Churches/temples/mosques use city services, rely on good streets, are protected by the police, and would expect the fire department to respond to a blaze on church property. Yet these churches/temples/mosques do not contribute to the city accounts from which funds are drawn to pay for those services. Everyone else has to pay more to make up the difference. ecclesiarchy ecclesiarchies It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning. We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted, and heaven crammed with these phantoms. I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders. HEATHEN, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel. PRAY, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. SCRIPTURES, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon Here lies an atheist All dressed up And no place to go. —EPITAPH Nah, there's no bigger atheist than me. Well, I take that back. I'm a cancer screening away from going agnostic and a biopsy away from full-fledged Christian. If Jesus was Jewish, how come he has a Mexican name? There are three religious truths: 1. Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah. 2. Protestants do not recognize the Pope as the leader of the Christian faith. 3. Baptists do not recognize each other in the liquor store or at Hooters. Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. Secularism .. . has no mysteries, no mummeries, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions. If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of creation? Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next. There is in every village a torch: the schoolmaster—and an extinguisher: the parson. Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish. If there were not God, there would be no atheists. Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine? If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God? Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. It is told that the great Angelo, in decorating a church, painted some angels wearing sandals. A cardinal looking at the picture said to the artist: "Whoever saw angels with sandals?" Angelo answered with another question: "Whoever saw an angel barefooted?" -ROBERT G. INGERSOLL When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church if I ever had impure thoughts about a girl. That very evening I had to rush to confess my sin. And the next night, and the next. After a week, I decided religion wasn't for me. —FIDEL CASTRO God, Satan, Paradise and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. I recall it vividly. I was at school in England by then. The moment of awakening happened, in fact, during a Latin lesson, and afterwards, to prove my new-found atheism, I bought myself a rather tasteless ham sandwich, and so partook for the first time of the forbidden flesh of the swine. No thunderbolt arrived to strike me down. I remember feeling that my survival confirmed the correctness of my new position. —SALMAN RUSHDIE "The Good Book"—one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined. Civilization will not attain to its perfection, until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest! I find it necessary to take a shower after coming in contact with deeply religious people. Same with lawyers. A government ruled by or in conjunction with a religion; a church-state. Union of church and state. Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece. man-before-woman.jpg Researchers say Christian leaders will embezzle an estimated $86 billion in 2024. The ecclesiastical crime will jump to approximately $390 billion by 2050. Before we start the neanderthal festival of the inbreds The only church that illuminates is the church that burns. button for governors-council.html Things I learned in Sunday School A prostitute is someone you pay for sex A concubine is a slave you have sex with for free Adultery is having sex with someone else's spouse Marriage is about sex “Know” means have sex “Lay with” means have sex “Become one flesh” means have sex “Member” means penis "Issue” means jizz “Spill your seed” means wank Dildos exist (Ez 16:17) God is obsessed with sex What did you learn? There are untold BILLIONS of cameras taking TRILLIONS of pictures all around the planet, underground, underwater, from the moon and other planets. Yet, there are no pictures of any G-O-D. Why is that? Is it true that the non-existent are invisible? https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/25775786/rael-alien-prophet-cult-netflix-ufo-sex-naked/ https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/25765208/claude-vorilhon-rael-raelism-alien-prophet/ Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right. Rev. Debbie Clark at pastor@edwardschurch.org. That's metaphorical. That's what it says, but not what it means. That's a mistranslation. That didn't actually happen, but rather it's an allegory to learn from. That's being taken out of context. That was only meant for a particular people at a particular time. A “God complex” is a deep-seated belief in one’s own infallibility and superiority you get an eternity in foreverland for just a few grueling years of living servitude. The case is not about the separation of church and state but about the separation of scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers and leaders There are 1.3 billion Muslims who are not involved in the frontier of scientific discovery and advancement. Tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, asteroids. Earth is bad for life. Examine the fossil record. 99% of all species that ever lived are extinct That is not the signature of a planet that is in love with life West Wing - Bartlet & the Bible https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&si=HiR1WooR1tHt_d02&v=3CPjWd4MUXs&feature=youtu.be The idea that god hand-crafted the animals is also really bizarre because it suggests that god also hand crafted all the awful ones like the parasitic wasps that have their offspring eat their hosts from the inside out etc. Just think of all those neat viruses that have been carefully crafted by God that turns your vital organs to mush. No religion has advanced our understanding of the universe or natural world in a millenia. Someone who believes they can jump out of an airplane without a parachute and survive has a more valid belief than someone who believes in gods. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. The Goat Herder's Guide To The Galaxy Mike Johnson has often professed that his faith not only informs his politics, but is indivisible from them. "It is what you are - you can’t separate it," "There is not a distinction or dichotomy between your 'religion and your religious life' and the rest of your life. It is all one." Christopher Hitchens Ripping Islam Apart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2cSTq4CgiE Every religion is merely a creation myth. Charles Darwin discovered reality in Evolution Every religious thought, every sacred text, every holy scripture and every divine revelation initallity derives from a false assertion that there exists a god. Show me one! Any religion that denies the value and humanity of others is an extremist religion. Any religion that demands earthly vengeance and retribution for any reason is not a religion at all but a mental illness and should be treated as such. The Lord said “Consecrate to me every first-born that opens the womb among Israelites, both man and beast, for it belongs to me.” Exodus 13:2 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. Isaiah 45:7 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come?" God created/speaks good and evil. Lamentations 3:38 And the Lord spake, saying: "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shalt be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thou foe, who \ being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it." Parents should not have the authority to indoctrinate and impose their religious beliefs on their children in any form, but children should make their own choices about religion when they reach the age of 18 The jews are a cult of ignorance, a strain of anti-intellectualism in the United States strain of anti-intellectualism Religions greatest trick wasn't convincing some people that there was a god who was all powerful. It was convincing everyone else that you could not ridicule the idea. Need Abuse and Molestation Liability Coverage https://www.ministryinsured.com/church-insurance/liability/abuse-molestation/"> As far as the insurance company is concerned, "choosing to rape a child" is something that religious leaders do SO INCREDIBLY OFTEN that it belongs in the same category of "inevitable innocent mistakes" as a tradesman sneezing while operating a power tool. minor fuck-ups while doing their job I thought the insurance was for fucking mi.... oh nevermind https://talktogods.com/ images/after-their-throats-are-cut-small.jpg images/evolution-is-a-fact-yellow-on-black.jpg images/i-accept-evolution.jpg images/creator-not-divine.jpg Jews and Christians suffer from an intellectual disability in their willful ignorance of evolution Deuteronomy 20:10-18 When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace. If they accept and open their gates, all people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you. If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to the city. When the lord your god delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all men in it. As for the women, the children, the livestock, and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the lord your god gives you from your enemies. This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby. However, in the cities of the nations the lord your god is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave anything that breathes. Completely destroy them- the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanite, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites-as the lord your god has commanded you. Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshipping their gods, and you will sin against the lord your god. Deuteronomy 20:10-18 The First Commandment violates The First Amendment First Commandment Thou shalt have no other gods before me. First Amendment to the US Constitution Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Praise be to Allah. Allahu Akbar! The difference in DNA between a human and a chimp is less than 2%. In other words, we are over 98% exactly like chimpanzees. That 2% accounts for our differences in looks, but most importantly, in intelligence. Chimpanzees can't play the piano, speak, write books, study physics, or read. Humans can. But the reason we can and they can't is because of that less than 2% difference. Think about that. Imagine that alien intelligence as being only 2% more "improved" than us, just like we are 2% more "improved" than chimpanzees. To them, the smartest human being on Earth would be like a chimpanzee is to us. Imagine the improvement being 5%, 10%, 50%. Forget having a conversation with us - they would think less of us than we do of ants. we-are-chimps.jpg
Faith is belief in the absence of evidence. I did not 'lose' my faith as though it was something that regrettably slipped away. Rather, I chose to discard it because it no longer made sense to me How do these people earn a living, or prepare a meal? Idiots, n: A member of a large powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. Hell links https://www.rivalnations.org/hell-isnt-forever https://thirdmill.org/answers/answer.asp/file/49006 https://youtu.be/YjiSeDcWMtY https://youtu.be/8xTcDU-cMAg?t=340 https://youtu.be/g8-nw-ltV9c Imaginary Defects / Ulterior Motives Sourah Al Baqarah [2:256] https://quran.com/2/256 Twenty percent of all recognized pregnancies end in miscarriage. If God exists, he is the most prolific abortionist of all. - Sam Harris The mosque should be dissolved for facilitating, condoning and supporting misogyny. Most people refuse to accept they will no longer exist once they die, but have no problem accepting they didn't exist before they were born. Sin can only infect those who know about sin? How can you be sinful if you do not know about sin. Any god that advocates genocide, infanticide, filicide, slavery, bigotry, and misogyny is automatically disqualified from making moral pronouncements!! Satan I rebuke thee in the name of Jesus Christ, my lord and savior. God please bless this lost soul for evil thoughts. This conversation is over. Blocking you! Jesus I rebuke thee in the name of Satan, my dark lord and savior. Satan, please bless this lost soul for evil thoughts. This conversation is over. Blocking you! Semen eating anal worms https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/04/24/kuwaiti-academic-semen-eating-anal-worms-homosexuality/ Surah 2:260 Virginity is venerated and non-virgins get treated like used chewing gum. What is the basis or justification for a sin? Laylatul-Qadr: Night of Decree/Night of Power Unnatural transgressions The shrewdest fraudsters don't sell us fake medicines for real aches and pains. When our aliments persist, the game's up. The shrewdest fraudsters sell us fake illnesses and imaginary defects. The the game can endure for a lifetime. Why do priests love twenty eight year olds? Because there are twenty of them Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?" - Annie Dillard (They) who committed the atrocities of September 11 were certainly not 'cowards,' .... nor were they lunatics in any ordinary sense. They were men of faith - perfect faith, as it turns out - and this, it must finally be acknowledged, is a terrible thing. ---Sam Harris Easter: Today, over a billion otherwise sane humans celebrate what they believe to be the day a half god/half man creature who was born of a Virgin rose from the dead after being brutally executed for our "sins." And they think atheists are the crazy ones.. Today is the day Christians celebrate the story of how their God killed himself to save us from what he will do to us if we don't do what he says. The concept of morality existed long before religion, but it was hijacked by religion. The impecable logic in religion So how do you know that the Koran isn't the word of God but that the Bible is. Because the Koran says the Bible is true. If the Koran is true, then the Bible is true. And because the Bible is true, the Koran is false small-rev-dr-anthony-lloyd-senior-pastor.jpg JPEG 300x382 I saved 100% on my taxes by switching to Jesus I am the real pro in Framingham getting rich without paying taxes by selling people an invisible product for 10% of their income that they can't see until after they die. Hallelujah! Lord! Isn't it amazing to see Christian women defending a bible that denigrates women. There is no war on your religion. It is simply opposition against oppression, hatred, bigotry and stupidity. Your freedom of religion should never affect my freedom from religion. A Turkish Islamic preacher says men without beards cause 'indecent thoughts' in other men because they look like women. How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one. I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. they can tell their congregation to sit down, shut up, and bow down to authority. http://catholicbridge.com/catholic/is-anal-sex-ok-for-married-couples-as-foreplay-catholics.php In marriage, anal sex is achieved by inserting the man's reproductive organ into the woman's digestive tract. That's not very "natural". One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all. - Arthur C. Clarke https://www.casperfuneralservices.com/cremation-faqs/?gclid=CjwKCAjwndvlBRANEiwA BrR32GfxM8NvTuDCZJYgDDLTrCZ8-GjpaFYVscbMbjUofDHEUpuYjjhXcxoC2BoQAvD_BwE Only cemeteries can own a crematory. No cremation or funeral service provider can own a crematory https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXVI/Chapter114 Taking land for burial purposes Cemeteries are a Ponzi scheme. The first ones dead get the better plots. You get a nice place by the interstate. The noise is deafening. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Faith is belief without evidence. Your religious beliefs aren't sacred/immune to criticism. They are beliefs in your head based on where you were born, how you were raised & who influenced you. Simply having religious beliefs doesn't make them true or obligate others to respect them. Your religious beliefs do however create sharp lines of division within our society. Religion is the epitome of bad ideas. Its teaching are backed by the word of "god", so any violence, hatred, bigotry, etc., is justifiable because you have cleansed yourself by doing it in the name of your god. It would be beneficial to everyone if one person can show us one god. Suicide bombers who commit atrocities in the name of god are not cowards or lunatics in an ordinary sense. These were men of perfect faith, and this is never really acknowledged. You can tell me a thousand times that the vast majority of muslims/christians are peaceful, and I would agree with you, but after each and every terror attack, the opinions of the vast majority of muslims/christians was not relevant and did not matter in any way, shape or form. Stop using it as an excuse for "good religion". As long as the mainstream media protects religion as a viable institution in our society (in order to protect their readership), religion will provide the artificial divisions amongst us that promote conflict. The media spreads its cloak of untouchability by claiming that something is holy or sacred. This protection promotes and guarantees future acts of terrorism. It would be almost unbelievable, if history did not record the tragic fact, that men have gone to war and cut each other's throats because they could not agree as to what was to become of them after their throats were cut. -- Walter P. Stacy ================================================================ The vast majority of Christians and Muslims are good law abiding citizens who want to be left alone to subjugate their women and children. He should be accused of "setting up an organisation with the aim of committing crime", "committing fraud through abuse of religious belief and sentiment" Religion is the major contributor to idiocy and ignorance in our community. The privileged immunity that religion enjoys in the main stream media comes from the notion that the main stream would lose 75% of its readership if it were to attack religion. You can't be main stream media if no one reads you. Personally, I would like it if the mainstream media would do a well researched article showing all the reproducible evidence of any god. I find it very fascinating that vast majority of humans are unwilling or find it extremely uncomfortable to entertain the idea of a Creator that is not divine Nothing natural can explain the existence of the natural world. It takes magic. ================================================================= The largest religious lunatic asylums are located in the Vatican, Jerusalem, TelAviv, Medina, Mecca and Salt Lake City. ================================================================= I have always had problems with Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth". (While not a Bulwer-Lytton award winner opening line, it is the basis for Judaism and Christistianity, even if it is not valid) This is the religious big bang Something out of nothing. Since god pre-existed the beginning, this was just our beginning. Who is this god character? Or is it, what is a god? Where did he come from? A lot of fusion is required to build the earth. Where exactly was he when he created this heaven and earth. Clearly outside. Behind a big ass blast shield? And this god creature was working in total darkness? Where was the light? How long had he been there before he did this creation thing? Is he all alone? How can anyone know if he is all alone? How do we know it's a he? Has anyone seen him (besides his ass in that "in all his glory" scene with Moses) Genesis 1:1 should have been written as... Once upon a time, God created the heavens and the earth. ================================================================= Deuteronomy 13 New International Version (NIV) Worshiping Other Gods 13 [a] If a prophet, or one who foretells by dreams, appears among you and announces to you a sign or wonder, 2 and if the sign or wonder spoken of takes place, and the prophet says, "Let us follow other gods" (gods you have not known) "and let us worship them," 3 you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. The Lord your God is testing you to find out whether you love him with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 It is the Lord your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him. 5 That prophet or dreamer must be put to death for inciting rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt and redeemed you from the land of slavery. That prophet or dreamer tried to turn you from the way the Lord your God commanded you to follow. You must purge the evil from among you. 6 If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, "Let us go and worship other gods" (gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, 7 gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land to the other), 8 do not yield to them or listen to them. Show them no pity. Do not spare them or shield them. 9 You must certainly put them to death. Your hand must be the first in putting them to death, and then the hands of all the people. 10 Stone them to death, because they tried to turn you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 11 Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and no one among you will do such an evil thing again. 12 If you hear it said about one of the towns the Lord your God is giving you to live in 13 that troublemakers have arisen among you and have led the people of their town astray, saying, "Let us go and worship other gods" (gods you have not known), 14 then you must inquire, probe and investigate it thoroughly. And if it is true and it has been proved that this detestable thing has been done among you, 15 you must certainly put to the sword all who live in that town. You must destroy it completely, [b] both its people and its livestock. 16 You are to gather all the plunder of the town into the middle of the public square and completely burn the town and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. That town is to remain a ruin forever, never to be rebuilt, 17 and none of the condemned things[c] are to be found in your hands. Then the Lord will turn from his fierce anger, will show you mercy, and will have compassion on you. He will increase your numbers, as he promised on oath to your ancestors - 18 because you obey the Lord your God by keeping all his commands that I am giving you today and doing what is right in his eyes. ========================================================================= God’s penology: Belief in a masculine God predicts support for harsh criminal punishment and militarism Prior research demonstrates that multiple dimensions of religiosity significantly predict punitive attitudes and militarism. This study highlights the importance of believing in a masculine God, an aspect of religiosity with a robust and consistent relationship to punitiveness and militarism, but which has previously been unexamined. After accounting for multiple aspects of religiosity highlighted by previous research—such as frequency of religious practice, religious tradition, fundamentalist identity and beliefs, and other dimensions of God image including love, anger, judgment, and engagement—believing that God is a “He” consistently and strongly increases support for harsh social policies targeting intra-societal enemies (criminals), as well as general militarism and campaigns targeting extra-societal enemies (e.g. “terrorists”). These results highlight the importance of theorizing and measuring gendered dimensions of belief in God, as well as the importance of fine-grained considerations of religion in studies of penal populism and militarism. ========================================================================= Somebody ought to tell the truth about the bible and quran. The preachers dare not. They would be driven from their pulpits. Professors in college dare not. They would lose their salaries. Politicians dare not. They would be defeated. Editors dare not. They would lose subscribers. Merchants dare not. They might lose customers. Even clerks dare not. They might be discharged. ========================================================================= https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-48923485 Today, to paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the death of God have been greatly exaggerated. In fact, religion is in the ascendant across the world, not least because the religious have more babies than atheists. While secular thinking thrives in science and the academies, it certainly hasn't replaced faith in human affairs. But religiosity does have a new, powerful rival; one, moreover, that performs very similar functions, and makes irresistible claims on our attention. It's called the internet. ========================================================================= The Notre Dame cathedral was at the heart of French culture and history. Kiss your culture and history bye-bye, Macron. Shitting, like death, is a great leveller. It renders beluga caviar indistinguishable from tinned ham, a duchess as creaturely as a dog. Even God's only son may be transformed by the act: the stercoranistes, an early Christian sect, believed in a double transubstantiation, Christ into the communion wafer, and thence into dung. There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the clergyman. ================================================================= God Enforces Capital Punishment For Many Crimes, Some Victimless Kill People Who Don't Listen to Priests. (Deuteronomy 17:12) Kill Witches. (Exodus 22:17) Kill Homosexuals. (Leviticus 20:13) Kill Fortunetellers. (Leviticus 20:27) Death for Hitting Dad. (Exodus 21:15) Death for Cursing Parents. (Proverbs 20:20) (Leviticus 20:9) Death for Adultery. (Leviticus 20:10) Death for Fornication. (Leviticus 21:9) Death to Followers of Other Religions. (Exodus 22:20) Kill Nonbelievers. (2 Chronicles 15:12-13) Kill False Prophets. (Zechariah 13:3) Kill the Entire Town if One Person Worships Another God. (Deuteronomy 13:13-19) Kill Women Who Are Not Virgins On Their Wedding Night. (Deuteronomy 22:20-21) Kill Followers of Other Religions. (Deuteronomy 13:7-12) (Deuteronomy 17:2-5) Death for Blasphemy. (Leviticus 24:10-16) Kill False Prophets. (Deuteronomy 13:1-5) (Deuteronomy 18:20-22) Infidels and Gays (me and Connor) are worthy of death (Romans 1:24-32) Kill Anyone who Approaches the Tabernacle. (Numbers 1:48-51) Kill People for Working on the Sabbath. (Exodus 31:12-15) Stone stubborn and rebellious children (Deuteronomy 21:18-21) ================================================================= God does not exist...best satire... http://archive.is/tA0Y7 If you're selling Salvation, what you're really selling first is Damnation... Before you can even think about salvation you have to buy into the whole idea that you're rotten; that you're a sinner; that there's something wrong with you. Grand Rabbi dies https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8779822/hasidic-jews-brooklyn-funeral-holocaust-rabbi/ It's been 125,000 generations since the emergence of human species, 7,500 generations since human physiology reached what is essentially its modern state, 500 generations since the agricultural revolution, and ONLY 20 generations since the scientific revolution! If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed." -- Albert Einstein Religion is inherently evil. Its a lie. Used as leverage. To gain power over another. It manipulates, it de-humanises people, it generally represes any thing that don't fit its form of "normal. It threatens, it subverts, it controls, it creates violence. Its evil. Erring members may be shunned until there is repentance, forgiveness and restoration to full fellowship. I have absolute proof god doesn't exist. This proof is absolute, but immaterial. You can't see it or measure it, but it exists. It's beyond comprehension, and thus we should not even question it. It's everywhere at all times, you just need to have faith that it's there and it's true. It's as real as any god. If I had a child, and I told them on a regular basis that if they disobeyed I would whip them with a belt, that would constitute child abuse, right? I'm sure CPS/DCF would think so. Why then should it be allowed for a christian parent to tell their kid that they'll go to hell if they sin, to burn for ALL ETERNITY. Every bible thumping christian parent is a child abuser and if you don't call them out, you're enabling them. Intelligence gave us both religion and thermonuclear weapons. This is like giving teenagers a car, whiskey and shotguns. What could possibly go wrong? Christianity, the religion that pushes abstinence as birth control, was founded on the belief that a virgin got pregnant. I am amused at the concept that Jesus is the son of God (the jewish god). Jesus was circumcised as was jewish tradition and and Jesus as a teenager shows up at the temple of his father So why are the followers of Jesus now different from the jews? Just worshipping the son of Yahweh. On another sidetrack, back in the 1800's SCOTUS made state defined corporations "people" according to the US Constitution, and recently these new "people" are now allowed to have their own religion. So basically, imaginary people can now have imaginary friends. The layering of the BS keeps getting thicker and thicker ===================================================================== TIL that Islam is not allowed to be forced on anyone based on what's written in the Quran That's a pretty interesting thing to learn as we were led to believe it was spread by force and swords. " (There is no compulsion in religion), meaning, "Do not force anyone to become Muslim, for Islam is plain and clear, and its proofs and evidence are plain and clear. Therefore, there is no need to force anyone to embrace Islam. Rather, whoever Allah directs to Islam, opens his heart for it and enlightens his mind, will embrace Islam with certainty. Whoever Allah blinds his heart and seals his hearing and sight, then he will not benefit from being forced to embrace Islam.''" They don't force you to be a Muslim. Instead, they offer you the free choice to be a slave or a corpse if Islam isn't your cup of tea. ============================================================================ Opinion: We Should Tax Churches. Giving Them Special Treatment Is Unconstitutional. The first sentence of the First Amendment establishes a separation between church and state. America is a secular country, where the government cannot support or ban any specific religion. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; When the government provides financial benefits to religious institutions, the government is essentially supporting religion. Doing so is unconstitutional, according to the First Amendment. Tax exemptions are a privilege, not a right. Government has traditionally granted the privilege to churches because of the supposed contributions they make to the community. However, there is no such provision in the US Constitution to make that necessary. In other words, the government is simply supporting religion unconstitutionally. Meanwhile, the American taxpayers are supporting the extravagant lifestyles of wealthy pastors, whose "megachurches" bring in millions of tax-free dollars every year. Mark Twain argued: "no church property is taxed, and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit in the public income thus caused." If anything, churches should have to do what all non-profit organizations do which is file Form 990, which would provide the public with more transparency and would give a general overview of the organization's activities. The churches (and cemeteries) take up a huge swath of real estate in the United States ============================================================================= Morality is doing what is right, regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, regardless of what is right. - H.L. Mencken NYC is a place where we celebrate our diversity and inclusivity. Does this include those of us who are into cannibalism, typical serial killers or those who enjoy deep frying fat Jews? ================================== I don't understand how Christians say that their God is all loving and moral In the Old Testament God was extremely immoral committing many atrocities Some examples In Genesis 7:21-23, God drowns the entire population of the earth: men, women, children, fetuses, and animals. In Exodus 12:29, God the baby-killer slaughters all Egyptian firstborn children and cattle because their king was stubborn. In Numbers 16:41-49, the Israelites complain that God is killing too many of them. So, God sends a plague that kills 14,000 more of them. In 1 Samuel 6:19, God kills 50,000 men for peeking into the ark of the covenant. In Numbers 31:7-18, the Israelites kill all the Midianites except for the virgins, whom they are allowed to rape as spoils of war. In 2 Kings 2:23-24, some kids tease the prophet Elisha, and God sends bears to dismember them. Definitely a perfect omni-benevolent and perfect God. ======================================= Archbishop James Ussher's calculation of the date of Creation as 4004 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ussher_chronology White people justified slavery and segregation through Christianity so a black Christian is like a black person with no fucking memory. Religions that produce violent fundamentalists are fundamentally violent religions No religious test is required to hold office. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torcaso_v._Watkins While they are unconstitutional, such laws are left on the books as a deliberate slap in the face to atheists. I don't fear death, I just don't want to be there when it happens. - Woody Allen. Non-Muslims are not allowed to have Saudi citizenship, and non-Muslim places of worship are not allowed in Saudi Arabia. The Hajar al-Aswad (The Black Stone) The prosperity gospel is the notion that the more you tythe, the more God gives back to you. God's ROI (return on investment) is very poor and leads to poverty. The New Testament says that once you are dead you will either suffer an eternity of flame or an eternity of slavery praising god in heaven. It doesn't really matter how much you suffer here on earth if the pain that awaits after is forever, a concept so great the human mind cannot properly wrap its head around it. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Qur%27anic_contradictions#Do_all_Christians_go_to_Hell.3F The history of every civilization shows that it is precisely when organized religion feels threatened by its declining influence that it makes its most strenuous efforts to force compliance with its ideology. https://thehumanevolutionblog.com/2015/01/12/the-poor-design-of-the-human-eye/ https://thehumanevolutionblog.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/human-eye-anatomy.jpg Christian churches lose $63 billion each year worldwide to internal "ecclesiastical crime" https://thinkprogress.org/churches-susceptible-fraud-congress-file-financial-irs-93830e2be2cd/ In impregnating 14 year old Mary with out consent, God's behavior "an unethical abuse of power at best and grossly predatory at worst." Of course, the Annunciation and the Immaculate Conception (of Mary) clearly indicates a plan to rape her. God waited patiently for 14 years to rape her. If you get to drown almost everybody on the planet why wouldn't you be allowed to rape somebody from time to time? Then again, rape is usually defined as penetration without consent. I'm not sure the laws are set up to handle someone spontaneously spawning holy jizz in your fallopian tubes Debating creationists on the topic of evolution is rather like trying to play chess with a pigeon; it knocks the pieces over, craps on the board, and flies back to its flock to claim victory Religion is the epitome of bad ideas. Its teaching are backed by the word of "god", so any violence, hatred, bigotry, etc., Is justifiable because your doing it in the name of your god. Twitter has a dark, demonic side, raging against God and the Church. That brood of vipers and braying, bloodthirsty hounds lurking in readiness was visited upon me with nearly unrelenting fury and incredible magnitude last week. Wave after wave of calumnious, blasphemous, and obscene memes, gifs, and messages were posted with comments, likes, and retweets ranging up to the tens of thousands. Those who styled themselves my enemies crowed with pleasure that I had been "ratioed" - when negative comments outnumber likes and retweets. Many called for me to delete my account when they weren't wishing a more horrible fate upon me. Blue check mark accounts with nearly 200k followers piled on. I'm an old guy, been an atheist since the days when that could get your house burned down. I have long said that atheists value life far more than religious people. For me, my life is the most precious thing I have. I will do anything to preserve it. For the religious, life is a disposable placement test. A mere blip before they get to start "super-afterlife". Since this life is so tiny, they can't see it's value. This concept also colors politics. If you don't value life the way I do, you're less likely to pass laws that work to preserve life. We are lucky that we will die https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=188&v=IOXMjCnKwb4 Suicide is certainly a sin - because it robs a person of the sanctity of life and the full time given to them by God alone. If you believe you will be rewarded with eternal pleasure and happiness, you can justify any action, see: suicide bombers. How many Roman Catholic communions does it take to eat a whole Jesus? https://www.boredpanda.com/communions-eat-whole-jesus/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic What do you call a book club that has been stuck on the same book for decades? Church 36 ways to die by god https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/can-put-death-36-offenses-according-bible/ Religion is legalized madness. I once asked an Orthodox Jew how he reconciled the Holocaust with being God's chosen people. His answer? "The people who died in the Holocaust weren't proper Jews and God sent Hitler to punish them for not Jewing hard enough." When a muslim tells you that Muhammad is the perfect man and it is the duty and goal of all muslim men to follow in his example, they are stating that it is OK to kill unbelievers and have sexual relationships with a 9 year old. https://www.advocate.com/sites/advocate.com/files/2018/11/01/rabbi-mordechai-aderet-750x.jpg https://www.advocate.com/religion/2018/11/01/orthodox-rabbi-pittsburgh-shooting-caused-gay-parents-holding-bris If someone's offense has priority over someone else's free speech, then we do not have freedom of speech. Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. Proverbs 3:5 It is almost impossible to bear the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing someone's beard or setting them on fire. Islam is the only religion that wants a parallel legal system. The West believes that laws are based on reason, and Islam wants laws that are based on revelations. Muslims have no right in Western society to not be offended. TIL in 1209, crusaders were sent to siege Beziers (in France) as many citizens had become heretics. Before the attack, the army asked the Pope's ambassador on how to distinguish between heretics and Catholics, he replied: "Kill them all; let God sort them out." All 20,000 inhabitants were killed. No religious Test shall ever be required https://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A6.html Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. - Isaac Asimov By definition, the priest is the personification of falsehood Any priest is the personification of falsehood So let me get this right. You use a computer and the internet extensively You watch TV You use a smartphone extensively You Take medicine when you are sick You fly on airplanes You drive cars You live in a modern home with smoke alarms and security systems You use electricity You use clean tap water You cook on a stove or oven or microwave. You use a refridgerator and freezer, You wear clothes that are massed produced. You use a toilet and toilet paper You go to churches with modern sound systems You live a life surrounded by science and likely dependent on science. But you think scientists are lying about evolution? ============================================================================ Allah's Instructions to wipe your ass (purify yourself) Wipimg your ass: Istinja or Istijmaar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvZyIN2nGTg Complete lack of verifiable supporting evidence of it's supernatural claims. You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic. If I didn't believe in your magic invisible celestial wizard, why would I believe in your magic invisible subterranean goblin Who wrote the bible https://allthatsinteresting.com/who-wrote-the-bible make the sun stand still during battle at Gibeon Evolution denial is the gold standard of religious nonsense. In 1644 Irish Archbishop James Ussher preformed a series of calculations using the bible as guide and determined the earth was created on October 23, 4004 BC at 9am in the morning. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/history-of-geology/october-23-4004-bc-happy-birthday-earth/ To test if a religion is one of peace, look at its extremists: In a religion of peace, the extremists would be extremely peaceful. Chinese declares Islam an 'incurable tumour' and a 'poisonous medicine' The religious extremist ideology is a type of poisonous medicine, which confuses the mind of the people. If we do not eradicate religious extremism at its roots, the violent terrorist incidents will grow and spread all over like an incurable malignant tumour. Blasphemy law in Massachusetts https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIV/TitleI/Chapter272/Section36 Beastiality law in Massachusetts https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIV/TitleI/Chapter272/Section34 When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say. Religion is an idea, and, as an idea, it should be eligible for criticism, discussion, and yes, mockery. The only reason so many believers demand special exceptions be made for religious ideas is because they know full well that their ideas don't hold up well under scrutiny.
Every one of us should be standing in front of a Catholic Church this
morning holding a sign that reads:
WARNING:
KNOWN GATHERING SPOT
FOR PEDOPHILES.
KEEP CHILDREN AWAY!
St Stephens, St Tarcisius, St George
If a drug dealer uses a car to commit a crime, the
car is taken by the police and sold by bid. If a
church is used in the commission of a crime, I
believe the building and all assets should be
seized by the government and sold...
How about taxing churches and all the taxes go to the homeless.
"Of all the tyrannies that afflict mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst:
Every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in, but
this attempts a stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity."
- Thomas Paine, 1797
FFRF responds to Bishop blaming homosexuality for the Catholic Church's child
sex abuse problem, "The reason [this] problem is so rampant and seemingly
ineradicable is the church itself. The power structure of the church is
predicated on an unquestionable, unassailable authority - a divine authority
Many people have no problem believing they didn't exist before their birth,
but can't fathom not existing after their death.
God is, always was, and always will be nothing more than the sum of
everything we do not yet understand.
Issaih 45:7
niqab, hijab
Deuteronomy 7:3
Deuteronomy 28
Revelation 2:23
36 ways to die by YHWH
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/can-put-death-36-offenses-according-bible/
https://www.geocities.com/a_christian_conservative/verses.html
Numbers 35:16 (cursing parents)
Exodus 31:15 (working on the sabbath)
Deuteronomy 22:20 (premarital sex)
Deuteronomy 21:18 (disobedient boys)
Deuteronomy 17:2-5 (worshiping false gods)
Exodus 22: 18 (witches)
Leviticus 20:27 (wizards)
Deuteronomy 22:23-25 (girls raped in city limits)
Leviticus 24:16 (blasphemers)
Leviticus 20:13 (men who lie with men)
Leviticus 20: 10-12 (adulterers)
Leviticus 20:15 (Men who Lie with Beasts)
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/20180803/new-sudbury-rabbi-aims-to-show-judaism-as-vibrant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_capital_crimes_in_the_Torah
He not only talks out of his ass, but he speaks with authority about
things he has not researched.
Being atheist is officialy a criminal act in Saudi Arabia, by which
non-believers who commit ″thought crimes″ are the same as violent terrorists.
Article 4 of the kingdom′s laws on terrorism states: "Anyone who aids
['terrorist'] organisations, groups, currents [of thought], associations,
or parties, or demonstrates affiliation with them, or sympathy with them,
or promotes them, or holds meetings under their umbrella, either inside or
outside the kingdom; this includes participation in audio, written, or
visual media; social media in its audio, written, or visual forms; internet
websites; or circulating their contents in any form, or using slogans of
these groups and currents [of thought], or any symbols which point to
support or sympathy with them."
http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2018/07/04/180704d.html
Numbers 22:21-38 KJV Balaam's talking ass
Talking serpent
Flying horse
https://thechurchoftruth.org/
http://www.kyroot.com/
http://www.aboutbibleprophecy.com/miracles.htm
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You believe in a book that has "man" made from dirt,
woman made from a man's rib, a talking serpent, magical
fruits, flying bird people, a talking ass, burning
shrubbery that speaks, sticks turning into a snake,
seas parting, food falling from the sky, people
walking on water, the earth stops revolving, large fish
run a hotel, people turn into a pillar of salt, virgins
give birth, dead people come back to life, sons of God
come to Earth before a worldwide flood, soldiers
collecting foreskins, and all sorts of magical,
absurd, barbaric and primitive stories, and
you say that we are the ones that need help?
you-believe-in-a-book2.jpg
Asking 'if there is no god, what is the purpose of life?' is like asking
'if there is no master, whose slave shall I be?'
Christian: Why don't you believe?
Atheist: Because snakes don't talk, people don't turn to salt, seas don't part,
the earth doesn't stop revolving, whales don't run hotels, virgins don't give birth,
and dead people don't come back to life
Three versions of the ten commandments
Exodus 34, Exodus 20, Deuteronomy 5
"Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence:
The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly
rigorous logical deduction - studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the
great minds capable of transforming the world did not study the world;
and so, for most of a millennium, as human beings screamed in agony -
decaying from starvation, eaten by leprosy and plague, dying in droves
in their twenties - the men of the mind, who could have provided their
earthly salvation, abandoned them for otherworldly fantasies."
If God created everything, why are there other religions?
Free will. God works in mysterious ways.
Biblical flaws are never brought up by pastors because they don't want
to lose access to the only job they are qualified to hold.
Thou shalt not disrespect the bodily integrity or autonomy of others.
1 Samuel 18:27 Counting foreskins (200 Philistines foreskins)
Atheists believe that humans are a an utterly unimportant breed of evolved
monkeys, on a minor planet, in an average solar system, in an average galaxy,
with billions of other worlds and potential life forms out there
Christians believe humans are created in the image of an all powerful god
to govern over his creation, and the entire Universe was created just
for them.
But sure. It's the Atheists who have the arrogant beliefs. Just goes to
show what I always say: The deeply religious, especially Christians,
are (some of) the most hypocritical people on the planet
https://skepticsannotatedbible.com/index.htm
http://www.evilbible.com/
http://wikiislam.net
https://skepticsannotatedbible.com/quran/
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/quran/inj/long.html
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/quran/cruelty/long.html
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/BOM/index.htm
Saudi Arabian fashion show (with drones)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So2Ag-1bem0
An early objection I had with Christianity at school was being told I was part
of a flock. Shepherds don't just look after sheep because they like them.
They either want to fleece them, fuck them or eat them.
- Christopher Hitchens
Real Time with Bill Maher: New Rule - Tax the Churches (HBO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=199&v=IPZAYgovau0
Mutilating baby genitalia is MORAL???
A new study finds that when 25 percent of people in a group adopt a new
social norm, it creates a tipping point where the entire group follows suit.
This shows the direct causal effect of the size of a committed minority
on its capacity to create social change
How absurd it is to have an instrument of public death used as your symbol
on a building of healing
Many Christians assume that the existence of their god is self-evident.
Ramadan was a non-Muslim pagan Arab festival
https://freethoughtblogs.com/taslima/2012/07/21/ramadan-was-a-pagan-arab-festival-2/
Deuteronomy 13:12-19 - If you hear it said about one of the towns the LORD
your God is giving you to live in that wicked men have arisen among you and
have led the people of their town astray, saying, "Let us go and worship
other gods" (gods you have not known), then you must inquire, probe and
investigate it thoroughly. And if it is true and it has been proved that
this detestable thing has been done among you, you must certainly put
to the sword all who live in that town. Destroy it completely, both its
people and its livestock. Gather all the plunder of the town into the
middle of the public square and completely burn the town and all its plunder
as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. It is to remain a ruin
forever, never to be rebuilt. None of those condemned things shall be
found in your hands, so that the LORD will turn from his fierce anger;
he will show you mercy, have compassion on you, and increase your numbers,
as he promised on oath to your forefathers, because you obey the LORD
your God, keeping all his commands that I am giving you today and doing
what is right in his eyes.
Jesus salesmen are a dime a dozen due to exceedingly low educational
requirements.
Same sex marriage is not gay privilege; it's equal rights.
Privilege would be like churches not paying property taxes.
What's the point of being a Catholic or a Christian if you can't enjoy
the thought of other people suffering for eternity?
shavuot: a major Jewish festival held on the 6th (and usually the 7th) of Sivan,
fifty days after the second day of Passover. It was originally a harvest
festival, but now also commemorates the giving of the Law (the Torah).
mutaween: religious police
Garbage In -- Gospel Out.
Jerusalem Jesus Awakes From Three Day Slumber And Sees Shadow,
Predicting Return Of Winter
I cannot understand why we idle discussing religion. If we are
honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a
jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality. The very idea of
God is a product of the human imagination. It is quite understandable
why primitive people, who were so much more exposed to the overpowering
forces of nature than we are today, should have personified these forces
in fear and trembling. But nowadays, when we understand so many natural
processes, we have no need for such solutions. I can't for the life of
me see how the postulate of an Almighty God helps us in any way. What
I do see is that this assumption leads to such unproductive questions as
why God allows so much misery and injustice, the exploitation of the
poor by the rich and all the other horrors He might have prevented. If
religion is still being taught, it is by no means because its ideas still
convince us, but simply because some of us want to keep the lower
classes quiet. Quiet people are much easier to govern than clamorous
and dissatisfied ones. They are also much easier to exploit. Religion
is a kind of opium that allows a nation to lull itself into wishful
dreams and so forget the injustices that are being perpetrated against
the people. Hence the close alliance between those two great political
forces, the State and the Church. Both need the illusion that a kindly
God rewards - in heaven if not on earth - all those who have not risen
up against injustice, who have done their duty quietly and
uncomplainingly. That is precisely why the honest assertion that God is
a mere product of the human imagination is branded as the worst of
all mortal sins.
----- Paul Dirac
Christian: Why don't you believe?
Atheist: Because snakes don't talk,
people don't turn to salt,
seas don't part,
the earth doesn't stop revolving,
whales don't run hotels,
virgins don't give birth,
and dead people don't come back to life.
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https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2019/06/catholic-priest-autistic-children-are-animals-caused-by-porn-masturbation-adultery/
In his sermon Father Valanmahal asked:
Why does this generation have autism and hyperactivity? That is to say, mentally retarded children are in abundance?
