I could tell this video was inspired by Hitchens. The “Jesus meek and mild” was the dead giveaway. Still, this video series stands on it’s own as a comprehensive, attractive and well written treatise against the so-called “Prince of Peace”. It’s the first video of what I hope will be a fruitful series. Of course, I think you all know the drill here: watch this video, tell your friends about it, and most importantly, subscribe to their feed!
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Blasphemy dismissed
When Behemoth front-man Adam “Nergal” Darski tore up the Bible during his show, calling Christianity the deadliest cult in human history, he did more than offend his fellow Poles. He was also facing charges of blasphemy in his own country, but luckily, the charges appear to have been dropped.
I was actually surprised by the comments of one Christian who was relieved by this:
Common sense prevails – he tore up a book, good job it wasn’t the Koran! I’m a Catholic and wouldn’t tear up a bible, but he was making a personal comment and someone chose to make political mileage from it. I don’t agree with what he did, but prosecution is going too far.
If Christians were all like this guy, the world would be a lot less shitty…
Gullibility Flash-Mob
If you aren’t familiar with “flash-mobs“, they’re essentially spontaneous gatherings of people who perform some kind of pointless or silly act. They then vamoose as quickly as they assembled. Here, we have a Franciscan looking dude with some shiny chalice-like object. Notice everyone around suddenly kneeling to show their love of some dead make-believe guy. Sad.
If you actually bother to pay close attention to what the audio is saying (which I actually don’t recommend you do unless you’re a sucker for punishment), you’ll notice they try and squeeze Jesus in books in which he’s clearly not a part. Judges, Numbers, Deuteronomy? I don’t recall seeing the name Jesus anywhere in those books…
Hey, isn’t it considered plagiarism to claim a work as your own? Just sayin’!
Natural doesn’t always mean what you want it to
I never realized how many crazy sexual positions Bonobos try. I think they put us to shame. What the hell was that crazy one hanging from the tree all about? Should we add that one to the Kama-Sutra?
This is a travesty of justice!
Anytime you come out as an atheist, you run the risk of your life becoming more difficult. That’s what EllenBeth Wachs of Florida found out. She was arrested earlier this month by her fundamentalist local Sheriff who didn’t like her activism. What was her crime, you wonder?
EllenBeth Wachs was arrested Sunday [May 1] accused of making noises in her home that sounded as though she was having sex.
The arrest warrant says she made noise in her home on March 13 that “sounded like a woman experiencing sexual gratification in an extremely loud fashion.”
Yes, you read correctly. SHE WAS IN HER OWN HOME GETTING LAID. Somehow, the Sheriff’s office has nothing better to do than harass its own citizens. EllenBeth has put up a donation bar, and as you can expect, it’s barely past the 300 mark. Congratulations my fellow atheists, we’ve proved yet again how cheap we are. Makes me sad we can’t rally together and fight this injustice. They want to arrest an atheist woman for having orgasms in her own home. Is there no justice left in this world?
Conservapedia tries to call out Penn Jillette
This is just plain weird: convinced of the superiority of their “argument” (mainly that their super-dad made everything so a few white people can enjoy it), they’ve decided to specifically target Penn Jillette to a debate on evolution. Firstly, they want him to answer their “15 questions evolutionists can’t answer”, a grab-bag collection of old creationist canards they think has merit. I’ll summarize them here:
- How did life originate?
- How did the DNA code originate?
- How could mutations create the variety of life we have?
- Why is natural selection taught to explain the diversity of life?
- How did biochemical pathways originate?
- We think it looks designed. Why don’t you agree?
- How did multi-cellular life originate?
- How did sex originate?
- Why are transitional fossils “missing”?
- Why hasn’t evolution transformed everything into something super-smart?
- How did evolution create morality?
- Why does society “tolerate” the teaching of evolution?
- Where are all the scientific breakthroughs due to evolution?
- Evolution deals with history. Why is it a science?
- We think evolution is a religion. Why is it taught in science class?
I recommend you actually read the fully phrased version. It’s fucking hilarious. Anyways, they also make a few stabs at his weight, which has become their new obsession as of late. They wrote an article recently suggesting the despair of abandoning God, or being angry at him, creates depression which leads eventually to obesity. It’s rather deranged logic, especially since there’s actually data to suggest the opposite. Regardless, it seems like a ploy to try and piss him off. I’m willing to bet it doesn’t work.
