Thursday, September 18, 2008
Thursday, July 10, 2008
BELIEF IN GOD IS A BLOODY WASTE OF TIME
Richard Dawkins is Oxford's Professor of Public Understanding of Science. He is the author of The Blind Watchmaker (on which this article is partly based) and Climbing Mount Improbable. He is a Senior Editor of Free Inquiry.
Much of what people do is done in the name of God. Irishmen blow each other up in his name. Arabs blow themselves up in his name. Imams and ayatollahs oppress women in his name. Celibate popes and priests mess up people's sex lives in his name. Jewish shohets cut live animals' throats in his name. The achievements of religion in past history -- bloody crusades, torturing inquisitions, mass-murdering conquistadors, culture-destroying missionaries, legally enforced resistance to each new piece of scientific truth until the last possible moment -- are even more impressive. And what has it all been in aid of? I believe it is becoming increasingly clear that the answer is absolutely nothing at all. There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist and quite good reason for believing that they do not exist and never have. It has all been a gigantic waste of time and a waste of life. It would be a joke of cosmic proportions if it weren't so tragic.
Much of what people do is done in the name of God. Irishmen blow each other up in his name. Arabs blow themselves up in his name. Imams and ayatollahs oppress women in his name. Celibate popes and priests mess up people's sex lives in his name. Jewish shohets cut live animals' throats in his name. The achievements of religion in past history -- bloody crusades, torturing inquisitions, mass-murdering conquistadors, culture-destroying missionaries, legally enforced resistance to each new piece of scientific truth until the last possible moment -- are even more impressive. And what has it all been in aid of? I believe it is becoming increasingly clear that the answer is absolutely nothing at all. There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist and quite good reason for believing that they do not exist and never have. It has all been a gigantic waste of time and a waste of life. It would be a joke of cosmic proportions if it weren't so tragic.
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
AMERIKAN IDOL SINKS TO A NEW LOW
Homophobe Donna Summer On AmeriKan Idol
Body:
EXCUSE ME WHILE I VOMIT!!!!!!!!!!!!! As if this joke of a show coudn*t get any worse! Let*s let this nasty bitch stomp around on white Wonder Bread. And it was sooooooooooooooo long ago! God sent AIDS to GAYS as a punishment! (Said Ms. Summer.) Now he has sent Donna Summer to AmeriKan Idol as a reminder that he still hates Gays! That just goes to show you what complete SHIT AmeriKan Idol is! White Wonder Bread cloggs up your colon and and eventually gives you stomach cancer. Like the anti Gay cancer that so called religious psychos inflict on us sane thinking people, AmeriKan Idol is, a SICKENING display of everything wrong with AmeriKa. Please quick! Someone pass me an empty container of SPAM.I gotta VOMIT angain!!! Jayne County
Body:
EXCUSE ME WHILE I VOMIT!!!!!!!!!!!!! As if this joke of a show coudn*t get any worse! Let*s let this nasty bitch stomp around on white Wonder Bread. And it was sooooooooooooooo long ago! God sent AIDS to GAYS as a punishment! (Said Ms. Summer.) Now he has sent Donna Summer to AmeriKan Idol as a reminder that he still hates Gays! That just goes to show you what complete SHIT AmeriKan Idol is! White Wonder Bread cloggs up your colon and and eventually gives you stomach cancer. Like the anti Gay cancer that so called religious psychos inflict on us sane thinking people, AmeriKan Idol is, a SICKENING display of everything wrong with AmeriKa. Please quick! Someone pass me an empty container of SPAM.I gotta VOMIT angain!!! Jayne County
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Thursday, April 10, 2008
IS THIS POPE A FASCIST?? And Is The Catholic Church An Anti Semetic, Fascist Organization???
Troughout its history, the Holy
Roman Empire has been dominated
mainly by Germany and
the Vatican. Its most popular political
leader was Charlemagne, who was
crowned emperor in a.d. 800. Today,
some European leaders believe it will
take another Charlemagne for the European
Union to finally take off as a world
power.Europe is moving very fast toward crowning this new
Charlemagne—yet this trend is not getting the headlines it
deserves.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Knesset address on
March 18 was, I believe, the most significant speech made
by any German leader since World War ii. In speaking
about the German atrocities committed against the Jews
during the war, she made a statement that some people
have been waiting to hear for over 60 years. In an apology
to her Israeli audience, Merkel said, “The mass murder
of 6 million Jews, carried out in the name of Germany,
has brought indescribable suffering to the Jewish people,
Europe and the entire world.” She said Germans were
“filled with shame” over the Nazi Holocaust.
