Selling Lies, Selling God, the numbers look the same on the credit card.

I recently found an article attached to the bulletin board at work. A fundi regularly post many propaganda pieces and I just have to feed them to the shredder, I just can not help myself, when I see his trite it must be fed to the shredder. Think of it as a public service I provide, saving countless eyes from seeing large amounts of bullshit. I would not be so quick to tear them down if he also put up the other side of the story, which he never does.

One of the pieces of toilette paper he tacked to the board is called "America is systematically de-christianized and secularized." It seems to be a hatchet job to a Pat Buchanan article posted on RealClearPolitics called "Not God's Country anymore" published on April 17th and another article from WorldNutDaily called "Why are Christians Losing America?" published May 2nd of 2005.

I had no luck finding the actual email on the Internet, sometimes people do post these e-news letters on a forum or blog, but I have yet to find it. Anyway, I am going to go over some of the crap in this news letter. I know, it’s quite painful, but it is a pain I must share.

The title again, is "America is systematically de-christianized and secularized." The title alone is a clear display of ignorance. De-Christianized? It is made to sound as though there is a Death Squad driving around knocking off Xtians or they are suffering from Apartheid. I do not at all believe for a second that there is a systematic clearing out of believers, in fact, it is most reasonable to assert the opposite. Religious people are not being told that they are second class citizens, as the religious have always done and still do to the Gay community, people of other religions and non-believers. So no pity parties for xtians.

What the religious in this country suffers from, is delusions of grandeur. The idea that they are the center of the universe and that we ALL should subscribe to their ideology. They are not the center of anything, never have been nor will they ever be. They are arrogant enough to think of themselves as the center of the universe and that God picked America as his favorite country among all the others; xtians win the arrogant asshole prize.

The first sentence of this drivel is a statistic, which looks very promising and I can only hope that it gets better from there. The statistic states that "We've gone from 86% to 76% in 19 years", well that would be a significant cut in the profit margin now wouldn't? I think their statistic is way off and it is far more likely that non-believer exceeds that of believers, but non-believers are not in a rush to advertise it. Here are a couple of polls I found to be interesting:

http://www.adherents.com/largecom/com_atheist.html
http://www.atheistempire.com/reference/stats/index.php

According to the Atheist Empire poll, we are number 4 on the list and growing.

The letter continues:
"An arrogant Muslim now occupies the White House; he has intensified the destruction of America. He ignored our concern that he is not an American citizen. He refused to allay our concerns by producing a legitimate birth certificate. He tramples, daily, on the Constitution and on everything that is dear to authentic Americans."

Can you say selfish? That is a ‘me me me’ paragraph if I have ever read one. Still passing along the propaganda that Obama is not an American citizen, it is absurd to carry on such nonsense after empirical evidence has been provided, but we all know that believers love a good fairy tale. This was confirmed and verified that he is in fact an American citizen; He could not have held public office if he was not an American citizen.

The first paragraph is fear mongering at its best, Joseph Goebbels would be so proud of the Reich Wing propaganda machine. So much hate and discontent, so little time, because jesus is coming any moment. America is on the mend from 8 years of tyranny and recklessness based on fabricated bullshit and yet, these fundi nuts have it in their bird brains that Obama has "intensified the destruction of America", well, just "their" America, not the real America. They were quite pleased with Bush's abuse of power, and excessive spending, never heard a concern then, even though he used them to get what he wanted and they fell for it. Bush on the Constitution: “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”

By Obama doing what he is suppose to be doing, which is take care of the citizenry as a whole, the fundi's feel left out in the cold. Even though, their right to worship as they choose is not at all in jeopardy. Still, they continue to try and keep fellow citizens in a second class status and maintain their dream of American Theocracy.

The fear mongering nonsense continues:

"We've fought the good fight; we've been faithful to God almighty, and to jesus, the Church has not wavered, nor strayed. The opposition's cherished centuries' old goal to remove god from the minds of man is close; the wicked can barely restrain their hate for god's chosen, nor their impatience to have it all."

According to the very article they claim is being trampled upon by President Obama, the 1st Amendment states, very clearly, that there is a separation between church and state. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof".

Unlike their hell bent desire to forbid the Gay community the right to marry or a women’s right to choose, no one is attempting to undue the 1st Amendment so they are no longer allowed to worship as they so choose. The only ones loaded with hate for people no like them, are the religious fanatics; as for the 'chosen' are concerned, that would be the Jews, not a Judaism spin off cult.

