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Atheism The Undiscovered Bias

Posted by Brandon On May - 31 - 2008

I’m going to show everyone a quote and I want you to guess who said it. Then after, I want you to decide for yourselves how our country thinks of atheists. (And I’m sure every atheist has read this quote; this is for everyone else).

“No, I don’t know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.”

Any guesses? I’ll let you ponder for a bit.

Well that was our wonderful and intellectual president George Bush Sr during an interview with Robert Sherman, a reporter for the American Atheist news journal.

Now, you can’t compare atheists to other minorities or sexes that get truly discriminated against; homosexuals being a prime example but that’s for another article. But it’s true that atheists are very much looked down upon in this country. That is why when you hear something like “He is a man of faith.” it is said with reverence and approval.

Well I feel for you, brothers of atheism, and I hope that one day we can see an atheist in the highest offices of our government. Every single president thus far has been an older white male of Christian belief. There will very likely be a female or African American president before an atheist.

This all seems sort of funny to me in a way but at the same time I think it’s a shame. Everyday science and reason take another step towards absolute knowledge. Everyday we get closer at solving the riddles of our universe, closing the gap of dogma and superstition. And hopefully, one day, we will finally be able to move forward as a society and put away the ghosts of our primitive pasts and move into an era where reason and fact hold more true than ancient myth.

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Dinosaurs Man’s Best Friend?

Posted by Brandon On May - 29 - 2008

I have decided where I am going on my next vacation: Petersburg, Kentucky. What’s in Petersburg you ask? Why the brand new (2007 really) creationist museum!

This has to be the most fantastic of all museums. Ken Ham has created a museum that teaches young earth creationism, which is the uhh *cough* theory *cough* that the all life on earth started between six and ten thousand years ago. Anyone who’s taken an elementary science class will laugh at this, but I digress.

Now, when I first heard about this museum, I wasn’t too angry. I thought that it would teach about baby Jesus and the like. Throw in some Adam and Eve and mix in a little bit of resurrection talk for good measure. But oh no, they take it a step (leap) too far.

They teach that humans and dinosaurs were alive during the same period of time and that the T-Rex didn’t eat meat until Adam had committed the original sin. Man oh man, this makes me want to tear my eyeballs out. There’s so much scientific data that the earth is 4.54 billion years old, but all of that is lost in the futile attempts at the religious to try and justify their false beliefs.

To prove these awesome theories they try and use science. But unfortunately a spoonful of pseudo-science doesn’t help this reasoning go down. And yes, I used a horrible Mary Poppins reference. Here’s a good BBC clip on a museum that only America could produce. Enjoy:

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Catholic Church: You so crazy

Posted by Brandon On May - 28 - 2008

Why is it that the catholic church does so many weird things? They “got rid” of limbo. Limbo being the place at the edge of hell where unbaptized babies would go if they died at an early age. I’m not sure what that means. I guess there was this sort of bad place with a bunch of confused babies and aborted fetuses crying and crawling around. Then one day it was cool and they floated up into heaven because some guy here on earth said it was ok.

Well, that’s some pretty weird stuff. But what about these “new deadly sins”. It appears that there are some more deadly sins that the pope has come up with. Here’s the original list and their punishment:

Pride - Broken on the wheel
Envy - Put in freezing water
Gluttony - Forced to eat rats, toads, and snakes
Lust - Smothered in fire and brimstone
Anger - Dismembered alive
Greed - Put in cauldrons of boiling oil
Sloth - Thrown in snake pits

I can dig these, they are all pretty good. But these new ones are even better:

The new ones include: environmental pollution, genetic manipulation, obscene wealth, infliction of poverty, drug trafficking, morally debatable experiments, and violation of the fundamental rights of human nature.

It’s not too clear if these will grant you immediate access to the underworld or if you get a second chance. We’ll have to see. I’m definitely guilty of a few of these.

Reason without faith.

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