Squirm, selfish cultist, squirm!

No matter which way I turn when I leave, I have to pass by a church. When I do, it starts my mind to race and my blood to heat. Today was no different. What popped into my head today was the phrase, "my personal relationship with <your brand of pasta here>..." I then responded, "yes, it is a personal relationship. Mine is different. Howdy Doody's is different. Why are you talking to me?"

As I have said in the past, a cultist's faith is unique to them and solely for that individual's benefit. Of course, they may tell you that they want to share their joy with their faith. Why does that individual think that anyone else cares? Does the mad cultist share every time it is overcome with joy, say, from Blue Bell® Dutch Chocolate ice cream? How about when it wins the temporal, financial lottery? I've never seen it. I want some ice cream, too. Then, I am happy to chat with it, but only about ice cream.

Next time a cultist approaches you, wanting to share their faith, steer the conversation this way...

"I want to share with you about knowing <your brand of pasta here>."

"Wow. Before you do, do you consider yourself a most excellent practitioner of the pasta?"

"I try, through the grace of the pasta sauce."

"Do you think, right now, that I am going to be denied the unending pasta buffet?"

"Well, friend, by knowing the pasta..."

"No, that is not what I asked. Take a snapshot and put it on the scale. This is it, right here. Will I be denied the unending pasta buffet?"

"I cannot say for certain (This assumes an intelligent, non-raving cultist), but without constant attention, we all are in danger of that."

"Fair enough. For the sake of argument, let us agree that the answer is 'no.' Now, with that same snapshot, do you believe that you will enjoy the buffet?"

"I hope that I will be invited to the buffet when the time comes."

"Okay. Again, for the sake of argument, let us agree that that answer is 'yes.' Now, would you, right now, make a complete swap of the disposition of our souls in your afterlife?"

If the cultist answers yes, then the reason is one of the following:
1) They are truly genuine, but probably expect that their sacrifice will earn them another spot.
2) They are lying because this not something that one can do, according to the cult's manifesto.

If the cultist immediately answers no, then you know it is either #2 from the Yes group, or they have no intention of giving up their reservation.

If the cultist pauses before answering no, it was stunned by your question and denial is just a programmed response since all cults are about denying the individual. Most likely, the cultist will give you some excuse.

If the cultist does not give a direct answer to this clearly simple, non-confusing question-what a shock-and instead starts to ramble about the job of the happy, good cultist, take that as a no.

No matter the answer given, a cultist pursues its faith for purely selfish reasons. It does not care about your disposition. Maybe it constantly questions its own faith and now, you just attacked the sole reward for its foolish behavior. For an added bonus, you can tell the cultist, except the ones that answer Yes#1, "Well, that doesn't sound very pasta-like," and watch them squirm and likely become belligerent.

I ask again, why are you talking to me!?

Not the joyful bondage for which I hoped.

There have been many times that I was ready to knock this one out and would not. Finally, it takes a death close to home to help one find the strength to take keyboard under hand and let it all out.

Overview: Marriage is a redundant, antiquated, superfluous, unnecessary, bogus institution that has no place in an intelligent, modern society.

Much is made of the institution of marriage by people with a vested interest in its perpetuation: theo-factional group leaders. You hear volumes of rhetoric about marriage is a sacred institution and marriage is between a man and a woman. Those two bites, right there, are the worst. If you examine the language used – matrimony, (joyful) bonds of matrimony, wedlock, conjugal – much of it has roots which are demeaning to a free-thinking, free-willed individual. I will come to that momentarily.

Marriage is sacred?!! What a load of crap. Pagans had marriage long, long before the psychotic cultist turds of today came along. Going back to pre-xian Roman times, it was partly to ensure legitimacy of offspring. Yes, it worked just as well then as now. If marriage is so awesome, why do couples have paternity tests?

Marriage is between a man and a woman? Here is another bovine with diarrhea. Matrimony is between a man and a woman. The word comes from Latin and is translatable as "to lead or guide into motherhood." You do not hear matrimony used as much now. After all, an elderly couple who marry cannot have matrimony. What about a couple who do not intend or are unable to have children? What about a couple who already have kids from prior situations and need/want absolutely no more? No matrimony there either. That's probably why marriage is heard more today. It covers more of the bases.

