A HISTORY OF EVERYTHING

Ricky Gervais - The Bible (animals)

The Coolest 8 Year Old In The World.

WOW!!!!!

Another look at morals and god.

I hear atheists argue all the time that they don’t need god to provide them with a strong moral code and that morals and the ability to know right from wrong have nothing to do with god, the bible or any religious teachings. They are completely man-made.

They argue forcefully that morals are the obvious result of an evolutionary need to assist others around them and that their well being is closely tied to that of the tribe at large. Their logic is both compelling and reasonable as they point out that primitive humans had a vested interest in helping each other prepare, for a hunting party for instance, and if one of them needed assistance in any way it was in everyone’s self interest to help that other person.

I also hear the logical argument that tribes were fairly small, and that unlike today’s modern cities, if you treated someone badly you were likely to see them everyday of your life and so things could become very difficult for you on a daily basis. This meant that your self interest was advanced by behaving well towards others.

What I don’t hear atheists point out is that this supposedly wonderful guide to morals called the Bible was written by humans. There is obviously no such creature called god and that everything in the Bible was written by men. There was no divine inspiration that guided the hands of the various authors it was simply a bunch of mischief making scholars who collaborated on a huge work of fiction in which you have to spend an enormous amount of time trying to tease out meanings that might be a guide to right and wrong from passages that are quite honestly gibberish.
Even the 10 commandments are not at all clear considering that they show up in a couple of different places and are totally different each time.

I’m getting exhausted.

It is mind boggling that grown ups in the 21st Century still believe in this massive fairy tale.

Christians should to be ridiculed! They ought to be openly laughed at and, quite honestly, made to wear a Dunce Cap and told to sit in the corner with their other religious friends until they can behave themselves and to leave the thinking to those more capable of doing it properly.

I pinched this from Richard Dawkins' forum.

11. Comment #11213 by Joad on December 3, 2006 at 7:19 pm

God: Here, have some free will

Man: No thank you, I don't need any

God: You cannot refuse Free Will

Man: Oh, so it isn't a gift?

God: Correct. I am forcing it on you

Man: Gee, thanks...What do I do with it?

God: Nothing. Just continue to obey me. If you use Free Will, I will send you to Hell.

Man: You surely work in mysterious ways.

How do we know that Christians are delusional?

Neil deGrasse Tyson at Beyond Belief 2006

This is simply superb!

MY GOD PROBLEM by Natalie Angier

MY GOD PROBLEM

By Natalie Angier

So, on the issue of mainstream monotheistic religions and the irrationality behind many of religion's core tenets, scientists often set aside their skewers, their snark, and their impatient demand for proof, and instead don the calming cardigan of a a kiddie-show host on public television. They reassure the public that religion and science are not at odds with one another, but rather that they represent separate "magisteria," in the words of the formerly alive and even more formerly scrappy Stephen Jay Gould. Nobody is going to ask people to give up their faith, their belief in an everlasting soul accompanied by an immortal memory of every soccer game their kids won, every moment they spent playing fetch with the dog. Nobody is going to mock you for your religious beliefs. Well, we might if you base your life decisions on the advice of a Ouija board; but if you want to believe that someday you'll be seated at a celestial banquet with your long-dead father to your right and Jane Austen to your left-and that she'll want to talk to you for another hundred million years or more—that's your private reliquary, and we're not here to jimmy the lock.

Read more here......

Thanks to OneGoodMove.com

Atheists: The New Gays

By Scott Adams

Is it my imagination or have the atheists come out of the closet (in the United States) since 9/11?
Prior to 9/11, it would have been career suicide for a public figure to come right out and say God is a fairy tale. Now it’s a feature of popular culture. You can see it on cable of course, in shows such as BullSh*t, Real Time, The Daily Show, and Southpark. But it’s also a feature of network TV. The main character on House is written as the most brilliant human on the planet, and he’s an atheist. The new show 3lbs has a similar character. I can’t remember anything like that ten years ago.

Read the rest here.....

His heart isn't really in his work.

I have no idea if this has been Photoshoped or not but either way I like it.

This is my version.

I had to concede to a believer “Perhaps you are right”

Yesterday a friend of mine confronted me regarding my atheism.

We had quite a long, involved and heated discussion and at one point I said to him:
“You are a very intelligent person, in fact far too intelligent to believe in god”

His immediate response was an angry:
“I most certainly am not”

I let that hang in the air as we both silently pondered its truth and I finally conceded:
“Perhaps you are right”

Replace the word “faith” with “superstition”

Every time you hear the word “faith” used in a sentence you can substitute “superstition” for a more accurate reading.

The governments faith based initiatives
The governments superstition based initiatives

Faith schools.
Superstition schools.

I have deep faith.
I have deep superstitions.

Stewart Lee - don't get me started - part 1

Stewart Lee - don't get me started - part 2

Stewart Lee - don't get me started - part 3

Stewart Lee - don't get me started - part 4

Stewart Lee - don't get me started - part 5

Stewart Lee - don't get me started - part 6

Penn Gillette interviews Richard Dawkins.

Penn Jillette has been the larger, louder half of comedy-magic team Penn & Teller for over 30 years.

Little Johnny comes home from school 100 years from now.

Johnny: High mom, high dad.

Mom: High Johnny. How was school today dear?

Johnny: It was okay. Eddie Wisnall came to class with a toad from the creek near his house, I got a B on my math test and, oh yeah, the school nurse told me I have a brain tumor in my frontal cor, cort….

Dad: Cortex. It’s your frontal cortex. It’s the part of the brain where you do your higher level thinking and planning.

Johnny: Is that serious then dad?

Dad: Sure is Johnny. If we let it grow you’d be unable to think things at all. Come into the kitchen and I’ll get rid of it for you.

Mom: The pills are next to the coffee. I used one today for Mrs. Bennett next door.

Dad: Here Johnny, take one of these and drink this.

Johnny: Thanks dad. I sure am glad my thinking wont be messed up.

