The believe that there was nothing and nothing happened to nothing and then nothing magically exploded for no reason, creating everything and then a bunch of everything magically rearranged itself for once again, no reason whatsoever, into…
Nothing like typing out well-known memes word-for-word (except spelled wrong) as if they’re your own work to show everyone your absolute refusal to think.
My wife, Danielle Powell, was kicked out of Grace University because she is gay. As if that’s not bad enough, now the school is forcing her to pay back her scholarship money, because they say she wasn’t “moral” enough to deserve that scholarship.
There’s your Christianity right there, America.
When it comes to writing about attacks on science, there
This is really fresh, encouraging, and challenging; a reflective echo of the cries of my own heart that gives new perspective on an old topic.
Fuck this ad hom bullshit. This whole story, which was written by a biased thoughtless numbskull, seeks to frame atheism as an individual’s problem with some church or set of religious ceremonies. The subtext, of course, is that they’re atheists because they want to be atheists. Like it’s cool to be part of the “new atheism” movement (if you can even stomach that fucking term.) That if only church were more engaging these kids would reveal that truly, in their heart of hearts, they believe in some god. He even subheads a section: “The Decision to embrace unbelief was often an emotional one.”
What a steaming load of pandering, dismissive, thought-terminating, condescending bullshit.
First of all, it’s not a decision to believe or not believe something. If that were the case, of course, you could decide to believe you were telepathic and you could have communicated this story to the whole planet without having to publish it (saving us all a lot of grief). You could have chosen to believe you can fly. Yet, you published this harmful bullshit where everyone could see it because you don’t believe you can communicate telepathically and you don’t walk off the Empire State Building because you don’t just believe you can fly. Not believing in your ability to fly isn’t the result of some low self-esteem or traumatic childhood, it’s based on what you know about the natural world. Not believing in gods isn’t based on being bored at church and your fucking single, pathetic anecdote doesn’t help your argument. Not believing in gods is based on the same observation and knowledge of the natural world.
Geologist unleashes sick burn upon creationist numbskull
“I don’t believe in evolution, I accept that it is true.”
“I don’t believe in evolution, I understand why evolution is true.”
New atheists don’t understand what a belief is.
Sounds more like you don’t understand the nuance of the word “belief.” Words have different meanings in different contexts, you know that, don’t you? There’s ‘belief’ meaning ‘intellectual acceptance’ and there’s belief meaning ‘devoted conviction or faith.’
Outside of the context of religion, I believe in the Republican party in that I accept that there is such an entity, but I do not believe in the Republican party in that I have no confidence in their ideas or actions. I believe that the best science points to evolution as the actual process by which species develop and change over time. I don’t just accept it’s true because a pile of unhistorical stories were compiled about it the way people who actually believe a magical god character exists do.
See, not everything’s so easily reducible to smartass little blog posts.
Jury says Catholic archdiocese discriminated against Christa Dias by firing her after she became pregnant via artificial insemination
Dias, who is not Catholic, testified she didn’t know artificial insemination violated church doctrine or the employment pact. She said she thought the contract clause about abiding by church teachings meant she should be a Christian and follow the Bible.
Dias also has claimed that the church policies are not enforced equally against men and women.
Goodin argued that Dias, who is gay, never intended to abide by her contract. She kept her sexual orientation a secret because she knew that homosexual acts also would violate that contract, he said.
Whenever I hear stories about people seeing holy trinities in frozen waterfalls or imaging there must be a god because some brain cell images look like some star images (in that they’re made up of lines and dots) I think about how easy it would be to wedge and image into being representative of something else and then attaching meaning to it. This Hemoglobin/Flying Spaghetti Monster is great because it really accomplishes the mission of the FSM. It fills the exact same role as Jesus or any other god character, and is justified using the same illogical nonsense.
McAllen, Texas (CNN) — All evidence pointed police to one conclusion: A priest had killed a beautiful 25-year-old schoolteacher.
Searchers had found the lifeless body of former Miss South Texas, Irene Garza, face down in a canal in her hometown of McAllen. She’d disappeared on the day before Easter after going to Sacred Heart Catholic Church for confession.
An autopsy determined Garza had been raped while in a coma, and then had died from suffocation. Near Garza’s body investigators found items that belonged to the church, including a candelabra.
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Now, more than half a century later, Feit lives in a pleasant neighborhood in Phoenix, after leaving the priesthood in the late ’60s. In a sworn statement to authorities and during an interview with CNN, Feit denied he killed Garza. Feit told police Garza left the rectory after he heard her confession and the last time he saw her, she was standing outside the church.
But to this day, police officers and law enforcement agencies that have dealt with the case say they believe Feit killed her.
As if we need more examples that the phrase “good Catholic” is entirely without merit. Being a believer in any faith doesn’t bestow any goodness or sense of morality upon you. It just acts a disguise. A moral mask. Other people see you wearing a priest collar and assume you’re a good man. It’s why police can know for 53 years who the rapist/murderer is and yet he’s a free man.
“We were accusing a priest that — in those days priests were infallible, ” said Lynda De La Vina, who was 9 years old at the time.
Another cousin, Noemi Sigler, was only 10 when Garza was killed. “It was impossible for a priest to do such a deed. I mean, if you thought of it, that would be sacrilegious.”
Seriously… Ok but judging people until they feel like killing the self but claiming only god can judge you…. Love your neighbors as thy self.
I’m gonna laugh when this Alamo fuck kills himself (no sympathy for child raping cult leaders)
