Atheist Perspective

RIP Christopher Hitchens

2011-12-16T08:49:00.001-05:00

Amazing person, very sad to see him go.

“The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.” -Christopher Hitchens

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/12/In-Memoriam-Christopher-Hitchens-19492011

Ron Paul 2012 (share this video)

2011-12-07T20:52:00.000-05:00

How great would it be if this guy won in 2012. Spread this video around (Facebook, etc.).

The Purpose of the Soul (Poem)

2011-11-27T23:29:00.012-05:00

as the soul becomes aware
understanding is created
which converts into knowledge
the foundation of habit
a phasing out of the soul

#5 Spiritual Atheist - New poem I wrote about the soul

2011-11-27T23:21:00.008-05:00

The Purpose of the Soul

As the soul becomes aware
understanding is created
which converts into knowledge
the foundation of habit
a phasing out of the soul

The purpose of this poem is to create awareness. Be mindful! The greatest source of inspiration (at least in my opinion) is received by being mindful. Without awareness there is nothing. In other words, don't let life pass you by...

How to Become an Atheist

2011-11-24T08:47:00.003-05:00

Becoming an atheist can take some work. Theism distorts an individuals worldview (effecting morality, perceptions, values, purpose etc.) and the process of becoming an atheist means to fix these distortions in the mind in order to see things as they are. The first step in becoming an atheist is....

1. Be certain first that you want to become an atheist. If making the jump to atheism is too great, try taking on agnostic views first (agnosticism = not knowing either way).

At this point there is no particular order, and if uncertain about becoming an atheist, but open to it, try the following...

2. Change the way you view the world (both internally and externally). For example, when you see a baby, instead of seeing God, see a baby...be objective.

3. Read books written by atheists about religion (Richard Dawkin's The God Delusion is a good start).

4. Look up theist vs. atheist debates on YouTube. Doing so will give you many of the big arguments provided by both sides. It's important to view these debates with rationality and objectivity.

5. Be mindful about how thoughts effect your emotional well-being (this will allow you to see how those "good feelings" provided by praying are given by the thoughts themselves, not a god)

6. Become interested in topics like biological evolution and the universe beyond earth (this will provide a source of inspiration and perspective).

7. Actually read the bible (or check out the "atheist cherry-picked bible" on this website)

8. Talk with other atheists (the internet is a great place for that)

9. Be skeptical, demand evidence. Like Carl Sagan once said: "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"

Becoming an atheist is all about dumping theistic views by valuing accuracy over faith (valuing accuracy over faith causes faith to be put in its proper place). I'm not gonna sugarcoat it, being an atheist does have its draw-backs and benefits, and the same is true for theism. Atheism isn't right for everyone (some atheists would be better off with religion). Sadly, some atheists are scumbags with no sense of morality, so its a pick-your-poison kind of deal with them. In other words, if you're the kind of person that sees no reason to live and/or be a good person without God, stay in church/the mosque/the synagogue (or whatever the building is called).

Atheist Thanksgiving

2011-11-24T07:54:00.000-05:00

As an atheist I am thankful that there is no God, but plenty of turkeys to devour....mmmm

Ramen

Future of this website

2011-11-22T09:06:00.000-05:00

I plan to make this site more active in the future (busy with college atm). I want to start having more of a focus on atheist-related news/news about crazy believers. I also want to make a section of this website for people to submit things they want included on the site. I may also start making videos. Unfortunately all of this wont happen for another few weeks.

Rap music damages the brain (new study confirms)

2011-11-16T11:30:00.000-05:00

I read this article today (that I wrote) that shows beyond some doubt that rap music damages the brain. The article goes into detail about which areas of the brain are damaged, how this effects the listener, and what causes the damage. If you listen to rap music you ~~should~~ could take this very seriously.

