Sprintcyclist wrote on Jun 26^th, 2014 at 10:23am:



I find it about the same moral level as lethal injections

Lisa Jones wrote on Jun 26^th, 2014 at 5:21pm:


Technically it's the consistency of the differences that make us the same.

Grendel wrote on Jun 26^th, 2014 at 10:08am:


fundamentalist mould?  nice try Gretel

About how long ago would you say god created Adam & Eve, Grendel? According to the bible the most it can be is about 5000 yrs ago ... and yet we have fossils dating back much further than that ... if you don't think thats a contradiction I don't know what is

Tony wrote on Jun 26^th, 2014 at 10:49pm:


The bibles propaganda and there is plenty of it, as it exists today is just the proganda selected and edited in the 1600s.

I cannot think of any great religious works that are not full of hate, they are written by humans who projected or perceived a humanity in the gods and considered themselves conceived from, so it is only natural that gods as well were jealous and fought for supremacy. 

togetherinembers (on Tumblr):

Atheism and Ignorance

A lot of people look at me funny when I say that I’m atheist, I think in part because they assume I’m just trying to be difficult and offend them, but also because they assume I’m just ignorant to religion.

I was brought up in a semi-catholic household, with a sceptical agnostic father and a catholic mother who came from a decently religious family. I attended church on Sundays with my siblings, mother and grandparents and both my primary and secondary educations were achieved in Private Catholic Schools. I studied texts and traditions in my later years of High School, where I learned how to analyse the bible and see its intended messages, good and bad. I went on to study Philosophy in University, where I focused on religious issues. In the past few years, I have experimented with religions in varying degrees, including practicing various branches of Wicca and Paganism along with Buddhism, as well as researching Lutherism, Anglican and Orthodox religions. 

I have always been a creative, literary person. I have never been drawn to the sciences or to logic, it bored me and I didn’t want to believe that there was nothing more. I have experienced many tremendous things in my life including second chances at life and apparently spiritual hallucinations. I have had semi-accurate tarot readings and experienced some interesting things in my own mind. I have never had any clear explanation for these experiences, so I always referred to myself as Agnostic.

After dedicating a lot of my time to research on religions as a whole, including Richard Dawkin’s The God Delusion, I have come to terms with the fact that I am now, and always have been, an Atheist. I do not believe in divine creation, eternal happiness after death or any higher power. I stand by scientific discoveries and evolution. I do not look up and speak words to the sky and pray, I look down and read words from scholars and scientists, inventors and leaders. I will not kill fellow man in the name of God, I will not kill fellow man in the name of faith. Religion gives people purpose in their lives, but it has poisoned the water in every place in this world it has spread.

My point is, please don’t assume my lack of faith to be a show ignorance, and I will not assume your show of faith is a lack of intelligence.

“[…] You probably think the Inquisition was a perversion of the ‘true’ spirit of Christianity. Perhaps it was. The problem, however, is that the teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. You are, of course, free to interpret the Bible differently—though isn’t it amazing that you have succeeded in discerning the true teachings of Christianity, while the most influential thinkers in the history of your faith failed?”

—  Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation (2006)