Religion Quotes by Roedy

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Is Atheism A Religion?

If atheism were a religion, it would have a holy book and a creed. It would hypothesise invisible supernatural beings and events. It would have a clergy. It would have a church, sermons, public prayers, ceremonies and hymns. It is missing all these things. So if you want to classify it as a religion, it is an extreme outlier. If atheism is a religion, then baldness is a hair colour. It is none-of-the-above in a list of religions.

Science has a set of rules of thumb to avoid self-deception. It has procedures for double and triple checking new knowledge. Some of the rules are formalised by the mathematics of statistics. These rules can be shown to actually work. They are not blind articles of faith. Though scientists tend to be atheists and atheists tend to be scientists, they are not the same thing.

Creationism is a hypothesis that came to priests in ancient times, who pronounced it as absolute divine truth without any evidence whatsoever. The competition, in science, came from millions of observations of our planet. It is anything but an article of faith. Granted, it might look that way to those who flatly refuse to study the story of how these conclusions were reached with observation, mathematical modelling, debate and experiment.

Religions do everything possible to discourage adherents from questioning the tenets of faith. They work hard to discredit scientists who do question their tenets and everything else. In contrast, in science, the best way to win a Nobel prize is to discover something that drastically upsets existing knowledge. Scientists do not hold blind faith in what is already presumed to be true.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Fundamental Assumptions

Christians make four fundamental assumptions without evidence. In other words, they just pulled them out of their collective asses.

1. There is a god called Yahweh and he meddles in individual human lives, in particular answering all prayers.
2. Yahweh dictated the bible to hundreds of anonymous people in a flawless process, most of whom were unaware Yahweh was directing them.
3. The bible contains no errors no matter how many inconsistencies and discrepancies with science there are.
4. After you die, you live a second infinite life in heaven or hell.

To me, all four assumptions are obviously untrue.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Throwing out Religion

When you throw out religion, you are just throwing out that which is untrue. You get to keep myth, poetry, emotion, love, sympathy, empathy, purpose, music…

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Understanding Atheists

I would think if you wanted to get inside the heads of atheists and understand how they think, the best way would be to read atheists and talk to atheists. If you ask creationists, you will get quite a warped view. For example, most creationists claim atheists reject god as though he existed but were found lacking. In fact, atheists classify Yahweh along with Zeus, Wotan, Krishna and all the other imaginary gods. They don’t see anything special about the gods of Israel. Christians can’t explain what makes their god so special either.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

60,000 Gods

There are 60,000 gods. They all seem pretty much the same. Each one focuses on a fairly narrow geographical region. I would not have expected that if one were a real god:

• A real god would have started talking to humans as soon as they developed language.
• He would talk to all humans in all places and all times.
• His message would be consistent.
• His message would have something about it to let you know it was genuine, not just some jerkass human pretending to be god.

None of this happened. Christians pick Yahweh out of all the god choices just because he is the one their parents picked and brainwashed them into worshiping. Christians have never read anything about the other god choices, but they are absolutely sure Yahweh is valid and all the others are not. There is nothing special about Yahweh at all. Singling out Yahweh as the only real god makes no sense rationally.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

AA (Alcoholics Anonymous)

Christians cite AA as evidence of Yahweh’s existence because he reliably cures alcoholics. Lots of people show up on AA ’s door step who cannot stomach the notion of god. AA cheerily tells them to use anything they want as their higher power, even a tree. It will work just fine. It works by creating a less cocky over-confident attitude, not by divine intervention. The real secret is the endless meetings where people can socialise, tell stories about getting drunk, smoke, drink coffee and eat cheap sugary cakes without the temptation of alcohol.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Abandon Orphans

One of the cruelest Christian teachings is that you should have as many children as possible and brain wash them into the church teachings. You are supposed to turn your back on all the orphans with no one to care for them.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Abraham

Abraham is a key founder of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. He suffered from schizophrenia and heard voices commanding him to kill his son Isaac. He plotted to tie up his son, slit his throat and set fire him as an offering to the god Yahweh, treating him as a sacrificial bull. He was just about to slit his son’s throat, when the voices told him to desist. He had no evidence whatsoever that any of these voices were god. All three of these religions revere Abraham’s behaviour as the highest good. Nothing good can come from a religion founded on such madness. Today we would incarcerate Abraham in an institution for the criminally insane.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Abraham

Imagine you read in the Internet news a man had slit his son’s throat, and killed him. The man explained he did it because a disembodied voice told him to. Would you assume the man was mentally ill? Of course. Yet millions of Christians assure me this man was sane, and truly was obeying Yahweh, sacrificing Isaac without his consent.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Abraham Lincoln, Unfit for Office

Abraham Lincoln never attended church in his entire life. That would be sufficient to keep him from running for office today.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Abraham Was Criminally Insane

If Abraham had tried to murder his son today, there would be no question. He would be locked up as criminally insane. There would be no question that the demonic voices commanding him were not a god but his psychotic delusions. Why then so do many people treat Abraham himself as a saint? Founding your religion on a psychotic child killer is bound to lead to serious trouble.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Absence of Evidence

Absence of evidence is not proof of absence, but it is evidence of absence. For example, as every year passes without any evidence of sasquatches, e.g. a corpse, bones, DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid), it becomes ever more sure sasquatches do not exist. Ditto for gods.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Absent God

Our God Is A Mighty God
Our God Is An Absent God,
Nostalgic for hellfire fears —
Hasn’t Been Around For Years.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Absolute Morality

Every religion offers its own variant on morality. In addition, the legal system of every country offers yet another variant. To add to the confusion, every person adjusts the morality of his religion by ignoring most of his religion’s commandments or by deciding that some parts of it are so important, they should be mandatory for everyone else.

It is thus crazy to pretend there is but one unique, universal, absolute morality, built into the universe like the mass of an electron. Morality is an opinion. It evolves as groups of people form a consensus.

Even people who for example claim Yahweh is the only god, and wrote the only legitimate version of morality in the bible, ignore 99% of the commandments. The bible was written a long time ago by some morally-primitive humans. We have progressed quite a bit since then. We no longer keep slaves. We no longer stone non-virgin brides to death. We no longer kill Sunday shoppers. We no longer kill non-Christians. So it makes sense for modern Christians to use a much more enlightened morality than the hateful, cruel, blood-thirsty morality described in the bible. Since everyone ignores different bits of the biblical morality, or uses a different holy book altogether and since every society has a different morality, and gets along just fine, morality can hardly be called absolute.

I am baffled that anyone would claim morality is absolute, when it is abundantly clear it is not.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Absolute Truth

Evangelists claim they speak absolute indisputable truth. But that is not so. Not even evangelists of the same sect agree. They are all just making it up and trying to pass it off as god’s word. They are masquerading as god’s anointed agent to power trip and con people out of money.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Abstinence Only

Million of years of evolution has figured out ways to subvert the most earnest attempts at abstinence. You need a plan B — condoms or birth control.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Abstract Slither

I am not prepared to debate the existence of god in the abstract. The definition keeps slithering like an eel slathered in KY jelly. Pick the existence of a particular god, say Yahweh or Ganesh, then absurdity becomes ever so much more apparent. Besides, the Christians don’t really care about the existence of any god by Yahweh.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Abstract Thought

The human mind is capable of abstract thought, thinking about things that have no correspondence in the physical world, such as mathematics, computer programming and, unfortunately, religion.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Absurd Demand For Respect

Jews, Christians and Muslims demanding that others respect their customs and superstitions is as ridiculous as Morris dancers doing so.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Absurd Gods

Jews/Christians/Muslims are a bit like children who got carried away bragging about their fathers and gods. They claim their god is simultaneously omnipotent, omniscient and compassionate. How could it be there still be such suffering, injustice and cruelty on earth? God either does not care, does not notice or cannot rectify the problem.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Absurd Religions

All religions are absurd. The absurdity of a religion is immediately apparent to anyone who does not subscribe to it, but is invisible to a believer who has been told over and over it is true. For example:

• In Hinduism, the favourite god in the Mumbai region is a mama’s boy elephant named Ganesh.
• In Hinduism, Krishna, one of the A-list Gods, once came to earth and seduced a group of married gopis (female milk maids). He spent all night simultaneously making love to each one the way she most preferred. In modern times men dress up as gopis hoping to trick Krishna into giving them a similar experience.
• In Islam, the prophet was taken to heaven on the back of a magic horse.
• In Mormonism, the prophet pretended to translate hieroglyphics. He got away with it at the time because nobody in the Americas knew how.
• In Mormonism, the prophet pretended to translate from golden plates, that he refused to let anyone see, by putting his head into a hat to exclude any light.
• In Christianity, a man lived inside a whale without oxygen for three days.
• In Christianity, a man managed to collect living samples of two of every species, even from the Americas and Australia which nobody had ever visited or even heard of.
• In Christianity, there was a global flood, caused by the magical appearance of sufficient water to drown Mount Everest, then its magic disappearance, with not a trace of that monumental weight of water left in the geological record.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Absurd Religions

Christianity is unbelievably absurd. The catch is, Christians are so familiar with it since infancy, that it seems to make sense. Christians have no difficulty discarding Hinduism because it is just too silly for words. But they are blinded to the fact Christianity is even more ridiculous.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Abused Child Syndrome

It is odd the way Christians and Muslims turn to a god the worse God/circumstances treats them. It reminds me of the way abused children protest that their parents treat them well, perhaps hoping saying so will make it so, or that such lies will mollify the tyrant parent, or perhaps to hide their shame at having such a cruel parent.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Abusive God

When Christians make excuses for their cruel, vengeful, violent and capricious god, it reminds me of battered wives making excuses for their husbands.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Abusive Relationship

Job, like a battered wife who refuses to leave her husband, was in an abusive relationship with Yahweh.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Acceptable Lunacy

If it were revealed that a political candidate believed he had been abducted by aliens, TV pundits would rag him mercilessly. Yet if it were revealed he harboured even more improbable delusions such as talking snakes, that there was no need to preserve the forests because a dead man would soon miraculously restore them, that geologists had it all wrong because the earth was only 10,000 years old… oddly those same pundits would solemnly respect his beliefs. The moral of the story is, if you want to get away with craziness, don’t improvise, copy popular lunatics.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Acceptable Proof

Theists ask, What would you as an atheist consider acceptable proof a deity (not necessarily Yahweh) exists? Here are some suggestions:

• Unbiased measurement whether prayer has any statistical effect.
• Statistic proof that natural disasters tend to avoid the homes of Christians while afflicting their neighbours.
• Discovery of some irreducibly complex plant or animal.
• Particle accelerator evidence of capricious intervention.
• Discovery of deep scientific information coded in the bible.
• Jesus returns and performs biblical-style miracles in front of the best magicians. eg. parting the Red Sea.
• Discovery of a titanium plaque engraved with the ten commandments radiometrically dated to 3 billion BC.

Unfortunately for the theists, even with such a piece of killer evidence, they still have to overcome the mountain of evidence that everything Christians said about Yahweh is bunk. Most of this evidence would not apply to Yahweh specifically.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Accepting Absurdity

Christianity depends on accepting two kinds of absurdity.

1. Miracles: claims that things that never happen and/or which violate the laws of physics, did indeed happen through supernatural interference with natural law.
2. Ignoring logical inconsistencies and inconsistency with archaeology or history with the general explanation that things of the spirit are too complicated for man to understand.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Accepting Ideas

It is much easier to accept a idea, true or false, into fallow ground, where no prior idea, true or false, has already staked the territory.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

According to Judas

In the gospel of Judas, a foolish and evil god created the earth.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Accountability

Atheists hold themselves and each other accountable for their actions. Christians to not. They believe a few magic words, some mumbled prayers and a small donation erases all sin. How dare Christians claim to be more moral.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Accuracy of Genesis

According to Genesis, the first thing god created was light. This is not so. For the first 200 million years after the big bang, the universe was dark. The stars formed, then the universe lit up. Because light takes so long to get to us from the other side of the universe, we can see back in time.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Accusing Science of The Christian Vice

Christians chastise scientists for arrogance, for pretending to know everything. This is a slander. Sir Isaac Newton (1643-01-04 1727-03-31 age:84), the discoverer put it I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. It is the Christians who project a fanciful construct of harps, demons, cherubs and seraphim on the unknown, pretending to know everything, based on nothing but imagination.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Act Of God

The term act of god is silly. It is a medieval notion that god smotes people for secret crimes. It should be replaced with the term widespread catastrophe, to indicate the real problem that in an earthquake or tsunami there would be too many simultaneous claims. The insurance company would not be able to pay out.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Acting Crazy

When you are a kid, you are allowed to be silly, to twist your face up, to make silly noises, to jump about, to flail your arms… When you become an adult you have to be much more constrained, except perhaps when you are alone in the bathroom staring into the mirror.

Voudou gives its followers permission to act in a crazy way, rolling about, and writhing in public in a grossly sexual way. Any behaviour is excused as demonic possession.

Many sects of Christianity have something similar. People can lie on the floor and twitch as if having an epileptic fit. They can babble nonsense syllables. They can feign catatonia. They can jump and dance. They can flail their arms about. They can huff-speak (adding a huff exhalation on the each phrase). They can scream and shout. Even extremely fat people allow themselves a bout of vigorous aerobic exercise.

This kind of craziness is fun. It might be safer for Christians to join an improv theater group. They could have the fun without the sinister indoctrination. Further it would cost a lot less.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Acting Like A Christian

Let’s say I went to buy a car. The salesman showed me a car three times size of what I was looking for. I told him That won’t do. Then he said If you don’t buy this car, I am going to send someone over to shoot your dog and your family too.

Then you went to a night school class and you said I don’t understand how you are supposed to just guess the integral. Surely there must some rules. The prof said How dare you question my authority. Some time in the next year a pack of pitbulls are going to jump through your front windows and tear you and your family to pieces and I will have nothing to do with it.

You’d think if Christians wore selling you such good news they would not have to threaten torture to get you to believe it.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Acting On Delusions

It is not what Christians believe that causes the trouble, it is the harm they do based on those delusions that is the problem.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Acting Silly

Imagine if some prankster founded a religion then told the people, you have to pretend to be pigeons and tape blocks to your heads, or men must wear doilies, or must never wash their bodies or trim their hair claiming the deity of deities commanded it. I know, I know, it already happened.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Activities For Boys

Activities for boys teach violence, cruelty and insensitivity to others. When the boys grow up, those most suggestible become soldiers or gang members. The activities, killing, maiming, stealing and raping, are the same. The main difference is the pay.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Acts of Charity

Whose acts of charity do you most admire?

1. The man who is motivated by applause from his fellow men.
2. The man who is motivated by promise of reward from the sky god after he dies.
3. The man who does the job because the job needs doing.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Acts Of God

If the churches claim to be God’s representatives on earth. If they collect money in his name then surely they are also liable for acts of God.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Actual Source of Morality

Before Moses allegedly climbed mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandment tablets, did people think it was ok to kill, steal and bear false witness or did they just naturally know not to from common sense?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Ad Hoc Miracles, Cheap

In the rules of Christian apologetics, it is legitimate to explain a biblical inconsistency by invoking as many ad hoc undocumented miracles as needed.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Addiction to Hope

Many people are so addicted to hope, they think it is a good thing to tell lies to create false hope. If somebody tried to cheer me up by telling me there was going to be a surprise party for me next week and it did not happen, I would feel worse than ever. You are better to give hope without telling lies or raising unrealistic expectations. What people need even more than hope is how to appreciate their life as it is.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Addictive Religions

Just as a Big Mac was designed purely to be maximally addictive, to maximise profit, with no concerned for nutrition, religions were designed to be maximally addictive, to maximise profit, with no concern for the welfare of the believer or for the truth.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Admiring the Christian Con

What if secular con men used scams as elaborate as those of the Christian church? Imagine:

• The victim does not realise he is being had, ever.
• The victim get suckered in again an again every week of his life.
• Secular con men, too, would build schools. Part of the curriculum would be inculcating beliefs that made people easy to con. Any nonsense will do. You jam people’s ability to reason by convincing them something riddled with inconsistencies is perfect truth.
• Victims would be tricked into introducing the con to their children and softening them up for it.
• Con men would give themselves grand-sounding academic titles like Dr. of Divinity.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Admissible Evidence

What is admissible evidence for the existence of god?

• God reputedly answers every single prayer, in particular, prayers for healing. What we need is statistically significant results of properly-designed statistical studies, widely reproduced, that prayer is effective. This would be evidence for a god, not necessarily Yahweh.
• God reputedly protects Christians from harm. We need statistical studies from insurance company records that Christians have fewer problems with tornadoes, flooding and wildfires. Car accidents, house fires, poisonings are more under human control.
• Discovery that the laws of physics are routinely violated, in ways to reward or punish humans. This would be evidence for a god, not necessarily Yahweh.
• Mathematical discovery that will was needed to jump start the universe. This would be evidence for a god, not necessarily Yahweh.

We have had three millennia to collect this evidence. Yet, so far, nothing.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Advantage of Death

The main advantage of death is a moratorium on your todo list.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Advantage Of Truth

Obviously, if you believe things that are true and don’t believe things that are false you have an advantage. You accurately know how the world works, what you really have to do to achieve a given effect. Every time you refuse to believe something that is true, or choose to believe something that is false, you hamper your ability to act effectively in the world. Oddly, many people, e.g. Christians, think it wise to believe things that are likely false, for which their is no evidence. They hurt themselves and their families. They waste scarce resources on the church. They waste time praying. They may avoid doing something that would work for the problem at hand, like sanitation or antibiotics.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Advantages of Being Atheist

• You accept that your lifespan is limited. You make the best of each day, rather than snoozing through it waiting for an afterlife.
• You don’t blame a god for your good or bad fortune and wallow in inaction. You take full responsibility.
• You don’t wasted time accommodating petty religious rules. You just bother with rules that make sense.
• You don’t fear being roasted alive for eternity.
• You don’t have to defend silly beliefs to yourself or others.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Advantages of Polytheism

As religious myths go, polytheism has one huge advantage. As an polytheist, my default position is that your gods exist too. I don’t have to deny their existence or declare them wicked or kill you for worshiping them. It is just that I like mine better, or that mine specialise in requests from my locality or in my sort of needs.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

After Death

Where do you go when you die? Where do grasshoppers, rabbits, mice, elephants, dolphins, dogs, frogs, fish, bacteria… go? Nowhere. They just rot. Where do you Mr. Creationist get off on thinking you deserve to be treated specially? There is zero evidence for it. Have you ever touched a corpse? They are cold, like a piece of meat. They soon start to rot. You don’t see a ghost coming out of them like you do in the Christian movies. You Christians are so stuck up, such cowards. You even deny you die.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

After People

One of the most cheerful documentaries ever made is called After People that explores, in one episode, what would happen to various religious buildings, statues and icons if people suddenly disappeared. It is so pleasant to remind yourself that the symbols of cruel and irrational religious bigotry require constant upkeep by the fanatics. Without that attention they would instantly start deteriorating.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

After You Die

It is amusing when Christians say the only possibility they can conceive of is living forever in heaven. They have no trouble believing their pet goldfish simply ceased to exist when it died. They have no trouble conceiving that they did not exist before they were born. There is no reason to believe you don’t die. It is just wishful thinking. There is no evidence whatsoever for it. Ironically, eternal life would be infinitely, excruciatingly boring. It would be torture. Life has value only because it is limited. You should be grateful that you can die.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

After you Die

There is just as much evidence that after you die you turn into a hippopotamus and live in a river so packed with hippos you cannot move as there is for the Christian conceit. You can’t prove the hippo story is nonsense, but on the other hand, there is no evidence for it either. This is the same status as the Christian after-death myth.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Afterlife

The afterlife: never was an idea more firmly believed nor that had so little evidence.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Afterlife

I think people who claim they will live forever are stark raving bonkers. There is not a scrap of evidence. All they have is wishful thinking. There is nothing in nature that indicates there is something supernatural concerned with the morality of behaviour. Nature is full of cruelty. Nothing ever intervenes. Why would the afterlife apply to only one species, especially one of the newcomers? More human vanity again! We have all seen corpses rot. Just what is preserved in the afterlife? There is nothing unaccounted for.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Afterlife

If Christians seriously believed in the afterlife, they would dance at funerals.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Afterlife = Wasted Life

Belief in an afterlife is just an excuse to do nothing with this one.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Afterlife is Awful Either Way

The afterlife for the majority is eternal torment. The afterlife for the rest is eternal boredom and tyranny. If I seriously believed in an afterlife, with no way to opt out, not even suicide, I would feel like a rat trapped in corner. It would be horrible. At least, for me, as a non-believer in afterlife, no matter how bad things get, I know there is the option of suicide. I am not trapped. I am choosing to suffer.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Age of Consent

The age of consent in the Vatican is the lowest in Europe, 12.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Age of Humanity

Hindu fundamentalists assure me god told them people have been living on earth for over a million years. Christian fundamentalists assure me god told them people have been living on earth only 6000 years. Science says humans have been living on earth for about 250,000 years. Why would god tell two different bum-steer stories?

• God forgot. He has a lot on his mind.
• God was telling a joke.
• God did not really tell anyone anything. The Hindus and Christian were mistaken, goaded by wishful thinking that god would talk to them.
• There are no gods.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Agnosticism

Agnosticism is not believing the possibility god may exist, it is the pedantic notion that you can’t tell for certain if any gods exist. You could even be a Christian agnostic or an agnostic atheist. The way I look at it, if you can tell that there are no 3 metres (9.84 ft) diameter spiders that can leap 2 km (1.24 miles) into the air, you can with all practical certainty tell that Yahweh too does not exist.

Yahweh’s key advertised property is he promises to answer every last prayer. This does not happen. To me, that sufficient to prove Yahweh is imaginary. Second, Yahweh of the bible knows bugger all about science. The creator of the universe would have to.

Christians are 110% sure that Zeus does not exist without knowing the first thing about him. Surely Christians should even more easily be able to dismiss Yahweh.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Agnostics From Cowardice

I don’t think there are really that many agnostics. Surely most people who are agnostic imagine gods have much poorer odds than unicorns of existing. If you ask them Do unicorns exist? They would say No!. They would not beat around the bush with quibbles. They quibble about the god Yahweh to avoid being vilified by Christians or to placate them. You don’t see people saying idiotic things like I have no evidence that fairies exist, but, of course, such evidence could exist. I have a totally open mind on the matter. Given the complete lack of supporting evidence I’d estimate it 99.99% certain that fairies exist. the way they do with the god Yahweh.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Aliens

Imagine if some intelligent aliens visited earth. What would Christians make of them? The aliens would not be Christians. They might not even have any religion. Christianity is extremely geocentric assuming earth is the centre of the universe and nothing is happening anywhere else. They assume man is the paragon of animals. Would Christians adjust to the new information or would they refuse to admit the reality of the aliens because they conflict with scripture.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

All Christians Are Mentally Ill

It might be more productive to treat Christians and Muslims as patients rather than enemies. They are suffering from the most common mental illness, though one of the most serious conditions. With other mental diseases, rarely do you have other patients interfering with the treatment. It is hard not to be angry with these people for spouting such nonsense, hurting children, interfering in sane people’s lives etc. Think of the mad ramblings of people with Alzheimer’s. Getting angry does not help.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

All Opinions Are Equally Valid

Opinions, e.g. the best ice cream flavour, the best restaurant do not have absolute truth. Whether the earth revolves around the sun or vice versa, or whether climate change is valid are not amenable to opinions. They are assertions of fact. They are either true or false completely independent of how you wish them to be. You don’t get have an opinion on the age of the earth, whether animals evolve, whether homeopathy works, whether vaccines cause autism or any other matter mankind can test the truth of.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

All Religions Are False

I have to laugh when religious fanatics claims other religions are false. By definition all religions are false. They all make absurd claims without evidence. Further, their beliefs are invariable in conflict with science and common sense. They all make a virtue of believing their nonsense, without evidence, counter to all appearances.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

All Religions Disagree

Since all the religions of the world disagree, they can’t all be true, however, they can all be false. Indeed, they most certainly all are.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

All Things Are Possible

I have heard With god, all things are possible. Why then won’t god get onboard with ending poverty in Africa, with cleaning up the environment, with switching to clean energy…

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

All-Loving God

If you think God is all-loving, you have scrupulously avoided reading 95% of the bible.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Allocation of Misery

Christians must surely notice that wonderful things happen to evil people, and terrible things happen to good people. If there were a god, surely he would not do that.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Alternate Explanation for Virgin Birth

It is possible for a virgin to get pregnant without breaking her hymen. Sperm are determined little swimmers. How do Christians know this is not what happened?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Alternative Explanations

I had a slightly strange event. I lost my glasses. I searched my apartment for many hours to no avail. I knew they had to be in there somewhere. I wandered about for days using my badly damaged backup pair. I finally found my glasses intertwined in the rear carrier of my bicycle. I have no idea how they got there. I can’t think of any scenario that would put them there. Within in an hour, I discovered the Kryptonite bicycle lock had also gone missing.

Different people would leap to quite conclusions about the meaning of these two events:

• There are some who would be convinced there was a personal message from Yahweh hidden in there somewhere.
• Others would announce this had to be a result of bad karma. The universe was punishing me for unrelated past behaviour.
• Others might take this as proof of a hypothesised conservation of misery law of the universe.
• Others might assume the best explanation is creeping Alzheimer’s.
• Others might assume some human agent was playing tricks on me.
• Others would propose some highly improbable Sherlockian series of events that tightly and inevitably intertwined the two observations.
• Others might assume the two events were not related in any way; it was pure co-coincidence.
• Others would only be concerned about preventing recurrence of losing items and would refuse to speculate.
• Others would focus on ways to punish me to make me more careful about where I store things.

