Yes, the Christian God LOVES ME!

He really LOVES ME!!!

He loves me like a little Amish girl!!

It’s crap like this that makes me angry at monothiests. If you say “they don’t believe what I believe” or “real christians don’t shoot people” - go POLICE YOUR FELLOW WORSHIPPERS! Go preach your version of Christianity to those that are advocating killing people for not follow your one true religion.

Yes, I appreciate the simplicity of a Frequently Asked Questions post! They get so much of the basics out of the way.

So, I finally found a decent FAQ for God. I admit, as a person interested in the truth about the big diety, the one who commands Thou Shalt Not Kill, but everyone is dying to commit suicide for, molest small children for, dominate fellow humans - especially women - for!

I’ve found the light!!! I give you…

The Official God FAQ

Enjoy

The people at Deep Fried have discovered the truth! I knew there was a reason I hated tykes.

Your zogglings are evil… they drain the life force of their you until they are plump and ready to disperse spores, which grow and feed on your precious bodily fluids. To prevent their ear-bleeding screechings, you have to placate them with bright shiny petroleum goods, further draining our earth’s precious black resources.

*ahem*

Just… check your spinal fluid levels… that’s all I’m saying.

Berkeley Daily Planet recently posted what a good faith effort to separate the “bad” religious believers from the “good” religious believers.

The letter is a waste of time and effort. As long as people are willing to replant reason for the lack of it, we will continue to have prejudiced people.

Let’s look at the points…

“One: True religions value all human life.” No true religions value the believer over others - it’s an extremely effective meme that propigates itself.

“Two: True religions honor genuine holiness.” True religions create the fictious concept of holy and (see #1 above) their holiness is more holy than your holiness.

“Three: True religions honor God, Goddess…” My religion doesn’t recognize your heathen Goddess so DIE HERETIC!!

You get the point. The rest is mumbo-jumbo pablum for stupid people.

There’s plenty of ways that faith is good: faith in one’s self to deal with life’s challenges is important. Faith in our families to support us during trying times is necessary… faith that humans will overcome adversity in a variety of faces.

But to go on and make believe in gods is what causes Earth-centric solar systems and descending from non-belly buttoned fig-leaf wearing homo sapiens.

All the author is doing is placing a value judgement on religions, and in the midst of all these jerks, who’s going to notice ONE MORE VALUE JUDGEMENT on an system of societal control that masquerades as a series of VALUE JUDGEMENTS.

It’s time, Exploding onto your TV and Big Screen! The 9-11 deconstructionists have been signaled to come out from under their money-hungry caves to give their opinion on current events. Now that we’ve had the afterschool special of United 93, that treats the 9-11 story intimately and with care.

Now we have Oliver Stone running to the box office with Nick Cage and Maggie Gyllenhaal in WORLD TRADE CENTER! You know the truth, now see the conspiracy! Now, I know Nick’s a Stone whore, but Damn, Maggie, tell me it isn’t so. Having loved Maggie in Secretary, I regret to see her involved with this - but shrug! I’ll forgive her.

And before, we had the tasteful Black Hawk Down detailing the horrible events of Somalia.

Officially, I say that we need a name for these type of movies - we’ve heard of Blaxsploitation, but I name these as JihadSploitation - the exploitations of the events of terror and Islamic Fundamentalism. We’re going to see more of these.

We’ve already seen Gangsta Rap meets Islamic fundies.

Anger hides itself as empowerment, forging action - unwise, willingness-to-hurt action. And the problem with anger is that we need catharsis for our anger to burn out. So when we have Jihadsploitation appeal to people the was Gangsta Rap, I suspect we’re gonna have some more anger to burn through.

Or explode.

Note: a thanks to Stu for the name of this article.

Joss Whedon once said, “If nothing we do matters, then the only thing that matters is what we do.” Now, he may have been paraphrasing Sartre, so don’t get too quote heavy.

I have a vision for the world: solving it’s problems, improving it’s use, an architecture for a building which was already made, constructed of sand. It’s a singular vision, and one better than any god could ever have made. By questioning the factual basis of god, I developed my architecture in place.

That’s a lot of hubris, I admit. I know instinctually that one more finger in “solving the world’s problem pie” is not needed, welcome or helpful. Most of us want to be just left alone and if someone else collides with our world view, we immediately assume they are wrong, and act on it. My action is no different.

Many out there believe in god. The invisible sky bully. And because that belief is ingrained into our culture, languages and laws so completely, the declaration of atheism is an act of alienation.

Atheists, by their very nature, don’t get a check in “plays well with others.” We have to learn the value of others’ opinions and company from the ground, where the deists are programmed to access the company of others, the acceptance of the crowd and crown. It’s a pretty harsh statement, no doubt, but it’s true enough.

This blog is part of my architecture: communicate on how to be a successful atheist. To create a work of meaning that helps others overcome the problems I’ve encountered along my journey.

My directive to my fellow atheists today: go out and make a new friend. Boldly do not isolate yourself, but force yourself into situations where you experience others. Find someone you care about and encourage them to care about you.

Q. What do you call a jew who says he’ll be right back and never returns?
A. The Messiah

I’m an athiest. I’m not an agnostic, one of those who thinks that waiting for the most illogical of doubts, just maybe, just might prove true and I’ll only find out when I die. Nope. I know NOW. Wanna know why? Because most everything that we’ve imaged in the last 10,000 years that is related to “religion” has provably become false.

One cannot predict the future with stars or entrails. The world is not flat. The universe does not circle the earth. Lightning is not caused by Thor’s Hammer. Therefore man was not made in God’s image. There is no god. Humans do not have souls. No spirits. No karma.

Belief doesn’t enter into this: Life is observable phenomena, one moment followed by the next and every action having a reaction on the world around me. These actions and moments combine into larger patterns and those patterns for ever greater meta-patterns. But even with the patterns, you can’t take it for granted that somewhere there’s a guide, a master architect or even a turtle that has a controller.

And if there’s no god-architect-turtle, there’s no payoff or penance at the end of my life. No heaven or hell. There is nothing that will “balance” all my actions in total for good or bad.

What we do today has no significance other than the significance we place on our actions. In the same way, it’s a seller’s market on significance. If you can get someone to buy what you do is significant, then it has value.

The problem with being an athiest is that it has baggage with it, the foremost being an atheist’s very existence agitates non-atheists. When someone says, “I’m a [enter denomination of religous brand here]” and the response is “Oh, I’m an atheist” is frequently pervceived as “No you’re not.” That’s a difficult wall to leap with others.

Granted, it’s nothing personal to you believers. You can tell yourself the great pumpkin is going to be reborn all you want. I just think that since most of you no longer believe in Santa and the Easter Bunny, you really need to give up this unhealthy fantasy of a balance at the end of your life. There is no balance. Doing good now is the reward for doing good.

But this article isn’t fantasy-centric, it’s about the athiests. So, what’s my suggestion for the “I’m an athiest” conversation?

Say it loud and say it proud. You’re not a believer in athiesm, you ARE an athiest. Don’t discuss the trivialities of athiesm/fantasists like “death” or “heaven” or “morality” - just tell the fantasists they are wrong and leave it at that. Leave the doubt in their mind that you can live just wonderfully without [insert messianic figurehead here] and that your [insert transubstantive delivery to underlife] is just fine, thank you.