Think Jesus was real? Watch this and wonder

The Fantastic Truth about Religion

Found on The Atheist Nation.com.

Science v Religion

“Fly me to the moon, let me sing among the stars, let me see what spring is like, on Jupiter and Mars….. “

Rainbows…

I recently saw this on a local church sign “Rainbows: A Gift From God”. I know most people who think of the Flood story conjure up images of docile pairs of adorable animals going into the Ark. I tend to think of the millions of people murdered by a giant sky bully who couldn’t fix what he’d fucked up and just decided to shake the etch-a-sketch that is this world. It may just be me, but the murder of millions of men, women and innocent children is a pretty crappy gift. Thank goodness the book is fiction. I’d also like to thank the LGBT community for giving the rainbow a positive meaning.

Meeting Change Update…

As the Bears are not playing this year I paid absolutely no attention to when the Super Bowl was and scheduled February’s meeting for the 7th. Now that I have been made aware of this the meeting has been rescheduled again. It will now be the 21st. And I mean it!

God is Good

Rules are rules, except when they aren’t

Cross posted at QueerVisalia.com

What Rifle Scope Would Jesus Use?

In still another display of Christian arrogance, a company that manufactures rifle scopes for the US military has been putting references to Biblical passages on it’s products.  Labeled with Bible verses, the equipment is shipped off to the military, and is in use around the world.

Aside from the appropriateness of putting Bible verses on a device designed to kill people, this company has placed military personnel in jeopardy.  Muslim radicals are constantly trying to frame the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan as a Christian war on Islam, and this nonsense plays right into their hands.  They can justifiably claim that Christians are trying to kill them, and that jihad is the only response.

The subject of a report on ABCNews Nightline, the manufacturer of the equipment, Trijicon, claimed the Military Religious Freedom Foundation who is spearheading the campaign to remove the citations,  was “not a Christian organization”.   Apparently you can’t tell a “Christian” corporation  they are wrong, unless they think you are also a Christian organization.

Read more at the Brad Blog.

Cross posted at JimmieJoe.com

Mr. Deity, Episode 1

An atheist on Judgement Day

An atheist on Judgment Day.

- The line seemed to stretch back forever. Hundreds of millions of souls, waiting patiently for their turn before the throne. The date… Well, the day is Judgment Day, so you won’t find it on any calendar. The queue of people winds its way down the mountain, through the valley and off into the far distance. Everybody in the queue can see the final destination at the mountain peak. A hundred miles away, they can see it perfectly clearly. And they wait, moving forward a couple of steps at a time. Towards God, and the Decision.

At the head of the we find a young Christian, wearing an expression of awe and joy. Behind him, an atheist, looking slightly astonished, examining a leaf she has picked from a nearby bush, trying to decide if it is real or not. Heaven, she thinks, should be whiter, with more dry ice swirling about; not look like a Welsh hillside on a hot day.

The Christian steps forward for judgment.