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Atheists More Motivated by Compassion

2012-05-08T12:13:00.000+10:00

"Overall, this research suggests that although less religious people tend to be less trusted in the U.S., when feeling compassionate, they may actually be more inclined to help their fellow citizens than more religious people," Willer said. source

I have shown the same conclusion from the statistics of Kiva.org. As the time of this writing this post, Atheists, Agnostics, Skeptics, Freethinkers, Secular Humanists and the Non-Religious team has loaned slightly over 7 million while the runner-up, the Kiva Christians has loaned about 4 million. Compassion and empathy, a result of evolution for social animals, are the primary driving forces for charitable deeds. This holds true for both religious and irreligious people. However, when religion started to divide people based on a belief, the result is limiting charitable deeds to a "closer" group and overlooks the bigger picture.

Abraham The Delusional Schizophrenic

2012-03-25T13:03:00.000+11:00

A nun arrives at the gates of hell...

2012-03-22T09:28:00.002+11:00

So, God, How Is Earth Doing?

2012-03-21T10:12:00.000+11:00

Craig_s Calamitous Cock-Up -- Bayes_ Theorem and the resurre

2012-03-19T13:56:00.001+11:00

There was a debate between William Lane Craig vs Bart Ehrman on the historicity of Jesus' Resurrection. About 40 minutes into the debate, Craig pulled out a probability proof that it would be more probable for the resurrection of Jesus.

Was Craig's mathematics correct?
Here is someone who really knows mathematics - probability in fact!

Moroccan girl, 16, kills herself because judge forced her to marry her RAPIST

2012-03-18T21:38:00.000+11:00

When superstition trumps reasons,...

Religion and Cigarrette

2012-02-19T20:15:00.000+11:00

Religion	Cigarrette
Apply to gullible persons	Apply to the addicts
personal choice	personal choice
bad for society	bad for personal health
There are lots of invested interests by some organisations with self interests	There are lots of invested interests by some organisations with self interests
Society still needs to see the damage of religion	smoking is now banned in many public places in modern society

EricJames Borges

2012-02-01T10:19:00.000+11:00

The Daily Mail reports 19-year-old Eric James Borges killed himself on January 14 following his family issues, as well as the typical years of torment at school.

He revealed the exorcism story in an "It's Get Better" video that he put on YouTube in the weeks before his suicide, saying "'I was raised in an extremist Christian household... My mother knew I was gay and performed an exorcism on me in an attempt to cure me. My anxiety, depression, self-loathing and suicidal thoughts spiked."

At a memorial service last week in the San Joaquin Valley, California, one friend read from his suicide note:

My pain is not caused because I am gay. My pain was caused by how I was treated because I am gay. To my friends you gave me life and love, never think this was your fault...To Lady Gaga, you have been a fearless relentless proud LGBT advocate.

Ironically, Borges interned at the Trevor Project, which is a group designed to intervene and help gay kids who are thinking about suicide.[source]

Warren Buffett is anti-catholic because he....

2012-01-27T17:42:00.000+11:00

Warren Buffett is anti-catholic because he

1. has spent a fortune funding radical abortion organizations like NARAL and Planned Parenthood
2. comment that the rich should pay higher taxes
3. has given hundreds of millions over the years to anti-Catholic front groups
[according to source]

No wonder catholics keep their treasure in the Vatican and refuse to share with the needy.

Is this billboard offensive?

2012-01-19T12:28:00.000+11:00

No, I do not think so.

Yes, human exists is the combination of a lot of chances and it is better we understand this.

If there is one thing needs to be changed, it would be the word 'believes". Atheist does not believe. The position of atheism is because there is not sufficient evidence to support the other position (that god exists). The evidences of we being here by an accident are abundant, just take a course in cosmology and evolution biology - a proper course, I mean.

Senseless murder

2012-01-18T20:27:00.000+11:00

Click on the title which will lead you to a graphic burning of witches. How can anyone do this to another human being?

Maddness

2012-01-15T16:27:00.000+11:00

The blackman was insane, but the Catholic Priest was no better. Where is all the science, where is our understanding of our position in the Solar System and the Universe?

"According to biblical record...." the worse evidence for believing in such nonsense.

Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus

2012-01-15T12:06:00.002+11:00

Please watch till the end of the video!

2012-01-12T21:40:00.001+11:00

There is finally a relgion I can whole-hearted support - Kopimi

2012-01-12T21:18:00.000+11:00

Swedish authorities have granted official religious status to the Church of Kopimism, which claims it considers CTRL+C and CTRL+V to be sacred symbols, and that information is holy and copying is a sacrament.

According to the Church of Kopimism website, church services consist of "kopyactings," whereby the "kopimists" share information with each other through copying and remixing.

Bertil Kallner of Sweden's Financial and Administrative Services told the Swedish newspaper Gagens Nyheter that a religious community could "basically be anything."

"What's important is that it is a community for religious activities," he said.

Still, it took the Church of Kopimism three tries over the course of a year before members were able to formalize their way of praying or meditation so that they could be recognized as an official religion. [source]

Hypocritic double standard - William Lane Craig

2012-01-09T13:51:00.001+11:00

Abstinence FAIL

2011-12-27T22:09:00.000+11:00

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Holy Smoke

2011-12-27T21:59:00.000+11:00

Believe in me - send no money
I died on the cross, that ain't funny
But my so-called friends they're making me a joke
They missed out what I said like I never spoke
They choose what they want to hear - don't tell a lie
They just leave out the truth as they're watching you die
Saving your souls by taking your money
Flies around s**t, bees around honey

Holy smoke, holy smoke
Plenty bad preachers for the Devil to stoke
Feed them in feet first this is no joke
This is thirsty work making holy smoke yeah
Making holy smoke

Jimmy Reptile and all his friends
Say they going to be with you at the end
Burning records, burning books
Holy soldiers, Nazi looks
Crocodile smiles just wait a while
Till the TV Queen gets her make-up clean
I've lived in filth, I've lived in sin
And I still smell cleaner than the s**t you're in

Holy smoke, holy smoke
There's plenty bad preachers for the Devil to stoke
Feed them in feet first this is no joke
This is thirsty work making holy smoke yeah

Holy smoke - smells good

They ain't religious but they ain't no fools
When Noah built his Cadillac it was cool
Two by two they're still going down
And the satellite circus just left town
I think they're strange and when they're dead
They can have a Lincoln for their bed
Friend of the President trick of the tail
Now they ain't got a prayer 100 years in jail

Holy smoke, holy smoke
Plenty bad preachers for the Devil to stoke
Feed them in feet first this is no joke
This is thirsty work making holy smoke

Holy smoke

The 6 Moral Dealbreakers of Christianity

2011-12-24T11:21:00.000+11:00

Book Review: Interview with Gods

2011-12-24T10:47:00.000+11:00

If you read this book as a novel, the plot is too simple - a group of friends (members of a non-political, non-violence ecologically focused group called One Planet) were contacted by "External Consciousness". In order to protect the information these people got, the USA secret service killed them all.

The "meat" of the book is the five chapters presented as the interviews with External Consciousness by these members of One Planet. If read as fiction, it is dry. Basically, it is External Consciousness explaining how a higher intelligence has designed the "biomatrix" - the biological system on Earth, the developments and so on. If read as science, well it is non science! The first interview is about the creation. Poised as a description of how Universe has evolved and how life on earth has evolved, the chapter is full of voodoo promoted by people such as Deepak Chopra.

I would not recommend reading this as fact or science. I would not recommend reading as novel too.

Also published on Random Walk in Learning

Any act done by an atheist is superior to an act done in the name of god

2011-12-22T15:03:00.003+11:00

Christians, don't watch this!

2011-12-21T19:38:00.002+11:00

Hitchens Has Risen

2011-12-21T12:39:00.000+11:00

News has been spreading that Christopher Hitchens has risen from death after reportedly died three days ago. Here is the evidence.

If you do not believe what I have said, why you would believe in the old books claiming Jesus has risen from the death?

22 Comments From Christopher Hitchens

2011-12-17T11:33:00.000+11:00

22 COMMENTS FROM CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS from Twelve Books on Vimeo.

Humanity has just lost one of her most honest critic

2011-12-16T21:07:00.000+11:00

Christopher Hitchens words live on.