Help! My Wife is a Religious Nutjob and She’s Teaching my Children Creationism
This’ll be a short one. I just found the Google results for that sentence entertaining.
Help! my wife is a religious nutjob and she’s teaching my children creationism
Results 1, 2, 3, and 5 pertain to Sarah Palin and Christine O’Donnell. If you vote Tea Party, this is what you’re voting for. Welcome to the new America.
No, Hitler was NOT an Atheist
I think if I hear this one more time, I’m going to scream. I know I’m really beating the dead horse today, but goddammit, people should know better.
FOR THE LAST AND FINAL TIME:
“Gott Mit Uns” translates to “God with us” or “God is on our side” (as it’s used today)
Hitler was a Christian, in fact a Catholic. He has never been
excommunicated from the Catholic church, so he’s still a Catholic today. The Pope is lying when he says Nazis were Atheists. He was there, he was in the Hitler Youth, he should know. He was most likely required to chant the slogan.
It doesn’t take a lot of research to realize that there is an anti-Semitic slant to much of the New Testament. Passion plays (see The Passion of the Christ) were popular in Germany prior to World War II, and they helped the anti-Semitic message of the Nazis, one they validated with scripture! After all, didn’t Judas betray Jesus? Didn’t the Jews shout “Crucify Him!” when Pilate wanted to let him go?
I’m sorry if you are religious and offended by this, but it’s true. It is not correct to blame Nazi atrocities on Atheism, it is very much part of the colorful Christian history.
This is what I mean!
The insanity is never-ending
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It almost looks like a logical proof, except for the fact that each line of it contains at least one unique fallacy. The mind reels.
I’m sorry, but I don’t even understand whatever stupidity it is they’re trying to say. Is this an abortion thing? What. The. Fuck.
If the lunacy here is not apparent, stop reading my blog. You’re not smart enough.
All Atheists hate God
It occurred to me a little bit ago how ridiculous this statement is. Atheists all seem to instinctively realize this, but for you theists out there, let’s run through the logic.
I’m an Atheist. Your claim “All Atheists hate God”, if taken as true, means I hate God. In order to hate God, by definition I have to believe God exists. If I believe God exists, I’m not an Atheist. Whoops, we’ve reached a paradox.
The follow up claim is that Atheists hate religion. Well, I can’t speak for others, only for myself, and unlike you I can’t speak for any supernatural beings either. In my case, you might be able to make a case here, but the truth is that it wouldn’t be accurate. I don’t hate religion par se, I hate the evil done in the name of religion. Religion almost invariably leads to regressive behaviors and in some cases outright evil. I don’t believe religion can be fixed. The only way you could solve the problem would be to bring all world religions under the control of a single moral person who could dictate sanity to his/her followers. This plan, though, is inherently flawed. You need look no further than Catholicism to see the problem. Not to mention the temptation to abuse this extreme concentration of power would eventually overwhelm either the leader or one of his/her successors. It would inevitably turn to evil. Therefore, I think the world would be better off without religion.
On a semi-related note, I just recently found out an interesting fact. The crux of the argument against science in general is that Genesis must be taken literally, not figuratively. It took another blogger writing about the observations of his six year old son to get me to realize something. According to Genesis, God created light on the first day, but he didn’t create the Sun until the fourth day. Um…. whoops. Apparently the goat herders of 6,000 years ago hadn’t figured out that the light comes from the sun. Oh, and God put all the water in one place. One. Just let that sink in for a few minutes.
I wonder if this is how homosexuals feel
I hate labels. I hate labeling myself, but it’s usually the easiest way for people to get pretty close to my views, so for the sake of argument, we’ll call me a liberal atheist. This is, for all practical purposes, my current location on a long road I started down about ten years ago. I doubt this journey is done yet. The truth is, I’m pretty sure I’ve always been this way, I just didn’t admit it to myself for a long time. Being liberal or atheist is somewhat of a frowned upon thing here in the middle of Jesus central.
So it’s a little lonely out here. My wife is a bit of an over-zealous Christian (it’s the source of most of my daily drama), all my friends, most of whom are smart people, deny the fact of evolution, worship a non-existent god, and vote Republican.
After years of denying who I really am, I did a lot of soul searching over the past 2-3 years, and finally just admitted it.
Now I don’t seem to have a lot of friends. Just today, the one friend who seemed to more or less share my views told me that she found Jesus. In fairness, she’s had some rather harsh personal problems lately, and skepticism doesn’t offer much in the way of comfort during times of emotional distress.