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A new study has shown that rap music causes irreversible damage to the brain (frontal lobe, cerebellum, and occipital lobe). While I could break down all the technical bullshit that I'm sure none of you would understand, I'm going to describe now how this damage is shown on an external level.
Frontal Lobe Damage"The executive functions of the frontal lobes involve the ability to recognize future consequences resulting from current actions, to choose between good and bad actions (or better and best), override and suppress unacceptable social responses, and determine similarities and differences between things or events. Therefore, it is involved in higher mental functions." -Wikipedia
We all know very well that people that are addicted to rap music are stupid, irrational, and have a poor ability to tell the difference between right and wrong (many rap fans are in prison because of the damage caused to their brains by rap music and drugs like meth and crack...but mostly rap music). From these observations alone, it is clear to me that rap music causes damage to the frontal lobe.

Click me for the full text.

Health Benefits of Atheism

2011-11-14T12:28:00.000-05:00

Becoming an atheist has many health benefits for the mind, body, soul, and society. Below is a list of the benefits of being an atheist. This list isn't so much to claim that theism is bad for the health, but that perceiving the world and other's beliefs from the perspective of an atheist does carry some benefits. A believer might have an easier time feeling a sense of belonging than an atheist (but that's another topic all together)

-Atheism reduces the stress caused by organised religion (such as religions that value guilt over pride).

-Atheist nations are generally more peaceful, so it can be assumed that atheists are more peaceful (probably do to the formation of a worldview that is more encompassing of all people).

-Atheists are better able to relax and be themselves, they aren't forced to always put up a front because of an imaginary stalker (which causes stress, which has consequences in the long-run).

-Atheists are much less likely to become a politician (which has the potential side effect of sociopathy, narcissism and republicanism, among other personality disorders)

-Atheists are better able to see the world as it is, instead of constantly worrying about how they should perceive (i.e. judge) it.

-An atheist is 100% less likely to sacrifice themselves to a god.

-Atheists don't waste good relaxation time by spending 3 hours in church feeling guilty about working on the Sabbath (if Christians don't, they should).

-Atheists, removed of the need to be judgmental about everything and anything are better able to put themselves in another's shoes (empathy is an important skill that many people are lacking).

-Atheism is conducive of a better education (those that need to "cover their eyes" when confronted with information that contradicts their worldview have a more difficult time learning (if they do, they need to frame everything in the tiny little theism box, otherwise it gets rejected).

-Atheists are more likely to believe in science, so more likely to seek medical care.

-Atheists are more accepting of their mortality, so they tend appreciate life more (people that constantly judge this world and imagine one which is far greater really diminish the experience of being alive).

-Atheists embrace logic over faith, which allows them to better adapt to their environment. This is important for those that live in a fasts changing world (why conservatives tend to be religious).

-Atheists can celebrate any holiday they want without worrying about what some god thinks about it (Christians and Halloween for example).

-Atheists are allowed more freedom when it comes to forming worldviews (being a cognitive slave is not very fun)

-Atheists are more realistic (i.e. their ideas better match up with reality due to their lack of limitations in this domain), and being realistic is very important for dealing with the stresses of life.

These are just a few of the benefits I find with atheism, if I think of more I'll post em' up. If you have any ideas you want listed here, or believe I am wrong with certain items on the list, let me know in the comment section below. If I agree with you, the list will be altered in a way that conforms.

TheAmazingAtheist made a porno video?

2011-11-13T17:47:00.003-05:00

What kind of man shoves bananas up his ass? What a joke, why are people still subscribed to this moron? The fact that he is (the last time I checked) the most subscribed to atheist on YouTube is reflective of the moral deficiency of many atheists. In other words, why would people want to follow this guy unless they found his worldviews agreeable.

Jezuzfreek777

Jezuzfreek777 is so right here. I'm sure TheAmazingAtheist will regret what he did someday (or at least his kids will). The problem with atheism is that it can lead to moral relativism. Many atheists believe that not being bound to a religion allows them to do whatever they want.

shockofgod

Christians are obviously having a good time with this. I disagree with shockofgod that all atheists can't be moral. There are many atheists that are able to develop their own code of morality, and morality isn't subjective in that it can be based on reason. While all cognition is subjective, morality that is rational is accessible to all rational individuals. An atheist morality should be based on maintaining a society that has the highest level of functioning. I believe morality and rationality go hand-in-hand (instead of banana in hand), and many atheists irrationally believe that just because there isn't a god that they don't need to rationally analyze their behavior as being "good" or "bad". Yes, some behavior is beneficial to the functionality of society and some is harmful.