Dad: I agree. Did you know that just 100 years ago people tried to stop pills like these from being invented?

Johnny: No! Why dad? That is crazy.

Dad: It sure is Johnny. Well there were these people, lots and lots of them in fact, that thought that the world was run by magic.

Johnny: Magic?! How come dad?

Dad: Well Johnny, there were what we call “religious” They thought that the world and everything in it was created and run by an invisible creature and that this creature wanted them to live their lives a certain way and one of those ways was to stop scientists doing research into what are called “Stem cells”


To be continued……..

Richard Dawkins Foundation Introduction.

Visit richarddawkins dot net for more information on this exciting new foundation!

"The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America. I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organized ignorance. We even have to go out on the attack ourselves, for the sake of reason and sanity. But it must be a positive attack, for science and reason have so much to give. They are not just useful, they enrich our lives in the same kind of way as the arts do. Promoting science as poetry was one of the things that Carl Sagan did so well, and I aspire to continue his tradition." - Richard Dawkins ... (more)

Do We Really Need Bad Reasons To Be Good?

By Sam Harris October 22, 2006

THE MIDTERM elections are fast approaching, and their outcome could well be determined by the “moral values” of conservative Christians. While this possibility is regularly bemoaned by liberals, the link between religion and morality in our public life is almost never questioned. One of the most common justifications one hears for religious faith, from all points on the political spectrum, is that it provides a necessary framework for moral behavior. Most Americans appear to believe that without faith in God, we would have no durable reasons to treat one another well. The political version of this morality claim is that our country was founded on “Judeo-Christian principles,” the implication being that without these principles we would have no way to write just laws.

Read more ......


Thanks to OneGoodMove

I love the "Box of Chocolates" analogy.

America?

Keith Olberman on the Military Commissions Act of 2006.

Very sad stuff!

It's 8:30 long watch here...

Thanks to Crooksand Liars

This post is just for Technorati.

Technorati Profile

Tri County Times hotline submission.

This was posted on the hotline submission page of my local paper the Tri County Times.

"WHEN YOU CAN explain how a caterpillar decided it wanted to fly and turned itself into a butterfly, I'll start listening to your theories of evolution."

I don't blame the people who think that things like this are a valid argument. They have been completly failed by their schooling. America has a mostly useless school system.

My reply was:
WHEN YOU START using your brain for thinking and not simply as a repository for stupid statements I'll explain evolution to you. It's really quite simple, very beautiful and requires no fictitious characters.

George W. Bush: Worst President Ever.

Richard Dawkins BBC Interview.

At the outset of this interview Richard Dawkins says "After 6 years of Bush, America is ready for an attack on religion"

I'm british living in America and because of Bush I have felt compelled to start this website and attack religion. Go Richard!

George Carlin - 10 Commandments.

Homer The Ape.

Where on the spectrum do you fall?

1. Strong theist. 100 percent probability of God. In the words of C. G. Jung' I do not believe, I know.'

2. Very high probability but short of 100 percent. De facto theist. ' I cannot know for certain, but I strongly believe in God and live my life on the assumption that his is there.'

3. Higher than 50 percent but not very high. Technically agnostic but leaning towards theism. 'I am very uncertain, but I am inclined to believe in God.'

4. Exactly 50 percent. Completely impartial agnostic. 'God's existence and non-existence are exactly equiprobable.'

5. Lower than 50 percent but not very low. Technically agnostic but leaning towards atheism. 'I don't know whether God exists but I'm inclined to be sceptical.'

6. Very low probability, but short of zero. De facto atheist. 'I cannot know for certain but I think god is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.'

7. Strong atheist. 'I know there is no God, with the same conviction as Jung "knows" there is one.'


I am probably a 6.
I want to say 7 but to me the whole point of being an atheist is not believing in something for which there is no proof. This also means that there is no proof there isn't a god also.

However I life my life as a 7 (or even an 8 or maybe a 9!!)

It's not fascism when we do it.

Talk of the Nation on NPR, October 6, 2006

Talk of the Nation, October 6, 2006 · In his new book, The God Delusion, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins says fundamentalist religion "subverts science and saps the intellect." Dawkins discusses religion, the teaching of evolution and creationism in science class, and his call for atheists to "out" themselves.

Guest:

Richard Dawkins, Author, The God Delusion (Houghton Mifflin, 2006), Charles Simonyi Professor of Public Understanding of Science, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

Listen here...

Why do Atheists care about Religion?

Atheist clothing and stuff.

The Atheist slogan that says it all.

If you're not an

ATHEIST

you should be!

Homer proves that there is no God.

What is really interesting in this clip from the Simpsons is Flanders response to Homers proof that there is no God.

It is exactly what would happen. Reality and truth are annoying impediments to religions strangle hold on our society.

Sam Harris interview on NPR.

In his new book Letter to a Christian Nation, author Sam Harris argues that faith is an antiquated and destructive notion that should be challenged more vigorously.

Harris attacks religious moderates -- Muslim moderates in particular -- who in defending their faith as tolerant and peaceful, provide cover for extremists.

Harris talks with Madeleine Brand about the controversy his new book is already generating. He's no stranger to controversy -- his 2005 book The End of Faith sparked thousands of hate-filled letters to Harris, many from Christians angered by his thesis that religion is dangerous for the future of both mankind and the Earth.

Those letters, Harris says, formed the basis of Letter to a Christian Nation -- it was his reply to the many notes from fundamentalist Christians after his first book was published.

"What most people call 'faith' (in the religious sense of the word) is nothing but a willingness to accept religious dogma uncritically," Harris says. "I am definitely arguing that we have to transcend this impulse."

Listen here...

Richard Dawkins Interview.

Richard Dawkins' asserts that belief in god is irrational and inflicts great harm upon societies. Jeremy Paxman interviews Professor Dawkins as part of the Newsnight book club.

Faith.

“Faith” is believing in something for which there is no proof.

The problem with “religious faith” is that it means not only believing in something for which there is no proof but believing something for which the huge preponderance of evidence points to something else entirely.

