Prophets.

On Good Friday, we think about this: Moses, Jesus, Mohammad, Joseph Smith Jr.

Seems like the prophets are getting less impressive as time passes. Does this mean god is running out of miracles?

Easter Atheist Conference

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/04/03/easter.atheists/index.html?hpt=T2

Sounds interesting, but I think it's going to end up people talking about things they don't believe in, so...

I'm an atheist because

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Wow, since when the government has a right to confiscate literature?

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If you read my blog, which I don't think you do, you probably know I have as much regard of the Christian faith as the next stray dog behind a dark alley, which is none. But with the recent seizing of the bibles because it translated "god" into "allah", it makes me ponder again.

How can something like this be justified at all?
*I thought we agreed on the freedom of religion? People can believe in anything they want, and yet they can't publish anything related to it. Come on, if they so wish to believe that Jesus H Christ is the immaculately conceived son of allah then let them be.

Why are we spending tax payers money to undertake something as pointless as this?
Again. Why are we banning fiction? Maybe the next thing you know they're banning fan fictions of Harry Potter because they claim that Dumbledore is gay. Maybe he is, I don't know, but it'd be funny.

Since when the word "allah" has been trademarked?
I think it's the same as any other names, Tom, or Dick or Harry. Do religions get corporate protection for their TMs? Maybe christians could file a patent on how to fight a crusade?





*only applicable to non-muslims

Teapot-ism

Artist Rendering of the Magic Martian Teapot. This is also a proof that the teapot exists, beyond reasonable doubt.
I found it on google, but what google knows is far inferior than what the magic teapot does.

There's a teapot orbiting Mars, too small to be seen by any telescope, and yet everyone knows is there.

Why? because it's there, we can't see it because we're not good enough. We don't have the technology. The teapot is so small that it would take you 200 martian years in a space craft endlessly circling the red planet to find it.

The teapot is all powerful, and can read everyone's mind at any given moment. It knows everything, literally. Like from what's the favorite color of Abe to what Michelle Obama's gonna wear on July 4th this year. Hard to believe eh? but it's true. It also controls everything in existence, from whatever natural disaster it decides to put us through, or if the stock market will keep going down.

The psychic teapot isn't just any teapot. It would also exact vengeance on those who choose not to believe. It is said that upon death, those who didn't believe would have their souls sucked into the teapot, stuck to the ceramic inside like peanuts to a granola bar. Painfully, and slowly, the teapot absorbs the souls energy to fuel its psychic and magical prowess. And said soul would be suffering for eternity, in a gooey, cramped space with many other souls, with only one bathroom.

How do people know it's true? Obviously there had been some messengers in the past. about 200 years ago, the teapot sent a small version of itself to our lowly mortal world, part of itself, but not exactly itself. The little teapot made a huge splash in the mortal world. Some movies made references to it, such as Beauty and the Beast, and we all know that movie is the truest of all historical accounts. And if you foul, wretched a-teapotist ever dare to doubt the authenticity, the scriptures written on your everyday teapot, read by a knowing eye, would tell you everything you need to know. We can find remnant of the castle in the movie, and you can see everywhere the teapot has been to. And it is true that by drinking the tea from the teapot, it has restored sight to a blind man, and make the lame walk again.

The teapot is also not without compassion. It rewards those who believe. Once fulfilled the requirements, the devout could ascend to the teapot heaven, where the Detroit Pistons (or your favorite sports team) win every year. Up at the heaven, they serve philly cheese steak every Friday, and you don't have to worry about cholesterol at all. Of course, they also serve a variety of food, especially for people with exotic tastes. The particularly good ones include the very delicious Szechuan Tofu for the vegetarians, and they also have kiwi fruit sorbet and a host of other yummy delicacies for dessert. However, unfortunately while we're in our mortal shell we won't be able to go there yet. And we can't forcibly shatter the shell, because that, like intentionally shattering a teapot, is a big no-no. There are many requirements to fulfill too:

1) You must take care of your tea pots
2) If you make tea, you musn't waste it, unless the tea has been stale or something gross happened to it, or you really don't want to drink it anymore.
3) If you accidentally shatter your teapots, you must bury it and mourn for 3 days. Then you shall live 3 weeks of a teapotless life, then you will be allowed to get a new one.

I am trying to save you from eternal suffering. But I know many of you won't listen. Like Richard Dawkins once spoke out against us in his book. I hope he enjoys the smell of ceramic.

Do me a favor and crucify yourselves, please?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,471764,00.html

At least I said please.

The true meaning of Christmas

It's the time of the year again, where people don their festive suits and have a gathering, but many has mistaken the true identity of Christmas. Some preach that it's the celebration of Christ's birth, but history has a different take on it.