Father Valanmahal continued:
Adultery, masturbation, homosexuality, porn, if you are addicted to these, I say to you in the name of God. . .when you get married and have children, there is a high possibility of bearing these type of children.
They lead an animal-like life. They copulate like animals. They bear children like animals. Therefore those children also, will be like animals.
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Religious celibacy as a deviant sexual behaviour
https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/853l26/religious_celibacy_as_a_deviant_sexual_behaviour/
The celestial irrational tyrant Allah or the genocidal megalomaniac Yahweh.
Under God's Thumb: How to avoid God squashing you like a cockroach.
There is in every village a torch: the schoolmaster - and
an extinguisher: the parson
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never
incinerated by bolts of lightning.
The atheist bible
http://media.binu.com/3478699/messenger/98600197717-2354c276f1c9156f/The%20Atheist%27s%20Bible%20-%20Joan%20Konner.pdf
Is there some sort of secret contest to see who can say the craziest,
most ignorant or outrageous thing?
God having witnessed the tower of Babel had been astonished with mankind's
unity and technological strides. He thus decided to confuse and scatter the
languages and mankind respectively over the face of the earth. (Gen 11: 1-9 ).
So its therefore reasonable to blame God for all the subsequent racism,
zenophobia, tribalism e.t.c. So why would the Almighty opposer of human
cooperation & understanding allow them to be united ? How can anyone join
together what God has torn asunder ?
-no
-nix
-nope
-nay
-nah
-negatory
-no way, Jose
-negative
-out of the question
-no siree Bob!
-not on your life
-not for all the tea in China
-not in a million years
-under no circumstances
-thumbs down
-pigs might fly
-fat chance
-go fish
-hell no
-you're kidding, right?
Black Florida Lawmaker Thanks God For Slavery
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2018/03/black-florida-lawmaker-thanks-god-slavery/
Theology is the one academic discipline where people get paid not to
investigate their beliefs, but to rationalize them.
For centuries, the idiots have been sold a lie that they can't live without god
in their lives. What a bunch of hooey!
The Vatican sets up dedicated exorcism training course - because even priests
need professional development plans
Religion is a totalitarian belief. It is the wish to be a slave. It is the
desire that there be an unalterable, unchallengeable, tyrannical authority who
can convict you of thought crime while you are asleep, who can subject you
to total surveillance around the clock every waking and sleeping minute
of your life, before you're born and, even worse and where the real fun begins,
after you're dead.
Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger
and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be
killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite
sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace
in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment. (Quran 5:33).
Why muslims only pray five times a day
https://sunnah.com/bukhari/63/113
Brief look at Sharia
http://abdullahsameer.com/blog/brief-look-islam-sharia/
To answer this truthfully, one must go to the Islamic religious texts.
Sharia is derived primarily from the Quran and hadith. The Quran is the
holy book of Islam, believed to be the literal word of God. It is
believed to have passed verbally from the angel Jibril (Gabriel) to
Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, who then relayed it to his followers over
the course of two decades. It is the ultimate authority in Islam,
traditionally believed to be a guidance for all times. A hadith is a
report that describes the actions of Muhammad and his followers. They are
important in understanding the Quran as they supplement many of its verses,
and have played an essential role in the development of Islamic
jurisprudence. The hadith are second only to the Quran.
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Which god do I pray to?
The one who allowed the shooting to happen? Or the one who did nothing to stop it?
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ABC's of Losing my Religion (self.atheism)
submitted 1 day ago by delaneydarco
DJ, give me a beat... A is for Allegiance. To God and to his word.
B is for Benevolent. Prayer to reassure.
C is for Content. To stay and to obey.
D is for Direction. Taught to be the only way.
E is for Every. Every fiber of my soul.
F is for Follow. Like a child, I am told.
G is for God. He is great and he is good.
H is for Hierarchical brotherhood.
I is for Inquire. A quest with faith put first.
J is for Jigsaw. Answers fit as though rehearsed.
K is for Kolob. Mother stays a reverie.
L is for Legalistic like the Pharisees.
M is for Miffed. I am troubled by the truth.
N is for Neglected by a God who gives no proof.
O is for Obfuscate. Deception from the top.
P is for Ponder. Was this all for naught?
Q is for Quagmire. Want to stay but want to run.
R is for Rage. Look what the church has done!
S is for Salvage any loved ones who will heed.
T is for Try in vain to make them see.
U is for Useless. They'll believe in what they do.
V is for Vindicate your worth by being YOU.
W is for Warrior. For those who need a voice.
X is for eXistence. I will thrive by my own choice!
Y is for Yearning to educate the mind.
Z is for Zeal and respect for all mankind.
I am a force for good. I am Delaney Darco
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People get my respect by default until they prove otherwise.
Ideas deserve no respect until they demonstrate they are worthy of respect.
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Russell's Teapot:
"If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot
revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to
disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too
small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to
go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is
intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should
rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of
such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth
every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school,
hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity
and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an
enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.
-Bertrand Russell
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But "the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah" [Jonah 1:17]:
so it was a fish, not a mammal, especially prepared for Jonah so of no
known species. A magical fish with a stomach full of oxygen
and - who knows? - fresh water and a buffet banquet as well.
http://pickyourgod.com/
Death is not the end of our life. It is merely the end of our jail sentence.
When you break the rules in Heaven you have to serve time on Earth.
If you don't change your ways on Earth you have to serve time in Hell.
Teaching children the earth is only 6,000-years-old, that human beings and
dinosaurs lived on the earth at the same time as humans, and that the stories
of Noah's Ark, Soddom and Gomorrah and the Tower of Babel are true, constitutes
intellectual child abuse.
There is no such thing as harmless disinformation; trusting in falsehood
can have dire consequences.
Pope Francis 20180124
Misinformation poses a dire threat to our society and our species.
Religion is the greatest dealer of misinformation
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2018/01/24/man-who-believes-in-talking-snake-decries-fake-news/
Spreading fake news can serve to advance specific goals, influence
political decisions and serve economic interests. Disinformation
thus thrives on the absence of healthy confrontation with other
sources of information that could effectively challenge prejudices
and generate constructive dialogue; instead, it risks turning people
into unwilling accomplices in spreading biased and baseless ideas
When inventing a god, the most important thing is to claim
it is invisible, inaudible and inperceptible in every way.
Otherwise, people will become skeptical when it appears
to no one, is silent and does nothing.
http://news.trust.org/item/20180103115805-egc1s
Israel offers to pay African migrants to leave, threatens jail
(Jews hate niggers)
Islam is fundamentally violent. It's core beliefs are violent.
There is a plethora of Islamic verses which directly promote violence.
The Bible: A blank canvas filled with the white-noise of inane gibberish,
onto which you can project any meaning that makes you feel good.
laicization or laicisation (or laycization)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_of_Clerical_State_(Catholic_Church)
You can fool some of the people some of the the time, or
all the people some of the time, but you can't fool
all the people all the time.
An eternal anything is far, far more frightening to me than ceasing to
exist. The entire concept of an afterlife is simply nonsense.
If god made man from dirt, why is there still dirt?
If Christians came from Jews, why are there still Jews?
Does this god have a tangible effect on the world?
If not, there is no difference between them and a god that doesn't exist,
so for all we care then the god might as well not exist.
If they do, then there should be evidence as a result of the tangible effects,
what is it? Is it of sufficient weight to prove an extraordinary claim?
If the evidence is not available or not of sufficient weight, we are justified
in not accepting it as sufficient to demonstrate the validity of the god claim.
The bible is not of sufficient weight as evidence, personal testimony is
not of sufficient weight as evidence.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
So far as I can tell the only difference between moderate and fundamental
believers is how large and how direct the body of scientific evidence they
have to ignore is.
Science is not religion. Science is not a deity. Science does not command,
require, or even suggest blind loyalty or blind belief. Of course science
is fallible. If it were not fallible, it would be worthless: scientific
theories are intended to be tested and those that fail often tell us as much
as those which are confirmed. Moreover, they're intended to be tested again
and again and again, with each test seeking to see if the prior tests can
be reproduced and adding to the testing protocols what we've learned from
both the prior tests and advancements in science in general. "[W]hat we
knew 150 years ago has drastically changed up until today" because the
fallibility of science has brought about that change. And scientific
progress has constantly been positive when viewed as a whole: There have
been few or no cases in which after decades of study and experimentation
we've slapped our collective foreheads and said "By God, that theory
that we proved wrong through the scientific method decades ago was
actually correct. The newest experiments show that germs don't cause
disease, miasma (bad air) does after all!" The fallibility of science
is a feature, not a bug. To compare deism and science as if
they're two different sides of a coin is a false comparison.
Even though I'm an Atheist I'm always in the majority on this planet.
66.49% don't believe Jesus is the son of God.
77.68% don't believe in Allah.
83.94% don't believe in the Hindu Gods.
99.80% don't believe in the Jewish Messiah. I'm part of all these numbers.
Pedophelia is biblical
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/10/politics/roy-moore-joseph-and-mary/index.html
If an adult has an imaginary friend, it's psychosis.
If a million adults have an imaginary friend, it's tax-exempt.
Biblical Contradictions
https://infidels.org/library/modern/donald_morgan/contradictions.html
Is there actually any evidence Jesus existed?
The short answer is "no".
The apologist's answer is "Who needs evidence when you've got an
overwhelming consensus of people who don't care about evidence!"
She was God's specially appointed representative on the earth and
sole authorized and infallible expounder of his Bible.
Given that extramarital sex was sometimes punishable by death,
"uuhhhh, it's God's kid!" sounds like a last ditch effort to avoid some
unfortunate business.
I'm keeping this baby! If it means I have to tell people i fucked God himself,
so help me
Jesus: My mother was a virgin when she gave birth to me.
Man: Yeah, that's why three random dudes showed up at your birth with gifts.
An anti-Semitic nobleman once allegedly told Moses Montefiore that he had
recently visited Japan, where "they have neither pigs nor Jews." In response,
Montefiore said that they should both go there so that it will have one of each.
He'll take the goat herders guide to the universe over peer-reviewed
scientific studies, any day.
The president of the United States has claimed,
on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God
If he said that he was talking to God through his
hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency.
I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the
claim more ridiculous or offensive.
- Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or
kill any creature or living being. Christians have abused, oppressed,
enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of
God for centuries, on the basis of a theologically defensible reading of
the Bible.
Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and
scriptural ignorance.
While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of
madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in God still
holds immense prestige in our society. Religion is the one area of our
discourse where it is considered noble to pretend to be certain about things
no human being could possibly be certain about. It is telling that this aura
of nobility extends only to those faiths that still have many subscribers.
Anyone caught worshipping Poseidon, even at sea, will be thought insane.
Lying is, almost by definition, a refusal to cooperate with others.
It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single act.
It is both a failure of understanding and an unwillingness to be understood.
To lie is to recoil from relationship.
Deuteronomy 22:5
A woman must not wear men's clothing, nor a man wear women's clothing,
for the Lord your God detests anyone who does this.
Complex life forms do not simply spring into existence by chance..
Why would God create 1500 different types of beetles on this tiny island?
E I E I O,
B I N G O,
SPI RI TU SANC TO,
And Jesus was his name-o!
With a save save here and a save save there,
Here a save there a save everywhere a save save...
Prosperity theology
Prosperity theology (sometimes referred to as the prosperity gospel,
the health and wealth gospel, or the gospel of success) is a religious
belief among some Christians, who hold that financial blessing and
physical well-being are always the will of God for them, and that faith,
positive speech, and donations to religious causes will increase one's
material wealth. Prosperity theology views the Bible as a contract between
God and humans: if humans have faith in God, he will deliver security and
prosperity.
The doctrine emphasizes the importance of personal empowerment, proposing
that it is God's will for his people to be happy. The atonement
(reconciliation with God) is interpreted to include the alleviation of
sickness and poverty, which are viewed as curses to be broken by faith.
If you want to see religion end as I do then trying to formulate the
best argument against it won't work. What you need to do is take away the
fear and insecurity that feeds it. Support policies that do the most to
end poverty and inequality and you'll see religion wither from
disinterest. To date that seems to be the most effective way of combating it.
Synonyms of disbelief:
incredulity, incredulousness, lack of belief, lack of credence,
lack of conviction, scepticism, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety,
dubiousness, questioning, cynicism, suspicion, distrust, mistrust,
wariness, chariness
In the midst of all this Nazi hating, I think it is worth noting that
over one half of America believe Jews deserve to burn in hell forever
as a central tenet of their faith and hardly anyone bats an eye about it.
The jews and muslims holy books wants atheists like me and many others dead.
In the past 15 years, how many Framingham residents have been killed by
white supremacists (0), white nationalists (0), Nazis (0) and how many
have been killed by the Framingham police (2).
I consider the Bible (OT/NT) and Quran to be the creators of hate by
artificially dividing us in groups by which imaginary god we believe in.
There's a huge difference between believing something awful will happen to
them after they die and doing awful things to them in life.
Atheism isn't the belief that there is no god.
It's the lack of belief that there is a god.
http://www.historynet.com/muhammad-the-warrior-prophet.htm
https://quranalonebesthadith.wordpress.com/2016/10/14/skins-ears-eyes-tongues-hands-and-feet-will-bear-witness-on-the-day-of-judgment/
41:19 And the Day when the enemies of God will be gathered to the Fire,
forcibly.
41:20 When they come to it, their own hearing, eyes, and skins will
bear witness to everything they had done.
41:21 And they will say to their skins: "Why did you bear witness against
us?" They will say: "God made us speak; He is the One who causes
everything to speak. He is the One who has created you the first time,
and to Him you return."
41:22 And there was no way you could hide from the testimony of your own
hearing, or your eyes, or your skins. In fact, you thought that God was
unaware of much of what you do.
24:24 On the Day when their tongues, and their hands, and their feet will
bear witness against them for what they used to do.
36:65 Today, We shall cease their mouths, and their hands will speak to Us,
and their feet will bear witness to everything they had done.
4:56 Those who have rejected Our revelations, We will admit them to a Fire.
Every time their skins are cooked, We replace them with other skins that
they may taste the retribution. God is Noble, Wise.
No rational thinking person actually thinks there are gods. Just ask one
of these 'believers' what they think of Thor - who gave us the name
for Thursday. Well that is how we think of their god. Bring the evidence
and we we don't need to believe, their gods wil be facts. We've been
waiting for thousands of years for the tiniest shred of evidence,
yet the freaks in frocks continue to spout their rubbish.
Atheism, it is just a natural progression from monotheism as monotheism
is a progression from polytheism.
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to
suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
I always thought it was just one of the Popes that misunderstood god.
God actually said priests are to be celebratory. The Pope had a hearing
impairment or just didn't know what god meant so here we are. It is sort
of like how Moses messed up some of the ten commandments. It was supposed
to be Thou shalt not admit adultery. The batteries in Moses' hearing aid
were out.
If a religious text that calls for the death of atheists, apostates
and blasphemers isn't hate speech, then neither is condemning it and
calling it evil.
Judaism, Christianity and Islam seem to be the only institutions
where slavery is held up as an honorable enterprise, where women
are a form of property, and where rebellious children, adulterers,
and homosexuals are considered so evil that they deserve to be stoned
to death. This philosophy comes from a burning bush that talked.
God is indistinguishable from nonexistent.
Islam includes death penalties for apostates, homosexuals, adulterers
and even Jews, oppression of women, and mandated expansionism. It forbids
alcohol, pork etc., and mandates prayers five times a day including dawn
The difficulty of addressing institutional misogyny in Islam without being swept
up in xenophobic, reactionary politics from the far-right.
Deuteronomy 20:17
You shall not leave alive anything that breathes.
But you shall utterly destroy them
Some people accuse the religious of believing everything in the Bible is
literal. Well, they don't believe everything in the Bible is literal!
For example, when the bible calls for them to share their wealth and to
sell everything and give to the poor (Matthew 19:21). That is obviously not
to be taken as literal. But when a snake or burning bush talks, that's the
biblical truth. Amen.
O you who believe! Intoxicants, gambling, idolatory and the divining
of arrows are an abomination of Satan's handiwork. So avoid
(strictly all) that (abomination) in order that you may be successful.
Satan seeks only to cast amongst you enmity and hatred by means of
strong drink and gambling, and hinder you from the remembrance of God
and from his worship. Will you then not abstain? Quran 5:90-91
http://www.116pages.com/2016/10/the-family-of-president-john-taylor.html
The Family of President John Taylor in 1886
The Puritans came to America because they wanted to get away from freedom
of religion, to create an oppressive theocracy for themselves.
God shows his love through making children suffer?
There was a post announcing that a 9 year old girl with an inoperable
brain tumor died. Multiple people commented similar things but the one
comment that pissed me off the most was "you know it's a saying that god
must really love you if he calls you home so early." God must really be so
full of love to have made her and her family suffer for over a year and die
in one of the worst ways possible. That type of cancer affects the brain
stem and causes you to lose all motor functions until you cannot breathe
in your own and die. It has a 0% survival rate. This logic always blows
my mind.
General Presidency of the Religious Affairs and Welfare of the Ummah
Religion is the art of inspiring mankind with an enthusiam which is designed
to divert their attention from the evils with which they are overwhelmed
by those who govern them. - Christianity Unveiled, 16.5
Dear All Mighty Spaghetti Monster In The Sky, please reach out with your noodly
appendage and cover this patient with your holy tomato sauce so that they
will be able to forever worship your Noodleness. Ramen.
When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when
it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it
so that its professors are obligated to call for help of the civil power,
it's a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.
Founding Father Benjamin Franklin, letter to Richard Price, October 9, 1780
Hell is the most unjust form of punishment ever contemplated.
The essence of justice is proportionate punishment. In hell you are
burned, this is a form of torture. A punishment of torture is only
proportional if the offender has committed torture. To be tortured purely
on the basis of rejecting Jesus, is disproportional because rejecting
Jesus is not equatable to committing torture. Therefore, hell cannot
be justice. If you believe in a just god, you cannot believe in hell.
While 71% of Americans believe in hell, only half of one per cent think
that they are likely to end up there.
Prayer is silly. Tens of millions of children suffer horribly every year.
They pray more sincerely than you ever will. They are experiencing more
pain than you ever will. They are more deserving of help than you ever
will be. Yet, god will assist you instead of those tens of millions
of suffering children. God will not help you anymore than he would
help those children. He does not help those children, therefore he
cannot possibly help you.
A hate group is a social group that advocates and practices hatred,
hostility, or violence towards members of a race, ethnicity, nation,
religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other
designated sector of society. According to the United States Federal Bureau
of Investigation (FBI), a hate group's primary purpose is to promote
animosity, hostility, and malice against persons belonging to a race,
religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity/national origin
which differs from that of the members of the organization.
What do two of the most popular stories in the world have in common?
Special guest narration by Creationist Cat.
https://www.youtube.com/user/creation...
Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet XI:
http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/m...
The Two Biblical Flood Stories of Noah, side by side:
http://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/cflo...
The Epic of Atrahasis:
http://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/Atra...
The Summerian Flood Epic (Ziusudra)
http://www.livius.org/fa-fn/flood/flo...
(really cool chart at the bottom of this link)
Noah cartoon footage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM7jNe...
Gilgamesh cartoon footage (which is actually another Noah cartoon) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4RDwd...
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me a couple of thousand times, shame on me.
Why aliens avoid this section of space
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/jesus-has-always-been-immortal/#gs.hzcdwIU
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https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/6hpxnl/the_dunningkruger_effect_sums_up_a_lot_of_debates/
The Dunning-Kruger effect sums up a lot of debates between scientists/psychologists/sociologists/historians,ect and religious leaders (self.atheism)
In psychology its used to describe when someone doesn't know what they
are talking about but they still claim to be an expert because they have
an illusionary superiority.So many preachers claim to know everything about
the world when they don't. "In the field of psychology, the Dunning-Kruger
effect is a cognitive bias, wherein persons of low ability suffer from
illusory superiority when they mistakenly assess their cognitive ability
as greater than it is. The cognitive bias of illusory superiority
derives from the metacognitive inability of low-ability persons to
recognize their own ineptitude. Without the self-awareness of
metacognition, low-ability people cannot objectively evaluate their
actual competence or incompetence.[1]"
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We believe God created the universe, that sin really did enter the world
through human disobedience, that Jesus died and rose from the dead, and
that there is life and judgement beyond the grave
First we should define what we mean by "god", at the bare minimum
it would be some being or higher power that's:
- Vastly more powerful than a person (to be capable of creating
universes or at the very least making it flood, etc).