While in Israel, Merkel also visited Yad Vashem—Israel’s
Holocaust museum. As it happens, I visited the same
museum a month earlier. It was a stirring, emotionally
draining experience.
The day after the German chancellor’s speech in the
Knesset, Manfred Gerstenfeld wrote a column for the
Jerusalem Post titled, “What Angela Merkel couldn’t say
out loud.” He wrote, “Few in Israel realize that a majority of
Germans probably disagree with several key statements she
made here about her country’s past—including the mention
of shame and guilt.”
He brings up a good point. It’s one thing for Merkel to
apologize on behalf of the German people for their sins
during World War ii, but are the German people truly
sorry?
Either way, I believe it was courageous for Angela Merkel
to even make such a statement—even more so if it doesn’t
accurately reflect German sentiment. In that case, the apology
may end up hurting her political career. But isn’t that a
hallmark of great leadership—leading your people the right
way regardless of the political consequences?
The Vatican’s Stance
Angela Merkel’s speech was full of statements we might
expect from a religious leader. Why, then, has the German
Pope Benedict refused to issue a similar apology? If you
have been following the pope’s speeches and interviews,
you will know that his best-known comments are those that
have criticized other groups—especially religions.
The pope recently quoted a Byzantine emperor who
said that anything new Mohammed had contributed was
evil and inhumane. He said the Islamic movement had
converted people to its faith by the sword. Both comments
triggered an outcry of protest from the world of Islam.
The pope has also been openly critical of Protestants,
wondering how they could even have the title of “church”
attributed to them.
He has removed restrictions on the use of the Latin
Mass, which includes a call for the Jews to be converted to
Catholicism. Recently, he revised the “Good Friday Prayer
for the Jews” to read: “Let us also pray for the Jews: That
our God and Lord may illuminate their hearts, that they
acknowledge that Jesus Christ is the Savior of all men.”
These alterations have angered many Jews.
Notice what Jason Burke wrote in the Observer last
year: “The pope also sparked bewilderment when he
made no mention of anti-Semitism, or the fact that the
Nazis killed millions of people because they were Jewish,
in a speech last year at Auschwitz. He also failed to
acknowledge that there might be some degree of collective
responsibility of the German people” (July 8, 2007).
It’s astounding to me that a German pope—speaking at
Auschwitz, of all places—could not come up with somethingsimilar to the comments made by Angela Merkel. I believe
because, like many Germans,
Pope Benedict xvi disagrees with many of the key statements
Merkel made—including the mention of shame and guilt.
Gerstenfeld continued in his Jerusalem Post column, “In
contemporary Germany there are significant expressions
of anti-Semitism and racism. … At the same time, there are
efforts in Germany to rewrite the past. Books by historian
Jrg Friedrich, who compares the Allied actions to his
nation’s atrocities during the war, are bestsellers.”
That message—that the Allies were just as guilty as Germany
was—is popular
among Germans! Gerstenfeld
continued,
“They promise Holocaust
equivalents by
using Nazi semantics
to describe the Allied
bombings of Germany
during World War ii.”
Rewriting history
in order to glorify, or
at least excuse, Nazi
atrocities is obscene
reasoning!
Margaret Thatcher,
the former prime minister
of Britain, once
said that the problem
with Europe today
is that it has been
anchored to Germany,
instead of the other
way around. Germany
is calling the shots—
and that could be a
real problem when
you consider that it
started two world
wars that killed some 50 million people.
How concerned should we be about what’s going on in
Europe? As I said, I think Angela Merkel’s address in the
Knesset was a moment of greatness for herThe Pope’s Standoff With Islam
Another recent development in the Vatican highlights the
escalating tension between Catholicism and Islam. At his
Easter vigil service on March 22, Pope Benedict baptized
Magdi Allam—a former Muslim. Allam is a deputy editor
of one of Italy’s most powerful newspapers, and he’s also a
bestselling author.
Stratfor wrote this about the much-publicized baptism:
“Allam is an Egyptian-born convert from Islam to Christianity,
and is a prominent outspoken critic of radical
Islamism” (March 24). The timing of the baptism was especially
significant, as Stratfor went on to point out: “Only
days before, on March 19, an Internet posting of an audio
message purporting to be from al Qaeda leader Osama bin
Laden accused the pope specifically of fomenting a ‘new
Crusade’ against Islam.” Stratfor continued,
“In attempting to galvanize and energize 1 billion Catholics,
Benedict might also further alienate 1 billion Muslims.”