Faith is not a thing to be commended as religious leaders would have you believe. It is a shameful way of ignoring reality. It’s simply another way of closing your eyes and sticking your fingers in your ears while loudly singing a nonsense tune as someone tries to explain something very important to you.

Whenever you encounter someone who proudly boasts of their “faith” you should sadly shake your head and tell them that it’s a shame that they think that faith is a good thing. Ask them how they would feel if they found themselves in court, on trial for something they didn’t do and instead of taking a hard look at the evidence the jury gets to decide your guilt or innocence based simply upon how they feel.

An ostrich has “faith” that, when it pushes its head into the sand, it can no longer be seen.

LETTER FROM JESUS CAMP (A Parody of ‘Camp Granada’)

By Don Davis of The Satirical Political.
This is an insider’s view from a whistle-blowing camper, with thanks to the classic Camp Granada by the immortal Allan Sherman.

Hello Muddah, I’m in pieces
Here I’m stuck at, Camp for Jesus
Camp is really, like a prison
And they’re just about to do an exorcism

Six a.m., blowin’ reveille
Class at ten, Study “Devilry”
Kids all screaming, top of their lungs …
Can’t understand them since they speak in ancient tongues

All the counselors, hate the Jews
And the Muslims, Confucius too
And the coaches, for sports like soccer
Say they never want to deal with a Macaca

Don’t worry ’bout me, though I’m homesick
And my scalp has, just a few ticks
But there’s one problem, that I can’t fix …
My bunkmate’s forehead has a hu-mongous “666″

Take me home, I’m, falling to pieces
Christ Almighty, I hate Camp Jesus
This is worse than, nightmare fiction
For the play I drew short straw for Crucifixion

Take me home, I’ll, be a good boy
Clean my room, not, touch my own toy
These fanatics, just can’t stand them
One day here seems like a whole goddamn millenium

Dearest Mother, Dearest Father
Boot camp and Anbar, would be less bother
Come and save me, come to my aid
Color War at camp is called the next Crusade

Wait a minute, they’re serving hot fudge
If you defame, a liber-al judge
And if you beat up, a homo queer
You’re a cinch to lock up Camper of the Year!

The original is here...

A fun thing to do.

Every time that I visit a gas station or a store that I have never been to before I ask the cashier:
“Please can you tell me where they hold the big monthly atheist meeting?”

He or she will look perplexed and mutter something about not knowing.

I then say something like:
“Yes, apparently Byron (or wherever I happen to be) has the largest number of atheists per capita of anywhere in Michigan and they have a huge atheist meeting once a month. People come in from New York and California.”

I chuckle to my self as I leave the store knowing that, at some point, the clerk will one day say to someone in conversation, “Did you know that we have the largest number of atheists in all of Michigan”

In the story book world that takes place inside my head word about this huge population of atheists soon spreads and becomes an enormous game of “Telephone” (Chinese Whispers as we called it in England).
People start to cast furtive sideways glances at neighbors who they have lived next to for years. Church goers look suspiciously at each other on Sunday mornings wondering if any “Fifth columnists” have infiltrated their ranks. A committee is organized to combat the problem but falls apart due to infighting and mistrust. Friends who have known each other for years start to doubt one another’s commitment to the word of god and slowly stop all contact with each other.
Parents take their children out of bible camp because they no longer trust the strange looking man with the paisley waistcoat who greeted them on the first day. A teenage boy is imprisoned because he has red hair. Two elderly sisters are shunned for growing strawberries. A posse of townsfolk gather at midnight with pitchforks and shovels and storm the old castle high on the hill.

Since Hugo Chavez referred to Bush as the Devil I have been quietly outraged.

Since Hugo Chavez referred to our president as El Diablo, The Devil, I have been quietly simmering with rage.

To call the president of The United States of America the Devil from the perhaps the most prestigious political stage in the world, that of the United Nations is one of the most shocking moments in international discourse.

George Bush is certainly not the Devil. If anything he is the boil on the Devils bum!

Call Dick Cheney or even Donald Rumsfeld the devil but not George Bush. It’s an insult to the office of the Devil.

George Bush is nothing more than a festering whitehead on Lucifer’s backside and to grant him complete “Devilhood” is to afford him much more import than he warrants.

If you insist on referring to Bush as a character from fiction he should be “Pinky” as in “Pinky and the Brain” Karl Rove of course being the other player in that duo.

Coming to the Cartoon network “Pinky and the Brain and their diabolical plan to take over the world” Watch as the bumbling dimwit Pinky assists the diabolically brilliant Brain in their doomed efforts at world domination.

Richard Dawkins new website.

Richard Dawkins new website.
This is a website that I am sure will help in the struggle against ignorance.

http://richarddawkins.net/

Watch the Introduction to the Foundation (Video) located on the left side near the top graphic.

Head-in-the-Sand Liberals.

To prove that I am by no means a Kool Aid drinking liberal I would like to offer my kudos once again to Sam Harris.

He seems to be among the very few in this world today who are able to see with total clarity the incompetence of almost everyone else.

I hate the Bush administration with a passion. They are vile despicable people who use religious nonsense to coerce Americans into voting for their extreme right wing agenda but the stupidity with which today’s liberals are fighting the fight is astounding.

If you condemn Israel for reaching a breaking point and lashing back at the bastards who have been tormenting them for the last 12 years you are a fucking moron.

Read this by Sam Harris: Western civilization really is at risk from Muslim extremists

(Thanks to Walt for this link)

I just want to blaspheme.

I have given some thought recently to the concept of blasphemous language and as a result I would just like to say “Fuck Jesus up his own ass”

Does this now mean I’m going to hell?

If so then god is a vindictive bastard who should not be in charge of bag of dead rats let alone a whole universe.

Blaspheming is good.

Try it now. Say with me “God is a wanker and Jesus is a toss pot”

Proving that the Bible is repulsive.

You need a holy ghost enema right up your rear end!

A website to add to your favs.