Penn has nothing to gain from engaging these bozos, since they’re so caught up in their little delusion they actually think the “evidence” of evolution points to their creator God. It makes me wonder how anyone can accept “God did it” as a satisfactory answer to all 15 of their little questions.
Miss USA parody
Remember the “Miss USA” interviews? What happens when you substitute the word “evolution” with “gravity” on the embarrassment that was the Miss USA “Let’s Ask These Bimbos if they think proper science should be taught in school” video? You get something funny enough to make you shart a little…Enjoy the weekend!
NOTE: Miss Washington is still awesome. I love facts too, baby!
Theta Healing is dangerous bullshit
Firstly, I’d just like to point out my general dislike of news programs. I hate the way they present the news. At the beginning of this particular broadcast, I practically turned it off once I heard their ridiculous “let’s ask a question so we can pretend to be objective” routine”
“Is it possible that potentially fatal diseases can be stopped in their tracks by allowing a healer to channel thought and prayer into our brains?”
No, it’s not. The best fucking minds in the world keep telling you this, and yet you keep asking the question as though it’s still open for debate. It isn’t. We’ve tested these kinds of claims for decades, and the only thing we’ve found is that people often lose their hard earned money, if not their lives, to charlatans who pretend to have healing powers.
I know that the program eventually exposes faith healers, but why the hell did they chose to present the news in such a distorted way? You’re not presenting it fairly if you take their claims at face value at the beginning of your program. I can’t tell you how angry that shit makes me…
I can understand why the guy at the 4 minute mark wanted to remain anonymous. He was tricked out of over 1000 pounds of his own money. But he was probably desperate, and very afraid. Those are the kinds of vulnerabilities Faith Healers exploit. Trust me, when you’re sick and desperate for a cure, you don’t tend to make very smart decisions.
Also scary is how the founder of this nonsense, Vienna Stibal*, claims her bullshit can also cure AIDS? I agree with the idea she should be criminally libel for those kinds of dangerous statements. When are we going to start realizing how dangerous fuckwads like Vienna are?
*(Update: THer website no longer exists)
More excitement for Flat-Earthers
After the article I posted a few days ago making fun of Flat-Earthers, there might still be a few of them lurking about, so I thought they might be excited to find out that the Library of Congress was just the recipient of a flat-earth map designed by one of the fathers of “modern geocentrism“, Orlando Ferguson! The map dates back to 1893, and looks a hell of a lot like a roulette table, doesn’t it?
Geert Wilders acquitted
It looks as though the Netherlands is split down the middle over the courts decision that Geert Wilders did not incite hatred against Muslims.
Judge Marcel van Oosten ruled that some of Mr. Wilders’ comments may have been “crude and denigrating” but they did not amount to inciting hatred against Muslims and remained within the boundaries of free speech.
Even Mr. Wilders’ most inflammatory statements, including the remark that “the core of the problem is the fascist Islam, the sick ideology of Allah and Mohammed as laid down in the Islamic Mein Kampf: the Koran”, amounted to criticism of a religion and therefore were not illegal, the court decided.
I’ve never hidden the fact Wilders is a bit of a rogue, and I consider some of his opinions to be extremely fascist in nature. It doesn’t change the fact, however, that he still just uses words rather than violence to achieve his goals. This, at the very least, makes him better than most of his enemies, who would gladly kill for their beliefs.
Hey, Geert may not be one of the good guys, but he isn’t a baddie either.
The Parade of Ignorance
What better way to celebrate the majesty of the uber-exploitive parade of vapidity that is the Miss American Pagent than to feature a video with contestants telling people about their “thoughts” on evolution. Most of these airheads tow the “teach the controversy” line, as though “students” deciding between fantasy bullshit and rigorous science isn’t a total waste of time.
Thankfully, a few actually believe, but the general feeling I get is that even those that do probably have no idea why it’s true. So which one of these geniuses does the best job of embarrassing the rest of humanity?
You had me at “Dark Energy”
When you’re busy fighting against the forces of superstition, dogma and pseudoscience, you can often forget about the smaller doses of idiocy that go almost completely ignored. Take Flat-Earthers. I mean, no one even bothers to debunk these clowns anymore. It’s gotten so bad that they end up doing most of the hard work of calling them on their retarded shit for you.