TheAmazingAtheist sadly represents atheism in a big way on YouTube, and this whole thing really makes the Christians look so much more moral in the eyes of the many. If you are subbed to the TheAmazingAtheist, seriously consider getting rid of this, this guy doesn't deserve the attention he gets. I say this because his influence and/or representation of atheism is wholly negative. A person that is leaning towards atheism might be steered away because of this clown. He makes all atheists look like immoral/amoral, cynical, narcissistic sexual deviants.

This psychologically disturbed "atheist" should only be representative of his own disturbed brain, sadly many people will interpret this differently. In some people's minds this is what all atheists are like, and this is an understandable interpretation for a person that is looking to perceive atheism as being wrong. Like when an atheist wants to show how screwed up Christianity is, they can point to disturbed individuals like those who belong to the Westboro Baptist Church. When a Christian wants to show an example of atheism as being immoral, they wont have to look too far.

Atheist vs Christian debate

2011-11-09T22:31:00.000-05:00

So today I, the atheist, (now that I think about it, the blog title may be a giveaway...) got into a debate with a believer, and it went something like this (I don't remember it exactly, but this dialogue will be similar to what was said)...

This was after a class got done, and we just got our tests back...

Christian: "What grade did you get?"

Atheist: "93"

Keep in mind: She doesn't know I'm an atheist yet.

Christian: "You should thank God for that lucky grade"

Atheist: "God didn't stay up to 1 AM studying, and why would he help an atheist?..."

Christian: "Why don't you believe in God? Were you just not raised around religion?"

Atheist: "No, I used to believe, but the more I learned, the more ridiculous the idea seemed to me...obviously for a lot of people it makes sense"

Christian: "If God isn't real then how are you here?"

Atheist: "That's like saying if 'leprechauns don't exist how come there are rainbows?' .."

Christian: "That's a stupid argument...of course God exists, otherwise nothing would have gotten started...."

Atheist: "Not everything needs a point of creation, obviously...you probably believe God has existed forever...I believe energy has existed forever..the difference is that I have good science supporting the idea that energy cannot be created or destroyed...you can't prove God even exists"

Christian: "Atheists are all such close-minded assholes...that's why you don't believe in God"

Atheist: "That must be it...."

Pretty standard atheist vs. Christian debate, I just thought it was funny. I tried to be respectful at first, but when she started not respecting my atheism, I started not respecting her Christianity.

Herman Cain is a dick

2011-11-06T08:37:00.000-05:00

At first I didn't like most Herman Cain's politics, but he seemed to be a decent person (I liked his pro-life stance for example). But now that those sexual harassment claims have been brought out, the immoral person that is Herman Cain has been brought to light. I'm a believer that we are able to see the core of a person's nature when their worst is brought out. Most of the time, when a politician is on TV, a strong front present (other than Ron Paul, which I believe doesn't put up much of a front, he seems fairly consistent across the board).

Once a sexual harasser, always a sexual harasser in my book; that is why people accused of sexual harassment typically have a history of this kind of behavior "under the rug". Herman Cain, when it boils down to it, is a morally deficient human being. While many people dislike Obama for whatever reasons, there is a reason no sexual harassment claims have surfaced for him (the beautiful thing about the mudslinging in politics is that it brings these things out).

The reason I view such claims so negatively is that it is reflective of a person's core values ("values" = the value they place on other humans, empathy [which ties in to how a person values others], along with capacity to do a job with dignity and responsibility). For someone that claims to be a Christian, Herman Cain certainly isn't Christ-like (he is both a sexual deviant and greedy). People attack atheists for being immoral, but the fact that Herman Cain is/was the front runner for the Republican party's (i.e. the party of the "moral/conservative" Americans) nomination speaks volume.

Republicans are a sad bunch indeed.

Thoughts as a source of entertainment

2011-11-04T23:00:00.002-04:00

During the "good ol' days" religion was much more influential. I believe religion was one of the best sources of entertainment for people during the time before things like television, music, etc. It's not that people have stopped using religious ideas to entertain themselves, but there is a lot more competition (things today are just more entertaining). Back a long time ago, probably the most entertaining thing they did was attend church.

