According to Detroit band Insane Clown Posse and their latest music video, Ignorance IS Bliss.
Not knowing your grade school science and the concept that the refraction of light on water droplets form rainbows makes those rainbows “A Miracle”. “blow your brain,” from “the Milky Way and fucking shooting stars” to “long-necked giraffes” to “fucking rainbows.” The biggest punch line in the video is when one of these Bozos exclaims “Fucking magnets, how do they work?” WOW! Imaging being proud of the fact you don’t know this, and so proud of it to but it in a video for all to see.
Sad to say but NOT knowing shit has become very popular with a certain segment of society. You see it in hillbilly types who will shun “Book learn’en” and their polar opposites Rappers. The deeply religious are finding their precious bible stories of creation and Adam and Eve being relegated to quaint bed time stories by the science of evolution and cosmology. So it becomes a situation of not knowing these cold enlightened studies and accepting the warm folktales.
Writing stuff off as a miracle is a form of intellectual laziness. If something shooting stars is too hard for you to understand and would require reading a book or forgoing the entertainment of a latest music video to find out they’re chunks of rock heated to blazing temperatures by the friction of the atmosphere as they’re pulled towards the Earth, why take the trouble? Write it off as a great mystery.
Well luckily Cracked.com has created a dumbed down science book for ICP Juggalos. Lots of pictures for the cognitive challenged.
So Robertson wants you believe in this “god” thing, and his reasoning is you should do so because this god fellow saw fit to kill tens of thousands of innocent men, woman and even children to punish them for something that they as individuals had no responsibility for. A real or imagined pact with the devil. Now maybe it’s me being an atheist and all but that there sure doesn’t sound like a very good selling point to me. Sounds more like extortion.
So Pat, does that mean I can kill your family members because their old man is such a useless piece of shit? Maybe we should nuke Germany because of the Holocaust thing, hell we may even get a few Nazis who were alive during WWII. Why stop there? Fire bomb the Vatican for their part in the Crusades. Why make this god fellow do all the work?
Maybe I just have a higher moral conception than Robertson’s god, I know if I could prevent the suffering in Haiti I would do it in a heartbeat. I also know if a buffoon like Pat Robertson had tried to pin 9/11 and the Haiti earthquake on me he would have burst into flames right there on TV and would have to been put out by beating with a rake and being pissed on.
Task Force Chairman Shirley Dobson said in a statement that she was disappointed in the “lack of participation” by the Obama administration, adding that “at this time in our country’s history, we would hope our President would recognize more fully the importance of prayer.”
Dobson will be a presenter at that event, along with her husband and former president of Focus on the Family James Dobson, author Beth Moore, NFL player Shaun Alexander and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann.
Wait a minute! James Dobson?…. The guy from Focus on the Family? The pandering, homophobic, fear mongering leader of a ultra conservative cult? Dobson who attacked Ed Perlmutter, running in Colorado’s 7th district, for hiring — get this — gay staffers. That James Dobson???
Can you imagine the braying of the Dobson types if the White House decided to take part in a national Pagan Day of Naked Dancing? Animal sacrifice is popular in some religions, lets have the President slaughter a goat for yahweh. How about a national day of flagellation?
I spotted this bit of bullshit while driving around.
To anyone with the least bit of education can easily see where this billboard is dead wrong. It shows a picture of Charles Darwin, a man who while at Cambridge studied Paley’s Natural Theology which made an argument for divine design in nature, explaining adaptation as god acting through laws of nature. Of course his interest in natural history inspired his theory of natural selection, a theory that has proven to be correct in 200 years of research by others in such diverse fields as geology, biology and astronomy. From the age of forty he was, to use his own words, a complete dis-believer in Christianity. He professed himself an agnostic not an atheist. So if you are going pick a man to be the image of the average atheist, Darwin is a rather weak choice, Maybe Benjamin Franklin, Bertrand Russell or Thomas Jefferson would be a better choice. But Christian sure do not want to admit many of the countries founding fathers were not Christians.
And then you have the uninformed idea that evolution is an atheist belief. It ignores the fact there are many religious people out there who accept the biological reality of evolution but believe a god made evolution as a tool for designing man. Even the Pope accepts evolution. So here again Darwin is a stupid choice. Fact is one could be an atheist but not believe in evolution. True not very likely but I can imagine someone out there who thinks man is merely the product of alien experiments and our entire universe exist only in a petri disk in a giant alien laboratory.
You then have the silly idea evolution makes a statement on the issue of existence, it does not. Evolution only makes an observation of the reality that living matter changes over time and that plants and animals, including man, show unmistakable signs of evolving from similar species. The idea of something from nothing is not a biological question, but a cosmological one. Our expanding universe tends to support a Big Bang beginning but makes no statement on what came before, or if time even existed “before”. Science is honest in that regard, saying we may never be able to say what happened at the Big Bang. Religion on the other hand prefers you to buy an intellectual dead end, god did it they says, but ask what came before god and they don’t even want to think about it.
Now imaging if I were to buy a billboard saying “Pull the Plug on Christianity” or “Pull the Plug on Judaism”. I would be accused of promoting religious hatred.
