Women's rights...

I like how they keep referring to "culture" in this video instead of pointing at what it really is, religion.

I'm sure it is their "culture" but where does that "culture" come from? I would imagine that if the bible said that men and women were equal we wouldn't see this type of violence, but it doesn't. It puts women second to men.

Instead of rational upstanding men who treat women with respect, we get these bands of thugs who think their doing some sort of "moral policing" (God's work) by beating women who go to night clubs.

This is a prime example of the skewed thinking of religious people. What about the morals of physically abusing another human being?

I can see right now some Christian reading this and going, "Oh well, that's that OTHER religion, not my "love thy neighbor" fantastic Christian religion."

"women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the Law says. 35If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church."

That's in your bible Christians :-D

This is just one example of the many sexist things in the bible. Let's not forget that original sin was all the woman's fault.

I'm pretty sure there are better moral guides out there with which we can educate our children and live our lives by. Don't you?

Zeitgeist - Part 1

For those of you who haven't seen this yet, you should watch it. The rest of the movie I'm not too sure about, the whole conspiracy theory stuff. But the first part about religion they've gotten correct. All that they talk about I've actually looked up and verified through several sources.

This basically shows people (more specifically those who call themselves Christians) That the story of Christ is not the only one like it.

In fact there were many messiahs back in the day. The same basic story of Christ applied to many deities back then.

Think about it yourself. I'm sure you could tell me the basic story of Christ. Three wise men followed a star in the east to observe the newborn savior, blah blah, crucifixion at the hand of the Romans, blah blah, death, resurrection, yadda yadda.

What can you tell me about how the Bible came into existence? Who wrote it? When did they write it? How many times was it translated, edited, and censored?

Did you know that so many religious writings were left out of the bible? Have you ever heard of the "Counsel of Nicea"?

Might want to wiki that one.

My Apologies

I guess starting this mean that I'll have to first start with apologies. My friends and perhaps my family will see this and no doubt I'll be judged for it. More than that, I'll probably offend some people. This is not my intent.

First, to any friends or family who might read this:

Know that this is not new for me. I've thought this for a while now and just chose not to shine a light on it. If you are religious, know that I'm not attacking you directly, I'm attacking the idea. If you do not want your beliefs or ideas attacked, you should probably not read this blog.

Even though our views may differ, you're still my friend. I have friends who don't share my political view, doesn't mean I don't still love their liberal ass. Do I think they're mistaken? Absolutely. Does that make me think less of them? Absolutely not.

I'm open for debate. If you think I'm wrong, please tell me. Just know that I will more than likely debate back and you may not like the answer.

I hope that you will not think less of me because of this view.

This video inspired me...

The above video inspired me to start this blog. I'm not sure if anyone will ever read this but it will allow me to vent my frustrations and keep a bit of a catalog of reasons to enforce my view that religion should be purged from the planet. I use the term "religion" in a very broad way. Some religions, such as Jane ism are benign, but the vast majority in our world are horrible religions, that includes you Christians. I know you're saying, "Oh no... he's referring to the radicals". No, I'm talking about you moderates out there. The ones who pick and choose what you're going to believe from the bible. Either it's the holy unchanging word of the God Almighty or it's just a book. You can't take the part where it says to "Love thy neighbor" and then reject the part about stoning unruly children. If the mother in this video truly believed in the God of the bible as she said she does, she would have stoned this child. According to the bible she should have stoned him for two reasons. One: He claimed to be an unbeliever. Two: He was unruly.

Religious moderates are the worst of all. They provide "cover" for these extremists. They are the reason we all continue to ignore the elephant in the room when "terrorists" fly planes into buildings. "They hate our freedom" we say. Bullshit! They hate our religion. This is a religious war and to not acknowledge that does this world and the people in it a grave injustice.

Hopefully one day the logical amongst us, the rational people will be able to take our planet back from these violent, deluded individuals intent on diminishing the value of this life with fairy tales of the next.

Look at the young man from this video. This kid tells his mom that he's an atheist and her response is not, "why?" or "how is it that you came to this conclusion?" but threats. Not of hell, but of not getting presents for Christmas. It's good to see her priorities are in order.

Notice that the child seems logical and calm, but the religious mother instinctively gets physical with the boy. Such is the way with religious people.

I think this is less of a situation where the mother was concerned for her child and more concerned that someone is questioning her beliefs.

It's really sad to see things like this.