Dark Sided

I would like to sit down with the author of this site, Michael Martine and have a beer.
He is clearly my kind of guy, in that, he also sees through the bullshit that is religion and has decided to speak out.

Islamofascists?

Islamofascists

The first time I heard one of our right wing overlords use the term Islamofascist I was confused. It obviously was not being used in the proper context and I expected it to be a one-off blunder. But then I heard Limbaugh use it and Hannity then Rumsfeld and finally the president. It now seems to be the rallying cry of Bush apologists everywhere.

Al Qaeda, fascists? It made no sense. They are simply criminals whose tactic is to use murder to cause fear and terror amongst a population. They are merely a “rag tag” group of individuals with very little central control not an authoritarian government like that of Hitler or Stalin who would arrest people in the dead of night and wisk them away to a secret prison somewhere and hold them incommunicado for years on end. They don’t spy on their own population and turn friends and neighbors into snitches for the good of the state. They don’t use fear and alarm as a method of control over the populace and scare innocent citizens so much that they simply want the government to protect them no matter what the cost.

No. Al Qaeda doesn’t do these things.

Our government does. The Bush government.

Of course! Unpleasant as they are I have to admit that Bush’s controllers are brilliant people.
It’s a dark, nasty brilliance to be sure but it is clever.

Because of the direction they have taken America they knew that pretty soon the country would wise up and see what was really happening.
Americans would see the parallels between Germany and Russia in the middle of the last century and the United States of America today and would be appalled at how a once beautiful example of freedom and democracy had been subverted in just a few short years and transformed into a vicious hate filled fascist semi-dictatorship.

They are now labeling Al Qaeda as the fascists as a way of deflecting the name away from themselves. Their thinking is obviously “Call our enemy fascists first and no one will then be able to use it against us”

Great tag line.

HolyRolyPoly, one of the regular contributers at the atheists.com forum is currently using this tag line:

"If the lord had meant us to have faith, he'd have given us lobotomies." - Zlatko

Excellent!

Although it could be argued that, for a lot of people, he did.

Take Heart.

400 years ago there were no atheists on the entire planet.
300 years ago there was 1 or 2.
200 years ago there where perhaps a few dozen.
100 years ago there were maybe a few hundred.
Today there are millions!

Jonathan Miller's: A Brief History of Disbelief

This is a 3 part documentary by Jonathan Miller that explores the historical rise of Atheism.

Part 1: "Shadows of Doubt"
Part 2: "Noughts and Crosses"
Part 3: "The Final Hour"

Each part is about 1 hour long and are excellent.

Even Stevphen - Islam vs. Christianity

A good habit to get into.

When you are asked if you believe in god, reply with something more definitive than simply saying “no”.

Start saying “Of course not” or “Not even slightly” that way you leave no room for misunderstanding and your strong conviction will cause some doubt about their own beliefs in the mind of your questioner.

You could use my answer if you wish:
“Don’t be ridiculous! I grew out of that nonsense when I turned 5”

"Jesus" The Musical

Jesus Camp.

What is Patriotism?

Patriotism is loving ones country, it’s people and what it stands for.

It is NOT blindly loving it’s current leaders and supporting their policies regardless.

Patriotic Americans are beginning to stand up to those who have hijacked Americas government. And I say “Stand Tall”. Make the world know that you are ashamed of this government.

The rallying cry of decent people in the USA should be “Let’s take America back”

Those bastard republicans.

Those fuckers the republicans are painting anyone who is against the war as anti American.

I say if you are for this outrageous war that has destroyed Americas credibility all over the world you are the anti American!

Billboard version 1

Billboard version 2

Katherine Harris says failure to elect Christians will `legislate sin'

That nutcase Katherine Harris in Florida is showing how she really feels about the seperation of church and state in this country.

Katherine Harris said this week that God did not intend for the United States to be a "nation of secular laws" and that a failure to elect Christians to political office will allow lawmaking bodies to "legislate sin."

There are people who desperately want America to become a theocracy.

Read the story here...

Republicans Are Unable To Govern.

Another Bush Cartoon

Bush Cartoon

Google is excellent!

I just Googled "miserable failure" and the first website that came up was Biography of President George W. Bush

Miserable failure

Slogan of the Day.

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"

Voltaire

Atheist's aren't that bad.

Proving that prayer is superstition.

Move the spectrum and the middle moves too.

By Harry Bathwater

I’ve been mulling over Bush’s recent stem cell decision for the last few weeks and have come to understand what their rational is.

As we know, the Bush gang doesn’t do anything without good reason. And that reason has to be to further their right wing agenda and please their corporate overlords.
To do this they have to pander to their religious base.

It’s obvious to everyone (who thinks for themselves) that these cells which would otherwise be discarded should be used for medical research.

This, however, is the clever right wing plan.

They want to make abortion illegal but most people in America don’t want that. Those who are anti abortion are seen as “right wing kooks”
By creating a song and dance over these unwanted embryonic cells they shift their position so far to the right that the anti abortion position now looks to be in the middle. And secondly, if the government is so concerned about “killing” a few useless cells, then aborting a baby becomes (in their eyes) all the more dreadful.

I gotta say, it’s clever. Damn clever. If your position is not in the center, move the entire spectrum so that the center has moved.

I have no doubt that if this recent ploy doesn’t work they will move the spectrum even more to the right and outlaw masturbation because that kills millions of innocent sperm every day.

Then I’m fucked!

Create your very own Jesus Illusion.

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Just Say No To Knowledge.

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Interview With Christian School Superintendant.

I found this to be a very interesting video. It's 11:28 minutes long.

Watch the video here

Richard Dawkins Quote.

"By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out."

-- Richard Dawkins, in "Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder," The Richard Dimbleby Lecture, BBC1 Television (12 November 1996)

For more superb Richard Dawkins quotes click here.

Blasphemous insults.

It is almost guaranteed that at the end of a theological discussion with a god lover, when they can see that I am obviously winning, they will start throwing out ridiculous “What if’s” in desperation.

