It just shows that all faiths are uptight

Link: PLAYGIRL BUDDHA SPARKS OUTRAGE



Even though this is a parody and it is about Buddhists, there are Buddhists who would not only be offended but react in a militant and violent way. This is the inherent problem with religion itself. They all have a figure on which to focus. If that figure is attacked or parodied, the pathetic followers wind themselves up and go on the warpath.

That is why everyone should ignore the ceremony and false idols of the pageantry of the religion and focus solely on the philosophy that it pushes. Buddhism is a great philosophy. The philosophies of Xianity and Islam are not bad and worth pursuing by their followers. It is the phony bullshit that is slapped on to give a job to some schmuck in a robe that is inherently bad.

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Sunday with Uncle George

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Happy Winter Solstice, you thieves!

Link: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/475823282/atheist-sign-by-nati.html

A little xmas card idea for everyone, courtesy of your friends at the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

At this season of
THE WINTER SOLSTICE
may reason prevail.

There are no gods,
no devils, no angels,
no heaven or hell.

There is only
our natural world.

Religion is but
myth and superstition
that hardens hearts
and enslaves minds.

"Most people think December is for Christians and view our signs as an intrusion, when actually it's the other way around," he said. "People have been celebrating the winter solstice long before Christmas. We see Christianity as the intruder, trying to steal the holiday from all of us humans."

- Dan Barker, Foundation co-founder

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Though for the day

St. Francis Xavier, founder of the Jesuits, said "Give me the child until he is seven, and I will give you the man," meaning, of course, that if you brainwash small children with any idiot set of beliefs (like, say, the virgin birth, divinity of Christ, necessity for ritual cannibalism, and triune nature of the Godhead), you'll have them by the frontal lobes of the brain for the rest of their lives. They will never escape it.

-- Greg Costikyan

Link to original article about the Candy-Land board game: http://playthisthing.com/candy-land

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