An open letter to religious people: You are idiots and i hate you.
Before you go and get the wrong idea, this is NOT about why religion is bad, or why it is wrong. Of course religion is bad, and of course religion is wrong. But this is so blindingly obvious that it no longer needs to be said.
Instead, this is a direct attack on you, the religious person. The argument? That your failure to reject religion indicates that you are colossally irredeemably stupid.
Religion is fundamentally flawed in a staggering variety of ways, to the point that a curious child can bring down the entire framework of baloney with an innocent question.
Such questions include
*Why is there evil?
*Who made god?
*Why should I trust you after that santa claus thing?
But you didn’t ask those questions, did you? Or if you did, you accepted the pathetic rationalizations that where offered without further contemplation.
perhaps you where even afraid to ask, or even to think about it.
Your comforting little worldview matter more to you then the truth.
But can this critical failure really be blamed on fear of the consequences of religion being wrong? Is a godless world that terrible to contemplate?
The idea that santa claus isn’t real is also unpleasant, and this proves a deterrent to disbelief. But not a significant one.
God doesn’t even bring people presents. In fact, in most religions he is actually a real jerk. Plagues and laws and smiting and eternal torture. Is this really a so attractive an idea that people can’t let it go?
Perhaps disinterest is the only real problem. After all, if a man can’t read greek, that doesn’t make him stupid. It simply means he doesn’t care to learn greek.
But can really a disinterest in the fundamental nature of reality really be justified in such a way? maybe so. After all, it makes little difference in day to day living if god is really up there or not.
And yet, should not the fact that god’s existence has no major consequence itself raise a red flag?
The idea that a being with immense powers exist, but never tampers with the world in a noticeable way is an absurdly childish hypothetical scenario. it’s “I’m not touching you” on a cosmic scale.
Granted, we used to see a lot more evidence of god’s tampering then we do today. Lightning, disease, floods, butterflies and the sun.
But even then, a bunch of inexplicable things hardly adds up to a magical being who you can’t see.
And of course all this “evidence” wilted and died with sufficient rational inquiry. The sun and stars turned out to be big nuclear furnaces, diseases and butterflies are now well understood, and lightning is just an electrical discharge.
Indeed, from a leopards spots to pregnancy to the shape of the earth, religions has been proved wrong, wrong, wrong.
It would take an IDIOT not to see a pattern in this. And that’s exactly what you are.
The icing on this pathetic cake is that you realize that all OTHER religions are wrong, you just have a blind spot towards your own.
Perhaps you have a vague awareness that religion is retarded, but you never really give it up because your thoughts are to disorganized to deal with it.
If this is the case, and your mind is a dusty closet full of odds and ends, motivational phrases and vacation photos, I have nothing but contempt for you.
I refuse to respect religious beliefs, and I refuse to respect the people who hold them. Your willful ignorance is inexcusable and it disgust me.
Read Morethe comedy of failures
try to imagine that you are god…
you have your plans all laid out…. but things just dont seem to go right
when i think about it… i imagine it goes something like this:
“ok, today i think i will create a planet… and populate it with two people….
done…. i have created adam and eve…”
“alright guys… since i created you, i am your lord and master… im going to give you all the freedom you need… you only have one rule… dont eat the fruit off this one tree….”
“Damn… its…only been a couple of days and you already disobeyed me!!!”
“maybe i should just kill you and start over…. nah… ill just kick you out of the garden.
and we will keep on going”
*several years later*
“wow things arent getting better, they are getting worst… now they are murdering each other… rape… slavery… homosexuality… this place is worst than Vegas!… screw it im going to flood this place and save just the best family…
which one of you fuckers is the best?”
“you! Noah! the sorry drunk with three sons , go and build yourself a boat. we will save you and your family… screw everybody else!”
so we flood everything and start over… we hit gods reset button
“ok now that that is over with i want you guys to go and populate the earth again
like the first group that i…. are you drunk again? AND NAKED?!?! well at least your son brought you some clothes… oh no dont curse him to be a fucking slave to all the rest of them, just because he tried to hide your cock!…”
*then a little while later some of them have built this tower*
“hmmm they think they can build this tower to reach me… how arrogant of them…
screw it!
lets confuse all their languages…”
“and instead of having the whole world worship me im just going to pick my favorite tribe ….
hey you guys… you’re my guys… and im going to make all these promises and… wait, what you got enslaved?”