In exasperation at their futile attempts to charge my windmill I will utter an expletive such as “Oh my god” or “Jesus Christ”
My opponent will always point an accusing finger at me and triumphantly announce “Ha, see you do believe in god because you just said his name”

I am then forced to point out that to me Jesus Christ is simply a swear word and “God” is a great word to show astonishment.
Nothing more.

If we had a better announcement of surprise than “Oh my god” I would use it but we don’t. It is part of our lexicon. As are other favorites like:

“Holy Cow”
“Mary Mother of God!”
Jesus H. Christ”
“Christ on a Stick”
“Hell”
“Bloody Hell” (This is short for By Our lady)
“Hells Bells”

Please help me compile a list of other blasphemous insults.

Families Challenging Religious Influence in Delaware Schools.

Until recently, it was safe to assume that everyone in the Indian River district was Christian, said the Rev. Mark Harris, an Episcopal priest at St. Peter’s Church in Lewes.

Read the story here...

Andrea Yates: Simply taking her religion to it's logical end.

I just read this from the “Hotline” section of a local newspaper.

IT WAS AN EXTREMELY sad day for America and its children yesterday when Andrea Yates was ruled not guilty by reason of insanity. She will be out on the streets again someday in the future, and possibly have children again sometime in her life. How very, very sad. I'm disgusted by our legal system.

Andrea Yates is, of course, the woman who killed her five small children by drowning them in the bathtub.

A terrible and awful crime indeed but she is clearly insane. I could not imagine a more perfect test to determine someone’s sanity than asking them:
“Have you ever drowned any of your children in the bath tub?”

If the answer is “Yes”
Bingo! Lunatic in the room.
Now move straight from criminal proceedings to a mental health issue.

Show some compassion will you? The woman did an unimaginably horrifying thing but is obviously suffering from a very sick mental condition which has clearly been inflamed by her religious beliefs. If you want to be angry with someone it should be directed at the religion that instilled in her those hateful thoughts.

She told a jail psychiatrist this …

"My children were not righteous. I let them stumble. They were doomed to perish in the fires of hell"

This was told to Dr. Melissa Ferguson, the medical director of psychiatric services at the Harris County Jail. Read more here...

William F. Buckley on Bush.

"If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign."

William F. Buckley

Read the rest of the story.....

Walking on water? Probably ice!

The Rational Response Squad has an interesting post on the Jesus walking on water story.

Read it here...

This is an actual picture of Jesus pulling his fishing gear across frozen water to his ice shanty.

Conservatives Without Conscience.

John Dean and Authoritarian Cultism - a Review
By: Glenn Greenwald.


In his new best selling book, Conservatives Without Conscience John Dean contends, and amply documents, that the "conservative" movement has become, at its core, an authoritarian movement composed of those with a psychological and emotional need to follow a strong authority figure which provides them a sense of moral clarity and a feeling of individual power, the absence of which creates fear and insecurity in the individuals who crave it. By definition, its followers’ devotion to authority and the movement’s own power is supreme, thereby overriding the consciences of its individual members and removing any intellectual and moral limits on what will be justified in defense of their movement.

Read more... (This links to the Glenn Greenwald review at CrooksandLiars.com)

Animals in Heaven?

Animals in Heaven?
This is a typical example of the con that is religion. Jack Van Impe is selling, among many other things, a video that explains how you will see your pets again in heaven.
We are told repeatedly that because animals don’t have “souls” they are not judged and so the heaven and hell thing is not an issue, but for $24.95 you can be reassured by Jack that, along with your old friends and family, Fido will be there also to play Frisbee and fetch your slippers.
If you believe in this rubbish you have a weak mind and are easily led.


Dr. Jack & Rexella Van Impe
For anyone who has ever lost a beloved pet, Dr. Jack and Rexella Van Impe have good news! You will see your furry or feathered friends again - in heaven! Explore this exciting truth taught by twelve of the greatest Christian theologians.
You will see and hear the exact spine-tingling statements from the pens of men like Dr. John Walvoord, Dr. Billy Graham, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, Dr. John Calvin and many others. This video study deals with animal intelligence, animal communication, and how animals literally teach humans some valuable lessons.

God!

God!
Disproved, discounted and disregarded by thinking people everywhere.

Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Christian.

Skeeve at Atheists.com posted this link to the "Best Of" page at Craigslist and I found this post there.

Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Christian.
Date: 2006-06-02, 1:10PM MST

10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours.

9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.

8 - You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Triune God.

7 - Your face turns purple when you hear of the "atrocities" attributed to Allah, but you don't even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in "Exodus" and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in "Joshua" including women, children, and trees!

6 - You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to life and then ascended into the sky.

5 - You are willing to spend your life looking for little loopholes in the scientifically established age of Earth (few billion years), but you find nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by Bronze Age tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that Earth is a few generations old.

4 - You believe that the entire population of this planet with the exception of those who share your beliefs -- though excluding those in all rival sects - will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet consider your religion the most "tolerant" and "loving."

3 - While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the floor speaking in "tongues" may be all the evidence you need to "prove" Christianity.

2 - You define 0.01% as a "high success rate" when it comes to answered prayers. You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will of God.

1 - You actually know a lot less than many atheists and agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and church history - but still call yourself a Christian.

Atheist Walking.

This is a very intelligent guy walking down the street being bombarded with inane questions about God, Jesus, the Bible etc and why doesn’t he believe in it all.
His answers are superb, off the cuff rebuttals that shoot down every silly statement thrown his way.

You can also find it here at youtube.com if you would like to leave comments:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WHf5HFDk10&search=atheist

Stop the rightwing hatemongers.

This is a message from Media Matters


Recently, the major television networks have given a platform to conservative hate merchants like Ann Coulter, Glenn Beck, and Melanie Morgan. One of the country's largest syndicates, Universal Press Syndicate, distributes Coulter's column. Beck was recently hired by CNN Headline News. Morgan broadcasts from a radio station owned by Disney. And all three -- and countless others like them -- are regularly given guest spots on cable-news networks.

