I really am getting exhausted!

As I sit in my car at a traffic light my gaze wanders sideways to the person in the vehicle next to me, staring intently at the light waiting for permission to proceed with their life or I’ll find myself sitting in the barbers shop idly watching the other punters waiting for a haircut. And as I walk through the grocery store or the shopping mall I notice various shoppers walking busily past and I think to myself “well…. They all look normal”.

But, I remind myself, looks can be deceiving.

Most of these people will get up early this Sunday morning, (a time when everyone should sleep until well past 10 unless they have a plane to catch) put on their best clothes, pile all their children into the car and drive across town to participate in a huge celebration of nothing. In fact as I think about it, celebration is the wrong word. Their own word is much more suitable. They go to worship nothing.

They have all bought into this enormous myth of an afterlife and that they must please the fictitious gatekeeper so he’ll let them in.

It is a culture of death. They worship a man who supposedly died for us. The Catholics even wear jewelry that depicts him nailed to a cross. They live their entire lives focused upon their death. Everything they say and do is geared towards that final day. Their every waking moment is spent in a constant struggle to be prepared for their death.

Live life people!

It’s a fantastic thing and no one should have to go through life worrying about what comes next because nothing does! We die and become soil from which new stuff grows. It’s a beautiful thing!

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……..

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.

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Thanks to OneGoodMove

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.