Who do you trust?

Scenario...
Tomorrow, several top scientists inform the world that a 60 mile long meteor is headed straight for the earth. It will be here in 7 days. There is no defense against it, as it is large enough to completely wipe out everything on the face of the earth.

OR

Tomorrow, several top religious leaders inform the world that God is going to destroy the earth in 7 days, because of the rampant homosexuality and prolific abortions that are occurring. he is going to destroy the earth by releasing a gigantic seven headed monster that breathes fire.

Who would you believe?

Latest Letter-to-the-Editor

In response to all the letters about God and prayer that I read in the Journal Star:

I read these impassioned letters from the religious, trying to convince us through faulty circular logic, and despite the evidence, that prayer does indeed work. Instead of convincing me of anything, they only show me a startling portrait of self-contradiction.

Prayers of Petition contradict the very idea of an omniscient god. The “free will” argument that the religious then invoke in defense of prayer, further contradicts their very own description of God. No being can be omniscient and omnipotent at the same time.

As we now know about Mother Theresa, whose deeds seemed inextricably linked to her closeness to God, she was actually living her life in the absence of belief. In a letter to a spiritual confidant, she remarked, “the tongue moves in prayer, but does not speak.”

We know that the multitudes of pedophile priests, being protected by the Catholic Church as they raped our children, could not possibly believe in the god of the Bible and still perform the deeds that they did.

The books of the Bible are themselves walking and talking self-contradictions. It is not possible for God to give Moses the Sixth Commandment- “Thou shalt not kill”, and then continue to order genocide, murder, a scorched earth policy, ethnic cleansing, rape, and slavery on all his enemies, all with his blessing.

Self-contradictions seem to be the hallmark of religious belief.

Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator

After watching the Phoenix land on mars, I watched this.

Very entertaining.

Thanks God

"I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things." (Isaiah 45:7)

The Ten Commandments

The Biblical account of the Ten Commandments:

1) The first time Moses came down from Mount Sinai with commandments, he merely recited a list (Exodus 20:2-17), which is the version most churches today erroneously call the "Ten Commandments," although they were not engraved on stone tablets and not called "the ten commandments."

2) The first set of stone tablets was given to Moses at a subsequent trip up the mountain (Exodus 31:18). In this farcical story, Moses petulantly destroyed those tablets when he saw the people worshipping the golden calf (Exodus 32:19).

3) So he went back for a replacement. God told Moses: "Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest." (Exodus 34:1) Here is what was on the replacement tablets (from Exodus 34:14-26):

1) Thou shalt worship no other God. 2) Thou shalt make thee no molten gods. 3) The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. 4) Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest. 5) Thou shalt observe the feast of weeks. 6) Thrice in the year shall all your menchildren appear before the Lord God. 7) Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven. 8) Neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left until the morning. 9) The first of the firstfruits of thy land shalt thou bring unto the house of the Lord thy God. 10) Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

Keep this in mind next time you are tempted to boil a goat. This list differs, obviously, from the one in Exodus 20 (was God's memory faulty?), but it is only this list that is called the "Ten Commandments": "And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments." (Exodus 34:28)

Stuff God Hates

Here is a link to The Stuff God Hates

American Atheists

American Atheists (the organization) seems to be lost right now. The Board of Directors fired Ellen Johnson because they think she has gotten too big for her britches. Apparently she doesn't really listen to them, as shown by her "Freedom Walk" which was not sanctioned by the Board. I'm finding that as far as the organization goes, I don't really care. There are quite a few other Atheist organizations doing good work. I am becoming more impressed with The Atheist Alliance.

Pity

Right now I'm feeling sad and lonely (feeling sorry for myself).
It's always upsetting to lose a friend. But, I am reminded of theTom Hank's movie, Castaway. There is a poignant scene where he's talking to his buddy, and he says he is so grateful that he had his girlfriend on that island with him. He says he’s so sad that shegot married while he was gone, and that he’s lost her all over again.

But, he says he knows what he has to do...keep on breathing. You never know what tomorrow will bring.

Obama and Religion

I saw Senator Obama yesterday in front of a huge cross touting "faith and morals" .
I am disappointed that here is yet another politician promoting prejudice by linking religion and morality. I am offended when Jesus gets pushed down my throat by politicians wanting to get elected.

Now, having said that, he is probably the better choice over the other candidates, because he does believe in the separation of church and state.

But, for Christ's sake, get off the Jesus bandwagon.

What does this show you?

In reading about more pedophile priests, I am struck with this thought...

If these priests TRULY believed in an all knowing god, they would not, they could not, abuse children (and when I say abuse, I really mean "rape"). We now know that Mother Theresa could not bring herself to truly believe in God, and so I have to conclude that these priests do not really believe.
Religion continues to be a scam, and in the case of the Catholic Church, provides cover for men who want to have sex with children.

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