The fact that these right-wing pundits -- who have called for the execution of public officials and others -- are given a platform in the major media is unprecedented.
We, the undersigned, urge the media to stop allowing these hate merchants to spread their venom and abuse. America deserves to hear honest, reasoned debate, not rants from professional hatemongers.

Click here to add your name.

The only thing I have to add is that this should also be aimed at the left wing hate mongers who spread the same putrid venom at the other end of the spectrum.
But I just can’t think of any.

God Hates Shrimp!

Yet more stupid idiocy from the Bible.

Leviticus 11:9-12 (King James Version)

9 These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.

10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:

11 They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.

12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.


Who knew?

Visit the GodHatesShrimp website here.

Very interesting post from the Atheists.com forum.

This is a very good post from LawnmowerMan at Atheists.com.
He writes:

It seems to me that even Christians will go to "hell". It goes to show how hypocritical christians are to begin with as there are 2 sets of Ten Commandments in the Bible itself.

First Set is as follows which Christians love to post everywhere and anywhere and everyone knows and "loves": Exodus 20:
1.Thou shalt have no other god Before me.
2. Thou shalt not liken untop thyself any graven images.
3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
5. Honor thy father and mother.
6. Thou shalt not kill
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
8. Thou shalt not steal.
9. Thou shalt not lie.
10.Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors wife or his belongings.

Second Set is as follows and it's the ONLY set out of the two that is actually called "the ten commandments" by God himself, in the Bible. Exodus 34:
1. Thou shalt not worship any other God. For the Lord thy God is a jealous God.
2. Thou shalt make thee no molten Gods.
3. The Feast of Unleavened Bread thou shalt keep in the month when the ear is on the Corn.
4. The first born child of each father and of each mother are mine.
5. Thou shalt work for 6 days but on the seventh thou shalt rest.
6. Thou shalt observe the Feast of Weeks, even of the first fruits of the wheat harvest.
7. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread.
8. The fat of my feast shalt not remain all night until the morning.
9. The first of the fruits of thy ground thou shalt bring into the house of the Lord.
10. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in it's mother's milk.

Now keep in mind that all christians everywhere when reciting and trying to force people to follow the Ten COmmandments it's always the first set which I listed. But the bible calls only the second set which i listed as "Ten Commandments." So it all goes in showing that not even Christians are following their own "divine scripture"

There are also other laws in which the Bible states that if not followed will lead to eternal damnation.

Such as: Leviticus 19:19 where you cannot wear garments made of two different types of material. Meaning no pants, no shirts no underwear, made 50% cotton, 50% polyester or whatever the case may be. Leviticus 11:6-8 Says you may never touch the skin of a dead pig as it makes you unclean, yet we have Christian football players.

Also a question I am grappling with for you Christians out there.... As sanctioned in Exodus 21:7 I would like to sell my daughter into slavery. In this day and age what do you think is a good price for her?

Superb!
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Save The Planet.

Lay of the Land.

The cave-dwelling, hunchbacked English dwarf is one of Philly's finest.
by Steven Wells

Achtung! Achtung! The Storm Troopers of Gay Liberation have scored another victory in their satanically inspired jihad against the American family.

In Philadelphia in 2004, 11 self-described “Christians” were arrested for shouting through megaphones at partying same-sexers. They were later charged with hate crimes, but then released. Score one for the American family!

But now an attempt by the American Family Association of Pennsylvania to have this savage repression of Christian free speech commemorated by a historical plaque has been refused.

Oh no! What would Jesus say? Well, nothing, probably. Seeing as he had the square root of bugger all to say about homosexuality while alive, just as he said zilch about people who visit the barber or plant two crops in one field and all the other silly rubbish you find banned in Corinthians (the bit of the Bible Christian homophobes use to justify their peculiarly obsessive hatred of chaps who like shopping).

Read the rest ...

Manned journey to the Sun.

In an effort to challenge recent assertions that his administration is “Anti science” George Bush announced to the media today that he will be funding a manned space flight to explore the sun.

When a reporter pointed out that the heat of the Sun would destroy the space craft and all aboard Mr. Bush replied:

“Yes we have taken that into account and so they’re going at night”

Be honest.

Which sounds more plausible?

1. Everything on this planet started as very simple cells that changed ever so slightly every year so that, after 4.5 Billion years had passed, we now have very intricate organisms that have highly developed and complex biology.

Or.

1. A creature that lives out of sight simply went “poof” and there we were.

If you answered 1. Well done. You are obviously an intelligent and thoughtful person who, when faced with, what is admittedly an obvious question, doesn’t rely on others to tell you what to think. You should be commended for you ability to withstand generations of indoctrination and propaganda.

If you answered 2. Sorry. Wrong answer. You should be very ashamed of your pitiful lack of reality and you need to take a long hard look at yourself.
Don’t go out in public where you might pass your insane views on to others.
Don’t breed and raise innocent children to share your appalling beliefs.
In fact. Stay home in a dark room where you can’t do any harm to those of us who simply want to enjoy life.

This is a blast!

Take a look at this very clever website:

http://www.churchsigngenerator.com/

Create some heretical church signs and let me know where I can view them by leaving your web address in the comments for this post.

Three Brazilian soldiers killed.

Donald Rumsfeld briefed the President this morning. He told Bush
that three Brazilian soldiers were killed during the night.

To everyone's amazement all of the color drained from Bush's face, then he collapsed onto his desk, his head in his hands, visibly shaken, almost whimpering.

Finally, he composed himself and asked Rumsfeld, "Exactly how many is a brazillion?"

(Thanks to Keith for this)

National "Teach-In" on impeachment.

Beginning today, you can go to http://www.articlesofimpeachment.net to learn about a "National Teach-In" on impeachment organized by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Melville House, launching nationwide on July 19 in cities and towns across the country.

Santorum found the missing Ws of MD

Intelligent design a difficult foe.