Back around Easter 2007, sculptor Cosimo Cavallaro created “My Sweet Lord” a life size, anatomically correct crucified Jesus in chocolate. The Lab Gallery showing of the edible Jesus has been cancelled due to the whining of the usual suspects, the Catholic League. Bill Donahue, president of the Catholic League, said the work was a direct assault on Christians. “All those involved are lucky that angry Christians don’t react the way extremist Muslims do when they’re offended.” Hey! Isn’t anger one of the deadly sins? Seems It’s okay to make any number of Messiahs from wood, stone, metal or plastic, just don’t dare make a Jesus out of anything edible. Odd complaint for a group of people who will file into church to eat the body of Christ every Sunday. Another complaint was that Jesus is shown naked, like that has not been done in countless religious paintings before.
The reason I mention this old story is with the Easter season upon us I have been seeing many Christian candy confections alongside the usual bunnies, eggs and let not forget those tasty little chicks Marshmallow Peeps.
Crosses seem to be very popular, with praying hands next, I myself found a tin of “Ichthus Mints” complete with tiny minty fish, I thought the tin box was cool and the religious symbolism a nice counterpoint to my heathen ways. You do know, Altoids are the work of the devil.
This brings up the big question. If you are given a chocolate dead Jesus on a stick this Easter, do you bite the head off first? do you go for the feet? Or is licking the only Vatican sanctioned way of consuming the Lord an savior? Do you have to go to confession first? What about Jews, is noshing on the son of god kosher? How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Jesus-Pop?
Pope Benedict again proved how irrelevant the church is on any subject outside the mumbo jumbo of religion by screwing Africa and not wearing protection.
In Africa where more than 25 million people have died from Aids and another 22.5 million have the disease, the pontiff actually told the faithful “It (aids) cannot be overcome by the distribution of condoms. On the contrary, they increase the problem,”!!!!!!!
And me with out a Pro!
WHAT UTTER STUPIDITY! He ignores the simple proven fact that use of a condom decreases the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Sad part is the rather unsophisticated masses of the poorer sections of Africa will believe the man, and they are the one who suffer the most from the Aids epidemic. I guess they don’t realize the pope represents an organization that up to only recently has accepted evolution, an organization for whom it took hundreds of years to admit they were dead wrong on the heliocentric solar system. Seems to me taking sexual advice from a celibate person is like taking driving lessons from Ray Charles. Give the church another three of four hundred yeas and they may step out of the dark ages. And they wonder why they can’t but butts in the seats at church.
Most religious groups in USA have lost ground, survey finds
It seems the non-religious are now the second largest group when the question of religion is asked. Americans who claim “no religion at all” is up to 15%, in 2008, it was only 8% in 1990. This now outranks every other major U.S. religious group except Catholics (25.1%) and Baptists (15.8%). The non-religious now out rank the general born again Christians who are down in the 14.2%. Protestant? 12.9%. Not very good for a nation that was largely Christian. Looks like the the challenge to Christianity is not going to come from the Middle East, (Muslim are only 0.3% to 0.6% in the US) but from people rejecting all form of organized religion.
Makes you wonder why politicians don’t try and cater to this new voting block? I say that jokingly because being A-theistic is not some club you join. As someone once said “getting atheist to ban together is like herding cats”. It’s far easier to get the religious types worked up over an issue, they are far more inclined to follow the herd or the lead cow anyway. When you are not religious, religion becomes just one more of the unimportant things you are not, and in life there as far more things you don’t believe in than you do. Chances are you do not believe in a South seas coconut tree dwelling Tiki god. Hey! me too, To me the Tiki god is in the same box of bologna as the popular sky daddy, virgin born, dead guy on a stick stuff.
Small skink lizards, Lerista, demonstrate extensive changes in body shape over geologically brief periods. Several species of these skinks have rapidly evolved an elongate, limbless body form.
These lizards are looking more like snakes, some having all but useless limbs. If you are to believe the Intellegent Design crowd a “god” made this creature this way, rather bad design I say.
Human Rights Watch has appealed to Saudi Arabia to halt the execution of a woman convicted of witchcraft.
So this illiterate woman was arested by the so called “religious police” and forced to confirm a confession that she could not read. Among her accusers was a man who alleged she made him impotent, I guess she is not much of a “Looker”.
Saudi executions are beheadings so she won’t be buned at the stake. My thinking is a hot steak is better than a cold chop anyday……. Sorry! could not help it.
Her appeals to the court are exhausted and only King Abdullah can stop this miscarriage of justice.
Sad to say but NOT knowing shit has become very popular with a certain segment of society. You see it in hillbilly types who will shun “Book learn’en” and their polar opposites Rappers. The deeply religious are finding their precious bible stories of creation and Adam and Eve being relegated to quaint bed time stories by the science of evolution and cosmology. So it becomes a situation of not knowing these cold enlightened studies and accepting the warm folktales.
The reason I mention this old story is with the Easter season upon us I have been seeing many Christian candy confections alongside the usual bunnies, eggs and let not forget those tasty little chicks 
These lizards are looking more like snakes, some having all but useless limbs. If you are to believe the Intellegent Design crowd a “god” made this creature this way, rather bad design I say.