FAITH & IMAGINARY FRIENDS

A friend of mine is very LDS, but he admits it does not matter in the least if everything about it is proven false--good thing, too, because it could all be proven false and completely made up and stolen from other fictional sources in a court of law.

I find this lack of needing evidence disturbing, for why live a lie just to perpetuate a sense of delusional peacefulness? This is like believing you will get a windfall and spending all of your time shopping yourself into debt (i.e. living in denial). *sigh* Sadly, people were interviewed as to why issues like Global Warming and credit-card debt were irrelevant to them, and they quoted Revelations saying God would be back soon, so why worry? *facepalm*

But that's all what faith is: believing in something that makes no rational sense whatsoever and denying any proof that stares you square in the face due to faith bringing warm fuzzies. In other words, their imaginary friend brings them soft slippers and hot cocoa when they're stressed--at least if they buy said slippers, cocoa, cooking apparatus, and electricity, and if they fetch and heat these things themselves.

Aren't imaginary friends uber-useful?? I mean, heck, they do things for you if you do them yourself! Just like a four-year-old and a teddy-bear tea party!

EASTER CAN GET OBNOXIOUS

Okay, it's been just about an eternity since I've posted. I got out of my angry atheist phase for a bit and didn't need to rant quite so loudly...but then Easter happened. *heavy sigh* People just don't realize that they are celebrating pagan rituals of nature's rebirth and a holiday the Romans decided should take over that pagan holiday (much like Christmas did for Yule). It's all so "opiate of the masses."

I mean, sure, there's not a lot of HARM in it, per se, but I wish people would realize Christ and the Easter Bunny are both just random crap people thought up. While people will admit one is just a fun gimmick for kids, so few will agree that the latter is just propaganda to keep adults similarly in line.

HAPPY ZOMBIE JESUS DAY!

My friend posted this telling me to stay indoors and eat fancily decorated chicken abortions instead of going out and congregating where the celebrated zombie Jesus might get me and eat my brain. She's a riot, and religion DOES seem to be for the brainless, so maybe it's too late for all of those churchgoing folks: Jesus already ate their brains. :-)

I BLESS YOU WITH THIS POO...

As if all of the craziness of Catholicism weren't already enough, now you can know you are getting sprayed with poo at every Mass. How lovely.

But it's the poo of Christ, so it's holy poo.

That's right along the lines with "urine mints," which are the free mints in a bowl by the door when you are leaving restaurants that have been touched by so many people, usually men, who do not wash their hands when they use the bathroom and have been found to be covered in urine. (Granted, so is every door handle and touchable surface because of such lazy folks with no concept of microbiology.)

Since this story has appeared in satirical publications and is treated somewhat as a joke in this video, I include this link to The Washington Times about the official study. And, honestly, everyone touching anything, especially something both moist and kept at room temperature, is going to mean some pretty nasty germs running rampant. E. coli can be found in frightening numbers in nearly everyone's sponges and towels and sinks, for instance, especially that kitchen sponge you wipe over every surface.

By the way, I had to chuckle at CNN for their embed code. YouTube videos include about one line of code, but this one has twelve. And that's without even including centering the frame on the page.

RIGHT-WING CHRISTIANS

Because of a book written under questionable circumstances by people with a very primitive worldview and proven to often be mistranslated and full of outright errors--never mind the obvious impossibility of the myths it contains or the many books excluded by the editors in political power along the way--Christians feel they have the right, no, the obligation, to inflict their beliefs on everyone else.

When someone has an imaginary friend whom they believe is always with them, talks to them, and grants their wishes, the person is schizophrenic and not someone we should drop all sanity and follow blindly. 

HITCHENS VS GOD

Here is Hitchens giving a speech disproving any existence of God:

A BELOVED FAMOUS CHEF ON MORALITY WITHOUT RELIGION