Of course even atheists keep themselves entertained in this way (thinking philosophically, thinking about science, contemplating the universe, etc). There are two important things to consider here:

1). An idea doesn't need to be logical to have an emotional effect
2). If an idea is believed, it will have a stronger effect

The importance for a believer is how the belief makes them feel. Thinking about the concept of heaven, and truly believing that one will someday be there, would certainly feel good. It's obviously not heaven being real which makes a believer feel good, but the idea of heaven. This is why Christians are so passionate (i.e. emotional) when defending their beliefs, and obviously the more people that believe an idea, the more believable it becomes. People are the same way with their drug of choice. For example, people who drink often will ignore and/or get angry at people who openly talk about the negative effects of alcohol.

People are nutty about defending their sources of entertainment. Me, I get some joy out of writing about atheism (and the other things I write about on my other blogs). And of course, I can easy get emotionally involved when defending my atheism (although I try not to). Sometimes I find it entertaining to debate hot-topics like morality or politics.

Getting back on point, many people, when they are bored, like to daydream. Even if the daydream is not based in reality at all, they still enjoy doing it. But for religion, it's (as stated before) a double-whammy because the actual thoughts (done through prayer, etc) cause good feelings and the ideas are believed to be truth (like heaven for you and a hell for your enemies...a fantasy that would make even an atheist feel entertained, and if it was believed to be real it becomes that much more powerful).

Today people aren't so reliant upon religion (and many people go to atheism because it is more fun to believe in evolution and science, and not be as morally restricted [for good or for bad]). In modern times being an atheist (for many) is just more fun, unlike the past, where being a believer was the most entertaining option. People only care about truth so long as it entertains them in some way (keep in mind that being afraid and/or angry can be entertaining).

Life must be boring if the most entertaining thing you have to do is pray to an imaginary friend, keep that in mind the next time you surf the internet or watch a movie.

Should all views be respected?

2011-11-03T23:07:00.001-04:00

I recently attended a presentation, and without going into detail about it, the speaker claimed that "all views should be respected, and looked at with an open mind" (during her talk she also claimed that six-year-olds should be taught sex-ed). The first thought that came to my mind when she made the claim that all views should be respected was "wow, this person is a f#@king nut". Then I got to thinking about how this may very well be the sign of a mental disorder. There are people out there that have the disease essessive empathetical thinking. I know, this sounds crazy (no pun intended), but empathy is the put oneself in another's shoes. But with people like this, they engage in so much empathetical thinking, they lose their sense of self, and sense of morality. In her talk she made it seem as if morality was not an important thing at all, and those that had morally-charged opinions were automatically discounted (which struck me as odd).

Politically I consider myself to be a moderate (as sane individuals are). I see super conservatives as being too driven by fear and hatred, and liberals as being mentally ill (again, they have lost their sense of self by engaging in too much empathetical thinking, which has caused them to lose their sense of morality as well). In other words, people at the extreme ends of the political spectrum are f#@king crazy, and we need to stop having these whack-jobs forming the dialogue in political discusions.

I better slow down and get back on topic, but ranting on here is fun :)

The idea that all ideas should be respected and absorbed with an open mind is like claiming that all foods should be respected and eaten (which is the american way I suppose). The moral of the story here is: if some dumbass aging hippie tells you some stupid ass ideas, you do not, and should not consider those ideas with an "open mind".

Being close-minded is NOT a bad thing, if you are too open-minded your brain will turn into liquid shit causing you to lose your sense of self along with creating a chaotic worldview to boot.

Of course, we are close-minded to some ideas. For example, as atheists (assuming most of the readers of this are atheists), we are close-minded to religious ideas (for good reason). We are educated to be close-minded to ideas that "racist" (again, for good reason, but I don't see any liberal claiming to be open-minded when it comes to that subject). Often when someone tells you to be open-minded, they just want you to believe an idea they and you know is stupid. 9 times out of 10 they are telling you to remove the filter and absorb shit information.