With that out of the way, is it really between just a man and a woman? Who cares? Considering how infinitely personal religion is, this is nothing more than an individual's religion – an individual's particular hangups – insinuating itself into someone else's business. What despicable arrogance. Originally, matrimony was not a religious ceremony. It was social. Superstitious peoples involved their gods in the ceremony for good luck. Today, the cultists are forced to adopt (now that is a funny word choice) a new term: marriage. Without asking anyone else, the new term now has to take on the same reverence as the displaced word.

Some people are married to their work. Is their job their partner? Does it complete that person? Too bad if that is the case. One might go so far as to think that this person is a bit deranged. Why this person and not the members of a couple...or the cultists doing the screaming? It's a double standard. As it has been said before: if two people love and care for each other, let them be together.

Something else that comes up when discussing marriage is that it is a sacred contract, a covenant, between two people. This is the part that I loathe the most. Two people do not need a contract—a set of rules and stipulations—to live together, have fun together, produce offspring, and finally grow old together. Two rational, sane, intelligent people do not need it because they will simply do it anyway. Another term that relates to marriage is conjugal. This is another word from Latin that literally mean "yolked together" - as in cattle. Does that sound like something intelligent people do? Intelligent people can easily work together to make a happy life for themselves. Dumb animals have to be tied to one another and have a driver whip them to go in the right direction—okay, just "a direction." Who is that driver? Take your pick: religion, society, tradition, guilt or any other members of the Anti-Progressive Club.

Between having to use a new term and the mainstreaming of the gay culture starting in the Eighties, the cultists have felt pushed into a corner. Many things in society that used to belong to them have been whittled away in the name of equality. There is very little left to them - thank the spaghetti for that! They deserve nothing special in an age of enlightenment. If anything, their behavior only highlights their hatred and bigotry. You cannot really blame them since their guide is a book that is confusing, anachronistic, and self-contradictory. One thing that is somewhat clear is that their supposed deity said "love thy neighbor as thyself." Pretty embarrassing, if you ask me. If they are so full of self-loathing, maybe they should kill themselves and leave the planet to people who do not have hang-ups, who have compassion, who can tolerate others and have it not impact their lives. How can I help them on their way? I know, let's eliminate all marriage-related benefits. That is equality and they hate it.

Die, hypocritical bastards, die, and take your bullshit institution with you.

For Karl.
This post was originally conceived: 2008-Jun-02

Are you the worm?

Today, I drove past by my Taber-chuckle source. Reading the current sign again, my mind raced away with something like the following:

What I fixated on from this sign is the sleeping xian tidbit. As before, my first thought is WAKE UP! Get your ass out of bed and get to work. There are things to do, not just for your community and the world but also yourself.

Sleeping in a metaphor in this case but I find it is more realistic than not. The main thing that is dormant in these people is their curiosity. How can anyone look the cosmos, the planet, or even their front yard and not be interested in something? I cannot remember the exact quote but I believe it was Einstein who observed, roughly paraphrased, that he could not believe that a deity would create something as powerful as the human brain for it to just sit there idle and dormant (my embellishment). Considering that emphatic xians are so keen to earn daddy's favor, should not they do something to make it proud? Would not the creativity of the human mind be just the ticket?

What do these people think will make their daddy proud? Singing? Praying? Kissing its ass? Those seem to be the main avenues to the afterlife. No one wants to be subjected to such crap, except really old, senile people, or Alzheimer's patients. Those people are draining. They are tired of life, but will not admit it. They have nothing more to give, nothing to contribute. Instead, they focus on the glory days, when people cared who they were, when they had power and influence, when they meant something and had significance in the world. No more. Now they just sit there, drooling and loading up a diaper. To these people, daddy is omnipotent and omniscience but to me, it sounds a bit omnistultant. Only an idiot would not appreciate the creative potential of the human being.

Rather than doing something for the world, the people spend their lives groveling, crying, pleading, begging, crawling to daddy to take them up after death. Then what? Do you get to stand on two feet? Of course not. Daddy likes you on your knees in front of him. Keep doing it. Keep crawling like a worm. After a lifetime of practice, they only just suck at it.

What makes them think they can stand up and use opposable thumbs? Daddy is an old daddy. Its thinking is old-time thinking. Its loud-mouthed cheerleaders tell us this all the time. So why do they expect to suddenly find a progressive afterlife experience? Since no other aspect of their perception of daddyland is different from the same concept of those sheep herders who invented it after a week of huffing raw methane, why should this part be any different. There is nothing to do except what daddy wants. Even these people move out of their parents' house because they want their independence and freedom. When they die, they want to move right back in to Slavery Central.

