Regarding the fires in California…Let’s compare the difference between doing something and doing nothing. In this case, “nothing” means hunkering down and praying to your sky daddy instead of actually helping those in need. “Nothing” means saying a lot of flowery words that are not backed by any action. Continue reading
How many people each day are in one way or another abused, maimed, raped, robbed, imprisoned or killed outright in the name of religion? Even one is too many. What good is the Golden Rule if no one obeys it?
Ya know what? The world would be OK with no religion and very few laws if we’d all just obey one rule: “Don’t be an asshole.”
AUTHORS NOTE: This is a piece from a larger post from sometime back. With all the nastiness in the world right now it just seemed appropriate to post it again. – ABB
I could laugh at these people and dismiss them out of hand. But they’re winning elections around the country and pushing for laws to force-feed their bullshit religion to our youth in public schools. All in the name of “religious freedom.” The Evangelical Right is little better than a terrorist group. They’re louder and more belligerent with each passing day. I am not ashamed to say that these freaks scare the bejabbers out of me.
Once again, America’s most contentious issue raises its ugly head: Abortion. It divides communities and even families against one another. It is, simply put, the most glaring example of what can happen in a free nation when the rights of two people come into conflict. In this case, the rights of a woman and her unborn child.
So much drama right now regarding Roe v Wade. Liberals are screaming like it’s the end of the world. Conservatives are all over the place, some saying it’s “God’s will” while others swear it’s a liberal conspiracy to win votes for Democrats. It’s crazy. Continue reading
A couple of months ago I grew frustrated with all the “sponsored posts” (ads) on Facebook. I understand they have to have revenue to operate. But it had reached a point where about every fourth post was an ad (this being with the app on my phone). And so I set out to see if there was anything I could do about it. Continue reading
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I find it disappointing that as time goes by, civil online discourse is getting harder and harder to find. Discussion forums used to be a lot of fun but anymore things deteriorate into flame wars at the drop of a hat. And I for one am sick of it.
The Bible Belt
I’m seeing some really hateful rhetoric spewing out of the various secular online communities, much of it directed at the Bible Belt. As an atheist and a resident of Mississippi, I expect better from my contemporaries.
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I never know why or when I’ll suddenly be “inspired” to write a blog post. It’s more for my own benefit that anything else – I’m not exactly an online celebrity. In this case I had posted a rather testy meme on Facebook because I was (and remain) so weary of all the inane “God memes” people are posting right now. This always gets worse in times of crisis. With covid-19 raging around the world, FB has become flooded with memes about how “God is in control” and “God is mighty” and so on and so forth. So I posted a larger version of the image on the left. Took all of about 10 minutes to create it with Paint.net. And what’s obvious is that all these pro-God memes are not statements of faith. They are instead an obvious attempt by frightened people to convince themselves that their god is there for them. And I remain convinced that He is not.“At least nine Christians were murdered by Islamic extremists in Kenya on Dec. 6 because they refused to recite the Islamic Shadada, a Muslim creed, according to International Christian Concern (ICC), a human rights organization based in Washington, D.C.”
It says nothing favorable about humanity’s prospects for survival that there are still people willing to die or to kill for a nebulous concept like religion. Folks, you only have one life to live – the one you’re living right now. And that makes our brief time in this world all the more precious.
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Think 4 Yourself 