“oh alright well ill do a whole bunch of miracles and lead you guys out of slavery… oh and by the way moses… come up to this mountain i want to talk to you for a minute…”
“here are some rules i think might be pretty good… take them down to my peop…..ARE THEY WORSHIPING ANOTHER GOD ALREADY?!!?!?!”
“….what the hell is wrong with these people”
“WHY CANT I DO ANYTHING RIGHT?!?!?!?!”
“i know what ill do…
ill just kill myself… to myself……”
don’t you think there is something weird going on when you have to sacrifice yourself, to yourself, as a loophole for rules you created?
the bible is a comedy of failures by god.
christians are stupid #1: miracles
ok lets assume that Jesus was a man… born of a woman, that makes him a human being. it makes him a physical thing… a part of this world.
since he is a physical human being he is subject to the same laws of physics and nature, that all humans are subject to.
meaning he felt pain… heat… he could not fly, or see in the dark, he could not defy gravity…
miracles defy all laws of physics.
only something outside of the laws of physics can defy the laws of physics… meaning jesus had to exist outside of the laws of physics…
but he was human…
so he couldn’t exist outside of the laws of physics…
therefore….
Jesus was not real.
or
Jesus did not perform miracles…
so which one is it… is jesus fake… or is he a liar?
pick one.
Christians used to say that god defied the laws of physics… since god created the earth he created the laws of physics…once it is pointed out the jesus (being human) could not defy the laws of physics, there is usually some circular argument that god can do whatever he wants… whether it makes sense or not.
due to recent advancement in the study of the theory of quantum physics christians are finding whole new ways of explaining how jesus could preform miracles.
take this quote for instance
“According to quantum mechanical theory, walking on water is entirely possible although very highly unlikely. This is because sub-atomic events are probable not certain. What physics calls random chance, we call God.”
or layguys “God exists in 11 dimensions”
you see… science is not all knowing… there are gaps in our understanding of certain things… like quantum mechanics, christians like to use god to explain the gaps in our scientific understanding… its called ‘the God of the Gaps‘ thankfully as we have began to more fully understand the nature of our universe… those gaps are getting smaller…
soon there will be no place left for your god to hide.
Read MorePart of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty
heather told me today that I should let out my anger
I should vent my frustrations
so I’m going to
and its going to piss allot of you off
George Bernard Shaw once said: No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means
and nothing could be more true
this past week I have been quoted one verse from the bible
one verse that explains away all peaceful teachings in the bible, all messages of love, hope, forgiveness, and humility.
Matthew 10:34
“Don’t imagine that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword!”
taking this verse at face value brings an image of god to mind
a wrathful god raining fire upon those who oppose him
destroying his enemies
reading it in context (with a little cross referencing) makes it clear that it is anything but a description of how Jesus is coming into this world or what mentality towards people he wishes to impose on his followers
you cant see this scripture and think of it literally
its not like Jesus is walking into a cookout saying “hey I come not bringing beer but chicken!!!”
- the sword is symbolic of the division of the people as a result of hismission
the parallel verse is found in Luke 12:53
“Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division.”
go… get your bible and read both passagesthey are the samepeople take their bibles and their religion to seriously
every Christian wants every non Christian, to become Christian… then jointheir church… and pay tithe
the top 10 religions of the world are - Christianity: 2.1 billion
- Islam:1.3 billion
- Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion
- Hinduism: 900 million
- Chinese traditional religion: 394 million
- Buddhism: 376 million
- primal-indigenous: 300 million
- African Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million
- Sikhism: 23 million
- Juche: 19 million
*it should be noted that Christianity contains all religions believing in Jesus, in one way or another
however oddly enough only Christians actively recruit members
you will never here a Buddhist yell “BE ONE WITH THE TAO OR BURN FOREVER YOU FUCKING FAG!!!”
attention class! raise your hand if you can tell me the one thing that keeps most people from becoming a Christian.
yes Tommy?