Hmmm. Sounds like hell to me.

Taber-Chuckles: 2009-02-26

What a fitting metaphor: the sleeping xian as an infant. They sure are.

Who doesn't like rocking a cradle? You see that sleeping face and you just want to shake the crap out of it. Make that infant bounce all over the place, maybe wedge the skull between the bars. Then laugh as the little baby cries.

Why are xians asleep all the time? It would be nice if they woke up for a second and contributed to the world. The strength of their devotion to something from a dream, applied to real problems in the world could accomplish so much. Of course, the last time they applied themselves, they tortured people across the world for not liking the Prince of Peace. Maybe having them sleep is not such a bad idea. It definitely makes it easier to sneak up on them and club them like a baby seal. Good times.

Granted, this sign has only so many slots for letters, but one could just as easily interpret it as Satan is rocking the cradle in an affectionate way. After all, Satan truly loves Mankind. He did his best to improve our lot and free us from an abusive parent whose first words to its children was "DON'T TOUCH THAT!"

Let's take another tack. Let us ignore that knowledge aspect and focus on the other: obedience. What you see in the allegory of the chapter of Genesis is a test of obedience. It assumes, however, that obedience is good. Obedience is only good for children. Adults, however, can capitulate. You yield some degree of individuality for the sake of a functioning society. However, those first words from the sky daddy are don't wander off and don't touch that. Parents still do that today. Out of fear of germs - a creation of the daddy, yes? - anything Baby Moron tries to play with is swatted away. No wonder kids today are damn-near worthless.

For humans, advancements are not made by people who toes the line, who capitulate completely, who grovel in fealty. Advancement is made by someone who stands up for itself and says Screw you! I'm doing this! It makes a difference for knowledge and culture and society. That benefits everyone, unlike religion, which only offers benefits a single individual: the believer.

I just become angry as I have this dialog in my head. What a waste.

Simply ponderous

Newton, NJ stops having a sectarian invocation and members whine. Now they will have secular invocation to open sessions. Why?

I do not normally think about how often a prayer opens up a official government session of whatever. Congress does it. I would expect the Supreme Court does. It has no impact on the proceedings yet they feel compelled to do it, as if without it, the session will be somewhat less. They do not do it for the hell of it, it has a purpose. Functionally, it has no impact.

There may be some members of the session who have to have a prayer before they knuckle down to work. These people are weak and ineffective. Anyone who cannot work for themselves without offering some kind of pagan ritual beforehand should be chastised. For them, it is a prayer to their deity but it really is a pagan ritual. Historic texts that predate the blight of xianity describe a prayer ritual before government works, festivals, and the like. Much like everything else in xianity, they also ripped off the groveling need to beg their sky daddy for guidance because they are too stupid to do it themselves, or, most likely, in an attempt to channel the divine wisdom of a plate of spaghetti into their own dealings.

When these people in New Jersey were told that what they are doing is really not a good idea from a legal perspective, they wisely decided to stop doing it. If only they could have kept their mouths shut. They vomit out the same old shit of If you don't like it, close your ears! The same advice they ignore for the likes of Howard Stern or intelligent, adult material on the radio or tv. Then, that is filth that must be stopped. I am sure that the individual, who brought to their attention this problem, couldn't care less if someone wants to beg the invisible man for common sense to do their job. The objection is foisting it on everyone present. Not everyone is a dolt who needs to be told what to do. Some people can think and make intelligent decisions for themselves.

They have pissed and moaned and changed their ways...or not. Now they are going to try and devise a secular invocation before they start their business. Again, why? It is still a waste of time. The secular wording will only annoy the brain-dead babies who miss their brain-daddy. Every recitation will grate on them and hopefully drive them into apoplexy. With any luck, their heads will explode and then decent, intelligent people can be chosen to work on the council. Unless...that is all that their city has. If they have to perform a pagan ritual to decide when the county faire is, nothing help them if they have to make a real decision.

It is simply ponderous.

Link: Americans United blog

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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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Bynkii: The End of Divorce

John Welch makes some beautiful points.

It seems like this bullshit about "saving marriage" is nothing more than making its proponents seem desperate to have something that makes them special. Marriage is not special, it is work, no matter what anyone tells you.