From The Toronto Star.

For many, evolution theory hard to grasp.

JAY INGRAM

Scientists are absolutely correct to argue that intelligent design — the claim that a designer, not evolution, created life on Earth — is not science and does not belong in science classrooms. But it might come as a surprise to many of them that simply saying so isn't enough.

Read more ...

Christ is buried in Japan, apparently.

From The TimesOnline.

It turns out that Jesus was not crucified on the cross, his brother, Isukiri was. This enabled Jesus to move to Japan, marry Miyuko, a local girl from the village of Shingo and live to be 106.
Does the Bible mention any of this?

Read more …

Thanks to OneGoodMove for this story.

Bush immigration interview.

Video clip here.

Reply to a Christian by Sam Harris.

If you are a budding atheist you probably should learn more about Sam Harris. He, along with others such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett are leading the charge against irrational, childish, religious beliefs.
Below is Sam Harris' "Reply To A Christian" which is a superb, no nonsense look at the hypocrisy of religious teachings.


Reply to a Christian
By Sam Harris

Since the publication of my first book, The End of Faith, I have received thousands of letters and e-mails from religious believers insisting that I am wrong not to believe in God. Invariably, the most unpleasant of these communications have come from Christians. This is ironic, as Christians generally believe that no faith imparts the virtues of love and forgiveness more effectively than their own. Please accept this for what it is: the testimony of a man who is in a position to observe how people behave when their faith is challenged. Many who claim to have been transformed by Christ's love are deeply, even murderously, intolerant of criticism. While you may ascribe this to human nature, it is clear that the hatred these people feel comes directly from the Bible. How do I know this? Because the most deranged of my correspondents always cite chapter and verse.

Read More...

Sinister and unnerving.

I’ve always thought there was something very sinister and unnerving about the Catholic church and now I see why.

An un-scientific observation.

This is a very un-scientific observation, but I must say that, as I look at all the people I know or have met, it seems that the more intelligent and educated a person is the less likely they are to believe in god.

There are many intelligent and well educated people who profess to a belief in god but they have to for the sake of their livelihood. Politicians, talk show hosts, teli-evangelists and so forth. Rush Limbaugh is a good example. Even though I disagree with almost everything that says, he is still clearly an intelligent person. His entire career is based on a right wing platform and that includes deference to the almighty. I don’t believe for a second that he really believes the god story but for the sake of his career he has to.

If fact the only exception to this rule that I can see is me!
I’m a somewhat stupid person and yet it’s obvious to me that god is a man made myth.

Disclaimer stickers for the Bible.

In light of the recent request by religious groups that the creators of the movie "The DaVinci Code" put a disclaimer at the beginning of the film announcing that it's fiction, I thought it's about time we pointed out the same obvious truth concerning the Bible.

So if you plan on staying in a hotel please help me out.

There will always be a Bible in the nightstand drawer (In America anyway) and if you have a spare moment, print a sheet of these disclaimer labels so that you can stick them on the inside cover.

NOTE:
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

Either use the above text to create your own labels or click here to go to a PDF file to print them on 2" X 4" address labels and then stick the little buggers in every damn Bible you can find.

This is what we should be afraid of...

New Book Examines Christian Nationalism

Fresh Air from WHYY, May 11, 2006

Journalist Michelle Goldberg, a senior writer for the online magazine Salon, and covers the Christian Right. In her new book, Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, she writes that Christian nationalists believe the Bible is literally true -- and they want to see the nation governed by that truth.

Axis of Feeble (Wow!)

The Economist magazine ran this cover on May 13th 2006.

Usually when a magazine makes a controversial statement like this they temper it with a question mark.

Notice there is no such mark here.

A simple definition of Left Vs Right.

A simple definition of the difference between those on the Right and those on the Left is this.

To people on the Right everything is black and white.
To members of the Left everything is shades of gray.

If you are honest in your opinion and will truly look at facts and evidence you’ll see that nothing is ever black and white. NOTHING.

You can say that it’s wrong to kill and that is an absolute truth. However, when our leaders send us off to fight a war and kill others that’s allowed.
If you believe in the Bible don’t try and argue the claim that it’s wrong to murder and not to “Kill” because the Bible clearly says “Thou shalt not kill” It also doesn’t make it clear what we shouldn’t kill. It just says that we must not and yet we have to kill animals all day every day in order to eat.
So even the most fundamental rule of our society is gray.

The fallacy of a link between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda.

The administration has claimed there were links between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein because known terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was spotted in Iraq some months before 911.

If this assertion is true and holds water as proof of a link between the two parties then I must now point out that there is then clearly a link between the terrorists and George Bush because all 19 hijackers were not only spotted in America in the days, weeks and months leading up to 911 but we have video of them boarding planes at American airports.

The truth is that there was no link between Hussein and Al Qaeda because radical Islamic terrorists hate Saddam Husein more than they hate us because he ran Iraq as a non Islamic state.

They couldn't have asked for a more pleasant outcome to 911 than having us, invade Iraq and oust Saddam Hussein for them.

Our stupid fucking president and his asshole advisors played right into their hands.

(I debated removing the words "Fucking" and "asshole" but they so aptly describe my feelings that I decided to leave them in. Another good description for George Bush would also, of course, be "Shit for brains")

Lets sing the Mexican national anthem in English.

I’ve had an idea.
To really show these damn Mexicans that we mean business and that we will not tolerate them coming over here and doing things lets do this.

Lets sing their national anthem in English.

Can you imagine how upset they will be? They’ll take to the streets in protest. Their little Mexican faces will be shiny with tears. They will probably shake their fists in hearty defiance not caring that they are holding a burrito and a couple of tacos that get all mangled.

Oh wait a minute I’m forgetting something. They’re not stupid like American conservatives are. They’ll probably not give a rats ass (arse).

Damn!

They hate us for our Freedom.

How many times have we heard George Bush say that?

This seems to me to be a particularly stupid thing to say about people who live in an area that has no functioning government, no police and no army.