A superpower is rising in Europe. It will soon impact this
world and shed blood as no church-state combine ever has.
Stratfor wrote, “[I]t could very well move the Vatican
onto center stage in radical Islamism’s conflict with the
West. And that can have profound geopolitical implications.”
A German pope—speaking at Auschwitz, of all
places—could not come up with something
similar to the comments made by Angela Merkel the current German leader!!!
Roman Empire has been dominated
mainly by Germany and
the Vatican. Its most popular political
leader was Charlemagne, who was
crowned emperor in a.d. 800. Today,
some European leaders believe it will
take another Charlemagne for the European
Union to finally take off as a world
power.Europe is moving very fast toward crowning this new
Charlemagne—yet this trend is not getting the headlines it
deserves.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Knesset address on
March 18 was, I believe, the most significant speech made
by any German leader since World War ii. In speaking
about the German atrocities committed against the Jews
during the war, she made a statement that some people
have been waiting to hear for over 60 years. In an apology
to her Israeli audience, Merkel said, “The mass murder
of 6 million Jews, carried out in the name of Germany,
has brought indescribable suffering to the Jewish people,
Europe and the entire world.” She said Germans were
“filled with shame” over the Nazi Holocaust.
While in Israel, Merkel also visited Yad Vashem—Israel’s
Holocaust museum. As it happens, I visited the same
museum a month earlier. It was a stirring, emotionally
draining experience.
The day after the German chancellor’s speech in the
Knesset, Manfred Gerstenfeld wrote a column for the
Jerusalem Post titled, “What Angela Merkel couldn’t say
out loud.” He wrote, “Few in Israel realize that a majority of
Germans probably disagree with several key statements she
made here about her country’s past—including the mention
of shame and guilt.”
He brings up a good point. It’s one thing for Merkel to
apologize on behalf of the German people for their sins
during World War ii, but are the German people truly
sorry?
Either way, I believe it was courageous for Angela Merkel
to even make such a statement—even more so if it doesn’t
accurately reflect German sentiment. In that case, the apology
may end up hurting her political career. But isn’t that a
hallmark of great leadership—leading your people the right
way regardless of the political consequences?
The Vatican’s Stance
Angela Merkel’s speech was full of statements we might
expect from a religious leader. Why, then, has the German
Pope Benedict refused to issue a similar apology? If you
have been following the pope’s speeches and interviews,
you will know that his best-known comments are those that
have criticized other groups—especially religions.
The pope recently quoted a Byzantine emperor who
said that anything new Mohammed had contributed was
evil and inhumane. He said the Islamic movement had
converted people to its faith by the sword. Both comments
triggered an outcry of protest from the world of Islam.
The pope has also been openly critical of Protestants,
wondering how they could even have the title of “church”
attributed to them.
He has removed restrictions on the use of the Latin
Mass, which includes a call for the Jews to be converted to
Catholicism. Recently, he revised the “Good Friday Prayer
for the Jews” to read: “Let us also pray for the Jews: That
our God and Lord may illuminate their hearts, that they
acknowledge that Jesus Christ is the Savior of all men.”
These alterations have angered many Jews.
Notice what Jason Burke wrote in the Observer last
year: “The pope also sparked bewilderment when he
made no mention of anti-Semitism, or the fact that the
Nazis killed millions of people because they were Jewish,
in a speech last year at Auschwitz. He also failed to
acknowledge that there might be some degree of collective
responsibility of the German people” (July 8, 2007).
It’s astounding to me that a German pope—speaking at
Auschwitz, of all places—could not come up with somethingsimilar to the comments made by Angela Merkel. I believe
because, like many Germans,
Pope Benedict xvi disagrees with many of the key statements
Merkel made—including the mention of shame and guilt.
Gerstenfeld continued in his Jerusalem Post column, “In
contemporary Germany there are significant expressions
of anti-Semitism and racism. … At the same time, there are
efforts in Germany to rewrite the past. Books by historian
Jrg Friedrich, who compares the Allied actions to his
nation’s atrocities during the war, are bestsellers.”
That message—that the Allies were just as guilty as Germany
was—is popular
among Germans! Gerstenfeld
continued,
“They promise Holocaust
equivalents by
using Nazi semantics
to describe the Allied
bombings of Germany
during World War ii.”
Rewriting history
in order to glorify, or
at least excuse, Nazi
atrocities is obscene
reasoning!