“other Christians”?
wow Tommy you are absolutely correct
other Christians hate anger and intolerance is listed as a major atheist publications top reasons people do not become Christian
but this post was supposed to be about me….
so what pisses me off about most Christians?
their inability to figure out which batch of text is literal and with is figurative
if you believe the bible is real because of faith… then nothing I say will make any difference to you
because you are a person who takes pride in believing in things that are hard to believe in
but if you need something more you have to cross reference the bible with the events that actually happened in biblical times
you cant rely on the bible
because, to quote penn and teller
“the bible contains an equal amount of fact, history, and pizza.”
like
genesis 6 11-13
Noah’s ark
there is no possible way that Noah could have put all 10 billion species of animals on a boat and distributed them appropriately, where the marsupials are all in Australia and so forth…. its just fucking retarded
its not a literal story, its a story about redemption and forgiveness. starting over. to try and read it literally is to miss the point of the story.
the Noah story is more than likely a metaphorical story based on an actual (albeit smaller) event
a flood on the Euphrates river around 2900 bc. one of the kings of the land named Ziusudra who took a commercial barge… loaded it with shit and road down to the Persian gulf
exodus 14: 22-31
Moses and the red sea
thousands of Jews are enslaved by an Egyptian pharaoh, oddly enough there is no evidence of that
so Moses (whom we also have no evidence of) comes to the pharaoh and says “let my people go”
pharaoh says no
why wouldn’t god appear to the pharaoh and say it himself? because go works in mysterious inefficient and painstakingly cruel ways.
once free Moses leads his people to the red sea and parts the water like pages in a book
these people supposedly wandered around in the desert for 40 years. there is absolutely no archeological evidence that this ever happened.
you would think if thousands of people lived in the desert for 40 years they would leave behind some trash, dead bodies… something…. these people must have either been
1 neat freaks
2 gay men
3 metaphorical
there is no evidence that a man named Moses ever even existed
the gospels
there’s this guy
says he is the son of god, that he will change the world and can heal the sick, raise the dead, make the blind see. his followers claim that he has performed all of these miracles
he was persecuted by the roman government for his beliefs, was crucified, and then raised from the dead and appeared to his followers
his name?
Apollonius of Tyana
I should say that very very few historians doubt the fact that Jesus existed
hell I don’t doubt it one bit
here is my argument
the bible, in and of itself cannot be a basis for belief…. because it is inaccurate on so many levels
hell we cant even agree on who wrote it just that it was “inspired by god”
but what about the other gospels that we are now finding that aren’t in the bible?
the core of the cannon came from the usage in biblical church.
not from relevance
not from accuracy
it came from people asking “what is your favorite story?”
many of the gospels we are finding now contradict, explain away, and elaborate many of the stories we are used to hearing today.
you can think whatever you want about what I have said
frankly I don’t care
my beliefs are not weak enough that your opinions can change them
but don’t try to take one thing literally without taking it all literally
and when taking it all literally be sure to keep these verses in mind
exodus 35:2 35:2 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, asabbath ofrest to the LORD: whosoever doethwork therein shall be put to death.
Romans 1:29-32
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
1 Corinthians 14:34
“Women should be silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak, but should be submissive, as the law also says.”
Mark 9:43
“If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having two hands, to go to hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched.”
Deuteronomy 23:2
“One of illegitimate birth shall not enter the congregation of the Lord.”
if you believe that the bible was truly inspired by god, and god is infallible
then you cant throw out some of the rules, just because you don’t like them
it isn’t our job to judge people
it isn’t really our job to judge the bible
the bible is a book
its a series of pages strung together and bound
your belief structure is in your heart
your god tells you what is right and what is wrong
if we could get passed what we “think” is right
and listen to our gods. maybe we could finally understand this
Matthew 22:37-40
“Jesus said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”
Gandhi said “God has no religion”
just a little something for you to think about
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Having grown up in the sweltering Florida heat, George enjoys staying indoors, and air conditioning. A Level 7 Elvish Photoshop Mage with +10 Dropshadow Power, George specializes in visual design & interaction design — two fancy terms he uses to make himself sound important and to explain that he cares about both how things look and how things work.