Godless Evil Atheist Blog - 11/3/11

2011-11-03T07:54:00.000-04:00

Updated - 7:48 AM
Just another atheist day in an atheist universe. At least so far. One that last night that I read online that was a little disturbing was how Israel appears to be preparing to launch an attack against Iran (I believe it was from AP). As far as for today, for me, I have a class in the morning and two classes in the afternoon. After that, I will probably attend this meeting for extra credit (no idea what's about).

An Atheistic Religion

2011-11-02T22:44:00.000-04:00

I want to start a cult. Yes, that's right, I'm not going to disguise this belief system as anything more than what it is. A good organised religion (i.e. cult) is one that is based on rational ideas. You may be wondering, what is the target of worship for this cult? YOU (a part of God). This is atheistic in that "God" doesn't exist "out there" but is just a label (the label being the word "God") for conscious energy (you being a piece of that pie).

Like nearly all cults, this cult is a patchwork of original and unoriginal ideas (many great ideas have already been had, and it would be a shame not to utilize them).

Here are a few of the core beliefs that lie at the foundation of this cult:

-God is the Pool of Consciousness
-Souls are like water droplets falling in a continuous cycle of evaporation and rain (there is no death, only loss of individuality).
-Conscious matter is subject to improvement over time (improvement = useful complexity)
-God (a pool of consciousness) has an influence (such as over its biological and external environments)
-The mind of God is a hive mind (bee = individual souls).
-Consciousness underlies the rapid evolution that has been seen in the last several million years
-The soul is essentially a "user" of a biological computer
-The soul has a bee to flower relationship with biology (you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours)
-The universe is subject to evolutionary forces (being an individual in the multiverse)
-There is no evil, only lack of useful complexity (some are useless in that they hold back progress, i.e. growth)

Soul = Conscious Mass x Efficiency (which improves when increasingly useful complexity is brought about)
Environmental influences = all which has an influence (souls included)

Well, that is a taste of what this belief system will entail. Stick around, this should be fun :)

http://cultofjeremy.blogspot.com/ (main site)

Godless Evil Atheist Blog - 1/2/11

2011-11-02T08:30:00.000-04:00

Updated - 8:26 AM
French class is in about 30 minutes, fun! Going to be a busy day for me, have a big test at 6 PM (Sociology of Social Services), and there is a lot of content to read through.

Controlling ideas

2011-11-01T08:55:00.003-04:00

All ideas are controlling. Even an idea as simple as "yellow is the best color" is designed to influence a person's worldview in some way.

rejecting an idea
If we don't accept an idea ( like "yellow is the best color"), then we reject the idea, and then throw up ideas to explain the source ("that guy is a dumb-ass", "that's just an opinion" etc.). But even a rejected idea has still had a controlling effect because of the way it influenced our thinking and perception (memory of the emotional stance is linked to the associated ideas) of the source (as being wrong).

Ever notice that when someone is confronted with information they have no confidence in understanding they will write it off as being "stupid" or "boring"? This is what we do to disqualify information so we don't feel the need to understand it (and feeling stupid isn't pleasant).

accepting an idea
Ideas that we accept have an immediate impact on the worldview: Contradictory ideas are discarded from the realm of "reality" (the worldview, which isn't actually real) and labeled as "wrong", "just superstition" "bigoted", "stupid", "intolerant", "science mumbo-jumbo" (such as in the case of a religious person disowning contradictory scientific ideas like of evolution) etc. Ideas are either right (+) or wrong (-). The brain does not like grey areas, it likes its ideas to be neatly organized into two piles (positive or negative).

In this way, atheists are as controlled by ideas as the most devout believer. The difference is the way the ideas influence their worldview and actions. In the same way that there are certain ideas that no Christian would give up (e.g. God, heaven, souls), the same is true for atheists. Atheists would never give up the ideas like:

"logical thinking is the only way of validating information"
"the scientific method works and is accurate"

Some atheists are firm in their disbelief of souls and/or that abortion is morally permissible. It is ideas about ideas that allow atheists perceive themselves as being right about the invalidity of theistic ideas (and the same is true in reverse). It seems that both atheists and theists are victims of controlling ideas, and this is a control that isn't easy to escape (can only be truly escaped by viewing ideas as they are experienced, and perceiving the world through the senses).