Has at least some interest in what people are doing our thinking
(to rule out things like gravity or uncaring "creative forces")
- If some being existed with these properties it would be worthwhile
to pray or otherwise change our behavior to make it happy or try to
get it to improve things. The problem is that if a being like this
does exist, there's really only one thing we can definitely conclude
about it:
It is capable of deceiving everyone, completely, forever
Once we assume a god exists, then we have to admit that we can't know
anything about what it's like or what it wants. To assume we can figure
out what god wants is to assume that we're smarter/more
intuitive/trickier than god. But if we can convince or trick god into
revealing its true intentions, it can't possibly be all powerful.
So we have to accept that we can't know anything for sure about God,
and anything we think we know could be god intentional deceiving us.
This could be because god is "testing" us, it because god is actually
mean spirited, or maybe god is just a private person and doesn't
like sharing.
It would be like an ant trying to figure out the true intentions
and desires of a person, and then trying to do things to make us happy,
it's just not possible. The ants don't have the capacity to understand us,
and certainly don't have the ability to see through our attempts to
deceive them if we want.
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Observe, Question, Test, Analyze, Conclude
Think about it, and leave nothing unquestioned
The Quran is like weed. Burn it and you get stoned.
You can be a pedophile and still act In Persona Christi, but only if you have a penis.
Jesus is very confusing in how to treat your enemies
Luke 6:27 "But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do
good to those who hate you, 28 bless those who curse you, pray for those
who mistreat you. 29 If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them
the other also." Then in Luke 19: 27 "But those enemies of mine who did
not want me to be king over them - bring them here and kill them in
front of me.'"
Stupid design by the Christian God gives us:
headaches, backaches, toothaches, strains, scrapes,
breaks, cuts, scars, acne, rashes, infections,
burns, bites, lice, shingles, psoriasis, bruises,
gangrene, fungal disease, PMS, fatigue, hunger,
molds, colds, flues, pneumonia, Ebola, measles,
mumps, chickenpox, whooping cough, asthma, fevers,
yeast, appendicitis, tonsillitis, parasites,
sepsis, Lyme disease, meningitis, rabies, yellow
fever, tetanus, malaria, smallpox, food poisoning,
viruses, cancers, AIDS, gonorrhea, syphilis,
herpes, hepatitis, genetic defects, stillbirth,
autism, epilepsy, blindness, deafness, paralysis,
insomnia, hypertension, heart disease, stroke,
aneurysms, deep vein thrombosis, diabetes,
hemophilia, kidney disease, liver disease, anemia,
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,
tuberculosis, arthritis, Parkinson's disease,
osteoporosis, fibromyalgia, lupus, gout, mental
illness, Alzheimer's, senility, MS, cystic
fibrosis, ALS, accidents, fires, floods,
blizzards, tsunamis, mudslides, avalanches,
droughts, earthquakes, typhoons, tornadoes,
hurricanes, meteors, and volcanoes
Stupid design by the Christian God gives us: headaches, backaches, toothaches,
strains, scrapes, breaks, cuts, scars, acne, rashes, infections, burns, bites,
lice, shingles, psoriasis, bruises, gangrene, fungal disease, PMS, fatigue,
hunger, molds, colds, flues, pneumonia, Ebola, measles, mumps, chickenpox,
whooping cough, asthma, fevers. yeast, appendicitis, tonsillitis, parasites,
sepsis, Lyme disease, meningitis, rabies, yellow fever, tetanus, malaria,
smallpox, food poisoning, viruses, cancers, AIDS, gonorrhea, syphilis,
herpes, hepatitis, genetic defects, stillbirth, autism, epilepsy, blindness,
deafness, paralysis, insomnia, hypertension, heart disease, stroke, aneurysms,
deep vein thrombosis, diabetes, hemophilia, kidney disease, liver disease,
anemia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, tuberculosis, arthritis,
Parkinson's disease, osteoporosis, fibromyalgia, lupus, gout, mental illness,
Alzheimer's, senility, MS, cystic fibrosis, ALS, accidents, fires, floods,
blizzards, tsunamis, mudslides, avalanches, droughts, earthquakes, typhoons,
tornadoes, hurricanes, meteors, and volcanoes.
It won't matter what source you give them. They will still say that you have
misinterpreted the holy text, and/or that you can't understand it because
you are reading a flawed translation, or because you can't understand islam
because you were not born and raised in a muslim home. They will tell you
to study under an Imam for 10 or 15 years, and then you might begin to
understand the words of their prophet.
You can't play chess with pigeons.
Revelation 2:22-23
So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit
adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways.
I will strike her children dead.
The I in that piece refers to Jesus. Most people think of him as a
"peace loving hippy" I like to point out that he personally brags about killing
babies and torturing women and their lovers.
However, you may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who
live among you. You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners,
including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property,
passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat your
slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated
this way. (Leviticus 25:44-46 NLT)
One God out of many
http://www.badnewsaboutchristianity.com/db0_onegod.htm
These individuals come from a long line of idiots
and aspire to continue the legacy.
If God is omnipotent why does he care if any of us believe in him.
72 virgins
https://wikiislam.net/wiki/72_Virgins
Most comprehensive collection of apocalyptic prophecies
http://www.alma-geddon.com/
A Brief History of the Apocalypse
http://www.abhota.info/
The end of the world again
http://www.mediaanddestiny.org/end-of-the-world-again/
Does anyone know which end-time this is? Does anyone care?
shA·man (noun): a person regarded as having
access to, and influence in, the world of good and
evil spirits, especially among some peoples of
northern Asia and North America. Typically such
people enter a trance state during a ritual, and
practice divination and healing.
The profession of shaman has many advantages. It
offers high status with a safe livelihood free of
work in the dreary, sweaty sense. In most societies
it offers legal privileges and immunities not
granted to other men. But it is hard to see how a
man who has been given a mandate from on High to
spread tidings of joy to all mankind can be
seriously interested in taking up a collection
to pay his salary; it causes one to suspect that the
shaman is on the moral level of any other con man.
But it is a lovely work if you can stomach it.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
primeval religious fruitcakes
Because there are a lot of people out there who are functionally retarded.
They blundered their way through high school and now they can drive, are
able to vote, have enough social skills to be able to hold a job, but
they could not reason themselves around a corner.
When is the Bible accurate?
When it's thrown from a short distance.
After an admirable struggle against a terminal hereditary illness, it has been
revealed that God is dead. Nonsense to some, Good News to others, it is difficult
to deny the impact this will have upon us all.
Join us for a funeral service as we pay our respects, share our thoughts,
and begin, or continue, to negotiate life in his absence together.
Revelry to follow.
The most common answer by atheists is 'I don't know'. Perhaps they are wrong,
If you're an atheist, you do not believe in God or Gods, period, end of discussion.
However, that's where gnosticism comes in.
You can be a gnostic atheist, meaning you do not believe in God or Gods and see
no possibility of their existence or you can be an agnostic atheist, meaning that
you do not believe in God or Gods and you are open to the possibility of their
existence.
I've never understood people who claim to know things that cannot be known.
Like atheists. The ability to doubt is a very fine quality.
Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion
http://www.religjournal.com/pdf/ijrr12003.pdf
Religion, in any format, is an indoctrination program designed to strap you into
one way of thinking for the rest of your life starting at a very young age with
fear on either side of your belief as to prohibit your movement off of that
line of thinking.
The terminology that one "loses faith" when one becomes an atheist was invented by
theists to make it appear that, somehow, learning there is no reason to believe in
gods is a step backward. When someone learns that their faith was wrong, their faith
has been superseded. We should say, "my faith was superseded". Superseded by a
more accurate understanding of reality. Nothing has been lost. This is not not just
wordplay that is meant to favor the atheist position. It is just accurately describes
the process.
Mother Teresa, who actually told a woman to accept her pain as it was the
'kisses of Jesus,' to which the woman said "tell Jesus to stop."
Christianity's principal symbol is an instrument of gruesome human torture, and
it glorifies the pain, suffering, and death of its revered founder, while
practicing the pagan-infused ritual of eating his flesh and drinking his blood.
Imagine a carpenter nailed to two pieces of wood.
Looking forward to the rapture and destruction of humanity = death cult.
In 1948, the
swine jews
decided to occupy Palestine based on a fairy tale,
their stupid Torah. Make no mistake, these
jews
are European occupiers of Palestine. They have no rights to be there
32,000 virgins
This is one of the passages of the bible that should make all christians
re-evaluate their faith... 32,000 sex slaves?!?
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers+31
Yom Kippur
https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/56zp79/so_its_yom_kipur_in_israel_the_only_day_in_a_year/?st=iucvkdab&sh=077034e4
The Evil God challenge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmCywFAKir8
Sharia For Dummies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_2PMeRdIyo
What jews really think about others (eye opening)
http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/faxes/mmOnNachriim.pdf
Mo and Jesus
http://www.jesusandmo.net/comic/speak2/
McCollum and the Board of Education
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeSHLnrgaqY&feature=share
Let God" on it with the "d" crossed out, leaving the words "Let Go" visible
Some people say seeing is believing. We say feeling is believing,
sums up religion quite well.
Islam and the end of Europe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehK592m-1k
When is the end of the world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpw6VZyM4Dk
Chomsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGbSLFiBSx8
Richard Feyman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcuI8vuPYzc
Buy or get book: Misquoting Jesus, The Greater Questions of Mary part
https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/58ukqx/best_book_to_get_that_speaks_of_historical/?st=iuna36b9&sh=e254278e
There isn't any god..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YVeS5Il6O4&feature=youtu.be
Religion: the ultimate pyramid scheme where they promise you enlightenment,
release, forgiveness or heaven in return for acceptance of the rhetoric
and as much money as you'll give
Can we have pets in Heaven or Hell
Global warming is cauised by the rapid expansion of Hell
https://physicsofcreation.wordpress.com/2016/08/09/ocean-warming-data-confirms-hell-is-expanding/
"It's better to be wrong together than right alone."
I believe this is the most dangerous mindset I encountered while
exploring religion.
Heaven's Gate and Hell's Flames
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlmw277OCxQ&feature=youtu.be
Scripture cake, tastes like shit
https://i.reddituploads.com/8c173231c72343cca331b3e61b2f6a88?fit=max&h=1536&w=1536&s=49e41bb7443b9b8345b4133ee6a14ef6
Matthew 6:1-34
Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to
be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who
is in heaven.
"Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as
the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may
be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.
But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your
right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father
who sees in secret will reward you.
"And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love
to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they
may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.
Matthew 5:33 Do not take oaths
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205:33-37&version=KJV
Jesus said not to swear oaths so doing so on the bible would be
potentially blasphemous.
If you talk to God, it is called prayer.
If God replies, it is called schizophrenia.
God wants your pussy extra tight.
http://reductress.com/post/im-waiting-till-marriage-because-god-wants-my-pussy-extra-tight/
Every religion has for its foundation a miracle - that is to say, a
violation of nature - that is to say, a falsehood.
The similarity of drug and religion and the hypocrisy that come with
it.
The most obvious thing is that they both show you some super
unrealistic things that a normal indoctrinated or sober would find
completely ridiculous. They both give you that euphoric happy
feelings to forget about whatever shitty reality you're in. At least
most drug users don't use drug all day every day until they are dead,
thus they can tell what is real and what is not when they are sober.
You can also make the argument that they are both personal liberties
that only affect the subscribers until they brake the laws because of
it. When it is religion the violator is often condoned, justified,
seen as righteous and martyrs, when it is drug the users is sent
straight to jail for using, selling or even possessing without
committing any crime. The religious equivalent of this would be
criminalization of believing, proselytizing, or owning religious
material respectively. You can also say that drugs are a waste of
time and the society is better off if drug user doing something
productive. Same can be said about religion, but when it come to
religion people get all touchy and sensitive about their feelings
it's just silly. Finally they all take a toll on you as an individual
whether your health or inhibit your abilities to think critically and
reasonably. But when come to public policies and social standings the
most religious are the shining example for everyone to learn while
drug user are the parasites and scums of society. There is the war on
drug, and then there is tax exemptions for religious institution.
Politician like to talk about their religious convictions and how
they will legislate base on their religious belief and no one bat an
eye while this is the equivalent of saying they will make law while
high on drug. Not to mention faith healing which is basically fraud
that can't be prosecuted because they "sincerely believe".
I have long considered any extreme form of religiosity to be equivalent
to a drug addiction in that both are obsessions which consume people's
lives, sometimes literally (a number of cults such as the People's Temple,
Heaven's Gate, the Solar Temple, have resulted in the mass suicide of
their members, just as drug addicts often die because of a drug overdose).
It is also true that both drug addiction and religion do not necessarily
consume people's lives. Many people smoke cigarettes for years or decades
and still live normal lives, and many people go to church on Sunday and
still live normal lives. Even then, the cigarettes smokers will be less
healthy as a result of their smoking, and the church attendees will
probably be less rational.
If there was a "War on Religion" with the same dumbass decisions that are
taken on the War on Drugs, or if there were tax exemptions for drugs, a
lot of people would be understandably and justifiably outraged.
Good news!
God saved you from God by sending God to get killed in order for God
to forgive you so God doesn't have to torture you for all fucking eternity.
God will still do that though, unless you believe in God without a shred
of evidence and adhere to God's arbitrary rules like not touching yourself
in the shower and not being gay
None of the thousands of religions agree with each other. Therefore, not every
religion can be correct. However, every religion can be wrong.
Any violence which does not spring from a spiritual base, will be wavering and
uncertain. It lacks the stability which can only rest in a fanatical outlook.
[Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf, p. 17]
I take comfort in that when I die, I'll go back to the existence before
I was born. The thought of time before my birth doesn't scare me and neither
should the time after my death.
A Masturbator As Of Today Is Going To Hell As Of Today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWzXlj09Axs&ab_channel=ChrisLaSala
https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/52luro/god_created_evil/
"I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things." - Isaiah 45:7
If you believe the biblical creation story - that god created everything - it
logically follows that he also created evil.
What's worse, if you believe in an omniscient god, you believe that he knew
from the very beginning that all of us heathens and even the other
non-Christians will end up burning in hell. He then chose to go ahead anyway.
How to Rationalize Man's Inhumanity Against Man:
A Profiteers Guide to the Afterlife.
The randomness of the universe is the antithesis of a governed universe.
Do you need to learn Arabic to "correctly" read the Qu'ran?
Even people that speak Arabic are going to have issues as well. Language,
dialect evolve over time. The Arabic language isn't the same like it was
in 700 AD just like the English language has evolved.
The Qur'an has undergone the same level of corruption as any holy book as
the language it was written in has undergone many changes bringing in
multiple loopholes. Of 1.6 billion Muslims, only about 25% of them speak
Arabic. Muslims would be shooting themselves in the foot to keep repeating
the claim that you have to understand Arabic in order to properly understand
the Koran. Let alone the obscure, ancient, classical Arabic that the Koran
is written in.
Josephuis and The Jesus Forgeries
https://michaelsherlockauthor.wordpress.com/2014/11/26/josephus-the-jesus-forgeries/
In one of his many denunciations of priests of every religious sect,
Voltaire describes them as those who "rise from an incestuous bed,
manufacture a hundred versions of God, then eat and drink God, then
piss and shit God.
Priests mostly rise from an incestuous bed, manufacture
a hundred versions of God, then eat and drink their God,
then shit and piss their God.
Fairy tales say a frog became a prince. Scientists call it evolution.
Atheists don't have a book saying it's OK to rape children, own slaves
or abuse women
Religion is something that should be like sex, practiced in private,
behind closed doors, between consenting adults.
I accept other people's religions or philosophies;
just don't push them on me. Sadly, religion is pushed on me every day.
I believe religion is a cancer. There: I've said it.
I've read the Koran and the Bible, and both of
them are violent homophobic and sexist texts.
However, I believe this trio of cults - Christianity, Islam and Judaism
were created by men to justify the subjugation and rape of women and children.
There: I've said that, too. These cults are responsible for the KKK,
the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 9/11, the Nazi Holocaust, homophobia,
transphobia ... on and on and on. How many Roman Catholic child-raping
priests have to be arrested before the Vatican is shut down? How many girls
have to be kidnapped and raped by Boko Haram Islamists? How many boys
have to suffer male genital mutilation? How many women have to shave their
heads and wear sheitels? How many women will be denied education and forced
to live under burqas, never to feel the sun on their faces? I'm sick of
hearing the PC apologists say, "Oh, but that's just the fanatics." No, it's
not. Homophobia and sexism are enshrined in their religious texts.
Can something that knows all and what is going to happen is it really
free will if he knows that it is going to happen. Was that person tailored
to become what he knew was going to happen?
Why would something omnipotent and omniscient need to create anything at
all, since it would already know every possible thing that would happen
to its creation the moment it thought about creating it.
Nishmat's Women's Health and Halacha: Halachic Infertility
http://www.yoatzot.org/womens-health-and-halacha/?id=584
https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/4yw9ny/scientific_fact_and_religion/
It is scientifically impossible to prove that something doesn't exist.
To do so one would need to rule out every single way in which something
could be possible. The sheer number of experiments needed to prove that
an invisible pink unicorn doesn't exist would number somewhere near the
number of atoms in the universe; it is literally impossible to prove that
something isn't true.
Top ten atheist quotes
http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=343
When I was a kid I had an imaginary friend and I used to think that he
went everywhere with me, and that I could talk to him and that he could
hear me, and that he could grant me wishes and stuff.
And then I grew up, and I stopped going to church. (Jimmy Carr)
God is infinite: an infinite amount of nonsense
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us
with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
10 Reasons I am an atheist
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/steve-harrison/10-reasons-i-am-an-atheist/
God does not work in mysterious ways - he works in ways that are
indistinguishable from his non-existence.
I walk the long path to the unbelievers' Lake of Fire.
No need to differentiate between, or give weight to, confusing levels of
belief. Whether someone believes in God, Santa, unicorns, ghosts, goblins
or the Tooth Fairy, I apply equality to all supernatural beliefs, which
is refreshing.
Has Islam been hijacked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SID869na8yw&feature=youtu.be
Islam is a religion that believes its holy book the Quran is the
literal word of God as bequeathed man through his apostle Muhammad.
It is the immutable, unchangeable and final message with only one
interpretation. In fact, 75% of muslims in Europe think only one
interpretation of the Quran is possible. 65% think Islamic sharia law
supercedes secular law and 45% think Jews can't be trusted.
ISIS acts in comformity to the Quran. They adhere to the tenants
of Islam more so than other branches of the religion.
They are specially knowledgeable in the Quran and its teachings.
Yes, they are Islamic. Like it or not, ISIS practices the most authentic
form of Muhammad's original conquest oriented Islam currently in circulation
today. Are they hijackers of Islam? On the contrary, they own and live
the purer and undiluted for of 7th century Islam. Radical is just a term
to marginalize their real commitment to their faith, Islam.
Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that,
when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.
-- Epicurus
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are
never going to die because they are never going to be born. The
potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in
fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia.
Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists
greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people
allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In
the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness,
that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against
all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state
from which the vast majority have never stirred?
-- Richard Dawkins
Sunni: Hanafi, Hanbali, Maliki, Shafi'i
Shia: Ismali, Jafari, Zaidi
Other: Ibadi
After 35 years roboting through religious rituals and
incomprehensible prayers, honoring inexplicable holidays.
Islam is the motherlode of bad ideas.
Really, are they going to argue that god dictated its magnum opus in
such a way it would lose consistency over time, or with metaphors that
would cause confusion depending on who interpreted them? If that book is
the best a god could do, then god accounts for very human difficulties
and limitations when it comes to writing or to inspire writing.
All things big and small,
God was there and made it all.
Anyone can make it rhyme,
it doesn't mean it's worth a dime.
But seeing as we're doing that,
who made God and where's he at?
Islam has no intention to integrate.
Islam has an intention to dominate.
If it feels like a cult, smells like a cult, looks like a cult,
sounds like a cult... it's a cult.
Why do muslims cry out: There is no god but Allah! Should it not be obvious.
At home they can not even speak their conscience because their family members
love an idea more than they love something they can touch, hear and
appreciate. They love the imaginary more than their own flesh and blood
and will shame them, hide them, attempt to guilt them and destroy their
sense of self.
The grand mufti, the state's highest religious official, has a regular
television show,
The Prophet Muhammad and his companions, considered the exemplars of
Islamic conduct
God speaks (when he is silent)
God moves (when he is still)
God helps (when we help ourselves)
God is everywhere (but you won't see him anywhere)
God can do everything (but might not do anything)
God defeated sickness (Get well soon, God bless!)