The interesting thing is people have a knee-jerk way of responding to all unusual events. They will even get angry at people who even entertain any of the alternatives.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Alternative Theology

The people of Central America believe their gods called forth the world, then fought with each other and destroyed and recreated it several times over using the forces of nature. They had a battle with an earth monster, whose body now forms the mountains. This is a poetic way of describing the forces of nature: volcanoes, water, wind and tectonic pressures forming the earth. It is more accurate than the legend the Christians flog. Yet neither has any evidence. Both are just works of imagination.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Alternatives to Yahweh

By now, if you are Christian, you should have ample evidence that praying to Yahweh does not work. How do you know Yahweh is the best, when you have not even read about the others much less test driven them? There is the same amount of evidence for the existence of the other gods as for Yahweh. All the arguments you have heard for the existence of god apply equally well to all of humanity’s gods. Why not at least try one of the other ten thousand plus gods such as: Aa, AbilAddu, Addu, Adeona, Ahijah, Aku, Allatu, Alom, Amaterasu, Amurru, Anath, Anion-Re, Anu, Anubis, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apsu, Ares, Ariadne, Arianrod, Artemis, Ashtoreth, Assur, Astarte, Athena, Baal, Bacchus, Balder, Bau, Beltu, Belus, Bettis, Bilé, Bitol, Centeotl, Ceros, Circe, Consul, Cronos, Cunina, Cupid, Dagan, Dagda, Dagon, Dauke, Dea, Demeter, Dia, Diana of Ephesus, Dimmer, Dionesus, Dumu-zi-abzu, Ea, Earth, Edulia, El, Elali, Elum, En-Mersi, Engurra, Enki, Enurestu, Eros, Flora, Freya, Frigg, Furring, Gaia, Ganesh, Garuda, Gasan-abzu, Gasan-lil, Giant, Gitchi Manitou, Goibniu, Govannon, Gukumatz, Gunfled, Gwydion, Hadad, Hades, Hanuman, Helios, Hera, Hermes, Heroin, Huitzilopochtli, Indra, Isis, Istar, Isum, Ixmucane, Yahweh, Juno, Jupiter, Kaawanu, Kerridwen, Krishna, Kuski-banda, Lêr, Lagas, Lakshmi, Liza, Llaw Gyffes, Lleu, Loki, Lucina, Lugal-Amarada, Ma-banba-anna, Mama Quila, Mami, Manawyddan, Marama, Marduk, Mars, Marzin, Meditrina, Melek, Memetona, Mercury, Merodach, Mider, Minerva, Mithras, Molech, Morrigu, Mu-ul-lil, Mulu-hursang, Nebo, Neptune, Nergal, Ni-zu, Nin, Nin-azu, Nin-lil-la, Nin-man, Ninib, Nirig, Nuada Argetlam, Nusku, Odin, Ogma, Ogyrvan, Ops, Osiris, Pan, Persephone, Phoebe, Pluto, Plutus, Poseidon, Potina, Ptah, Pwyll, Qarradu, Quetzalcoatl, Re, Resheph, Rigantona, Robigus, Saga, Sahi, Samas, Saturn, Sebek, Shalem, Sharrab, Shiva, Sin, Sirtumu, Sokk-mimi, Sol, Statilinus, Suqamunu, Surya, Tagd, Tammuz, Thor, Tilmun, Tiu, U-dimmer-an-kia, U-ki, U-Mersi, U-sab-sib, U-Tin-dir ki, U-urugal, Ubargisi, Ubilulu, Ueras, Uhuru Mazda, Ura-gala, Utu, Vaticanus, Vediovis, Venus, Vesta, Vulcan, Wotan, Xolotl, Yau, Zagaga, Zaraqu, Zer-panitu, Zeus… If you are worried that Yahweh might be jealous, ask for permission by saying, Yahweh, If you have any strenuous objections to me to performing some prayer experiments to the second string gods, give me a sign by making a 30.48 cm (12 in) high, living blue elephant appear on my coffee table. He could easily do it if he wanted, right?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Amazing Con

One of the most amazing cons the Catholic church managed to pull off was convincing people that Catholics were much less likely than other people to be scoundrels.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Amazing Implications of Freedom of Religion

Freedom of religion is an extreme freedom, akin to permitting people the right to take a giant hit of LSD (d-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide) that permanently damages their brains, leaving them delusional and unable to reason.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

America

Every time I hear a song with an American city name in it, I cringe. I think of:

• Bigoted superstitious Christians.
• Addiction to gun violence.
• Destruction of one of the most beautiful chunks of land on earth.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

American Hypocrisy

Bryan Fischer’s America Family Association are attempting to block Muslims from building any more mosques anywhere in the USA. This, of course, is unconstitutional. The constitution guarantees freedom of religion. It shows you how much bigotry still remains at the heart of America. If Americans behave like medieval bigots, they have not a leg to stand on asking the rest of the world to show religious tolerance.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

American Ignorance

25% of American adults do not know the earth revolves around the sun. How could this be? It is taught starting in the second grade. It is taught in every video and documentary about astronomy. In history, the conflicts of Copernicus and Galileo and the church highlight it. What must happen is a preschooler is scolded for watching a science documentary by an ignorant church lady parent who associates all scientific knowledge with wickedness.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

American Morality

American Christians assure me their moral code is the only moral code worthy of the name. Have they ever looked at American murder rates, gun violence rates, rapes, thefts… compared with other countries?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

American Promotion of Religion

America was founded by a confluence of people from every conceivable religion. The founding fathers devised separation of church and state as a way from keeping them all from each other’s throats. Compared with Europe, they were spectacularly successful. However, two things tend to go wrong:

1. The people tend to vote their churches privileges such as tax-free status and grants that non-religious groups do not get.
2. In a town where religion in homogenous, they ignore separation of church and state. They deny equal access to other religions. They persecute atheists. They insist on religious indoctrination of the primary religion in public schools.

The state thus promotes religion/superstition. Without this help, it might fade away naturally.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The American State Religion

What if America were to institute a state religion. What would it be like? It would have to be suitable for nearly all Americans including Christians, Catholics, Mormons, Jews, Muslims, Wiccans, Buddhists… It pretty much has to accept everything in terms of rituals and beliefs. It has to keep these warring factions from each other’s throats. It can’t force any rituals or teachings of faith on anyone or some will be furious. It could have a few articles of faith based on nationalism e.g.

• America is the favoured country of all gods.
• When American soldiers kill or torture people, this is a Good Thing™, no matter what the circumstances.
• Anything America wants belongs to America.

What have we got? Something that sounds just like secularism.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

American Theocracy

Americans refuse to vote for anyone but a Christian, or someone who pretends to be one. That makes it dangerously close to a theocracy.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Amusing Christians

It is amusing when Christians look down at Mormons and Scientologists because they believe such bizarre things without any evidence to support them. They seem completely unaware that their talking donkeys, talking snakes, harp-farts and fairy tale geology are just as ridiculous.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

An Experiment

It would be interesting to select verses from the holy books of the various world religions, then modify the names to disguise the source. Then show them to believers of various faiths and ask if they believe the verse or not. How many would get a perfect score, rejecting the verses of all other religions but accepting all those of their own?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

An Intelligent Design Stomach

If my stomach were the result of intelligent design, I could pop by Sears and get my malfunctioning stomach replaced for under $100.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Ancient Drug

What if an ancient drug experienced a resurgence. It made people violent. It made crowds go berserk and murder their neighbours. It made people beat their children. It made people attack their own children’s genitals with knives and drink the blood. It gave them delusions they could not die. It made them hear voices whose commandments they obeyed without question. It made people stupid and gullible. Con men preyed on them. People were so keen on the drug they would force it on their neighbours and even their own infants. The people insisted this drug was harmless, nay beneficial and that people who refused it should be denied civil rights and citizenship. Would you be in favour of government programs to promote this drug? No? Then why do you allow your government to give tax deductions to religions which have the same effect?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Ancient Greeks Smarter Than Christians

Even the ancient Greeks understood there we are not the centre of the universe, that it was not created solely for our delectation. They believed there were other suns, with other planets, with other forms of life.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Ancient Greeks Were Must Better At Science That Ancient Jews

It is amazing how the ancient Greeks, reasoning from ordinary observations, such as the spread of moisture in the air, were able to guess so much about how the universe is constructed. They figured out it was made of atoms, that there were a finite number of types of atom and atoms had abilities to link to other types of atoms. In contrast, the ancient Jews did not get anything right.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Ancient Mistakes, Never Corrected

If you saw a massive pillar of fire or smoke, or a river running red with mud, you would ascribe it to a volcano, not a god’s wrath, but millions of modern Christians insist on claiming that an ancient pillar of fire was a god’s wrath, just because the people of the time mistook it for that. Such is the power of tradition to make people behave like idiots.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Ancient Proto-Religion

What was religion like 20,000 years ago? I suspect the hunger people feel today for religions may actually be a longing for the ancient proto-religion revolving around animal torture.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Ancient Religions

We have discovered signs of religion going back 40,000 years ago, maybe further (cave paintings, burial ceremonies). Yahweh, claiming to be the one and only god, did not show up until 3,000 years ago. You would expect Yahweh to have been sending messages to all of humanity starting at least 40,000 years ago. Instead we discover Yahweh interacting only with one small tribe after 37,000 years of silence. It looks much more plausible that a small group of Israelites created a set of polytheistic gods, including Yahweh the war god. They gradually reduced the number of gods, and gradually imposed them on their neighbours. In other words, men created Yahweh, not the other way around.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Ancient Science

The Christian claim is the information in the bible is more accurate than anything science knows today. In my study, every scientific claim in the bible is wrong, and acknowledged as so, even by Christians if asked without telling them the biblical source. Christians should be able to find some advanced knowledge in the bible that only Yahweh would know that people living thousands of years ago did not. I can’t find anything.

If there is nothing about science in the bible more advanced than the science of 2000 years ago, why are Christians preferring biblical science and history to modern day, which has the advantage of thousands of years of discoveries?

My conclusion is the bible was written by ancient humans without any help from Yahweh. It has none of his expected fingerprints. It should not be trusted any more than any other textbook of the era for science.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Ancient Stage Magic

When Christians think about magic in the present they think Las Vegas, sleight of hand and optical illusions. When Christians think about magic in the past, they think only of divine intervention. Do they think people were too dumb back then to do stage magic like making a rod turn into a snake? or fake a healing?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

And God Created the Irukandji

Irukandji jellyfish is about the size of a fingernail, but if it brushes you, it creates the greatest pain known to man. It uses this toxin to catch small fish. That strikes me as a rather cruel creation to come from the alleged benign designer of the universe. It sounds like the work of a sadistic psychopath, (or mindless pure selfishness, as Darwin suggested).

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Andromeda

Andromeda is a nearby galaxy. Have a look at it through the Hubble telescope. It is like looking at grains in a jar of Dijon mustard. Each grain is a star with surrounding planets. There are billions of them. Each one is a solar system not us. The notion Yahweh cares only about one such grain is absurd. It is like saying a surfer cares about only one drop in an ocean. Andromeda Galaxy via Hubble 

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Anger At Yahweh

If you pray to the god Yahweh for something ordinary, like a boiled egg for breakfast, there is a good chance you will get it, but if you pray for something unusual like snow in July, it is most likely Yahweh will ignore your request. Yahweh never intervenes to protect you or anyone else. This makes anger at Yahweh common. Being angry with the god Yahweh is a bit like being angry with the building manager of a derelict building when there is no building manager. Anger at Yahweh, recognising what an asshole he is, is the first step to realising he is a fictional character.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Anger At Yahweh

When people get angry at the God Yahweh, I feel contempt. What they are doing is so childish:

• Shouting at the wind as if it had conscious malicious intent against their particular tent.
• Imagining the creator of the universe has nothing better to do but mother you, and override the natural laws of the universe to keep you out of an avalanche or from getting cancer. It is such a self-centered, grossly-entitled view of the universe.
• Despite a perfectly good science education, people revert to a Neanderthal view of the world where everything happens by the agent of invisible spirits.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Animal Morality

Human morality is based on animal morality. It may surprise to learn that some animals live to a higher code than humans, e.g. bonobos, dolphins and whales, even some fish.

1. Do not eat or kill your young.
2. Do not eat or kill your kin.
3. In combat for mates, inflict no permanent injury.
4. Your top priority is providing for your offspring.
5. Avoid incest.
6. Respect other’s territory.
7. No surplus killing (do not kill more than you can eat).
8. Do not torment your food.
9. Do not eat or kill members of your own species.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Anointing

One of the stranger things Christians do is pour cups of salad oil over each others’heads. This is supposed to bring them luck and erase past transgressions.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Another of God’s Broken Promises

In Biblical times when a people were conquered, it was a tacit admission the conqueror’s god was more powerful than theirs, so they would convert. When the temple was destroyed, the Jews were devastated. There god had broken his promise to maintain the temple into eternity. They decided to look for reasons to justify Yahweh punishing them that way and to cook up some ways to placate him.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Anthony Robbins

Anthony Robbins (1960-02-29 age:58) is a superb motivator. He is an expert in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming). However he lacks a general education and in particular an education in science. His astounding skill as a motivator seduces him to imagine he is an expert in everything, in particular how the universe and earth came into being. He mindlessly spouts silly creationist canards with all the understanding of two year old. He thinks he knows everything there is to know about evolution, even though he has not read even a single book on the topic. This expertise qualities him to lecture on such matters to his adoring fans. In the area of motivation, his intuition is unparalleled. Unfortunately, he imagines it is completely trustworthy on all other matters as well.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Anthropocentric After Life

I find it impossible to swallow the Christian theory of the afterlife because it is so man-centred and so tied to a particular culture, place and time. To Christianity, no other species exists but man. Not only in there no evidence for it, it smells very unlikely. At least the Buddhists postulate a cycle of rebirth of all species in a consistent way.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Anti-Christian

I oppose Christians not just because they are so wrong, but because they lie so much to defend their errors. They obviously must know they are wrong, or why would they lie? They persist in dishonestly defending error anyway.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Anti-Christian Jokes

We need some jokes to combat religion. They would poke fun at:

• Paedophile clergy.
• Christian credulity.
• Christians trying to impose their religion on others without realising they are impinging on religious freedom.
• Christian lack of knowledge of their own religion.
• Foolishness of Christian belief.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Anti-Theists

The following people write books and make videos dissecting the irrationality and myths of Christianity.

1. Richard Carrier
2. Robert Price
3. David Fitzgerald
4. Michael Lawrence
5. D.M. Murdoch (deceased)
6. Tom Harpur (deceased)

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Anti-VAXers

If you think you know more than your doctor about vaccines, then you probably know more about everything in medicine. You should stop going.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Apistevist

One who rejects faith as unnecessary, unreliable and inherently dishonest.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Apologetics

Apologetics is an unusually honest term from the Christians. They are apologising for all the errors and inconsistencies in the bible. They are apologising for the total lack of evidence to back up their claims. All they can offer is absurd rationalisations.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Apologetics

Apologetics is the sport of making up far-fetched excuses for the lack of evidence for Christian claims and for the abundance of evidence refuting Christian claims.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Apologetics

Professional Christian apologetics try to tell us that the mathematical findings of Stephen Hawking about the early history of the universe prove the existence of god. These Christians have no training whatsoever in math or physics. There is thus no chance they understand what Dr. Hawking is saying. We should led Dr. Hawking speak for himself.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Apologetics

Professional Christians are skilled in the tricky art of apologetics — defending nonsense and making it sound rational. You could look at it as a form of stage magic, deception or lying. To deal with it, you have to learn how it works. Some of it dates back to Paul of Tarsus, Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Appeal of the Absurd

Most Christians could care less if what they claim to believe makes sense. The absurdity of it all is what appeals to them. They expect to be baffled by things holy.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Appeal of Flattery

Religion flatters second grade dropouts into claiming they know more about science than PhDs in particle physics.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Appeal of Group Feelings

Adults get hooked on religions because of the way they feel in the fellowship of believers, not because the religion seems more plausible or truthful than the alternatives.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Appeal to Laziness

Belief in prayer is the most common of human delusions. It starts in childhood when parents command the child to pray, despite lack of results. Eventually, some prayed-for thing happens naturally. Then they are hooked. Anything they want thereafter they pray for first. They attribute every good thing that happens to them as the result of this obsessive praying. The belief is seductive because it appeals to laziness. Why work when you can just pray for what you want? It turns people into lazy, ineffective slobs who imagine themselves holier than everyone else. They never check to see if those who don’t pray accomplish more or less than they do. They never do a controlled experiment to see if prayer has any effect.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Appeal of Reincarnation

Some people succumb to the lure of belief in reincarnation. But do they really want to be a baby again, unable to speak or move about, to be a child forced to eat food they detest, with every move controlled by others, to be a teen with the extreme sexual frustration and embarrassment of puberty or a young adult facing the brutal rejections and being suddenly dumped?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Appeal of Religion

The appeal of religion has nothing to do with the probability that some holy book is true. It is about the lottery-odds chance that if you pretend to subscribe, the religion’s deity will bestow special favours on you and smite your enemies. It other words, it is all about selfishness and wishful thinking.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Appeal of Silliness

Religions make themselves silly by claiming fanciful stories are literally true. Religions make themselves obnoxious by claiming to have an exclusive and inerrant handle on all knowledge. Oddly, the sillier and obnoxious a religion is, the more appeal it has.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Appropriate Contempt

In dealing with Christians, what emotion would best help them drop their delusions? contempt? fury? bemusement? condescension? scolding? horse laughter?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Aquarist

Have you ever heard of an aquarist who starved his fish to death? Who introduced plagues to kill them? Who allowed the water to dry up? Who punished them for ordinary fishy behaviour? An ordinary human aquarist treats his charges far better than the allegedly infinitely merciful Yahweh.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Are Christians Ethical?

Christians see atheists as evil, people to be silenced, bullied and contained. Atheists see Christians as ignorant, pathetic, deluded and crazy, people who need to be freed of their delusions. Who is more ethical?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Are You An Atheist?

How do you feel about Zeus, Thor and Horus? You have no fear of them. You don’t hate them. They are just characters in mythology. You are an atheist relative to those gods. How do you feel about Yahweh (or the god popular in your culture)? Same way? If yes, you are an atheist.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Are You The Second Coming?

Did you ever ask yourself Maybe I was supposed to be the second coming and I am really the only one who seriously gives a shit about saving the planet and the only one smart enough to know what to do and the whole world is waiting for me to get off my ass or waiting for me to reveal myself with silly impersonations of the time-traveling clown who affects medieval speech and mannerism they are expecting?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Arguing

Everyone had argued with someone with a closed mind, someone who refused to look at evidence. However, when Christians do this, it is exceptionally irritating. I find myself fantasising about killing them. What is it they do differently that is so irritating?

• They are uneducated, ignorant people who look down at you and sneer, treating you as knowing nothing, rather than merely disagreeing.
• They repeat endlessly-rebutted arguments as if they had just come up with some brilliant show-stopper of an argument. They know perfectly well the argument is invalid.
• They recycle evidence that has been debunked a thousand times. They lie. They try to sneak it past you.
• They have no regard whatsoever for truth. They will happily tell any lie to support their whacky beliefs.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Argument Against Christianity

I would think the most potent argument against Christianity is this. There are 60,000 gods. Christians dismiss all but one of them as too preposterous to even investigate. Yet they single out one religion, Christianity, which is just like all the others, and swallow it hook line and sinker, even though there is no evidence for it whatsoever. What’s so special about Christianity? There is only one thing, their parents were Christian and they indoctrinated their children. There is nothing inherently special in Christianity, just an accident of birth. Unfortunately, I have yet to meet a Christian who would even consider this argument. They are so brainwashed that Christianity is right and all other religions are wrong, they cannot even theoretically conceive of it being any other way.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Argument For Lying

If you ask a Christian why he thinks the god Yahweh exists, he will usually answer something along the lines of God has to exist. If he didn’t, people would run amok. They would have no sense of right and wrong. This is not an argument for the god Yahweh existing, but rather an argument for the utility of lying to people that he does. The Christian seems to be doing a nudge, nudge, wink, wink, letting me know that he too does not believe in a mean old man spying from the clouds, but he wants me to help him perpetuate the lie on others. It is a supercilious way to view one’s fellows.

Of course, in most of the world, people have never heard of Yahweh, and behave just as well as Christians.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Arguments Against 2+ Gods

Christians love to argue why there can’t be less than one god, but I don’t recall them providing any arguments why there cannot be more than one.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Arguments Against There Being a Deity

The arguments against god include:

• There is no necessity for a god. Even the big bang, even the creation of life turns out to be a natural process.
• There is no evidence that god exists. Prayer does not work every time as promised. Christians experience just as many calamities as non-believers. Those that believe, do so purely on faith.
• The book that is often passed off as god’s penmanship is full of error and inconsistency. It is wrong on every point of science it makes. There is nothing supernatural about it at all. It is not authorative.
• There are 60,000 gods. Those that sell some particular god dismiss 59,999 of them. Any arguments for or against god apply equally to all 60,000 gods. In other words, the deists already admit the notion of god is silly. They have already dismissed it themselves for nearly all gods (most of which they have not studied), but have an infantile attachment to one exception, no different from any of the rest.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Arguments for Christians

When you present your best, clearest, logically irrefutable argument to Christians and they ignore it or mock it, the tendency is become angry with them for their wilful stupidity. The problem is you presented them an argument that appeals to you. You need to come up with something that persuades them, not necessarily a fact-based, logical argument. Consider that if you appeal to authority of any kind, they have quite different authorities.

Imagine you were a psychiatrist treating a patient for delusions. If your treatment did not work, it is hardly the patient’s fault. They have suffered a deep trauma that left lasting brain damage.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Arguments for A Deity vs Arguments for Yahweh

Every argument a Christian has ever offered me for the existence of god applies equally well to Clarus the dogcow as to the god Yahweh.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Arguments for the Existence of God

All the arguments Christians give for the existence of god are for something that started the universe. In previous centuries, God had a lot more to do, such as raise and lower the tides. Today, it is more Christians are arguing for a set of cosmic jumper cables. God’s only remaining duty is ceremonially signaling the start of the big bang.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Arguments for God

Every argument you have ever heard for the existence of god was merely an argument for a mysterious entity with some particular supernatural power, not a full-blown deity. It was never an argument for a particular deity like Yahweh, Allah or Ganesh. Further, they did not argue for omniscience, omnipotence, infinite love… There is a tremendous amount of deception and self-deception in the god-proving business.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Arguments For A God, But None For Yahweh

Every argument I have heard for the existence of Yahweh/Allah would apply equally well to any of the ten thousand plus other gods man has postulated and to any other deity not yet proclaimed. Yet Christians are just as absolutely sure there is only one god and his name is Yahweh and they are of the existence of any god, even though they have not a shred of evidence for either hypothesis.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Arguments For Gods Are Arguments for Unicorns

Is there any argument for the existence of some particular god or god(s) in general that would not apply equally well to unicorns?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Arguments For God’s Existence

When Christians explain why they believe God exists, what they really do is give arguments for pretending that a god exists by repetitively attesting that they could not bear life without an imaginary friend.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Arguments Must Persuade

No matter how logically valid an argument is, if it does not persuade, it is not a good argument. The essential problem is Christians hold their beliefs not because they think they are true but because:

1. They believe they will possibly be tortured for eternity if they reject them.
2. Mom told them they were true when they were so young they believed everything mom said without question.
3. The ideas make them feel good.
4. They think other people will behave better if they believe. (Forget science which shows the opposite. Forget logic which shows the opposite.)
5. Their friends claim to believe them and would reject people who do not.

An effective atheist argument has to take those five motives into account, not just show how irrational Christian beliefs are.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Arm Waving

Evangelists always shout and wave their arms. Normally the truth speaks for itself. They know they are selling lies.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Arms Against A Sea Of Troubles

There are many planetary evils you can take up arms against. Religion is the one of the more attractive, since it is sustained nearly entirely by human stupidity. There are no intractable forces of nature to contend with, no stupendous financial machine. You’d think all you had to do was explain to people where they were making errors in their thinking and religious superstition would evaporate like the witch in the Wizard of Oz.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Aron Ra

aka L. Aron Nelson, is a large, middle-aged, Texan, goateed, long haired YouTuber who publishes on clades (the tree of life), the insanity of southern creationists, evolution, breaches is separation of church and state. He has a wry sense of humour. He is quite intelligent. He came from a bizarre creationist background. He sometimes speaks as fast as a tobacco auctioneer. It is as though he is trying to dazzle you with his command of polysyllabic words.

Aron Ra home 
~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Arranged Marriage

There is a difference between an arranged marriage and a forced marriage. In an arranged marriage, the partners must give their consent after they are 16 before they marry. It is time to put a stop to forced marriage. It leads to miserable marriages, domestic abuse, estrangements and suicide.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Arrogance of Prayer

Aside from the fact that prayer does not work, I find it unbelievably arrogant of people to tell an omniscient, infinitely wise god what to do.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Arrogant Claim

Christians make an arrogant claim namely that their religion alone is 100% true and the 60,000 others are pure fiction. They claim to know this without reading the holy books of any other religion and with cherry picking only a few pages of their own.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Art Of Manipulation

The primary technique of manipulation is telling lies. The manipulator promises that doing as he asks will lead to satisfying some strong basic drive or avoiding something feared. The satirical movie Idiotocracy lays the mechanism bare in its crudest form. The art reaches its peak in religious evangelism.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Artificial Intelligence

One task we might ask artificial intelligence to tackle is the consistency of all the biblical and historical documents we have, and prepare a list of the most glaring and important inconsistencies sorted in order by egregiousness. Perhaps Christians will then at least have a look.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Ascribing Malice

If things go wrong, the religious reaction is to look around for a culprit. It might be another person, a demon, a fairy, Yahweh, Satan. If your cow went dry, it must be the neighbour giving it the evil eye. The reaction to all this imagined malice was to severely punish, even without a stick of evidence. Of course, this cruelty did nothing to reduce bad luck.

When things go wrong, the scientists first looks for some material cause. Even when he decides the problem was caused by a human, he looks first to human imperfection as the cause, not malice, e.g. in a car crash.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Ashamed to be a Christian

Every religious sect claims it is 100% correct, and everyone else is in error. Then they refuse to provide any evidence to back the claim. That is so rude, so conceited and so improbable. I can conceive of someone with a Trump-sized ego thinking that, but not an ordinary human. Maybe what Christians are doing is like holding up their religion as a sort of lottery ticket, screaming they are sure they have the winning ticket. Just like any other lottery ticket buyers, they want to bask in the short-lived anticipation.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Asking God To Commit A Crime

Praying to god before a football game is pretty insulting. What you are asking is God to play favourites and fix the game.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Assuming All Other Religions are Wrong

The one question Christians refuse to tackle is Why are you so sure all the other religions are wrong? What is so different about yours? You admit you know utterly nothing about them. How can you possibly know yours is the best?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Assuming Religion is Good

The problem with religion is adherents have been told over and over and over it is the ultimate good. They never look to see if this is actually the case. If they did, they would see it for the hideous evil it is.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Assumptions About Life

Even though scientists knew perfectly well that physics and chemistry work the same way throughout the universe and that our sun in a perfectly ordinary yellow dwarf, they made two very strange assumptions:

• Only our sun has planets.
• Only our planet has life.

