I get really, really tired of seeing supposedly rational atheists being total suck-ups to the state.
It’s embarrassing.
They should know better. The state is just another god and they look ridiculous rejecting one god and worshiping another. Grow up, people. Sheesh!
It’s the time of the year when the supernatural becomes a fun thing to pretend. It still isn’t real, but it’s nice to suspend disbelief in the cause of a good scare. Like watching a movie.
Which brings to mind witches.
I have known several people who claimed to believe they were witches- some were specifically practitioners of Wicca.
Well, even if I hadn’t observed it first-hand I could have still told the Big Secret: Witchcraft doesn’t work, exactly like Christianity doesn’t work. But they (claim to) believe it does. Just like Christians claim to believe about their own religion.
Both are empty delusions. To argue over who is a “true witch” or a “real Christian” is meaningless. What you see is what you get. There is nothing more. No matter how strong their faith is the real-world results are the same. Some positive psychological effects and confirmation bias can account for everything.
So, both are silly but most witches I have personally met are nicer than most Christians I have met. Maybe it’s because witches say they believe that whatever you do will come back to you multiplied by 3. Maybe Christians would be nicer if they believed that, too.
Should you teach your children to fit in with the prevailing culture even when you know it’s a lie? Is it more abusive to lie to your child, or to teach them the truth that makes them a black sheep?
Statism is a lie. So is Christianity (and ALL religion/superstition). But anyone who isn’t immersed in those lies is an outcast. I know. It has been the story of my life. So, which is worse?
This has nothing to do with anything. It’s just a thought I had.
I should invent and market “Tough Sh*t” trash bags.
“They’re tough but if they rip, well… Tough sh*t!”
I just saw a Youtube video where someone was offended by the suggestion that babies are atheists.
Guess what- babies don’t believe in anything they don’t see. They don’t believe in god, dinosaurs, the Earth’s core, air, or anything else that is not in front of their eyes and visible. They don’t believe in cows until they see one. It is so obvious that babies need to be told of and/or shown these things in order to start to believe in them that I can’t believe anyone would suppose otherwise.
I have seen firsthand a child raised without reference to supernatural beings. That child never asks about “god” and never assumes there is something supernatural that is being hidden from its knowledge. And that child doesn’t need to be scared by divine oversight into behaving well.
I consider it abuse to contaminate your child’s mind with delusions about the existence of imaginary things- especially when you tell them that the imaginary thing demands they live a certain way or else.
Heaven- Imaginary place where religious people say those dead people they liked are now existing. This way they don’t have to face the reality that those people are dead.
Hell- Imaginary place where religious people like to imagine those who didn’t belong to their particular religion existing after death. This way they can get off on imagining those being people tortured for eternity for not following the imaginer’s particular religion. It is religious revenge and hatred disguised as “God’s will”.
Reality- The opposite of both the above. Dead is dead. It is not Heaven, Hell, or wandering the Earth as a ghost, or drifting through space and time. It is not “blackness”- it is the absence of any form of existence at all. It is less than nothingness. It is what you were not experiencing a billion years before you were born. You have been dead before- for countless years since the Big Bang popped our Universe into existence, until you were born- and after you die it will be exactly the same for you as when you didn’t exist before. It is a Nothing that is even devoid of nothingness.
Sorry for the dose of reality if you were counting on an afterlife.
There is an upside. Your atoms, the very building blocks that make up your body right this minute, were formed in stars unbelievable lightyears distant, unimaginably long ago. “A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away”… parts of you were there. They were scattered to the Universe when those stars died and exploded. You were a part of many, many stars eons ago. Your atoms will continue to be reused for trillions of years to come even though you won’t know it. That’s kind of awesome.
The grandest, most Glorious religious ideas become small and dim by comparison to reality. They and their god pale by comparison. And delusional people prefer that insignificant view? I just don’t get it.
A few weeks ago I commented on a blog (where the writer had said something stupidly religious) that God has been satisfactorily disproven. The writer of the blog went ballistic.
He said you can’t prove a negative. That’s ridiculous. Of course you can.
I can prove to you, if you are with me, that I don’t have a 25 ton, fluorescent orange, Tyrannosaurus rex in my hip pocket- and if you are here you could also prove I don’t have one there if I claimed I did. Using logic and reality you can also prove I don’t have one in my hip pocket without even being here and looking.
The same goes for God- at least the Biblical God.
You may believe that invisible fairies paint and change the picture on your TV screen, but I can show you a better explanation. One that uses the known laws of the Universe and doesn’t rely on a realm that violates those known laws. This combination proves that the fairies aren’t responsible for your TV picture.
The same goes for the Biblical God.
Ask a Christian (or Muslim or ???) to prove Zeus doesn’t exist. I’m sure he could do it pretty well even without relying on the existence of his own version of God.
The same goes for the Biblical God.
Using the description of God given in the Bible you can prove that God’s existence is impossible and self-contradictory. Plus there is the added advantage that by actually reading the Bible you can show beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Bible is wrong on many different things it says. Bats are not birds and the earth is not a circle, but a sphere. The Bible gets reality wrong and one of those things it gets wrong, and that has been proved, is the existence of the God it describes.
Now, that doesn’t mean that there might not be some creature somewhere in the Universe whose advanced technology would make people who are ignorant of that creature and his technology mistake him for a god, but the supernatural does not exist by definition. Nothing real is “beyond nature” since that would mean it is beyond reality- fictional. Just because you don’t yet understand it does not make it supernatural.
God does not exist and there is plenty of proof. Accept it.
Many of the most wonderful and kind people I know are in favor of letting a pregnant woman end her pregnancy through abortion if that is what she thinks is best for her. Not a surprise.
Then again… Many of the truly wonderful people I know are completely anti-abortion/”pro-life”. That’s not surprising either since they are against abortion because they are compassionate people who stand up for what they believe to be right and compassionate, whether or not it is based on anything other than emotions and feelings.
However ALL the worst people I know are vehemently anti-abortion/”pro-life”. I’m talking about people who are completely hateful towards just about everyone and who “have no use” for people once they are out of the womb.
I don’t know if it means anything or not.
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There are a lot of books that are a waste of paper. I’m not talking about fiction that I’m not interested in, or books about celebrities. Although those about celebrities are very ridiculous and sad.
I was in a thrift store looking at books, as I like to do, and noticed that a large percentage were religious in nature. Not just the Bible or people telling their own (fantasies) about what such-and-such religion has meant for them. No, much worse.
The books I’m talking about dealt with every aspect imaginable of an imaginary realm in tiny detail. Applying imagined “principles” to every aspect of a person’s life. What God thinks about this or that. How God wants you to deal with particular “issues” in your life. What God has to say to the teenager/divorced person/dying.
That’s like UFO books telling you what the occupants eat for breakfast the day after they mate, how their eyes work in the darkness of space (on Thursdays), and what sorts of rivets hold their fur-covered chairs to the green, liquid plutonium floor- in exact detail- without even having any proof that UFOs are extraterrestrial spacecraft, or even anything other than misinterpretations of known phenomena or psychological issues.
It would be fine if the books were classified as fiction (which they are), but people live and die by the words in these books and that is extremely tragic.