Margaret Thatcher,
the former prime minister
of Britain, once
said that the problem
with Europe today
is that it has been
anchored to Germany,
instead of the other
way around. Germany
is calling the shots—
and that could be a
real problem when
you consider that it
started two world
wars that killed some 50 million people.
How concerned should we be about what’s going on in
Europe? As I said, I think Angela Merkel’s address in the
Knesset was a moment of greatness for herThe Pope’s Standoff With Islam
Another recent development in the Vatican highlights the
escalating tension between Catholicism and Islam. At his
Easter vigil service on March 22, Pope Benedict baptized
Magdi Allam—a former Muslim. Allam is a deputy editor
of one of Italy’s most powerful newspapers, and he’s also a
bestselling author.
Stratfor wrote this about the much-publicized baptism:
“Allam is an Egyptian-born convert from Islam to Christianity,
and is a prominent outspoken critic of radical
Islamism” (March 24). The timing of the baptism was especially
significant, as Stratfor went on to point out: “Only
days before, on March 19, an Internet posting of an audio
message purporting to be from al Qaeda leader Osama bin
Laden accused the pope specifically of fomenting a ‘new
Crusade’ against Islam.” Stratfor continued,
“In attempting to galvanize and energize 1 billion Catholics,
Benedict might also further alienate 1 billion Muslims.”
A superpower is rising in Europe. It will soon impact this
world and shed blood as no church-state combine ever has.
Stratfor wrote, “[I]t could very well move the Vatican
onto center stage in radical Islamism’s conflict with the
West. And that can have profound geopolitical implications.”
A German pope—speaking at Auschwitz, of all
places—could not come up with something
similar to the comments made by Angela Merkel the current German leader!!!
Monday, February 25, 2008
My Advice To The DemocratSS
Tell Bill Clinton to keep his big fat mouth shut! Everytime he opens it, Hilary*s ratings go DOWN!!! Stop being the milder version of the RepubliKKKan party! You should know better than that! You already ruined the anti war movement, what do you want to do now, ruin all hope of Amerika ever becoming a country where TRUE freedom rings! Money may make the world go round but it makes you look like a bunch of Capitalist Pig Scumbags!!! What are you trying to do? Turn me into a fucking Communist??? Stop comparing Obama to JFK! What the HELL are ya tring to do? Get him shot??? Send that back stabbing traitor, Joseph Lieberman, to the gallows! What an asshole! He and Zell Miller of Ga. are being payed by the RepubliKKKan Party to fuck the DemocratSS royally! They both should LEAVE the Democratic Party and join with their fellow RepubliKKKans to force their twisted, war mongering brand of Theocracy on the rest of the world. They are both PSYCHOS!!! Everything but a granny wig and a violent knife stabbing in a cheap motel shower!!! Socialize the entire medical INDUSTRY. That* right. It*s an industry! They don*t give a shit about taking care of America*s health issues. In fact, the drug companies and the entire health system want us all to be sick so they can suck every nickle and dime out of our last dying breath!!! They put poisons in our food and chemicals in our drinks to make us gain more weight and give us heart deseases ON PURPOSE!!! Do you really think that they don*t know that the shit they put in diet Pepsi gives us brain tumors?? Get real! They do! Look at all the money they make on giving us Cancer!! They don*t want us to be healthy. In fact, they suppress any info on how to prevent us from getting deseases! If we are not sick then they are all out of a job! So KEEP AMERIKANS SICK AND SUPPORT THE FOOD AND DRUG INDUSTRY!!! John MaCain is saying that we are winning in Iraq! OK then, if we won, then we are finished! We did our job. Now let*s get the fuck out and let the people of Iraq run their own country. AmeriKa is already responsible for more deaths than Saddam Who Sane! I wonder when someone is going to arrest King George and degrade and humiliate him for murdering hundreds of thousands of people including more AmeriKans than died in the World Trade Centre! MURDER IS MURDER. YOUR IDEOLOGY DOSNT MAKE YOU ANY BETTER THAN ANY OTHER DICTATOR. The DemocratSS will not bring any real change to AmeriKa. In fact, they may even make the situation even WORSE!!! We need a REAL CHANGE. A complete REVOLUTION! We need to start all over again! You can*t fool the Children Of The Revolution!!! You reap what you sow and AmeriKa has sewn the seeds of WAR and INJUSTICE. Those that live by the sword (Guns and missles.) shall die by the sword!!! The Roman Empire fell and so will the AmeriKan Empire fall! Come see! Come see! BABYLON THE GREAT HAS FALLEN!!! Written by Jayne County
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