That is so irrational. Why would we be so darned special? They should have presumed we are not special until proved otherwise. I think what happened is unconsciously scientists absorbed Christian beliefs about the universe being created purely as a playground for man. At least now the discovery of other solar systems has put part of this conceit to rest.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Atheism As Civil Rights

Atheism is more than just a philosophical position. It is a civil rights movement.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Atheism Is Not Another Religion

Religious extremists try to paint secularism as just another competing religion. Religion is asserting things for which you have no evidence. Secularism does not concern itself with such matters. Secularism is about everything but religion. Religious extremists are effectively claiming that not discussing religion in order to preserve the peace is itself a religion, thus they are justified in thrusting their sect forward to replace secularism as the state religion.

It is quite possible to teach ethics in a secular way, but religious extremists don’t care about teaching ethics; they want to instill terror of god Yahweh in children because they consider ethics equivalent to placating the vengeful god Yahweh.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Atheism Is Not Just Another Religion

One of the popular defences a religious apologist uses is to pretend religion is an arbitrary choice, like picking a favourite flavour of ice cream and atheism is just one of those choices. That is like including non-fiction as one of the possible choices of your favourite genre of fiction.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Atheism Is Not A Religion

If atheism is a religion, then not playing soccer is a sport.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Is Atheism a Religion?

Atheism has none of the characteristics of a religion (belief in a supernatural creator, holy books, services, ceremonies, singing, dogma, a building used only one day a week, miracles…). Perhaps more important is the US goverment and the goverment of Canada don’t consider atheism a religion. If they did, atheist organisations would be tax exempt like Christian churches.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Is Atheism a Religion?

No. To understand why, we need to understand what a religion is. It is a group of beliefs that have no evidence to back them. Religious people try to put a more respectable spin on this by saying is belief based purely on faith — believe without evidence. From the point of view of atheists, religions are just made up stories. From the point of view of religionists, religions are historical accounts of deities. Religions contain some factual beliefs too. Science concurs. There is a consensus of nearly everyone on earth. So these parts are not religious. They are science. Atheists say there is nowhere near enough evidence to support the notion there is a god. They trust science explanations instead. There is nothing in their belief system that is based on faith. It is all based on evidence. Therefore it is not religion.

Atheism does not worship anything. It does not have a god. It does not oppose Yahweh, it mere says there is insufficient evidence to suggest Yahweh is real. Most atheists don’t even claim Yahweh is definitely imaginary.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Atheism vs Humanism

Atheism and humanism are not the same thing. Humanism is atheism plus some other ideas.

Humanism is a philosophical and ethical stance that emphasizes the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively, and generally prefers critical thinking and evidence over established doctrine or faith.

Atheism simply means you think there is no evidence for the existence of any gods. It is not about morals. Atheism does not come with a built-in moral code, but that does not mean it recommends evil. It says get your moral code from reason or elsewhere. You could have any moral system under the sun and pair it with atheism. Atheism does not imply acceptance of any particular scientific theories such as the big bang or evolution, though, of course, most atheists do.

Atheism does not imply you think well of humanity the way humanism does.

Christians have tried to make the public think that atheism is form of Satan worship. That is nonsense. Atheism recognises no gods.

Atheists do not hate Yahweh or rebel against him. They have no desire to be wicked. They are just very sure he is a character of fiction, like all the other 60,000 gods. Yahweh is thus irrelevant, just as what Zeus wants is irrelevant. Yahweh is just another god from fable. Most atheists are also disgusted by the barbarity of the Christian moral code and the way Christians try to pretend their bible contains a reasonable guide to behaviour in modern day.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Atheist Advantage

We atheists have a huge advantage. All the evidence supports our view. We don’t need to convince anyone of anything, just get them to look at the evidence.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Atheist as Amateur Shrink

An atheist proselytiser must be a psychiatrist. His goal is freeing others from delusions.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Atheist Belief

There is one thing that most atheists do believe, that almost certainly, nothing happens to your consciousness after you die. It just as nothing as your existence before you were born. There is nothing to dread.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Atheist Complaint with Christians

Atheists are not so much frustrated with Christians for stubbornly claiming the existence of god without evidence (and contrary to all evidence); they are mainly angry because of all the cruel and irrational things Christians believe with absolute certainty about what the creator of the universe demands of all humans (not just Christians) and then elect themselves as god’s fanatical enforcers.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Atheist Custody

Judges in the USA deny custody to parents because they are atheist.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Atheist Morality

Christians claim that because atheists reject the bible, they have no morality. They must run about murdering and raping. This is nonsense.

• Christianity is a minority world-wide. If you visit other countries, with the exceptions of those undergoing civil wars, people do not run about murdering and raping, Christian or not.
• Morality evolves just like anything else animals do. Our closest relative, the bonobos, behave better than we do.
• Christians claim nobody behaves morally except them. The stats show otherwise. Christianity makes people behave worse, not better. Christians who are a majority of 75% in the USA, make up 75% of the prison population. Non-believers who make up 25% in the USA, make up 0.07% of the prison population. Atheists are much better behaved than Christians. Christianity is making people misbehave. If you become a Christian, your odds of going to jail are 430 times higher than if you remained a non-believer. It is possible that some of the difference can be attributed to Christians being more inept criminals, e.g. trusting prayer to avoid the police and trusting priests for forgiveness of crimes. Some of it of course is church-sponsored child molesting. Further, the atheist Norwegians are closing prisons from lack of prisoners. .

Why are atheists better behaved than Christians?

• The bible is badly out of date. It commands execution for raking leaves on Sunday, killing non-Christians and gays and no penalty for rape. Practical Christians, to avoid staying out of jail, have to ignore most of the biblical commandments. Christians get used to ignoring most of the code, including parts they should not be ignoring.
• In contrast, atheists base their morality on the consensus of law, social convention and reason. They keep it up to date with changing conditions. In addition to private morality, atheists have the law. You go to jail if you rape. That is real. The threat of eternal torture after you die is not nearly as effective. It is imaginary and highly improbable. It is totally unlike anything in the real world. It is not a serious deterrent. Criminologists tell you the sooner the punishment is administered after the crime, the more effective it is. Christian punishment is ineffective because it is maximally procrastinated and not seriously believable. It is just a theoretical threat. No one has ever seen it.
• In the bible, Yahweh spends most of his time murdering innocent people, babes and animals. He is hardly a good rôle model.
• Christians believe you can’t really kill someone, just send them prematurely to the afterlife.
• Christians believe no crime is so serious a confession, a donation to the church and a bit of ecclesiastic magic will not undo it.
• Christians are taught from infancy the only reason to behave well is to avoid being tortured for eternity by a psychotic sky fairy. When the absurdity of the sky fairy begins to dawn, (which they will not admit to their fellows) the Christian is left without any foundation for morality. Perhaps that is why Christians are so much more prone to adultery than atheists. Atheist children are taught to behave well because of empathy and to create a smooth-running world. This is a solid foundation that does not depend on a fragile fairy tale.
• Threatening people with eternal torture just makes them nuts. It does not make them behave better. If it did work, Guantánamo graduates would be model citizens.

Do Evil in Return

I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.

~ Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-02-21 1973-09-29 age:66) ~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Atheist Morality

Christians often tell atheists what they are certain atheists believe about abortion, murder, homosexuality, euthanasia, bestiality… There is only one belief that all atheists share, namely There is not enough evidence to conclude a deity exists. Because atheism is not a religion, and does not come with a list of dos and don’ts, atheists have to get them from some other source.

• They may adopt a philosophy like secular humanism.
• They may reason them out from first principles.
• They may adopt the local legal code.
• They may adopt the local cultural norms.

Because atheists get their dos and don’t and don’ts from various sources, it makes no sense to ask What do atheists believe about homosexuality?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Atheist Pilot

If I fly, I would like an experienced atheist pilot. I don’t want a Christian or Muslim for the following reasons:

• They have a tendency to stop taking rational action and pray when things get dodgy.
• They believe a fatal crash is acceptable. All that happens is they experience perfect bliss and/or get laid.
• They believe God will cover for them if they are sloppy. If anything goes wrong, they believe it is God’s will, not their incompetence.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Atheist Pilots Please

The last thing I want to see on a pilot is a religious symbol such as a cross or crescent. It means that when the going get tough, this twit will start praying and thinking about his imaginary afterlife rather than focusing on his job.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Atheist Plus

Atheist is a misleading term. Most atheists also oppose any supernatural claims or claims made without evidence, not just deistic ones. They also oppose claims for the value of homeopathy, astrology, angels, UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) inductions, crystal healing, biblical inerrantists, prayer… You might call them scientists or anti-wooists.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Atheist Stats

Atheists take cheer from the statistics about the rapid decline of Christianity. We should not celebrate too quickly. In the period 1850 to 1900 atheism was much more widespread than today.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Atheist Takeover

In every state in the USA, the fastest growing religion is none.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Atheist vs Agnostic

• Atheist means you have not seen enough evidence to warrant belief in a god. You don’t necessarily assert there is no god. You don’t have to publicly identify as atheist.
• Agnostic means in principle, you believe you cannot know for sure if a god exists.

You can be both and atheist and agnostic or just one or the other or neither. I am an atheist, but not an agnostic. I am as sure there is no god as I am that there are no leprechauns. I feel no need to hedge for a 0.000000000000000000000000001 probability to account for living in a Matrix vat.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Atheist vs Satanist

Christians claim atheists hate god. Christians have atheists confused with Satanists. Satanists hate god. Atheists think he is a character in fiction.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Atheists

Here are some atheists you may have heard of:

1. Richard Dawkins
2. Roedy Green
3. Sam Harris
4. Stephen Hawking
5. Christopher Hitchens
6. Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d’Holbach
7. Robert Green Ingersoll
8. Bill Maher
9. Randy Newman
10. Aron Ra
11. James Randi
12. Bertrand Russell
13. Penn Teller
14. François Marie d’Arouet Voltaire
15. Frank Zappa

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Atheists and Believers

What is the practical difference between an atheist and a believer? An atheist notices world problems such as climate change, protecting the environment, finding new sources of energy, finding food and housing for the growing population, and says to himself It is up to us humans to solve. If we don’t do it, it won’t get done. A believer says These are god’s problems. There is no point in us tackling them. We will not succeed unless god wants us to. And if he wants these problems solved, he will solve them himself without our help.

Which position works whether you are right or wrong? Atheism is the prudent approach.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Atheists are Smarter than Christians

63 studies have confirmed that atheists are on average more intelligence than believers. Why would that be?

• Dim-witted people are attracted to the simplistic explanations of the world that religion offers.
• Religious people are trained as children to distrust their own conclusions and defer to authority. Their ability to solve problems and reason for themselves thus withers.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70) source

Atheists Barred

In North Carolina, the state constitution prohibits atheists from holding public office, even a notary public.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

IIRC (If I Recall Correctly) the federal constitution should long ago have forced out this bit of medieval thinking, but North Carolinans have fought hard to keep it.

Atheists Do Not Reject God

Christians refuse to understand atheists. They accuse atheists of rejecting god, as if atheists believed Yahweh the god existed, but despised him and thus refused to worship him. Atheists often point out what a nasty character of fiction Yahweh is and question Christians on why they would worship a figure so evil. Atheists do not mean by that to concede that god exists. Atheists simply think Yahweh is a character of fiction that some simple-minded people believe is real. He is no more real than Snow White’s evil stepmother. Arguments about Yahweh’s existence are even more idiotic than arguments about whether Snow White’s evil stepmother was real. (The evil queen violates far fewer laws of physics.)

For atheists, the existence of god is not a serious issue. The only reason it is debated is there are so many people suffering from the delusion Yahweh is real and committing crimes because of it.

Why do Christians so badly misunderstand atheists? Christians, are terrified of Yahweh. They presume everyone else must think as they do, even if others deny it. The fear is so intense, it overpowers rational thought. It is like a person terrified of spiders has trouble understanding his fear is not universal.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Atheists Know More Than Christians About Christianity

Most atheists know far more about Christianity than Christians do.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Atheists vs Agnostics

When people start discussing their conviction that god is a crock, they get suddenly all hypothetical and theoretical. They say I am agnostic. I cannot prove god exists, but they are just jerking your chain. They just are sure as they are that the Pacific Ocean exists. It is dishonest to suddenly don the cloak of ridiculous improbabilities, never used for anything else but discussing god.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Atheists Who Pandered To Religion

Historically, atheists have fostered religious delusions on the grounds the peasants needed the myths to keep their behaviour in check, though the controls were not necessary for the educated elite.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Atlas Delusion

People who are clinically deluded hang on desperately to their delusion even when others point out they have no reason to believe it and there are many reasons not to. They cannot explain why they are so sure the delusion is true, just that they feel utterly convinced there is no doubt it is true. They confuse this intense feeling with knowing.

I once met a glum mental patient in the Alameda Emergency Psych Ward who believed he was Atlas, supporting the world on his shoulders. Nobody could talk him out of it. I had idea. I said, Would you mind if I held the world for a while? He expressed great relief at being relieved of the duty. I pantomimed taking the world off his shoulders onto mine. He leapt up joyfully and ran off. A psychiatrist came and asked me what I did to cause Atlas’ astounding transformation. He was not freed of his delusion, but he was freed of much of its negative consequences.

Christians are similarly deluded and hold on like limpets to their delusions. We don’t normally think of Christians as deluded, but that is just because they are so common. I have tried many things to free them from their delusions. It is doubly hard because other infected Christians work hard to keep them deluded. I have yet to figure out some sort of intervention for Christians analogous to the one I used for Atlas, that will at least free them of the fear of being roasted alive.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Attached To Disease

Imagine trying to cure a disease that convinced the patient he was infinitely more worthy than everyone else. People being what they are, they become very attached to such delusions. They fight every attempt at treatment. Even though it is difficult, curing Christianity is possible. Don’t give up hope.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Attack

Christians complain that we atheists attack them viciously. A few centuries ago, when Christians were in charge, they viciously attacked atheists by burning them alive or boiling them in oil. All atheists do is present challenging arguments and ask questions. Christians have no grounds to complain.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Attack

Why is it that Christians attack atheists with 100 times the vehemence they attack other religions? Christians disagree 100% on dogma with both other religions and with atheists. Other religions merely promote conflicting fluffy nonsense without offering any evidence. Atheists present hard evidence why Christianity (and a few other religions) is untrue.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Attacking When the Mark Is Weak

One of the unconscious tricks Christians use to snare new converts is to wait until they are grieving over the death of a loved one. They say I’m sure they are watching you now. They have no evidence whatsoever for this. The lie however, is so emotionally seductive at this weak point, it becomes the entry point for the entire Christian poison pill.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Attending Your Own Funeral

Christians plan elaborate funerals with long guest lists because they imagine their ghost will also attend.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Attitudes Toward Death

If you are a Christian you can’t seriously believe the nonsense about the harps and the horned boys in red tights with pitchforks. These are elements of comedy. You can never have a good think about death and put it aside as reasonably settled. With atheism, death is just the end. I might think about how to wrap up my life affairs and arrange some sort of ceremony, but nothing is terribly pressing or interesting. Nothing happens so there is nothing to fret about. When I am dead, it is no longer my problem. I won’t be there. It is no more problematic than my non-existence before I was born. In contrast, the subject of death is so touchy for Christians, merely encountering or thinking about an atheist is sufficient to trigger depressed musings about death.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Attitudes Toward the Future

There are three basic approaches of dealing with the future:

1. The grasshopper: Do what would be optimal if you hit by a bus tomorrow.
2. The gambler: Do you best to predict what is going to happen, the bet the farm you are right.
3. The boy scout: Be prepared.

Betting that Christianity is essentially correct is such a longshot, trillions to one against. We don’t usually think of Christians as irresponsible gamblers. That bet is based on nothing more than a gut feeling nothing more, but they find it absolutely convincing. I wonder if they feel that same way about the odds of winning the next lottery? It is the atheist who is fair and kind to everyone who is using a boy scout strategy.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Avoiding Christianity

The craziest, dirtiest, stupidest, greediest, bigoted, cruelest, most ignorant people I have ever encountered were Christian. They are obsessed with blood and sacrifice. Even if I suspected they were right, I could not bring myself to join them. They are just too revolting. It would be like going to live in a pig sty.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Avoiding Debate

Have you ever noticed how Christians avoid debating the truth of their articles of faith? Like cuttlefish, they sometimes emit a cloud of twaddle, simulating insanity, hoping you will give up on them. It’s as though they suspect you are right, but believe it would be wicked to abandon their faith.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Aztec Morality

Christianity borrows its morality from desert dwellers who lived 3000 years ago, who practised animal and human sacrifice. This makes as much sense as basing your moral code on that of the Aztecs.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Baby Bigots

Babies are born bigots. Most of them grow out of it if religion does not retard their development.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Bach the Prostitute

The best music in the world by Bach, Mozart and Handel was written to sell Christianity. That’s like discovering Nureyev did ads for Kentucky Fried Chicken.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Bach, Salesman for God

Bach and Mozart poured their hearts out writing religious music. It is used to this day to help sell religion. I wonder if they had known they were aiding a giant con what sort of music they would have written.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Backing the Wrong Horse

I wonder what percentage of Christians now realise they backed the wrong horse, but are too embarrassed to admit it?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Backward Countries

The most backward countries of the world are the most religious, usually Christian or Islamic. Ironically it is the west who forced Christianity on those nations. They took it seriously. The west now ignores nearly every single biblical commandment. The most backward countries are the ones who execute people simply for being attracted to the same sex, again a gift from Christianity. Since in the west created this mess, surely it is up to us to help alleviate it.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Backward India

India is sooo backward. How backward is it? Catholics there had the state arrest Sanal Edamaruku. He had debunked a phony Catholic miracle, a weeping statue, that was actually getting its tears from a leaking toilet. The clergy were knowingly serving this contaminated water to the faithful and wanted to keep up the scam.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Backward Swaziland

42% of the population of Swaziland are infected with HIV (Human Immuno-deficiency Virus). This is the worst in the world. Swaziland is a very Christian country, that even goes so far as to believe in the divine right of kings and that women are fully subject to men. In particular, women must defer to men on whether to wear condoms.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Bad Catholic, Bad Catholic

The Catholic church: it is not just wrong, it’s bad.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Badmouthing God

Satanists might badmouth Yahweh. They believe he exists, but we atheists merely say You Christians have failed to provide convincing evidence that Yahweh exists. If anything, we atheists are badmouthing Christians for being such poor debaters, or for their gullibility believing without any evidence, not Yahweh. We atheists don’t have any emotional feelings about Yahweh, because we have no reason to think he exists. It is not as though we hate Yahweh or rebel against him. To us, he is just imaginary. I don’t have any strong feelings about Fitzwilliam Darcy either because I know he is just a character of fiction (Pride and Prejudice).

Sometimes when we atheists try to shake up the false certainty of Christians, we will quote the bible, to remind them of the strange things it has to say about Yahweh or about the strange things it says he did. Christians often interpret this as hate. You can only hate that which is real. Christians imagine Yahweh is real. They can hate him (and surely must if they have read the bible) and so imagine atheists also can.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Baffling Believers

There are 60,000 gods. Most people dismiss 59,999 of them without a second glance. Your odds of picking the right none are pretty bad, even worse if you assume none of them are a good approximation to the real god. As an atheist, I find two things utterly baffling about believers:

1. that they are so sure their chosen god exists, without evidence.
2. that they are so sure none of the other gods exist, without even a cursory glance.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Baffling Christians

When I debate Christians I often say to myself, They can’t be serious. They surely don’t really believe this nonsense. What are they up to?

• They are just having fun jerking my chain.
• They are con artists trolling for people of subnormal intelligence to cheat like the Hovinds and the Grahams.
• They make a lot of money saying this nonsense to stupid Christians who want to be flattered. They are basically entertainers who say outrageous things. They are like a religious Rush Limbaugh.
• They are mentally ill. They are seriously deluded. Perhaps they have a drug problem.
• Maybe their parents did something really nasty to them as kids which has effectively burnt out their brains.
• They don’t believe what they say and often do not even understand what they say; they just parrot it. However, they believe strongly this is what a good Catholic/JW etc. is required to profess.
• They don’t believe this crap, but they think it would be a good thing if other people did.
• It is a hypnotic induction.
• It is like interspecies communication. What they say makes utterly no sense. It is not just that I disagree, much of it sounds like gibberish. They speak in something that sounds something like English, but in terms of having meaning, it might as well be gibbon.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Bait and Switch

Debating Christians can be so frustrating. To them, the question is Christianity true? and does believing in Christianity make you feel good? are the exact same question. You ask them a question about Christianity being true and they answer with a statement about Christianity making them feel good. Maybe what they are trying to say is Christianity may not be true, but it makes me feel good.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Bait and Switch

Evidence for a intelligent designer who tweaked the universal constants is not evidence at all for the god Yahweh who demonstrates not even the most primitive knowledge of cosmology and who is preoccupied with human sex.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Balance of Male and Female

Parents who interfere with the equal balance of male and female babies are condemning their children to a much lower chance of finding a life partner.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Bald-faced Liars

Nearly every Christian I have met is a compulsive liar. He feels no shame so long as the lie promotes Christianity. Once someone tells the lie with a straight face they are absolutely sure their fearless leader rose from the dead, its all downhill from then on.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Bankrupt Christians

Recall just how fundamentally morally and truthfully bankrupt our Christian opposition is. They have not so much as an ounce of truth to support their assertions. All they have left are lies, deceptions and the other tools of con men. We are not dealing with equals. We are dealing with con-men or the mentally challenged.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Banned in Boston

In Boston it is illegal to put up a poster saying Religions are fairy tales for adults.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70) source

Banning Contraception

Christian whackos in a number of states are banning contraception by redefining a person to include a fertilised egg. This is insane. The population of earth is exploding. Only if we limit population do we have any chance at all of avoiding massive famines and global war. Even bears and deer have the sense to limit the number of offspring.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Banning Dancing

In Canada the government suppressed the first nations people by making it illegal for them to dance their traditional dances. It sounds absurd that the government would interfere that way, but back then Christians attempted to stop everyone from dancing and impose their sour view of life on everyone.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Banning Divorce

If the aim of the church is to maximise the congregation, banning divorce is a strange way to do it. Divorced couples don’t have more babies . Remarried ones do.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Banning Pornography

In 2014-09, the British decided to ban quite a large number of sexual acts in pornographic films including: female ejaculation, spanking and face sitting. No justification explaining the need for the measures is available. Presumably, there is some prude in power who finds these particular acts disgusting, who imagines he is the honourary mother of all Britons and who thinks his god put him in charge of British pornography.

I can’t think of any argument for banning harmless acts. Of course, you could at least make a case for banning harmful ones, e.g. bareback sex, needle sharing, extreme stretching leading to an emergency room visit afterwards, rape, use of firearms, simulated snuff, overeating or smoking on the grounds emulating the actors would harm someone.

Even when there is a clear harm from viewing something, you have to think twice about banning it. With fantasy life blocked, the porn aficionado with a smoking fetish, for example, will turn to real life or black market porn sources. As Napoléon observed One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

Further, you must build a logical case for banning some activity in porn films, such as simulated snuff, but permitting it in family-rated films.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Barbie Doll Beheader

The god Yahweh is as ludicrous as a religion made up by five year olds who threaten their little friends that they will chop the heads off their Barbie dolls in a sakerryfice.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Bargain Between the Church and paedophiles

The churches make a bargain with the paedophiles. The church says We will cover for you and provide you with an endless supply of obedient victims if you dedicate your life to spreading the faith professionally.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Bargaining with God

When someone claims he has made a bargain with God, consider that he made up all the conditions and penalties, that he has no evidence that his god accepted the bargain, or that his god even exists. His belief that he was able to coerce the creator of the universe into taking time out of his busy schedule to make a private deal with him shows delusions of grandeur. Its even nuttier than claiming to have made such deals with Bill Gates.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Barking Mad Christians

How do you tell a barking mad Christian from a merely insane one? Tell them some of the hundreds of logical consistencies in the Noah’s ark story then ask them if they still think it is literally true.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Bash the Victim

There was a series of gang rapes in a Bolivian, Christian, Methodist colony. The rapists drugged the victims unconscious, so that the women remembered nothing of the event. The church had taught women to blame themselves for this event. The women proclaimed God was punishing them for not being sufficiently diligent in offerings and other churchly services. Because of church indoctrination, they felt obligated to forgive the rapists, even though the rapists made no apology or compensation. The rapists turned out to be a band of Methodists, living within the colony. Methodist rapists is pretty high on the hypocrisy meter. Mind you one vigilante group buried a suspect alive along with the corpse of his victim.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70) source

Basis of Government

You don’t have a right to base law on lies, on statistics you just made up or on fiction. In other words, you have no right to try to impose your religious beliefs on others by building them into the law.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Batshit Crazy

Religions are by definition irrational — batshit crazy actually. If they were logical, rational and had evidence to support them they would be science, not religion.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Be Nice To Christians

Christians are just atheists before they have had a mindchange operation. Play fair with them.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Be a Sheep?

Christians often use the metaphor that sheep who blindly follow will go to heaven where more independent goats will go to hell. This whole idea of trying to persuade people not to think is the sort of thing a con man would do. If Christianity had the genuine article, an inerrant document written by god, they would demand everyone read it and thoroughly check it out. It would be an irresistible recruiting tool, sort of like the old Timex takes a licking keeps on ticking commercials.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Bearded Fairy

Yahweh is scary because of imposing Hollywood special effects. Yet Yahweh could be more accurately described as an undetectable, evil, perverted, bearded fairy who lives on a cloud. Without the grandiose title of god he does not seem nearly so imposing. All modern day Christians base their notions of god on Hollywood special effects. Yahweh is just a scary movie.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Becoming Christian

The biggest problem with becoming a Christian is not that you have to believe in an invisible, undetectable sky fairy but that you have to become an insufferable prick.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Becoming a Christian?

Let us say you become a Christian. Bit by bit you will come to notice how superior you are to ordinary people. You will start meddling in other people’s lives. You will start criticising others who don’t live up to your high standards. After all, you have the answers and they don’t. You don’t feel guilty about your nagging. You are doing them a favour. People might suck up to you to get you off their backs, but they would rather you were not around.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Begging for God

This idea of begging for money for god makes no sense. Allegedly god created the entire universe. If he wanted something, he could just create it by saying the right magic word. Obviously, the money is not really for god, but for someone who fancies himself an official agent, but they all tell the same lie, pretending the money is for god.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Behaviour When Unsure

The difference between a Christian and a scientist, is that when a scientist does not know for certain, he says I don’t know, whereas the Christian, when he has absolutely no clue, makes up some BS and claims it is absolute truth with absolute certainty. It is basically a matter of differing honesty. The funny thing is, when the scientist says I don’t know, the Christian reacts as if the scientist had just farted. Christians think it wicked to ever admit you do not know. Every crack of unknowing must be patched with bullshit.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Beige Putty

As an atheist, the world is full of mystery, puzzles, curiosity and strangeness. I pity my Christian neighbours. At their churches, they had and out buckets of beige putty labeled God Did It. They are required to fill every crack, anything interesting, anything unexplained with this putty. What a boring world!