God is unmistakable (but he works in mysterious ways)
Christians brag about how with Jesus they are so brave they can walk
through the valley of death and fear no evil. But atheists make their
peepees hurt.
gaystarnews.com, Grindr.com, GaySingles.com, ChristianHomos.com,
www.AmIGayLord.com, BeingGay&Christian.org, www.GayBibleBedTimeStories.com
Slaves, obey your earthly masters with deep respect and fear.
Serve them sincerely as you would serve Christ.
Ephesians 6:5
Sparky, the inter-dimensional purple unicorn
Sura 47:4
H.R.1150 - Frank R. Wolf International Religious Freedom Act
Atheist as a protected class
Jesus Loves You, But I'm His Favorite
Censorship for criticizing any religion is not acceptable and constitutes
acceptance of that false religion.
Once I tried to run, I tried to run and hide
But Jesus came and found me and touched me down inside
He is like a mounty, he always gets his man.
And he'll zap you any way he can.
Eternal suffering awaits anyone who dares to question God's infinite love
This appears to be a monumental campaign to bulldoze the more moderate
strains of Islam, and replace them with the theo-fascist Saudi variety.
Countries with a death penalty for atheists/apostates
Afghanistan, Iran, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Nigeria, Pakistan,
Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
All aboard the Immortality Bus
Isaiah 34:2-8
Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.
I think it's a pity there isn't a hell for him to go to.
Faith is ignorance maintained through conscious effort
Asking, 'If there is no God, what is the purpose of life?' is like asking,
'If there is no master, whose slave will I be'?
Eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love.
It renders us as human beings uniquely aware of the inevitability
of our demise. The explicit awareness that we are a living breathing
piece of defacating meat destined to die, no more significant than a
lizard of potato, is not especially uplifting`
This hatred is not arbitrary. It originates from the root of the faith,
from the very foundational documents of Islam.
ISIS flag: There is no god but Allah [God]. Mohammad is the messenger of Allah.
The only reason people believe in an afterlife, is because they are too
narcissistic to imagine a world/universe/multiverse/reality going on
without them. They have an inflated idea of their own importance in which
they can never face reality. The reality that their existence is utterly
meaningless in the big picture - a random and worthless fluke happening.
Life is an infinitesimally finite duration within an infinitude of
nothingness. Grow up and stop deluding yourselves, reality is harsh,
bleak and absurd. That's the way it's always been and the way it
always will be.
Is Islam worse than Christianity?
Right now yes. It was Christianity for a while. They call each other ahead
of time and work out who's on duty to kill people the most.
Christianity evolved more when it was infiltrated by 5th columnist
atheists and subverted.
Islam is the most regressive ideology in the world.
A "perfect" god would have no excess or lack. No needs or desires.
For a god to need something would imply it already wasn't perfect.
Something with no needs or desires wouldn't be capable of goal-directed
action. If standing over there vs standing over here were beneficial,
a perfect god would already be over there and not here.
A perfect god is a metaphysically and ontologically inert thing. Useless, incapable of action.
A god is not almighty if his followers need to do the work for him.
Work smarter, not harder....create a bunch of semi-intelligent drone-slaves
to do it for you, then kick back and reap the rewards.
It is the result of faith. To stop doubt. You will notice that the core
principles of religious faith are built upon the opposite principles of
the scientific method of finding things out. The idea that you shouldn't
require evidence to justify what you believe is one of the greatest
logical failures currently facing humanity. Science is built upon doubt
instead of faith. Scientists question and probe the logic of every idea
until ideas are backed with solid evidence. In the future when religion
is dead, the word faith will have the same negative connotations as words
like slavery or communism. It will fit in with the other philosophy's
that served only to enslave and subjugate people. Religious faith servers
only the purpose of maintaining ones own ignorance. It's a system of
control through the suppression of critical thinking.
Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on
him, or that frozen yogurt can make a man invisible,
and he is likely to require as much evidence as
anyone else, and to be persuaded only to the extent
that you give it. Tell him that the book he keeps by
his bed was written by an invisible deity who will
punish him with fire for eternity if he fails to
accept its every incredible claim about the universe,
and he seems to require no evidence what so ever.
-- Sam Harris, The End of Faith
In al my observations of the cosmos and cellular replications, one does
not see any divine intervention. One does not see any force or sway of
benevolence or malevolence in the affairs of the universe, both big and small.
I do not share your death-defying religious delusions.
The fossil record that clearly depicts an ascension in complexity over time.
Any money spent on religious ritual is money that could have been better
spent solving real problems instead of propitiating imaginary deities.
Avenging anti-god hordes will soon be swarming on the landscpe
God hating atheists
Religion allows your fantasy to dictate your reality.
Should you come out to your parents as an atheist
https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/wiki/comingout
The influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those
who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far
from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.
-- Winston Churchill
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The Jews
They killed Jesus. They destroyed every ancient empire. They rob and
enslave most of the world with usury through... their Rothschild banks.
They created fake "revolutions" in France and England to allow themselves to
take over. They specialize in false flag attacks against their "allies."
They poison wells. They commit blood sacrifice. They hijack every government
they can. They create all the wars, including WW I and WW II. They created
"Bolshevism" and wiped out over 100 million people with that. They created
the holohoax to cover up for that. When they speak, they lie. They believe
they are "chosen" to be high above the rest of humanity, and their religion
is simply bursting with hatred, malice, and contempt toward gentiles. They
killed Joe Kennedy Jr, JFK, RFK, and JFK Jr. They attacked the USS Liberty,
killing 34 and injuring 174. They dressed as Arabs and blew up the Kind
David Hotel, killing 91 and injuring many more. They control the media, which
brainwashes the masses with lies and provides cover for the tribe. They
control academia and use it to inflict "Cultural Marxism" upon humanity. They
control the porn industry. They own all 10 Hollywood motion picture
studios. They own the NBA, MLB, and NHL. They commit espionage against the world.
They are behind "radical Islam" and "Christian Zionism." They want to
destroy Iran based on repetition of the lie that Iran wants nukes. They control
ISIS and al Nusra in Syria. They control the evil regime in Kiev. They are
behind dozens of CIA-created government putsches in Central and South
America. They built themselves a illegitimate sovereign crime base called
"Israel" on stolen Arab lands. They created a false "legal system" which only
protects their Judaic false paradigm. The UN is a big part of it. They are
behind open borders. They are behind abortion. They are behind the psychiatric
industry. They are behind pederasty. They are behind diamond smuggling,
organ trafficking, the drug trade, and sex-slavery. They believe we are
animals that were only created to serve them so they never have to work. They
were behind the Oklahoma City bombing. They were behind the 1993 WTC bombing.
They were behind 9/11. They blew up the AMIA in Argentina. They are behind
the LGBT agenda. They are behind censorship. They provoke Russia. Their
religion commands them to murder as many gentiles as possible. Their religion
commands them to steal from us until we have nothing and they have
everything. They think the entire world is their personal property, including all
the non-jews in it."
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When religions advocate for better pay for the poor, they're advocating
to give themselves a raise! They are NOT altruistic since an increase in
pay to the poor turns into an increase in tithing to them. But, get to
tout how wonderful they are and nobody calls them out on their self
serving efforts.
God is in his garage with his incorporeal invisible heatless fire breathing
dragon.
Either god can do nothing to stop catastrophes, doesn't care to,
or he doesn't exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary.
Take your pick, and choose wisely.
Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day...
Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.
The bible is always right.
Genesis 1:1, Psalms 14:1, Psalms 19:1, Romans 1:19-20
Leviticus 19:33-34
When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them.
The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born.
Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
I am the Lord your God."
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the-christian-world-in-a-nutshell.jpg
The Christian world is also one that was created
in 6 days with Earth at its center, a world where
Neanderthals, Homo erectus, and Homo habilis have
no place in history, where dead people rose out
of their graves, walked about the city and
conversed with the living, a place where demons
could enter pigs and cause them to run off a cliff
and drown themselves, where two bears can maul and
kill 42 children, a place where a woman can conceive
and deliver while remaining a virgin, where the act
of sending dead people to a place of eternal torture
can be seen as a just punishment for living an
ordinary human life, a place where angels interact
with the local citizenry and make important
proclamations, where slavery is held up as an
honorable 'enterprise', where women are a form of
property, and where rebellious children, adulterers,
and homosexuals are considered so evil that they
deserve to be stoned to death.
And finally it is a world where God feels that he
must kill his own son because he can find no other
way to forgive people of their sins.
Yes, this seems like a very strange world to anyone
alive today. It should take only a few moments of
reflection to understand, to grasp, to figure this
whole thing out, that the god of Christianity is to
adults as Santa Claus is to children- an imaginary
friend.
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I wait here patiently for someone, anyone, to bring forward ANY evidence
for the existence of a god. any god. I will settle for a talking serpent
that can homeschool some bright kids. Until then, I feel the same way about
your god as I do about an invisible pink unicorn that farts rainbows and
defacates sherbet.
Jesus said to them, "Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of
the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats
my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at
the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink!"
- John 6:53-55
Bill Nye: Noah's Ark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4OhXQTMOEc&feature=youtu.be
When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born
to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And
they took as their wives any they chose. Then the Lord said, "My Spirit shall
not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years."
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the
sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them.
These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown." Genesis 6:1-4
Religion is the spoonful of sugar that makes the medicine of mortality go down.
Atheists take their mortality straight...but with a chaser of self-congratulation
The problem with evil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AzNEG1GB-k
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days - and also afterward - when
the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them.
They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
The Nephilim were on the earth both in those days and afterward, when the
sons of God came to the daughters of mankind, who bore children to them.
They were the powerful men of old, the famous men.
Genesis 6:4
http://bible.com/111/gen.6.4.niv
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God is on my side.
My religion is the only true and correct religion.
Nonbelievers, or infidels are evil.
We are the chosen people.
Jesus, Mohammad and other Prophets were a special kind
of human that you never be.
Sacrifice the now for a better future.
Obey us or go to hell
The Indulgence System (Paying for the right to do evil).
Christ died to pay for our sins.
Holy Wars
Islamic peace is not just the absence of violence but the presence of justice,
or so we are told.
The Kaaba from ther air
http://www.forumusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/aa_picture_20150926_6382041_high.jpg
http://media2.policymic.com/f61f1e807c21c39867b544eb55afe83e.jpg
Divine impeccability
In the Christian tradition it has generally been claimed that God, being
perfectly good has the attribute not only of impeccantia
(freedom from sin) but also of impeccabilitas (inability to sin).
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever [ Hebrews 13:8 ]
Many right-wing religious have deep and profound problems with sex.
They want to regulate when you can have it, how you can have it and who
you can have it with. Erotophobia is a recognized fear of sex by
the American Psychological Association
Recovering from religion
http://www.recoveringfromreligion.org/#home
The people god kills
http://www.vocativ.com/309748/all-the-people-god-kills-in-the-bible/
http://web.archive.org/web/20141019033209/https://www.eccu.org/resources/advisorypanel/2013/surveyreports20
http://web.archive.org/web/20141125012340im_/https://www.eccu.org/assets/general/Dec_2012_Table01.jpg
Let me in to save you
Save me from what?
From what I'm going to do to you if you don't let me in
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Measure what is measurable,
and make measurable what is not so.
-- Galileo
This simple line may be among his most ingenious
contributions to modern science. All science is,
is a method of rational inquiry designed to yield
a quantifiable result.
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isjesusbackyet.com
Organised religion tends to be a cesspool of depravity and wickedness.
I was born atheist (as was everyone) and have never heard a compelling
reason to change.
Religious lobbying expands
http://www.pewforum.org/2011/11/21/lobbying-for-the-faithful-exec/
Church Shootings Happen Often Enough That There's a National Church Shooting Database
https://psmag.com/church-shootings-happen-often-enough-that-there-s-a-national-church-shooting-database-973cac1534f1#.qog73lfgu
From a Catholic perspective, defiling a consecrated communion wafer
does violence to the body of God. It would be hard to imagine a more
brutal affront to the most cherished beliefs of faithful Catholics.
How can anyone seriously deny this barrage of evidence?
Holoco$t Handbooks
https://archive.org/details/Holocaust_Handbooks
The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of
human weakness.
Same-sex marriage is not gay privilege, it's equal rights.
Privilege would be something like gay people not paying taxes.
Like churches don't.
Top 10 Reasons Jesus Christ Never Existed
http://www.listland.com/top-10-reasons-jesus-christ-never-existed/
Why I left Islam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs1WL2_w-rY
Dark Maze Forest
Raging River
Daunting Desert
Swamps Of Fear
Insurmountable Mountains
Whirlpool Of Inescapability
Unclimbable Cliffs
The ultra persuasive malicious sneaky serpent.
Why must I always go thru the Dark Maze Forest, cross the Raging River,
walk thru the Daunting Desert, wade thru the Swamps Of Fear, climb the
Insurmountable Mountains, circumvent the Whirlpool Of Inescapability and
climb the Unclimbable Cliffs before asking the ultra persuasive
malicious sneaky serpent
Lord, please break the laws of the universe for my convenience. Amen.
God works in mysterious ways, now, lets talk about your tithing habits.
God works in mysterious, yet statistically predictable ways.
It seems to me that its fundamental dishonesty and fundamental treachery
to intellectual integrity, to hold a belief because you think its useful,
but not because you think its true.
Christianity is the belief that a Jewish Zombie can make you live forever
if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you
accept thim as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul
that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking
snake to eat from a magical tree. Makes perfect sense. Let us celebrate
the wisdom of Christianity.
Around the age of 13, the boys move to "yeshivas". These schools often
have very long school days - lasting more than 14 hours. Pupils are
exclusively taught in Yiddish and only study scripture. They are not
entered for GCSEs or for other qualifications.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35928801
Passover is a celebration on genocide, the deaths of the Egyptian first-born.
If you're a church, no taxes plus free money from fools. ======================================================= Some woman eats an apple. Dude who owns the apple tree says "I blame everyone this woman ever gives birth to". Years later, he decides to forgive the woman by murdering his own son. And we celebrate the dead Jewish guy, with a Ham and 6 foot tall anthropomorphic rabbits who wear vests with bow ties that hide colored eggs. And his followers wear miniature's of his execution method around their neck Jesus - the magic man-on-a-stick who is his own father, and who arranged his own death to save us from our sins. Because as we all know, the best way to help someone in moral danger is to kill someone else. After his "death" he was back on the street inside forty hours so no great inconvenience at all really, he just had one really bad day. Jesus loves us so much that if we don't grovel and brownnose him he will torment us for all eternity. I'm glad my friends don't love me that much! Most of what we "know" about Jesus is riddled with contradiction despite shameless plagiarism and was written a lifetime after his death by cult devotees who had never met him. There is almost no objective historical evidence he ever even existed. But hey, let's all bend our lives out of shape for him. ======================================================= It's probably worth mentioning that God is not actually forgiving the descendants of Eve. He's simply accepting payment. The entire bible is based on the concept of sacrifice. The first sacrifice is Adam's. He sacrifices a rib in return for a companion. The second is that of Eve, who sacrifices immortality in return for knowledge. Note that as part of the return of her sacrifice, Eve is cursed to bleed and suffer monthly. The third is that of Cain and Abel who both sacrifice the fruits of their labor in return for favor. The fourth is that of Cain alone, who sacrifices his brother out of jealousy. Note that the sacrifice that God loved best was one of blood. But only the specific blood he's asking for. He does not approve of Cain's second sacrifice and banishes him. Then comes another big one. Abraham is commanded to sacrifice Isaac. He is about to, but is redeemed by the gift of a ram by God. He then sacrifices the ram. Commanded to kill your own son by some voice in your head, so you kill something else instead. This comes up later. Later, we have the sacrifice of power by Esau, tricked by his brother. We have the sacrifice of Jochebed, leading to Moses. There are many others. To get something you must give up something. This leads into the Hebrew tradition of sin offerings. If you've sinned or become unclean in some way you must pay for it. The Hebrew tradition then had the offering as an animal that was killed and burned as payment to a god that loved the smell of burning flesh. If you were a sinner, you couldn't enter the temple, thus being excluded from the center of your community and government. A payment in blood would cure the sin, and let you be a real person again. The death of Christ is a literal parallel to the sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham. Except in the mythopoetic sense, humanity is Isaac, god is Abraham (and also god) and Christ is the ram (or lamb) given by god in place of the son. God sacrifices his own son (for some reason) instead of demanding the death of Isaac (humanity) because of the original sin of Eve. These inconsistencies are what shows up the multi-theistic origins of Judaism, and their henothiestic tendencies that lead to the weird and confusing mess that is modern Christianity. It's all baloney, of course. But you don't get converts by pointing out the odd origins of your religion. ======================================================= In the interview he was asked what he would say if he met God, and responded: "I'll say: bone cancer in children, what's that about? "How dare you. How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that's not our fault? It's not right. It's utterly, utterly evil. "Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid God who creates a world which is so full of injustice and pain?" --- Stephen Fry ========================================================== Islam Statistics http://www.atheoryofus.net/islam-statistics/ Seduced, shaggy Samson snored. She scissored short. Sorely shorn, Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed, Silently scheming, Sightlessly seeking Some savage, spectacular suicide." -- Michael Kandel (after Stanislaw Lem) =========================================================================== The problem is that moderates of all faiths are committed to reinterpreting or ignoring outright the most dangerous and absurd parts of their scripture, and this commitment is precisely what makes them moderates. But it also requires some degree of intellectual dishonesty because moderates can't acknowledge that their moderation comes from outside the faith. The doors leading out of scriptural literalism simply do not open from the inside. In the 21st century, the moderate's commitment to rationality, human rights, gender equality, and every other modern value, values that are potentially universal for human beings, comes from the last 1000 years of human progress, muce of which was accomplished in spite of religion, not because of it. So when moderates claim to find their modern ethical commitments within scripture, it looks like an exercise in self-deception. The truth is that most of our modern values are antithetical to the specific teachings of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. And where we do find these values expressed in our holy books, they are almost never best expressed there. Moderates seem unwilling to grapple with the fact that all scriptures contain an extraordinary amount of stupidity and barbarism, that can always be rediscovered and made wholly anew by fundamentalists, and there's no principle of moderation internal to the faith that prevents this. These fundamentalist readings are, almost by definition, more complete and consistent, and therefore more honest. The fundamentalist picks up the book and says, "Ok, I'm just going to read every word of this and do my best to understand what god wants from me - I'll leave my personal biases completely out of it." Conversely, every moderate seems to believe that his interpretation and selective reading of scripture is more accurate than god's literal words. Sam Harris =========================================================================== Leviticus, Chapter 15 (KJV) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI-D2QlCc-A Genesis (KJV) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A30oax7tQ4 When I get to Heaven or Hell, I will request a ride on a unicorn or watch a homeschooling session with that talking serpent. If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite god, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree? Robert G. Ingersoll Romans 13:1-2 Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God. Therefore whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves. For rulers are not a cause of fear for good behavior, but for evil. Do you want to have no fear of authority? Do what is good and you will have praise from the same; for it is a minister of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil. Therefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of wrath, but also for conscience' sake. For because of this you also pay taxes, for rulers are servants of God, devoting themselves to this very thing. Render to all what is due them: tax to whom tax is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.
Person 1: If God is omnipotent, why does he allow evil to exist?
Jesus: Evil exists because we have free will?
Person 1: Is there evil in heaven?
Jesus: Of course there is no evil in heaven.
Person 1: Is there free will in heaven?
Jesus: Yes...No... Well...
Brutal life in Saudi Arabia
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3502079/Saudi-Arabia-s-kingdom-savagery-DOES-Britain-cosy-butchers.html
Reporting something to the FFRF
https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/3ilqnh/reporting_something_to_the_ffrf/
Religion should be seen as no different from any other mental illness
which causes people to believe in irrational absurdities and treated
accordingly
mental illness is a tool that has been used (both recently, and in
the far past) as a tool to regulate societies. Are you mentally ill
if you are a political dissident? Are you mentally ill if you are a
capitalist in a communist society? What if you are an atheist in a
Christian society?
Sociopathy characterizes itself as a disregard from social rules.
8.7 million species, give or take 1.3 million
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110823/full/news.2011.498.html
The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it's a belief
system or a secular ideology or holocaust, the moment you declare a set
of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision or contempt,
freedom of thought becomes impossible.
http://biblehub.com/psalms/104-5.htm
He set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved.
