https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/1ji5fxj/when_religions_mock_each_other_like_they_dont_all/ when religions mock each other like they don't all believe in fairytales Muslims believe Muhammad flew to heaven on a winged horse called Buraq—yes, a flying horse—while drinking camel piss. Not only that, but he supposedly split the moon in half and put it back together, yet somehow, no civilization recorded this celestial event. They also believe that a rock turned into a camel, an ant gave a speech, and Moses' staff turned into a snake. They also believe the Dajjal (Islamic Antichrist) will come with one eye, deceive people with magic, and Jesus will return to kill pigs, break crosses, and fight him. After that, the Mahdi will establish a perfect Islamic world. And in paradise? You get 72 virgins, rivers of wine (despite it being forbidden on Earth), and endless pleasure. Meanwhile, in hell, the all-loving God will make you drink boiling pus for eternity because you didn’t believe in his five thousand-year-old diary. Christians believe that a talking snake convinced the first humans to eat a forbidden fruit, dooming humanity forever. The only way to fix this? God had to impregnate a virgin (while still being the father and son at the same time) so that his human form could be brutally murdered—only to come back to life three days later. Somehow, that “sacrifice” is what saves humanity, despite thousands of children dying every day. In the future, Jesus will return on a cloud, resurrect dead people, and have a final battle with Satan, even though God already knows the outcome because he's all-knowing. They also believe that a 600-year-old man built a massive boat that fit in millions of animals, Jonah supposedly lived inside a whale for three days and came out just fine and Jesus casually strolled on a lake, absolutely defying physics. Heaven is eternal bliss, while hell is eternal torture because infinite punishment for finite sins is totally fair. And apparently, back then, free will wasn’t an issue when he was performing miracles left and right, raising the dead, and turning water into wine. But now, with cameras, science and the internet? Suddenly, he’s all about “respecting free will” and staying hidden. Convenient! Jews believe they are the chosen people because God made a deal with Abraham, which involved things like circumcision. Their ancestors supposedly wandered the desert for 40 years after escaping Egypt, despite the trip taking only a few weeks by foot. Moses parted the Red Sea, received commandments written by the hand of God, and performed miracles that conveniently had no historical or archaeological evidence. The Messiah is still expected to come one day, rebuild the temple, and establish a perfect world order—but despite thousands of years passing, he's still a no-show. They also believe that a talking donkey spoke to its owner, Lot's wife literally turned into a pillar of salt, the moon and the sun stood still at some point, Adam lived for 930 years and the Earth once swallowed humans alive as a form of divine punishment from the all-loving God. Hindus believe the universe is cyclical, created and destroyed infinitely by gods like Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva. They have gods with elephant heads, monkey faces, and multiple arms who perform wild feats like lifting mountains and drinking oceans. Some people achieve enlightenment and break free from the cycle of rebirth, while others are doomed to be reborn as insects if they mess up their karma. There’s also Kalki, a future god-riding warrior who will arrive at the end of time on a white horse with a sword, ready to destroy the world. Basically the Avengers but religious. They also believe that Ganesha was beheaded by his father and later revived with an elephant’s head, the universe we're in rests on a cosmic snake, a baby God swallowed the entire universe and Ravana, the main villain in the Ramayana, had ten heads and twenty arms but was still defeated by one man. And Hanuman, a monkey god, supposedly mistook the sun for a mango and leapt into the sky to eat it. Buddhists believe Buddha achieved enlightenment by sitting under a tree until he understood the universe. Some believe he was born able to walk and talk. Others think he had past lives where he sacrificed himself in ridiculous ways, like throwing himself off a cliff to feed a starving tiger. The goal is to escape suffering by reaching Nirvana, but some versions of Buddhism also include pure lands and heavenly realms, turning it into another afterlife-based system. And the Dalai Lama? Supposedly, he’s reincarnated over and over, chosen through mystical signs. They once "discovered" the next reincarnation of a spiritual leader by seeing if a baby recognized his old possessions. Newborn Gautama Buddha supposedly walked seven steps and spoke immediately after being born, a talking tree witnessed the enlightenment, a day in heaven is supposedly 400 years long and a giant turtle became an island. And yet, billions of people dedicate their lives to these stories, shaping laws, cultures, and even wars around them. If any of these tales were found in an old manuscript with no religious label, they’d be dismissed as mythology or fairy tales. But slap "holy" on it, and suddenly, it's untouchable truth. These aren't the makings of divine wisdom but a collection of ancient fantasy stories that somehow survived into the modern world. It’s honestly mind-blowing that in an age of science, space exploration, metaphysics and instant global communication, people still take religion seriously. Reality is far more fascinating than any scripture, yet here we are, still arguing over whose imaginary friend is real. Statues devoted to sex around the world https://x.com/creepydotorg/status/1864699098051248422 Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, “Don’t do it!” He said, “Nobody loves me.” I said, “God loves you. Do you believe in God?” He said, “Yes.” I said, “Are you a Christian or a Jew?” He said, “A Christian.” I said, “Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?” He said, “Protestant.” I said, “Me, too! What franchise?” He said, “Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?” He said, “Northern Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?” He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?” He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region.” I said, “Me, too!” Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?” He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912.” I said, “Die, heretic!” And I pushed him over. https://malloy.rocks/introvert-comics-cartoons/have-you-noticed-that-the-god-described-in-the-bible-is-an-asshole?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email We should always seek those who believe in God so they can show us their God atheists-waiting.jpg Ask your school board members, council members and mayor if they believe in God Take note how quickly they become wussies https://malloy.rocks/atheism-why-im-an-atheist/atheism-memes-40-reasons-why-im-an-atheist Genesis 9:20-21 20 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: 21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. Opus Dei A church confused about the gospel is like a blind Uber driver. It’s like a forgetful historian. It’s like a colorblind artist. A church confused about the gospel is worse than worthless. It is a blocked emergency exit. It’s an elevator to hell. https://www.americanprogress.org/article/project-2025-the-plan-to-seize-power-by-gutting-americas-system-of-checks-and-balances/ Churches are undesirable organizations. In the beginning God created the Heavens (untold billions of galaxies each containing billions and billions of stars, some of them have planets that have living organisms) and the Earth. The moment you say you are a Jew you have completely altered reality. An alleged God exists but evolution, genetics, mitosis, the Large Hadron Collider, Parker Solar Observatory, Webb telescope all go away *news flash:* if your belief in god cannot dissuade you from raping your daughter but it can inspire you to behead a stranger, then you *might* just be an asshole. Religions use fear-inducing superstitions to extract money from gullible fools. The Buy-Bull We celebrate Shabbat because G-d created the world in 6 days and rested on the 7th. This has become a day of rest for Jews until today, called Shabbat. In essence, on this day, G-d created the concept of resting. The day starts on Friday evening after sundown and commences until Saturday evening, 25 hours in total. Shabbat is a very central part of Judaism and is synonymous with being a religious Jew. Antisemitism Is a Logical and Rational Reaction to Jewish Behaviour 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. This is called discrimination. The Evidence of Jesus 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 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11931011/Inside-inbred-family-Members-Whittakers-family-BARK-people-grunt.html https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/what-scientists-found-after-analyzing-cases-of-inbreeding-in-the-uk first degree relatives (siblings) second-degree relatives (aunts/uncle/cousin) tax people who want burial bible is wel written for people who don 't do math It is easier to fool someone than to convince them they are being fooled. There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. Science is interesting and if you don't agree you can fuck off Sacrilege is the violation or injurious treatment of a sacred object, site or person. This can take the form of irreverence to sacred persons, places, and things. When the sacrilegious offence is verbal, it is called blasphemy, and when physical, it is often called desecration Inquiring Minds Want To Know religion poisons everything Nearly 100% of the universe is uninhabitable to us humans. We could have been designed better, honestly. Pretty shoddy craftsmanship for an omnipotent carpenter. The right to end your own life painlessly and without external interference is a human right we all should absolutely have. The idea that we have to get seriously ill and suffer for months if not years until our body finally decides to give out is not acceptable. It is also a money-making scheme from the healthcare industry and government. The more they can stretch out serious illness before death, the more money they make. The more they can keep you alive to pay taxes, the more money the government makes. Religion aids this by stating that taking your own life is a first-class ticket to hell. I mean your already dying why not slow it down, enjoy the experience fast track his way to heaven just by “repenting” his sins If your religious ideology centers itself around the inability to criticize it, and it's followers welcome the punishment to anyone who does criticize it, then your faith is about control, not the betterment of society. IRS form 13909 Tax-Exempt Organization Complaint (Referral) https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f13909.pdf Cosmos - Carl Sagan - 4th Dimension https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnURElCzGc0 Ben Franklin's invention of the lightning rod was blamed by church leaders for the 1755 Cape Ann earthquake off the coast of Colonial Massachusetts — as his "heretical rods" interfered with the "artillery of Heaven" & deprived God of using lightning as "tokens of His displeasure." The essence of Christianity: God fathered himself and sent himself to sacrifice himself to himself to save us from himself. Christianity in a nut shell: The belief that God sacrificed God to God to save God's creations from God. t1t Why don't people who deny science be simply given thoughts and prayers as healthcare? Come on. You just can't come up with anything more ridiculous than someone who honestly thinks that all human woes stem from an incident in which a talking snake accosted a naked woman in a primeval garden and talked her into eating a piece of fruit. Jewish/Hebrew calendar: begins 3761 BC They started accusing me of all these things, called me a witch, a fool, an evil wicked sinner, an ingrate, a dishonor, a failure, a heretic and asked me if I was the antichrist. A few words about the "Great Sacrifice" that alledgedly took place on Good Friday. Jesus died, came back to life, and went home to be with Dad. God lost nothing, Jesus lost nothing, and you gained nothing. Happy Easter! 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 ever stirred? Tricorder readings indicate a heavy presence of bullshit. We are either near a farm or Any smart phone is basically a gateway to unlimited knowledge, and yet people still believe in gods, eat tide pods and get run over by trains. What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence Fool me once, shame on you! Fool me twice, shame on me! In the Hebrew calendar year 3759, God, the pedophile and itinerant sperm donor was trolling around looking for a likely virginal victim in order to give birth to himself. He just wanted a female sex doll that no one else had touched. He wanted her fresh out of the bag with that new child smell. Then he found Mary In the Hebrew calendar year 3759, God was trolling around looking for a likely virginal victim. He just wanted a sex doll that no one else had touched. He wanted her fresh out of the bag with that new child smell. Then he found Mary. hordes of uneducated, racist, violent, anti-education anti-science anti-evolution Christians overwhelming mob of uneducated, oversized trucks, MAGA hat, obese violent religious thugs. 47 U.S. Code 606 - War powers of President PresidentiaL Emergency Action Documents (PEADS) https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/documents-shed-light-on-secret-u-s-plans-for-apocalyptic-scenarios/ar-AAXLmoW https://www.mass.gov/how-to/file-a-complaint-about-a-charity-or-non-profit https://www.ocpf.us/Home/ The fact that the human community is fractured on the basis of religious doctrines that are fundamentally incompatible with each other in an age when nuclear weapons are proliferating is a terrifying scenario, I pray a simple prayer every morning. It's an ecumenical prayer. Whether you're Catholic or Jewish or Muslim or Hindu, I think it speaks to the heart of every faith. It goes Lord please allow me to break the laws of the universe for my convenience. Amen. In the US, hate speech is free speech. Inflammatory speech is not illegal unless it is "directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action." That is the legal precedent established in the Supreme Court case Brandenburg v. Ohio, 1969. Most of the memoirs and reports [of 'Holocaust survivors'] are full of preposterous verbosity, graphomanic exaggeration, dramatic effects, overestimated self-inflation, dilettante philosophizing, would-be lyricism, unchecked rumors, bias, partisan attacks... Apocalyptic Events Unfulfilled Christian Predictions Leviticus 21:18 (handicap) For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken; No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God. He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy. Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them. The human body is the exact opposite of "intelligently designed". https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/tlpt43/the_human_body_is_the_exact_opposite_of/ If a religion isn’t 100% right, it’s 100% bullshit. “God” for a believer is a complex dynamic relationship with the self and one’s own mental image of their father figure Every jew is perfidious. Lyndsay Allyn Cox is a Black, Jewish, queer woman. Though raised Catholic, she was always drawn to Judaism. “This is a faith that allows you to question and encourages you to not accept things as quite literally the gospel truth,” says Allyn Cox, who began her conversion 10 years ago. Being a Jew or Christian requires you to believe in the snake/serpent in the Garden of Eden scene since this is where Original Sin is created. The snake's ability to talk (in a language understood by Eve yet) is quite astonishing considering that snakes do not have vocal chords or the ability to propel air thru their non-existent vocal chords. The notion that a limbless reptile with a much smaller cranial capacity than a human, outsmarted two naked people created by an almighty, omniscient god is astonishing! The snake took away God's peep show of two naked humans. I suspect that God had very negative feelings. When all weapons are disposed of, when ALL lives have become completely equal... How does humanity then resolve its differences? How does conflict become resolved? If there were no knives, No daggers, No swords, No shields, No arrows, No bullets, No bombs, No biological weapons, No chemical weapons... how does humanity resolve thier grievances? We hide what we are ashamed of. Where religion impinges on matters of the state, and of course 'matters of the state' is everything, nearly - then that's religious extremism and is to be combatted. collective-narcissisism.html Priest In Ireland sings Hallelujah at Wedding and shocks everyone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg5NN4fG-HE In physics, a color is visible light with a specific wavelength. Black and white are not colors because they do not have specific wavelengths. Instead, white light contains all wavelengths of visible light. Black, on the other hand, is the absence of visible light. The Massachusetts chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Aleksey Cherednichenko Religidiots Religidiots Religidiots Religidiots Religidiots Religidiots First, Man invented religion. Then he invented the atomic bomb. No mouse has ever constructed a mousetrap with cheese as bait. https://www.inspiringquotes.us/author/8422-richard-p-feynman No Religion knows what women want BECAUSE it was created by men for men. Religion was not made with the consideration and necessity of women in mind. Matter of fact, it does the complete opposite of those things as it makes women more oppressed and submissive towards men Faith is believing what you know ain't so When religion ruled the world, it was known as the Dark Ages Keep your theology off my biology. The Bible. A Grim Fairy Tale Religion: The Original Fake News There are three things that God hates. Fags, vegetables and straight lines. Jennifer A. Moshe, Yariv Moshe 11 Doyle Circle Show me one single scrawny god. 3000 + reasons Christianity is not true Fun for the whole heathen family. http://www.kyroot.com/?page_id=1340 control is the endgame for the religious. Without it, they have nothing and they're leveraging everything they have now because the rise of atheism and secularity in general are terrifying to them. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/can-progressives-be-convinced-that-genetics-matters Building a commitment to egalitarianism on our genetic uniformity is building a house on sand. -- Kathryn Paige Harden the-pope-and-company.jpg Archbishop Justin Welby of the Anglican Communion Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I Pope Francis books-of-hatred.html The Quest To Kill God! Come, join me in my quest to find and kill god! Incurring divine favor or avoiding divine retribution Religion is willful ignorance and unjustifiable intransigence. Conservative evangelicalism, which represents a fear-based, authoritarian outlook on a social scale, has constructed a parallel society, mediated through churches, Christian publishing, homeschooling, Christian schools and universities in which certain sacrosanct “truths” are never questioned.” We are on our own. which to my mind is much more responsible than hoping that someone will save us from ourselves so we don;t have to make our best effort to do it ourselves, and if we're wrong and there is someone who steps in and saves us, OK, that's alright. Religion is the most harmful idea currently encumbering mankind The chain of events leading to man commenced suddenly and sharply at a definite moment in time, in a flash of energy and light Robert Jastrow, Astronomer In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. If making fun of God is offensive to Theists then implying that there is a God is equally offensive to Atheists For anyone who thinks porn is remotely healthy, - porn says beating women is ok, - porn says sex with underage girls is ok, - porn says rape is OK, - porn says incest is ok. You're confusing porn with the bible. who wears his kippah, a head covering Jewish men will wear to be seen to showcase their devoutness, in public, Holy water can only be truly sanctified by an ordained priest thru the act of consecration.. For this reason, depending on your faith, you may not be able to create genuine holy water. https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Your-Own-Holy-Water ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invest 10% of your income in an invisible product. Convince your family, friends, offspring, and perfect strangers to do the same. Spend your entire life talking about how your invisible product is the only true invisible product on the market today. Wait patiently for your return on investment Any and all return on investment is only payable after death. Failure to follow contradictory, vague, obsolete, or unethical rules may result in very hot post-death cnditions. In some cases, the forfeiture of your immortal soul will be required. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sloth: Dog allows children to be kidnapped, raped, and murdered, BY HIS OWN CULTISTS, but don't put your peepee in someone's dirt button, and whatever you do, don't fall in love with or have sexual desires for someone with the same meat as you. Also, don't mix fabrics (wtf). See: Wrath. 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. The Turner Diaries is called a hate book. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turner_Diaries his affiliation and networking with extremist ideologies "Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them." - Barry Goldwater https://blackdemographics.com/culture/religion/ https://blackdemographics.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Black-Religion-Denomination-Pie-Chart.jpg A true, factual religion guided by a supernatural god would be precise, flawless, authentic, transcendent, unmatched, unique, prescient, prophetic, revelatory, internally consistent, and scientifically accurate. ============================================================================ The Bible is an ancient novel chock-full of nudity, sex, murder, rape, genocide, patricide, fratricide, homicide, bestiality, seduction, drinking, cruelty, homosexuality, socialism, magic, witchcraft, wizardry, child and animal sacrifice, prostitution, swearing, lying, cheating, stealing, sexism, misogyny, adultery, polygamy, concubinage, superstition, idolatry, gambling, beatings, maimings, stabbings, testicle-crushing, and really bad morals. As if it didn't already contain enough bad* stuff to get it banned a thousand times over, the wretched book promotes slavery, telling you exactly who you can keep as slaves, and just how severely you can beat them. How cool is that? Warning: This is a work of fiction. Do not take it literally. Content Advisory: Contains verses describing or advocating suicide, incest beastility, sadomasochism, sexual activity in a violent context, murder, morbid violence, use of drugs or alcohol, voyeurism, revenge, undermining of authority figures, lawlessness, and human rights violations and atrocities. Exposure Warning: Exposure to contents for extended periods of time or during formative years in children may cause delusions, hallucinations, decreased cognitive and objective reasoning abilities, and in extreme cases, pathological disorders, hatred, bigotry, and violence including, but not limited to fanaticism, murder, and genocide. ====================================================================== Christian theocratic nationalism is metastasizing in the United States with its hateful, xenophobic, war-mongering, gun-toting, misogynistic, child-abusing, gay-bashing, get-tough-on-crime, racist, anti-trans, anti-democratic, and science-denying agenda. God's god! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODetOE6cbbc For someone who believes the world will come to an end you sure have a lot of money in the stock market ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TIL: 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! The Etoro people of New Guinea believe that in order for a boy to achieve manhood they must first ingest the semen of their elders through fellatio. The nearby Kaluli tribe find this barbaric, and instead believe that the semen should be delivered to the boys in the anus. Public prayers or "moments of silence" are just religious proselytizing Roman Catholic Church: RCC Cafeteria Catholicism. the catholic identity Religion messes with your mental health SO MUCH! There is just so much guilt. Guilt for not praying. Guilt for not fasting. Guilt for feeling sexually attracted to someone. Guilt for masturbating. Guilt for eating certain foods. Guilt for dressing a certain way. Guilt for things that are in no way hurting another human being. Guilt for everything. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Last_Thursdayism If the world was created 6,000 years ago with the appearance of being made billions of years ago, what is there to stop us from claiming it was made Last Thursday? As everyone knows, it was predicted that the world would end last Wednesday at 10:00 PST. Since there appears to be a world in existence now, the entire universe must therefore have been recreated, complete with an apparent "history", last *Thursday* A psychological disorder (the terms mental illness and psychopathology are often used interchangeably with psychological disorder) is a disorder involving thoughts, feelings and/or behaviours. This sounds simple enough, but it can be challenging to distinguish disordered from non-disordered thoughts and feelings, and behaviours in the real world. For example, if I tell you a full-grown adult I know speaks to an invisible man named Andy and asks Andy to grant him wishes, you might rightly assume this man has a psychotic disorder, such as Schizophrenia. On the other hand, if I replace "Andy" with "Allah", then suddenly my friend is a perfectly normal muslim. Both sets of thinking and behaviour are remarkably similar, yet one would be considered disordered whereas the other would not. ========================================================================= A true, factual religion guided by a supernatural god would be precise, flawless, authentic, transcendent, unmatched, unique, prescient, prophetic, revelatory, internally consistent, and scientifically accurate. Jehovah's Witnesses Charles Taze Russell Clayton J. Woodworth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Jehovah%27s_Witnesses The word prayer has no place in a modern first world country. Announcing yourself as an atheist is like dipping yourself in jet fuel and showing up at a candlelight church service. The crowd is convinced you're going up in flames and they're terrified that you'll take others with you. Some scatter. Some attempt to cleanse you. Some just stand there and scream "Save the children" Can an atheist visit a church service? If you weren't hit with a heavenly lightning bolt approaching the church building and you did not burst into flames crossing the church building threshold and the church pews didn't burn your skin, then I guess it was OK... https://ultratechlife.com/blog/why-are-you-still-a-christian-after-reading-this-thorough/ https://www.internationalatheists.org/secular-underground-network International Association of Atheists PO Box 114 Summerland, BC Canada V0H1Z0 info@internationalatheists.org Lynching preachers An old saying: “When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.” Myanmar's Muslim Rohingya population Uyghurs in China ------------------------------------------------------ The story of Noah's Ark (Genesis chapters 6–9), the alleged largest and most thorough act of genocide in history makes a great children's story. No story about Noah and his ark is complete without the bloated, gnarled, rotting carcasses of men, women, children, infants, fetuses, kittens, puppies and other animals that God murdered floating alongside and bouncing against the boat. If the god of the jewish Torah exists, then it is incumbent upon us as a race of moral beings, to hunt it down and kill it, ------------------------------------------ Even a single nuclear explosion in a major city would represent an abrupt and possibly irreversible turn in modern life, upending the global economy, forcing every open society to suspend traditional liberties and remake itself into a security state. The political, economic and social consequences are beyond what people understand. There is simply no humanitarian response possible to a large thermo-nuclear explosion. Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius is a phrase reportedly spoken by the commander of the Albigensian Crusade, prior to the massacre at Béziers on 22 July 1209 Kill them all, let God sort them out Noam Chomsky has said that he doesn’t care what people believe, it is what they do that matters. But the problem is that actions often stem from beliefs, and when those beliefs do not conform to empirical reality, the consequences can often be harmful.” pairagraph.com/dialog... The Bible, being of divine origin, can stand on its own feet and does not require supportive evidence The right to heresy, to blasphemy, and to speak against prevalent dogma is as sacred and divine as any act of prayer. If our hard earned liberty, our desire to be irreverent of the old and to question the new, can be reduced to one, basic and indispensable right: it must be the right to free speech. Our freedom to speak represents our freedom to think, our ability to create, innovate and progress. You cannot kill an idea, but you can certainly kill a person for expressing it. For if liberty means anything at all, it is the right to express oneself without being killed for it. Fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy and needs feeding. When the state decides your religion regardless if you actually believe in it. Apostasy is punishable by law and you can be fined, caned or jail for not following Islamic laws if the state decides that you are a Muslim. Okay, new rule: If you regularly consume the blood and flesh of a demigod in a room full of chanting elders you're not allowed to call other religions primitive and evil. Every generation for the last 2000 years believes they are living in the end times. They never seem to learn, nor do they ever get tired of being wrong. They were taught at a young age to be afraid of even questioning these things. By the time they became a fully developed adult, they don’t even question it and they forget why they don’t question it. Religious people think that a billions of years old space fairy sends invisible spirits to fiddle in peoples lives and after they die they either go to a fun fair for all eternity or a terrible torture chamber. Without the word of god, we would all be mindless, evil, pillaging, raping, murdering animals with no sense of right or wrong. For Christians, every action has an ulterior motive. Either to achieve an afterlife reward or avoid torture. A man who makes money peddling a demonstrably false worldview thinks he’s in a position to lecture everyone else about "deception". I fail to see how your idea would help to maximize donations to the church. Could you walk me through the finances of that? Insofar as they have been constructed around the unsubstantiated telling and retelling of heresay, centered on the personality cult of an apocalyptic messiah and his disciples who work to undermine institutions and accepted norms in order to set the stage for our eternal subservience to a malignant narcissistic overlord who demands loyalty, and eternally condemns those who fail to worship him... Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities, Can Make You Commit Atrocities. The only universal truths that all religions agree upon! We are right. Everyone else is wrong. We are better than you. My god's dick is bigger than your god's dick. Assuming the Judeo-Islamo-Christian god is real, I wouldn't consider him infinitely compassionate or merciful, but a malicious, spiteful demon from the pit of hell, a cosmic sadist from another dimension. Episcopalians believe that sacraments are material things that God uses to act in human lives. The BCP identifies Baptism and the Eucharist as the "two great sacraments of the Gospel". Confirmation, ordination, holy matrimony, reconciliation of a penitent, and unction are identified as "sacramental rites". Truth + God = Life or Life = God + Truth Truth = Life - God God = Life - Truth ecclesiastical income or tithing I am an anti-semite! Constantly, rigorously and without exception. Before cameras: Miracles all the time! After cameras: No miracles. After Photoshop: Miracles again! Sell everything Luke 14:26-33 Luke 18:18-22 It should be illegal for anyone of any religion to be in politics, law or any position of influence. As a psychiatrist, I have never seen a completely unbiased religious decision-maker, even in psychiatry. Promote a violent ideology, post homophobic and hateful content against unbelievers, apostates, and religious minorities (including sending death threats) "It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." Mark Twain A book based on real life wouldn’t have a mud-man, rib-woman, talking snake, impossible flood, impossible boat with 9,000,000 animals, tower to heaven, city’s falling by trumpets, man in a fish belly, talking donkey, dragons. Also threats of death and hell for those who find such stuff unbelievable. You don't see faith healers working in hospitals for the same reason you don't see psychics winning the lottery. Science is the impartial discovery of reality; Religion is the subjective creation of fantasy. Christianity wants you to believe that all humanity is born deserving of unbearable suffering. But thankfully, an extra-dimensional Universe Creator had a third of himself executed so that we could experience a conspicuously opulent immortality as opposed to being set on fire forever. According to Christianity, not believing in Jesus is a worse sin than murder. Come on. You just can’t come up with anything more ridiculous than someone who honestly thinks that all human woes stem from an incident in which a talking snake accosted a naked woman in a primeval garden and talked her into eating a piece of fruit. Christianity isn’t really monotheistic is it? There are angels, archangels, principalities, seraphim, cherubim, thrones, ophanim, dominions,demons, the holy spirit, God, Jesus, one mother and a whole bunch of saints. Calling that monotheism is just Orwellian double speak. Humans and chimps share 95% genetic similarities. Humans and mud share 0% genetic similarities. Science: 1 Bible: 0 #GAMEOVER According to Christianity, God will send an atheist who lived a just, loving, and generous life to hell while sending to heaven a serial rapist/murderer who confessed his sins immediately before execution. It is incumbent on conscientious people everywhere to hunt down this god and kill it. I don’t get my morality from the Bible because it condones stoning people for petty crimes, beheadings, burning people alive, killing children, genocide, holy war, incest, rape, slavery, animal cruelty, polygamy, terrorism, and killing nonbelievers. I always hate it when science gets in the way of a good miracle. The only reason that Christians have no problem with their principal symbol being an implement of torture is that they have been enculturated to accept it as a normal element of faith. When viewed outside the milieu of this preconditioned mentality, it is truly disgusting- an absolute travesty of common decency. Unlike the god of the Old Testament, the god of the New Testament is not happy when his enemies lay dead and broken before him. He pursues them into death to inflict never-ending suffering. A virgin gives birth to a baby, who grows up to be a man who also happens to be the creator of the universe. The man walks on water and talks to demons who obey his orders. The man is killed but comes back to life. Then he flies up into outer space. What part of this does not sound like a fairy tale? A true, factual religion guided by a supernatural god would be precise, flawless, authentic, transcendent, unmatched, unique, prescient, prophetic, revelatory, internally consistent, and scientifically accurate. For anyone who thinks porn is remotely healthy: Porn says beating women is okay. Porn says sex with underage girls is okay. Porn says rape is okay. Porn says incest is okay. You're confusing porn with the bible. Christian points to supposed problems with porn (endorsing underage sex, the beating of women, rape and incest); he is reminded that it's actually the Bible that endorses such things. Rosh Hashanah Jewish new year = 5781 - 2020 = 3761 How did religion become tax free IRS 501(c)(3) IRS Form 1023. ... The reality of the bible Buy a Bible, don't read it, and you will become a Catholic. Buy a Bible, read what suits you and you will be evangelical. Buy a Bible, read it, analyze it, reason it ... and you will become an atheist The road to atheism is littered with well-read Bibles. The path to atheism is paved with bibles. Rabbit Fogelman Rabbi@Chabadnatick.com https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-supreme-court-denies-nevada-church-s-appeal-coronavirus-n1234913 Praise Jesus? We don't talk enough about how White Christianity used to lynch us on Saturday night and then go to church on Sunday morning. “We have a duty to defend the Constitution, and even a public health emergency does not absolve us of that responsibility,” Alito said. “The Constitution guarantees the free exercise of religion. It says nothing about freedom to play craps or blackjack, to feed tokens into a slot machine or to engage in any other game of chance." According to the Torah (Old Testament), killing gays and unbelievers (like me) is the free exercise of religion. Are red lights constitutional? Sodom Gomorah story: Lot was a righteous man by God who told us the value of women by giving up his virgin daughters to a sex starved mob Dear religious people, the moment you start referring to females as "your" or "our" women, you already lost the argument and the point People will cover their face because of a book written millennia ago by crazy people, but not because a doctor tells them to. A subjective holy book is itself proof that it was not written by an objective higher being A *theist* is someone who believes in a god, or gods. An *atheist* is not *theist*. Atheism - linguistically defined as "without theism". The irony is that our freedoms give people who are against freedom their freedom to say they are against freedom and to advocate for the removal of freedom because we are for freedom. https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/h780p4/just_a_reminder_during_the_blm_movement_that_the/ God made people black to show us good white people who the bad people are. We arent being racist we are doing gods work! /s Theist: Person who believes in a god or gods Atheist: Person who is not a theist Al-Qaradawi, head of the Muslim Brotherhood said Islam exists only because people fear being murdered if they leave. If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment, Islam wouldn’t exist today. Opposing apostates is what kept Islam to this day 66 books (39 OT, 27 NT), 31,102 verses (23,145 OT, 7,957 NT), 783,137 words in KJV bible http://churchandstate.org.uk/2018/09/10-scriptures-that-show-the-bible-is-mythology/ Churches should have to prove the efficacy of their product. One of the 10 guiding principles behind Burning Man is to leave no trace: Our community respects the environment. We are committed to leaving no physical trace of our activities wherever we gather. We clean up after ourselves and endeavor, whenever possible, to leave such places in a better state than when we found them. Moses used this philosophy while meandering thru the Sinai. Atheist quote generator https://generatorfun.com/atheist-quote-generator Humanity is a very thin layer of bacteria living on a ball of dirt hurtling thru the void. We are maggots eating a corpse. religion-gateway-drug-crazytown-button.jpg allah-gateway-drug-crazytown-button.jpg jesus-gateway-drug-crazytown-button.jpg That’s 3.5 billion video cameras, ready to go at a moments notice and they have been around for decades and not one single credible recording of any kind of demon, angel, supernatural activity, aliens, Santa Claus, or the Easter bunny. Security cams, car cams, webcams, body cams, satellite cams... Also the people who push alien contact are usually the least knowledgeable as to astronomy and physics, and are the least aware of the scale of what they're suggesting. I mean the obstacles Aliens would have to overcome to reach us I mean if they traveled at light speed, that means they're already within 50 light-years, as we're unreachable past that point for now. They also have no understanding of the universe and just how void the earth is of any resource worth taking. There is nothing the earth has in large enough abundance to make the vast journey to take just to struggle against the gravity well. Their vision of UFOs are also always single passenger. That's wildly impractical for any form of life. To canvas an entire planet, to extract a civilizations worth of resources, with a handful of 10 meter wide Discs? Where are they going to put it? What about the psychological toll such an endevour would take on any organism intelligent enough to be conscious and self aware? What about the fact that this would be a one-way trip? You don't travel thousands of years for reconnaissance. And if they did, they wouldn't know we were here. They'd have left before we were detectable. Uhhhhhh just every aspect of alien contact bugs the fuck out of me these people just don't think they're just idiots. If you believe in god, you are a fucking moron. Jesus/religion is a fucking gateway drug to crazy town. Jesus is a gateway drug to crazy town. Religion is a gateway drug to crazy town. How did religion become tax free IRS 501(c)(3) IRS Form 1023. ... P2V, P2A, P2M, M2V, M2A peepees and hoohaas God works in mysterious ways. Even more mysterious than I'm willing to experiment with. If your god is everywhere, why do you need to go to church? Collection plates? https://danielmiessler.com/blog/the-bible-is-fiction-a-collection-of-evidence/ Can you prove your not a brain in a jar? Even for the pious fondlers and the godly rapists, there is no eternal punishment, no hell. Most don’t even receive punishment in this life and religion is the biggest reason why. self righteous preachy atheist Islam going to peace is like a crocodile going vegan. In the name of Allah, the Beneficient, most Compassionate, most Merciful, .... Blah! Blah! Blah! Is anyone else sick of "god" being auto corrected to "God" all the fricking time? Drives me nuts that this happens on all my devices by default. I know it's a little thing and it's probably grammatically correct but it affords an imaginary figure a respect I don't want to grant. If evolution is a theory, then religion is an opinion. https://ffrf.org/news/news-releases/item/37249-trump-is-packing-the-courts-with-ill-qualified-ideologues