Link: http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2008/11/its_the_end_of_divorce.html

Now that California and Florida have banned gay marriage, (and in FL's case, any and all legal/civil recognition of homosexual relationships) I'm sure we'll never ever see another divorce in either state again. Why, in every state where gay marriage has been banned, the divorce rate, nay, even the marital counseling rate has immediately dropped to zero.

Heck, in Arkansas, they banned gays from being able to adopt or even foster kids, so in that state, we'll never see another abused kid again, right?

At least they will be abused properly by Great Juju-fearin' xians.

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It's all about fear

From notes made while buzzed and after watching V for Vendetta.

What is the motivation for religion? Fear of the hereafter and the possibility of the lack thereof. There must be a purpose because I am so fucking special! You are as special as a bacteria, and I dare say that some bacteria contribute more to the world and humanity that some poeple - even generations of them.

Why a pushy gawd-luhvuhs so fucking annoying? The squeaky (loud) wheel gets the grease. These who make the most noise about religion are those who are the most confused and suspicious that it is real. They have doubt and doubt, like thinking, like individuality, is anathema to religion because it works on faith, for which there is no 800 help line, warranty, in-store demonstration, or convincing product literature.

What if gawd is the celestial mechanic? Richard Dawkins, in a video clip that I posted earlier, responded to a student who asked him, what if he was wrong. His response was, what if she was wrong? Something she may never have considered before, or maybe she had but the implication scared her. What if it is the Great Juju Under The Sea? What if gawd is the celestial mechanic - setting the cosmos in motion and after that, hands off?

In V for Vendetta, overcoming her fear of death made Evey free. It made her mind open to more possibilities for good or ill. Gawd luhvuhs are not free and never can be within their system.

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Something that they have never considered

It is a common point from evangelical xians that this is a xian nation and the majority of them would like nothing more than to have that xian nation back. Thus, they have mobilized as a political force.

Theocracies are probably the most abhorrent form of government, as considered by a rational, democracy-leaning individual. So, for the sake of argument, let us say that everyone has decided on a change and theocracy is the answer and xianity is the winner. Which one is selected as the government-sponsored religion? Catholicism, the first and arguably the true form of xianity? How about Protestantism, the off-shoot created by people who did not like the oppression of catholicism? Which of the four protestant groups should it be? Which one of the eighteen recognized families of protestantism? Tough choice...someone will be disappointed.

The hyper-evangelicals will definitely lose out because they are too extremist. Most likely, they will suffer in silence and be satisfied that the shift occurred at all. Some of them, however, will not be satisfied. They will protest and cause civil disruptions. The main religion will have to clamp down on them and drive them underground. Others, curious as to what makes this sect so bad, will seek them out and be indoctrinated. As part of the brainwashing, they will be reprogrammed to become part of an underground army that will await the day when they will have sufficient numbers to try and force a change, by any means necessary. It will be a religious civil war.

Each side will believe that they are the chosen ones, as all delusionals do, and will proceed with a game of one-ups-manship to be the victor. It will be messy and so unnecessary...I mean the disruption, not the death of nutjobs.

It reminds me of a video of Richard Dawkins speaking at a university. One student asks him, "what if you are wrong?" He does give her an answer but the key aspect of his answer comes at the end when he points out to her that the one thing that she needs to ask herself, what if she is wrong.



They just do not think of these questions because as Mr. Dawkins has said before: "thinking is anathema to religion."

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Reprehensible behavior

There once was a parent who went out one day with his children. The parent decided to go and do something that she wanted to do and left the children alone and unsupervised. The only thing that the parent did was tell the children not to play with an educational toy.

The children were playing until a nefarious man came along and told the children about the educational plaything. The children, being the innocents that children are, did play with the off-limits educational toy and were confused. When the parent returned and learned that they had played with the educational toy, he was angry. The children tried to tell their parent that a man told them that it was a good thing to do but the parent did not care and punished the children with physical abuse.

That story sounds familiar. Nonetheless, I would call CPS. Not because the children were punished -- kids should have the crap beaten out of them if they deserve it -- but instead because the parent is an idiot who should be sterilized to prevent her from polluting the gene pool.

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Amusing musings: Prayer in school

One of many items that seems to be of great concern to theo-slaves and their theo-fascist masters is prayer in school. Today, while I was partaking in my morning ablutions, this popped into my head and I asked myself, for all the noise this generates, what is the actual purpose of prayer in school?