"They fight dirty we fight clean. It has been a stealth war; accomplished behind our backs, with our tax money. They have taken advantage of our good nature. They have perverted our young with the lie that God does not belong in public schools. They are aggressive, greedy, selfish, profane, relentless, and wicked. They are in allegiance with the devil, as it is written in the holy bible."

What lovely self description they have there; "They are aggressive, greedy, selfish, profane, relentless, and wicked." For whining about some one trampling on the Constitution, they boo hoo over the 1st amendment; public school is just that PUBLIC, where many different kids from different backgrounds, attend.

The line of "All across America, Socialist foxes are in the hen house." Socialist they cry! What is Socialism, since so many clearly have this idea that Socialism is Communism; it is ignorance on their part for not having the initiative to look it up. According to the Socialist Party Of America "strives to establish a radical democracy that places people's lives under their own control - a non-racist, classless, feminist socialist society... where working people own and control the means of production and distribution through democratically-controlled public agencies..." No one is advocating for a completely Socialist society, it just would not work, but neither does our Capitalist society. But a proper balance between the too would work. Simple because some things, like Health Care, should not be for profit.

The xtians in America now a have make-believe crisis on their hands, all fabricated to whip their ilk into a frenzy over nothing. They want to scare people back to church because the donation bucket is not as full as it once was and with empty pews, that preacher/pastor/shaman can only drive one Mercedes.

Without scared people, who is going to subscribe to their propaganda-fear-mongering-lie soaked news letter of racket?

Note: The title of this post comes from a song by Queensryche called "Spreading the Disease"

Atheism by definition.

What is Atheism? Well, a good definition can be found at:

http://www.freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Atheism

Their is also lots of other handy information on Freethoughtpedia.
Lots of handy tools to work with when confronted with a fundi nutter, the creationist or the flatworlder who can not seem to understand that empirical evidence trumps all.

No matter how much they believe the contrary, the evidence wins every time. No silly banana notion is going to change the fact that the fossils prove evolution as a fact and not a mere 'theory' as the general public defines the term.

As I have read somewhere before: 'We have the fossils, we win.'

So use the Freethoughtpedia tool wisely and continue to counter bronze age superstitious nonsense with reason.

And remember, no matter how much the religious folk argue for their claims, they have ZERO evidence and they never will have any evidence.

illogic and no evidence to boot.

While I was searching for pics to ad to my new blog, I come across some of the most absurd bullshit regarding Atheism and ones feeble attempt at painting non-belief in invisible friends and bronze age desert dogma as mass murderers, violent and irrational.

If there ever was a historical record of Atheist bloodshed, like that of religions brutal blood bath of a past, I am sure we would be more than willing to admit it since the evidence was there. However, there is no evidence at all to support the ridiculous notion that Atheism has a violent past. The actuation was made on a blog that I am not going to name here, but here are some of the content:

• While atheists are quite understandably reluctant to embrace "their" responsibility for the mass murders committed by their godless brethren...

• But with regards to the mass slaughters of the previous century, there is simply no way to escape the established fact that individual atheists have been among mankind's very worst killers.

• he significant question has never been if atheism causes political leaders to kill in large quantities, it is why political leaders who happen to be atheist have been inordinately inclined to kill in large quantities.

• the fact that atheists who have committed great historical crimes are almost exclusively left-wing atheists with utopian visions of restructuring human society.

• This is why atheists like Bertrand Russell, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and especially Michel Onfray are far more dangerous than those more akin to Daniel Dennett and even Richard Dawkins.

I must say, with all that drivel you would think that those opinions would have some evidence to give them some weight. As is common with such trite and accusations, there is NEVER any evidence to support them, just half assed opinions void of any content support at all.

What they are trying to convey is that some of the worlds most tyrannical leaders were Atheist, which is simply false. Hitler was raised in the Catholic Church and still to this day has not been excommunicated, Stalin was a Orthodox Catholic and Mussolini was also a Catholic. Pol Pot was not an Atheist either. What Stalin, Mussolini and Pol Pot have in common is Communism; as it was invoked by them, their desire was to be Godlike and to be looked upon as such. This does not indicate Atheism, this shows a deeper need to take the place of supreme creator/provider.

Hitler was not an Atheist, be too wanted to be godlike and worshiped as a the liberator, the one who was going to save the Germans from those evil Jews. The Catholic Church at the time was more then happy to turn in their Jewish neighbors to the Reich and turned a blind eye to the atrocities committed by the Nazis to not only the Jews, but everyone else the perceived as non Aryan.

So the ridiculous idea that Atheism has a just a violent of a past as religion is utter nonsense. When such accusations come up, it better have some evidence to go with it.

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" Carl Sagan