obscurantism - the practice of deliberately preventing the facts or full details of something from becoming known. When you have a deceiver and a believer, it's an intimate dance. Bibles won't help with paying your bills, those biology/math books will. The Dark Bible - Atrocities https://www.nobeliefs.com/DarkBible/darkbible3.htm#god-slaughters-blacks Then the Lord said to Moses: Take the blasphemer outside the camp. All those who heard him are to lay their hands on his head, and the entire assembly is to stone him Leviticus 24.13 International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) provision of US Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). federal anti-discrimination law called Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The law prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_barred_or_excluded_from_the_United_States Under Title VII, employers must "reasonably accommodate" workers' religious practices unless that would cause the company "undue hardship." ============================================================================= The curse of Ham... How much time passed between Genesis 9:20 and Genesis 9:21 How long between seed and wine? Biblical atrocities https://infidels.org/library/modern/donald_morgan/atrocity.html God is a logically coherent thing manifested in an objective reality as a powerful sentient agent. He created the universe. He created all life as we know it. And he personally intends to judge us. =============================================== When you say I am a Christian I hear I am a simple minded prick or I am a gullible idiot =============================================== 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 seventh century. =============================================== The fact that you and I could improve the Bible with very little thought, just by taking out the worst passages that have no possible redeemable content... is a problem for the idea that it was written by an omniscient being and not to be superseded by any human effort.” If a religion were proven, it would cease being a religion 2020 is also the year 5780 in the Jewish calendar! If kids got raped by clowns as often as kids get raped by preachers it would be against the law to take your kid to the circus. https://godisimaginary.com/ What is Evangelicalism? Though some may erroneously assume it is a sect its actually a term that refers to any christian that will not and can not shut their mouths about Christianity and will force it in to any conversation or law that they can whether it fits or not. Including harassing people on the street with unwanted and unnecessary harangues about the 'end of days'. Think about the culture back in these times. Religion was in the government, ecclesiastical states controlled everything. "Rules for thee, not for me" ========================================================================= In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth Psalm 19:7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. (usage of Lord, Jehovah, Yahweh depending on the bible) Psalm 119:160. All of gods laws are eternal (like Heaven and Hell). 2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable foreteaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 1. Do you believe the bible to be the inspired, infallible, inerrant, ultimately authoritative Word of God, (Psalm 19:7, 2 Timothy 3:16) 2. Do you accept biblical chronology (6,000 years) or scientific chronology (4.5 billion years) for planet Earth, (passage of time)? 3. Can you show me any scientific reproducible evidence of one god? Can you show me the evidence of 3,879 gods? 4. Do you accept in your heart, the stories of Adam and Eve and the garden scene Sodom and gomorrah Tower of Babel Noah's Ark The Exodus The Ten Commandments 5. Can you please explain the concept of the Holy Trinity ========================================================================== The Islamabad High Court (IHC) stated that “liberal secular extremism” is a bigger threat than Islamic extremism. If we're really made in 'God's image,' why can we see each other? Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F6J8o7AAe8&feature=emb_logo =================================== The only thing the Bible says about abortion is how to perform one. (Genesis 2:7) Life begins at birth with the first breath. (Exodus 21:22-25) Fetuses are not persons. (Numbers 5:11-31) Fetuses should be aborted as proof of adultery. (Deuteronomy 28:18-24) Life is not sacred. (2 Kings 8:12) God will rip open pregnant mothers to be. (2 Kings 15:16) Israelite King Menahem ripped open pregnant women. (Isaiah 13:18) God will kill unborn fetuses. (Hosea 9:10-16) God will destroy fetuses in utero. (Hosea 13:16) God will dash infants in pieces and rip open pregnant women. =================================== Surah 5:33 The penalty of those who wage war against God and His messenger and seek corruption in the land is to be killed, or crucified, or to have their hands and feet cut on alternate sides, or to be banished from the land. That is their disgrace in this world, and in the Hereafter they shall have a great punishment. Surah 6.93 Who can be more wicked than one who invent a lie against Allah? If the death penalty is prescribed for lesser crime, then it stands to reason that it should be imposed for the most wicked. Religion is like a penis. It is ok to have one. It is ok to be proud of it, but please don’t wave it around in public and please don’t shove it down my throat. Religion is a disease and the root of evil in this world, it spreads from one person to another and induces ignorance and lack of critical thinking. It is something that like communism works on paper but in real life doesn't work, we in our real life society need to remove this disease. Only then can we advance as a species. You see all of the children pledging and saluting their lives to the state and to Hitler. So how exactly does that differ from pledging yourself to god? If you don't follow the state, you're a traitor and will be killed for it. If you don't believe in god, you're a heretic and will be persecuted for that. It's happened many times throughout history and continues to be so till this day. Eating bacon cuts your chances of being a suicide bomber by 100%. Leaving a kid alone in the presence of a clergy member should be considered child endangerment. Occam’s razor: The simplest explanation is usually – but not always – the correct one Sagan standard: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence Hitchens razor: What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence Hume’s razor: Causes must be sufficiently able to produce the effect assigned to them Duck test: If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck Popper’s falsifiability principle: For a theory to be considered scientific, it must be possible to disprove or refute it Newton’s flaming laser sword: If something cannot be settled by experiment, it is not worth debating Grice’s razor: Address what the speaker actually meant, instead of addressing the literal meaning of what they actually said Hanlon’s razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic. Carl Sagan, Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980) It's a sin to eat pork, but it's perfectly fine to marry a six year old and have sex with her at 9. Okay Islam, whatever you say. Hitchens: Religion now comes to us in this smiley-faced, ingratiating way, because it's had to give so much ground and because we know so much more. But you have no right to forget the way it behaved when it was strong, and when it really did believe that it had God on its side. Holocaust links https://12bytes.org/articles/history/rescuing-israel-the-holocaust-index/rescuing-israel-the-holocaust-the-resources Msgr Rev Francis V. Strahan https://patch.com/massachusetts/framingham/framingham-pastor-removed-after-sex-abuse-allegation Pagan Origins of Judaism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZECezMYug8c There is no freedom OF religion without a government that is free FROM religion. ============================================================================== STIGMA To determine the level of stigma, the survey asked participants how often they had experienced nine “microaggressions” in the past 12 months. Those included: • Seeing religious symbols or text in public places. • Being asked to join others in thanking God for a fortunate event. • Being pressured to pretend they are religious. • Being asked to go along with religious traditions to avoid causing trouble. • Being treated as if they don’t know the difference between right and wrong. • Being talked about behind their back for being secular or nonreligious. • Being isolated, ignored or rejected for being secular or nonreligious. • Being told they are not a good person for being secular or nonreligious. • Being excluded from social gatherings or events. ============================================================================== It's a common misconception that the Puritans came to America to escape religious persecution. In fact, the Puritans came to America because in England they were prevented from persecuting others according to their religious beliefs, and wanted a place where they could do so. The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee. --- Christopher Hitchens How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape. --- Christopher Hitchens ========================================================================== If Christianity was true, parents wouldn't have to indoctrinate their children into believing it No parent systematically brainwashes their children into believing the truth of evolutionary biology and thermodynamics because these disciplines are objectively true. Likewise, if Christianity was objectively true, Christians wouldn't bother raising their children to believe in it. They would only have to encourage their children to search for truth with an open mind, exploring as many faith traditions as possible. Christians would even supply their children with an abundance of anti-Christian literature. In the end, none of this would matter because their children would inevitably discover that Christianity was objectively true. The truth of Christianity would be both undeniable and easily verified by anyone after observation and study, just like the truth of evolutionary biology and thermodynamics is both undeniable and easily verified by anyone. =========================================================================== Atheism by itself is, of course, not a moral position or a political one of any kind; it simply is the refusal to believe in a supernatural dimension. If someone was raped, and I can save them without any risk of myself being hurt, but I choose to just watch, am I an asshole? If I am an asshole, then why is it acceptable for God? If we are to believe that the earth was created 6000 years ago and we are to believe that light travels at 186,000 miles per second, then stars are at most 6000 * 365 * 24 * 60 * 60 Faith is not a virtue. It is a LIABILITY. Children CANNOT consent to anything. Be it sex, cutting off body parts unnecessarily, or scaring them with apocalyptic imagery. your office unconstitutionally promoted religion and threatens to punish those who believe differently, St Stephen crew Rev. Francisco J. Anzoátegui, Pastor Rev. Gabino O. Macias, Parochial Vicar Deacon: Pedro L. Torres Deacon: Alfredo Nieves Torture in the Quran https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/torture.aspx ========================================================================== My thing is when I go to church I can't get past the fact that I'm listening to some fucking guy give me this holy shit When you go in there, that's just some dude. The people say that's a special guy. No it isn't! He didn't levitate down from the ceiling... with white light around him. Why would you ever listen to another human being tell you where you go when you die. Like dude, have you ever been dead? No! Great! So wouldn't it be safe to assume that you don't have the slightest fucking idea about what you're talking about. You're making this shit up! You're not fooling me with the robes and the candles and smoke, speaking in old english. It's just some guy, his name is Jerry, you played soccer together, he got his ass kicked in gym class and now he's doing this. ========================================================================= Jane Goodall had to go to Africa to meet primates. I on the other hand, just have to stick around Framingham. Unfiltered definition of Christianity Christianity- a polytheistic, apocalyptic death cult that worships three gods, that celebrates human sacrifice, practices ritual cannibalism, instills a gender hierarchy, posits the existence of good and evil immaterial spirit beings, supports eternal punishment of the damned, and has an unquenchable and yearning anticipation for the end of the world. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dating_creation#Maya https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/3761-bce-the-world-is-created-1.5405777 Rabbi Yose ben Halafta October 7, 3761 B.C.E., is the date on which the world was created Seder Olam Zutta to 4339 BC According to the Hebrew calendar, the year just begun is 5776. If we subtract 2015 – the current year in the secular, or Gregorian, calendar – from that, we arrive at Year One being 3761 B.C.E. (before the Common Era). 4004 BC Bishop James Ussher OT antigay quotes: Romans 1:26–27, 1 Corinthians 6:9–11, 1 Timothy 1:9–10 Moses' laws were abolished with Christ's death on the cross. That's a standard Christian argument to wish away the clear teachings of the Bible. The response is Matthew 5:18-19: “For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass the law until all is accomplished. Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” Further Luke 16:17, Matthew 5:17 and John 7:19. Creation 3761 BCE Current jewish year Claiming that someone else's marriage is against your religion is like being angry at someone for eating a doughnut because you're on a diet. Numbers 31:18 (pedophilia) But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. Torture in the Quran https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/torture.aspx Melior Diabolus Quem Scies YouTube said it would specifically prohibit videos that glorify Nazi ideology or deny documented violent events like the Holocaust Shaykh al-Islaman: honorific title for outstanding scholars of the Islamic sciences. Mufti: is an Islamic jurist qualified to issue a nonbinding opinion (fatwa) on a point of Islamic law (sharia) Imam: is an Islamic leadership position. If you believe in absurdities you can commit atrocities. Sura 6-93 Who can be more wicked than one who invent a lie aqainst Allah? If the death penalty is prescribed for lesser crime, then it stands to reason that it be imposed for the "most" wicked. Sura 98-6 Indeed, they who disbelieved among the People of the Scripture and the polytheists will be in the fire of Hell, abiding eternally therein. Those are the worst of creatures. Circumcision is the epitomy of religious savagery. A good reason to doubt your faith is to question whether your deity has ever been demonstrated to actually exist. Or whether hell has been demonstrated to exist, or souls to be sent there. In the bullshit department, a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman. When it comes to bullshit, big time major league bullshit, you have to stand in awe, in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims! No contest. No contest. Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever told. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7346691/Saudi-Arabia-sees-7-400-planes-worshippers-arrive-Mecca-2-5m-Muslims-Hajj.html?ito=video_player_click 2350 bc- The Immortal Flying Kangaroos arrive in Australia; having left no tracks, bones, or relatives behind along the way from Ararat to Australia. The Quran is a collection of words that Muhammad attributed to Allah. The Hadith is a collection of narrations of the life and deeds of Muhammad. The Sira is his recorded biography. The Sunnah is said to be Muhammad's way of life, on which Islamic law (Sharia) is based. Nothing grows a bond between two humans stronger than a mutual hate for something else Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur If no grounds have been given for an assertion, then there are no grounds needed to reject it. What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. Invocation: an incantation used to invoke a deity or the supernatural. Maladjusted elderly virgin The difference between a religion and a cult is that in a cult, the person at the top knows its a scam. In religion, that person is dead. There is crazy and then there’s religious crazy. Even the devil can cite scripture for his purpose. Every religious thought, every sacred text, every holy scripture, every prophet and every divine revelation initially derives from a false assertion that there exists one god. Show me one. How Zoology Disproves Noahs Flood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0J5WMmykEs Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. ----- George Orwell Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms. They were all very important when we didn't know why the sun moved, why weather changed, why hurricanes occurred, or volcanoes happened. Modern religion is the end trail of modern mythology. But there are people who interpret the Bible literally. "Man is quite insane. He wouldn't know how to create a maggot, and he creates gods by the dozen." --- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92) Yet it only takes one god for madness to set in. The Reformation: Letters of indulgences https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhGGjRjvq7w Friedrich Nietzsche...The God Killer 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 -------------------------------------------------------- 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. =============================================== 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. ========================================== 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. ============================================================================== Which god do I pray to? The one who allowed the shooting to happen? Or the one who did nothing to stop it? ============================================================================== 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 ============================================================================== People get my respect by default until they prove otherwise. Ideas deserve no respect until they demonstrate they are worthy of respect. ============================================================================== 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 ============================================================================== 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 ======================================================================== 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]" ======================================================================== 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. ======================================================================== 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 ============================================================================ 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." ======================================================================== 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." ============================================================================ 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. ========================================================================= 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 ====================================================================== 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 ================================================================= 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. =================================================================== 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. How cool is that? 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. =========================================================================== Believe is only applicable to belief in Jesus Christ (if he existed). Offer is not applicable to belief in any other Diety. Whatever is limited to anything that is possible within the laws of nature and physics to be deemed possible to occur on its own. Offer not valid for anything supernatural or physically impossible to occur such as spontaneous regrowth of amputated limbs. Offer not valid for any philosophical, including any requests for the elimination of evil. Offer dependent on number of prayers received, seriousness of belief used, and whether or not the requests fails under God's plan. Odds of success are identical to requests made without prayer or belief. If believer has not received what they requested via prayer, then the fault lies with the requester, not with management. Management reserves the right to rescind any offer or request via the Mysterious Ways clause. ========================================================================== $71 billion in tax cuts go to religion. This does prove that money is indeed the root of all that is evil. Faith is belief without evidence. Jesus is a friend of mine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-NOZU2iPA8 The public learned that the Revisionists had first class documentation and arguments, while the Exterminationists were in desperate straits. http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v12/v12p167_Webera.html http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v12/v12p167_Weberb.html Here are 15 things the Catholic Church teaches that are ruining your sex life - even if you're not religious http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/here-are-15-things-the-catholic-church-teaches-that-are-ruining-your-sex-life-even-if-youre-not-religious/ =========================================================================== Religion is uniquely armored against anything that might stop it from spinning into extreme absurdity. http://www.alternet.org/story/143912/the_top_one_reason_religion_is_harmful Religion is ultimately dependent on belief in invisible beings, inaudible voices, intangible entities, undetectable forces, and events and judgments that happen after we die. It therefore has no reality check. And it is therefore uniquely armored against criticism, questioning, and self-correction. It is uniquely armored against anything that might stop it from spinning into extreme absurdity, extreme denial of reality ... and extreme, grotesque immorality. ------------------------------------ No Evidence Of Benevolence If the Christian faith were true, there would be evidence of it everywhere, here and now, not just buried under thousands of years of sediment, or between the pages of an onion skin book. 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 Children die all the time, unpleasantly, from a huge range of causes, from horrific diseases to violence to accidents etc. Humanity, barring those elements that are psychopathic or otherwise damaged, consider the unpleasant death of a child to be an almost archtypical example of evil. Failing to act to prevent the death of the child, if such was in one's power, is evil. God is defined as omnipotent, so could easily prevent such evil. God is defined as omniscent, so is aware of the evil. So: Morality is objective, and god is the source. Therefore, god has ordained that murdering kids is objectively evil. Therefore, god is evil by his own manifestation of the concept. Why would one worship an evil god? Morality is objective, and god is not the source. Therefore, there is that which can constrain god, therefore god is not all-powerful etc, therefore we have no reason to respect or worship him. In fact, since god is objectively evil, it is our duty as moral beings to destroy him. Morality is subjective, and god exists. Our morality is a fundamental part of our humanity, so as humans, we are inherently in conflict with an entity who is so obviously evil. We need to either accept that we are at war with god, or change ourselves to the point that we no longer consider murdering kids to be evil. God doesn't exist. This is appears to be the simplest and most likely resolution. Bullshit baffles brain. You are not entitled to you opinion, you are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant. One of Dawkins' favorite points to make against the teleological argument is: "If God is the explanation for all things, then where did God come from?" I like this point because it shows the willingness to draw arbitrary lines in the sand when it comes to determining cause and effect. Every thing in the natural world HAS to have a creator, yet the creator himself doesn't? https://emancipatedmindblog.wordpress.com/2015/11/16/behave-like-a-species-that-has-walked-on-the-fucking-moon/ http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/sleepwalking-toward-armageddon https://believervsnonbelievers.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/post-4955-king-james-bible-wrong-qlx7.jpeg?w=640 http://worldmediamonitoring.com/list-quran-hate-quotes/ The new plague, the Black Death of radical Islam They're trying to take us back to a state of barbarism that has been extinct for 1,200 years. This is precisely how great civilizations of the past declined and eventually fell. They rejected the values that made them great and degenerated into narcissism and selfishness. They kept on partying until they were too weak to defend themselves. Then, the unthinkable happened. They fell. You might not have a problem with Islam, but Islam has a problem with you. It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because it's useful and not because you think it's true." Bertrand Russell - Why I'm Not a Christian Only when the question of what happens to our inner essence after rigor mortis sets in, will homo sapiens find true spiritual peace. Regardless, aggressively ridiculing others because of a characteristic largely imposed by factors beyond their control is no way to foster understanding and compassion. http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/611824/Why-humans-believe-god-Professor-Steven-Reiss?_ga=1.181475559.1735312201.1446746568 16 human desires as curiosity, acceptance, family, honour, idealism, independence, order, physical activity, power, romance, saving, social contact, eating, status, tranquillity and vengeance. Guards Gun Down Four Angels Escaping From Heaven http://www.theonion.com/article/guards-gun-down-four-angels-escaping-from-heaven-37737 Best evolution web sites http://www.talkorigins.org/ http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/0_0_0/evo_02 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsnXnKUonnw5nYR2BRQpOOQh6xE6OJDnD http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/ http://www.bio.miami.edu/dana/106/106F05_4print.html http://www.bio.miami.edu/dana/pix/comparative_embryo.jpg "In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that He would give His blessing to our work, and that He may ever give us the courage to do the right. I am convinced that men who are created by God should live in accordance with the will of the Almighty. No man can fashion world history unless upon his purpose and his powers there rests the blessings of this Providence." - Adolf Hitler To the privileged, equality feels like oppression Is Islam all fringe and No Center? