I neither hate nor fear your God, but here’s the real shame: All decent people loathe the things you do in your God’s name!
In God’s name
All decent people loathe the things you do in your God’s name!
Tag: Christianity
America, Nazism and the Christian right
Can you imagine what would have happened had Nazi Germany been as strong as modern America?
It’s awful to watch the USA’s decline from across the pond. There’s a real sense of history being made as the country’s fall begins. It’s like watching the Barbarian sack of Rome or, more appropriately, perhaps the beginning of the end of the German weimar republic between the wars.
Elected on the back of countless sermons by Christian nationalists and white supremacists the President seems determined to follow the fundamentalist ‘Heritage foundation’ far right ‘Project 2025’ agenda. This 900 page document covers everything from education to services, healthcare to the ‘right’ kind of Christianity. It’s a blueprint for authoritarian dictatorship straight out of Margaret Lockwood’s ‘A handmaids tale’.
Just like Hitler post 1933, Trump is dismantling law enforcement, removing protection for minorities, sacking prosecutors and investigators and enabling vigilante attacks against political opponents.
He’s attacking legal infrastructure and putting party faithful in key civil positions that should be apolitical.
He’s drawing lines against ally nations and others and even claiming foreign land as America’s. Is this a modern punt for leibensraum?
Can you imagine what would have happened had Nazi Germany been as strong as modern America?
The world might just be about to find out!
Toxic MAGA Christianity
Do you think Bishop Budde’s sermon reflects true Christian values
Do you think Bishop Budde’s sermon reflects true Christian values or should she have refrained from asking the most powerful to have mercy for the powerless?
See for yourself and let me know in the comments. Watch her sermon here… https://youtu.be/xwwaEuDeqM8?si=69mVloI9pGWiP5Xb You can read the transcript here… https://www.stmarksrva.org/blog/a-sermon-given-by-the-rt-rev-mariann-budde/
‘Twas the church before Christmas
Twas the night before Christmas,
And all through the church,
The faithful were gathering,
And praying in search,
Of some mystical moment,
Remembering the birth…
Twas the night before Christmas,
And all through the church,
The faithful were gathering,
And praying in search,
Of some mystical moment,
Remembering the birth…
God of the gaps
He no longer makes lightning, volcanos or trees,
No divine visitations bring us to our knees!
He’s the God of the gaps,
And that’s all you can say.
As His hiding places shrink,
He will soon go away!
A creationist UK science teacher
Nick Cowan is a creationist who also understands the principles of science. He’s a retired UK chemistry teacher who also taught creationism to the same state school pupils in his A level general studies class. I asked him how this could possibly make sense. What followed was a passionate but genial conversation between two people who hold diametrically opposing views.
The God club’s rules
Your religion has rules,
OK follow those too,
But know that they only apply to you.
Go ahead, do your thing,
It’s no skin off my nose,
Until you start claiming,
Your Holy book knows,
How others should live,
And you start to impose,
Your rules and your hatred,
Then we become foes.
What Christian morality?
Your moral compass points right back to the bronze age!
There is no such thing as Christian morality in any meaningful sense. Rather there’s a list of ancient rules, many of which make no sense at all in the modern world.
Religion is not mental disorder!
Asserting that religion is mental illness is unethical, unreasonable and extremely arrogant!
I recently found myself talking to another atheist online.
This person began by asserting that religious belief is a mental illness. In fairness to him he did climb down from that very generalised position after a while but I know that many others are just as dismissive of their fellow men and women. Many theists think the same of all atheists and that’s just as silly.
In this video though my focus is on the general irrationality of all humans and how that is factored into the diagnostic process. My view is that all such assertions are unethical, unreasonable and extremely arrogant.
What do you think?
Let me know in the comments. And don’t forget to subscribe and share!
I’m on ‘The Unshaw podcast’!
My discussion about faith, atheism, mental health, evolution and nursing with Robert Shaw
The Unshaw podcast discusses faith, atheism, religiosity and a whole lot more besides. In this episode Robert Shaw (no, not THAT Robert Shaw) and I discuss mental health, faith and deconversion, politics and even evolutionary psychology.
Visit the Unshaw podcast and have a listen. Go on … you know you want to!
The God free guide 