He makes the winds His messengers, Flaming fire His ministers. He
established the earth upon its foundations, So that it will not totter
forever and ever. You covered it with the deep as with a garment;
The waters were standing above the mountains
Faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things unseen.
interminable supply of wine and virgins
One would think that if you eat with a fork and knife, one would be
sufficiently civilized and intelligent to not believe in imaginary creatures
like Gods.
When you are dead, you don't know that you are dead.
It is difficult only for the others.
It is the same when you are stupid.
People seem to think the Bible says, "Money is the root of all evil."
It actually says, "The love of money is the root of all evil."
This is why churches are always asking for a bit more (not less).
Abstinence Makes the Church Grow Fondlers
Religion serves men as blinders serve horses.
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the
entrails of the last priest.
the customer is always an asshole!
Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those
precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf
of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. Hell would be to have
to spend eternity in a Heaven with those who are sure they are going there.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the
illusion of knowledge.
Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence
is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.
Predatory perverted pedophile priests prey on prepubescent pupils.
Stupidity may turn an atheist to religion but it will never bring a
religious man to atheism.
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for
every noble enterprise
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Christians worship a dead Jew on a stick.
Those who can, do; Those who can't, pray; and those who won't; preach.
Faith is ignorance maintained through conscious effort.
Asking, 'If there is no God, what is the purpose of life?' is like asking,
'If there is no master, whose slave will I be'`?
I'm sorry I touched on the sensitivities of your very judgmental
imaginary friend
As long as we collect some dead bodies (that apparently want to be
collected) in large land areas we call cemeteries, and we play golf,
we should consider alternative uses for cemeteries and golf courses.
I generally find dead people to be much more pleasant than most living
people so I enjoy my walks in cemeteries. I would be happier when
most living people are living underground in cemeteries.
The best places to build low cost housing for the homeless are golf courses
Plenty of good land in nice neighborhoods, land that is currently being
wasted on a meaningless mindless activity engaged in primarily by white
well-to-do businessmen who use the game to get together to make deals
to carve this country up a little finer amongst themselves.
There are over 17,000 golf courses in the US and each takes
about 150 acres. Why do these mostly white elistist pin-headed pricks need so
much land to hit a golf ball that is less than two inches in diameter.
Cemeteries and golf courses would be heaven for the homeless and a
great place for solar panel farms.
If each community used it cemeteries and golf courses for solar panel
farms, our electrical costs would plummet, or so we like to think.
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Believe is only applicable to belief in Jesus Christ (if he existed).
Whatever is limited to anything that is possible within the laws
of nature and physics to be deemed possible to occur on its own.
Hospitals and prisons should have fewer Christians in them than they have people of any other faith. Why? Because both Jesus and James said that if the church prays for its sick, they will be healed, and the apostle Paul claimed that the indwelling Holy Spirit would not let any temptation befall you without providing "a way out so that you can endure it." If either of these things were true, there would be a statistically significant difference between the outcomes of one religion versus another. The cold, hard fact is: There isn't. =========================================================================== Lawsuit demands US remove 'In God We Trust' from money http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/01/14/lawsuit-demands-us-remove-in-god-trust-from-money.html My client is substantially burdened because he is forced to bear on his person a religious statement that causes him to sense his government, promoting and reinforcing negative and injurious attitudes not only against Atheists in general, but against him personally." Synod of bishops http://www.salon.com/2016/01/03/religious_delusions_are_destroying_us_nothing_more_than_man_made_contrivances_of_domination_and_submission/ Religion is a construct of comprehensive, evidence-free propositions about our universe and mankind, entertained with often fanatical certitude - enjoys, even in 2016, undeserved respect, tax exemptions costing government coffers $71 billion annually, and even a place of honor on our currency. In the world's first secular republic, this is an outrage. You cannot believe or not believe in evolution. You either understand it or you don't. evolution Not only does Saudi Arabia have a civil police force, it also has a religious police forced called the Mutaween, which is in charge of purifying thought and action in Saudi communities. Its full name is the "Committee for the Preservation of Virtue and for the Prevention of Vice." (POVPOV) There is no evidence ( absence ) of benevolence in either cosmology or quantum mechanics. As far as God goes, atheists are right. For them, there is no God. Believers are also right. For them, there is a God. It only makes sense to not believe in something you have never experienced. The Qua'ran refers to Allah as the god of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob. Those guys were Jews. Muslims may think the Jews and Christians are wrong for not accepting the teachings of Mohammed but they don't think their god is a different god entirely. If two men, a man and his countryman, are struggling together, and the wife of one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals, then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity. An imaginary God is like a slavemaster. Believing in God perpetuates the slavery mentality. The burden of proof https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTMDjyG5u_A Atheist Quotes http://www.askatheists.com/atheist-quotes you cannot destroy a religious ideology by bombing it
So:
Belief bias occurs when we make illogical conclusions in order to confirm our preexisting beliefs. Belief perserverance refers to our tendency to maintain a belief even after the evidence we used to form the belief is contradicted. Overall, these concepts demonstrate that humans are generally more confident in our beliefs than we should be, and we often stick with our beliefs even when presented with evidence tat disproves them. Teratomas Faith is the surrender of the mind; it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other mammals. Surrender our skepticism and our reason and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. Christopher Hitchens Use of these heuristics is typically helpful but can lead to specific problems in judgement. Overconfidence is our tendency to overestimate how accurate our judgements are. How confident we are in a judgement is not a good indicator of whether or not we are right. In studdies, most people will report extreme confidence in a judgement that turns out to ne wrong in a significant number of cases. Two concepts closely related to overconfidence are belief bias and belief perserverance. Both of these concepts concern our tendency not to change our beliefs in the face of contradictory evidence. Belief bias occurs when we make illogical conclusions in order to confirm our preexisting beliefs. Belief perserverance refers to our tendency to maintain a belief even after the evidence we used to form the belief is contradicted. Overall, these concepts demonstrate that humans are generally more confident in our beliefs than we should be, and we often stick with our beliefs even when presented with evidence tat disproves them. Teratomas mammals. Surrender our skepticism and our reason and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. Christopher Hitchens Use of these heuristics is typically helpful but can lead to specific problems in judgement. Overconfidence is our tendency to overestimate how accurate our judgements are. How confident we are in a judgement is not a good indicator of whether or not we are right. In studdies, most people will report extreme confidence in a judgement that turns out to ne wrong in a significant number of cases. Two concepts closely related to overconfidence are belief bias and belief perserverance. Both of these concepts concern our tendency not to change our beliefs in the face of contradictory evidence. Belief bias occurs when we make illogical conclusions in order to confirm our preexisting beliefs. Belief perserverance refers to our tendency to maintain a belief even after the evidence we used to form the belief is contradicted.
Overall, these concepts demonstrate that humans are generally more confident
in our beliefs than we should be, and we often stick with our beliefs even
when presented with evidence tat disproves them.
Teratomas
https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=+teratoma+&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
http://www.theingersolltimes.com
To be honest, if the Omnipotent Ruler of the Universe
can't convince His own creations that He exists,
how the hell are you going to do it?
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
You're telling these miserable, Hell-bound, bath house-wallowing,
anal-copulating fags that God loves them!? You have bats in the belfry!
There is only one way to get rid of nuclear weapons... use them.
Rush Limbaugh
The vast majority of Christians and Muslims are good
law abiding citizen who want to be left alone to
subjugate their women and children in peace.
Jews had to mark their doors with lambs blood so he knew which houses
to not kill first born children in. Wait, so he knows which kid to
kill, but not which house? Weird. What if there was a neighborhood sleep in?
Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword
of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads,
capable of being cut at any moment by accident, or
miscalculation, or by madness. The weapons of war must
be abolished before they abolish us.
The Case Against The Ressurection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjcseBJ7_Ns
primeval religious fruitcakes
Mormons believe you have sex and make "spirit babies" with which Mormon
men populate new worlds after they become exalted into gods--but only
if you were a faithful Mormon and married another Mormon. Otherwise,
you are genitalia-less for eternity.
One can see enormous piles of wood.186 In the foreground, we have a pile
some 30 meters long and on average 2.5 meters high, constituted by pine
trunks about 3 meters long and 10-15 cm in diameter. The weight of this
pile is about 120 tons, sufficient to burn about 600 corpses. The daily
requirements for the alleged Birkenau cremations - 1,570 tons - would
have been equivalent to 13 piles of wood such as the one shown in the
photograph. A growth of fir trees will produce, over a period of
50 years, about 496 tons per hectare187 or about 200 tons per acre.
Thus, the total consumption of wood up to May 31, 1944, would have been
equivalent to the deforestation of over 47 hectares (or about 120 acres
or 0.18 square miles) of fir growth, and the daily needs would have
required all the wood grown on over 3 hectares (or about 8 acres) of
forest. According to sources in India, the cremation of 21,000 Hindus
who die each year in a certain region, calls for some 8,100 tons of
wood (385 kg of wood per corpse on average), the equivalent of about
227 hectares (or a little less than 600 acres or almost a square mile)
of forest area.188 Assuming these data to be valid for our case, the
supply of 23,540 tons of wood to the camp would have resulted in the
deforestation of about 660 hectares (or roughly 1,500 acres or
2.6 sq miles) of forest! According to another source, a 20-year-old
tree furnishes four metric quintals (or 900 lbs.) of wood.189 The
23,540 tons would thus have come from 58,850 felled trees. Where did
this enormous quantity of wood come from? It is known that the series
of documents for the "Arbeitseinsatz" (labor deployment) for the men's
camp at Birkenau - partly preserved - mentions from July 29, 1944,
onwards among the personnel of the crematoria a "Kommando 61B"
constituted by 30 "Holzablader(wood unloaders) Krematorium IV."190
From August 5, 1944, onwards "Kommando 61B" operated at crematoria
II and III ("Holzablader Krem. I. u. II."), the wood was therefore
unloaded also near crematoria II and III, and not only near crematorium
V where the alleged mass cremation trenches were located. Thus, the
wood was primarily intended for the crematoria.
In your current life, you can watch paint dry or grass grow.
In the eternity of heaven or hell, watching a star from birth to death
might be prime entertainment
As a general rule, every pastor, minister, priest, iman and rabbi has
very little scientific knowledge of the current world he lives in and even
less knowlege of the next world he believes he will go to.
The wording of the story indicates it was a universal and
planetary flood. Not just a regional flood.
Why were the vast majority of animals killed in the flood?
How many floating carcasses were there?
I'm pretty sure a lot of insects could ride out the flood by
feeding on the rotting carcasses of men and animals.
The rain itself would be unsalted water to drink from.
Under the banner of Heaven
When you say: "I am a muslim", what I hear is:
"My life is guided by the ravings of a mass-murdering misogynistic pedophile
who died in the 7th century.
If you pray hard enough, you can make water run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!
Prostitures perform the same function as priests, but far more thoroughly.
One man's religion is another man's belly laugh.
Heinlein quotes on religion
http://atheism.about.com/library/quotes/bl_q_RHeinlein.htm
Psychoactive plants in the bible
http://www.philosopherspage.com/#/psychoactive-plants-in-the-bible/
He who endeavors to control the mind by force is a tyrant.
He who submits is a slave.
Nothing is so pleasing to these Gods as the butchery of
unbelievers. Nothing so enrages them even now,
as to have someone deny their existence.
Unbelief is the blackest of crimes. God hates with an
infinite and implacable hatred, every unbeliever.
The church persecutes the living heretics and her God
burns, for all etermity, the dead heretics. Every
single nerve in the human body capable of pain is
sought out and touched with fire.
When the church had power, heresy was the most terrible
and formidable of words. It meant confiscation, exile,
imprisonment, torture, and death.
The church persecutes the living heretics and her God
burns, for all eternity, the dead heretics. Every
single nerve in the human body capable of pain is
sought out and touched with fire.
The Bible teaches that the blood of the unbeliever is
a most acceptable sacrifice to heaven.
Why I am no longer a Christian: Deconversion videos
https://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A0C3C1D163BE880A&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_887785
Historicity of biblical characters
http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/2xjzty/til_theres_no_evidence_that_moses_solomon_and/
Boston Atheists
PO Box 354, BU Station
Boston, MA 02125
http://bostonatheists.org
bostonatheists@gmail.com
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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from
these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe
in blood for centuries.
Religion is simulated schizophrenia without the fun of actually hearing
the voices (for most people). Those who receive revelations heard voices..
Sentenced to eternal life without the possibility of parole.
Lent/Ash Wednesday/Mardi Gras
Mardi Gras, or "Fat Tuesday," is the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday
( Lent begins )
http://www.jesuspuzzle.humanists.net/supp16.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYXenjpefNU#t=04m
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYXenjpefNU&start=240
Look for religion. jewish
Libel; groups of persons; defenses; punishment; prosecutions
https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIV/TitleI/Chapter272/Section98C
Assault or battery for purpose of intimidation
https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIV/TitleI/Chapter265/Section39
Marriage
https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartII/TitleIII/Chapter207/Section38
https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartII/TitleIII/Chapter207/Section39
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The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion,
to be in dialogue with God.
If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would
precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of
a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive.
- Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
The president says he speaks to God everyday and Christians love him for it.
If he said he spoke to God through his hairdryer, they would think he was mad.
I fail to see how the addition of a hair dryer makes it any more absurd.
Sheperds don't look after sheep because they love them, although I do
think some sheperds like their sheep way too much. Sheperds look after their
sheep so they can first, fleece them and second, turn them into meat.
That's more the priesthood as I know it.
An early objection I had with Christianity at school was being told I
was part of a flock. Shepherds don’t just look after sheep because they like
them. They either want to fleece them, fuck them or eat them.
-- Christopher Hitchens
It would be amost unbelievable, if history did not record the tragic fact
that men have gone to war and cut each other's throats because they could
not agree as to what was to become of them after their throats were cut.
Religion is like being blindfolded in a totally dark room,
looking for a black cat that isn't there and finding one.
The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is
an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
You are completely entitled to opinions that are not supported by evidence.
But the moment you spread that opinion as fact, you are a liar.
And if you spread it as a fact knowing it is not supported by evidence,
you are both a liar and a fraud.
Why do you have to go against religion? It gives people comfort.
It doesn't hurt anything.
Okay, well, other than most wars, the crusades, the Inquisition, 9/11, zionism
arranged marriages to minors, blowing up girls schools, acid attacks,
the oppression of women and homosexuals, fatwas, ethnic cleansing, honor rape,
human sacrifice, genital mutilation, burning witches, suicide bombings,
condoning slavery, and the systematic raping of children.
There's a few little things that I have a problem with.
The Web exposes the adherents of every and any religious tradition to
skeptical views that can potentially undermine personal certainty, rattling
an otherwise insulated, confident conviction in one's religion.
The Internet allows people who may be privately harboring doubts about
their religion to immediately connect with others who also share such doubts.
In other words, the Internet fosters and spurs secular community.
Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever
told. Think about it, religion has actually convinced
people that there's an INVISIBLE MAN...LIVING IN THE SKY
who watches every thing you do, every minute of every
day. And the invisible man has a list of ten special
things that he does not want you to do. And if you do
any of these ten things, he has a special place full of
fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish where
he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke
and scream and cry for ever and ever 'til the end of time
...but he loves you.
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Yahweh, the wrathful god
http://www.enkiptahsatya.com/41-anu-yahweh-the-true-devil.html
Deuteronomy 6:13
Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/index.html#Attacks
THIS IS ISLAM!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxdoztoBEuc
I'm as godless as a bagful of decapitated puppies.
genuflecting: to show servility
Religion, a medieval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry
becomes a real threat to our freedoms. . 'Respect for religion' has become
a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion.' Religions, like all other ideas,
deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
"This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart
of Islam and we see its tragic consequences.
Religion sucks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smp1eiGp4OQ
http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/imagine.html
The Empty Cross
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGIOU11gjFE
anthropology
archeology
astrobiology
astronomy
biochemistry
biology
cosmology
embryology
entomology
genetics
geology
microbiology
molecular anthropology,
molecular biology
paleontology
plate tectonics
Rose from the dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM78_ZEE-Os
Torturing your children
http://www.landoverbaptist.net/showthread.php?t=94599
Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod,
he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul
from hell (Proverbs 23:13-14)
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Ephesians 6:1 (KJV 1900)
Evidence for Evolution?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIEoO5KdPvg&feature=youtu.be
Perhaps, religion is an adaptation that provides an evolutionary advantage to
enhance social cohesion and cooperation
The Christ
http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/rmsbrg02.htm
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"Happy is the one who takes your babies and smashes them against the rocks!"
Psalms 137:9.
Perhaps one of our Christian readers can explain the context in which it is corr
ect to kill children for God. Because there it is in your Holy Book. Please, go
on, tell us why it's wrong sometimes and right other times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0-axySEhk4
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Did Jesus really exist
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/12/18/did-historical-jesus-exist-the-traditional-evidence-doesnt-hold-up/?tid=rssfeed
Pakistani student deaths consistent with Prophet
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/peshawar-massacre-killing-consistent-with-prophet-mohammed-tehreek-teaching-pakistan-taliban/1/407503.html
Was Adam pre-circumcised by Yahweh or did he cut off his forskin?
Of course, he head to learn how to make sharp instruments, or
perhaps Eve chewed off his forskin.
Faith: noun
The unknowable promoted to the irrefutable.
Consensus unblemished by debate.
Doubt in exile.
The child's confort.
The terrorist's trigger
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Test for a false Prophet:
Deuteronomy 18:22 when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.
False prophecy by Jesus:
Matthew 16:28 Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom."
Matthew 10:23 When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next, for truly, I say to you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.
Matthew 24:34 I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.
Mark 13:30 I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.
Luke 21:32 I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.
He's telling people 2000 years ago that he's gong to return within a short time, within their lifetimes.
Apologists do have mental gymnastics to answer this, but their nonsensical convoluted reasoning is apparent to any skeptical person who hears it.
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Revelation 2 Verse 9
I know your afflictions and your poverty--yet you are rich! I know about
the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a
synagogue of Satan.
The Best Holocaust Videos
Website that was removed and changed to this one
http://holocaustdenialvideos.weebly.com/
The Jews want these videos flagged
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL02A5AB5EA2E09C40
Buchenwald
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HlPcaP9x5o
One Third The Holocaust
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dxsVSzL4HE
Breakdown of 1/3 Holocaust video and other info
http://holocausthandbooks.com/index.php?page_id=1001
Auschwitz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-Kl6RHKIQk
The Greatest Story Never Told
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhGfCTA_6wA
The last Days of The Big Lie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80GgRWuXcO8
Holocaust Revisionism for beginners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWTaXa7aR_E
David Cole in Auschwitz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3TveySBlkQ
David Cole and Ernst Zundel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBpRgt8TICQ&spfreload=10
Holocaust Liars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WECI8fPXhvo
David Irving The Holocaust Lie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMYAjyW1OFU
Ernst Zundel Interview with Journalist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEqF4YQLhdw
Zundel Interview with Doug Christie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuvoqCxU1zY
Setting The Record Straight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAsIAQw0oOs
Dr. Fredrick Toben
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe6npWo7Wug
Leuchter Report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EkDmogN_48
Jim Rizolis Videos many Holocaust related
https://www.youtube.com/user/jjrizo/videos
Holocaust Books
http://vho.org/dl/ENG.html
http://ihr.org/
http://www.barnesreview.org/
Religion doesn't create morality, it subverts it.
ISIS is merely following the Quran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXBgqa-xQwY&feature=share
The "real Islam" is a vile ideology soaked with blood, war, lust and greed.
It is an all-encompassing dogma that shackles its subjects in a perpetual
state of frenzied delusion about the grandeurs of heaven that they will
get if they wage war against the infidels. Islam is war. And Muhammad
was a warrior (and a very successful one).
A Universe Not Made For Us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfm0GCvsIVA
We humans really are approaching a new stage of our existence. Wa
are progressing and religion is dying out. Knowledge is too easily
accessible and so the god of the gaps is needed by less and less people.
These cancerous cells that have spread through the nation's body which
are the garbage and refuse of the obsolete religious ideology
are the source of corruption and reason for all the failures
These are ideological microbes that are alien to this nation.
Vatican finances
http:/www.financemanila.advfn.com/2013/02/how-much-is-the-vatican-worth/
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/03/vaticans-financial-empire-in-charts.html
The hard cash is being lost in bad investments. The church has taken the
non taxed money and dumbed it into a variety of industries. With the
current condition of the economy it is no wonder why they are losing
money. Keep in mind any money they make of the investments are also not taxed.