They have no one to tell them what they can and can’t do. They have all the freedom in the world right now. If they want to play loud music after 10pm there is no one to stop them. If they want to kidnap a bus full of trainee police and kill them they can.

And George Bush is trying to make us believe that the “terrorists” hate us because they’re jealous of our freedom. Because we have a police force just down the road, a county sheriff in a local city and a state police post not to far away. We have an army national-guard base in the area and a regular army post near by. We have the CIA the NSA the FBI the ATF all watching to make sure that we don’t break any of the thousands of laws that govern our behavior.

Yep, all this makes the “terrorists’ mighty jealous.

So stop saying it George. It just makes you look even more stupid than you already look.

Oh and please stop invoking the memory of 911 to scare the American people into rushing for the false safety of the protective arms of your government where, once paralyzed by fear, they can be quietly blinded to your destruction of the constitution.

Thanks buddy.

Little evidence to support creation.

If an atheist ever tells you that there is little evidence that god created the universe you should make it very clear that they are wrong. Very wrong!
There is, in fact, NO evidence. None. Not a grain of sand sized piece of evidence that any supernatural being had anything to do with the existence of anything.

There is however mountains of evidence that proves evolution. Mountains of the damn stuff.

Sadly though there does also seem to be compelling evidence that we are now devolving. Just peer through the window of any church on a Sunday morning. Or go to a school board meeting is Arkansas. Or better yet, listen to the anti science propaganda that spews from the current American leaders.

It’s all very very sad.

My email to Bill OReilly.

Mr O’Reilly,
Please add me to your "Hall of Shame"
This is my website: http://harrybathwater.blogspot.com/

Admittedly I haven’t actually written anything on my blog that could be considered “smearing” you yet but it won’t be too long before I do and so I’m hoping that you could list me now.

Thank you and regards.

Harry Bathwater

The terrorists are "fundraising".

Let me explain something about terrorists.

The main job of a terrorist leader such as BinLaden is the exact same job as a politician in America.

Fundraising.

Without money they are both dead in the water.

To fundraise, therefore, both groups use whatever power they have. Politicians, it seems, have a friendly “scratch my back” policy because their power is in drafting legislation.

Terrorists, however, have bombs.

If it seems strange to you that places such as seaside resorts in Egypt and Indonesia are terrorist targets when there are other softer and more political targets easily available, this is the reason.

The terrorists are fundraising.
They know the devastating effect that a bomb blast will have on the economy of a holiday resort and so they explode a few at the beginning of the tourist season. This immediately terrifies the owners of other such locations in the region and causes them to do whatever it takes to protect their livelihoods.

They will then pay “under the counter” for protection and you can bet that hotel owners all around the Red sea are now scrambling to "cough up some wedge".

The same thing took place in Ireland for years. People would go to the business owners in the area and ask for financial help in the “struggle” or the "cause". If a business owner didn’t pay, his location would be destroyed in a “terrorist bombing”. This made sure that all the other business owners would then pay up.


It’s a simple protection racket and, because it’s how these people earn their living, it’s not going to stop. The terrorists would be very reluctant to give up a career that affords them a superb income, relaxed hours, power and notoriety in favour of a 9-5 down at the docks.

I also believe that this is the main reason why we haven’t had any terrorist incidents within America since 911. The terrorist thugs know that it would be much harder to extort money from American business owners because they are hardly going to hand over cash to “support the terrorist cause” the way Middle Eastern business owners will.

Would someone please forward this to the Whitehouse because the Bush people don't understand that terrorists are simply gangsters selling protection.
They use the guise of a political struggle to raise funds.
They therefore have no interest in the struggle going away.
And it's hard to fight gangsters with armies.

(above graphic from MSNBC.com)

Fighting them over there.

Pinky (as in Pinky and the Brain –George and Karl) keeps talking about “fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them here”

I must point out that, as we all know now, Iraq has nothing to do with the 911 attacks.

This means therefore, that we simply chose a random country to be the “over there”

I’m glad, of course, that he chose Iraq instead of Italy or Portugal as the battleground but I’m sure it has pissed off the Iraqis.

Slogan of the day:

Thank God I'm an atheist!

Wanted: Gutsy former believer.

I have stated many times before that religion is the biggest “con trick” in the world. People pay good money to shysters selling “heaven insurance”.

I fully understand that a great many of these “shysters” totally believe the repugnant message that they preach from their lofty pulpit each Sunday and they have no idea that they are perpetrating a massive fraud, but the sad fact is that they are.
They are extorting money from their congregation using the fiction of an “afterlife” which is just a vile scare tactic designed to extort money from people using the threat of eternal damnation.

What is needed therefore is a former believer who has been duped by this racket for most of his life and has handed over many hundreds or maybe thousands of dollars and is now willing to stand, broad shouldered, against this crime and file a lawsuit.

He or she will demand irrefutable proof, to be demonstrated in a court of law, that everything they have been told about god, Jesus, heaven and hell is true. Otherwise they receive financial restitution plus damages.

This person will need a strong backbone and skin thick enough to withstand the shrieking and howling that will undoubtedly arise from the mindless religious autobots who vilify all who disagree with their pernicious notions.


Also wanted: Lawyer with massive cochonnes.

Compelling evidence that Bush is the Anti-Christ.

Being an atheist I don't, of course believe in an "anti-christ" just as I don't believe in the theory of god.

However.....

It must be said that this website has a very compelling argument that George Bush is the actual spawn of the devil.

http://www.bushisantichrist.com/

And if it someday turns out to not be true, and that George Bush is simply a stupid man that was carried on the shoulders of clever men into the most important job in the world I'll apologize for thinking the worst. - Harry.

"Bullshit" Does The Bible.

You must watch this:
Penn & Teller on the bible.

It's all superb but the best line is at the end when Penn Jillette says:

"Whatever you do don't read the bible for a moral code. It advocates prejudice, cruelty, superstition and murder. Read it because we need more atheists, and nothing will get you there faster than reading the damn bible."