Category: Religion

God’s genocide

many on the right support Zionist apartheid – because the Christian right insist that God gave that land to Israel and they command an awful lot of votes and even more money around the world.

Now then. How do you feel about genocide? How do you think the God of Abraham, the Bronze age God of war feels about genocide? More importantly, how do you imagine those Christians who think the Bible is the infallible word of God feel about the abuses committed by the state of Israel today toward Palestinians in the West Bank?

This is why so many on the right support Zionist apartheid – because the Christian right insist that God gave that land to Israel and they command an awful lot of votes and even more money around the world. This is not to say that all Israelis or even all Jews are Zionists but those that are seem to be calling the shots with devastating effect upon the Palestinians.

This isn’t defence, it’s invasion and it’s genocide. This is the unchanging God of Abraham commanding the outright destruction of entire populations, including, presumably innocent children and pregnant women.

So don’t give me any pro-life crap about the value of unborn babies before the Lord. Your God is a war criminal, a brutal, capricious, sadistic and genocidal torturer. And the Christians who follow him into defending the abuses of the Zionists are no better.

The end is not nigh

There’s no second coming. There wasn’t even a first. And there will be no stars falling to earth. That’s impossible.

The world isn’t ending – really, it’s not. Bible literalists like to claim that we’re in the end times. They claim to have prophecies to prove it. You know like Jesus’ prophecy that says “There shall be wars and rumours of wars”. Yeah, well show me a time – show me a single day since the New Testament was written down when that hasn’t been true.

That was Mark 13 verse 7. But the real reason not to take Jesus seriously here is found in Mark 13:25…

The end really isn’t nigh – at least not by any ‘second coming’

Atheists just want to sin!

But if sin is abusing others, condemning the innocent and sewing division within society where none exists then you Christians really ought to look closer to home.
Remove the plank from your own eye before you complain to your brother about the mote in his.

Christian apologists sometimes try to discredit atheists by claiming that we’re only turning away from God because we love to sin. The implication, of course is that we’re all violent, abusive drug addicts and promiscuous users, desperate to lead innocent believers away from the true path. This seems bizarre considering the stuff in the Bible advocating all kinds of abhorrent behaviour, even going so far as the murder of innocent children… and cattle.

Indeed, in the book of Exodus God makes a point of killing Pharoah’s cattle multiple times. I suppose he resurrected them between times which makes Jesus’ post-crucifixion antics fairly commonplace but I digress.

Apparently, as an atheist I like to sin. Well, yes – that’s true actually – but not in the way you think.

Let’s look at what sin really means…

Challenging the ‘Cumbria preacher’

Dale is a street preacher from my hometown. He’s the man who threatened a 13 year old autistic boy with damnation to Hell!
This video contains my challenge to Dale, If you’re so sure of yourself then come and debate me.

Dale is a street preacher from my hometown. He’s the man who threatened a 13 year old autistic boy with damnation to Hell! This video contains my challenge to Dale, If you’re so sure of yourself then come and debate me. We can both record it and both reserve the right to publish it unedited. We both get to speak through a microphone – not just one of us – and we both get to speak without our voices being drowned out by the other.person.

I’ll be linking this video in the comments there so he sees my challenge.

Dale, you can reach me via a YouTube comment or by commenting on my blog at http://www.TheGodFreeGuide.com

10 (revised) commandments

These are the God free guide’s 10 commandments, updated for the modern world. They’re much more in line with how the world really is today and with how genuinely decent people ought to treat each other.

So apparently this Moses guy, you know, the one who wrote in detail about his own funeral (as well as about towns that weren’t even founded until centuries after his death) also wrote some commandments. Yeah, I know he said God wrote them but since neither God nor Moses actually existed I think we can safely assume they were made up by ordinary men. Ordinary MEN, not women, mind you. Men who lived in the desert herding camels and treating anyone without a penis like property. Perhaps that’s why the 10 commandments are so control-orientated.

But worry ye not – I’ve improved them for you. These are the God free guide’s 10 commandments, updated for the modern world. They’re much more in line with how the world really is today and with how genuinely decent people ought to treat each other.

Here they are…

Intelligent design and a fat bloke bathing

God created everything with ‘saying stuff magic’ like “let there be…” or “Abracadabra”.

Creationists tell me that the world, life, the cosmos, everything was designed and created by God, simply by using ‘saying stuff magic’ like “let there be…” or “Abracadabra”. Furthermore they tell me that this design is all for our benefit (or at least for theirs) and that it’s all perfect. I have a few questions. I also have a bathtub.

Godly arrogance

He was led to a belief in Christ through his own arrogance.

The Discovery Institute, that bastion of psuedoscientific nonsense has a video clip currently doing the rounds. In it they claim that Dean Kenyan, physicist, biologist and creationist was led to his religious convictions by science. But that’s not true. He was led to a belief in Christ through his own arrogance. Here’s why.

Dean Kenyan’s Godly arrogance

Ego, ethno, exo

This immature, egocentric, childish God craves constant attention. It needs constant praise and perpetual worship as reassurance that it is loved.

It’s possible to understand an individual’s maturity by their attitude towards others. Babies are egocentric, children adolescents, xenophobes and racists are ethnocentric and truly mature individuals are exocentric.

The immature, egocentric child craves constant attention. It needs constant praise and perpetual reassurance that it is loved.

Thou shalt have no other Gods before me!

Thou shalt love the Lord, your God with all your heart!

The God of Abraham, of Jews, Christians and Muslims is an immature child. It is less mature in its morality, its ethics and its perception of others than the warmongering, bronze age nomads who invented it.