As far as priceless paintings and other collectibles they have gathered
over the last 2000 years... Billions and billions. In no way shape or
form are they in trouble financially. Just easier to make people think
they are instead of tightening the belts and being held responsible for
their actions.
Lavish homes of US archbishops
http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2014/08/us/american-archbishops-lavish-homes/
"...and then Noah loaded the dinosaurs onto the ark." Assertions like these
seem comical until you realize that many Christian parents aren't kidding
when they teach them to their children as facts. Every day, impressionable
young minds are conditioned to blindly accept wild biblical tales of
floating zoos, talking shrubbery, 900-year-old humans, the undead, curses,
levitation, demon/human hybrids and men who obtain super-human strength
from the length of their hair. Allegiance to these teachings is expected,
often demanded. Curiosity is muted. Doubt is frowned upon as a sin. And
for those who dare to raise a dissenting hand, the threat of Hell looms
ominously.
Qur'an (4:11) "The male shall have the equal of the portion of two females"
Qur'an (2:228) "and men are a degree above them [women]
Hadith Bukhari (6:301) "[Muhammad said, 'Is not the evidence of two women
equal to the witness of one man?' They replied in the affirmative. He said,
'This the DEFICIENCY IN HER INTELLIGENCE."
That last point was just to add some more misogyny just in case anyone
was not sure how women are viewed in Islam.
How dare she (a women from a country with limits on free speech) go to
the U.S. and voice her acceptance at removing the human right from another woman?
Isaih 51:9-10, Exodus 15:11 18:11 15:3 Deutoronomy 5:7, first commandment
Psalm 137:4 Isaih 44:6, Exodus 6:2-3
Evolution videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ch1XFqmGeM&feature=youtu.be&t=3m24s
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mythomane
a person with a strong or irresistible propensity for fantasizing, lying
or exaggerating
This video has been published in compliance with section 107 of the
US Copyright Law under "Fair Usage" policy.
Why we fight:
The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude
bigger than to produce it.
We need to start treating it for what it is and that is delusional nonsense
created to make themselves feel better about themselves in some fashion
Matthews 10:5 Stay away from the Gentiles and don't go to any Samaritan town.
Red Cross records on Holocaust 271,000 died
http://truedemocracyparty.net/2012/06/red-cross-expose-jewish-holocaust-hoax/
http://just-another-inside-job.blogspot.com/2007/06/official-records-from-international-red.html?m=1
http://www.reddit.com/r/TrueAtheism/comments/2h8aq9/if_all_the_basic_doctrines_about_god_in_abrahamic/
If all the basic doctrines about God in Abrahamic religions were true, what would the universe be like?
I would expect the creator to communicate with the creation in such a way
that disbelief was an act of conscious rejection of objective facts
(as opposed to merely skepticism of unsubstantiated and unfalsifiable claims).
I would expect people who "rejected God" to suffer in obvious ways,
through pestilence, smiting, etc., rather than having peaceful and prosperous
societies.
Historicity of Jesus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus
Did Jesus exist
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/faq/religion#wiki_did_jesus_exist.3F
Strange islamic food laws
Halal Haram Food and Drinks - ISLAMIC - LAWS
http://www.islamic-laws.com/halalharamfooddrinks.htm
now therefore, listen to the words of the LORD. "Thus says the LORD of hosts,
Now go and strike Amalek and utterly destroy all that he has, and do not
spare him; but put to death both man and woman, child and infant, ox and
sheep, camel and donkey." (1 Samuel 15: 1-3)
http://ambassadorchristiancollege.us/
Anti Semitism is so instinctive that it may be called one of the primal
instincts of mankind; one of the important instincts by which a race
helps to preserve itself against total destruction. I cannot emphasize
the matter too strongly. Anti Semitism is not, as the Jews have tried to
make the world believe, an act of prejudice. It is a deeply hidden instinct,
with which every man is born... He remains unconscious of it, as of all
other instincts of self-preservation, until something happens to awaken it.
So swiftly and surely is the instinct of anti Semitism in a man...there
is not a single instance when the Jews have not fully deserved the bitter
fury of their persecutors. ("persecutors") -- "Jews Must Live" P.64 Samuel Roth
You know what they ought to do with churches? Tax them. If holy people are
so interested in politics, government, and public policy, let them pay
the price of admission like everybody else. The Catholic Church alone
could wipe out the national debt if all you did was tax their real estate.
The six million dead jews in the holocaust has been repeated so often that
it is now taken as an article of faith. Thus, the holocaust becomes
a religion.
Gas chambers need an airtight room with pumps to evacuate the gas
They also need a very high chimney to evacuate the gas into the atmosphere.
No Allied air photos ever saw shadows of such chimneys
If there is no way to evacuate the gas completely, then the gas
remains on the alleged bodies and could kill those who allegedly bring
out the bodies.
They were told that was the right thing to believe and that to
be immune to reason and blind to contradictory evidence is something
to be admired. The conclusion is sacred so facts must be ignored.
Achtiname of Muhammad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achtiname_of_Muhammad
64 million jews burned
http://exposing-the-holocaust-hoax-archive.blogspot.com/2009/09/early-holohoax-tale-64-million-jewish.html?m=1
We have lied in the past, we are lying now and for the forseable future,
we will continue to lie.
All jews should be fitted for a toe-tag today.
vlc 1823-1-TBABreakfast.wmv Derrek Shulman 49:20 53:21 1:01:20
Due process
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Due_Process_Clause
The United States Constitution prohibits States and the Federal Government
from requiring any kind of religious test for public office, in the
specific case, as a notary public
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torcaso_v._Watkins
The best minds will tell you that when a man has begotten a
child he is morally bound to tenderly care for it, protect it
from hurt, shield it from disease, clothe it, feed it, bear with
its waywardness, lay no hand upon it save in kindness and for
its own good, and never in any case inflict upon it a wanton
cruelty. God's treatment of his earthly children, every day and
every night, is the exact opposite of all that, yet those best
minds warmly justify these crimes, condone them, excuse them,
and indignantly refuse to regard them as crimes at all, when he
commits them.
The difference between faith and insanity is that
faith is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible
with the evidence whereas
insanity is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible
with the evidence.
Here on Earth, we regard sex as our greatest pleasure, but the heaven
contrived by religious pinheads does not offer sex, even with young
male/female virgins or even sheep and goats.
Every man, according the the mental equipment that has fallen to his share,
exercises his intellect constantly, ceaselessly, and this exercise makes
up a vast and valued and essential part of his life. Many people
have the reasoning faculty, but no on (not a one) uses it in religious
matters.
Some men (mostly pastors) take great pride in their small intellect.
They have contrived a heaven that has no intellect in it at all.
There is nothing in heaven to exercise the intellect. It is like
having your intellect trapped in solitary confinement.
A serpent in the Garden of Eden sought out Eve privately for a
conversation. It came to her walking upright, which was the way of
serpents in those days.
Genesis 3-1
Prayer has no place in public school, just like facts have no place in
organized religion.
A free thinker is Satan's slave.
As for me, my multiple wives, children, concumbines and slaves,
we will all serve the Lord.
As of today (June 26, 2014),
If Christianity is right, 4,700.000.000 people are wrong.
If Islam is right, 5,300.000.000 people are wrong.
If Hinduism is right, 5,900,000,000 are wrong.
They can't all be right.
Isn't it far more likely that they are all wrong.
Those who wish to have public prayer in public schools do not understand
the U.S. Constitution or their own bible.
The US. Constitution separates the church and state (1st Amendment) and
the bible teaches against praying in public (Matthew 6:5).
One can only conclude that those who want public prayers cannot read.
Those who want public prayers want the rest of us to submit to their false god.
When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion, it is called religion.
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Rosh Hashanah
Menora - jewish candlestick holder
Yarmulke - jewish beanie
Any person seen wearing a Yarmulke can easily be identified as a stupid
jewish person. The muslim women are even more identifiable as stupid
with their outfits.
Marsha Ellison Marsha.ellison@umassmed.edu
"I'm Out Of My Mind, Please Leave A Message"
leading a "fanatical Internet hate group"
Freedom of religion is the freedom to be stupid and exercise stupidity.
Early Egyptian Dynasties (3100 BCE)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Dynastic_Period_of_Egypt
King James bible: Numbers 22:28 "And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass"
How do you know a lawyer, a preacher, a priest, a rabbi, or an iman is lying?
His lips are moving.
Oh My God! Guard my tongue from evil and my lips from utter guile
People on the Jerry Springer show are the average americans.
If a believer demands that I, as a nonbeliever observe his taboos in the
public domain, he is not asking for my respect, but for my submission.
Religious people claim that it's just the fundamentalists of each religion
that cause problems. There's got to be something wrong with the
religion itself if those who strictly adhere to its most fundamental
principles are violent bigots and sexists.
http://rantswithintheundeadgod.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-manmade-gods-of-monotheism.html
In the modern age of Google, it's never been so easy to pretend to
know so much without actually knowing anything.
The tangled web we weave when we practice to deceive.
Armies of comedians ought to be investigating Christian history and
theology on a full time basis, mining these endless deposits of
absurdity.
If you do not feel dirty speaking about Christianity, you need to
do more research.
Bill Maher Absolutely Trashes the Bible and Psychotic Mass Murderer God
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-maher-absolutely-trashes-the-bible-and-psychotic-mass-murderer-god/
http://says-it.com/churchsigns/sign07.php
http://says-it.com/videotape/
Jesus' Failed Prophecy About His Return
http://blacknonbelievers.wordpress.com/jesus-failed-prophecy-about-his-return/
http://justice4germans.wordpress.com/
http://www.jewishjournal.com/sacredintentions/item/hitlers_inspiration_and_guide_the_native_american_holocaust
http://www.reddit.com/r/TrueAtheism/comments/1y4wal/whats_the_single_most_blatant_contradiction_in/
http://www.errancy.org/
A god who loved the world so much that he would become human, and suffer and
die for the world in order to redeem it in the New Testament.
versus...
A god who hated the world so much that he tried to commit genocide in the
Old Testament.
Can you see the difference? God saved Noah only because Noah was "righteous,"
whereas Jesus tried to save people who were "not righteous."
That's two completely different and irreconcilable approaches to dealing with
"sinners". And yet, the same god devised both plans.
God tried the "nuclear option" first, then diplomacy. That's just not the
behavior I would expect from a being with a highly advanced morality.
The trial and error approach to omniscience.
every christian picks and chooses parts of the OT to believe in while
dismissing others.
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the
point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
https://www.au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/repair-bill-mass-judge-says-taxpayers-can-be-forced-to-pay-for-church
https://au.org/church-state/january-2014-church-state/people-events/mass-church-gets-new-windows-courtesy-of-the
Superior Court Judge Richard T. Moses ruled in November that blocking
the church from getting the money "wouldn't be in the public interest,"
Graphic, gory, grotesque and ghastly eible stories
Napoleon once said," Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."
Religion keeps people from being upset over inequality.
Everything is the way it is because of a perfect plan.
The rich are rich because they're blessed for being righteous.
I don't need to be rich because God will take care of me.
This life is temporary, therefore inequality is temporary.
I'll have a perfect life after this life.
If you take away religion people realize life isn't fair.
Pagan and Christian Deeds
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1561
The Math of the great flood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5svTzxVa-xQ&list=PLj0h5VvaPHLub52ff2BDYONOht-kQPSJI&index=96
Another brain pickled by religion.
The Holocaust is just another jewish religion in its infancy that will
be eviscerated by the internet.
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100 years before the Council of Trent A papal bull of l458 established
that blacks had no soul, were not human and therefore could be subjected
to slavery without offending to God "
Most likely you are thinking of Dum diversas (1452), which gave Portugal
the authority to make slaves from Muslims, pagans and unbelievers
in general. Generally accepted as the bull which sparked the
slave trade as we know it.
We journey from ignorance to knowledge, but some prefer to remain within the
bounds of ignorance.
A horse, a cow and a deer all eat the same stuff, grass; yet a deer excretes
little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty but a horse produces clumps;
why do you suppose that is?
Do you feel qualified to talk about God, Heaven, Hell and life after death,
when it's clear that you don't know shit.
Verifiable, documented, reproducible, peer-reviewed.
Freshly circumcised dick
Was God a volcano
http://ohmyvolcano.blogspot.com/2011/11/list-of-biblical-verses-that-suggest.html
Trillions of dollars have been spent on churches, synagogues, templaes and
places to worship mythical beings....
Imagine a world in which we had used these resources to build schools,
hospitals and shelters.
Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity.
Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake.
The grave will supply plenty of time for silence.
The muslim world will always be retarded in terms of growth, manufacturing
and technology since they only utilize half of their possible work force.
A woman converting to Islam is like a chicken converting to KFC.
In the age of information, Ignorance is a choice.
Sam Harris - Morality and the christian god
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i3mX0YRrjM
http://theunboundedspirit.com/nonconformity-and-freethinking-now-considered-mental-illnesses/
The DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) manual
identifies a new mental illness called "oppositional defiant disorder"
or ODD. Defined as an "ongoing pattern of disobedient, hostile and
defiant behavior," symptoms include questioning authority, negativity,
defiance, argumentativeness, and being easily annoyed
Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely powerful
infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is deeply and
personally concerned about my sex life.
Irreducible complexity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W96AJ0ChboU
http://www.vice.com/read/the-child-rape-assembly-line-0000141-v20n11?utm_source=vicefbus
http://www.reddit.com/r/TrueAtheism/comments/1q0nf1/the_collapse_of_theism/
Theism started when humans became smart enough to ask the big questions.
Atheism started when humans became smart enough to answer those questions.
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
http://www.skepdic.com/noahsark.html
pokes fun at the delusional claim by people of faith that a belief in
God equips them with superior moral standards.
Poll: 76 percent believe in God, 38 percent do what God asks
http://washingtonexaminer.com/poll-76-believe-in-god-38-do-what-god-asks/article/2537977
Every single action of God, including every prophet chosen in the Qur'an,
Torah, and Bible occurred inside this circle. Seems Legit (the-circle.jpg)
Islam is an abomination , a death cult, a pedophile ring, a cancer
in civilised society, a woman haters club,a false religion with a
false prophet, a murder addicted political system stuck in medieval times,
a society where lying and deceit is normal practice, a culture of
men with abnormal sexual preferences, a society of cowards who kill children
All propaganda has to be popular and has to accomodate itself
to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom
it seeks to reach.
Was Christ invented?
Cesar's Messiah Jesus A Roman Invention
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM2KONcLKQU
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/10/bible-scholar-christianity-invented-as-part-of-ancient-roman-psy-ops-campaign/
http://frightlibrary.org/pic/theov1.htm
fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy and needs feeding
It is not my intent here to dwell on the absurdity of an educated adult man
in a position of considerable authority holding a view essentially
equivalent to believing in Santa Claus.
It's the fact that a grown man, in a position of serious power, would
believe in something that's utter nonsense.
It would be one thing if Mr. Scalia sold pizza for a living, but this
is a man we go to to interpret our laws. It's like smelling a gas leak
and calling an exorcist!
How many judges are of the Catholic faith?
Do you have any judges who believe in God, the creator of Heave and Earth?
Is there proof of his existence beyond a reasonable doubt?
Do you have any judges who believe in the devil, otherwise known as Satan?
Is there proof of his existence beyond a reasonable doubt?
Do you have any judges who believe in angels, those invisible magic
bird-people? Is there proof of their existence beyond a reasonable doubt?
Nowhere outside of religion would such a silly beliefs be considered
anything but delusional.
Do you find it acceptable that any member of the judiciary believes in these
creatures but has non verifiable proof of any of them? How can you
expect people to have confidence in such biased and bigoted people?
Is it the opinion of this body that these people ned psychiatric
assistance?
Do you believe that silly superstitous religious beliefs belittles the
judiciary as a whole in the eyes of the public?
If you believe in angels, you believe in invisible magic bird people.
In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.
In the age of information, the ignorance behind religion is a choice.
Any individual who has very strongly held, but unveriable religious
beliefs should be disqualified as a judge. Deliberately hiding these
beliefs as a judge, should be criminal.
An athesist reads the bible:
http://www.youtube.com/user/43alley
Religion offers you beastiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sundays.
Isn't religion great?
Word on the street has it the big G checked into rehab to deal with
his unresolved anger management issues.
There is a complete absence of objective evidence indicating the existence
of Abraham and the inconsistencies in the biblical account tend to destroy
the Abraham story.
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The Electrocutions
http://nationalvanguard.org/2011/01/jewish-truth-and-jewish-jokes/
Ezekiel 23:32-34: tear off your breasts
Why do people laugh at creationists
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAC3481305829426D&nomobile=1
Geert Wilders warning to America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQOCcx5V9RI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdX1qpCtlh8
Jizya is the money, or tribute, "that conquered non-Muslims historically
had to pay to their Islamic overlords 'with willing submission and
while feeling themselves subdued' to safeguard their existence.
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most
unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and
proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving
control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic
cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist,
infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential,
megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously
malevolent bully."
-- Richard Dawkins
Sam Harris simply destroys catholicism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcO4TnrskE0
Islam is not a peaceful religion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQjZHFnmADQ&list=FLstA0pjd4NZmmDDLNu26EEg&index=16
Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe.
And it is so sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy.
Jonah and the big fish
http://www.ihr.org/main/search.shtml
A broader danger of unverifiable beliefs is the temptation to defend them
by violent means. People become wedded to their beliefs, because the
validity of those beliefs reflects on their competence, commends them as
authorities, and rationalizes their mandate to lead. Challenge a person's
beliefs, and you challenge his dignity, standing, and power. And when
those beliefs are based on nothing but faith, they are chronically
fragile. No one gets upset about the belief that rocks fall down as
opposed to up, because all sane people can see it with their own eyes.
Not so for the belief that babies are born with original sin, or that
God exists in three persons or that Ali was the second-most divinely
inspired man after Muhammad. When people organize their lives around
these beliefs, and then learn of other people who seem to be doing
just fine without them-or worse, who credibly rebut them- they are
in danger of looking like fools. Since one cannot defend a belief
based on faith by persuading skeptics it is true, the faithful are
apt to react to unbelief with rage, and may try to eliminate that
affront to everything that makes their lives meaningful.
Research has shown that religion declines not just with rising national
wealth but also with all plausible measures of the quality of life,
including length of life, decline of infectious diseases, education,
the rise of the welfare state, and more equal distribution of income.
Americans claim to love the bible, but very few actually read it.
Most Americans don't reach their religious conclusions through research.
In fact, very few Americans possess much knowledge on Christianity beyond
what their pastor tells them on Sunday.
Only a tiny percentage of the faithful have made a conscious decision to be
Christians based on in-depth study of it. They believe because they are
brainwashed to believe. And God help anyone who doesn't, because
Christians can be vicious when their beliefs are even lightly challenged.
This malice is rooted in fear, personal insecurities, and lack of proof
in their beliefs. The most frightening part of organized religion in
America is that so many people refuse to discuss it intelligently and
unemotionally. When it comes to religion, many people operate with the
emotional maturity of a child. Americans are so terrified of their
mortality that they willingly suspend their critical thinking and believe
almost anything that eases their fear and offers them comfort.
Religion will continue to be popular in a world that's addicted to the
emotion of hope.
Religion is so pathetically absurd and infantile that it is humiliating
and embarrassing to think that the majority of people will never rise
above it.
Religion is inexorably being drawn into the internet where it
will die a slow, miserable, horrible, painful, twitching death.
If you wish to be silent about your atheism,
the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.
I'm so hungry, I could eat the baby Jesus!
~ 4 year old boy in church on Christmas.
Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically
worthless, whatever value they may have in inspiring us or in
exciting our sense of wonder.
I am tired of some stupid bearded buffoon or bag headed bimbo telling me
that insulting Islam should be a crime against humanity. I believe that
Islam should be considered as a crime against humanity
2 Kings 2:24 Elisha Mocked, two bears kill 42 boys
http://zenpencils.com/comic/100-carl-sagan-pale-blue-dot/
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/keith_parsons/whynotchristian.html#gospels
History of the devil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5mYFJ4irxM
http://hirr.hartsem.edu/research/fastfacts/fast_facts.html#numclergy
Biblical contradictions
http://www.thethinkingatheist.com/page/bible-contradictions
Old Testament: http://oyc.yale.edu/religious-studies/rlst-145#sessions
New Testament: http://oyc.yale.edu/religious-studies/rlst-152#sessions
http://www.amazon.com/Bart-D.-Ehrman/e/B001I9RR7G
Pantheon of Gods, Father-Son-HolySpirit, Allah, Jehovah, Elohim,
Christian Domestic Discipline (how to beat your wife)
http://christiandomesticdiscipline.com/home.html
C14 dating, magnetic dating and radio carbon dating
it is the claimants' responsibility to provide supporting evidence.
