Bill Maher on Religion

Very funny.



Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IcUumWzue4

Stick to feet

Shroud Of Turin Accidentally Washed With Red Shirt

VATICAN CITY—The damage occurred when Pope Benedict XVI, who was on laundry duty, did not notice a brand new bright-red Hanes Beefy-T in the Holy Whirlpool washer.

Man is not special

If you examine the bibble, specifically chapters one and two of the first book, it is easy to see that man is not special. Man is not created until the end of the creation sequence. Is this because Gawd was saving the best for last? No. Man was created for a purely selfish reason. Man was not created because the animals were lonely, but because the animals needed someone to care for them and the land needed someone to care for and use it.

So here were are, Gawd and Man, tooling around the new world. Will Man shoot the breeze with Gawd, maybe discuss the myriad topics on the tip of the tongue of an omniscient entity? Nope. Man is here to till the land. He is here to work, to toil in the fields. Their relationship is that of a master and his slave. Gawd explicitly tells Man to avoid the Tree of Knowledge. You don't need that to pull a plow. If Man knew something, he might ask questions or want to discuss things. No, no, no. Keep on working in the fields, day in and day out. Make Massa happy.

But Man must be special somehow. Gawd did breath life into a statue made of dirt. Not quite. The Latin Vulgate bibble states: formavit igitur Dominus Deus hominem de limo terrae. De Limo terrae is the bit that we want to see. The problem is that "dust" is not a definition of limo. Limo translates as "slime, mud, or mire," something definitely wet and unpleasant, not dust and not clay. Perhaps the original authors were hints at some sort of ooze, maybe even a primordial soup?

There you have it. Man comes from slime and specifically created to toil his life away, as stupid as the plants and animals in his charge. Doesn't sound like a special plan to me, but one day, Massa will call you in from the fields to the big house and your life will be complete.

Thought for the Day

Now that I think about it, that love thy neighbor and do unto others are obviously unxian or they would practice it and condemn those who claim their faith and do not practice it.

It is painful to watch

I was watching 60 Minutes last Sunday and there was a man talking about his economic difficulties and how that would impact his selection of a presidential candidate. This fellow said that he was unlikely to vote for Barack Obama because he is a Muslim and would not be sworn in using the bibble. He said that that aspect troubled his deep inside. The point of asking him was to highlight some of the smearing that is occurring in the campaigns.

His words made me grit my teeth in anger at his intolerance. He was subdued about it but does not mask the vile hypocrisy. Maybe I am wrong. Maybe in one of the Ecumenical Councils the bishops decided that anyone who did not profess or adopt xeanity was evil and should be killed. You would think that something this significant would have been recorded somewhere.

Some might say that not all xians are that way but they are wrong. Tolerance certainly does not appear so in the history of xeanity. After all, Constantine the First had to adopt xeanity as the religion of the Roman Empire or the xians would have ripped the place apart. I think that there is a distinction about tolerance. If you enact the philosophy, then tolerance is possible, but not guaranteed. If you join the religion, then you cannot be tolerant. If you were, then you would disagree with all forms of proselytizing, despite it being done for the good of the individual, from the proselytizer's point of view.

This ignorant clown should be happy that Obama has a religious text to hold dear. If he knew anything beyond his third-grade coloring-book education, he would know that izlam shares many aspects of xeanity because they both borrow from the Jewish traditions. Izlam regards Jebus as a prophet, just not as significant as Mohamed, because you have to root for the home team. It should comfort this guy that Obama has drunk some kind Kool-Aid®, even though it is not his own favorite flavor.

Frankly, it does not matter one sliver of a whit if the future president eats hearts out of live babies. Can that person run the country with a fair, unbiased, even hand? Right now it is not. I wish that I could find an editorial that I saw a few years ago that touched on an atheist president. Why is it so bad to have person in that job without a religious filter occluding their vision? The president is not our pastor-in-chief. The president is not our national cleric. The president runs one-third of our government, and our government is not a theocracy.

Easy money

On February 13, an eighth grader in California was shot twice, once in the head, by another student (story from Yahoo news). Police have not revealed a motive but it seems to stem from the victim begin gay. He would sometimes wear high heels and women's clothing to school and there is a later snippet that the victim asked the suspect to be his valentine.

The victim was brain-dead at the hospital and was kept on life-support for organ harvesting before support was finally removed. Not one peep from Congress about pulling the plug in this case. Perhaps it is because the victim is gay.

Police have a suspect in custody but the real mastermind remains at-large: Jebus.

A guy dressing up in a dress - that's funny. Apparently for some Xians, homosexuality just reminds them of their own homocentric cult. They want to stop but are afraid to turn the gun on themselves.

You can overcome, some day. Be strong. Just remember to squeeze, not pull, the trigger. Aim through the eye socket or nose. Maybe behind the ear. It's tough, but I have faith in you.