Music: Also Sprach Davis

Also Sprach Davis

Those atheists are a dirty breed, thinking they have every right in the world to believe in destroying (I don't know what, but I'm pretty sure it's not Muslims or Jews or those awful heretics and their stupid theory that we revolve around the sun and the stars weren't created especially for our occasional enjoyment). Although, I'm with Douglas Adams when he asked if the garden isn't beautiful enough without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too.

Anyway, at least one person has the courage to stand up to those dirty atheists. So, fight the power, Rep. Davis! Tell it like it is! Amen!
Us non-believers definitely don't have the same rights as the rest of the world, what with our dangerous philosophies like pacifism or humanism or preferring a walk in the woods to a day in the synagogue or, you know, giving our money to, say, the local children's hospital instead of a priest.

Ahh! Disgusting! Scandalous! I am so not getting into Heaven with those sort of immoral ideas.

In the probable case that you have no idea what I'm going on about:

http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2008/04/rep-monique-dav.html
http://richarddawkins.net/article,2441,Get-out-of-here-atheists,PZ-Myers-Pharyngula

Worse Off

I'm not usually the sort of fellow to rehash old news, but while parading "worse off" through Google, the first thing that came up was the article below. It really is old news, but I found it relatively interesting.

From The Times

September 27, 2005

Societies worse off 'when they have God on their side'

By Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent

RELIGIOUS belief can cause damage to a society, contributing towards high murder rates, abortion, sexual promiscuity and suicide, according to research published today.

According to the study, belief in and worship of God are not only unnecessary for a healthy society but may actually contribute to social problems.

The study counters the view of believers that religion is necessary to provide the moral and ethical foundations of a healthy society.

It compares the social peformance of relatively secular countries, such as Britain, with the US, where the majority believes in a creator rather than the theory of evolution. Many conservative evangelicals in the US consider Darwinism to be a social evil, believing that it inspires atheism and amorality.

Many liberal Christians and believers of other faiths hold that religious belief is socially beneficial, believing that it helps to lower rates of violent crime, murder, suicide, sexual promiscuity and abortion. The benefits of religious belief to a society have been described as its “spiritual capital”. But the study claims that the devotion of many in the US may actually contribute to its ills.

The paper, published in the Journal of Religion and Society, a US academic journal, reports: “Many Americans agree that their churchgoing nation is an exceptional, God-blessed, shining city on the hill that stands as an impressive example for an increasingly sceptical world.

“In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy and abortion in the prosperous democracies.

“The United States is almost always the most dysfunctional of the developing democracies, sometimes spectacularly so.”

Gregory Paul, the author of the study and a social scientist, used data from the International Social Survey Programme, Gallup and other research bodies to reach his conclusions.

He compared social indicators such as murder rates, abortion, suicide and teenage pregnancy.

The study concluded that the US was the world’s only prosperous democracy where murder rates were still high, and that the least devout nations were the least dysfunctional. Mr Paul said that rates of gonorrhoea in adolescents in the US were up to 300 times higher than in less devout democratic countries. The US also suffered from “ uniquely high” adolescent and adult syphilis infection rates, and adolescent abortion rates, the study suggested.

Mr Paul said: “The study shows that England, despite the social ills it has, is actually performing a good deal better than the USA in most indicators, even though it is now a much less religious nation than America.”

He said that the disparity was even greater when the US was compared with other countries, including France, Japan and the Scandinavian countries. These nations had been the most successful in reducing murder rates, early mortality, sexually transmitted diseases and abortion, he added.

Mr Paul delayed releasing the study until now because of Hurricane Katrina. He said that the evidence accumulated by a number of different studies suggested that religion might actually contribute to social ills. “I suspect that Europeans are increasingly repelled by the poor societal performance of the Christian states,” he added.

He said that most Western nations would become more religious only if the theory of evolution could be overturned and the existence of God scientifically proven. Likewise, the theory of evolution would not enjoy majority support in the US unless there was a marked decline in religious belief, Mr Paul said.

“The non-religious, proevolution democracies contradict the dictum that a society cannot enjoy good conditions unless most citizens ardently believe in a moral creator.

“The widely held fear that a Godless citizenry must experience societal disaster is therefore refuted.”

This makes me laugh. Honestly. Fancy that, religion isn't all that good? Really? Seriously? Really? Fancy that.

Whatever. I'm not in the mood for fancy words right now, since I spent my whole evening bragging about all those difficult words I bamboozle my brother with, and consequently missed my laptop's yelp for electricity. Yep. Three minutes later I turned around to be greeted with a beautiful black screen and whole lot of unsaved work waving goodbye.
Teaches me, that.

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I told you not to click it. This is a worthless post.

A Vote of No Confidence: Number One

If you want the gist of this post, read "A VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE: INTRODUCTION" before continuing.

Well then, here we go.

The Christian god (and most probably all the others too) is a good god. And an omnipotent god.
Now, we all know a certain someone called Adolf Hitler. You probably see where I'm going here... why didn't this good and all-powerful god save all those poor Jews and others during WW2?

The Christian community has a nice little, convenient, reason (loophole): freewill. The reason God isn't responsible for Hitler's misdeeds is because Hitler CHOSE to do those things. And (the ALL-POWERFUL) God couldn't do shit about that.

1. Good. The Christians have just proved that God is not, in fact, omnipotent.

To be continued...

A Vote of No Confidence: Introduction

Religion is a funny thing, amidst babbles of ancient stories glorifying god upon god upon god exists a thousand-page book for each of those babbles. I walked into a book shop the other day and found more pages under "religion" than "science."
The bible has more pages than my science textbook, how's that? There are more pages CLAIMING truth than actual pages DISPLAYING truth! Of course, truth is a funny thing.