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Being Brave

If people are afraid, they most commonly use two basic two approaches to handle it:

1. bravery
2. false reassurance

Religion is a type (2) approach to convince people that magic spells and incantations will protect them from harm.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Being Christopher Hitchens

It must have been so frustrating being Mr. Hitchens. It is so obvious for 10,000 reasons Yahweh is an imaginary bogey man. Yet Hitchens had to deal with Christians who are so terrified of Yahweh they could not even conceive of the possibility. It must have been like living in an insane asylum surrounded by a cult of invisible pink bunny believers, who attack each other in the night on bunny commands.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Being a Hero

Most children fantasise about heroically rescuing someone from drowning, fire or other disaster. As an adult, by donating a trivial amount of money, they can heal blindness, cure disease, prevent starvation, provide shelter etc., but they invariably throw the opportunity away, instead donating to churches which is effectively paying dues to a private club.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Belief In God

There are no good reasons to believe in god.

There are thousands of reasons not to believe in god.

There are many reasons to profess a belief in god. A politician cannot get elected without telling this lie. Children often tell it to avoid conflict with parents. Conscriptees tell it to avoid military service.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Belief in God

When people say they believe in god, they don’t usually mean they consider the preponderance of the evidence leads them to conclude with probability greater than 0.5 that god exists. They mean there might be a one in a million chance that some supernatural bastard will torture them for eternity. They simply can’t dismiss that possibility.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Belief in God ⇒ Dysfunction

Sociologists have found more dysfunctional a society, the higher will be the belief in god. When you can’t succeed in the real world, you grasp at straws. And further, the higher the degree of religion, the higher the dysfunction. Religion interferes with science, creates social tensions and makes people give up trying to improve this life.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70) Why Evolution is True 

Belief in Hell

Why do people believe in hell?

• because it is so scary they don’t want to take the chance on ignoring it, no matter how ridiculous it is. See Pascal’s Wager.
• they were told it existed when they were a toddler and Mom said Believing is hell is a prime directive. Never change it.
• they have no exposure to any of the 60,000 other religions that make similar silly claims.
• they hang out with people who claim to believe in hell.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Belief in Lies

If there were a headline that said Belief in lies down 25% or Belief in superstition down 25% people would cheer. But if it said Belief in religion down 25% which means almost the same thing, many people would wring their hands.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Belief In the Not No

Religion is the study of why people believe things that are patently not so.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Belief Locks

What holds religious beliefs in place? We have all seen how Christians flatly refuse to examine factual evidence, or even to examine conflicting verses in the bible. Even when you confront them with extreme contradictions in their beliefs, they refuse to acknowledge them. The suggests tho locks are not in the rational mind. I think there are two primary forces:

• Terror of Yahweh inculcated in early life. This terror is so overwhelming the Christian believes they dare not even consider anything contrary to what Yahweh wants.
• Surrender to an authority figure. A belief only the authority figure is competent enough to rule on such matters. Anything you would do yourself is necessarily wrong and dangerous even if it is based on the most obvious common sense.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Belief vs Fact

If I say lions are native to Africa, its that a fact or a belief? It is a fact because zoologists who study lions confirm it. Even though there is a remote possibility some wild lions might live in the Rocky Mountains, we say that is so improbable, for practical purposes we ignore it.

Does Yahweh exist? Some say yes. I say that is a belief, because Christians accept this proposition because of its emotional appeal or because a parent told it to them. This is not sufficient backing to rate as a fact. Lot’s of things that do not exist have emotional appeal. Parents tell their children lots of things that are untrue, often without even knowing they are doing so.

Christians usually brag they have no evidence or facts at all to support their beliefs. They just have faith, just an intuitive hunch, i.e. bugger all.

As a mathematician, I notice that the following statements are inconsistent:

• Yahweh is infallible, omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent.
• Yahweh wrote the bible and it is infallible.
• The bible is crawling with errors and inconsistencies.
• Whoever wrote the bible was so incompetent and misinformed, they could not have created a universe.

Math says if there an inconsistency, then one or more of the premises must be untrue. In other words, Yahweh, as described by Christians cannot exist. Christians either have to change his attributes and deeds, to make them consistent, or give up entirely on his existence. I suggest dropping the absurd claim the creator of the universe wrote the bible. Ascribing that pile of crap to god is an insult.

But in summary, even though Christians dispute it, it is a fact there is no god, just as the range of lions is a fact.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Belief You Are God

Certain types of brain damage can cause a person to think they are god — that they are omnipotent. Oddly, the first time they try to levitate a glass of water and fail does nothing to dispel the illusion.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Belief-Proving Machine

The mind is a belief-proving machine. Once a belief gets a foothold, the mind tends to seek out confirming evidence and ignore counter evidence. This affects everyone, believers and non-believers alike. That is why you need a discipline like science to force you to keep considering all the evidence.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Beliefs

It would be nice if beliefs were generated by rational thinking. However, I don’t think that is true. They are mostly generated by peer pressure to get in sync with the beliefs of the tribe. Back in the 1970s I used this mechanism to help young gay people. They were miserable, lonely, closeted, bullied by Christians into self loathing, sometimes near suicide. All had to do was introduce them to a couple of dozen gay males who accepted themselves and had rejected the Christian hate story. It took no more than one evening for them to drop their old poisonous beliefs and adopt new much happier ones. What they effectively did was drop one tribe that was treating them extremely badly and adopt a new tribe that treated them well.

Christians do not realise their tribe is treating them poorly. It is extracting tithes. It is micromanaging their lives. It is making all manner of false promises. It is teaching them all manner of false science and history. It is a hierarchy. It is all about snootiness and looking down your nose.

What Christians need is some time in a new tribe (atheist) that treats them better. However, their clergy have taught them that even looking at some other tribe is the most extreme form of evil.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Believing Despite the Evidence

Many Christians admit there is no evidence for the existence of god and plenty of evidence there is no god. They make a virtue out of believing in god in the face of the counter evidence. It takes effort to believe the highly improbable and they are proud of their effort. To me it sounds like someone expressing pride that there were able, through great effort, to believe they could fly like Peter Pan.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Believing in Super Man

The movies let you pretend for a couple of hours to be Lois Lane or Jimmy Olsen, buddies with Superman, who can be counted on to bail you out of any conceivable trouble. Christians are so enamoured of the fantasy that they frantically lie to each other and persecute non-believers, to help convince themselves a similar Superman story it is really true, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Beneficent God

If god is beneficent, why hid he repeatedly wipe out nearly all life on earth in hideous catastrophes.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Benefits of Religion

What are the benefits of religion?

• You have a community who might come to your aid if you have trouble.
• You can wait for god to speak to you to tell you to donate. If you hear nothing, you presume god wants you to keep your money. You give god the blame for your own stinginess.
• You can feel smug that you know everything, and no one else knows anything. You don’t even have to think or study.
• If a loved one dies, you get over it quickly because peers sell you the lie they are not really dead.

There is not much benefit to the believer. Most of the benefit flows the institution. They convince the believers to surrender their will and their sense of right and wrong. In a way the church behaves like a mind parasite, controlling the believer to ignore his own interests and do the church’s bidding.

• The church gets believer’s tithes.
• The clergy gets believer’s children to molest without interference.
• The clergy get to tell the believers how to vote and what to write to their politicians.
• The church and clergy avoid income and property taxes.
• The believers help recruit new believers.
• The clergy get access to children to indoctrinate the next generation of believers.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Benign God Invented Predator/Prey?

For most creatures, life is about constantly evading predators and/or constantly evading starvation. The strange thing is, so many people are convinced a benign deity deliberately designed things this way.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Best Before Date For Truth

When you look back even 200 years at what was considered certain knowledge, it makes you wonder how much of what we hold true today will survive over the long term.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Best Counselor

If I wanted help with personal problems, the last person I would turn to would be a sanctimonious child molester.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70) Deliver Us from Evil

Betraying Kids

The military junta in Argentina swept into homes in the middle of the night and took the parents off for torture and death. They took the babies or forced pregnant mothers to give birth, changed the baby’s names and raised them as little right wingers. The kids sometimes discovered how the people they called mom and dad had betrayed them and killed their parents. I would imagine a similar rage and sense of betrayal happens when children find out their parents lied to them to sell them into Christianity.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Beyond Freedom of Religion

Freedom of religion was a momentous step in stopping religious fanatics from forcing their demented notions on others. However, we need to go further and gradually eliminate religion altogether. Holding onto it out of tradition is as wrong headed as holding onto public hangings or witch dunking. It amounts to cherishing obsolete science, primitive barbarities and ancient lies. People have a right to do crazy things only so far as they don’t hurt others. Christians don’t fit that criterion by a long shot.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Bi-polar Christians

People who imagine they have been possessed by the god Yahweh, have a sobering realisation to face: it is actually just bi-polar disorder.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Bible

Christians believe in a bible that bears no resemblance whatsoever to the actual one. If atheists could convince all Christians to read the bible cover to cover, Christianity would soon disappear from the earth. One of the main reasons people become atheist is they read the entire bible and are horrified, disgusted and repelled. Christianity persists because Christianity in practice is not bible-based and hence has no claim whatsoever to be divinely guided.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Bible Scholars

Bible scholars are absurdly biased academics. They make up the silliest excuses to patch up gaping holes in the bible. If they read the same data gently disguised, but were told it applied to some other religion, they would flat out reject it as nonsense.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Bible-based Climate Change Deniers

Bible-based climate change deniers base their certainty that nothing terrible could come to earth in the form of climate change on 9:11-13. If you read the verse, God says I will send no more floods. Climate change can also kill with heat or drought. Further God said I won’t destroy the earth, but that does not mean I will stop you from doing it.

Despite its reputation, almost nothing in the bible is true. You simply cannot rely on it. If you doubt, read the entire bible with a piece of paper with three columns. When you read something you think is true tick the first column. When you read something you don’t know if it is true, tick the second column. When you read something that you think is false, tick the third column. Christians claim your third column should be completely empty.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Biblical Authors

Dozen of people in ancient times wrote text that Constantine ended up including in his canonical collected that eventually became the KJV (King James Version) bible. Why did they do it?

• They were nuts. They imagined the creator of the universe was talking to them. They imagined they were taking dictation.
• They were power freaks. The wanted to control how others behaved. So they fobbed off their ideas of ideal behaviour as the commandments of a deity.
• They were con men seeking money. They made up lies that would trick people into giving them money.

I wonder if any of them considered the possibility their lies would be controlling people living thousands of years into the future.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Biblical Con Men

The writers of the bible demand:

• That you believe bizarre impossible stories without any evidence for them.
• That you give them money.
• That you don’t need to worry at all about your behaviour, so long as you follow the first two rules.

These are not the rules of a wise creator. They are rules of unscrupulous con men. Even if there is a god, the bible has absolutely nothing to do with him.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Big and Little Religions

There are two kinds of religions: bullies that kill people and use various types of force or threat to gain new members or torment non-members and the small ones that don’t . I can put up with some nutty sect that leaves out dishes of honey at the foot of the garden for the fairies, but the first type, they really have to go. This planet cannot survive them and their crazy notions.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Big Bang

The big bang was not an explosion. It was the rapid expansion of space itself, smoothly and faster than the speed of light. It happened everywhere, even the spot where your heart is now. The expansion of the space of the universe continues to this day, even at the spot where your heart is now. We know this by looking at the microwave background radiation from the dawn of time, by examining the Doppler shift of light from distant galaxies and from the abundance of helium and other light elements that only could have been created in the super heat of the big bang.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Big Bang

Stephen Hawking’s latest thinking about the big bang takes quantum mechanics into account. He says the universe had no beginning, yet it did not exist forever. Quantum mechanics always screws with your mind like this. Your intuition breaks down because the universe works by totally different laws on the ultra-small scale. Consider, for example, that a circle is not infinite and it does not have a beginning.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Big Bang

The universe started out as a tiny black hole. There is no time in a black hole. Nothing changes. Another way of looking at it, time passes infinitely slowly. There was no time in which a creator god could have existed or created. Stephen Hawking on why there is no god. 

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Big Ethical Question

How much does the suffering of others matter?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Big Lie

Religion is infuriating not because it is blithering nonsense, but because it is a carefully constructed lie intended to con the poor out of their money.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Big Morality Issues

Religions tend to focus on petty thou shalt nots. This allows believers to ignore the two big issues of morality — what do you do with your time and what you do you do with your wealth to contribute to your planet?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Big Picture

Humans have a failing. The tend to became narrowly focused and miss the big picture. Most commonly the pursuit of money leads people to destroy the environment and kill their fellows. Religion also causes people to ignore the evidence what they are doing is suicidal.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Biggest Con

Once a man convinces you that he speaks for a god, he has you by the balls. You will give him all your money, without resistance. You will hand over your wife. You will let him rape your children. You will kill whom he tells you to. That power over you is a great temptation to anyone holding. If anyone claims to have a special pipeline to a god, he is either deluded or a con man. Be aware especially of people who use costumes, ritual magic or eccentric ways of speaking to bamboozle you.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Biggest Lie

The biggest lie believed in North America is the existence of Yahweh. From that monster lie, thousands of other lies and evils flow, like creationism, the persecution of homosexuals and the meddling in the end-of-life decisions of others.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Biggest Source of Lies

What divides humanity? Lies and untruths. What is the biggest source of lies and untruth? Religion. If the world is ever going to work together, it will require dismantling the worst lies and untruths of each religion especially those use to justify stealing resources from or killing people of a different religion.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Biggest Source of Lies

What divides humanity? Lies and untruths. You don’t find people divided over a common absolute truth like 2 + 2 = 4. What is the biggest source of lies and untruth? Religion (with politics a close second). If the world is ever going to work together, it will require dismantling the worst lies and untruths of each religion especially those used to justify stealing resources from or killing people of a different religion.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Bigotry

Bigotry learned from religion is still bigotry. It is no more excusable than bigotry learned any other way.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

To the Bigots of the Anglican Church

You justify spitting on gays, preaching god hates them, that they should be killed, treating as second class citizens all because the bible calls for killing them. But you conveniently ignore the fact the bible also calls for killing everybody else too.

Biblical morality is so insane and so out of date, even the most fanatical Christians ignore it, while giving it lip service. e.g.

• beat your wife and kids.
• dash out the brains of babes of neighbouring tribes.
• do not use antibiotics.
• force women to marry their rapists.
• keep slaves.
• kill anyone who eats leftovers on the third day.
• kill adulterous women.
• kill all Ameleks or any of dozens of other ethnicities.
• kill all Sunday shoppers.
• kill all brides without hymens.
• kill all gays, not just refuse to make them cakes.
• kill all prostitutes.
• kill all unwed mothers.
• kill all witches.
• kill anyone of a different religion and all their Christian friends.
• kill anyone who cuts his hair or beard. Elsewhere it condemns you for not trimming your beard. Elsewhere it demands rounded and square shapes. You can’t win.
• kill anyone who eats a shrimp, lobster, owl, rabbit, rare roast, snail, hare, clam, shrimp, oyster, camel, pork, swan, owl, eagle, osprey, bat, dog, locust, beetle or dozens of other animals.
• kill anyone who grows more than one species of plant in a field.
• kill anyone who owns a painting.
• kill anyone who rakes leaves on Sunday.
• kill anyone who says the word god.
• kill anyone who wears more than one type of fibre in his clothing.
• kill anyone with a statue in their yard.
• kill anyone with a tattoo.
• kill females who speak in public.
• kill sassy teens.
• obey rules involving ritual uncleanliness of menstruation.
• you must sacrifice animals.
• you must use separate cookware and dishes for milk and meat.
• you must love your enemies.
• you must sell all you have and give the proceeds to the poor. Take no thought for the morrow. Become a homeless person.
• you must abandon your family.
• being horny is equivalent to adultery, but only for heterosexual males. This encourages real adultery on the grounds of being hanged as a sheep as a lamb. The purpose of this law is to keep males perpetually guilty and hence easy to manipulate. This is just the fantasy of a paedophile priest, who inspired Islam’s 72 virgins.
• It is ok to beat your slaves so long as they do not die immediately.
• Raping a child is ok. Adultery with an unmarried female is ok. Owning a slave is ok.
• JWs (Jehovah’s Witnesses) claim the bible commands no blood transfusions, even if it means death. There is no such commandment. Transfusions were not invented until 1818. There are commandments about eating blood, but JWs ignore the other dietary commandments.

That’s not morality. That is obsessive-compulsive disorder. None of those commandments make any sense except avoiding shellfish in a world without refrigeration, but there is no need to kill anyone.

What is the matter with you that you can see how idiotic the bible is in these cases, but not in the case of gays?

The fact the church has officially and with eyes wide open embraced bigotry proves the church is hateful and obsolete. It is time to close its doors.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Bigots Don’t Like Being Called Bigots

I discovered to my surprise that bigots feel offended when you call them bigots. The religious promoting hate don’t think of themselves as bigots. They see themselves as superior people holding superior wisdom. It is important to let them know not everyone agrees with their self assessment.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Bigots Marching to the Grave

Christian bigotry is primarily promoted by people born prior to 1945. Thank-fully that generation are now dying off and taking their bigotry with them to the grave.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Billboards

Christians complain when atheists put up billboards questioning the claims of Christianity or promoting atheist ideas. Christians consider any disagreement with their faith (which has no evidence) as hate speech. Hate speech is speech which threatens violence, torture or death. I have never seen an atheist group do that. On the other hand, I have seen Christians use hate speech toward atheists, homosexuals or Muslims on a daily basis. If putting up a billboard is hate speech, count the Christian and atheist billboards. The vast majority of them are Christian. Hate is so familiar to Christians, they don’t even notice when they do it. They are just piously echoing Yahweh’s and Jesus’s hate speech.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Birth Control Does Not Work

Why does the pope endorse only birth control methods that don’t work? The only way to make new Catholics is to indoctrinate babies.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Birth of a Cult

On 2017-04-04 I witnessed the birth of a cult. I was listening to a Canada-wide CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) radio broadcast about an inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women. The founder of the cult said We must allow the dead women to direct the activities of the inquiry. To my horror, this nutty idea received thunderous applause. Dead people can’t direct an inquiry. What happens next?

1. The cult founder will falsely claim through some vague process, involving ancient wisdom, the dead women are telling her how to direct the inquiry.
2. Gullible idiots will then put her in charge of the inquiry.
3. Once she has everyone following her directives, she will broaden them to include annual ceremonies, edicts on morality and anti-male and anti-white propaganda. She is now a full-fledged cult with herself as indispensable leader, ostensibly, who never commands for her own benefit. She just relays messages from the land of the dead. There is no means to argue with her.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Birthers

Over ¾ of North Carolina Republicans believe President Obama is not a citizen of the USA. Granted 8% of them don’t know that Hawaii is part of the USA. There is no evidence of any kind to support this view. There is plenty to disprove it. The delusion survives solely because racists tell it to each other, much the way the myths of Christianity survive in a body of believers. Average and below average intelligence humans tend to believe what they believe their fellows believe. It has nothing at all to do with evidence. It works much the way dogs in a pack don’t think for themselves. They defer to the alpha leader.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Black Attraction to Religion

I am surprised that black Americans are attracted to Christianity and Islam where they are told to shut up, don’t ask questions and do what you are told. I would think they got quite enough of that during slavery and segregation.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Black Christians

Slaveowners in America used the bible to convince themselves that owning, beating and raping slaves was a high and holy calling. They forced Christianity on the slaves because it made them more submissive. The hope of paradise after death gave them false hope. This made them less rebellious.

You would think the descendants of these slaves would strongly reject Christianity, but they don’t. They embrace it with more blind enthusiasm than almost anyone else. Christianity is insinuated into black culture and black music. There is no social life outside the church.

White supremacist southerners still feel virtuous about treating blacks as second class and harming them to the point of torture and murder. This is left over from the bible and slavery. The churches are still segregated. They are an evil reactionary force.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Black Church

The black church was forced on slaves to make them docile. It taught them to accept abuse in this life in hope of decent treatment in the afterlife. It is amazing anything at all good ever came from it.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Black Churches

In the days of the US civil war, Christians bellowed Genesis 9:25-27 and Ephesians 6:3 to prove slavery was not only righteous but mandatory.

The black slaves were conned into accepting Christianity to make them subservient. In Ephesians 6:5 God commands them Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ.

Christianity was a tool of oppression. Ironically, today, black Americans cling to the church even more tenaciously than whites, perpetuating the con.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Black Stockholm Syndrome

Black people, both in America and Africa were more oppressed by the Christian church than almost anyone else. Yet, strangely, they are far more attached to it than others. Why? Slavery did two terrible things:

1. It beat in the habit of bowing to authority without question.
2. It killed off the most rebellious and independent.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Blame Religion

It is quite a different thing when an Christian or atheist commits a crime and when a Christian or atheist commits a crime because their religion/philosophy commands them to. You can only blame the second on the religion.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Blaming God

Any time a Christian goes through a harrowing experience and they are later interviewed on the radio they will say something like I don’t why god let such a terrible thing happen to me. How stupid can they be! Have they never noticed that terrible things happen to good people all the time. god never intervenes. Events always take their natural course.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Blasphemy

I good idea does not need protection from criticism. A bad idea does. That is why there are blasphemy laws — to protect bad ideas.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Blasphemy Laws

A blasphemy law is an attempt to broaden the power of a religion by forcing non-believers to behave as if the religion were not blithering nonsense.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Blasphemy Laws

Why are there blasphemy laws? Because the clergy want to stop people even questioning their message. They know their message is a lie and cannot stand up to even the slightest examination. You might say it is a pro-monopoly law.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Blessing a Murder

You’d think the ultimate obscenity would offering a blessing to soldiers about to slaughter children, but it is common and no Christian ever complains.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Blessings

If I were on a jury trying a man who had strangled some nitwit Christian who said that people in the third world should treat earthquakes and hurricanes as god’s blessings, I would unconditionally acquit.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Blind Obedience

Christians tend to believe that blind obedience to authority is a Good Thing™ This would be true if the authority were wiser and more moral than you. But obeying someone who is corrupt is itself both cowardly and corrupt. Blind obedience is what got the Germans into such trouble under Hitler, Americans into the Viet Nam war and Christians in such trouble under a long succession of corrupt popes. I don’t mean by this you should resist direction from a loutish, stupid or corrupt police officer, only if he attempted to make you do something immoral.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Blind Obedience

There is no crime a Christian would not commit if they were deluded that Yahweh commanded them to do it.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Blind Worship of the Past

Blind worship of things past makes us select the worst of the medieval world to form today’s religions.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Blindly Repeated Lies

Nearly everything Christians tell you to recruit you is a lie that they just blindly repeat without thought. Even when you call them on their lies, they just shout them all the louder. So the strange thing is, Christians themselves know their religion is a con based on lies, but for some reason still promote it.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Blocking Christians

If it could be demonstrated with very high probability that Christianity were a dangerous delusion, would we be justified in repealing freedom of religion and pressuring Christians (and similar religiously delusional people) into treatment? To what extent should we block them from harming others with their delusions, particularly their own children? Or do we consider the right to harm others for religious motives a fundamental freedom?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Blood Drinking

Imagine a group of teens stumbled across the rituals of a bronze age cult that did human sacrifice, animal sacrifice, ritual cannibalism, ritual blood drinking. They believed in the death penalty for even the most minor infractions of a pointless life-engrossing game, with thousands of inscrutable rules. They then started focussing their efforts on recruiting more teens. What do you think we should do? Yes, these Christians are a menace.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Blood Sacrifice

Without the shedding of blood, there can be no forgiveness of sin. Where did this idea come from: an Aztec blood sacrifice cult, some Hawaiian volcano cult, cannibals living on a remote Indonesian island? Nope. Christianity! The essential event in Christianity is human sacrifice. An innocent person acted as scapegoat to atone for the sins of others to propitiate a sadistic god. This event is commemorated by literal blood drinking and cannibalism (if you believe in the miracle of transubstantiation.) If Christians ran across some Amazon tribe doing this, they would be horrified. They are numb to their own insanity because it is so familiar. This is disgusting and crazy. It should not continue, no matter how long the tradition.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Bogey Men

When a little boy is terrified of bogeymen under the bed, his parents reassure him the bogeymen are not real, but what really works is their own complete lack of fear. In a similar way, Christian adults have become frightened of an invisible, sadistic sky fairy planning to roast them alive. In addition to arguments why this fear is unfounded, we atheists must demonstrate a complete informed lack of fear in this imaginary monster.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Bogeyman Under the bed

under license from toonpool.com

under license from toonpool.com

Adult Christians like to taunt me that the god Yahweh must exist because I cannot prove he does not. I would like to show why that logic is fallacious.
son: Daddy, there is a bogey man under the bed.
father: No no, that is just your imagination. Here, let me show you with a flashlight.
son: But bogey men are invisible.
father: I see. I am waving a broom around all under the bed. I don’t feel any bogeymen.
son: But bogey men are transcorporeal.
father: Where’d you learn a strange word like that? What does it mean?
son: It means brooms go right through ’em.
father: Ok then, if bogey men are invisible and transcorporeal, how did you find out one was under the bed in the first place?
son: I heard a squeaking noise.
father: But everyone knows bogeyman don’t squeak. They make sort of breathy roaring noise like this, ahhrrr.
son: Eeek!
son: But it is written, He’s there, Dad, I promise. I can feel him with my soul strings.
father: Who written it? you? soul strings Who you been hanging out with, Oprah?
son: No, its in a book Ralphie owns.
son: Dad, why won’t you believe me? Why do you reject the living truth? Why do you hate me? Why have you forsaken me? Why dost thou abandon me to a fate worse than death?
father: What have you been reading? I am not harming you or abandoning you. You are just letting your imagination run away with you. I will sleep in the arm chair over there. If any bogey man attacks you I will come to your rescue and whack him with a baseball bat. I’ll leave the constellation turtle night light on. Now go to sleep.
son: But Dad. He’s indomitable. He will rip off your appendages. He will inject you with steroids. I don’t want to die…

Yahweh is just the adult version of an imaginary bogeyman under the bed. Christians too need help getting over their terror.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Bogeymen

Convincing Christians there is no need to fear Yahweh is similar to convincing children they need not fear invisible bogeymen under the bed. It is actually much harder because Christians are paranoid. They are convinced you are trying to trick them into harming themselves.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Bogeymen

It is very hard to reason a child out of his fear of a bogeyman under the bed. It is very hard to reason an adult out of her fear of spiders and snakes if her mother taught her when she was little that they were all very dangerous.