I suppose if the opposite were true, if I were a Christian in a land of Atheists, I could spend this time pretending God was here with me and telling him all my problems. I suppose I could just construct an invisible friend too.
So I started wondering, when somebody realizes they’re gay, they probably have a hard time finding someone to share this with. Parents and friends aren’t usually very receptive to that kind of news. It’s probably pretty lonely. I find it hard to believe that anybody chooses to be gay. Seriously, who would consciously choose the pain that comes along with it? The only choice is the one to stop lying to yourself and be honest about who you are.
That’s what I did. Yea me! The rewards of being true to myself are a little underwhelming. Thanks for listening, my five or so readers. I appreciate the sympathetic ear.
Dear Idiots
You attempted to turn a day of remembrance into a day of hate, bigotry and fear.
You failed.
You took a course of action that might have increased international hate of America.
You failed. Your chosen political leaders have already done that years ago.
Perhaps you wanted to bring more people to Jesus.
You failed. Portraying Jesus as a petty hateful asswipe does not help your cause, unless you want to recruit more petty hateful asswipes.
September 11 is a day to remember what makes us American. To remember what makes America great.
It is not hate. It is not fear. It is not narrow minded religious fundamentalism. It is not our overwhelming military might. It is not the terrible things we do overseas.
It is our freedoms. The very freedoms that allow me to write things like this blog post without going to Gitmo.
It is our Constitution. Or what’s left of it. May it be restored soon.
It is our tolerance. We began as a nation of immigrants who sought freedom from racial and religious persecution. Unless you’re full Native American, you are descended from immigrants, or are one yourself.
It is our ability to see America’s faults and to work to change them.
September 11th is a day to remember that we can be better than we are, and on that day nine years ago we were.
No political posturing today. No religious hate speech today. Just remember those who answered the call in our darkest hour, and strive to emulate them, for they are the very best of us.
Dear Dumbass Christian F*ckhead
Yes you, dumbass Koran burning preacher. I’m talking to you. Fuck you. Burn Korans, don’t burn Korans, doesn’t matter now, the damage is done. The goddamn President of the United States HIMSELF asked you to back down, but apparently God put it on your heart to act like a moron racist fuckhead redneck fuck up. Interesting God you have there.
Yes, the damage is already done. The bad guys have taken your words and are using them to recruit more bad guys. They’re convincing people a half a world away that America is in a holy war against Islam. Hm, they sound kindof like you, ya know.
So thanks. For the increased danger to our troops abroad (including one of my oldest friends), for the deaths that will occur from the elongation of the Afghanistan conflict (already our longest war EVER), for your superior skills in portraying America as a bunch of dumbass racist bigoted religious extremists to the rest of the world, FUCKIN’ THANKS, DICKHEAD.
If there was ANY doubt in my mind prior to this about the existence of God, you’ve finally convinced me. There couldn’t possibly be a supreme being out there watching over us all who would allow your kind of bullshit to go on in his name. If he did, what a piss poor lame ass excuse for a god.
Or perhaps there is a god and you really do speak for him, which explains why he hasn’t reduced you to a pile of smoldering ash. Worship a narrow minded hateful childish racist bigot of a god? I’ll pass.
I’ll take my chances with Atheism, thanks.
P.S. FUCK YOU DICKHEAD!
God is on our side
People throughout history have said that. Usually as a prelude to war.
- George Bush said it.
- Sarah Palin said it.
- Glenn Beck said it.
- Adolf Hitler said it.
- Osama Bin Laden said it.
- The list goes on…
To those who are sure God is on your side, I quote Abraham Lincoln:
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.
“God is on our side” is a justification for atrocities. An easy out for the horrible crimes of war, or worse. A way to turn wars into holy wars, alleviating the need to justify the pain, suffering, and death you’re about to inflict on your fellow human beings.
I’m sick of it.
When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag an carrying a cross.
–Sinclair Lewis
For a long time now, I’ve disagreed with Richard Dawkins on the dangers of religion. Sure, I’ve always known that religious extremism leads to atrocities, but “normal” religion, I’ve always believed, can be a moral compass for those that don’t inherently have one. A guide for being a better person. A rulebook for being decent.
But it never works out that way, does it? Very few of the religious use their beliefs for the betterment of mankind. The main uses of religion in modern times seems to be 1) Condemning others, 2) Justification of irrational actions and 3) an easy explanation for anything, framed in an “us vs. them” manner. From this we get 9/11, the Iraq War, the fight against science (Evolution), the crusades, the inquisition, witch burnings, female mutilation, oppression of women, oppression of minorities, the “Ground Zero Mosque” controversy, the burning of a Mosque in Tennessee, Church burnings, lynchings, Fred Phelps, the fight against social justice, child rape, FOR FUCK’S SAKE WHERE DOES IT END?