Godless Evil Atheist Blog - 11/1/11

2011-11-01T08:17:00.004-04:00

Updated - 8:13 AM
It's 11/1/11! isn't that a sign of some Apocalypse? I'm sure someone is shitting their pants now.

Just a boring day for me, have class at 9:30 AM (Sociology of Mental Illness), and then I have this class about woman's inequality in the workplace followed by Biological Ethics....fun! Big test in Sociology of Social Services tomorrow... God damn it! I just found a bug in the chamomile tea I made :(

On a random note, yesterday I was thinking about how ideas influence behavior, and I came to the conclusion that all ideas are designed to control two distinct areas: 1) perception of the world (i.e. worldview) and 2) actions. I'll probably write a blog post after this about my thoughts on ideas..

Wrote it, check it out: Controlling Ideas.

Updated
Today's classes were so strange (i.e. fucked up). In my first class we watched the oddest documentary that was made in the 1950s about this mental institution (or was it a prison?) in Russia. 80% of the video was old naked men stomping around and getting food poured down their noses with a hose/funnel. They also put this cotton ball (or that was what it looked like) in this guy's eye socket. After that class got done, I got food and relaxed in my dorm for a bit before my next class. In that class the topic was the sex slave trade that is going on TODAY (I was completely ignorant of it), and it is just awful. In Thailand, it is common for a family to sell their daughter in order to buy a color television. It's apparently a huge industry over there (black market, but even the police are involved, and if the girls/women escape, the police rape them and bring them back to their captors). And apparently this kind of thing happens all over the world. I guess many business men from the United States and Europe go to Thailand to have sex with enslaved children (shame they charges can't be brought against them in their home countries). And after that class, the next one's topic was abortion. It was funny how upset some of the people got when a pro-life student was making points (clearly an abortion survivor who wants their cake eat it to). What was annoying was how the teacher implied that all pro-lifers were religious. While many Christians are pro-life, many of them are not. I've also come across many pro-life atheists.

Godless Evil Atheist Blog - 10/31/11 Happy Halloween!

2011-10-31T08:14:00.000-04:00

Updated - 8:01 AM
Just woke up, going to be a busy day filled with studying. So today's Halloween, being that I'm slightly too ~~fat~~ big to pass as a kid, no trick-or-treating for me. This holiday is great for atheists, we get to dress up like the demons we are and terrorize the believers (what could be better than that?).

Before I get to studying, I think I should take my dog on a walk...maybe that will help wake me up.

Godless Evil Atheist Blog - 10/28/11

2011-10-28T07:59:00.003-04:00

Updated - 7:51 AM
Starting an atheist daily blog thing starting...now! Not much has happened so far today, just studying for this french test I have coming up in about an hour (yikes). Oh, that reminds me (for no reason at all), I read this dumb-ass comment on Yahoo News, the guy was like: "liberal = living off the workers, conservative = law-abiding tax payer". While I think some liberals have wacky opinions, they are no where near as deluded as some of these conservatives. I mean seriously, all liberals are law-breaking mooches that don't pay taxes or work? So many conservatives, if they actually believe their own bullshit, should seriously qualify as having a mental illness (that kind of distortion of reality can't be healthy/normal). How do these people dress themselves in the morning?

Updated - 10:07 AM
Just got back, the test was really easy, I expect a 90+. I do however think most of the kids did poorly on it...more grade curving for me :)

Now I'm just going to work on some blogs and relax. I have this huge test coming up ("huge" in that it is about 30% of my final grade) next Wednesday in sociology, and it's going to require tons of reading (around 150 or so pages of academic nonsense). I got about a 3.1 on the last test, I'm hoping to get a 4.0 on this next one to give me a boost.

Tip - If you are studying or about to take a test, coffee is your best friend (or it should be).

Atheists would believe in God if....

2011-10-27T09:04:00.000-04:00

Many people believe that atheists are just plain evil, and that is why they wont believe in God. But the reality is that the vast majority of atheists would become believers if this God were to leave behind some evidence.