It almost impossible to reason a Christian out of their fear of Yahweh or a Muslim out of their fear of Allah. Humans have something equivalent to ROM (Read Only Memory) in computers. Anything mom tells them at a young age gets burned in, almost unerasably.

This is a Darwinian survival mechanism for parents to ensure strict compliance with any wisdom they consider of prime importance to survival. (Parents need to be careful about scaring toddlers off sex entirely for their entire lives, by accidentally triggering this mechanism, meaning only to discourage sex play, similarly for fearing strangers.)

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Bogus Claims

Oddly, Christians would sue Pfizer if they found out it had sold them a drug to cure cancer that never been tested and turned out to be totally useless. But they would never dream of even asking a faith healer to return the $1000 he conned for a proven useless healing.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Bogus Collecting

If I were to start collecting money on behalf of the Hudson’s Bay Company without first getting their permission, I could expect to cool my heels in jail, but if I collected on behalf of some god, without His permission, I will be applauded as a virtuous person, no matter how I spent the money.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Bogus Morality

What kind of morality can you expect from a Catholic who believes that by confessing to any conceivable crime, dropping an offering in the box and saying a few boring prayers as penance, it effectively erases the crime and all its negative consequences, and grants him cosmic forgiveness to boot?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

This is effectively the scuzzi argument the devil makes in the original movie version of Bedazzled.

Bogus Papal Vote

Almost nobody noticed how phony the election of Pope Francis was. Only 115 people had a vote and over half of them were appointed by Ratzinger. That is the sort of stunt you would have expected of Saddam.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Bogus Religious Morality

Religions claim they are the only ones capable of speaking about morality. Where do they get their information? They find some illiterate guy who heard voices who ranted in a desert thousands of years ago and take whatever he said without question no matter how silly,

Biblical morality is so insane and so out of date, even the most fanatical Christians ignore it, while giving it lip service. e.g.

• beat your wife and kids.
• dash out the brains of babes of neighbouring tribes.
• do not use antibiotics.
• force women to marry their rapists.
• keep slaves.
• kill anyone who eats leftovers on the third day.
• kill adulterous women.
• kill all Ameleks or any of dozens of other ethnicities.
• kill all Sunday shoppers.
• kill all brides without hymens.
• kill all gays, not just refuse to make them cakes.
• kill all prostitutes.
• kill all unwed mothers.
• kill all witches.
• kill anyone of a different religion and all their Christian friends.
• kill anyone who cuts his hair or beard. Elsewhere it condemns you for not trimming your beard. Elsewhere it demands rounded and square shapes. You can’t win.
• kill anyone who eats a shrimp, lobster, owl, rabbit, rare roast, snail, hare, clam, shrimp, oyster, camel, pork, swan, owl, eagle, osprey, bat, dog, locust, beetle or dozens of other animals.
• kill anyone who grows more than one species of plant in a field.
• kill anyone who owns a painting.
• kill anyone who rakes leaves on Sunday.
• kill anyone who says the word god.
• kill anyone who wears more than one type of fibre in his clothing.
• kill anyone with a statue in their yard.
• kill anyone with a tattoo.
• kill females who speak in public.
• kill sassy teens.
• obey rules involving ritual uncleanliness of menstruation.
• you must sacrifice animals.
• you must use separate cookware and dishes for milk and meat.
• you must love your enemies.
• you must sell all you have and give the proceeds to the poor. Take no thought for the morrow. Become a homeless person.
• you must abandon your family.
• being horny is equivalent to adultery, but only for heterosexual males. This encourages real adultery on the grounds of being hanged as a sheep as a lamb. The purpose of this law is to keep males perpetually guilty and hence easy to manipulate. This is just the fantasy of a paedophile priest, who inspired Islam’s 72 virgins.
• It is ok to beat your slaves so long as they do not die immediately.
• Raping a child is ok. Adultery with an unmarried female is ok. Owning a slave is ok.
• JWs claim the bible commands no blood transfusions, even if it means death. There is no such commandment. Transfusions were not invented until 1818. There are commandments about eating blood, but JWs ignore the other dietary commandments.

That’s not morality. That is obsessive-compulsive disorder. None of those commandments make any sense except avoiding shellfish in a world without refrigeration, but there is no need to kill anyone.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Bogus Transubstantiation

The miracle of transubstantiation where a cracker allegedly turns into the body of Christ and a glass of wine turns into his blood, is a lie, humbug, a fraud. How do you know? Nobody can tell the difference between the untransformed and transformed food, not even the pope. They are absolutely identical. Nothing happens. There is no change/transformation of any kind.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Bogus Why Questions

When someone asks you a why question or a what-is-the-purpose-of question, they are often giving you a veiled command to read the mind of a non-existent god. It is much safer to insist on how questions.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Boils of Christianity

I see my task as pricking society’s boils of Christianity to let the pus drain.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Boko Haram

Boko Haram are worst sort of fundamentalists. They got a nutty idea into their heads that education is bad and that girls should be maltreated and further that they should kill or kidnap anyone who disagrees with them. What else can do you with a group that antisocial but exterminate them?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Bones

Why did not Christians preserve Jesus’s bones? Why did not Christians continuously venerate the site of Jesus’s birth and entombment? Possibly because Jesus was not historical and the bones and these sites do not exist.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Book Banning

In India, any book that fundamentalist Hindus or Muslims don’t like is banned. They think they have the right to tell others what they may read. Surely then they think others should have the right to censor their reading material.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Born Atheist

Everyone is born an atheist. Then, most of the time, they are brainwashed into some religion while they are still too young to resist.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70) Todd Stiefel interview 

Borrowed Blood

You have saved us by the shedding of your eternal blood is an inscription on the wall of a temple dedicated to the worship of Mithras. This notion of blood and killing and sacrifice is part of the psychotic stew that makes up nearly all religious belief.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Both Fear and Love

Christians demand that you simultaneously fear and love an undetectable god. That is impossible. The intent is to keep those conned in a state of endless guilt.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Both Love And Fear Yahweh?

Christians demand that I simultaneously love and fear their god. The only person who could do that is one with Stockholm syndrome.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Bottom of the Totem Pole

Christians fancy themselves the most virtuous people in the world. If they knew how low I hold them on the ethical totem pole, they would be shocked.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Bowel Divination

Arguments for the existence of god are meaningless, idiotic word-salad miasmas. Analysing them is like sifting through their proponents’ bowel movements to perform divinations.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Boycott Domino’s

Tom Monaghan, founder of Domino’s Pizza, has used his wealth to promote various evil religious right schemes. For this reason, I would never consider buying a pizza there.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Brackish Death

If Noah’ flood reached the top of Mount Everest, that would have mixed all the ocean and fresh waters on earth. Would not all the water creatures of earth have perished from being in brackish water?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Bragging About Dad

Where did these grandiose notions about gods come from, e.g. omnipotence, omniscience, perfect love, perfect virtue etc.? I think they came from ancient versions of the equivalent to little boys bragging about their fathers, My god can beat up your god., So what? My god can see a billion cubits., Well my god can see a gazillion cubits., Well my god can see forever, so there!

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Bragging About God

Whenever I hear people bragging about the alleged magical powers of their imaginary deities, it reminds me of little boys bragging about the alleged superpowers of their fathers.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Brain Research

Imagine a group of cruel college students doing brain research. They discovered a way to plant ideas in minds in a way they could not be shaken loose no matter how crazy they were. They started implanting random crazy ideas into their volunteers, then laughed themselves silly as the volunteers suffered trying to integrate the incompatible implanted idea with everything else they believed.

This is not hypothetical. Mothers can inculcate whatever crazy ideas they please into their babes by threatening beatings, fire, abandonment or starvation even when they imagine their threats are not serious. They typically inculcate insane ideas about god and religion, and torment their child for a lifetime, imagining they had done a virtuous deed.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Brainwashing

If Christian parents were blocked from brainwashing their kids with the Christian religion, before they were old enough to understand what nonsense it is, Christianity would be extinct within a generation. That is why Christians fight tooth and nail for the right to indoctrinate other people’s children without their parent’s permission.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Brainwashing

If I imagine myself as a baby, not knowing anything about anything, I think I would strongly object to my parents traumatising me with threats of being burned alive as part of their introducing me to their religious beliefs. I can’t imagine any baby welcoming that sort of abuse. I don’t think we should tolerate it, even if we have for the last three millennia.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Brake Breakdown

I speculate that there are mechanisms in the brain to keep you from getting too elated or too miserable. When you die these may break down, leaving you to float off into elation or misery. This is perhaps how the heaven/hell myth got started.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Branding

Why do religions brand their children with irreversible circumcision and female genital mutilation? To brand them irreversibly as members of that religion. To make it impossible for them to leave. It is thus a crime to do these brandings without informed consent.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Break Your Mother’s Back

A child who obsessively avoids stepping on cracks will likely take up obsessive praying as an adult.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Breed and be Celibate

The Catholic church is schizophrenic. They scourge their members to breed even when the children are the result of rape, even when the pregnancy risks the mother’s life, even when they have ten kids already, even when they don’t have the enough money to feed and clothe the kids they already have, even when the earth already has ten times the population than it can sustain. On the other hand, they demand the priests remain celibate, except for molesting and raping children.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Breeding

The habit of Muslims and some Christians to breed like rabbits will destroy the world just as surely as a nuclear war. We have to stop them.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Breeding Uncontrollably

With the discovery of oil came the creation of tractors, fertilisers and a water pumps that allowed sufficient food for all. The Pope and other religious leaders acted with extreme selfishness and urged their followers to breed uncontrollably so that their church could overwhelm the others. Now here were are with 9 times as many people as the earth can support without oil and the oil supplies are beginning to dwindle. What those religious leaders did will result in such massive suffering such that no imaginable punishment is sufficient.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Brights vs Supers

brights : people who don’t believe in god.

supers : people who believe in the supernatural, e.g. miracles and god.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Bringing A Nice Boy Home To Dinner

When their son brings home a nice boy to meet a Christian family for Sunday dinner, they panic, even though it is the exact same thing they are happy to have their daughter do. There is nothing inherently wicked in the act itself. It is not like murder that is wrong no matter who does it. It horrifies them like the idea of men doing the laundry.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Bringing A Nice Girl Home To Dinner

When their daughter brings home a nice girl to meet a Christian family for Sunday dinner, they panic, even though it is the exact same thing they are happy to have their son do. There is nothing inherently wicked in the act itself. It is not like murder that is wrong no matter who does it. It horrifies them like the idea of a woman changing a spark plug.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Broad Application of God’s Existence Arguments

Any philosophical argument for the existence of one’s team god, e.g. the god Yahweh, serves equally well as an argument for someone else’s team god, e.g. Ahura Mazda, or for many gods. That the god of the universe would favour some tiny group of people strikes me as the epitome of conceit.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Bronze Age Fecundity

In the iron age, settlements were in constant danger of dying out from insufficient birth rate, accidents, disease and war. Naturally their religions stress maximal fecundity. Today, we have the opposite problem, but unfortunately the bronze-age religions we cling to still have not yet noticed.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Brutal Competition

If a frog has 9000 eggs, only 2 will survive to reproduce. In the long run, on average, this is true for every species, even humans. There is a brutal winnowing based on competition and a struggle to survive. What kind of deity would create a world where nearly every creature born suffers and fails?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

BS²

Because religions are based on BS, there is a temptation to sling BS about the BS.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Buddha’s DNA

Buddhists claim to have preserved one of Gautama Buddha’s teeth. If this tooth is genuine, some day, DNA analysis will tell us in microscopic detail what the Buddha was like.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Buddhist Afterlife

The Buddhists have a more plausible theory of the afterlife. It includes all beings, not just one special conceited species — man. They also have some weak evidence to support it. The Christians just say Have faith without offering even the tiniest shred of evidence.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Bullying God

I am astonished that Christians treat their god with such contempt, ordering him about, god, grant me strength to… or god, bless America!

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Bunny Heaven

If a child is still inconsolable four days after the death of her pet rabbit I could excuse someone telling a lie about bunny heaven, but if grown people tell each other lies about death being unreal or a secret boon, it is beneath human dignity.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Burden of Proof

Atheists will often try to convince creationists that they have the burden of proof because they are the ones making the crazy assertion about an undetectable deity. But this is self defeating. Whoever wishes to convince others has to take the burden of proof upon themselves. To scientists, proof and certainty belongs only in the realm of mathematics. To lawyers, proof means something else entirely, evidence that indicates guilt beyond reasonable doubt. What we really using in debates is evidence and arguments, not proof.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Burden of Proof

Christians get very upset when I tell them that those claiming something exists have the burden of proof to show it exists. Sometimes I take pity on them, and show them some arguments why god does not exist. If that does not work, I give them another set.

It is absurd they do not accept the burden of proof. Consider some dingbat who claims there are leprechauns living in his back yard. He refuses to present any evidence for them. He claims it is up to me to prove they do not exist. By that reasoning, by default, leprechauns exist, as do micro hippos that live in your closet and eat lint, as do pothole demons that create potholes when no one is looking, as do iridescent unicorns, as do 0.91 tonne (1 ton) koi, as do 60.96 cm (2 ft) diameter bright blue spiders that hide in couches, as do… until someone can figure out a way to prove they do not exist.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Burden of Proof

In all ordinary discourse, the person making the claim of the existence of some unusual creature bears the burden of proof, e.g. the Loch Ness monster. Christians are desperate since they have no evidence to present. So they demand the atheists prove Yahweh does not exist. We atheists can resist this cheat. However, we want to convince them of their error. They have persuaded themselves they do not need evidence. So, if we want to dispel their delusions, we must provide the requested evidence. Simply showing Yahweh is bogus will suffice. We don’t have to nail every conceivable deity of every conceivable definition.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Burial

Burial is not necessarily a religious ritual. You might bury corpses just to get away from the smell. You might build a small monument at the grave site to help people remember the deceased. There is no requirement for a belief in the afterlife.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Burn After Reading

At the end of the holy book The Book of the Law: Liber Al Vel Legis by Aleister Crowley is the suggestion that it would be wise to burn the book after first reading. Why would he say that?

• To increase book sales.
• To stop people from looking closely at what incoherent nonsense the book was.
• To create an aura of magic and mystery.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Burning to Death

Have you ever seen a crime drama when the villain burns someone to death then gets a quasi-sexual pleasure watching them scream? This based on Christians. If you ever debate a Christian, within the first five minutes they will threaten you with eternal torment being burned alive. They get animated and excited contemplating your suffering. Christianity is a sick, sadistic cult. Its members should submit themselves for deprogramming. To see the effect in spades, watch videos of the Westboro Baptist Church.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Burning Gospels

The early church, at the instigation of Emperor Constantine, burned all holy gospels but four. This would be like Walt Disney Inc. using their legal muscle to eliminate all variations of Sleeping Beauty but theirs, then promoting it as a literal true story.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Business as Usual

When you study the historical behaviour of the Catholic Church, you discover that the current paedophile scandal is business as usual. It behaves far more like a crime family than a church.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

But Prayer Does Not Work

Even Dr. Richard Dawkins has said he would pray, if there were ever any evidence found it worked. There hasn’t been so far.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

But Why?

Christians and I disagree on a number of issues. They say that:

• birth control should be illegal.
• abortion should be illegal under all circumstances.
• physician-assisted suicide should be illegal under all circumstances.
• same sex marriage should be illegal.
• sex between two people of the same sex should illegal.
• marijuana should be illegal.
• it should be illegal to have sex before your twenty-fourth birthday.
• it should be illegal to have sex with anyone but your marriage partner.

When I ask why, they answer The bible says so. Tradition. It is obvious to anyone with even a shred of morality. Those would be good reasons for designating these activities as sins, and threatening hell fire for indulging, but why impose these restrictions on adult non-believers as well who see nothing wrong with these activities?

If Christians insist on controlling me, they should at least provide a few reasons why their rules are for the general good. They don’t seem to understand, that these are religious restrictions, based on religions superstitions and misunderstanding of science. Christians are so conceited, they seem to think their ideas about morality trump everyone else’s. If they insist on controlling me to that degree, surely they should submit to my equal control over them.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Butterfly Wishes

Many religions wrap the dead in white cloth. They look like giant chrysalises. I wonder if the original intention was they, like butterflies, should awaken from the dead to a glorious metamorphosed existence.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Buying Adam

Not even all Christians buy the story of Adam and Eve as literally true.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Buying a Car, Christian Style

1. The salesman explains only boorish people ask questions or demand to see the car.
2. The salesman wears a cross. He is thus a holy trustworthy man.
3. You ask no questions.
4. You don’t ask to see the car. You must have faith.
5. You believe everything the salesman tells you without question.
6. You don’t go for a test drive. There is no reason other than faith to believe a car exists.
7. You hand over your money without asking for a receipt.
8. When you realise you have been had and you have no car, you recommend the salesman to others. Maybe if you suck up to the salesman, he will treat you better.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Caligula and Yahweh

The Roman Emperor Caligula commanded his legions to collect sea shells to prepare for the invasion of Britain. He was clearly bonkers, but his legions obeyed because they feared him. Christians are similar in the idiotic things they do commanded by their insane, cruel and not-even-extant god and for the same reason — cowering fear. Their groveling before a corrupt, imaginary god is so contemptible and so absurd.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Calling Out To God

Given God’s reputation for being such a prude, I wonder why so many people call out to him during sex.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Callous God

A local newspaper announced that a local woman had credited her faith in god with her ability to endure a stepfather slitting the throat of her five year old daughter. Wouldn’t she be asking herself why her god refused to intervene? Why did her god single her out for this tragedy? Her god refused to lift a finger in any way to help, hardly helpful. This sounds like Stockholm syndrome. What did she imagine this god was telling her that anaesthetised her?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Camping’s Victims

It is amazing that a known con-man like Harold Camping (1921-07-19 2013-12-15 age:92) could raise tens of millions of dollars with a hoary end-of-the-world scam. It is as if his brain-damaged victims fell prey to the Nigerian 419 letter scam after receiving 1000 such emails and sold off all their earthly goods and wired off the proceeds. Some stupidity is so immense it begs to be exploited.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cancer Hypochonriacs

Have you ever met one of those cancer hypochondriacs? The answer to every question about every anomaly they notice about their body is It must be cancer. They remind me of those daft Christians to whom the answer to every question is It must be god.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cannibal God

Think of those old black and white movies where cannibals put people in pot, without killing, cleaning or even undressing them. Then the cannibals dance and sing to the cannibal god. What Christians do is barely any different. I find it so hard to believe Christians are not pulling my leg when they tell me they take all of the Christian woo seriously. It is just so silly, so nonsensical.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cannibal Religion

In movies of the 1950s a popular cliché was a tribe of Africans worshiping a giant wooden idol. How could they be so stupid not to notice it was just a big wooden mask constructed by the witch doctor? But then modern Christians are even more stupid. Their object of worship does not even exist. It is invisible and does nothing. It was constructed by the priests purely of ideas. It is con, just like the emperor’s new clothes. The con appeals to vanity, just the same way. It tickles people pink to imagine the creator of the universe takes time out just for them. How important they must be!

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cannot All Be Right

All 60,000 religions can’t be right, however, they can easily all be wrong since there is no evidence for any of them and they are all composed of such similar BS.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Capricious Gods

The gods are capricious but nature is anything but capricious. There is no sign of them.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Car Accidents

There are about 38,300 car accidents deaths each year in the USA. There are about 4.4 million injuries. Most of these people are Christians who pray for their safety and the safety of their families. In the bible, God promise to grant every single prayer. Have a look for yourself:

Matthew 7:7-8
Matthew 17:20
Matthew 18:19-20
Matthew 21:22
Mark 11:24
John 14:14
John 16:23

These promises cannot even in theory be true.

What gives?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Case For Christianity

The whole case for Christianity is based on repeating lies, believing lies and ignorance of science.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Catch 22

If Adam had not yet eaten of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, how could god very well expect Adam to know it was wicked to eat it or that it was wicked to do something god had told him not to do?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cathedrals

When I see a cathedral, I am overwhelmed at how much effort people will go to sell a lie.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Catholic Arrogance

22% of Americans identify as Catholics. However, they imagine that constitutes a majority. Further, they imagine the constitution does not apply to them, and they have the right to impose their superstitions on everyone else, e.g. abortion, contraception, euthanasia, homosexuality…

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Catholic BS

When I was a kid, a Catholic family lived two doors down. The oldest boy would explain the facts of life to us, such as his family was going to heaven, but it was iffy for the Protestant families and very unlikely for our atheist family unless I was exceptionally well behaved. Even then, the best I could hope for was purgatory. At the time, it did not occur to me what an insufferable little prick he was being. He did this with all kind heartedness, accurately relaying the BS he had been taught. This is the same sort of BS that young Germans were taught — that they were the master race.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Catholic Censorship

Normally if someone says something you disagree with, you debate the issue. If it is defamatory, and completely without merit, you might sue and let a judge decide which of you is right. But the Catholics have a completely different way of dealing with people who say things they do not like. They censor them, or in earlier times, kill them. They tortured and killed heretics. Today LifeSiteNews has banned me from their site. They don’t want to hear anything that is not 100% canonical. They even deal with reports of priests abusing children that way. The attempt to silence the whistleblowers.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Catholic Crime Syndicate

The Catholic church has been a crime syndicate masquerading as a religion for at least 900 years.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Catholic Overbreeding

We have allowed the church to masquerade the ultimate selfishness as a virtue. Every time they persuade a couple to spawn more than two future tithers, they are depriving some other couple of having any children at all. The earth cannot even sustain the population we have already burdened it with.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Catholic paedophilia

I don’t think there is much chance Pope Francis will do anything to discourage his priests from molesting children. paedophilia has been for centuries the church’s primary recruiting perk. The church is paedophile-friendly, arranges access, covers up and arranges transfers when there is heat. It provides respectability and an excuse for lack of sexual interest in adults. It provides a non-violent way to force children into sex using terrifying threats backed by religious authority. Who but a paedophile would vow never to have sex with an adult for the rest of their life? The Catholic church is already having a rough time recruiting priests. The church is no longer the safe respectable haven for paedophiles it once was. If Francis put a stop to the molestation, the church would wither from lack of priestly recruits.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Catholic Spin

The Catholic church is spinning its fight with Obama over full health care that includes contraception. The church claims it is an imposition on their religious freedom if they are prevented from interfering with their employee’s access to contraception. They are the ones violating individual freedoms. How is their freedom in any way impaired? It is not as though anyone is being forced to use contraception.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Catholics Imposing Superstitions on Others, Again

The Catholic church is complaining it is not being permitting to ram its religious superstitions down the throats of others. Nobody is in any way interfering with what Catholics do vis a via abortion or contraception. Their claim that a single cell should have the rights of a full grown human makes no sense without the goofy notion of souls possessing single cells like little demons. There is zero evidence for them. It is thus highly improper to force this superstition down the throats of non-believers, much less put skeptics in jail or kill them.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cause

113 years ago Einstein blew the notion of cause out the water. He discovered that two different observers, both accurately measuring, can disagree on which of two events happened first, and hence which event caused the other. When you get close to the speed of light, the notion of cause makes no sense. Similarly, scientists have discovered a vacuum is a seething soup of particles popping into and out of existence. Religious people like to quote 19th century science before this was discovered.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cause of Crop Circles

It would please me if it turned out crop circles were formed by some agent other than man, but I don’t run about claiming absolute proof that this is indeed so, when I have almost no evidence, much less proof. Further, I don’t call for the persecution of non-believers. I ask the same courtesy from the holders of religious beliefs.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cause of WWIII (World War III)

There is one thing we know for certain about the person who will start WWIII. They will believe a disembodied voice in his ear commanding him to was the voice of this favourite imaginary deity.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Caving To Atheists

Christians complain that if they followed the constitution, and banned public prayer in schools, that would be equivalent to teaching atheism in schools. No it wouldn’t. In the name of peace, there simply is no discussion or exercise of religion, pro or con. If atheists truly had their way, the children would be taught what a con Christianity and Islam are.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

CBC and Religion

Intellectuals at the CBC keep dragging moribund religious ideas back on stage like a cat presenting a dead mouse hoping this time the listeners will find them acceptable.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

CBC Peddles Christianity

The CBC routinely promotes quackery as medicine and fiction as history. I refer to its attempts to sell Christianity.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Celebrating War Crimes

The height of hypocrisy is, on Easter, NPR (National Public Radio) celebrating US soldiers returning from Afghanistan. These soldiers killed an average of one civilian each. They were not defending the USA, but stealing Afghanistan’s natural resources. The makes them each war criminals guilty of a capital offense, the same as Nazis hanged at Nuremberg, not heroes.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Censoring Christians

The Omaha Coalition of Reason put up a billboard that said Don’t believe in God? Join the club. Christians wanted it taken down. They are such control freaks and so insecure in their faith, that they want to censor even knowledge of the existence of anyone who disagrees with them. Further, they presume they have the right to abrogate the constitutional freedom of assembly to non-Christians. Their belief that they are the god Yahweh’s chosen master race makes them behave so arrogantly.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Censorship

In the 1930s in America, a rabid Catholic prude named Joseph Ignatius Breen was put in charge of censorship of movies. This was a violation of church and state — imposing the beliefs of the Catholic Church on everyone.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Censorship

The word censorship is often misused. It means blocking people from access to reading or seeing something. It does not mean:

• Refuting something.
• Refusing to fund it with public money.
• Refusing to display it in public space.
• Refusing to publish something. There is no way a publisher has room for everything. A publisher is free to use whatever grounds he pleases for deciding what to publish (usually what will bring the highest profit).

