Category: Rants: Political and otherwise

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 beenwwii-buckle  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. 

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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.

War

I watched a movie the other night that had some interesting facts.  Here’s a breakdown of the percentage of casualties of war that were civilians by war:

World War I: 10%
World War II: 50%
Vietnam: 70%
Iraq: 90%

That’s right.  despite 100 years of advancement in military technology, supposedly “frighteningly” accurate weapons, and the goal of “winning the hearts and minds” of the Iraqi people, 90% of all deaths related to the war were civilians.  The Iraq war killed many many times the number of Iraqi civilians than the number of American civilians killed on September 11, 2001.  Just for reference, Iraq was not involved in 9/11, they did not harbor any 9/11 terrorists, and didn’t even turn out to have the weapons of mass destruction we “were sure” they had. 

Now we’re still in a war with Afghanistan.  The death toll is not as severe as Iraq’s, but it’s still unconscionably high.  It’s entering it’s tenth year, and has officially become America’s longest war.  By military estimate, there are less than 100 Al-Queda left in Afghanistan, and less than 25,000 Taliban.  For reference, the Taliban did not attack us on 9/11.  We are there to find Osama Bin Laden, who apparently fled the country in 2002.  He’s not there, very few terrorists are there, the people don’t trust us, and over 97% of the country is still loyal to the Taliban.  They don’t want what we’re trying to give them. 

We don’t need this war, we were never supposed to be at war with Afghanistan.  We were never supposed to be at war with Iraq.  We were supposed to catch the bad guy who blew up New York.  We failed, he’s gone, and we’re mired in a senseless war.  Credit to Obama to finally ending the other senseless war (or did he?), but it’s time to end this one too.

Perhaps it’s time to say “Let’s fight terrorism by not fucking with the middle east anymore so they stop being pissed off at us for killing their civilians wholesale”. 

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/senseless-war-begins-its-10th-year-address-nation-president-barack-obama-reported-michael-moore

It’s time for peace.

Stupid is the new smart

I’m going to say this once: Evolution is FACT.
Yes, fact.  Darwin’s theory was not evolution, it was the theory of natural selection.  It’s a theory about how evolution works, not whether or not it happened. 
It happened.  There’s overwhelming evidence for it.  It’s not a theory, it’s not a myth.  It’s fact.  Go to a museum.
But a frightening number of people continue to refuse scientific evidence.  We glory in being stupid.  I truly fear for the direction we’re heading in when creationism is considered valid science and evolution is considered a myth.  People I work with, people whose intelligence I respect, refuse evolution.  It’s the intellectual equivalent of putting your hands over your ears and going “LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA”.
But look at who we revere these days.  We revere stupidity.  Glenn Beck.  Sarah Palin.  Christine O’Donnell.  
Christine O’Donnell with Bill Maher from 1998

O’DONNELL: You know what, evolution is a myth. And even Darwin himself –
MAHER: Evolution is a myth? Have you ever looked at a monkey?
O’DONNELL: Well then, why they — why aren’t monkeys still evolving into humans?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/25/christine-odonnell-evolution-monkeys_n_739131.html
I really don’t understand how we can be this technologically advanced and still hold on to dark ages thinking so strongly. 

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.

The civil rights movement is so much easier without all the black people

Today Glenn Beck hijacked Dr. Martin Luther King’s legacy.  Assisting him were Dr. Alveda King (it’s an honorary doctorate), Dr. King’s right-wing niece whose claim on Dr. King’s legacy more or less begins and ends with shared DNA, and Sarah Palin, right-wing shill, dumbfuck extraordinaire and half-term governor of Alaska who was nearly our vice president. 

I haven’t seen anything from it yet.  I’m sure I will, but I know Glenn Beck.  He’s compared himself to Dr. King, Jesus, and Ghandi.  Anybody who buys that Beck has anything in common with any of those people needs their brain examined.  These people stood for love, understanding and unity.  Beck stands for divisive politics, fear-mongering, and bizarre conspiracy theories (much like modern Christians).

In the hopes of minimizing the right-wing usurping of the anniversary of what may have been the greatest speech of the 20th century, I would like to remind everybody of what exactly Dr. Martin Luther King stood for.  I’ll let him do it himself.  Please, watch this, not Beck, when deciding what Martin Luther King’s legacy is.

Dear Dr. Laura

What the fuck is wrong with you?  I am so sick of you right-wing crybabies.  You spew the n-word 11 times on the air, then you quit over the fact that it pissed people off?  What… the… FUCK!?!?

The reason is, I want to regain my First Amendment rights,” she said. “I want to be able to say what’s on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I’m sort of done with that.”

Your first amendment rights?  The right to free speech?  Have you been arrested?  Has the government somehow suppressed your right to spew idiocy all over American airwaves?  No.  Calling you a dumb-ass racist bitch because you spewed racial profanity over the air IS FREEDOM OF SPEECH!   How stupid are you?  That’s how it works.  You say stupid shit then we call you a racist bitch for doing it and we’re all free to do so! 

Advertisers pulling out?  They have that right.  The First Amendment has nothing to do with that and does not protect you from your own stupidity.

People angry at your racist rant?  How would you silence that without infringing their first amendment rights?  You can’t.

You idiots need to stop crying wolf on the First Amendment.  Personally, I think you’re trying to use the First Amendment to suppress the First Amendment rights of your detractors.  Oooh, the irony.  Too bad!  Our First Amendment rights are safe for at least two more years! Nyah nyah!

Piss off.

I Give Up

I saw this video today about the 9/11 responders bill.  In case you were wondering, it was a bill to cover the health care of people who were ill because they were there on 9/11 and risked their lives to save others.  They ran into the giant building with an airplane stuck in in while everybody else was running out.  Something I doubt ANY single fucking politician in Washington would have the balls to do.  And we just told them, “Nice job, now go fuck off.”  Woohoo!  Go America.

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I think this sums up quite nicely how I feel.  I’m totally disillusioned.  This—GODDMAN FUCKING THIS—is how we treat our nation’s heroes.  “Thanks for saving our asses, but if it’s between you and our offshore tax shelters, fuck off.”  Our system is totally broken.  I’m no longer sure it can be saved.  I mean seriously, we can’t even PASS A GODDAMN FUCKING BILL TO TAKE CARE OF THOSE WHO SHOWED THE REST OF THE WORLD THE BEST OF AMERICA ON OUR WORST DAY EVER!?!?!? 

This shows the absolute worst of America, and that’s really saying something these days.  This is pathetic.  This is sick.  Fuck you Washington.  Fuck you Republicans.  Fuck you Democrats.  Fuck all of you.  Just…. Fuck You All.