vile unwanted shit out of my mouth as lane is...maybe more so...and I can even lick my own ass."
Bin ladden's luck just crapped out
Thought I'd do my take on the whole Bin Laden shot on the toilet internet meme
Friday, November 11, 2011
Monday, September 5, 2011
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Worldwide peace and unity is a bad,bad thing!
I decided that It was time again to read the bible through,because I haven't read it through since my teens.And in my opinion if your going to be an atheist you really need to have a good knowledge of the religions and gods you are disbelieving,to truly understand why you choose not to believe.
So I'm reading through genesis and come to the tower of babble section.Now I know this story from my childhood,but never really understood what was really going on and how seriously screwed up this particular myth really is.
Basically mankind speaks one language everyone can communicate no problem,nothing lost in translation.So they decide one day,that man should come together and build a great tower,one so great that it reaches the heavens.It will be an amazing accomplishment that will unite all of mankind,a place where humans can come and see that we as a people can accomplish great things when there is peace and we work together.The text states nothing about discrimination based on color,gender,beliefs or anything,just humans united to accomplish a task far greater than any ONE person could.It's a beautiful concept and one that this world should strive,NEEDS to strive for if we as the inhabitance of this world plan to ever survive extinction.
Now god finds out about this and thinks Oh my,Oh my this will never do.Everyone speaks one language,they all seem to get along,they are united as one and because of this they can accomplish anything they put their minds to.Now I'm injecting my own theory here but I'm pretty sure the underlying point is that HUMANS WOULD NO LONGER NEED GOD!!
So what does this egomaniacal tyrant do?He goes down and makes everyone speak a different language!Not only destroying any chance of the people ever finishing the greatest feat humankind has ever conceived up to this point,but effectively separating and alienating people from one another for all time.And because of this separation people segregate themselves to their own kind,and because the peoples of this world are now segregated they naturally develop their own customs traditions and way of understanding things.and in short because of the inevitable lack of understanding in other cultures or thinking that their way is right and others wrong,
we have wars,genocide and an entire planet that barely gets along.
Now as I've stated this is just a myth,but this myth is part of a belief system that
millions of people follow.One that supposedly teaches love and peace tolerance,but how that can that be when the god they worship is clearly afraid of these things.Because if humankind were to truly achieve worldwide love,peace and tolerance,god would then be rendered obsolete,there would be no more need for him.
Can we as species really continue to follow any belief system that at it's very core promotes the separation,segregation and alienation and hate of each other because it's god is afraid that we won't need him anymore?As an atheist I do not believe that any god exists and all of the holy texts are nothing more than mythology with a bit of history thrown in to give it that flavor of credibility.
But if you do believe and follow such gods,can you really get behind and mold your lives around such an obviously backwards,vengeful,childish,insecure god who ultimately wants to keep humankind from ever achieving it's goal of unity and world peace?Can you?...Really?
So I'm reading through genesis and come to the tower of babble section.Now I know this story from my childhood,but never really understood what was really going on and how seriously screwed up this particular myth really is.
Basically mankind speaks one language everyone can communicate no problem,nothing lost in translation.So they decide one day,that man should come together and build a great tower,one so great that it reaches the heavens.It will be an amazing accomplishment that will unite all of mankind,a place where humans can come and see that we as a people can accomplish great things when there is peace and we work together.The text states nothing about discrimination based on color,gender,beliefs or anything,just humans united to accomplish a task far greater than any ONE person could.It's a beautiful concept and one that this world should strive,NEEDS to strive for if we as the inhabitance of this world plan to ever survive extinction.
Now god finds out about this and thinks Oh my,Oh my this will never do.Everyone speaks one language,they all seem to get along,they are united as one and because of this they can accomplish anything they put their minds to.Now I'm injecting my own theory here but I'm pretty sure the underlying point is that HUMANS WOULD NO LONGER NEED GOD!!
So what does this egomaniacal tyrant do?He goes down and makes everyone speak a different language!Not only destroying any chance of the people ever finishing the greatest feat humankind has ever conceived up to this point,but effectively separating and alienating people from one another for all time.And because of this separation people segregate themselves to their own kind,and because the peoples of this world are now segregated they naturally develop their own customs traditions and way of understanding things.and in short because of the inevitable lack of understanding in other cultures or thinking that their way is right and others wrong,
we have wars,genocide and an entire planet that barely gets along.
Now as I've stated this is just a myth,but this myth is part of a belief system that
millions of people follow.One that supposedly teaches love and peace tolerance,but how that can that be when the god they worship is clearly afraid of these things.Because if humankind were to truly achieve worldwide love,peace and tolerance,god would then be rendered obsolete,there would be no more need for him.
Can we as species really continue to follow any belief system that at it's very core promotes the separation,segregation and alienation and hate of each other because it's god is afraid that we won't need him anymore?As an atheist I do not believe that any god exists and all of the holy texts are nothing more than mythology with a bit of history thrown in to give it that flavor of credibility.