If this is what religion means then take your God and shove him up your ass, I want no part of it. I would be just fine if I never heard another religious dickhead in my life.
It’s crap. It’s a fairy tale for grown ups, and they believe it. And they fuck up everything for the rest of us in the name of God/Allah/Jehovah/Whatever the fuck else we want to wank ourselves off over.
Religion is dangerous. Richard Dawkins was right all along, and I should’ve listened. I know a little bit about the Christian Bible, and if anybody who calls themselves a Christian actually bothered to read the fucking thing, we might not be so badly off. But no such luck.
Religion is a tool, and it’s being leveraged by scumbags and assholes to fuck up things for the rest of us. Glenn Beck is just the latest in a long line of assholes to fuck up America in the name of God. Is he dangerous? Yes. But so were the rest.
Some religious fuckhead is going to read this and say “He’s just angry at God”. Ya think? No, dickhead, I’m angry at YOU AND ALL THE OTHER DUMBASS RELIGIOUS FUCKNUTS you fucking moron. I can only be angry at God if there fucking IS ONE!!! Tell you what, you pray for God to strike me down. If he doesn’t do it in one week, go shoot yourself. Get yourself some afterlife virgins or some stupid bullshit like that. Leave us heathen bastards alone.
I’m sick of this crap and I’m not putting up with it anymore.
Dear God…
Dear God,
First of all, let’s be honest. I don’t believe you’re there. Every type of logic I apply to the question indicates that it’s unlikely that there’s any kind of supernatural deity controlling everything. I’m pretty sure the Christian Coalition is proof positive of that. It also makes it much easier to answer the “How could God allow that to happen” question. That said….
On the off chance that I’m wrong and you actually are there, I’d like to discuss your followers with you. There’s a bit of a problem there. Could you please make them smart? While it’s not universally true, the vast majority of them seem to use religion as an excuse for staying stupid. For instance, I live in Kansas, the one state in the union convinced that science isn’t important to teach to young growing minds. It’s a little odd to be combating dark ages mentalities and beliefs in what should otherwise be a rather enlightened age. For instance, I’ve considered calling the state in an attempt to force my wife to send my children to school so that they can learn science rather than some kind of absurd belief about how the world was created that has absolutely nothing to do with the core of what Christianity is about, but since that state is Kansas and Kansas doesn’t see the importance of science, that’s not likely to work. Do you seriously want your followers to combat intelligence and science instead of concentrating on being good people? Do you seriously want your followers to deny assistance to the poor rather than saving lives? When did greed and stupidity become Christian values? Why are your followers so concerned with the obscure or unimportant parts of the bible rather than the parts that tell them what kind of lives they should be leading like Matthew 25? Why do they only seem to learn the parts of the bible they can use to condemn others rather than the parts that would make them better people? You know, like Taoists do.
I saw a sticker on the back of a giant-ass truck the other day that read “I’ll take God and guns, you can keep Obama.” Guns? Seriously God? Guns are a Christian value? I kind of though Christians were supposed to be a peaceful lot, Bush/Cheney’s warmongering notwithstanding. A gun in the hands of the stupid redneck driving that truck just sounds like a really really bad idea to me. On the other hand, when he manages to shoot himself, perhaps people will believe Darwin after all. Let’s just hope he doesn’t kill too many intelligent people first.
Some say religion is a crutch. I say it’s not a crutch, it’s a tool, and it’s being wielded with great skill by douchebags like Pat Robertson, who uses the power of Christian beliefs to condemn the poor and unfortunate and those with liberal political values while making himself obscenely rich. Didn’t you say something about the likelihood of rich people getting into heaven? Seems like I recall something there. I also seem to recall a phrase that read something like “demonizing the poor” is bad, but what do I know? Surely Robertson has actually read the thing, right?
Oh, and one last request, would you mind please smiting Ray Comfort, Glenn Beck, and Sean Hannity from the face of the earth? Pat Robertson really ought to go too for being a complete and total douchebag. Also, if you don’t mind a few non-Christian (AFAICT) requests, the world would be better off without Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Bachman, and pretty much the entire staff of Fox News. I suppose if smiting isn’t how you do things these days, perhaps you could at least give them some kind of revelation that makes them less of a group of complete assholes?
Thanks,
The Cowboy.
Another Idiot with a Blog 