TOP TEN SIGNS YOU'RE A FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIAN

Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Christian

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.

Tax the churches!

It's well known across the globe that the U.S.of A. is having a bit of an economic crisis. There are three ways to effectively help cure the turmoil and start getting our country out of its deficit:

1. Legalize marijuana
The chronic is a natural drug from the earth that is less lethal and addictive than alcohol and has no place in the illegal department. If we can serve our populace alcohol by the barrel, then we can sell marijuana. The government can tax it as it does cigarettes and booze and make a buttload of money from it. PLUS, the govt. can do away with its drug free marijuana campaigns and commercials, thus saving loads of dough AGAIN! The reason weed has yet to be legalized is the same reason people still think there is a god in heaven telling us what to do from an ancient text.

2. Forbid religion
This is of course an impossible task for today's day and age. It won't happen within our lifetimes, but it is worth mentioning. As the great John Lennon wrote:

Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

It's true. Without religion, we would have a relatively peaceful world. And of course, if we could somehow pry people from their years of being brainwashed to believe in fairy tales, in America alone, our citizens would have more money to spend. More money to spend = more revenue for the government from sales tax, etc. It's known that the more the regular person spends, the more it helps our economy. Without religion, there would be no tithing, no offerings, no worthless spending on building nonsense temples and churches. The money can go to greater, realistic causes, like charities for cancer or alzheimers, etc. The fact is, whether obliterating religion helps the economy or not, it would help our world in more ways than we can ever imagine.

3. Tax the churches!
Since changing people's minds against something they were indoctrinated with from birth is an almost impossible task and would take several hundred to a thousand years to do, then our government should do the next best thing. Tax the fucking churches! If people are still so blindly willing to give an organization money that preaches fake stories to keep the listener in their control, then tax the hell out of it! People are crazy. They are willing to spend at least 10% of their entire income on religion. Many spend more. Can you imagine the fat checks that would pour in to lower our deficit? It's a no brainer.
I am also aware that all the religious zealots are probably condemning me for ever suggesting such a thing. Again, the ignorance of man is astonishing. Our forefathers would have wanted it this way. Besides never wanting America to declare itself a "Christian nation" (which we've done), the fathers of our country also never wanted to give any religion special treatment. The very first words of the Bill of Rights say: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Their stance was neutral. We will not favor religion, nor forbid it. Religion does NOT belong in the foundation or running of our country. Boy have we let them down...
Ultimately, keeping churches tax free is special treatment towards religion. It is a law respecting an establishment of religion. Our constitution writers made it adamantly clear that we should not do this. After all, they left Europe and formed America to get rid of religion's grasp. They're rolling over in their graves seeing what we've become! Tax them. Tax them until they drown.

Holy Freakin' Crap

First...watch this video:



As if it wasn't bad enough that Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen said the Earth is 6000 years old (twice), she says it as casually as someone would say "It's cloudy. It might rain today." She's so ignorant and/or brainwashed that she believes the Earth IS 6000 years old just like she knows "poop stinks" or "plants need water to grow." To her, the Earth being billions of years younger than it actually is, just IS.

"The irony, of course — and there’s always irony when creationism is involved — is that she’s talking about uranium mining, and it’s through the radioactive decay of uranium that we know the Earth is billions of years old. And she also praises technological achievements!

AIIIIiiiiieeee!"

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American Museum of Natural History

One of the biggest privileges I had on my recent trip was getting to visit the American Museum of Natural History in NYC. I've been to NYC on many occasions in the past, but never took the time to explore this museum behemoth.

It was great to see such a massive collection of exhibits that supported evolution. You start on the main floor of the building with multiple hallways that take you to various exhibits showcasing the present mammals from all around the world. Africa, Mexico, Central America, were all included.

From there you may go upstairs or downstairs. Downstairs was the absolutely breathtaking Spitzer Hall of Human Origins and Ross Hall of Meteorites. If you are one to doubt scientifically proven things like evolution, you will have left this floor with no longer a doubt in your mind. The evidence is there clear as day, and I was loving the faces on the other visitors as they realized that their religious theories were currently being blown out the window. They had everything from discovered ancient hominid skulls from our evolutionary ancestors millions of years ago to full blown neanderthal skeletons. It was fantastic.

Upstairs there were numerous displays of reptiles, amphibians, African mammals and primates. Then...what's this?? Another floor? Correct. On the top floor were the much anticipated dinosaur displays. There were TONS of legit dinosaur fossils, and full constructed skeletons. It was exciting. I felt like a kid again.











Finally, we rested and watched our IMAX presentation about Dinosaurs. It was impressive and narrated by Michael Douglas (I think I heard him go into cardiac arrest twice during his narration).

It was quite an experience and I'm glad we went. I regret having never taken the time to visit the museum previously. Surprisingly, it was only $15 a person to walk the museum. It costs additional to see IMAX presentations and special exhibits.

Back

I'm back in Texas. It's startling how brown, dry, flat, and overall hideous West Texas is compared to the rest of the world.

