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.

Dear Creationists:

What's Outside the Universe?

What's outside the universe? This is a question that is undoubtedly on most if not every intellectual's mind. The answer isn't easy, and it's not conclusive. It is impossible at this time to answer that question based on fact. However, I came across what may be the greatest explanation ever for this question. What the author says is nothing new, but the way he elegantly explains it almost gives a peace of mind behind the worry revolved around this perplexing question.

Bailey,
When we were in Albuquerque you asked me what was beyond the edge of the Universe, and I didn't have a very good answer. To be honest, I felt like a baseball player that had practiced and practiced (I've read a lot of books and thought a lot about the same question myself), but suddenly I was standing in the outfield and a high fly ball was headed my way (your question)...and I dropped the ball.

Your question is a really good one and a very hard one to answer because the ideas aren't simple and they aren't easy to understand--even for me.

But I've been thinking about what you asked, and I'm really, really glad you did becuase it made me think hard about the question again too.

Next time we see each other, maybe we can talk about this more, but here's my answer: think about the earth. It's a big ball, and when you look toward the horizon it looks like you can see where the earth stops. But you know from driving and flying that there's no edge. You travel for awhile and you see past the horizon. And what do you see? More dirt, more trees, more roads, more mountains. There really isn't an edge at all. What's over the horizon? More of the same. That's the way it is when you look out into space. If you traveled a billion miles (which would only get you to about Saturn, still in our solar system) what would you see? More space, more stars and galaxies.

But now think of this . . . you're a bug inside a balloon. You can't crawl outside because you can only live inside. A giant is blowing the balloon up, bigger and bigger. As the bug, you can see the inside of the balloon and, smart little bug that you are, you say to yourself, "I wonder what's outside?" Same idea as wondering what's outside the Unvierse, right?

We're kinda like bugs too, really smart ones. We have satellites and instruments and scientists that have done experiments that show the universe (which is kinda like our balloon) is expanding, and there's nothing outside it. As far as we know there's nothing there. But we can wonder.

Another way to think about this, and I know it's silly, is to ask, "What color is your name?" It doesn't make sense for a name to be a color in the same way it doesn't make sense for there to be something outside the universe. The universe is everything there is, and the idea that there's anything outside it just doesn't make sense.

Mind you, that doesn't mean it's not a good thing to think about and to ask questions about, because it makes us ask other questions. "What if I wrote my name with a red crayon? Wouldn't my name be red?" It sure would! So now we know that there are other ways to look at a question that might let us to learn something new.

Think about flying straight north, over Canada, still north past the Arctic Circle, north more to the North Pole. Now ask yourself, can I go further north from here? No, there's no such thing as north of the North Pole. "Ah," you say, "but what if I go straight up?" Brilliant! That's not north, of course, but it does add an interesting new dimension to the problem, if you'll pardon the pun.

A question about the universe, for example, might be, "Could there be other universes?" Maybe it doesn't make sense to ask what's outside our universe, but maybe it does make sense to ask if there could be other universes. Instead of North let's go up!

In fact, some people today think there are other universes. One idea is that there are an infinite number of other universes. Every time you do something there might be a universe where you don't do it. Did you drop your cookie and the dog got it? Don't worry, in an other universe you didn't drop it. And in an other universe you dropped it, but the dog didn't get it so you could eat it anyway. And in an other universe the dog got it, but he gave it back to you. In another universe Dr. Schrodinger's cat gobbled it up . . . or not.

WEIRD STUFF, HUH?

Even though we may not know the answer to all this yet, the important thing is that we keep asking questions and we keep looking for answers and we keep doing experiments to see if our ideas make sense. If someone tells you they have the answer to something, anything (sorry Mom and Dad) ask, "Why?" If they can't give you evidence, if they say it's just because they said so—or just because someone else said so—don't accept the answer until you, yourself, are satisfied the answer is right. And be prepared, be willing, to change what you think if new answers come along that show what you used to think is true isn't any more. That's what learning is all about.

