Monthly Archives: December 2007

Whatever will the Baptists do now?

The Secular Coalition is now a member of the Leadership Council on Civil Rights, one of the oldest and most respected groups of its kind. This is a “Big Thing” as it is confirmation that the rights of the godless horde are as important as the rights of other minority groups within the United States.

It makes me wonder what the Christians, especially the conservative ones who think they have a unquestionable mandate to harass non-members, are going to do now. They’ve had two thousand years of complete freedom when it comes to attacking non-believers. Hell, just this morning I opened up the paper and read how it’s “logical” for believers to believe we are without moral characteristics because we are atheists.

With this act, I think both the Secular Coalition and the Leadership Council has brought us closer to a day when people who say these things will automatically be considered to have severely fucked up. It’ll be a while and I suspect they’ll fight like hell to remain both “good people” and bigots, but it’s coming and there’s nothing they can do to stop it.

I think they realize this too what with the newly minted “War on God” which was brought up by Tony Snow in a speech at some Christian college recently in addition to the War on Christmas. One would have to be blind not to realize that the war on plastic Jesus is all about Christian supremacy. I mean, really, who here really thinks this particular ‘war’ is about the secularization of a religious belief when it largely revolves around forcing commercial enterprises to sell things in the name of one particular god?

So, this War on God is little more than a “war” against those who think they have a right to demean, debase and demoralize anyone who doesn’t believe in “God”. We are fighting back and we’re getting some damned good allies along the way. The bigots will always be bigots, but one day they will be branded bigots and they know it.

I for one look forward to that day.

Hope the beltway Democrats are happy

Senator Lieberman has given his endorsement to John McCain. Lieberman, if you’ll remember, had his feet put to the fire back in 2006 over his tendency to behave as though he was a Republican warhawk. After getting his ass whipped in the primaries by Ned Lamont, Lieberman ran as a independent.

This is what he had to say about Lamont’s challenge and the impact a win by Lamont would have in 2008:

Now McCain is a certified member of the GOP clown car so it pretty much goes without saying that there isn’t much he won’t claim, but I’m willing to bet that “I’m a Democrat” is on the “ah, hell no!” list.

How to avoid atheists

Most Christians know that we atheists are incarnations of the devil who just hang out waiting to ensnare their naive little souls, so it probably came as some surprise that one of us would take the time to tell them how they can best avoid most of us:

She could join an organization that does not admit atheists, e.g., the Ku Klux Klan, the Mafia, Christian militia groups. She could join a God-fearing terrorist group that blows up abortion clinics and high-rise buildings (Oklahoma City, World Trade Center); or she could restrict her friends to those spewing venomous hate upon individuals the Bible says should be put to death, e.g., non-believers and homosexuals.

To be on the safe side, there are havens of atheism that she should avoid: Ivy League universities; the Nobel laureate laden National Academy of Sciences; organizations concerned with the environment or civil rights; and Scandinavia, where the percentage of atheists is at least three times that of the United States.

She should stay in the Bible Belt with the highest religiosity (and highest violent crime rate) in the country.

The absurdity of religious myopia was exemplified after the 1997 school shootings in Paducha, Ky. In defense of the young killer who somebody called "godless," his pastor at the Lutheran Church said, "Michael Carnael is a Christian. He’s a sinner, yes, but not an atheist."

I wonder if that made his victims less dead or the crime less wrong.

David N. Miles
Orange Beach

I heart Huckabee haters

Have you heard the news?  Huckabee is pulling ahead of all the hypocrites gunning for the GOP nomination.   The natives are not happy and it’s all because Huckabee is a real life Christian fundamentalist who believes gays are yucky and women are animated fuckdolls.   I can’t help but laugh.   They’ve been courting these motherfuckers for years.  It’s about time they payed the price for appealing to the most hateful fucking bunch to ever exist in America.

Damned if we do, damned if we don’t

Someone at the Economist has a problem with atheists. According to the anonymous author of this piece we pick the wrong fights and keep using that “A-Word” which frightens the poor little Christians.

How do we know when we’ve picked the wrong fight? A wrong fight is anything the liberal Christians don’t agree with us on. Of course, the conservative Christians accuse us of the same thing. And why do they accuse of us picking the “wrong” fight? Because they’re completely happy with whatever we’re fighting them on. Same coin, different side, same story. Imagine that, eh?

