morality

There’s a bullet with your name on it

Answer’s in Genesis is “an an apologetics ministry, dedicated to enabling Christians to defend their faith and to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ effectively.”

It’s also the source of the following video depicting a white kid aiming a loaded gun at the camera while some man states that “if you don’t matter to God, you don’t matter to anyone”:

The message, of course, is “if it weren’t for my firm belief in the existence of Hell, I’d shoot your ass”, which is a rather common brand of fuckwittery amongst Christian apologists and extremists.

Christians ought to shut up about morality

shut_up If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a million times.  Atheism has no morality.  It’s a materialist position that, combined with evolution, will cause death and ruin where ever it appears.  In the grand scheme of things atheism reduces the importance of the Holocaust, making it no worse than stomping on a roach.

In short, it’s pure evil.

The right thing, of course, is not just plain theism.  It’s “God” and in America, God is Jesus of Nazareth, the one and only begotten son of God and the ultimate get out of jail free card.

The problem with that card is that you never actually go to jail. It doesn’t matter what you’ve done.  As long as you’ve got that card, you will never see the inside of a prison.  That card is a permanent feature in Christianity and has no expiration date nor exclusions.  Every Christian gets one and it covers every crime one can imagine and then some.

The only punishment for criminal and/or immoral Christians happens right here on this planet in their respective life times. Once a Christian drops dead, that’s it.  There’s no trial, no judgment  and no punishment for anything they may have done in their lives.

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A question of morality

I found this “science project” over a Possum Momma’s place and thought it would be amusing to answer them.

Question: Do unchristians make less moral choices than Christians?

Hypothesis: The Bible is the perfect guide to life that shows us how to be moral people. Without believing in the Bible you can’t know God and he can’t guide you and give you rewards for being a good person. I think people who aren’t Christian will be less successful.

Experiment: I will interview thirty people and ask them if they are Christian. I will give them the same questions so I have a control sample. I think they are immoral if they score lower than 15.
Questions I will ask. There are 20 points available.

  1. Have you ever spoke the name of our Lord in vain? – Does Jesus Christ on a pogo stick count as being “in vain”? How about Jesus fucking Christ?
  2. Have you ever killed another human being? – Nope, but I did join an organization that paid me to be ready to kill other humans beings. You may know it as the US Army?
  3. Have you every lied? – Of course not!
  4. Have you ever had [sexual] relations before marriage? – Yep. Had fun too.
  5. Do you go to church every Sunday or once a week? – I’d rather shoot myself in both feet.
  6. Do you wish you had more stuff? – No – I’m quite specific. I want these books, this computer and a red Honda S2000.
  7. Do you gossip? – I do not “gossip”. I tell the truth.
  8. Do you give to charity? – Yes, but only to ones that fight you bunch of nutballs like the ACLU & FFRF.
  9. Do you listen to rap or heavy metal music? – I prefer death metal personally.
  10. Have you ever had an abortion or been pro-choice? – Since 1/3 of all pregnancies terminate naturally, yep – I’ve hand an “abortion” and I’m very much pro-not forcing women to breed against their will.
  11. Have you ever read Harry Potter or Spiderwick Chronicles or the Golden Compass? – There’s only one thing worse than generic fiction and that’s fantasy which is just one step short of being religious.
  12. Do you see movies with unwholesome content? – Who is this “unwholesome content” you speak of? Are you insulting my partner, kid?.
  13. Do you pray every day? – Only on days that don’t end with a “y”.
  14. Do you believe that God is the creator of heaven and earth? – Of course not. The FSM did that.
  15. Are you overweight because you eat too much? – Nope. I was born a stick and I’ll die a stick.
  16. Do you take pride in accomplishments other than service to God? – Wrong question, kid. The question should be “do you give God credit for the good you do and blame yourself for the bad you do?”. You should really quit fiddling during the sermon and pay attention.
  17. Do you put God and Jesus first? -No, but for the hell of it, lets say that I do. What do I do if God and Jesus get in a spat and start giving contradictory orders? Do I obey God or Jesus?
  18. Do you view pornography? – No, but pornography isn’t the problem and is in fact a result of your religion’s insistence that the only thing a woman is good for is fucking when we aren’t fetching you a beer, picking up your dirty socks or popping out one of your brats.
  19. Do you practice temperance in every thing you do? – No – I’m quite proud of my ability to drink most people under the table.
  20. Are you quick to anger? – No, but I’m quite gifted at making others angry by being unflappable.