Not to ramble, but it seems that God (if He did exist) doesn't want people to be aware of His existence. I say that because if He truly wanted people to believe He existed, he would show himself by simply not being as invisible as a non-existent unicorn.

For example, a big sticker on the dark side of the moon saying "Made in China, by God" would go a long ways (it definitely wouldn't hurt His cause). Or maybe actually striking down some evil people. I mean, if gluttony is a sin, why are there so many fast food restaurants? If God hates greed, why are the richest of the rich getting so much richer while the middle and lower class go down? Or what about all the children (who aren't old enough to be evil) here that are starving or subject to physical/mental abuse? Many Christians say: "God helps those who help themselves"...but what exactly do Christians believe this god does? If it's His job to run the universe, and humans are at the center of it all...what a piss-poor job. F

With all the suffering in the world, it's easy as hell (pun intended) to be an atheist.

Is Obama an atheist?

2011-10-27T08:48:00.000-04:00

Many people don't know this, but Obama wasn't a Christian until he was an adult and wanting to go into politics. As many if not all of us should know, being an out-of-the-closet atheist is political suicide. But, in the video above, he bashes religion in the same way an atheist would. And while Obama is unpopular, it's hard to argue that he isn't intelligent and higher on the rational scale than the vast majority of people. On one hand I wish Obama would just come out (under the assumption that he is an atheist), but I'm afraid if he does, a Republican like Rick Perry or Michelle Bachmann (so stupid how her last name has 2 n's...what I waste of space) would win. There is a lot about Obama's policies that I'm not a fan of (his spending is much too high), but he will probably be the lesser of the evils come election time. I kind of want Ron Paul to win (not because I totally agree with him, but he would surely be pushing for spending cuts [like in the military]). Anyways, until I see a hidden camera video of Obama praying in private, I'll assume he is an atheist. What would be neat is if Obama admits he is an atheist after he is doing his term(s), then he would be the first open-atheist president in the longest time (Lincoln was an atheist).

Anyways, I'm rambling. What do you think? Is Obama an atheist? (leave a comment).

Vegetarians and mental disorder.

2011-10-26T22:43:00.003-04:00

While nearly every vegetarian on earth will disagree (they like doing that), I see many similarities between them and paranoid people. Many (if not most) vegetarians like the taste of meat. That is why there are so many meat-imitation products out there. No, it is the THOUGHT of meat that bothers most vegetarians. When a person refuses the fly on a plane because of the bothersome thoughts, we send them to a therapist. Just sayin'

Vegetarians that refuse to eat meat only because of the thoughts associated with meat are paranoid (at least in my opinion). There is a big difference between eating meat and killing an animal (most vegetarians can't distinguish between the two, further revealing their cognitive distortions). While meat was at one point a living animal, it is no longer. The same could be said of any animal that decomposes into soil to be later taken up by a plant (but of course that rarely happens.../sarcasm).

Animal life needs to be killed to drive to the store for example (many many insects die, along with the occasional bird or mammal..). Yes vegetarians, MANY animals die to sustain your diet: Animals die when pesticides are sprayed onto plants == when the machines harvest the plants == when the trucks ship the plants to the stores == when you go to pick them up at the store.

If every life is so precious, why aren't vegetarians worried about the lives of insects? Because they're not cute and/or furry? The reality is: for us to eat, shit needs to die...the food might as well taste good. Vegetarians seem paranoid about food, which fortunately leaves more meat for people like me. mmm...

Stupid sayings: "God helps those who help themselves"

2011-10-26T22:23:00.000-04:00

hmm, now why would an atheist think this quote is stupid? .....Besides the fact that there is no God, if a person helps themselves, then how exactly is God helping? Also, if God created everything, then he created all problems, so how is He removing something that He created considered to be "helping"? Shouldn't the quote be: "God isn't going to help you, so don't even bother asking". It's like me punching someone in the face and giving them a piece of cotton to shove up their bloodied nose and saying "I helped you, I demand your praise,....follow my son.....I'll send you to hell if you don't...blah blah."