But be careful. There are some people that say we should always consider every answer to every question--but that would be a huge waste of time. There are some things such as gravity, and electromagnetism and evolution that are so well understood that it's simply a waste of time to argue that they aren't accurate descriptions of reality. It wouldn't make much sense to study the idea that the Earth is held up by turtles instead of gravity, now would it?

I know this isn't a simple (or a short) answer. But you'll find there are very few of those in life.

Grandpa Tom

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Open-Mindedness

A wonderful little animation about the true differences between open-minded individuals, and those that are close-minded. Pay close attention please.

Open-mindedness
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I am embarassed to live in Texas

Knowing that Texas governor Rick Perry appointed a CREATIONIST onto the state's Board of Education should be humiliating enough. But no, it goes further than that. A creationist cunt on Texas' BoE has decided to present a legislation or whatever that allows a 'broader' analysis and representation of the universe's age. What does that mean for her and other fundamentalist christians? They can squeeze in their nonsensical bullshit about the Earth only being 6000 or so years old. Guess what? The bill passed 11-3. It's sickening and makes me want to gtfo this part of the world. Read the whole article and see the video HERE.

UPDATE (5/11/09) - After rummaging through the article's comments, I came across one from Richard Drumm that really said it like it needs to be said. I'll share it with you:

"OK, I’m back. I feel a little better now… Only a little.

The YECs are right to be anti-scientific. Science is their belief system’s enemy.
They should be failing, but they’re succeeding instead. I don’t know why. Ignorance is easy and the electorate is taking the easy path.

Maybe it’s the sheer size of the coursework one needs to carry nowadays to become a scientist that’s the problem. In the early part of the last century it was easy enough for the lay person to follow and mostly understand science (with the possible exception of Quantum Mechanics) so science was accessible. Now maybe science isn’t so accessible and the masses turn their backs on it and seek out the easy, comforting rituals of yesteryear, that “Old time religion” from the song.

Outreach is more important than ever…

I have an old friend who I used to work with back in the mid ’80s who was never religious back then. Now he goes to church and said “It’s good to have a friend in the man upstairs.” the other day. I didn’t say anything, just smiled… What can you say to such a deluded person? It’s a comforting delusion, I’m sure, but a delusion nonetheless. I wish I had an answer to all this but I don’t. Clearly he was looking for me to agree with him and maybe then he’d invite me to join his church. I’m sure this would raise his stature in his church and make him feel powerful. He has no idea I’m an atheist.

Clearly, too, the schools are the new battleground and we are in the fight of our lives!"

The Dick in a Box Dudes Are Back!

Such a lovely Mother's Day sentiment.

Bill Maher on the Swine Flu and Evolution

"You can’t crap all over Darwin and stem cell research and global warming, then come crawling back to science when you want Tamiflu."

Stand By Me

"Stand by Me" performed by musicians around the world from SKAT on Vimeo.

"If this video doesn't bring a tear to your eyes and makes you smile for the rest of the day, you are a cold hearted bastard. Watch it from beginning to end—you won't regret it.

This cover of Stand By Me was recorded by completely unknown artists in a street virtual studio all around the world. It all started with a base track—vocals and guitar—recorded on the streets of Santa Monica, California, by a street musician called Roger Ridley. The base track was then taken to New Orleans, Louisiana, where Grandpa Elliott—a blind singer from the French Quarter—added vocals and harmonica while listening to Ridley's base track on headphones. In the same city, Washboard Chaz's added some metal percussion to it.

And from there, it just gets rock 'n' rolling bananas: The producers took the resulting mix all through Europe, Africa, and South America, adding new tracks with multiple instruments and vocals that were assembled in the final version you are seeing in this video. All done with a simple laptop and some microphones."

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Dick Cheney Gets Things Done

Why do you believe in God?

This is an experiment. There will be no ridicule.

If you are a religious individual, and follow a religion that worships a single god (christianity, judaism, islam, etc.), I want to know how you would respond to the following question were you asked in conversation:

"Why do you believe in God?"