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrRrrmgJrwY Four angels gunned down http://www.theonion.com/article/guards-gun-down-four-angels-escaping-from-heaven-37737 Cunis lives in his own repressive religious regime Why is it that you swear on a bible or swear to God in court but can't use anything in it as a defense? If you stand in court and say you were possessed by demons or ordered by God to commit a crime they will lock you in a padded room even though those things are detailed in the book you swear on. Noah's ark: Gopher wood, not known Watch Jesus camp. http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/jesus_camp/ Anti religious phamblets http://www.normalbobsmith.com/free/flyers/gif.html Self flagellation (Holy Day of Ashura) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3287819/Spilling-blood-religion-Tiny-Shi-ite-Muslim-boys-whip-sharp-blades-mourn-death-Prophet-Muhammad-s-grandson.html How much do pastors in Framingham actually make? Greater Framingham Community Church with the obstinacy of an evil serpent who has eaten his fill have never consented to look at... The Awfulness of Saudi Arabia http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6722/saudi-awfulness Why people believe in God http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/611824/Why-humans-believe-god-Professor-Steven-Reiss Today I learned that atheism is punishable by death in 13 countries. Which made me think, 'Thats how i'm going to introduce myself to strangers in bars!' If you're curious those countries are; Afghanistan, Iran, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Nigeria, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, United Arab Emirates and Yemen. Children using smartphones should never turn their back on a priest Curse 4004 BC, 10 days after creation Flood 2348 BC Tower of Babel 2242 Tower of Babel Egypt begins After 2242 but prior to Abraham going to Egypt Call of Abraham 1922 BC Ice Age peak 1848 BC Time of the Judges (Moses) 1481 BC Time of the Kings (Saul 1095 BC Split kingdom 975 BC Christ was born 5 BC He has an 'almost psychopathic denial of reality' http://drsanity.blogspot.com/2004/08/psychiatry-101-defense-mechanisms.html?m=1 Psychopaths http://www.dovechristiancounseling.com/Characteristics-Of-Psychopaths.html He has an almost psychopathic denial of reality Sodomy is OK with Islam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA11aTDFAU0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Solicitors and Religious Peddlers Be prepared to show Driver's License or Personal ID with Home Address This will provide us with an equal opportunity to disturb your privacy at your front door. No Exceptions --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is because of the deficiency of a woman's mind. Sura 2:282 Sura 4:34 keffiyeh, kufiya, ghutrah, shemagh, ḥaṭṭah, mashadah, chafiye, cemedani little sheet to protect from sunburn/sand, worn by little sheet heads, Christians are gullible, infantile believers of fairy tales on the level of unicorns, Peter Pan and Tinkerbell, the Easter bunny, leprechauns, magic," the tooth fairy, etc. We are anti-intellectual, anti-science, dumb, stupid, idiots, ignoramuses, and imbeciles who are impervious to evidence of any kind for our beliefs. We have a blind faith that is shielded from reason, fact, and any possible falsifiability." Picture of Hitler: the-greatest-story-never-told-20150713-rev-1.0.pdf http://thegreateststorynevertold.tv/ https://www.youtube.com/user/TGSNTtv American Atheists, PO Box 158, Cranford, NJ 07016 (908) 276-7300 http://atheists.org/contact Isaiah 24.1 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. Matthew 4.8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; 1 Chronicle 16-30 Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved. Samuel 2:28 So Joab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more. Joshua 10:13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. Genesis 1:16-17 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. Hell scriptures http://so4j.com/hell-scriptures-and-facts 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. Islam is an authoritarian religion that does not respect the individuals' of choice, which is easily noticeable from its barbaric verdicts such as stoning the adulterous, pushing the homosexuals off a cliff and killing the apostates for daring to express a different viewpoint. For god so loved the world that he sacrificed himself to himself in order to save the world from himself - for a risible condition he set up (knowing in advance it would end in failure ) for two people who never actually existed yet continue to bequeath "sins" onto everyone forever so as the vast majority of the human race will inevitably be tortured in a fire-drenched state of perpetuity. We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid. I am frequently asked if I have visited Israel, whereas yet, it is simply assumed that I have. Well, I don't travel. I really don't, and if I did, I probably wouldn't visit Israel. I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic, I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. I was laughed at, but I was right. I can't help but feel that the Jews didn't really have the right to appropriate a territory only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors, were living there. History moves on and you can't really turn it back. -- Isaac Asinov -- Organized religion is the main source of hatred in the world, violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism, tribalism, and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children. Jews don't recognize Jesus as the Messiah, Protestants don't recognize the Pope as head of the church, Mormons don't recognize each other at the liquor store and Southern Baptists don't recognize each other at the adult video store. Jesus Christ, The Lord. Do you know him? Or, Do you No Him? I NO him! Religion Together we can find the cure. images/show-me-a-scrawny-god.jpg Your miserable imaginary god is a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. Show me your scrawny little god. A lie does not become truth just because people believe it. Are Gods created by higher level gods? Do Gods Have Gods? The God Pyramid Scheme https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueAtheism/comments/3c61fp/do_the_gods_have_gods_is_it_like_a_multilevel/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecca#Medieval_and_pre-modern_times Because Gay People Are Icky Religion is like masturbation. Masturbation satisfies the drive to reproduce without actually reproducing. Religion satisfies the drive to understand without really understanding. If God is omnipotent and omniscient, why didn't he start the universe out in the first place so it would come out the way he wants? Why is he constantly repairing and complaining? No, there's one thing the Bible makes clear: The biblical God is a sloppy manufacturer. He's not good at design, he's not good at execution. He'd be out of business if there was any competition. The Auschwitz Lie http://www.cwporter.com/bild2.htm http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/state/massachusetts/ Knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the harsh truth, than a reassuring fable. Masturbation satisfies the drive to reproduce without actually reproducing Religion satisfies the drive to understand without really understanding. If you lived 2 or 3 millenia ago, there was no shame in holding that the universe was made for us. It was an appealing thesis consistent with everything we knew. It was what the most learned amongst us taught without qualification. But we've found out much since then. Defending such a position today amounts to willful disregard of the evidence and a flight from self-knowledge . http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/tracts/ Four minute rake down of Islam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQQDkuAhYOs&t=9m28s =========================================================================== 1 2 3 4 5 6 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 =========================================================================== Sufferers of faith-derangement syndrome (FDS) exhibit the following symptoms: unshakable belief in the veracity of manifest absurdities detailed in ancient texts regarding the origins of the cosmos and life on earth; a determination to disseminate said absurdities in educational institutions and via the media; a propensity to enjoin and even enforce (at times using violence) obedience to regulations stipulated in said ancient texts, regardless of their suitability for contemporary circumstances; the conviction that an invisible, omnipresent, omniscient authority (commonly referred to as "God") directs the course of human and natural events, is vulnerable to propitiation and blandishments, and monitors individual human behavior, including thought processes, with an especially prurient interest in sexual activity. Secondary symptoms exhibited by sufferers of FDS comprise feelings of righteousness and sensations of displeasure, even outrage, when collocutors question, reject or refute the espousal of said absurdities. If your religious beliefs are so fragile that they cannot be discussed openly in a public forum such as a court, then you should abandon them. If God is omniscient he knows what would convince all atheists that he exists. If God is omnipotent he has the power to convince all atheists that he exists. If God is omnibenevolent he wants to convince all atheists that he exists so as to prevent them from going to hell. Atheists exist. Therefore, it seems that God does not exist or is missing one of the aforementioned traits =========================================================================== It would be almost unbelievable, if history did not record the tragic fact, that men have gone to war and cut each other's throat because they could not agree as to what was to become of them after their throats were cut. -- Walter P. Stacy ( 1925 - 1951 ) -- ============================================================================ If there really is a god judging my masturbation, I say make a show of it and get creative. World Religion Tree http://000024.org/religions_tree/ It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous. What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion or the activities of teaching of that religion that are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked? To criticize any religion is a right. That is a freedom. The freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas - even if they are sincerely held beliefs - is one of the fundamental freedoms of society Thanking god for sparing you in a natural disaster is like sending a thank-you note to a serial killer for stabbing the family next door. Passionless pit of hell Jews have that Holocaust sympathy for another 15 years as all alleged survivors die off or the History channel fails. I love eating Jesus Christ's body then washing down his flesh with a nice tall glass of his blood! http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/17/islam-reformation-extremism-muslim-martin-luther-europe The theologies of Islam and Christianity, in particular, are worlds apart: the former, for instance, has never had a Catholic-style clerical class answering to a divinely appointed pope. So against whom will the "Islamic reformation" be targeted? To whose door will the 95 fatwas be nailed? The truth is that Islam has already had its own reformation of sorts, in the sense of a stripping of cultural accretions and a process of supposed "purification". The end product was Saudi Arabia. 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 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 http://bostonatheists.blogspot.com/ https://www.facebook.com/BostonAtheists Phone: 617-935-4951 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 http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/wiki/recommended/viewing ============================== TEXT ======================================== 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. ============================== TEXT ======================================== 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 ============================================================================== "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 ================================================================================ 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 ========================================================================== 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. ============================================================================ 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. /users/hjw/www/framingham/images/fpac-mccolgan-religion-20100919.jpg 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- American Atheists Center PO Box 158, Cranford, NJ 07016 Phone: 908.276.7300 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve W Wells 905 Orchard Ave. Moscow, ID 83843 swwells@gmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- William J. 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Wolfe 65 Delmar Ave Framingham, MA 01701 http://haroldjwolfe.org hjwolfe@gmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- need-proof-you-are-a-christian.jpg 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. Please remit payment of your tithe to Creflo Dollar 777 Hogwash LN. Cowpoop SC 99999 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. Nice boy, but about as sharp as a sack of wet mice. Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. The point is not that I have an uncanny ability to be right; it's that the other guys have an intense desire to be wrong, The more I study religions, the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. Religion may be the epitomy of narcisism. http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/americanattacks.htm When Cain wandered the earth, he met others and there weren't other people. Where did they come from. If a single cell under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate condition, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years give origin to the human race. Non-negotiable items Freedom of speech Separation of church and state Women getting education What is the meaning of life if you are an atheist? What is the meaning of life if death marks the begining of eternity? Mortality is what makes life worth living. The sense of impending doom makes us what we are and gives meaning to our existence. You do not have enough faith to be an atheist You may have to much faith to be an atheist. Does God have unlimited in-network calling for the faithful but a low-minutes plan for out-of-belief-network calls? Eastern Coast Costume: 329 Moody St, Waltham, MA 02453 (781) 647-1175 http://www.easterncoastcostume.com/ http://911costumes.com http://911buycostume.com Chimp mask: S39507 He was elevated to the cardinalate. 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 the Sahara. Certainly, those unborn ghosts include poets greater than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA, so massively outnumbers 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 majorities have never stirred. Richard Dawkins Skeleton says: What you are now, we once were; what we are now, you shall be. Keep your theology off my biology Laryngeal nerve https://www.google.com/search?q=laryngeal+nerve&hl=en&client=ubuntu&hs=QC0&channel=fs&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=SaA9UZHTLaaS0QH0p4CABQ&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1310&bih=1152#imgrc=TbF_slTitbrSWM%3A%3BXZKUvWFN1E59LM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fstatic-www.icr.org%252Fi%252Farticles%252Faf%252Flaryngeal_nerve.