You have the right to show you works somewhere, not anywhere you please. However, if a newspaper routinely accepts material to distribute for a fee and they reject yours, that is censorship.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Ceremonies Without Consent

I heard a CBC radio item about John Gillibrand, an Anglican priest in Wales who put his autistic son through a confirmation ceremony. I got the impression the son did not understand what was happening. Churches routinely put people through ceremonies without consent or understanding, such as christening and circumcision. Such ceremonies have a long tradition behind them, but I still think they are improper.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Certainty is an Emotion

Certainty is an emotion, like joy or anger. It has been located in the brain. The problem is people treat it as if it meant rigorously proved/tested. The sensation of certainty has little to do with truth and more with solidarity.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Certainty in the Face of Zero Experience

I find it extremely odd that everyone is convinced his own religion is 100% true and all the rest are untrue even when he has zero experience with any religion but his own. His religion could well be the worst and he would have no way of telling.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Certainty Justifies the Means

Christians are so convinced they are right they can torment, bully, steal, torture and murder never once questioning whether what they are doing is acceptable. This what makes them such intractable enemies. They have no conscience. They have no respect for reason.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Certainty the Other Is Wrong

If you are a Christian, like me, you are quite sure Ganesh the elephant god of the Hindus is just a myth. If you are a Hindu, like me, you are quite sure Yahweh the sky god of the Christians is just a myth. Why do you each so clearly see why other people’s gods are myths, but not you own?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Certainty Without Evidence

Given how vast the universe is and how little of it we have explored, I find the certainty that Christians have that they are the acme of universal perfection and that the god Yahweh created whole thing solely for their delectation, the height of conceit.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Challenging God

When atheists debate about god, they are not challenging god. They are challenging stupid Christians who claim there is a god without a stick of evidence, and despite all the evidence to the contrary. The universe runs itself. There is not a trace of divine tinkering.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Championing a Religion

People champion religions, not because they believe them to be true, but because it tickles them to imagine they might be true.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Change Is Inevitable

If you lived in the dark ages, it would seem that nothing could ever change, yet it did, the Renaissance eventually flowered. Similarly people living today might imagine the world must forever be run my corrupt politicians, generals and corporations.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Changes In English

Think how much English has changed over the last 1000 years. Vocabulary has changed, spellings have changed, lower case letters were added, words were borrowed from other languages, even the grammar has changed. A scholar can roughly date a phrase of English prose by studying these changes. Hebrew similarly changed over 1000 years. Even the alphabet changed. Scholars have been able to date individual phrases from various ancient documents to discover that the old testament was written and edited over a period of 1000 years by several waves of authors. The oldest part is Exodus which was originally a poem.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Changing Perception of Mormons

When the Mormons started out, there would have been consensus that they were either charlatans or delusional. Few people would dismiss them as mentally ill today, even though their beliefs have not changed, only their numbers.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Charity

American Christians no not give to charities that actually attempt to relieve suffering in the world. They give to their church, and kid themselves this is charity. Their money is spent much the way country club dues would be spent. They are spending on themselves.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Charity

Charity it not just about donating money. It is about caring what happens to other people.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Charity

When in comes to charity, Christians are the biggest pikers. What’s the problem? Christians handle their charitable obligations by tithing to the church. This money is used to heat and maintain the church and the manse. It is used to maintain the gardens and lawns. It pays for the mortgage on the church building and property. It is used to pay the pastor to deliver a sermon each week. This money benefits the donors, not the poor. It is like paying your country club dues. It is quite a stretch to call it charity.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Charlatans

One of the most infuriating things about Christians is even ones with just a grade 2 education consider themselves the world’s experts on anything scientific. They are so patronising and so condescending when all they are doing is pulling conjectures a four year old my have out their asses and trying to fob them off as unquestioned truth.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Charlemagne the Christian

Charlemagne beheaded anyone who refused to be baptised, who cremated a corpse, or who worshiped a non-Christian god.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Charlie Hebdo

The Charlie Hebdo cartoons that caused all the fuss were never published in North America. They were too obscene. The media never mentioned this. I saw them by doing a Google Image search with safe search turned off, immediately after the attacks.

The cartoons included sodomy chains and anilingus chains. These were obviously intended to be maximally offensive. The offence was not incidental. It was not merely about depicting Mohammed.

I still think no picture justifies a murder, but I also think the content of the cartoons should be known to help explain the Muslim outrage.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Chauvinism

Perhaps the most preposterous thing about Christianity is its human chauvinism. According to Christians, earth is the center of the universe and man is the center of the earth; no species has any importance other than to serve man. It is just so idiotically conceited. Only men could have made up such a self-flattering religion.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cheating

The unscrupulous bastards who stoop to the widest range of cheating tactics usually prevail. Karl Rove would be a classic example. Religion lets you pretend a god will give them their just deserts even if you can’t.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cheating Christians

Wherever Christians publicly debate the existence of god, they invariably lie and cheat. I have two explanations for this:

1. They know fully well that there is no god. They earn a money from the god con. This lying is just part of the overall con.
2. They believe there is a god, but cannot come up with a decent reason to think so. In name of promoting truth, they lie.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Checking In

If once an hour you checked in what was going on with yourself, your town, your country, your planet, then asked If there were a loving god, could he possibly tolerate this? you might find yourself an atheist by tea time.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Cheek

A guy once embezzled my life savings then added insult to injury by having his lawyer write me a letter threatening to sue me if I ever mentioned his name in public. Similarly, Christians rip people off and trick them into handing over their kids for physical and sexual abuse. Then, if anyone so much as questions their conning spiel, they react in horror at the lack of respect for their beliefs. Such crooks! Such phonies!

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cheek Swabs are Murder

Nowadays every cell in your body is a potential new human being. It is not just sperms, eggs and zygotes any more. Some Christian believe they are justified in murdering an abortionist because he destroyed a zygote. Now, to be consistent, they will have to kill anyone who cuts their finger or gets a DNA cheek scraping.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Cheese Shop

Imagine you went to Italy and visited the world’s biggest cheese shop. There were 60,000 varieties for sale. Your Christian companion said Order the Somerset Cheddar. It is the best selling. All the others are poisoned. You ask Why do you say that? Have you tried them? Heavens no. I don’t know the first thing about any of them. The people at the Somerset cheese works told me. They know cheese.

Christians try to convince me that all 60,000 religions but one are bogus. To me, Christianity looks just like the others. Christians can’t explain why it is the slightest bit different other than it was popular in the time and place they were born.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cherry Picking

By cherry picking the most pleasing features of the universe and ignoring the repulsive, they convince themselves the universe is a perfect playground for man constructed by a loving deity.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cherry Picking

Yes, the bible hates gays, but it also condemns nearly everyone else to death or worse. Why cherry pick? Very simple. Most people are not gay. They are however, Sunday shoppers, owners of statues, naughty children, adulterers… Gays are a safe alternative scapegoat.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cherry-picking New Technology

Even the most orthodox religions still have to confront the changes in modern culture and technology, even if it just amounts to deciding to reject it. They have to decide whether to accept reproductive technology to tip the balance of male to female babies. They won’t necessary reject everything new if it helps them promote their ancient paternalistic beliefs.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Child Abuse

It is child abuse to deliberately teach children things that are not true. It is child abuse to teach children bigotry and cruelty. It is child abuse to teach children to be closed minded. That is why we should stop indoctrinating children with Christianity and Islam.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Child Naming

If you convert to the Muslim faith, you will be expected to take on an Arabic name — Mohammed is the most popular. Muslims give their children Arabic names, even when they come from quite different cultures. I think this is improper — children should chose their Arabic names when they formally choose to join the faith as a young adult. It is presumptuous to give them one as an infant.

Of course, Christians do the same thing. We don’t notice because most of the common Canadian/American/British names have Christian associations:

Adam, Calvin, Chris, Daniel, David, Deborah, Delilah, Ethan, Isaac, James, John, Joseph, Judith, Julia, Luke, Mark, Martha, Mary, Matthew, Michael, Oprah, Paul, Peter, Philip, Rebecca, Sean, Sebastian, Thomas, Tim, Veronica…

Some parents give their children archaic biblical names to unmistakably brand them as Christian/Jewish e.g:

Abner, Absolam, Beulah, Caleb, Christy, Christine, Ebenezer, Enoch, Esau, Gabriel, Jared, Javan, Jehosophat, Jemimah, Jethro, Joshua, Lazarus, Luther, Methusela, Micah, Mordecai, Moses, Noah, Phineas, Sampson, Seth, Uriah, Zachariah, Zackary…

It would be more respectful of parents to give their children religion-neutral names and let their children optionally pick a new name at a coming of age ceremony. What would be suitable religion-neutral temporary names?

Aidan, Albert, Alfred, Allen, Amelia, Anders, Arn, Astrid, Barry, Bernard, Bjorn, Brent, Brian, Brianna, Bruce, Cade, Cameron, Charles, Carl, Cary, Charlotte, Cinnamon, Clifford, Clint, Chloe, Connor, Conrad, Croft, Curtis, Cyrus, Dag, Dallas, Daphne, Dmitri, Donald, Donatello, Duncan, Dustin, Dylan, Eric, Erika, Federico, Felix, Frederick, Gary, Geneva, George, Gertrude, Gore, Gregory, Gunnar, Halle, Harry, Herman, Henry, Hugh, Jackson, Justin, Karen, Katherine, Kerry, Knute, Kurt, Larry, Leif, Leo, Leonard, Leonardo, Liam, Linda, Logan, Martin, Manus, Murray, Nadia, Neil, Niall, Nicholas, Nicole, Nils, Oliver, Pepper, Poppy, Ralph, Randolf, Ren, Riu, Ronald, Rudolf, Richard, Robert, Roger, Roy, Rufus, Rupert, Ryan, Sander, Sandra, Sandro, Sasha, Scott, Sean, Shane, Shannon, Stephen, Svend, Tara, Taylor, Terry, Travis, Trevor, Tyler, Walter, William… There are so many saints, it is hard to avoid those names.

It would be wise to Google the most popular baby names for the current year and avoid them. Back when I was a child, John was unusually popular. We had four Johns in our class to cause confusion.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Child Sacrifice

In one day, Incas rounded up 140 children, cut open their chests and pulled out their hearts. They did this to gain favour with their imaginary gods. And people claim religion makes people behave better!

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Child Torturer

If a man arranged to have his son slowly tortured to death, would you term him loving? I doubt it. Why then do Christians persist in labeling their god Yahweh that way?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Child vs Parent Rights

The right of a child not to be abused trumps the religious right of a parent to abuse.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Childhood Delusions

My younger sister believed humanity lived on the inside of a giant sphere with the sun at the center. My best friend Pete when I was 13 believed humans reproduced by going into an amnesiac coma and the male’s testicles burst open spraying blood containing sperm cells everywhere. As a child, musician Nile Rodgers thought that adults slept standing up. These strange notions were all based on misinterpreting what adults had told them. Children are hard wired to believe whatever claim is true, no matter how bizarre. In pre-history, children who ignored or questioned their parent’s survival advice usually did not survive. This is the vulnerability by which the god virus reinfects each generation.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Childish Argument For God

I find even professional Christians make a very childish argument for god:

• If there were no god, I would feel uncomfortable.
• If there were no god I would not have a moral compass.
• If there were no god, my life would lose meaning.

Those are reasons they are attached to the notion of god, true or not. That they would like it if god existed has nothing whatsoever to do with whether he does. It is the argument of a spoiled child imagining the universe is constrained to conform to her preferences. When Christians argue like this, I can’s tell if they are dishonest or merely addled.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Childish Funerals

I think it reasonable to have some sort of ceremony to mark the end of a life, but I find it irritating when those running the ceremony pretend the deceased is hiding up in the rafters watching the proceedings.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Childish Generalisations

Americans think that all Muslims should grovel and apologise to them because of 9/11. It does not clue into these goofuses that it would be equally ridiculous to demand all Christians grovel and apologise because of Tim McVeigh. There is no evidence the people building the mosque in New York City had anything to do with 9/11, so there is no reason they should pretend to be guilty or deferential. For that matter there is no hard evidence any Muslim had anything to do with 9/11. All we have is Bush’s word, something proven less than reliable and a lot of unanswered questions.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Childish Things

Primitive peoples had almost no power over their lives, so to distract themselves, they pretended they did. Thus worship of Yahweh was born. Today we actually do have some control. Put away these childish things.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Children of Rape

This business of forcing women to bear the children of rapists sounds like something Hitler would have dreamt up to humiliate Jewish women. It makes absolutely no sense. Tea Party candidates insist that women bear the children of rape. What you are balancing is the life of a single cell against the life of an actual child who will be hated by its biological mother and ashamed of its biological father and itself for its entire life. It seems to me the life of a real child is far more important than the life of a potential one.

Even sperms and eggs are potential children, in exactly the same sense that zygotes are. It is insane to torment real children to honour an abstract religious principle that has no basis in reality. Claiming that every zygote is sacred is just as silly as claiming every sperm is sacred, every egg is sacred, every lymphocyte is sacred, every neuron is sacred, every erythrocyte… Blithering nonsense!

Cells die by the billions every day. The only people who weep over this mass slaughter, or who butcher women who have abortions are nutty Christians who don’t understand the cellular reality. Ironically, most of these same people also have no compassion for refugee children.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Child’s View of War

I grew up in Canada just after WWII (World War II). When I was young, I thought it happened long ago. I could never understand everyone’s fascination with this bit of ancient history. I saw them like Civil War reenactment enthusiasts. I also thought the Korean war was perpetual. It was just a place you went if you wanted to play war.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

China

The most atheist country in the world is China at 61%. It has only a sprinkling of religious people. China is rising in power and will eventually surpass the USA. Imperial powers always impose their religious beliefs on their subjects. I presume China will be no different.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Choice

If you are a Christian, sooner or later you will no longer be able to avoid the big choice: truth or God.

Why would you choose God over truth? Because your mother terrified you silly of god-under-the-bed. You are still an abused, traumatised child. You are no different from a child with an crippling phobia of spider or snakes.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Choice of Law

Christians justify vigilante murders of abortion doctors. If you challenge them, they will counter whose law do you obey man’s or god’s. We don’t have that choice. We have the choice between the law written by men of our time or the biblical law written by men thousands of years ago. I think we have learned something in all that time. In particular, we have discovered it leads to endless bloodshed if you let people force their religious laws on others, particularly when interpreted by fanatics.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Choice Is Wide

There are 60,000 religions. Religious people tell me their religion is the only correct one and following any of the others will lead to eternal damnation. There is no time to even learn about all the religions. How am I supposed to make an informed choice? And why is guessing incorrectly the biggest crime of all? It should not even be a sin. There is no malice intended. I think this is all bullshit. This threat of hellfire is just a filthy recruiting lie all religions use. Any organisation that would stoop to such depths deserves no followers. And that is just the beginning of the lies. Further, I don’t believe a supernatural being with even the most primitive understanding of fair play would condone such a contest. So I think all deities associated with religions that threaten apostates or non-believers cannot exist.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Choose a Creation Myth

Hindus have five different creation myths. Jews, Christians and Muslims insist every one accept only one and oddly one that for which there is no collaborating evidence and overwhelming scientific evidence it is false.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Choose Your Life Purpose

Just because life does not have a single given a priori purpose, does not mean it is without purposes. It is just that you get to choose you own purpose, as does everyone else. Christians believe if they acknowledged the choice, they would be miserable.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Choose Your Own Purpose

Everybody gets to choose their own purpose and change it as needed. The universe as a whole does not have a purpose any more than a mountain has a purpose. Asking what is the purpose of the universe is the same asking Why did god create the universe? What did he plan to use it for? If there is no god to have the purpose, there can be no universal purpose. So stop expecting science to answer meaningless questions like What is the purpose of the universe?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Choosing A God

There are two big questions:

1. Is there a god?
2. If so, which religion, if any, is the best to join?

People spend a huge amount of time on the first question, but none on the second. The first has almost no effect on your life at all. The second has far more consequences for your life. It determines your social circle, whom you may marry, your diet, your clothing, your customs, your morality, what impossible things you have to profess to believe, your social status, whom you hate… People choose their parents’ religion without examining even one of the 60,000 alternatives.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Choosing A Religion

Did you ever notice that people nearly always choose the same religion their parents did, that their neighbours did? Humans have something called confirmation bias. Whatever information you learn first you believe in preference to information you learn later. Confirmation bias makes you cling to the first religion you learn about. The effect is so strong, you will likely avoid even learning the basic facts about other religions. Nevertheless, you are convinced your religion is the best and the truest.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Christian Abuse Cult

Christianity is a cult that excuses the abuse of women on the grounds that is what people 2000 years ago did. Why did those ancient people do that? Because people even 2000 years earlier did it? Why did they do it? Because they could get away with it. It is pleasant to dominate and be served. The men were bigger and stronger than women. Women could not survive without them. It was not morality. It was might makes right.

The same process allows Christians to justify physical and sexual child abuse.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Alchemy

Christians believe that if you tell a lie enough times, it becomes true.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Altruism

A scientific study discovered that Christians are less generous and less altruistic than non-believers. Why might that be?

• Christians imagine they don’t have to deal with a situation because God will handle it.
• Christians often imagine people in trouble are being punished by god for some hidden sin. They do not want to interfere.
• Christianity teaches that belief is far more important than good deeds. In my view, belief is a form of wickedness — wilful stupidity.
• Christians tend to confine their donations to the church. These are for all practical purposes country club dues, and corruption payoffs. They don’t help the disadvantaged the way they would had they been given to specific charities.
• The more devout you are, the more likely you are to consider others wicked and undeserving of any aid. You have more rules for others to break.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Arguments

When Christians off the street argue for Christianity, they will say things like:

• I like having god give me a helping hand if I get sick or run short of money or my partner dumps me.
• I think it will be wonderful to live in heaven. I can’t stand the idea that when I die nothing more happens.
• I think it is wonderful that god punishes sinners.

What there are really telling me is why they would like it if the Christian story were true, not why it is true. The universe does not conform itself to what you would like. Further, they don’t actually get these benefits by believing in Christianity. Prayer has been reputedly proven to be futile. Heaven is just a pipe-dream. The criminal justice system punishes criminals. There is no evidence any god does.

We are dealing with quite feeble-minded, infantile people suffering from Christian-induced brain damage. Logic is likely not going to be very effective.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Arrogance

Christians always talk about god instead of a god It never occurs to them even the possibility their god Yahweh could be fiction and one or more of the other 60,000 gods could be genuine. They are utterly convinced of this without even the most cursory evaluation of any of the other gods. This arrogance is worthy of the most withering contempt.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Astrology

A church is like an astrology club. A group of people get together and make up an entire body of knowledge and have fun testing each other on it, even though it has no connection to reality. A church is really no different, but it tries con others into giving it special privilege by bogusly claiming important magical knowledge. A church is even more ambitious. It tries to impose its beliefs on others by lobbying for changes in the law. To improve its status, it aggrandises itself with expensive architecture, elaborate costumes, magical paraphernalia… The astounding thing is how well they succeed at their bamboozling.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Bigotry

The engine of Christianity is bigotry. Christians use religion to cloak their bigotry.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Burial Superstitions

Christian bigots oppose Muslim cemeteries on the grounds Muslims don’t use embalming fluid or metal-lined caskets. They claim this practice pollutes the ground water. This is as nutty as Monsanto-controlled farmers complaining about their organic farming neighbours poisoning them with a lack of pesticides.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Calumny

Christian assure me, that with absolute certainty, the creator of the universe will torture people for eternity for committing various victimless crimes. I can’t believe a creator of universes could possibly be so petty. Such vindictiveness sprouted from a poisoned human mind.

They also tell me this same creator placed all the gold on earth for anyone who wanted to dig it up.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Cannibalism

The central feature of Christianity is a human sacrifice. The central ritual is cannibalism. When any other culture does this, Christians react in horror.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Cannibalism

Usually when I talk of Christian cannibalism I am referring to ritual cannibalism in the liturgy. However, on 2014-01-13, a group of Christians in the Cameroons attacked a random Muslim man, hacked him to death and one of the party ate his leg down to the bone.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70) source

Christian Car Salesman

Imagine a used car salesman who kept saying that a car was wonderful, the best, but would not you in on any details about it, e.g. mileage, its accidents report, a mechanic’s report, or even the year of manufacture. He acted hurt that you did not just believe him. That is a bit like talking with a Christian who refuses to give any evidence to back up his claims.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Cause of Recession

Americans are having a terrible time with their economy. The problem is, oddly, Christianity. Christians are hopelessly optimistic, gullible people who will believe what any charlatan tells them so long as it sounds pleasant. They have almost no interest in whether it is actually true. They have been trained in this sheep-like submission to crooks since birth. So they are vulnerable to politicians who lie to them that they can have their cake and eat it too — massive tax cuts, especially to the billionaires, no cuts in spending and pay down the debt. Honest politicians tell them they must pay higher taxes and accept across the board spending cuts to avoid the public debt dragging the whole country into bankruptcy. Christians turf these depressing but honest politicians out office. They prefer fairy tales.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Cheats

Christians feel no guilt at lying and cheating to defend the faith because they believe it is highly important for others to believe the myths (even if they do not), so that others can be bilked or so that others will behave docilely.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Cheats

It is naïve to expect Christians to cheat less than others. Consider the outrageous con artistry of TV evangelists with their fake healings and phony promises of health and fabulous prosperity. Further, Christians believe the effects of any sin can be magically undone with just an ecclesiastical ceremony. To a Christian, sin is only temporary and thus does not really matter. Christianity is much forgiving than the law. It thus encourages sin and cheating.

What sort of scoundrel prays to god to fix an athletic contest in his favour? What sort of conceited snot claims his special talents were a gift from God to reward him for his wonderfulness?

Finally, remember that almost every successful con man dons the mantle of a pious Christian to lull his marks. That smarmy piety should you on your guard.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Cheek

The cheek of Christians who have never even taken a first year calculus course lets them tell Stephen Hawking he is all wet about the age and beginning of the universe. They are shameless with there arguments from ignorance.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Cheek

Christians have such cheek to tell Dr. Stephen Hawking and Dr. Richard Dawkins they are wrong, when they have only an elementary school level (or less) understanding of mathematics and science.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Child Abuse

Christianity is a form of child abuse, just as surely as sprinkling LSD on a child’s corn flakes. Both leave the children delusional and traumatised. We tolerate it for the same reason Ethiopians tolerate non-consenting female circumcision/genital mutilation/unsanitary clitorectomy and Americans tolerate non-consenting infant male circumcision — we have always done it that way.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Child Abuse

Christians are adult abused children. The Christian rule book requires parents to beat their children and to instill in them a terror of the god Yahweh. They brutally terrify their children with stories of hell fire. The adult Christian has an inner child that needs reassurance someone will protect them from the monster, Yahweh. Pretty well the only way you can do that is to show them Yahweh is a preposterous bogey man of fiction.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Child Abuse Complicity

A church typically exculpates itself for child abuse coverups by saying Mistakes were made. Passive voice is designed to avoid taking responsibility. Covering up and aiding a child molester and/or abuser is not a mistake. It is deliberate criminal act. A mistake would be failing to take a child’s isolated complaint seriously. Perhaps they mean We made a mistake. If we had been smarter we would not have got caught.

If any other institution but the church were found to harbour a child molestation ring, we would not think twice before shutting it down, no matter how prestigious the front. Since the criminal justice system is too timid, the churches caught doing this sort of thing need to be sued out of existence.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70) Deliver Us from Evil

Christian Child Abuser

When I was about nine, I waited at the Ambleside swimming pool in West Vancouver for my Mom to come pick me up. An elderly Christian man pressed me with stories of god and hellfire. I could not leave the rendezvous spot, so I felt trapped. He pressed tracts on me. When my mother arrived, she was furious. I figured she was mad because he might have been planning to abuse me sexually, but she was concerned about an even more damaging form of abuse, attempting to permanently traumatise and brainwash her child with fear.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Child Abusers

When Christians abuse their children, I find it even more revolting than when psychopaths do. The Christian abuse is so unnecessary. Mild mannered people are under the delusion that Yahweh approves of and demands their cruelty.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Child Predators

Fundamentalists make no bones about it. They are after your kids, the younger the better. Pre-school kids are easier to scare. Pre-school kids are more trusting. Pre-school kids are not able to tell truth from nonsense. If you let them at your kids they will create just as much trauma as sexual predators.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Chumps

What chumps Christians are to hand over 10% of their income to charlatans, to commit all manner of immoral deeds, all the while feeling profoundly virtuous, tricked into it like a naïve little boy afraid of invisible bogeymen.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Claims

The Christian makes two claims:

1. There is an intelligent presence in the universe that micromanages human lives.
2. That Christians alone have an exclusive infallible communication pipeline to this entity both to petition it and to discover its wishes.

Christians pretend that if there is even the remotest possibility that (1) is true, then (2) must inevitable follow. That is both absurd and preposterously conceited.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Climate Deniers

It is little surprise that fundamentalist Christianity and global warming denying are strongly correlated. Fundamentalist Christians are schooled from birth in the art of wishful thinking and denying evidence that a god cannot be counted to rescue you from your folly.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Comfort

I find it odd a Christian would characterise his faith as comforting. He believes a psychotic sky fairy monitors his every move, even masturbation and defecation. When people die, the fairy condemns all but 144,000 Revelation 7:3-4 of them to eternal torture. This is comforting? Even if you get into heaven, Yahweh still monitors your every thought to make sure you are continuously worshiping him. You get to play harps, sing praises to Yahweh, and worship forever. Your company is scolding Christian prudes. That is torture too, like living in North Korea.

As an atheist, when I die, I expect nothing to happen, like being under deep anaesthesia, or what it was like before I was conceived. This is painless and boredom-free. This is no scarier than having general anaesthesia. I have done that already. It is no scarier than an elevator ride. To me, atheism is infinitely more comforting than the Christian conjecture. Granted, that is not a reason why atheism has to be correct. The universe is not constrained to please me.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Complaint

Christians often complain that atheists will not leave them alone. Atheists insist on questioning Christian superstition. Contrary to Christian claims, atheists do not attack Christians. They just disagree with them. They don’t beat Christians up or burn down their churches. Not even gay atheists do that even though they have extreme provocation. Why won’t atheists leave Christians alone? Because Christians won’t leave everyone else alone.