Our anonymous author also has a problem with us using the term atheist. The author also has a problem with godless, humanist, bright and secular. I suppose we should just call ourselves space monkeys but I’m willing to wager that that would upset the Christians too once they learn that “space monkeys” means “people who do not think there’s an invisible magic man in the sky”.

What really ticks me off is the author’s inherent message that we should shut up about anything that we consider important because there are things taking place that are effecting the lives of Christians. This is obvious when one considers that the author thinks removing references to the Christian god from both the currency and the federal pledge is “wrong”.

Why is it wrong? Because it doesn’t bother the majority of Christians. And since it doesn’t bother them, it’s not important. On the other hand, the prospect of being hit up for Jesus by their own kind does bother them. Since what bothers Christians is important by default, the rest of us need to shut up about all other issues until the Christians are safe again.

But don’t worry, once they’re safe again they’ll go right back to insisting that anyone who supports arming the wall between their religion and our state is smoking something that isn’t legal in all fifty states.

In conclusion, I honestly swear I’m starting to hate liberal Christians more and more each day. At least with conservative Christians, a bullet is not only expected – but promised.

Sometimes you’ve just got to laugh

Did you see the “debate” between Daniel Dennett and Dinesh D’Souza?   Do you, like me, consider Dinesh to be an intellectual piss ant who ought to be arrested for crimes against logic in addition to being an asshole in public?    Willing to say/write that in public?

Well, pal – congratulations.  You hate God.

One reason I think is that they are God-haters. Atheists often like to portray themselves as “unbelievers” but this is not strictly accurate. If they were mere unbelievers they would simply live their lives as if God did not exist. I don’t believe in unicorns, but then I haven’t written any books called The End of Unicorns, Unicorns are Not Great, or The Unicorn Delusion. Clearly the atheists go beyond disbelief; they are on the warpath against God. And you can hear their bitterness not only in their book titles but also in their mean-spirited invective.

And just think, there are people out there who will insist that this man knows what he’s talking about.   They must be pretty damned ignorant, don’t you think?

Would you jump in front of a gun?

A seven year old girl named Alexis Groggins did. She was trying to protect her mother. The shooter put six bullet holes in her little body.

A 7-year-old-girl is being hailed as an “angel from heaven” and a hero for jumping in front of an enraged gunman, who pumped six bullets into the child as she used her body as a shield to save her mother’s life.

Alexis Goggins, a first-grader at Campbell Elementary School, is in stable condition at Children’s Hospital in Detroit recovering from gunshot wounds to the eye, left temple, chin, cheek, chest and right arm.

“She is an angel from heaven,” said Aisha Ford, a family friend for 15 years who also was caught up in the evening of terror.

The girl’s mother, Selietha Parker, 30, was shot in the left side of her head and her bicep by a former boyfriend, who police said was trying to kill Parker. The gunman was disarmed by police and arrested at the scene of the shooting, a Detroit gas station. Police identified him as Calvin Tillie, 29, a four-time convicted felon whom Parker had dated for six months.

You’d think this would be the kind of story the media would be all over.   Most of us adults would probably hesitate, especially after bullets started flying.  Alexis didn’t.  She jumped out of her seat and put herself between him and her mom.

What makes this even more sad and somewhat disgusting is the fact that her mother, Selietha, had called the police – twice. She was hung up on once and told there were no available units the second time.   It was only after a gas station employee called and shots were fired that the police showed up.

It’s so fucking frustrating, but it’s also just the way things are.   Just a few months ago we had a young black man staying with us for a while.   He was jumped outside on his way back from his girlfriend’s place.   A shot was fired.  It grazed the side of his head right above his left eye.

The cops and the ambulance showed up about an hour or so later.  They don’t have enough manpower to be on the ball as they all like to say.  The thing about that is, as a stay at home mom I see cops everyday.  There’s usually no less than two cop cars in this neighbourhood. They love parking their cruisers side by side, making it impossible to get around ‘em – when they’re not guarding that damn stop sign we all roll through because there is no traffic during the day.

It’s enough to make you want to scream your bloody head off.

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