But if you do believe and follow such gods,can you really get behind and mold your lives around such an obviously backwards,vengeful,childish,insecure god who ultimately wants to keep humankind from ever achieving it's goal of unity and world peace?Can you?...Really?
Friday, April 23, 2010
Hate religion not faith
I've come to a bit of a realization as of late and I may have stated this before but here it is again just so I'm clear.People who I interact with and who have the misfortune(chuckle)of reading my blog may get the idea that I hate people of faith.That couldn't be further from the truth,I have absolutely no problem whatsoever with personal faith in anything as long as doesn't impinge on anyone else's rights or freedoms.You can believe that your dog is the divine being and his poop is part of the Blessed Sacrament...as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else!BUT!...and it's a really big BUT! That is where religion,Christianity and Islam specifically step in with their size 55 shoes and start breaking toes,so lets get down to the facts.
Religion is a business plain and simple,the biggest and most successful business in the world,in history in fact and their product is a "happy" afterlife.And all you have to do to purchase this product is to first off decide to buy their pitch(god="happy" afterlife)follow their product rules and regulations(the holy book=Bible,Quran etc)and make regular easy payments of 10 percent or more of your income to the various stores and outlets(churches)of your favorite business for the rest of your life.
Now religion being a business with a product to sell,they have to have consumers right?With out consumers to sell the product to their would be no business right?
So what to do,what to do?how to guarantee that people will continue to buy our product even though it is useless and outdated?
Well first we come up with a negative impact for not buying our product(HELL).One so horrible that regardless of how unnecessary our product really is,it will scare people into buying it anyway.It's kind of like Nike saying if you don't buy our shoes,not only will you lose the race,but you'll break both legs,be crippled and in excruciating pain for the rest of your life.
Next we sell to the kids because they are young,impressionable
and easy to sell to.We also make sure the parents understand that the same horrible things that will happen to them for not buying the product will happen to their children as well,that way they can scare the kids into buying our product which in turn means less work for us.
Finally seeing as we cannot legally go to war and start killing people anymore for not buying our product like in the good ol days.We try to inject our consumers into government so they can pass off our product as actual law!That way it will actually be illegal to NOT buy our product.We will make it seem as if not buying our product makes you a horrible,amoral social pariah and even possibly a traitor to your country that was founded on the principals of our product.
And THAT is why I DESPISE religion,because the very foundation of religion demands the propagation of it's belief system or it can not survive."Believe as I do or you will be damned for all eternity".you can add all the fluff and sugar coating you want to it,dip it in chocolate if you like,at it's core it's still a chocolate covered turd.
Religion insists that it be at the core of every decision you make and the decisions of everyone else as well even if those decisions impinge on the rights of others.It even goes as far as to imply that you are an evil sinful creature incapable of making intelligent moral choices without it.
Religion is a business that is quickly losing it's place in the market and it is scared.So scared that it will resort to whatever cheap tactics it can to keep it's death grip on a society that is coming to realize it doesn't need or want the product anymore.
Religion is a business plain and simple,the biggest and most successful business in the world,in history in fact and their product is a "happy" afterlife.And all you have to do to purchase this product is to first off decide to buy their pitch(god="happy" afterlife)follow their product rules and regulations(the holy book=Bible,Quran etc)and make regular easy payments of 10 percent or more of your income to the various stores and outlets(churches)of your favorite business for the rest of your life.
Now religion being a business with a product to sell,they have to have consumers right?With out consumers to sell the product to their would be no business right?
So what to do,what to do?how to guarantee that people will continue to buy our product even though it is useless and outdated?
Well first we come up with a negative impact for not buying our product(HELL).One so horrible that regardless of how unnecessary our product really is,it will scare people into buying it anyway.It's kind of like Nike saying if you don't buy our shoes,not only will you lose the race,but you'll break both legs,be crippled and in excruciating pain for the rest of your life.
Next we sell to the kids because they are young,impressionable
and easy to sell to.We also make sure the parents understand that the same horrible things that will happen to them for not buying the product will happen to their children as well,that way they can scare the kids into buying our product which in turn means less work for us.
Finally seeing as we cannot legally go to war and start killing people anymore for not buying our product like in the good ol days.We try to inject our consumers into government so they can pass off our product as actual law!That way it will actually be illegal to NOT buy our product.We will make it seem as if not buying our product makes you a horrible,amoral social pariah and even possibly a traitor to your country that was founded on the principals of our product.
And THAT is why I DESPISE religion,because the very foundation of religion demands the propagation of it's belief system or it can not survive."Believe as I do or you will be damned for all eternity".you can add all the fluff and sugar coating you want to it,dip it in chocolate if you like,at it's core it's still a chocolate covered turd.
Religion insists that it be at the core of every decision you make and the decisions of everyone else as well even if those decisions impinge on the rights of others.It even goes as far as to imply that you are an evil sinful creature incapable of making intelligent moral choices without it.
Religion is a business that is quickly losing it's place in the market and it is scared.So scared that it will resort to whatever cheap tactics it can to keep it's death grip on a society that is coming to realize it doesn't need or want the product anymore.
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