Take the FAQ for the Flat Earth Society. It attempts to lay out all the arguments against their wacky belief, and by doing so, instantly arms anyone with the ability to debunk this garbage. Take a look at these hilarious claims:
- Satellites are a lie. Sustained spaceflight is impossible, and all signals are broadcast from towers or ground based satellites.
- The Sun and moon are 32 miles in diameter and are suspended above the earth via Dark Energy [NOTE: oh look, they learned a scientific term!].
- The Earth is constantly accelerating, thereby providing the experience of gravity. [NOTE: presumably without end].
- A vast “Icewall” protects the worlds oceans from falling off the sides.
- The atmosphere is actually an Atmolayer [NOTE: whatever the fuck that means].
- The sun and the moon have gravity, but the Earth does not, because it’s special.
- The North pole is cold because the 32 mile wide sun circles around the equator.
- Time zones exists because the sun doesn’t emit light in all directions, but rather is like a spotlight.
- Eclipses are caused by the “antimoon”, a mysterious moon shaped black body.
- If you drive directly southward, you will eventually fall off the edge [NOTE: none of their “scientists” have yet attempted this daring scientific experiment].
- The Coriolis Effect is a lie.
- All space-based organizations are involved in a global conspiracy to keep the truth of the earth’s flatness hidden.
- The giant “Icewall” is guarded by a government agents to prevent people from exploring it. No one has survived the attempt.
Where does one even begin? The antimoon? Government conspiracies to prevent people from realizing they’re are living on a constantly accelerating disk orbited (somehow) by a 32 mile wide spotlight and its glowing cousin? Yes, it all makes sense now! America is going bankrupt trying to pay off everyone to keep the Icewall a secret. Can you imagine what’ll happen if it melts away?
10 things I hate about Commandments
I posted this a while ago, but after rewatching it this morning, I couldn’t help but think there might be a few people who’ve never seen this parody. My favorite is still “Scary Mary“, although “Shining” is a close second.
Orthodox Jews sentence dog to stoning
I learned two things today. The first is that some Orthodox Jews believe in reincarnation. The second is these same Jews actually believe these reincarnated souls can seek revenge on their previous tormentors. That’s what a group of Rabbis thought when a stray dog entered their religious “court” and refused to leave. They were convinced it must have been the re-birthed soul of one of their “secular” enemies that had since passed away.
One of the sitting judges then recalled a curse the court had passed down upon a secular lawyer who had insulted the judges two decades previously.
Their preferred divine retribution was for the lawyer’s spirit to move into the body of a dog, an animal considered impure by traditional Judaism.
Clearly still offended, one of the judges sentenced the animal to death by stoning by local children
Don’t worry: the dog actually escaped. When an animal rights group tried to take action, the Rabbis did the right thing: they totally lied about it, and tried to sweep the whole affair under the rug. Luckily, one of the court’s managers actually has a conscience, and confirmed that Rabbi Ynet is both a liar and a coward. Let’s hope he doesn’t get away with this kind of sick and twisted shit.
Laying a good smackdown
I love getting these kinds of letters:
Jacob,
Just wanted to drop a quick line to share an encounter I just had with a Jehovah’s Witness while walking my dog. She stopped to ask me about my religious views and I told her I was an atheist. Then she asked if I believed in evolution and I said “Of course, but I don’t have to believe in it, it’s a scientific fact.” She replied with “Well, it’s only a theory.” Of course I had to explain to her what the word theory meant and bring up the example gravity, etc. Then she tried to go into the intelligent design stuff. I won’t bore you with the details, but I was calm and genial with her and at the end she kept trying to excuse herself as I was answering her points and bringing up new ones. After five minutes she literally had nothing else to say other than there was a ‘publication’ about creation vs. evolution that I should read. So sad, these people. I know I won’t convert someone like that but it was satisfying for her to realize there are people who aren’t gullible idiots who can trump her mythology with reason every time. Love the show. Keep up the good fight!
You really can’t “convert” anyone over night. It’s a slow process, but trust me when I say it’s experiences like this that chip away at the certainty people have in regards to their faith. The more we challenge these bozos, the better. You keep up the good work, Joel!