The correct answer is nothing any good. I will permit it in parochial schools because that is part of the overall process of branding the cattle, but what about real people in real schools?

Having a quick prayer before beginning the school day has but one purpose, to remind the kids of the invisible hand that will spank them later if they are egregious in their behavior. It is about control and keeping the herd in line. Let us take as an example one kid who really offers up some words to his personal IT. Why does this have to be done in school and not at home? Did the kid oversleep? Did he forget? Perhaps she forgot something during her normal morning domestic devotional and this is a postscript...or would that be a postdict? What is the subject of his words? Peace on earth? Help with her test? Making some great plays at the game tonight so that he can score with Jenny later? Does any of this really help them during the day? If they don't do this, will they go insane and ritualistically drink blood and eat human flesh (Tee-hee).

When I was subjected to this as a lad, I ignored it. First they had a quick scripture reading followed by a moment of silence. Later it was simple silence. Ah, sweet silence. Something greatly lacking with today's xians. A number of kids did assume the fealty position, without genuflecting, because the disembodied voice told them to do it. I'm taking a nap. My nap, all two minutes of it since I included the general announcements as well, did more for me than chatting with the boogieman. I would think about my test rather than cheating by asking skydaddy to help me. I would have a zen moment to calm my anxiety with greater results instead of waiting for an invisible molester to cop a feel.

Prayer in school: it is not needed as it does nothing any good. If you want to pray, do it at home or in your temple. Kids are learning next to nothing as is so let us make sure that they have all the time that is available to make themselves useful to a civilized society.

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The Sunday funnies - part one.b

After writing the first segment, later that day, the phrase ignorance is bliss popped into my head. Immediately, I recalled my assessment of the parable of the garden of Eden.

The origins of the phrase are inconclusive but it must derive from some human situation where an individual, probably of privilege. The kings, hermits, and definitely children are other examples. After all, children are not informed as to the world so the harsh reality of life is nothing to them. A parent looks down into that cherubic face, thinks about their own awful day, and thinks those words.

I think that we have found another source, right there in the bibble. Garden of Eden, two idiots are wandering around doing nothing. Is that really paradise? When modern people think of the concept of paradise, I doubt that they are thinking of the garden of Eden. They are thinking of the multitudes of like-minded individuals...doing what?! Even in their afterlife state, they still cannot see or hear the deity. Even the angels cannot handle it. So once you are there, you still really will not know. What really is inside that light? Gawd, Jebus, Satan, an arc lamp, or darkness once the electrical activity in the brain fizzles away.

Blissful ignorance turns up rather frequently in the rhetoric of some modern xians. The Church certainly tried to keep its flock as dumb as its namesake. How is this remotely rewarding to an individual? On the other hand, who ever said that religion was about a reward? It is the obstacle course. Practice. Train. Run the race and maybe you will win.

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The Sunday funnies - part one

Sunday morning is laundry time. The best part is throwing away the little magazines that are left there by the Mormons. I will look at the titles on the cover, sometimes I will look at the table of contents, have a nice chuckle and chuck them in the trash...but not this week.

There were two issues lying out whose covers just screamed of funny material. I was not disappointed. This is the first of several posts inspired by their contents.

This first writing will deal with their topic: Must we always tell the truth? That sounds like a loaded question coming from a very dubious source. I started reading the first main article, which began with a parable (nice to see them sticking with their writing tradition of inventing stories to make a point) of someone being backed into a corner and forced to make a choice of telling the truth or lying. After leaving the parabloid hanging in his predicament, the author brings in the first bibble reference.

The author writes: Jesus, of course, was referring to the event in the garden of Eden when Satan induced the first human pair to disobey God and thus fall victim to sin and death.

Touching. When writing that, I noticed this time the choice of the word pair as opposed to humans or man and woman but notice the lack of couple because of the lack of marriage. Anyway...

When I finished reading the paragraph, I knew that I had a gold mine in those thirty-one words. The first thing that popped into my head is the oft-cited mantra Gawd's plan. This mantra causes some problems with the author's sentence. Let's see what we have.