The questionnaire is rigged of course. There’s only three possible outcomes. You’re either a Christian and “moral”, a Christian and not “moral” or a “UnChrisitan” who is not “moral”.

Well, the Bible says …

I recently re-posted a satirical work about civil rights for homosexuals that resulted in at least one comment about what the Bible says about homosexuals. Now, technically I think that commenter got it wrong as the Bible says nothing about women having sexual relations with other women, but what I want to address here is the “well, the Bible says blah, blah, blah” argument that always makes an appearance when it comes to homosexuals.

This is a really asinine argument. Yes, the Bible does state that “man shall not lie with another man as with a woman, it is an abomination”. But, this isn’t the only subject the Bible addresses. The Bible ‘says’ a lot of things like forcing rape victims to marry their rapists, killing men who refuse to impregnate their brother’s widow, treating less-than-perfect people as inferiors and much more.

The Bible ‘says’ that Ham and his descendants are to be slaves to the world for all time (Ham is the ‘father’ of Africa according to lore). The Bible ‘says’ women are to shut the f’ up and sit the hell down. It goes on and on and on with it’s hate, its intolerance, its rage and its violence.

Who really wants to have the biblical standards come pay a visit to their house? Do you wear clothing that is made of “mixed” fabric like a cotton-nylon blend? Do you have a tattoo? Do you put up a tree during the solstice? If you’re a woman – are you silent? Do you have any authority over a man? If you’re a man – do you keep your face shaved? Do you keep your sideburns under control? Do you have long hair (below your collar) guys? Everyone – do you eat oysters? clams? shrimp? lobsters? If I peeked in your fridge would I see meat and dairy? Is there bacon in the fridge? Do you eat ham?

If you’ve been raped – did you put a fight to such a degree that people came running to see what the hell was going on? No? If you’re a man with a dead brother – did he leave children behind? No? Did you do you’re biblical duty? No? Well, congratulations you two – you’ve just been sentenced to death according to the Bible.

And the rest of you – if you answered yes to anything but keeping your mouth shut – congratulations – you’ve been smacked in the head by the bible. And that’s just a taste of what the Bible has in store for those of you who want to toss around “well, the Bible says…” I recall reading somewhere that the Bible contains several hundred laws of which more than a few require the execution or complete banishment of those who break them.

How bad is it? I could biblically justify killing anyone in my neighbourhood caught doing yardwork on any given Saturday. The justification? A bible story exists about a man caught picking up sticks for some reason on the sabbath (which is Saturday – not Sunday) – he was executed for not keeping the sabbath “holy”.

So, who here really wants to play “The Bible Says” game? Do you think you’ll live to tell the tale?

NOTE: Any posts regarding the morality of homosexuality for any reason be it religious, moral or scientific will be deleted on sight and the poster banned without a remote chance of being paroled. I will not be party to any attack upon homosexuals. If this gets your boxers in a knot – so fucking what. Cry me a river.

Religion & Morality: Where’s the Proof?

One of the more popular myths is that religion is a necessity for morality. With it to guide us and keep us in line, we would all be out raping, murdering, stealing and otherwise making life hell for our fellow humans. But, is that true?

Sam Harris in The Myth of Secular Moral Chaos writes:

If religion were necessary for morality, there should besome evidence that atheists are less moral than believers. [emphasis added]

Atheists account for approximately ten percent of the American population, but account for less than one percent of the prison population. According to one study the marriages of atheists last longer than those of Baptists. Outside of the United States, the most secular nations are the ones that are in the lead in terms of human advancement while the lowest ranking nations are religious.

There has also never been an undeniably atheistic leader running about the planet killing people on the basis of their atheistic beliefs. Some leaders, such as Hitler, have used pre-existing religious hatred to further their goals. Others, such as Pol Pot, are testaments to what happens when critical thought is not utilized.

As Sam Harris put it:

I know of no society in recorded history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.

In short, religion is not the basis of morality and a failure to obey the dictates of a holy book does not result in moral chaos. In fact, the opposite seems to be true. The more religion is banished to the private sector and the more holy books are ignored in the realm of public law – the more reasonable the society becomes as a whole.

If religion and holy books are necessary for anything it is the continued enslavement of humanity to all manner of hate, bigotry and ignorance.

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