You may reply anonymously if you so choose. All I ask is that you leave a truthful, responsible answer. It can be as short or as lengthy as you choose.

If you are still asking, "Why should I tell an atheist like you why I believe in my god?", please understand that this is simply an experiment. I do not need to know who you are or your background history or anything else for that matter. I just want to hear the average religious individual's reason for believing in something I find incredibly impossible to believe in. I am not trying to 'find god' or anything close to it.

To leave your response, simply click on the comments link below this post and leave your answer. Thank you to anyone who participates.

UPDATE: Comments left that are not related to the subject presented will be deleted to keep an on topic atmosphere for this experiment.

Witch Hunt!

Watch Hardly Working: Witch Hunt and more funny videos on CollegeHumor

We Didn't Start the Flame War

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How Mickey Mouse came to replace Jesus Christ

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If Atheists Ruled the World...

All of the dialogue in the following video is taken directly, word for word, from online Christian fundamentalist forums. That is the horrifying truth. I wish everyone would allow their eyes to be opened and see how detrimental these fundamentalist Christians are to our very existence. Typically, when something is present that slows down positive progression, like too much weight on a race car, it is removed permanently. So how do we take care of this infestation that's putting too much weight on humanity to progress effectively? Fellow atheists, agnostics, rationalists, WHATEVER, need to come out of the closet and make a stand. The USA is NOT a christian nation. It is a nation that is supposed to be free from religious labels. That's why our forefathers left Britain to begin with. Now enjoy the scary film:

Church Mice

Very subtle, yet hilarious spoof. I wish we could replace all traveling christians trying to spread the word of jesus with cheese salesmen. The world would be a better, and cheesier, place!

Did You Know?

I can't decide if this is entertaining or strictly depressing.

Stem Cell Research for Atheists Only

Rape Captcha

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I know I was browsing aggressively through your site Newegg, but THIS is ridiculous!

Happy Birthday Charles Darwin

Most people recognize today as being Abraham Lincoln's birthday. He deserves the recognition every year due to his history changing presidency; however, there is another individual worth acknowledging on this day. Charles Darwin shares a birthday with Lincoln. Darwin is one of the most important people in our written history. He challenged religion with his theory of evolution and controversial, yet important, book The Origin of Species. Most of the theories he created have now been solidified by fact, and his genius shines more now than ever. His willingness to separate himself from the brainwashing religious factions got him heavily scrutinized during his life, and all rationalists, atheists and agnostics alike, should be happy he did. He helped pave the road towards where we stand today. Without his observations and theories, atheists may still be persecuted for wanting to think for ourselves! Praise Darwin indeed.

Religulous on DVD February 17th

I know what you're thinking. Shut up about that damn movie! Are you in love with Bill Maher? Etc. etc. All I can say is this is the most important movie to come along in...well, maybe forever. Just like we can say Richard Dawkin's "The God Delusion" is the most important book to come along in forever. They both include messages that would save humanity, but no one is ever willing to listen.

The thing that excites me most about the DVD release of Religulous on February 17th is that there will no doubt be a lot of 'in the closet' rationalists, who were too scared to be seen in the theater watching this movie, or that just didn't have the film available at a nearby theater, taking a peek at Bill Maher's scary, but important message.

Hopefully I will have the spare cash to pick up the DVD the day it arrives because, although I have seen the movie numerous times since the trip to the theater, I look forward to the extras that should undoubtedly be very interesting. They include:

• Commentary with Bill Maher and Director Larry Charles
• Bill Maher Monologues from around the World
• Deleted Scenes (sweeeeet)

Please do yourself a favor and go rent this. Let me know what you thought. >;)

Sony Releases New Stupid Piece of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work

Fucking Hilarious...


Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work

Best Superbowl Article Ever.

For those of you like me who don't necessarily enjoy the barbaric race back and forth across a field while retards pummel each other over a fucking BALL, this article is for you. The rest of you? Go fuck yourself.

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Religion! Get it for your brain today!