If you take the plan into account, then that means that Gawd planned for Satan to induce humans to sin. Humans were intentionally created to sin and fall from grace. Why would IT do that? Simple. Gawd is a wicked and vain deity. IT is wicked because IT intentionally created humans to fall. Once fallen, humans would be remorseful and want to beg for forgiveness to return to grace. A kind deity would not subject humans to atone for something that they were surreptitiously made to do in order to feed someone's/something's ego and need for praise.

Then there are the words: fall victim to sin and death. The only bad thing to which humans fell victim is a sneaky deity, who knew what they would do before they did it and then has the balls to punish them. When IT scooped up that first handful of clay, IT was probably salivating at the thought of the pain and suffering that would soon be inflicted by their punishment, which would lead to countless generations of pleas and prayers to IT.

Satan may have known what IT was planning and thus tried to help the humans by giving them knowledge to break them free of the naiveté and ignorance that was given them before being cast out or paradise. Can you imagine how screwed we would be if humans had done something else to be cast out?

Remind me again, which is the bad deity?

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The Land of the Free, and the home of making a buck

My wonderful friends at the Tabernacle Baptist Church put a lovely thought on their sign out by the road (2008-07-01). This one reads: If the brave never left home, there would be no land of the free. This is a touching sentiment in these needlessly hawkish times and I am sure that these words give some solace to people who have had, still have, and have lost loved ones and friends in the armed forces.

However, this pandering makes me sick. Here's why.

1) You might want to come in and pray for the well-being of the country and its service personnel--and we will pass the plate.
2) You might want to come in and pray for any loved ones and friends who are called to duty--and we will pass the plate.
3) While they are away, we will be here for you to offer comfort during this trying ordeal--and we will pass the plate.
4) When your loved ones or friends come home safe and well - or even if they are missing a few body parts - come in for a few rounds of prayers of thanksgiving for their return--and we will pass the plate.
5) If, sadly, Jebus had planned for them to be killed because he does not like them, you or just for the hell of it, come in for prayers of mourning--and we will pass the plate.
6) Don't forget us when it is time to stick the corpse in the ground. We have ample group facilities to host services for the loved one. We won't pass the plate but there will be a fee.

(I think that six is enough.)

Ignoring the contemporary setting in which this thought was given, let us examine the fallacy of its message. America became the land of the free when the Declaration of Independence was signed (and we will ignore the fact that not every humanoid was free with its signing). No one had to leave to do that. It was done here. Then came the war for independence, which was fought here to preserve our assertion of independence. Some battles were fought in Canada so that might constitute going elsewhere but really now...it's North America.

The message certainly seems to tie into the concept of punishing terrorism that wants to destroy our way of life. I like that because it reminds me of another group who punished a terrorist that threatened their way of life. That group was the Romans and they fixed their little problem about...oh...two thousand years ago.

Suggested reading: The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity

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Man the animal - a few notes

I pointed out to someone many years ago that man is nothing but an animal and they firmly disagreed. I immediately said nothing more because I respect this person and did not want to argue religion with them. Most religious people do not like to acknowledge that we really are animals. Someone has probably argued that Gawd made us separate from the animals. Did it? According to the Bibble, animals were made and man came later. It does not explain how animals were made but focuses on the creation of man. Were animals created with a finger-snap or were they also made out of swamp mud like man? You have to realize that how animals were made is not important to the Bibble, although the fact that they were made first makes me believe that they were more important. The creation myth tells us how man arose. It is a burning question that we want to have answered. All creation myths tell how humans came to be. That is what they are there to do. Perhaps the creation of animals was difficult to explain because four thousand years ago, your average desert-dwelling, dirt-sucking peasant was lacking knowledge of genetics, bio-engineering, and evolution. However, he did have plenty of dirt and the occasional water source with which he could fashion bricks, pots, and humanoid figures. Holy crap, our D.D.D.S.P. thought, that must be how the great camel merchant in the sky did it. Makes perfect sense to me. Attention was paid to the creation of man and woman so they must be special and better than animals, despite being cobbled together at the last minute before the omnipotent Wonder Daddy decided he needed a nap.

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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.

Thought for the Day

The only good Xian was Jebus, and he was a Jew.

Thought for the day

The Buddists invented gunpowder for celebrations.
The Xians took it and used it for killing and destruction.

Thought for the Day

A comment by the late, great Dave Allen:

If you cannot laugh at your own religion, then you cannot laugh at yourself.


By extension:

If you cannot laugh at yourself, they you can never be a complete person.