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.icr.org%252Farticle%252F5512%252F%3B400%3B524 If you don't hear it with your own ears or see it with your own eyes, don't invent it with your small mind and share it with your big mouth. The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God Galatians 5:19-21 Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. Exodus 34:14 Atheism is a religion the way bald is a hair color. Atheism is a religion the way clear is a color. Genocide: God's way to handle anger. THe Supreme Court outlaws teaching creationism in schools It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. If you are satisfied and content that God did it, then you are uselss on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world. Atheism: A Personal Relationship With Reality There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly. Daniel Dennett Marijuana is a definitive cure for Islamaphobia. Many religious people claim faith is a central tenet of their belief structure. They will claim that faith is more powerful than evidence. I propose an experiment. Lets put a few believers in prison based on faith that they have committed a grievous and heinous crime. Then count how many seconds before they attempt to use evidence to exonerate themselves. We have all been convicted of original sin. Properly read, the bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. I'll be celebrating Christmas the God intended. BY knocking up teenage girl abandoning my son and murdering him three decades later. Topography of faith http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/graphics/pew-religion-08/flash.htm I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet. 1 Timothy 2:12 Christianity's fine if your goal in life is to die. All complex elements were created within stars that subsequently exploded in supernovas and redistributed their matter across the universe over time. The atoms in your left hand may come from a different star than the atoms in your right hand. Religion talks about being condemned to the lake of fire (hell fire) that may reach temperatures of 2,000 degrees Farenheit, but clearly, we were all formed from atoms that required many millions of degrees to fuse together. Omniscient: all knowing, past, present and future The Divine Plan. What does prayer mean if it's not already part of the Divine Plan Genesis 1:25-27 Man created after animals The Divine Plan. What does prayer mean if it's not already part of the Divine Plan Genesis 1:25-27 Man created after animals Omniscient: all knowing, past, present and future The Divine Plan. What does prayer mean if it's not already part of the Divine Plan Genesis 1:25-27 Man created after animals Genesis 2:18-19 Animals created animals. http://www.saveyourheritage.com/auschwitz.htm Making fun of born again christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle with scope. Dragons, unicorns, pegasi, manticores, gryphons, wizards, ogres, mermaids, elves, Sasquatch --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Maybe sometime in the future some kid will be reading about "atheists" in his history book and ask his teacher "what are atheists?" "well, they were a group of people who didn't believe in god" and the child will ask "what's god?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Psalms 109:8 reads, "Let his days be few, and let another take his office. Joseph makes an interesting observation. If God created Adam, why didn't he he create his own son instead of having to rape my wife. YOUR HOROSCOPE: A bizzare misunderstaning on your part will result in your going to church every Sunday and speaking sincerely to invisible entities with the belief that it might do you some sort of good. Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told. Obedience is doing what you are told regardless of what is right. Gods are fragile things; they may be killed off by a whiff of science, or a dose of common sense. Isaiah 14:12 Lucifer http://www.redicecreations.com/specialreports/2005/11nov/lucifer.html#.UCO_kBDQuKk.facebook "Non-Jews were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world-only to serve the People of Israel," ......"This is his servant... That's why he gets a long life, to work well for this Jew."....."why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap; and we will sit like an effendi (master) and eat."... "That is why gentiles were created." Israeli (former chief) Rabbi Ovadia Yosef 10/18/2010 (radio speech in Israel as reported by The Jerusalem Post) Genesis 17:10 Circumcision Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other people's hallucinations are real. Whether 9% or 99% of the population accept Evolution is not relevant. Truth is not a democracy. Reason has been part of organized religion ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking serpent. If my people will humble themselves and pray, then I will hear them from Heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chron 7:14 In the entire first Christian century, Jesus is not mentioned by a sinle Greek or Roman historian, religion scholar, politician, philosopher or poet. His name never occurs in a single inscription, and it is never found in a single piece of private correspondence. Zero! Zip references.! If you refuse to declaw your cat because it's inhumane, but then you circumcise your boys, go fuck yourself. A psychological disorder (the terms mental illness and psychopathology are often used interchangeably with psychological disorder) is a disorder involving thoughts, feelings and/or behaviours. This sounds simple enough, but it can be challenging to distinguish disordered from non-disordered thoughts and feelings, and behaviours in the real world. For example, if I tell you a full-grown adult I know speaks to an invisible man named Jerry and asks Jerry to grant him wishes, you might rightly assume this man has a psychotic disorder, such as Schizophrenia. On the other hand, if I replace "Jerry" with "Jesus", then suddenly my friend is a perfectly normal Christian. Both sets of thinking and behaviour are remarkably similar, yet one would be considered disordered whereas the other would not. He said he was intrigued by this week's Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI poll showing almost two thirds (62 per cent) of Catholics believed the bread and wine which was blessed during Mass "only represents the body and blood" of Christ. Just 26 per cent said they believed the bread and wine transformed into Christ's body and blood in accordance with the doctrine of transubstantiation. "If they don't believe in transubstantiation then they are not Roman Catholics," Prof Dawkins said. "If they are honest they should say they are no longer Roman Catholics." http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1200999.htm The Catholic church is the biggest organized crime syndicate in the world. Sam Harris simply destroys catholicism http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un4xFresNFw The sinister virgins of the Catholic church, the priests, the black beasts... Catholic church full of gay priests http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2011/01/catholic_church_full_of_gay_pr.php John Wayne Gacy was a Roman Catholic who loved his children. He hept them mostly in his backyard by the garage. Each of the teenage boys was killed after he repeatedly raped them, read them Biblical verses, beat them and strangled them. Another outstanding Christian. The survey finding "should come in for a fair degree of ridicule," he added. "I wouldn't hold back on the ridicule". ========================================================================= One cannot oppose God. How can one oppose something that does not exist? That's like pressing charges against Santa Claus for breaking and entering. The Talmud in english: http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/talmud.htm https://www.sacred-texts.com/aor/twain/letearth.htm Sin is an imaginary disease invented to seel you an imaginary cure. Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool. And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me." And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, "This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.[a] Luke 22:19-20 So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread[a] the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever." John 6:53-58 How easily we can have truth right before our very eyes and yet miss it completely. Apostasy means death in Islam, also in Judaism and Christianity Deuteronomy 13:6-11 If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, why would Satan, the enemy of God, torture the enemies of God. I would imagine that he would help them and set them up with some big breasted virgin hookers. Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it. Malachi 2:3 "I will not be told, "I have a supernatural offer for you, and you can be redeemed if you believe just in me, and if you don't like it you can be tortured forever." I won't be talked to like that. That is the language of fascism and dictatorship." Easter: The time When fools convince themselves that someone with the ability to come back to life is actually making a sacrifice when they die. Welcome to atheism. Babies are served from noon to 8pm and you can now dial 0 to speak directly to Satan. There is a difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out. Deuteronomy 22:13-21 A minion in the synagogue of Satan Telling an atheist to respect religion is like telling a black person to respect the Ku Klux Klan. Andre Oliver We must question the story logic of having an all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes. Gene Roddenberry Science is certain of nothing and requires proof of everything. Faith is certain of everything and requires proof of nothing. Bigotry wrapped in prayer is still bigotry. The moment you declare a set of ideas immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible. 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. Ezekiel 23:20 (New International Version) There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. Liberals like to think that guns are dangerous, but reality dictates that religion is far more dangerous because it gives people a purpose to use a gun when they gleefully kill in the name of their loving, merciful genocidal God. http://www.godvsthebible.com/chapter03 The false inclusion of atheism into the pool of religion is an attempt by the religious to place atheism "in the ring" so to speak. However, atheism has no creed, no scripture, no leadership, no churches, no shrines, no numinous feelings, and no central tenets beside the understanding that the belief in the supernatural is an unfounded one. Atheism has no fundamentals in which to return. Its reactions to the re-mythologizing attempts of fundamentalists involve no brainwashing enclaves or world-creating hypnotists only reasoning and common sense which fall outside the purview of faith. Atheism is not a religion any more than refusing to collect baseball cards is a hobby. Every child born is born an atheist and must be taught the fear, guilt, and racism of organized religion. It would be better to drop the word atheism altogether and call us defaults, since atheism is the default worldview we all begin with." pastorjohn@pilgrimsherborn.org 'And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him'. Leviticus 24:16 If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her ... and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid: Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate: And the damsel's father shall say ... these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. ... But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel: Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die. Deuteronomy 22:13-21 Suffer the little children to come unto me, Suffer the little children to cum unto me, Mark 10:14 We talk about the sanctity of life but we don't practice it. Look at we kill.... Mosquitoes and flies, because they're pests, Lions and tigers, because it's fun, Chickens and pigs, because we're hungry, Pheasants and quails, because it's fun.... and we're hungry And people, we kill people, because they're pests..... and it's fun. The sanctity of life does not apply to cancer cells. Have you seen a bumper sticker that says Save The Tumor I Brake For Adavnced Melanoma Religious people say that you have to beleive in something. Perhaps they think that believing in nothing will plunge them into some kind of existential void, a bottom chasm of uncertainty. This is what the scientific community calls an open mind. The religious view of reality is false, insulting and degrading. I also found its implementation to be sinister, coercive and fraudulent and grossly immoral especially with regard to children. To indoctrinate a child with the bigotries of religion is a predatory assault on an unformed mind. It's an act of sabotage, a mental circumcision that should be against the law. One day it will be. Religion teaches us that we cannot be good to each other without the morals of religion. Religion also teaches us that we must love someone we fear. This is the essence of the master/slave relationship Christianity teaches us that child sacrifice is OK. God himself sacrificed his only son. Religion teaches us that we are owned by God and we are his slaves. He can convict us of pure thought crime while we sleep and condemn us to eternal torture. Atheists have to come out of the closet and help stop this ongoing theocratic encroachment The teachings of the church comes from a clutch of hysterical, sinister male virgins. ========================================================= There is an ongoing theocratic encroachment on our free society by theocratic fascists Religion must die for mankind to live. Book of Jobe, leviathan and behemoth Genesis 1:30 plant eating Are you a real consumer? Blind faith Lev 15:19 on the rag Lev 15:16 masturbation Revel 20:8 four corners Mormons and Kolah http://www.raptureletters.com How jews got into the banking business http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_antisemitism#Medieval_era What is religion, essentially? Is it immature wish-fulfillment, a denial of our mortality, an abrogation of our human responsibilities, a sentimental lullaby for those unwilling to face harsh realities? Is religion a collection of imaginary and absurd beliefs that contribute to prejudice, intolerance and violence? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brit_milah#Metzitzah_technique Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. Proverbs 22:15 http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v12/v12p265_Weber.html SO WHAT IS NEW WITH THIS RELIGION? THE SO CALLED CHRISTIANS COME TO AMERICAN AND SLAUGHTER APPROXIMATELY 13 MILLION NATIVES UNDER THE GUISE OF RELIGION. LIFE RUNS IN CIRCLES MAYBE YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THAT PHRASE Numbers 31 Vengeance on the Midianites No Thanks, I have no desire to be dragged into your nightmarish religious fantasies _,,--,,_ /` .`\ / ' _.-' \ | `'_{}_ | | /` `\ | \/ == == \/ /| (.)(.) |\ \| __)_ |/ |\/____\/| | ` ~~ ` | \ / `.____.` Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based. The vast majority of human primates are arrogant, pompous idiots with an overrated sense of self importance. Even though they have no control of death, they are very afraid of death. Religion is the mental virus that allows them to believe that they will have life after death. Ever since they invented immortality for themselves, there is not a single case of a human being living more thna 150 years. Jewish usury We see what we believe... rather than....we believe what we see. http://www.holocaustinfo.net/english.php http://www.whale.to/b/holocaust_revisionism.html http://holocausthandbooks.com/index.php?page_id=1001 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_religious_views We hold the spiritual forces of Christianity to be indispensable elements in the moral uplift of most of the German people. Christianity was the first creed in the world to exterminate its adversaries in the name of love. http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/quran/ Symbols of hate: the cross, Star of David, Crescent moon and star. Yoism.org Open source religion misogyny: hatred of women the black robed priests, the black beasts Golden calf, where did the slaves get all that gold Egyptian Book of the Dead If you truly believe that death leads to eternal bliss, why wear a seatbelt. Religion derives from our infancy as a society. I Don't Fear God. It's the people who created him that scare me. Debunking creationism one idiot at a time. Original sin? So I owe a debt from the moment I'm born. Christianity is a religion for slaves hoping that god will forgive us for the way he apparantly made us in the first place. http://www.joelosteen.com What is eternal bliss? Constant orgasm? Won't you get bored? The Quran promises a heaven full of wine and free sex. (Suras 2:25, 4:57, 11:23, 47:15) Sura 9:5 Fight and slay the pagans [i.e. infidels] wherever you find them and sieze them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war. Sura 4:34 Men are the managers of the affairs of women. ...Those you fear may be rebellious - admonish; banish them to their couches and beat them. a not so benign herd of religious idiots Faith demands a positive suspension of critical faculties. Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institution and the passage of time. Isaiah 7:14 - young woman translated to virgin Isaiah 9:6 Rev 1:3, 16:16 6:12 Sura 55:26, 3:151 The Hallmark Of Religion Is The Arrogance of Certitude If you are a true believer and someone close to you dies, why should you mourn their death if you believe that they have gone to a better place like Heaven. Since your goal on earth is to get to Heaven, may I suggest that you should remove all your car seat belts and avoid anti-biotics You are here to make sacrifices to get to a better place like heaven. Just try not to make sacrifices of other peoples to get there. Faith is believing in something without evidence and is touted as a virtue (it is regarded as a good thing). This treatment of faith as a virtue is what allows the extremists to flourish. Why are you atheists so angry?" I could be living near Saturn if it wasn't for you dumb fucks. The Wall of Peace in Belfast, Ireland separates the Catholics from the Protestants. The religious zealots expect us, the rationalists (a.k.a. atheists) to prove that God does not exist. It is they, the religious zealots, that have made the biblical assertion that their God does exist. Such an extraordinary claim must come with extraordinary evidence. They have had 3,000 years to develop such evidence and have yet to uncover a shred or scintila of evidence, but they question evolution, even as evolution has become a secure fact of science over the last 150 years. If Earth, life, humanity, or the universe is too complex or incomprehensible to have arisen by chance and required some sort of "intelligent intervention" for its creation, that necessitates some sort of being that possesses a higher order of intelligence, complexity, and ability than anything we experience. If the everyday universe could not have been created by chance, such a higher order of complexity certainly could not have arisen by chance either. Therefore our "intelligent intervener" must in turn have been created by something greater and more complex than itself, which in turn requires still another higher order.... This is a recursive argument that goes on forever until one gets tired or reaches some sort of first cause by simple random chance. The it-must-need-a-creator leads us into an infinite series of logical nested Russian dolls, or an eventual first random creation. If there's a first random creation why make it some hypothetical event infinite levels above us? Why not us? It makes as much sense as any other creation event. What Gods? Have you seen any Gods? Where are these Gods? And where do they go? And how come there's more than one God? It would seem to me, one world, one God. Why does every country all of a sudden need it's own God? One God is all you need! But a God that big? Somebody would have seen it by now. Someone would have said, "Hey Joey, Joey, look at the fucking God here. A big ass fucking God over here!" You never hear that! You know why? We don't have God one. We are essentially Godless! At the heart of "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" is a healthy and normal skepticism. There are far too many charlatans and con-men in the world who make extraordinary claims without evidence to back them up. Unfortunately, too many people lack the necessary skepticism and critical thinking skills to help them avoid being duped by con artists and wild theories. Psychotic pinnipeds Bible or Quran: http://bibleorquran.webs.com/game.swf Logic is a concept that religion feels very uncomfortable with, Inpersonating a priest is like inpersonating an idiot. For some, it's a natural fit. The Protestants do not believe in the Pope as an emmisary of God and disliked the profit motive of the church. Darwinism is deeply corrosive to religious faith. There's no room for a God in the world. It's an undeniable fact that to own up to being an atheist is tantamount to introducing yourself as Mr. Hitler or Miss Beelzebub. Wizards of Winter: Trans-Siberian Orchestra http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szLmAPW39uE http://www.friscochristmas.com Torah thumpers Framingham Notes, Silver, Carl, Cohn buttons Eric Kline. Silverman http://www.eksilverman.com/index.html Bacteria R Us http://www.miller-mccune.com/science-environment/bacteria-r-us-23628/ The damages that the churches do through their policies in incalculable. Consider their desire to stop AIDS, but not wanting users to wear condoms. Outside the Bible, God simply doesn't exist. Inside the Bible, it's too damned dark to see. http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=161131,00.html http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/rr-07-41.pdf http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/2006paci_report_5-30-07.pdf Egypshuns or Sawdee 'Rabians I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other gods you will understand why I dismiss yours." ..........Stephen F. Roberts It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so." ..........Ernestine Rose mass psychosis, clinical psychotic reaction, mob mentality http://www.bloggersbase.com/politics-and-opinions/3-islam/ Abrogation: http://tinyurl.com/abrogations1 http://www.muhammadanism.org/Quran/abrogation_koran.pdf Sura 2:106 We do not abrogate a verse or cause it to be forgotten except that we bring forth one better than it or similar to it. Do you not know that Allah is over all things competent. Sura 16:101 And when we substitute a verse in place of a verse - and Allah is most knowing of what he sends down - they say. "You [O Muhammad] are but an inventor of lies. But most of them do not know. Sura 17:86 And if we willed, we could surely do away with that which we revealed to you. Then you would not find for yourself concerning it an advocate against us. Taqiyya: http://tinyurl.com/taqiyya1 http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Quran/011-taqiyya.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib9rofXQl6w&feature=player_embedded * Islam has not been hijacked. o Assumption: all religions are benign & anodyne. + The Bible is composed of many books spanning centuries, containing culture, history, parables and allegories. + The Qur'an was uttered by a single man and focuses on imperatives. # Internal contradictions are resolved by the science of Naskh: latter verses abrogate earlier verses with which they conflict. * no compulsion in religion * fight them until only Allah is worshiped # The Qur'an is not an a la carte menu, it is all or nothing; take it or leave it. # The message is clear, direct and immutable. # Islam's Mercenary Mission * Global imposition of Islamic doctrine & practice is a religious duty. * Offensive, aggressive and unjust jihad: against: o Jews, Christians & Zoroastrians o All other non-Islamic people. * Muslims are allowed to deceive non-Muslims to protect and advance the imposition of Islam. o al-Taqiyya: dissembling o kitman: concealment of material facts o duality: one message in English, the opposite in Arabic. o Deception is useful in war; Islam is at war with the world until it comes under Islamic domination. o "Religion of Peace" + Muslims quote early, relatively peaceful~tolerant verse while obscuring the more violent verses that abrogated those early verses. + Peace comes with the completion of global conquest. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are continuing to store this information in private databases, as we feel most of these people are, or will be, guilty of violent hate crimes, soon. 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Rest assured, even when it might appear that we are not busy, we are working over time, dealing with widespread threats----from Hamas and Hezbollah supporters, active in official Hamas and Hezbollah forums, to the run of the mill Jew haters that support David Duke---- no threat is too small or overlooked. One hateful comment in our direction lands these Jew haters in a database that is supplied to the authorities and shared privately among top-notch private sympathizers who help our effort and intelligence gathering operations in a wide-variety of ways. We will continue to proactively target people who target us, or any Jews, and will pursue them to the fullest extent of the law. We will remain hyper-vigilant in our defensive effort to do whatever it takes to defend Israel and the Jewish people, and with G-d's help, we will continue to be victorious against all odds and an overwhelming number enemies, just as we have been for thousands of years (Gen 12:3). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FUTURE BURDENS UPON THE WELFARE STATE I am stupefied by the extraordinary dullness stretched out before me. You wouldn't know the strain of actual work if it inserted itself rectally and gnawed remorselessly at your innards. You are lazy, uninvolved, uncurious, bigoted, slovenly half-trained baboons with no more right at a lucrative and responsible job than a heroin addict on 125th and Lenox. none of you brain-damaged bacteria farms you learning-resistant dung-rockets Is there anyone in this amorphous blob of institutional autism You have accomplished nothing more socially uplifting than a gift for creating soiled laundry and bathroom mold. This planet will be a lifeless charcoal briquet within 20 years I fervently pray only for the sweet release of death sort -d -t "|" -k 3 exempt_906 -o exempt_906_sorted sort -d -t "|" -k 14 exempt_906 -o exempt_906_landarea --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are falling into the most classic of fallacious arguments: thinking *we* need to refute the claims of theists. The theists need to prove their claims. When you peel back the layers of deepity and woo from every argument from a theist, you will eventually reach a point where the response will be one of the following: - God works in mysterious ways. - You just need to have faith. - It says so in the bible/qur'an/vedas/etc When you get that as your answer, the debate is over and you can just walk away. They have played their last card. They won't listen to anything else you say and there is nothing you *can* say that will force them to admit those are wholly insufficient reasons to believe. This is also why attempting to *win* any debate with a theist is futile. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- We call ourselves Human. Not Abacterial. Even though bacteria are infinitely more populous than us and we would like to distinguish ourselves from them. Rev. Dr. Deborah L. Clarke, Pastor of Edwards Church, UCC Rev. Sandra Bonnette-Kim, Pastor of First United Methodist Church Rev. Peter Cook, Senior Pastor of Plymouth Church, UCC Rev. Dcn. Lori Mills-Curran, Coordinator for Christian Formation, St. Andrew's Episcopal Church Rev. Brad Watters, Pastor of Grace Congregational Church Rev. Bob Baril Rev Dr J Anthony Lloyd, Pastor of Greater Framingham Community Church Anthony Lloyd 485 Franklin St Framingham, MA 01702 (508) 879-1476 Rev. Maddie Sifantus, Director of MUSE Inc Rev. Kathleen Hepler, Pastor of First Parish in Framingham Rev. Gregory Morisse, Associate Pastor of Plymouth Church, UCC Deacon Guy Spiri, Deacon of St Stephen Church Rev. Richard Hurst, Pastor of Lutheran Church Julie Heagney, Member of Framingham Friends Cantor Jodi Schechtman, Spiritual Leader of Temple Beth Am Rabbi Laurence Bazer, Temple Beth Sholom 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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