• They insist everyone harass gays though they cannot provide a single benefit they imagine will accrue.
• They insist on teaching their creationist myths in science class.
• They insist everyone pray to the Christian god in schools and public meetings.
• They interfere with birth control, abortion and euthanasia of others on purely religious grounds. They try to enforce their religious superstitions on others.
• They interfere with vaccinations and blood transfusions resulting in needless deaths of children.
• Particularly the JWs and the Mormons go door trying sell their religious by mindless repetition.
• They block the civil rights of non-Christians, particularly Muslims, Wiccans, Satan worshipers, Humanists and atheists.
• They are as aggressively ignorant as flat-earthers; they are annoying as mosquitos, but they imagine they are the epitome of rationality and morally superior to everyone else.
• They suck up huge amounts of money from the economy with tax subsidies. Money that would otherwise have gone for good works is misdirected to mansions, limousines and airplanes for televangelists. Most of these subsidies are a giant con that even atheists are required to support.
• Christians prey on the weak, using false promises, signing them up for lifetime memberships without value.
• They imagine their beliefs are harmless eccentricities. Their crazy ideas are as fatal as climate change denial when the government or large numbers of people take them up.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Christian Con

Christianity is a con. If Christians had not threatened you with hell fire when you were too young to realise you were being lied to, it would be completely obvious. You would have little doubt Christianity is the mother of all cons.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Con

Christianity is one big con:

• Popes use it to con people to gild their palaces and cathedrals.
• Faith healers use to con their marks for their private jets.
• Genocidal maniacs and serial killers use it to buy respectability. Confess and all is forgiven.
• Priests use it to con and threaten children into taking off their clothes and allowing the priests to have their way with them.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Con

Christians have conned people into handing over money by persuading them when they die they face eternal torment. The con succeeded wildly even though the Christians did not offer even a stick of evidence. In reality, death is no more of a big deal than an unwatered-plant or a up-turned goldfish. You experienced it before you were born and every time you had general anaesthesia.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Christian Con

In a con, a small group of con artists tell lies and make extravagant promises to the marks. The gullible marks give the con artists money or other valuables. The con artists do not make good on the promises. The best con artists are so smooth and practised their marks never notice they have been had. Is that not an accurate description of what goes on in every religion you have ever heard about? Religion is the original and most polished con. Though religion is a superstition and an error, more fundamentally it is a con. Christianity is such a highly evolved con that sometimes not even the con men themselves are fully aware they are crooks.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Christian Con

Like any con, Christianity works only if you don’t look at the spiel too carefully to see if it is plausible, true and consistent.

Like any con, Christianity works with carrot and stick. It makes promises it never keeps.

Like any con, Christianity appeals to greed, sadism and the dark side generally of the human personality.

Like any con, Christianity has to herd the gullible together and keep them away from the skeptical.

Ordinary cons are only after your money. The Christian con also wants you to hand over your children for sexual abuse. They also want to you surrender your will for general purposes.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Conceit

The best estimate of the number of planets in the universe is 10²² in other words 1 followed by 22 zeroes. The Christian is so conceited he figures his planet Earth is the only one in the entire universe supporting life. The rest were allegedly created by god purely for man’s entertainment. He does not believe in god. He believes in astronomical luck.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Conceit

Christians are so conceited that they imagine any voice whose source they cannot identify must be Yahweh himself.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Conceit

Christians imagine they rate a gullibility/bullshit-forgiveness quotient 1000 times higher than anyone else. Where do they get off thinking should be treated so differently from the rest of us?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Conceit

Christians often complain that atheists do not show sufficient respect for Christian beliefs. That is like a patient complaining that her psychiatrist does not take her belief that she is a werewolf sufficiently seriously. This is not a matter of respecting opinions. Christians are demanding atheists pretend to take their bizarre delusions seriously. Christians got in trouble by treating some fanciful ideas with far too much reverence. Christians refuse to acknowledge they have absolutely no evidence to back up any of their claims of fact. They are no different from people claiming to be werewolves who cannot show any evidence they are, just their heartfelt conviction and the observation that there are many other people who think the same way.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Conceit

I am astounded at the hubris of Christians who pontificate claiming to have the final word on the big bang when they don’t even know a quark from a hadron.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Conceit

I have to laugh at Christians when they look down their noses at polytheists or idol worshipers. Why is believing in one imaginary inconsistent god any less silly than believing in many imaginary tussling gods? Why is believing in an invisible god that does nothing any less silly than believing in a visible god that does nothing?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Conceit

It perpetually astounds me the way Christians have no embarrassment whatsoever about their conceit embodied in their assertion that the creator of the trillions of galaxies, takes time out each day to speak words of mundane Ann Landers-style advice personally to them.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Conceit

One of the most odious things about Christians and believers in general, is their monumental conceit. They believe they are the center of the universe and everything they see was custom created for their personal pleasure. In their view, no other species but man has inherent value. Other species have value only as they are useful to man. Prime Minister Stephen Harper is an epitome of the type. Their religion gives them an absurd sense of importance and entitlement. Even when science demonstrates this is preposterous, they cling to the lie. Only money and religious dogma are real to them.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Conceit

Scientists estimate there are 400 billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. It takes light 100,000 years to cross it. There are 125 billion such galaxies. We have visited none of them. Yet Christians arrogantly announce the entire universe was created expressly for Christians. It makes me want to whack them with a shovel for being so conceited. It is sillier than a microscopic jellyfish announcing the entire ocean was created solely for its personal delectation.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Cons

I was watching an episode of Midsomer Murders about a lawyer who had been artfully conned into thinking a wine cellar full of fake wine was actually rare and costly vintages. I said to myself, that is exactly how Christianity works. Like any con, it preys on people’s greed and wishful thinking. It lures them with promises of a life of utter idleness with streets of gold.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Cons

When my mother was a young fashion model, she sent away $10 (a fortune at the time), for a device designed to make her breasts grow even larger. A package arrived in the mail containing a cardboard hand on which were printed the words massage will do the trick. Christians pull similar cons, promising far more than ample breasts, charging far more than $10 and not even delivering a cardboard hand.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Conservatives

I have discovered something quite peculiar — the people most opposed to promiscuity, the people who believe marriage is such a wonderful institution that they call it sacred, the people who believe that children should only be raised by two-parent married couples, insist most strenuously on denying marriage to others.

They see themselves as so superior to everyone else, they believe that allowing others to partake would defile the institution. Normally, humans want to share institutions they value. These Christian bigots claim to be strong supporters of the US constitution, but ignore the first amendment and insist on imposing their religious superstitions on everyone.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Consistency

Let’s say you went to a Superman movie. There was a tsunami. Superman was capable of saving everyone. However, he decided to stay home in bed and drink a beer. We in the audience would gasp, What happened to make Superman turn evil? Yet when Yahweh, who is reputedly even more capable than Superman, does the same thing in real life, people pretend the Yahweh is good, loving and beneficent. They make excuses for their deadbeat god.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Constitutional Rights

In debating American Christians on YouTube, I discovered most of them are badly confused about their first amendment rights under the constitution. Let me sort them out:

Act	Permitted	Notes
pray in public
preach in public
pray in public schools
force other people’s kids to pray in public schools
pray in private schools
force other people’s kids to pray in private schools
kill homosexuals		American law trumps religious law.
deny homosexuals accommodation		American law trumps religious law.
stop people from saying Yahweh does not exist.		Other people have freedom of speech. This does not count as hate speech. Other people are not required to show your religion respect. Of course you are not required to pretend to respect their religions either.
stop people from saying most of the bible is untrue.		Other people have freedom of speech. This does not count as hate speech.
stop people from saying that all Christians should be killed.		This would count as hate speech.
publicly announce that all gay people should be beheaded.		This is hate speech, but it is so common, it would not likely be prosecuted.
persuade the city to fund an elaborate nativity scene and erect it on public property.		The government is not supposed to promote or discourage any particular religion but this violation is so common, it would not likely be prosecuted. Sometimes the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) or a private citizen will sue.
a department store funds an elaborate nativity scene and erects it on their own property.		This is perfectly ok. Private individuals or corporations are free to promote particular religions. It is only the government that is constrained.
hire only Christians.		This is clearly discrimination based on religion, but oddly the courts permit this.
rent only to Christians or accommodate only Christians.		This is discrimination based on religion.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Contraception

The body has a natural contraceptive hormone called progestin. The body uses it so suppress a second pregnancy after one has already started. The secret of oral contraceptives is to use this natural hormone to prevent even an initial pregnancy. The church seems to think this hormone is wicked. Then, to be consistent, Catholic women should be forced to take drugs to suppress it, thus causing them to become fertile at all times, even when pregnant. If it is not a sin to be infertile when pregnant, then why not permit infertility at other times as well?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Cowardice

In the bible, Yahweh behaves much like Hitler. No matter what terrible thing he does, he demands his followers praise it, and pretend it is a great and wonderful deed. But this sucking up and pretending is just cowardice.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Crap

Christians know better. They have had the same benefit of education as everyone else, yet they spout crap about earthquakes being caused by their god punishing the wicked, as if the Japanese were unusually wicked, as if the Indonesians were unusually wicked, as if the New Zealanders were unusually wicked. What utter crap! Those smug Christian bastards deserve a shower of rotten vegetables or worse.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Crazies on Spaceship Earth

Imagine you were an astronaut living on a space station. A fellow astronaut, who was a Christian, got into the emergency dental kit and was high as a kite on nitrous oxide N₂O. He was smashing the life support equipment that controlled the O₂ / CO₂ balance. You said Cut that out; you will kill us all, you idiot! He replied, I don’t believe in the O₂ / CO₂ balance. I have faith in God, not man’s science! You would not put up with him. You would be justified in sedating him, confining him or worse if necessary. That is exactly what is happening here on spaceship earth with the Christian climate change deniers.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Darwin Awards

It is quite distressing for us atheists to watch Christians killing themselves off for the silliest of reasons. For example:

• JWs will knowingly chose death over accepting a blood transfusion for themselves or a family member.
• Some Christians force family members to handle poisonous snakes, all based on a verse in Mark inserted long after the rest of the bible was written.
• Some Christians avoid medicine that works in preference to, televangelist theatre, placebos and herbal medicine that do not.
• Some Christians rely on homeopathy (water pills).
• Some Christians think they are helping the situation when they pray.
• Some Christians believe a sky fairy protects them from the consequences of their foolishness, such as swimming in a rip tide.
• Some Christians still beat and mistreat their children to the point of death.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Deadbeats

In debates between Christians and atheists, all the facts in play came from science, not religion. Christianity contributes nothing to knowledge.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Definitions

communion

ritual cannibalism ceremony

Eucharist

cracker

miracle

a cracker remains unchanged smelling, looking, tasting, feeling like cracker, however, we pretend it is raw human corpse meat.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Delusions

Psychiatrists study people who have their own unique delusions. Anthropologists study groups of primitive peoples and their beliefs/delusions. But nobody seems to study Christians and Muslims in the modern world, their delusions, what holds those delusions in place and how they are transmitted from person to person. So many people share the delusions and so much media propaganda rains on those who do not share them, it becomes impossible to look objectively at them.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Delusions of Grandeur

Christians are so magnificently conceited they imagine merely asking for what they want might make the universe leap to obey. This is a delusion of grandeur, the sort of thing cocaine addicts indulge in.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Denial

Instead of teaching their children how to grieve, Christians teach their children denial and how to put pretend and put on a public face that they believe in the lie of eternal life. This leaves them even more incapable of dealing with death and even more vulnerable to the vultures who will extract money from them to perpetuate the myth of eternal life.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Disbelief

I get the strangest feeling that nearly all Christians have little trust that what they officially believe is actually true. However, they stick with the religion anyway, probably for reasons nothing to do with religion.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Dream Fog

Sometimes I dream about computer programming in my sleep. It is very frustrating. I am not clear on the goal and things happen that make no sense. When I wake up, the ineptitude of my dream thinking comes instantly clear. I suspect Christians live a perpetual dream-fog when it comes to science. When nothing makes any sense, no wonder they cling to the most simplistic explanations. Christianity can be looked on as a kind of retardation. The words cretin and Christian share the same etymology.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Emetic

The most corny, nauseating bit of Christian tripe ever written is Wink Martindale’s Deck of Cards.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Christian Excuse for Procrastination

Trust God is the Christian excuse for doing nothing.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Extortion

If somebody tries to sell you something and threatens you bodily harm if you don’t buy, that means whatever they were selling you is crap. That is why they resorted to threats. It is still true when Christians do it. That is one of the reasons you know even Christians think Christianity is crap.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Extortion

Normally, issuing threats of violence to convince people to hand over their money is called extortion, but when a TV evangelist does it, it is called spreading the gospel. Normally, promising a hundred fold return on investment and delivering nothing is called fraud, but when a TV evangelist does it, it is called preaching God’s word. Its a wonder this God fellow has any credibility left.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Extortionists

Imagine you ran a grocery store. A muscular little guy with a bald head and a profusion of tattoos came into your shop. He said that his friends were going to keep you alive indefinitely and torture you. The only way you could avoid this fate was to join their Christmas club. The dues were 10% of your income forever. There were no benefits to membership other than avoiding torture.

How is this extortion racket different from what Christians do? The difference is Christians make a less credible threat. The torture is supposed to happen after you are dead. We should be charging Christians with extortion every time they try to sell us their sick religion.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Extortionists

The only way to consider the Christian threat of hellfire for refusing to join their invisible friends club as non-coercive is to realise the threat is bogus. If it were serious, I could take a Christian to court whenever he made such a threat. Christians would be indistinguishable from the Mafia shaking people down if they threatened the torture next Christmas instead of after my death.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Fantasies

Some people fantasise about winning the lottery and buying a lakeside cabin. Christians fantasise about having an afterlife and owning a house made of solid gold.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Folly

I have to laugh when Christians quote scripture in arguments with non-Christians. Surely they understand that nobody else’s scripture has any weight with them, so why should Christian scripture have any weight with anyone else?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Forester

If a Christian fundamentalist were put in charge of the forests he would say, Cut as much as you want. Jaysus is coming soon anyway. He will first burn down all the damn trees, then replace them all.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

This actually happened when Reagan installed James Gaius Watt as Secretary of the Interior.

Christian Forgery

When Christian scholars finally had to admit the tail end of Mark (including the bit about handling poisonous snakes) was a forgery, tacked on much later, they decided it did not matter that it was a forgery because God must have inspired the forgers. The forgery was obvious because it did not appear in early copies of the manuscript.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Heroin

To a Christian, it matters not a whit if what he believes in untrue, irrational, preposterous, contradictory or impossible. All that matters is it makes him feel comforted when he thinks it. It is reminiscent of the addict’s attitude toward heroin.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Hypocrites

Christians are such hypocrites. They happily reap the benefits of 21st century science while spitting on it, declaring scientists instruments of Satan and pretending to prefer iron age science. Let them experience biblical age dentistry!

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Ignorance

In the dark ages, Christians had no interest in mathematics, so they took the last remaining book by Archimedes The Method, scraped the writing off the parchment, and replaced it with religious superstitious drivel — a prayer book. Nova estimated this act set human civilisation back at least a century. Modern science is working to reveal the original work.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Imposition

Christians have superstitions, mainly involving souls and the bible which give them political ideas about:

• oppressing gays
• opposing birth control
• opposing early abortions
• opposing physician assisted suicide

They are so steeped in their religion, they don’t see these beliefs as religious. They refuse to notice that non-Christians do not share them. They want to force those superstitions on non-Christians. In addition they want to force non-Christians to honour Yahweh with religious ceremonies. The constitution guarantees freedom of religion. That should include being forced to honour Christian ceremonies and Christians. The state is not supposed to encourage any particular religion — even the majority religion. Christians would be furious if Muslims did to them what they do to Muslims and atheists. Christian politicians ignore this part of the constitution.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Inconsistency

According to a FOX poll, 74% of Americans believe in after-death eternal punishment. I find this baffling given that nearly all Americans cheered their soldiers off to Afghanistan and Iraq to exterminate children using the most painful imaginable means — chemical burning.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Inconsistency

At the end-of-life, Christians are the ones most likely to demand extreme life saving measures. What’s with this? Don’t they believe in eternal life? It sounds like they don’t believe their BS either.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Inconsistency

If Christians are so fanatical about the sanctity of life that they ban contraception, why are they not in the least perturbed by children suffering from malnutrition or US soldiers butchering Afghan children by the millions for no apparent reason? How do they justify withdrawing medical care from seniors?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Inconsistency Vis a Vis the Constitution

Christians are unusually hypocritical when it comes to the US constitution. They believe strongly in a very broad interpretation of the second amendment. They are happy to sacrifice their children for it. Yet they completely ignore the freedom of religion provision of the first and fourteenth amendments which allows everyone to chose their own religion without interference or discrimination. Christians keep trying to force their religious superstitions down the throats of others using law. They seem completely unaware they are spitting on the constitution.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Junk Science is Still Junk Science

Christians seem to think that they deserve equal time for their medieval science even when they have zero evidence to support it. They no more deserve time than people who claim alien abductions without evidence, or people who claim Nazis live under the North Pole, or the stork theory of reproduction, again without evidence.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Know They Sling BS

Even though there is far more evidence for the risen Elvis and for alien abductions than for Christianity, Christians still insist there is utterly no doubt about their claims.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Labradors

I am told that one big disadvantage of golden Labradors is that they like eating feces. You cannot break them of the habit. No matter what proper food you give them, they prefer shit. This reminds me of Christians who turn their noses up at scientific truth, preferring instead to wallow in religious superstition and quackery.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Liars

A clergyman who writes a text giving false information about evolution is almost as reprehensible as a scientist who publishes falsified findings.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Logic

The Christian reasoning for the existence of god works analogously to this: You can’t mathematically prove all the women found dressed in nighties in a bawdy house are prostitutes, therefore with 200% certainty, they must all be virgins.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Magicians

Like all magicians, Christians use distraction, trying to get people to look in the sky and deep time for god, but god is really an illusion created in the here and now by the Christian to relieve the gullible of their money or to trick a parent into allowing parents to molest their child.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Make Believe

Christianity is a form of make believe.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Make Believe

Christianity is make believe for adults.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Malice

A BC Catholic teen got pregnant because the church kept her so ignorant she believed that you simply decided whether or not to have children. They consider her gross ignorance a Good Thing™ I think it is extreme malice.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Medical Priorities

A Christian would sooner spend $1 million on life support for someone who is brain dead with no hope of regaining consciousness, or forcing a patient in extreme pain with terminal pancreas cancer to stay alive than they would on patients with a good chance of recovery. Such are the times I want to slap them senseless.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Medicine

In biblical days people assumed disease was caused by evil spirits. Treatment consisted in punishing the afflicted. Christians still subscribe to this primitive treatment of the ill when it comes to problems with the brain or the genitals.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Christian Money Con

One of the world’s oldest cons is that if you give money to god, god will supernaturally bless you with abundance. The only people who get rich from this scheme are the con men who accept the tithes in god’s name. The people with the really big money, like Soros, are all atheists. They don’t succumb to wishful thinking.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

It is a rather strange conception — god as high interest savings account. Further, who needs the corrupt intermediary? You are much more capable and efficient than any TV evangelist of spending the money directly on god’s work.

Christian Morality

Christians imagine others reject Christian morality because it is too strict. Not so. It is too crazy and too evil.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Morality is Disgusting

Christians imagine that without Yahweh, there is no foundation for morality. Then how do they explain that atheists are more law abiding than Christians? Atheists make up 8 to 16% of the population but only 0.21% of the prison population. Christians who are a majority of 75% in the USA, make up 75% of the prison population. Further, the atheist Norwegians are closing prisons from lack of criminals. To Christians, this may be counter-intuitive. To atheists it is obvious. If you fill people’s heads with wrong ideas, they will behave in an irrational way.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Morality is Invalid

Christian morality is invalid for many reasons:

• Christians tell me the only reason they refrain from rape, murder, theft etc. is fear of Yahweh torturing them for eternity after they die. They are incredulous anyone else behaves themselves without this threat. This is not morality. This is just fear. Truly moral people behave well for the sake of behaving well, not for crass rewards and punishments. Christians build their morality on sand. If for any reason a Christian began to doubt the certainty of the punishment, they would go on a crime spree. Similarly, if a Christian thought they had committed a sufficient number of crimes they would say to themselves I might as well hang for a sheep as a lamb. and also go on a crime spree.
• Christians claim to follow the bible. However, if you read the bible, you will discover even the most rabid Christians follow only about 1% of the commandments. If they followed all the commandments, they would be instantly put in jail. Christian all cherry pick which commandments they want to follow. Most choose to harass homosexuals. The appeal is they can focus on someone else’s sin without fear of hypocrisy.
• Christians claim nobody behaves morally except them. The stats show otherwise. Christianity makes people behave worse, not better. Christians who are a majority of 75% in the USA, make up 75% of the prison population. Non-believers who make up 25% in the USA, make up 0.07% of the prison population. Atheists are much better behaved than Christians. Christianity is making people misbehave. If you become a Christian, your odds of going to jail are 430 times higher than if you remained a non-believer. It is possible that some of the difference can be attributed to Christians being more inept criminals, e.g. trusting prayer to avoid the police and trusting priests for forgiveness of crimes. Some of it of course is church-sponsored child molesting. Further, the atheist Norwegians are closing prisons from lack of prisoners.

Why are atheists better behaved than Christians?

• The bible is badly out of date. It commands execution for raking leaves on Sunday, killing non-Christians and gays and no penalty for rape. Practical Christians, to avoid staying out of jail, have to ignore most of the biblical commandments. Christians get used to ignoring most of the code, including parts they should not be ignoring.
• In contrast, atheists base their morality on the consensus of law, social convention and reason. They keep it up to date with changing conditions. In addition to private morality, atheists have the law. You go to jail if you rape. That is real. The threat of eternal torture after you die is not nearly as effective. It is imaginary and highly improbable. It is totally unlike anything in the real world. It is not a serious deterrent. Criminologists tell you the sooner the punishment is administered after the crime, the more effective it is. Christian punishment is ineffective because it is maximally procrastinated and not seriously believable. It is just a theoretical threat. No one has ever seen it.
• In the bible, Yahweh spends most of his time murdering innocent people, babes and animals. He is hardly a good rôle model.
• Christians believe you can’t really kill someone, just send them prematurely to the afterlife.
• Christians believe no crime is so serious a confession, a donation to the church and a bit of ecclesiastic magic will not undo it.
• Christians are taught from infancy the only reason to behave well is to avoid being tortured for eternity by a psychotic sky fairy. When the absurdity of the sky fairy begins to dawn, (which they will not admit to their fellows) the Christian is left without any foundation for morality. Perhaps that is why Christians are so much more prone to adultery than atheists. Atheist children are taught to behave well because of empathy and to create a smooth-running world. This is a solid foundation that does not depend on a fragile fairy tale.
• Threatening people with eternal torture just makes them nuts. It does not make them behave better. If it did work, Guantánamo graduates would be model citizens.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Murder Exception

If some people receive a get-out-of-jail free exemption on religious grounds, everyone should get it. The law is supposed to treat everyone equally. It is not supposed to create a privileged class.

So if John Christian can kill his kids by giving them quack medicine, so should John Atheist.

Looking at this another way, why are children left unprotected from whacko Christian parents but not from whacko Atheist parents? Surely Christian kids deserve equal protection. This is unconstitutional discrimination against Christian children.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Murder Mysteries

Murder mysteries written by or for Christians follow a formula: there are two detectives, one intelligent and rational and the other not particularly bright. However, The dumb detective keeps burbling up a stream of information about the crime that they just pick out of the air with dreams or visions. They do no deduction or examination of clues other than possibly wandering around the crime scene. The information is always correct. The smart detective is humiliated by this. Nobody is ever skeptical, or accuses the dumb detective of acquiring the information in some underhanded way. This is Christian wish fulfillment.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Narcissism

Christians are so self-centred, so narcissistic, so conceited. So long as all is going ok with them, they proclaim god to be just, kind, beneficent. Yet they know that is a lie. They blind themselves to the indescribable misery visited on other people, innocent people. They refuse to admit that either god is sadistic or god is imaginary, and hence there is nobody there to deal with all that misery, just us.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Nightmare

I suspect Christians would be far more upset to discover that god calls himself Allah, than they would be if they discovered he did not exist at all.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Odds

You have must better chances of winning the biggest lottery in your country every year or the rest of your life than of the Christians being right about God and the afterlife (which has about the same odds as Paul Bunyan and his blue ox babe being a true story).

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Panacea

If Christianity is good for all society’s ills, how come the red states have more crime, more VD (Venereal Disease), more teen pregnancy, more infant mortality, fewer donations to charity, shorter longevity…?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Peace

Americans claim, without their Christianity, there would be chaos. Yet Sweden is a much more orderly, peaceful and crime-free country than the USA and it is secular. The USA has more murders than any other developed country, more gun violence, more crime. Where is this alleged civilising influence?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Persecution

Older Christians like to claim they are being persecuted. This is nonsense. No one is ever fired for being Christian. No one is ever turned away from accomodation for being Christian. No one is ever refused service in a restaurant for being Christian. No one is ever beaten to death for being Christian. Christians are the majority. They impose their superstitions on others contrary to the constitution, and they get away with it.

