Tag: Religion

Suicide and Christian compassion

The superficial nonsense that passes for morality in the Christian worldview just won’t cut it in the real world of human distress and actual desperation.

Having spent the last 30 odd years of my life dealing with ACTUAL suicidal people – not the imaginary ‘armchair’ kind Dennis seems to be thinking of – I just had to respond.

The superficial nonsense that passes for morality in the Christian worldview just won’t cut it in the real world of human distress and actual desperation. The fact that Christian doctrine can add insult to injury so callously is just one more piece of evidence to demonstrate how utterly broken and immoral the Christian worldview truly is!

No moral morality

You invalidate humanity, Personify hypocrisy,
As hymn by hymn, And prayer by prayer,
You smugly sit, In your armchair,
While others do the work you claim,
Can only happen in your Jesus’ name.
Have you no shame?

You say I can’t be moral without God, ‘Cause I don’t pray.

Wittering about “Where the saints have trod”, Or so you say.

Denying my compassion, Like it’s going out of fashion,

You invalidate humanity, Personify hypocrisy,

As hymn by hymn, And prayer by prayer,

You smugly sit, In your armchair,

While others do the work you claim,

Can only happen in your Jesus’ name.

Have you no shame?

Crucifixion

Crucifixion as substitutionary atonement is barbaric and ridiculous. I want no part of it.

They tell me that their Jesus died for me. But that’s absurd. A scapegoat can’t pay the price for someone else’s sins. It’s barbaric and ridiculous and I want no part of it.

The Burden of proof

If I said I’d risen from the dead you’d say I’m playing games, If I claimed 500 witnesses you’d want to know their names.

If you want to convince me that something is true, If you’re making the claim then the burden’s on you. If I said I’d risen from the dead you’d say I’m playing games, If I claimed 500 witnesses you’d want to know their names. And if I said God wrote my diary, I’d anticipate inquiry. How you’d react to my diary, Is how your Bible seems to me. Of course, my diary’s bollocks, as you knew, As to the Bible, the burden of proof is on you!

Something instead of nothing

One of the silliest questions asked by theists: Can atheism explain why is there something rather than nothing?

An old mate of mine asked…
“Can atheism explain why there’s something rather than nothing?”
I was surprised because he’s a bright guy. One of the most intelligent lads in my old Grammar school as it happens. And yet his question was so ridiculously stupid I could hardly believe he’d asked it.
However, since it’s not uncommon for atheists of less intelligence than him to ask this same question I put my answer into a video so I won’t need to keep typing out the answer every time some theist presents the question as though it’s some sort of ‘gotcha’.
Spoiler alert… it isn’t.

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/