For example, a simple google search for the origin revealed this site which has almost all that you want to know about the origin of Christmas. To be fair, it's a jewish site instead of an atheist one.

but in summary, the details are like this:
1) No biblical references has an account on when Christ was born.
2) Historians and Catholic researchers have different opinions, most think he's born in September, but some says March.
3) Christmas was celebrated for other reasons;
- i) St. Nicholas (aka Santa Claus) - which I think should be a better reason to celebrate than the birth of Jesus
- ii) Roman Pagan Celebration
- iii) Celebration in accordance to the winter solstice
4) Irrelevant to this post, but apparently Jewish people has been "mistreated" by on Christmas day on many occasions. Which is interesting because I never knew that before.

Then, many other deities from other religions/myths claims Dec 25th to be their birthday. Hmm.. I smell a conspiracy of some sort. Link

And reason explained: To encourage conversion from Paganism to Christianity, Pope Julius 1 declared Christmas a day to celebrate the birth of Christ. Link: more background on Christmas.

some allegations and explanations from the bible (if it were any indication of anything true at all):
Luke 2:8 explains that when Christ was born, “And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.” Note that they were “abiding” in the field. This never happened in December. Both Ezra 10:9-13 and the Song of Solomon 2:11 show that winter was the rainy season and shepherds could not stay on cold, open fields at night."

But as a person of no religious affiliation, what does Christmas really mean?
Christmas, is a secular holiday, decreed by the Pope and Castro alike. Cuba, an atheist nation, has the allowance of letting her people celebrate Christmas . However the same gesture was not reciprocated amongst fundamentalists who insisted upon remembering Christ and not Santa on Christmas day.

Christmas is a day to celebrate generosity, instead of cruelty and religious dogmatism.

Christmas is more than a day to remember Christ, it's a day we can all celebrate, regardless of our religion (or lack thereof). Its meaning is simple, as Christmas is really a day to get together and relax, and we can all enjoy the Christmas spirit, without a hint of religion.

To all non-Christians friends, hope you had an enjoyable Christ-less Christmas. To Christian friends, hope you don't think Christmas is for Christ alone, and hope you had an enjoyable Christmas too. To my jewish friends, hope you had a good Hanukkah. To my African-American friends, hope you have a good Kwanzaa. To my pagan readers, hope you had a good Osiris, Horus etc day. To my Hindu friends, hope you had fun celebrating Krishna's birthday. And if I left anyone/anygod's birthday out, Happy Birthday!

Happy Holidays..

Have a good Christmas, you pagans.

The Chimpanzee God

I find that Christian Evolutionist somewhat an oxymoron. Like you don't have a conservative liberal. Let me make my case:

If all beings came into existence through small evolutionary steps, then did god evolve too? Did he become something else through the Millenniums of human evolution? Then again, evolution is a process, where natural and environmental factors come into play, if god didn't reproduce and died many times over, he wouldn't be able to evolve.

Then the bible said "god created man in his own image". (Not women though, oddly enough, women came from a rib of Adam, apparently)

Because if god existed at the time of us coming into being, he would be a caveman. Wait, he'd be more primitive than a caveman. He would be a prehistoric primate.

Therefore, my conclusion is, god is a primate. And we should change the Hebrew scriptures, as well as all the bibles in the world. Every time there's a divine commandment, or when "god" said something, replace it with "ooh ooh ooh, aa aa aah" just like how a chimpanzee would sound like.

"And god said "ooh ooh oo, aa aa aah", and there was light"

(Even if it did evolve, we could never guarantee that it would be a human form right now, he could be a distant cousin of ours, like the Orangutan or something, and I'll have to change my post to The Orangutan God, or the Baboon God or something else)

Militant Atheism

Richard Dawkins once tried to promoted what he considered "Militant Atheism". It means having all the atheists to stand up and fight for what they believe, or in retrospect, in what they do not. According to him, it is the inherent inability to come out about their atheistic nature that causes a large decline in political power amongst atheists- that atheists are the one thing that the societies cannot accept.

Watch his talk on ted.com here

Then, in his book, The God Delusion, he also mentioned about the American Public's views into atheists holding public offices. Quote "

Being an atheist is still "the most discriminated-against characteristic of the eight tested in the research," according to the latest Gallup poll asking who people would vote for for U.S. President. Only 49 percent would vote for an atheist, while 59 percent would vote for a homosexual, 92 percent would vote for a black, and 95 percent would vote for a woman.

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It is a sad truth, but nevertheless learning this insight about this unfounded hatred towards people with no religious affinity is somewhat enlightening. So, never tell your girlfriend's/boyfriend's parents you're an atheist, or consider your bridges burnt. So what about militant atheism again? It's a dream that will gain very few support, even from the atheists that holds their beliefs the truest. Nevertheless this is a cause and effect game. To think that we're discriminated against by more than half the population on this continent...