Vacation

As some may know, I've been on vacation in Pennsylvania and the surrounding areas for the last two weeks. In a few days I will be returning to Texas. A part of me looks forward to returning to familiarity. The other part of me wishes I could stay in the east even longer. I feel torn. On one end I have family and a few friends I've known all my life. On the other end I have the east and all the coolness that comes with it, plus my girlfriend has all her family and friends here. I'm torn. /sigh I may or may not post more blogs about my adventures while on this trip.

Pretty Woman by creepy old man

Why should 'i' be an atheist?

In the truest sense, I feel obliged to try and convince everyone on this entire planet to be an atheist. That is, indeed, an impossible task, as humans are by nature very stubborn and selfish. They are also very cocky. Most importantly, though, humans are fearful. That is the biggest setback in creating a realistic view of our planet's history. How do I make believers in religion change their mind? Is it ultimately impossible because of the reasons listed above? Why in the fuck do so many people believe in the same thing? These are questions that must be understood to change the path on which our world is walking.

Humans are stubborn and selfish.
I am not attempting to claim that atheists are not stubborn or selfish. Humans, as a whole, are both. It doesn't matter what you believe, it is in our minds to be very placed in our ways and to hold dearly onto what we love. There are some people who grow up still unable to let go of that security blanket they held as a baby. Linus, from Peanuts, is a good example. He is of course fictional, but his obsession with a blanket is relevant in most humans' lives. In some form or fashion, every human has a grown attachment to a personally owned item. It does not change with religion. If your parents raised you to believe in God and that Jesus Christ was his son born from a fucking VIRGIN, you're going to continue to believe it. I was raised this way. I went to church every Sunday. I prayed as a child, although I had no clue what I was really doing. I walked into the church and smiled a million smiles at all the other phony people who claim they never have doubt...
There are instances of humans teaching their children to write with their right hand even though they kept wanting to pick up the pencil with their left... Eventually, these children were SHAPED into using their right hands. Were they really left handed people? Absolutely. It was INCORRECT to use your left hand, so parents desperately worked to teach their kids to use their right hand. Minds are very easily shaped. If you grow up with the assumption, "if you don't believe in this 'story', you are going to go to a very painful, HOT place called hell", then you are going to believe it. You trust your parents. You're going to believe in their make believe hell and god and etc.
So what's the problem? Like I said, people are STUBBORN. They will not give up the beliefs their parents taught them, even though they may secretly know that their ridiculous religion holds no reasonable ground. The same people are selfish. They don't want to give up their euphoric, yet retarded, belief in eternal life. "I am so important, I want to live forever. Wait, what?? God from the Bible promises these things? Excellent, I'm so in."

Humans are cocky.
I already touched on this in the previous rant. This goes side by side with the fact that every member of our species is selfish. There's a twist though. We've all unfortunately met the douchebag at a party with his collar popped and an undignified sense of security in his demeanor. This son of a bitch is cocky as fuck, and we want to kill him. Thankfully our human instincts of "killing is bad" kick in and we don't (we don't need religion to be 'good'). However, this guy believes in some baloney god and wants to spread it across the whole world because IT'S THE COOL THING TO DO!!! FUCK YEAH!!! If he is shot down by an atheist (or even a christian who is just tired of his dumbass behavior), he cannot accept it. It becomes even MORE important that he is right. "FUCK YOU BITCH! GOD CREATED THIS SANDWICH!!"

Humans are fearful.
Fear [feer] -noun
1.)a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat
is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid.
Imagined....interesting....
Humans are afraid of the unknown. What is the biggest unknown in our existence?? The answer is...Existence. Why are we here? What happens when we die? There is no way to possibly answer these questions yet. So people find anything to answer these questions without proof. For fucking AGES (i'm talking since humans were first on the earth), people have tried to come up with ideas as to why we are here on this "Earth". The bible is one of these ideas. It is a collection of stories from people who really have no idea. They were just as human as we are now. They did not possess special powers that allow them to see into the secrets of our existence. Ultimately, Jesus is an equal alongside the likes of David Koresh and Anne Heche. Jesus may have been a fucking psycho. Before you jump down my throat, why the fuck are you so willing to believe people you DON'T know about a man named Jesus, but you can't believe that David Koresh might be the second coming of christ? Or to believe in whatever else he preached? Anne Heche admitted she was crazy after hearing voices from 'god' telling her to do shit. It's called a mental disorder. Moses had a mental disorder if he even existed. The rest...is history. Humans are ultimately afraid of death. Our minds cannot fathom what lies beyond death. So our imaginations do the rest of the work. It does not mean it's true.

The rest will be continued in Part II of "Why should 'i' be an atheist?"

Maybe One Day

And So It Continues

Meet creationist Don McLeroy. He is the Chairman of the Texas State Board of Education. And this is what he wants to teach your kids:



Someone has to stand up to experts? This guy is insane and needs to be removed from his position before he ruins children! You must realize how ridiculous this shit is.