Exodus 12:29-30
At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the
firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the
prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock
as well. Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up
during the night, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there
was not a house without someone dead.
http://theflatearthsociety.org
I am Russells teapot short and stout.
Spinning on the cosmic roundabout.
In regards to my existence there's no doubt.
Between the Earth and Mars or thereabout.
The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common.
They don't alter their views to fit the facts.
They alter the fact to fit their views.
This can be very uncomfortable if YOU happen to be one of the facts that
needs altering.
Acts 5:30 "Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree" Acts 10:39 "whom they
slew and hanged on a tree" Acts 13:29 "they took him down from the tree"
1 Peter 2:24 "who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree"
Galatians 3:13 "Christ... being made a curse upon us... Cursed is every
one that hangeth on a tree"
islam produces uneducated, uncivilized, undemocratic, unsocial, irrational,
medieval and a barbarous civilization.
God sent mice to gnaw the bowstrings of the Assyrians?
Apocalypticism
Eschatology is a part of theology concerned with the final events of history,
or the ultimate destiny of humanity. This concept is commonly referred to as
the "end of the world" or "end times".
Kabalistic
Sins
Adultery
Fornication (sexual relations outside of marriage)
Uncleanness
Lasciviousness (pornography)
Idoltatry
Witchcraft
Hatred
Variance (choosing another religion)
Emulation (following one down an evil path)
Wrath
Strife
Seditions (leading people astray)
Heresy
Murder
Drunkeness
Reveling
Wffiminate bahaviour
Theivery
Extortion
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Revelations 13:18
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:
for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
He who is not with me is against me. (Matthew 12:30)
http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2013&month=04
The
Schempp decision
took note that the United States had 83 separate and distinct
religious denominations with a following of fifty thousand or more.
If you love, keep my commandments. John 14:15
Why should God place arbitrary limits upon His own creations?
In any society, freedom of thought will probably be of direct
significance only for a small minority. The majority are as sharp
as a sack of wet mice.
The seeds of future fanaticism and terror - possibly even major
conflict - are being sown.
Gods and religions should be transferred to museums of historical remains.
The God of Christianity is a cruel and hateful tyrant.
The Quran (Koran) is "a wearisome confused jumble,
crude incondite; endless iterations, long windedness, entanglement;
most crude incondite - insupportable stupidity
RabidApe
Religions are "social systems whose participants avow belief in a
supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought."
The true horror of religion is that it allows perfectly sane people
to believe by the billions what only lunatics could believe on their own.
http://cspipublishing.com/pdfs/ATwoHourKoran.pdf
http://www.amazon.com/Skeptics-Annotated-Bible-Steve-Wells/dp/0988245108/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1370444404&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=skepticsannotated+bible
Ernest Perce V
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/03/09/atheist-behind-infamous-pa-slave-billboard-speaks-out-it-is-my-hate-for-the-bible/
Suggested readings
http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/wiki/recommended/reading
http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/wiki/recommended/viewing
I S L A M spells Jihad
http://libertyfight.com/2013/15_year_old_girl_learns_the_truth_about_the_holohoax.html
A religious or spiritual explanation of a natural phenomenom may be coherent
and satisfying for the person holding that view, but it is not testable
and therefore is not real science.
God doesn't prevent terrible things from happening because:
A. He can't
B. He doesn't want to
C. He causes them
D. He doesn't exist
Messiah complex
He accepts his three-headed God as his
omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, omnibenevolent, omniactive
all powerful dictator and has a personal relationship with
the creator of the universe. All that God wants back
from him is his mindless robotic obedience.
Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:17-20 I don't think people understand the concept of "Separation of Church and State". It is not designed to persecute religion. It is designed to keep the religions in the majority from persecuting others. I can't buy a six pack of beer until noon on Sunday because the majority put special significance in the day Sunday. Religion has no place in the government. If your religious beliefs prevent you from doing something, then just don't do it, that is your right. Just don't use your religious beliefs as an excuse to take away the rights of others. a hotbed of fundamentalist fervor Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found. Those ideologies, in turn, stress hierarchy and resistance to change, attitudes that can contribute to prejudice, Jesus said unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes unto the Father, but by me John 14:6 Every religious text in the world was written, edited, translated, and printed by humans. All edicts, interpretations, decrees, proclamations and fatwas issued by churches are human opinions. If a huge, glowing set of tablets with commandments engraved on them descended from the sky accompanied by angels blowing trumpets, we'd be having a very different debate, but there is no such thing. All moral opinions come to us from human beings. carnal malefactors Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago, 'Do not break your oath, but fulfill to the Lord the vows you have made.' But I tell you, do not swear an oath at all: either by heaven, for it is God's throne; or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King. And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black. All you need to say is simply 'Yes' or 'No'; anything beyond this comes from the evil one. Matthew 5:33-37 If prayer is so powerful, why do churches always ask for cash donations. Dr. Madalyn Murray O'Hair's opinion of the religious fanatics is as follows. I'll tell you what you did with Atheists for about 1500 years. You outlawed them from the universities, or any teaching careers, besmirched their reputations, banned or burned their books or their writings of any kind, drove them into exile, humiliated them, seized their properties, and arrested them for blasphemy. You dehumanized them with beatings and exquisite torture, gouged out their eyes, slit their tongues, stretched, crushed, or broke their limbs, tore off their breasts if they were women, crushed their scrotums if they were men, imprisoned them, stabbed them, disemboweled them, hung them, and burnt them alive. And you have the nerve enough to complain to me that I laugh at you. I totally agree with Dr. O'Hair's opinion. The Inquisitions were not a perversion of christian doctrine but an expression of Christian doctrine of brotherly love. The christian Jesus's main message is "Let me save you from what I'm going to do to you if you don't worship me." His followers have expressed his will in the Inquisitions. In the meantime, the Framingham clergy perpetuates the lies, deceipt, fabrications and falsehoods of religion and will continue to tell us about Jesus's love for all mankind. Every day I pray to God for the suffering, rape and death of thousands of innocent children and every day God graciously answers my prayer tenfold. As a christian, you are born with Original Sin because Adam and Eve ate from the Tree Of Knowledge. The not so subtle message is "Get smart and you are a sinner!". Is this not an absolutely anti-intellectual religion? Jesus saves you from what he will do to you if you don't worship him. Prayer has no place in public schools just like facts have no place in organized religion. Faith is simply believing that something is true BECAUSE YOU WANT IT TO BE TRUE. That is neither honest nor something to base real world decisions on. Luke 14:26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. 1 John 3:15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. Revelation 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. Luke 14:26 - in order to be a disciple of Jesus, you must hate your family 1 John 3:15 - if you hate your brother, you are a murderer Revelation 21:8 - all murderers will go to hell Therefore, if you follow Jesus, youl will burn in Hell. Contradictions: they're a bitch, aren't they. I don't need religion. I have a conscience. Women and men are buried in a ditch, and stoned to death until they are dead. The law even specifies the size of the stone in Iran - not to big to kill too quickly and not to small to take too long. It has to be just right... Now can you understand why it is important to focus on Islam? Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.
Evolution by natural selection, the central concept of the life's work of Charles Darwin, is a theory. It's a theory about the origin of adaptation, complexity, and diversity among Earth's living creatures. If you are skeptical by nature, unfamiliar with the terminology of science, and unaware of the overwhelming evidence, you might even be tempted to say that it's "just" a theory. In the same sense, relativity as described by Albert Einstein is "just" a theory. The notion that Earth orbits around the sun rather than vice versa, offered by Copernicus in 1543, is a theory. Continental drift is a theory. The existence, structure, and dynamics of atoms? Atomic theory. Even electricity is a theoretical construct, involving electrons, which are tiny units of charged mass that no one has ever seen. Each of these theories is an explanation that has been confirmed to such a degree, by observation and experiment, that knowledgeable experts accept it as fact. That's what scientists mean when they talk about a theory: not a dreamy and unreliable speculation, but an explanatory statement that fits the evidence. They embrace such an explanation confidently but provisionally - taking it as their best available view of reality, at least until some severely conflicting data or some better explanation might come along. The rest of us generally agree. We plug our televisions into little wall sockets, measure a year by the length of Earth's orbit, and in many other ways live our lives based on the trusted reality of those theories. Many fundamentalist Christians and ultraorthodox Jews take alarm at the thought that human descent from earlier primates contradicts a strict reading of the Book of Genesis. Their discomfort is paralleled by Islamic creationists such as Harun Yahya, author of a recent volume titled The Evolution Deceit, who points to the six-day creation story in the Koran as literal truth and calls the theory of evolution "nothing but a deception imposed on us by the dominators of the world system." I'm sick of these atheists not coming to my door and not telling me how to live, and not leaving little pamphlets all over the place. Who do they think they are?! Why can't they make instant judgments about me, and tell me I'm not going anywhere when I die? I can't fucking believe their gall, not knocking on my door on a Saturday, and what's with not guilting me about my personal life? I tell ya, If these damned atheists would just stop leaving me alone, I could get on with my life already. You know? I've collected these morally questionable, erroneous, or thought provoking bible verses while browsing r/atheism the last few months. I've summed up what they're about (of course, the interpretations are subjective), but you can look up the full verses here. 1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6-16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10-14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18-21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19-25 (Kill non-virgin/kill adulterers/rapists) Deuteronomy 22:28-29 (Pay virgin's parents for raping her) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1-7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5-6 (Murder women/children) Ezekiel 23:19-20 (A whore who had sex with men hung like donkeys) Galatians 5:2-4 (If you are circumcised, Christ has nothing for you) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46-47 (Jesus references Old Testament) 1 Kings 7:23 (Pi equals 3) Leviticus 3:1-17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 20:15 (Death for bestiality) Leviticus 20:18 (No sex with a woman on her period) Leviticus 21:17-23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11-12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21-22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24-25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15-16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17-19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5-6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34-37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11-12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel) Zechariah 14:2 (Women ravished when city is taken in battle) Edit: I originally had written Mark 20:21-22...it's actually Mark 10:21-22. ============================================================================== This is the greatest atheist songs ever Free Will by RUSH There are those who think that life has nothing left to chance A host of holy horrors to direct our aimless dance A planet of playthings we dance on the strings of powers we cannot perceive "the stars aren't aligned --- or the gods are malign" blame is better to give than receive You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice if you choose not to decide you still have made a choice You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill i will choose a path that's clear i will choose free will There are those who think that they've been dealt a losing hand the cards were stacked against them --- they weren't born in lotus-land All preordained a prisoner in chains a victim of venomous fate kicked in the face you can't pray for a place in heaven's unearthly estate You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice if you choose not to decide you still have made a choice You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill i will choose a path that's clear i will choose free will Each of us a cell of awareness imperfect and incomplete! genetic blends with uncertain ends on a fortune hunt that's far too fleet... You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice if you choose not to decide you still have made a choice You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill i will choose a path that's clear i will choose free will =================================================================== Islamofascism: An influential bloc of 57 Muslim countries demands that the West make it an international crime to criticize Islam. Then stop making it such an easy target. =================================================================== The story of an average guy named John. Let’s have a religious view of the life of an average guy named John. He went to school, graduated, went to a prestigious college, and became an accountant for a large company. He has a wonderful wife who he loves with all his heart, they’re newlyweds, still in their honeymoon phase, living the happiest prime years of their lives. Years later, they have a 6 year old daughter and another on the way. One day, John is called to his bosses office and he is informed that he will be receiving a promotion for his outstanding work for the company, and offered a short one week business trip to a foreign country. He accepts, and on the day of his business trip, he kisses his wife and daughter goodbye while they sleep as he must leave for an early flight. A week later, the trip is over. It went very well, the co-workers at the sister company were friendly, they showed him around, taught him some simple phrases, took pictures of him at landmarks, and introduced him to some delectable foreign dishes. John has a lot to tell about the wonderful trip, but as he opens the door to his home, the color red stains his vision. John is horrified at the sight of the blood stained naked bodies of his wife and daughter. John is traumatized at the sight of this and will never forget it, as well as the feeling that comes with it. It will forever haunt him in his nightmares, their dead bodies reminding him it was his fault for choosing to go on the trip. The man responsible for this, a serial killer, was found and persecuted. He is given eight life sentences for his crimes, which included breaking into houses at night, torturing, killing, and raping the corpses of his victims. At the courthouse, it took all John’s willpower to stop himself from tackling the man and gouging his eyes out with his bare hands. Flash forward decades later, the man never gets out of prison, and with all his free time, he finds God, as the only form of literature he was provided was a Bible. He prayed for forgiveness, and fasted 10 days for each person he killed. The man prayed before every breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and preached God’s word to all the other inmates with a Bible in his hands. The man is put on death row, and peacefully accepts his death by lethal injection, with his final request being grape juice and bread as his final meal. Meanwhile, John’s life is ruined. He becomes an outcast at his job, loses faith in the existence of a God, and never ever forgives the man who killed his wife, daughter, and unborn child, wishing him eternal torture every day. John eventually finds himself out of a job, and starves to death on the street as a depressed, alcoholic mess. According to religion, the murder-rapist enjoys eternal pleasure in heaven, for accepting Gods light and repenting for his sins, while the victim finds himself burning in hell for rejecting Gods word and turning to alcoholism. Religion is clearly very sensible and believable, and this situation is incredibly fair. Thanks, God! ========================================================================== I once heard there are claimed enough pieces of Christ's cross to build several ships The supposed evidence of Jesus' existence, among them endless fragments of the true cross, are things like holy nails, his crown of thorns, the holy grail, the veil of Veronica, and the Sudarium of Oviedo, which is just a mangy rag. When the Shroud of Turin has been radiocarbon dated to only the middle ages, the Holy Face of Genoa/San Silvestro look like (and are) paintings, and there are around thirty nails used to bind the big man's son to the cross, it really does sound absurd. If you look at these objects as they are in real life, they often share a common denominator. They're wreathed in gold and jewels. They are exaggerated by frills and locked in place like they're the only thing holding the planet in one piece. The need for secrecy surrounding their origins, the obvious emphasis on the stunning over the subtle, really does nothing more but draw out the human element behind these relics. It is easier for a camel to walk through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven, but let's place a stack of splinters from Jesus' manger into a silk and satin crib with a lid of pearls and gold. When you feel the need for such accoutrements, it's plain the intent is to impress. Why bother enlightening people or allowing them to form their own opinion of the evidence, when you can cover it all in money and watch their jaws drop with no real effort at all? If a wooden stool adorned by nothing but a lone poorly preacher is unable to inspire the masses, then just put that same man behind a podium under a vaulted ceiling, and tell them all God is sitting on top of their heads watching their reactions, above even their own fathers. If these extravagances were stripped away and there was nothing left to lean on but the good word, I wonder how much power these institutions would still have. ========================================================================== What do Christians mean when they say they surrender their will to god? Functionally, it means they are declaring their behavior to be uniquely armored against criticism, questioning, and negative judgement. They are in essence saying they are now doing the will of a god who is invisible, inaudible, intangible, whose will can only be accessed through faith, and those who do not have pure faith will not understand and so have no right to comment negatively. Emotionally, they are alluding to the fact that their cognitive dissonance is too great for them to continue to hold their own beliefs accountable against competing beliefs, and so in a situation of mental conflict, their faith will take precedence, and they believe they are now exempt from guilt. Essentially they are saying you cannot tell them they are wrong. =========================================================================== Nothing crazier than the basic tenets of his religion – an invisible guy says abracadabra and poofs the universe into existence, - the rib woman and the talking snake, all the animals on a boat, - catering magic, afterlife celestial Disneyland, magical zombie blood, etc. Anyway, making $300 million off this hoodoo suggests he knows exactly what's up. He's good at talking crazy to scam the religious rubes, but I wouldn't assume he is. ========================================================================= Signs that your religion is probably strictly human-made If your religion contains one or more of the following elements, you should suspect that it probably has nothing to do with a supernatural deity and is therefore most likely a product of human design: 1: Human or animal sacrifices 2: Moral values that reflect the needs and wants of a specific primitive culture 3: Instructions to hurt, kill or look down on other people 4: Reasons to look down on yourself 5: Encouragement to abandon family ties 6: Scientifically inaccurate statements 7: Magical beings, powers or events that no longer exist 8. A holy book with dubious authorship 9. Threatened punishment for non-followers 10. Elements borrowed from previous mythologies 11. Emphasis on beliefs over actions 12. A deity that expresses human emotions 13. Instructions for the enslavement of other humans 14. Punishment of homosexuals or related 15. Sexism and misogyny ======================================================================== Rev. Deborah L. Clark, Edwards Church, UCC Deacon Susan Lindberg Haley, Lutheran Church of Framingham Yvonne M. Spicer, Mayor, City of Framingham Bernard Reese, Pastor, Framingham Church of God in Christ Deacon Lori Mills-Curran, Executive Director, Pro-Gente Connections Pastor Gina Praino, Vineyard Metrowest Church Hannah Woit, Senior Advisor for External Affairs, Office of Mayor, Framingham Rev. Karen Nell Smith, Edwards Church, UCC Father Don Pachuta, M.D., Community of St. Luke Dr. Javier Cevallos, President, Framingham State University Joseph Corazzini, Assistant Superintendent of Equity, Diversity and Community Development, Framingham Public Schools Alaa M. Abusalah, Citizen Participation Officer, Office of the Mayor, Framingham Rev. Gregory Morisse, The Plymouth Church in Framingham, UCC Rev. William Tanner, The Plymouth Church in Framingham, UCC Rev. Julie Carson, Rector, St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church Rabbi Allison Poirier, Temple Beth Sholom Rev. Tracey Robinson-Harris, Interim Minister, First Parish in Framingham Pastor Michael L. Henry, Framingham Centre Seventh-Day Adventist Church Rev. Dr. J. Anthony Lloyd, Greater Framingham Community Church Rev. Dr. Frances Ann Bogle, Community Chaplaincy Council Pastor Dorian Botsis, Faith Community Church, Framingham Campus Rev. Heather Kattan, Pastor of Wesley & First United Methodist Churches Rev. Liz Garrigan-Byerly, Associate Director, Metrowest Worker Center =========================================================================== Christianity is plagiarism 1°) Sanchuniathon, who wrote in Phoenicia long before the data were gathered in the deserts, attributes to men ten generations up to the time of the supposed universal flood.--The books liquidated to Moses also suppose ten generations. 2 °) The curiosity of a woman named Pandora is fatal to humanity. - The curiosity of a woman named Eve causes the human race to be expelled from a so-called paradise. 3 °) Bacchus offers a law written on two marble tablets, raises the waters of the Red Sea to the right and left to make his army pass, interrupts the course of the Sun and Moon. - Moses also offers laws written on two tablets of stone, crosses the Red Sea on foot, while his successor, Joshua, holds the sun and moon. 4 °) Minerva pours a fountain of oil, Bacchus a fountain of wine. - Moses only studies a water source in the desert. 5 °) Philemon and Baucis exist for the gods, in Phrygia, the hospitality that a village refuses them, near Tiana: the gods transform their hut into a temple and the village into a lake. - The inhabitants of the village of Sodom wanted to violate two angels, and Sodom turned into a lake. 6 °) The Greeks suppose that Agamemnon wanted to immolate his daughter Iphigenia and that the gods sent a gazelle to be sacrificed in place of the girl. - The molds assume that Abraham wanted to kill his son and that Adonai sent a ram to be killed in place of Isaac. 7 °) Niobe is turned into marble. - Edite, Lot's wife, is transformed into a statue of salt. 8 °) Hercules betrayed by women. - Samson betrayed by women (Dalila). 9 °) The ass of Silenus speaks. - Balaam's donkey speaks. 10 °) Hercules taken to heaven in a chariot (car pulled by four horses). - Elijah takes to the skies in a carriage. 11 °) The gods resurrect Pelops. - Elisha resurrects a girl. Conclusion: Anyone who takes the trouble to compare all the events of the fable and the history of ancient Greece will be surprised not to find a single page of Jewish books that is not plagiarism. Voltaire. God and men. p 100-101
Atheists have created better moral beliefs than any religion. Let us all take a moment to appreciate the Seven Fundamental Tenets of the Satanic Temple. THERE ARE SEVEN FUNDAMENTAL TENETS I One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason. II The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions. III One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone. IV The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own. V Beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one's beliefs. VI People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one's best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused. VII Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.
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