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It’s not Easter unless I offend someone.
The co-opted pagan fertility rite of Eostre is brought to you by:
The American Egg Board. Home of The Incredible Edible Egg!
By Hallmark! Maker of unnecessary Easter greeting cards since 1910.
By the Vatican and Roman Catholic Church. Touching young souls for millennia!
And by Cadbury Schweppes who says, who cares about all that stuff as long as you get your chocolate on, eh?
“Si vis pacem, edamus cioccolata! Pax tecum.” -Kevbo
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So many idiots, so little time…
From a reply I made to some doofus appearing on a fellow atheist’s facebook page:
- If people would stop bringing up Jesus and the magic invisible sky wizard, we atheists mightn’t need to offer tidbits of logic, truth and guidance so often. Inherent in so many people’s beliefs is a strange need to proselytize, spread misinformation, enforce dogma and persecute those who think differently, or rather, think logically.
- A belief that something is true in no way alters the fact that it may be incorrect. Truth is only technically relative in some instances from some varying physical frames of reference but can usually be reconciled mathematically. If something is correct and true, you don’t need to employ belief. It is repeatable, able to be verified and through investigation, enhanced by future discoveries. Belief is static and is often a willful ignorance of facts and a disregard for a lack of empirical evidence.
- It’s strange how much truth bothers people when it counters their fantasies. The mere statement of a truth is perceived as persecution. If what you belief in is so wonderful and great, why would any challenges or demand for proof shake your foundations? Oh, ye of of little faith! So many people’s faith in a made-up god is obviously not impervious to a few well-crafted sentences or we wouldn’t be having this discussion.
- How in the world does a statistically probable greater number of persecutions of those of faith invalidate suffering incurred by those do do not believe? The simple fact that non-believers are a minority will mean there will be less of them persecuted. Duh. Furthermore, blacks have every right to resent the fact that their people were enslaved as they are still enduring the repercussions thereof. To say otherwise is to be ignorant of history and quite insulting. -
Carpet Diem
I’m going to build an atheist mosque near Ground Zero, complete with minarets (but painted like ice cream cones) just to get even more people’s panties in a bunch. We won’t do any praying there, naturally, since we’re atheists. We’ll just enjoy having a lot of throw rugs at our disposal at least five times a day.
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Atheists, Agnostics Know More About Religion
No surprises at all in this article but it sums things up nicely. One may extrapolate further to partially explain a tendency around the globe for the most uneducated to be most prone to violent fervency, extremism and anti-intellectualism. There could easily be argued a negative correlation between America’s educational decline globally and the resurgence of fundamentalism. No matter, I’ll take Biblical Errancy for $1000, Alex.
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Something I said elsewhere.
“The church is so petrified of having their god seem one iota less special or that man be any closer to the earth from which he arose. To the Vatican, to refute the existence of a ‘soul’ is to devalue the church as they buoy themselves as the world’s ‘sole’ provider of true salvation. No soul? No money rolls in and the pews empty. Their stated position is another pitiful plea for relevance in a world of which science is slowly revealing the mechanics.”
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For Roman Catholics, a Renewed Interest in Exorcism - NYTimes.com
Dust off your Tubular Bells, everyone! Learn some Latin! Load up on the pea soup! Tie your kids to the bed posts because it’s Exorcism time again! Woohoo!
Not content to just take their church back to pre-Vatican II times, the Roman Catholic powers that be are going all the way back to the Middle Ages! Plus, with our troops in the Middle East, it’s like the Crusades are happening too!
Really had to do a double-take when I put this in the paper last night. Double-checked calendar to see if it was really 2010. How pathetic and sadly hilarious!
Next week, a conference on how to tell if she’s a witch! Also, our 2011 guide to finding the chastity belt that’s right for you!
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The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one. One worth clinging to. But you don’t need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It’s not just an idea, it’s reality. We’re discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day. The inverse square law of gravitation is amazing. Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.
The nearly infinite set of dominoes that have fallen into each other in order for us to be here tonight is unfathomable. Truly unfathomable. But it is logical. We don’t know all the steps in that logic, but we’re learning more about it every day. Learning, expanding our consciousness, singly and universally. As far as I can see, the three main intolerant religions in the world aren’t helping in that mission.
Food for The Eagle - Adam Savage’s speech to Harvard Humanism Society
Read the whole thing.
(via wilwheaton)
Oh, hell yeah. This squared. Adam Savage is obviously inside my brain and doing a Reader’s Digest on my thoughts.
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"Why do Americans still dislike atheists?"
Why do Americans still dislike atheists?
[…] Those who don’t believe in God are widely considered to be immoral, wicked and angry. They can’t join the Boy Scouts. Atheist soldiers are rated potentially deficient when they do not score as sufficiently “spiritual” in military psychological…
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Hope you don’t like your church separated from your state cause here’s Michelle Bachmann leading a convention hall in prayer.
Dear Lord, in your heavenly wisdom, may you bless these, the Republican Talking Points, lest they perish from the earth at the hands of those sinful buckwild Democrats, amen.
-Joe
“I wonder if you might indulge me and join me in a little prayer. To my God. Mine. I don’t give a shit if you don’t worship my God, because like I asked, just indulge me, okay, you heathen assholes? NOW BOW YOUR FUCKING HEADS AND LET’S PRAY TO MY GOD. I mean, only if you want, we’re all Republicans here! NOW PRAY, FUCKERS.”
And please, Lord, as is fitting with an all-knowing, loving, gracious and charitable deity such as yourself, please, please smite all who are not us?
Strike them down like so many lambs that their liberal blood may flow and that we may sail our ships upon it to prosperity!
Spread freedom at gunpoint to those who would tax our corporations!
Liberate with a sword those who would have us, the affluent, depart with a mere tuppence of our gold in the name of humanitarianism!
Shine thy heavenly light down with burning strength upon the meek, teeming hordes who are not like you and I so that they may see the error of their ways for just a moment before vanishing into a pile of ash!
Suffer a thousand cuts upon the ill and disabled who would have equivalent healthcare to ours at reasonable prices!
Imprison and castrate those who would have sex without our permission or have sex differently than we want them to though we may practice similar acts ourselves!
Bring vengeance upon the teachers, unions, artists, atheists, philosophers, egalitarians, feminists, scientists, socialists and all who champion a better life for those making less than serious six-figure salaries!
Spill thy fossil fuel riches upon our oceans so that we may be coated in thy bounty!
Wipe the minds of those with dangerous thoughts and revoke their library cards. Destroy that which is not purported to be your word, oh God! Shake and tumble the very foundations of their places of learning until all know only what we want them to know!
We ask this of you, oh Lord, our great decider in the sky who favors the already privileged and devotedly selfish.
Guns and Amen.
(Source: stfuconservatives)
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