What they mean by being persecuted is their values are no longer mainstream, eg. gay marriage. They don’t feel welcome in the world any more. They think the world should turn back the clock so they feel comfortable again.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Pilot

Would you fly knowing the pilot thought the optimal course of action in a tight situation was to pray to Allah or Yahweh for their own immortal soul?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Pit Bulls

Imagine a pit bull tangled up in a fishing line. You do your best to free him, but he keep snapping at you, thinking you are trying to harm him. That is how Christians behave when you try to free them of crazy ideas that are hurting them.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Plasticine

Christianity works by browbeating children into pretending to believe the patently untrue. Once they have learned to do this, they are vulnerable to all manner of nonsense including mediums, quack medicine, faith healers, get rich quick by tithing scams, unfounded conspiracy theories, Republican voodoo economics, homeopathy and attacking other small nations and stealing their natural resources in self-defence. They are plasticine in the hands of the professional con men. They will even had over their children to be molested or raped.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70) Deliver Us from Evil

Christian Plot

Even if the Christians don’t manage to take control of your child now through their relentless TV ministries and family values programming, they are planting the seeds of a phobia of god as bogeyman they will use later in life during a window of vulnerability.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Polluters

Christians pollute the noösphere with their nutty, false and barbaric ideas. They harm the whole world, not just themselves. What ideas am I talking about:

• That you don’t really die. This leads people to waste their earthly lives.
• The you are tortured for eternity after death for trivial crimes such as failing to buy the Christian sales pitch.
• Scapegoating.
• That you will be granted eternal bliss simply for picking the correct religion.
• That the church can undo the effects of sins.
• That you can dump responsibility for your bad deeds on someone else.
• That everyone but Christians are deluded and wicked.
• That Christians are the chosen people. They should have the legal right to lord it over others.
• Because Christians are in the majority, they have the right to impose Christian prayer and ceremonies on others.
• Giving to the church counts morally as charity to the poor, even if not a penny goes to the poor.
• Turning people against science.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Privilege

There are 60,000 religions. We in Canada give special status to Christianity. Like other religions, they pretend its stories and claims are absolutely certain even though archaeologists and historians say they cannot possibly be true. They offer promises of eternal bliss, in return for money. Yet there is no evidence they ever deliver. The churches claim to help the poor, but persuade the poor in the third world to give money to them. Ask yourself why is sexual abuse of children in the church so rampant? Because the government does not tax them, even atheists are forced to support them. The media treat them as a force for good. I consider them polished con artists.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Procrastination

Instead of searching for a lost child, Christians petition the sky god to do the looking. Instead of enacting mining safely laws, Christians ask the sky god to suspend the laws of causality to rescue the trapped miners. Instead of moving their belongings to high ground, Christians pray to the sky god that their homes be spared the flood waters. Praying is not only useless, it is counter-productive because it displaces useful action.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Prosperity Fails

Christian do two crazy things that interfere with their prosperity:

1. Give large amounts of money to televangelists in the vain hope that Yahweh will direct fabulous wealth to them.
2. Pray for money, but no nothing to earn it.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Psychiatry

Debating with Christians is a specialty of psychiatry. The goal is to free the patient of a fear-based delusion shared by many of their peers. In turn, the patients and his peers are trying the install the delusion in you.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Right To Abuse Children

When drug-addicted or alcoholic parents physically or sexually abuse their children, society protects the children by eventually taking them away, yet it permits those same parents to conceive and abuse as many more new children as they please because Christians believe the parents’ right to reproduce is unconditional and overrides the right of the child to be free from abuse.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Right to be Nuts

Christians are as nutty as Morris dancers. They deserve the same respect and the same rights to act strangely. However, that does not include forcing their customs on others, especially children.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Right to Inferior Daycare

In 13 states, all a person has to do is claim his childcare business has a religious affiliation and poof, all inspections go away and also all requirements for compliance with laws to protect the safety of his charges, including training, food safety, sanitation, criminal record checks, paedophile checks… Sean Faircloth: A Strategic Plan for Secular Success 

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Sadism

Christians like to torment teens by convincing them that sex is evil, masturbation is evil and even being horny is evil. This is sadistic. There is no fault in the teen. Raging hormones mean being horny out of your mind is absolutely normal at that age. Christians’ impossible demand that teens should have the sex drive of a nonegenarian makes teens both miserable and crazy. Christians pull this filthy stunt in order gain control over teens by inducing a phony guilt trip.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Sadism

Clergy have become synonymous with child sexual abuse and physical abuse. A native boy at a Canadian residential school sprinkled some salt on his porridge. The loose cap came off the salt shaker and the entire bottle dumped out. The presiding nun made him eat it all. He vomited. She made him eat all the vomit. This is the sort of the bullying, sanctimonious mentality that Christianity creates.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Salesmen

Christians use what should be illegal sales tactics for their lifetime health club membership with fees of 10% of income. They threaten reluctant marks with eternal torture by fire. If roof salesmen threatened little old ladies this way, we would lock them up. If the YMCA threatened kids this way, we would put them out of business. Why do we put up with it from churches. Mainly because we know it is bullshit, a empty threat. We assume everyone is smart enough to figure that out. Secondarily the churches have political power. They are exempt from all manner of laws. If Christianity had any value, Christians would not have to resort to strong arm tactics to sell it.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Science

Christians routinely lie about the scientific accuracy of the bible. They don’t care in the least if it is actually true. All that matters is Does it sound scientific? and Does it create a warm feeling in my tummy?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Scientists

Christians Scientists believe it should be possible to cure disease purely with the mind. The catch is, they cannot get it to work. Child after child keeps dying, but they won’t give up and try some medicine proved to actually work. They are aggressively stupid and monumentally stubborn. If they were just killing themselves, I could rejoice that such twits were leaving the gene pool, but it is a type of murder to deny children proper health care.

Even worse are people like Anthony Robbins and Deepak Chopra who preach this crap, but are quite happy to use western medicine for themselves. They sell this voodoo as science, so they entrap a whole new class of naïve victim.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Scientists

Many people, including Richard Dawkins, have wondered how it is possible for people to be both scientists and Christians. A scientist works with a body of knowledge including astronomy, geology, archeology, quantum mechanics, medicine, chemistry, psychology…

A Christian rejects nearly all of science in favour of the assumptions of desert dwellers living 3000 years ago. They reject rationality, evidence. They trust superstition. They claim the sure fire way to get something done is to pray to a sky fairy, even though they know perfectly well it never works.

What they must do is partition their lives. At work they are scientists. At home, to please their parents, wives and neighbours, they give lip service to Christianity. They ignore the anti-science parts of Christianity but don’t make a point of it. They want to blend.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Scofflaws

Churches routinely break the law and Christian insiders ensure they are not prosecuted. They do political lobbying and champion specific candidates and they demand the public illegally subsidise this activity with a tax break that nobody else gets for their lobbying efforts. The churches are demanding even more special privilege than they already have.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Sewage

The more I study Christianity the more evil and loathsome it becomes. It is sewage sold as Perrier.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Shakedown

The purpose of hell is to terrify people into obedience and most importantly terrifying them into handing over money to the church. There is no evidence it literally exists.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Shame

Things have changed. In Canada, young Christians hide that fact from their peers to avoid ostracism.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Slander

Christian slander atheists by claiming they yearn for a value system where love and compassion have no part. Everything is cold card cash and greed. Oddly this is the value system of the political arm of the Christian church — the Republican party.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Smugness

It is not so much that Christians are a motley assortment of bigots, sniveling cowards, con men, superstitious twits, gullible idiots and people who manage to lead decent lives despite their poisonous beliefs, it is that they imagine they are superior to everyone else and that their false beliefs are what make them so damn superior.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Stinginess

I you are a Christian, you believe nothing you do matters. God will override anything he does not like or fill in for your lapses. Christians often think misfortune is god’s punishment, so you do not want to interfere. You tend to hand over all your donations to the church where they do little good for the unfortunate. You are mainly concerned with racking up cosmic brownie points.

Atheists do not have this crazy thinking.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Strangehold on Public Schools

When I was in public elementary school, I wrote an essay about some British boarding school boys sneaking out and drinking some wine. One my characters, whom I named Travers, said That’s ruddy good wine I was chastised, not for the theme, but for using the obscenity ruddy. You have to look back a few decades to see progress prying loose the Christian stranglehold on our schools.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Stubborn Bigotry

Christians refuse to accept that other people’s right to be left alone trumps the right of Christians to harass them for ignoring Christian dogma.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Superstition

One of the darker consequences of Christian superstition is it discourages people from donating their organs after they die. Christians vaguely imagine they will need them or having them removed will be painful. That same nuttiness makes Christians try to preserve their bodies from decay after they are buried.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Survivor Conceit

Christians who get themselves in serious trouble, say crashing a plane in the wilderness, then survive invariably claim divine intervention saved them. The creator of the universe hand picked them to survive where normally he condemns people in such a situation to a ghastly death. It is a monumental ego trip. It never occurs to them to interpret their luck in a more mundane way with the anthropic principle. Some people in such a situation luck out and wander in the correct direction, most in the wrong one. Some people experience bad weather, some good. Some people manage to find water, some do not. Most people die. A small number survive. The only ones who tell tales of their adventure on radio are the survivors. There was nothing special about them, other than perhaps better survival skills. What is really annoying is the way CBC radio feeds their delusions in reporting the stories.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Symbol

The Christians use a visual symbol, a man nailed to a cross of wood dying slowly. The problem is the Christians behave as if this symbol meant let’s string the bastards up.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Taste

The strange thing about Christians is they think it inherently more plausible and simple that a man in the clouds runs the universe with magic than the universe runs by natural law. For them, that is the default position. Even though they have no evidence for it, they are absolutely sure this is true, only because they imagine it would be wonderful if a capricious, sadistic god were in charge. It reminds me of the scene is some movie where the audience has to clap and proclaim a belief in fairies to bring Tinkerbell back to life. It is a pervasive primitive belief that what you believe to be true is a potent force in shaping reality. However, it just shapes your perception of reality.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Think

Christians tell us that we should worship Yahweh because he is such a thin-skinned bastard, he will torture us for eternity if we don’t, and will probably torture us for some minor crime even if we do worship. They fear him, and so should we. However, they can offer not a single stick of evidence to suggest why he might exist, much less torture people.

This is a bit like telling us we should vote for Donald Trump or he might start a nuclear war in a pique at rejection from the voters.

To me, this ostensible conversion is like the desperate plea of a mentally ill person asking for help getting rid of a demon. They want solid reassurance that a monster won’t hurt them. The existence of god is not an irrelevant intellectual problem to them. It is a matter of more peril than death itself.

Because the penalty for rejecting Yahweh is allegedly so high, Christians require overwhelming arguments. However, they won’t even consider any arguments because of the danger.

This god is a monster. He promises reliable aid, but never helps. He lets horrible things happen to children. He tortures people for eternity while he urges his followers to watch in glee. Christians, deep down, must hate him, but they have been told criticising god, even in thought, is punished with infinite torture. Christians won’t admit their hatred for god to others or even to themselves. The main reason they stay Christian is fear of Yahweh and his sadism.

Christians are so afraid of examining the question of whether Yahweh is real, that they the fail to notice how utterly absurd their reasons are.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Threats

Almost every day some Christian threatens me with eternal torture. Almost never does he give me a reason why that threat might be genuine. It is as though he were threatening to sic a herd of flying pigs on me.

Could you imagine two paleontologists disagreeing on the age of some fossil threatening to murder the other’s children if they did not agree? Threats are a sign of utter desperation, that you have no facts to back your argument.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Threats

Christians have no evidence to support their beliefs, so like any other thugs, they resort to threats and violence.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Token Animal

Canadians use the beaver, a monogamous industrious vegetarian as their emblem. The Americans use the bald eagle, a predator that steals its food from other predators. The Muslims use the bee. Perhaps the Christians should use the mosquito, a conceited mosquito.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Torturers

It is odd that Christians are so keen on torture. Have they forgotten their saviour was tortured to death by crucifixion?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Christian Transform

I can’t explain it.
⇓
Nobody can explain it.
⇓
Yahweh must have done it.

This obviously not so. Just because you can’t explain relativity does not mean Einstein could not. Just because nobody can provide an intuitive model for quantum mechanics does not imply adding Yahweh would help.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Truth

Because Christianity is a fairy tale, Christians come to expect the truth to be a simple as a fairy tale. They refuse to spend any work at all learning about how the universe really works. That would take effort. Instead they prefer to listen to creationist lies about science because that takes no effort.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Truth

Imagine a fireman asked Where’s the fire?
and a Christian answered On the fourth floor, suite 427.
The firemen dragged their equipment to suite 427 and discovered there was nothing there. The fireman confronted the Christian You lied to us.
The Christian answered Nope. With absolute certainty it is suite 427.
How do you know?
I don’t need evidence. I am a Christian.
But you pretended to know when you didn’t.
I was 100% truthful [What he meant was, I told you what I truly believed]. You have to have faith. That is why you cannot see the fire, but I can. It is like The Emperor’s New Clothes.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Is the Christian deluded or putting the firemen on?

Christian Used Car Salesmen

Christians are like used car salesmen. You ask for information on the car. They refuse to give it. They say If you don’t buy the car, were sending Vito around to break your legs and rape your wife. If the car had any value, why would they have to resort to strong arm tactics to sell it?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Vandalism

Adults can donate their kidneys and corneas after they die. Embryos can donate their stem cells that others might walk. Christian superstition demands these valuable gifts be burned or buried.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian View

Normally Christian beliefs seems so nutty, that I never entertain them. However, when I was a boy, there was a kid, K. two years older than me who lead a small gang, who almost every day of my elementary and junior high life, beat me up. I recently discovered that when he grew up, he was convicted for trafficking a long list of drugs. Later in life he became a wealthy real estate con man. When the authorities were closing in, he died of a drug overdose, possibly a suicide.

I thought to myself, K. is a classic example of the kind of person that Christians say get tortured for eternity. The odd thing was then I started thinking thoughts like this I don’t want him tortured on my account. I wonder if there is anything I could do to get him pardoned. He has surely been tortured adequately by now ( 20 later.) God is quite insane, completely out of control. Yes, K. was quite a sadistic kid, but eternal torture is way out of proportion to his crimes. These Christian notions of vengeance are so much in the air (especially when I was a child) that I slipped into them without thinking.

My rational mind reminds me that K. is dead. Nobody is torturing him. Yahweh the torturer is an imaginary bogey man.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian View of Christians

One of the most amusing things about Christians is that they imagine others see them as morally superior to everyone else. Christian morality is 3000 years out of date. Thankfully, even Christians ignore most of it. Their good behaviour is motivated by fear of torture. They imagine this makes them superior to those motivated by love. Christians ignore the statistics that show high Christianity implies high crime, high divorce, high teen pregnancy and high abortion. What sort of morality leaves it up to an invisible man to solve the world’s problems?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian vs Jewish Traditions on Asking Questions

17% of Jews are atheist. The Jews have a very old tradition of debating the Torah. This questioning gradually lead to abandoning naïve views of god. In contrast, Christians are discouraged from even asking questions, but less debating the answers. Christians value a cow-like stupidity and unquestioning acceptance. Cretin is derived from the French word for Christian.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian vs Satanist

There are tens of thousands of gods, some beneficent some evil. Consider the possibility the Christian god is one of the evil ones and the Christian church is an evil institution, pretending to be virtuous. Look at the fruits.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian vs Scientist

Christians complain that scientists only deal with a subset of reality. Scientists complain that Christian lie by claiming their wild speculations are absolute truth.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Vultures

Christians are at their worst when someone dies, exploiting the bereaved for money for magic ceremonies and pummeling them to convert when they are at their most vulnerable.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian Wealth Distribution

Unscrupulous people manage to trick gullible people into handing over their money. Over time then, Christians will tend to be both the richest and poorest people in the USA, but under-represented in the middle.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christian! You Are A phony

Hey Christian! You are a phony. You don’t believe most of that nonsense you give lip service too. It is just that you think pretending to believe it helps your status in the community. You are a hypocrite, liar and coward. Challenge yourself:

• Explain to someone dying of some particularly nasty disease, e.g. pancreatic cancer, that your god could heal them in an instant, but because he loves them, chooses not to. Prepare to be spat at for peddling your bullshit. Explain why your church does all it can to prevent him/her from seeking help to die early to cut out some of the suffering from terminal illness.
• Go to Africa and explain to some 6 year old abandoned orphans that god loves them too, though he won’t provide any food and he lets cruel men sexually abuse them. Explain why you are 25 kg (55.12 lbs) overweight and have never donated so much as a dime to help feed these kids.
• Go to Afghanistan and explain to mothers why soldiers who belonged to your church came to kill their pre-school children. Explain how you know your god is so much more merciful than theirs.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christianity = Smallpox

What would you think of someone who deliberated harboured small pox and infected others? Christians harbour delusions seriously harmful to mankind and deliberately attempt to infect others with them, especially their beliefs that god will automatically clean up any environmental mess or damage made by man, including climate change.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christianity is an Anti-Moral Force

Christians claim that you need to believe in Yahweh to behave morally. They ask, what other motivation to be have well is there other than fear of being roasted alive after death? I counter that belief in such a monster makes people behave even worse than they would otherwise.

• The School of the Americas is run by Christians. It teaches the arts of torture and terror to South American dictators. The torture arts were perfected by the church for extracting confessions from suspected heretics and heretics.
• Most of the soldiers who went to Viet Nam, Afghanistan and Iraq were Christian. They slaughtered civilians, men, women and children who were no threat to the USA. They were able to do this because the civilians were a different religion and hence considered worthless.
• Jews invaded and occupied Palestine in 1948. They justified this crime using their holy book. Historically, Christianity is a schism from Judaism.
• Muslim suicide bombers likely would not have attacked on 2001-09-11 if they were not convinced they would immediately enjoy an afterlife. Islam is a splinter religion from Christianity.
• Like all immoral people, Jerry Falwell convinced himself that his own sick desires were also his god’s. So all that belief in his deity did was give him more certainty to commit evil.
• Animals and humans were taking good care of their offspring for eons before Yahweh was even conceived.
• In 1985 I sold my fully-paid for four-bedroom house and all my belongings and donated all the proceeds to help with the Ethiopian famine. I most certainly was not motivated by fear of or expectation of reward from a non-existent god. I was motivated by seeing film of the suffering.
• Surely you do not claim atheists Voltaire, Carl Sagan and Richard Dawkins are immoral. Surely you do not claim famous Christians like Hitler, Pope Ratzinger (pope of paedophiles) and Fred Phelps were.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christianity and First Nations People

10,000 years ago, long before the Old Testament was even a set of oral stories, long before the Christians admit the world even existed, people were crossing from Asia to settle in North America. They have their own history that has nothing to do with Christianity (until the Christians came and gave them gifts of blankets seeded with smallpox and stole their lands). How could the myths of a desert people on the other side of the world have any relevance to them? What stupendous arrogance of that pathetic tribe to trumpet that their local customs were the only acceptable customs, beliefs and myths for the whole universe, when none of them had ever traveled more than 50 km (31.07 miles) from their birthplace and had utterly no idea what was going out outside their back yard!

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christianity Can Be Cured

Please fund research for the mentally-disfiguring disease of Christianity.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christianity Can Be Cured

Yes, we can find a cure for Christianity.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christianity Causes Bad Behaviour

Not only is Christianity untrue, believing its lies makes 2/3 of people behave worse than they would have otherwise.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christianity Causes Brain Atrophy

Perhaps one of the most negative effects of religion is it causes the brain to atrophy. Having a conversation with a Christian is a bit like having a conversation with a badly-programmed Chatty Kathy doll. They just start spouting meaningless gibberish and go on that way for sentences at a time.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christianity Causes Divorce

The highest divorce rate is in the states with most conservative religious views. This suggests these views are unrealistic and toxic to relationships.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christianity Causes Insanity

Christianity causes insanity, in the legal sense of being unable to distinguish right from wrong. Most Christians consider it more wicked to get a blowjob, masturbate, abort a fertilised egg or smoke a joint than to torture and kill a child in Iraq.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christianity Causes STDs

The highest STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) rates are in the states with most conservative religious views. This suggests abstinence-only is unrealistic and counter-productive.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christianity is a Choice

People choose to become Christian. People choose to become bigots. They have no excuse.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christianity the Couch Potato

Fighting Christianity is like fighting a 453.59 kg (½ ton) cretinous couch potato. You strike and your arm is engulfed in the pasty flesh. It stolidly endures simply because of its bulk.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christianity Damage

If I told you about a man who thought sex was disgusting, who had never done anything in sex but the missionary position, whose sex acts always last less than 3 minutes, you know he is a Christian.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Christianity Game

Christians play a game where they try to spin every horrible or insignificant event as if it had deep positive meaning. They can’t say She died of cancer. That sucks. They need a fairy story/lie like God needed another soprano for the choir.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Christianity Game

People spend all kinds of time on video and board games, lost in imaginary worlds. Christianity is similar. The problem comes when Christians start thinking it is real and it gives them the right to manage other people’s lives, imposing Christian superstitions around birth control, abortions, euthanasia, funerals, homosexuality… on non-Christians. They start demanding their dream world be taught as fact in schools. They demand everyone pray to their gods. They demand tax money support their game. They are people who take their game far too seriously.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christianity is in Bad Taste

I would reject Christianity on taste alone. It is kitsch. It is corny. It is ham-fisted, subtle as Hee Haw. It is silly. It is the Patsy Kline of religions.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christianity in a Nutshell

Basically, Christianity is a con game to get people to hand over their money. Threatening torture after death helps reel in the dumb ones. Once rubes are reeled in, the preacher can steal them from other churches by telling them that hell was a lie all along. The key to Christianity is getting parents to sell the con to their kids while they are still too young to realise how silly it is.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christianity is Just Another Religion

As a Christian, you believe every other religion is a con. Its founders and priests pretended to speak for god to gain power over others. What is so different about Christianity that makes you so certain it is different? Do not the paedophile scandals give you pause about its integrity?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christianity Lacks Any Appeal

Christianity is such nonsense that the only way I could see anyone falling for it is by deliberately avoiding learning anything about it. Scholars know it is as loony as an Action Comic plot. Yet Christians pretend not to notice.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christianity Makes Death Worse

Death is naturally sad, but Christians have made it terrifying.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christianity Makes Life Less Tolerable

It seems to me, if I were broke and suffering from nausea, incontinence and a toothache, that it would just add to my misery to imagine a vengeful invisible man in the clouds were persecuting me with these troubles.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christianity is a Mental Illness

Christianity is a form of mental illness. We don’t treat it as such because it is epidemic. The crazies have taken over entire countries.

There is a tendency to want to excoriate the Christians for their revolting behaviour, but it is just a symptom of their delusions. Most of them did not choose to be deluded. They were brainwashed into it with horrifying threats and, very often, beatings. Christianity officially teaches that beating children is required behaviour.

So hate the delusion and have compassion for those afflicted by it.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christianity Is Not Monotheistic

Christians claim they are a monotheistic religion, yet they have a father, son and holy ghost. Further, they worship Mary and hundreds of saints in the churches using graven images. That sounds like polytheism and idolatry to me.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christianity older that Aztec

Most people would consider it absurd and barbaric if the Aztecs continued to practice their religion of human sacrifice to this day. I consider it even more absurd that Christians practice their ritual cannibalism religion, unmodified, even older than the Aztec religion to this day.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christianity as Parasite

A parasite is a creature that lives off its host. It does not care if its host suffers or dies. By that definition Christians are parasites on planet earth.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christianity Terrifies

No matter how ridiculous Christianity is when you analyse it, it still terrifies people who were taught it as toddlers. The fear of hellfire is very convincing. It might help to remember that priests of almost every one of the 60,000 other religions sell their religions the same way. Those threats don’t scare you only because you have not been repeatedly exposed to them. I read the Qur’an cover to cover. It gave me nightmares for months. Even though I rejected it logically, the images of torment were so vivid, they still snuck into my subconscious. There is nothing unique about the Christian threats. There is no reason to take them any more seriously than Muslim threats.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christianity Virus

Christians are perfectly ordinary mentally healthy people whose mothers deliberately traumatised them as toddlers with a fear of a bogeyman who was planned to roast them alive for eternity. Their foolish mothers thought this treatment would in some strange way be beneficial. This trauma behaves like a virus. It controls the mind and browbeats the poor Christian to infect others. The terror overrides reason, much the way a fear of snakes or spiders does.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christianity vs Atheism

The difference between Christianity and atheism is this. When a Christian convinces you he is right, he immediately hits you up for 10% of your income for the rest of your life. A atheist does not. An atheist does not even ask you to show up once a week for singing or to go evangelising.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christianity Without Yahweh

Bishop Spong said that Yahweh obviously did not exist, but Christianity still had value. I disagree. Christianity is not worth saving. Consider: what do Christian institutions spend their time doing?

• raising money for mansions, airplanes and limousines for preachers.
• replacing science with myth in the schools to indoctrinate non-Christians with blithering Christian nonsense.
• trying to stop non-Christian same-sex marriage.
• encouraging discrimination against gay children and adults.
• harassing transsexual people to embarrass them by forcing them to use the wrong washroom.
• helping priests molest children without consequences.
• stopping non-Christians from using condoms for HIV control and birth control.
• stopping non-Christians from getting abortions.
• stopping non-Christians from getting physician-assisted suicide.
• performing ceremonies with candles and embroidered costumes.

In summary, they spend nearly all their time violating freedom of religion, by trying to force their superstitions on non-Christians.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christianity, a Near Perfect Con

As cons go, Christianity is a remarkable achievement. It victims rarely demand compensation or prosecution of those that took them. It has such prestige, that even those who know it is a con, usually succumb to social pressure to respect it and pretend to take its claims seriously and remain silent about its criminality. It enjoys an untouchable status similar to the Mafia in Sicily or the drug cartels in Bagotá.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christianity: a Backward Step

In one way, Christianity was a big backward step from Judaism. Jews were concerned with what you do, how well you followed the Torah — the law, the instruction. Modern Christian are far more interested in what you believe that what you do. Christians are quite happy to endlessly forgive child molesters so long as they profess the correct beliefs, e.g. that they have been saved or born again or slain in the spirit.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christianity’s Biggest Problem

Christianity’s biggest problem is that Christians cannot get their story straight.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christians and Cannibalism

Because of their death superstitions, Christians hold cannibalism, even of people who die by natural causes, to be a more serious crime than murder.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christians and Causes

Christians have a schizophrenic view of causality. They believe humans have free will, namely their actions have no previous causes, but they believe everything else, including the universe itself, must have a previous cause.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christians and Climate Change Deniers

Christianity and climate change denial often go together. Why? Both involve wishful thinking. Christians count on not dying with only the remotest chance of success. Climate change deniers use wishful thinking to convince themselves there is only a very small chance the earth is in danger. They are pathological optimists. They make a virtue of lying to themselves, calling it faith.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christians and Contraception

Christians are irresponsible wanting to avoid contraception given that the earth has many times more people that it can sustain. What is unbelievably outrageous is them demanding to interfere in the family planning of non-Christians, as if they knew better.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christians and Science

Christians often claim they reject science. They may even claim that all scientists are in league with the devil. Yet these same Christians use telephones, cellphones, computers, electricity, airplanes, cars, pharmaceuticals, canned food, refrigeration, microwave ovens, central heating, modern dentistry… If they were honest, they would reject all the fruits of science.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christians are Crazy

Christians are stark raving bonkers. How can you tell?

• There are terrified of a sky fairy that is invisible and does nothing.
• This sky fairy utterly failed to keep his scriptural promises, e.g. granting every prayer, destroying Tyre and returning to earth within a generation. He behaves exactly as if he does not exist. They are still afraid of him.
• Even though they claim abject terror of the sky fairy, they utterly ignore nearly all his commandments:

  Biblical morality is so insane and so out of date, even the most fanatical Christians ignore it, while giving it lip service. e.g.

  • beat your wife and kids.
  • dash out the brains of babes of neighbouring tribes.
  • do not use antibiotics.
  • force women to marry their rapists.
  • keep slaves.
  • kill anyone who eats leftovers on the third day.
  • kill adulterous women.
  • kill all Ameleks or any of dozens of other ethnicities.
  • kill all Sunday shoppers.
  • kill all brides without hymens.
  • kill all gays, not just refuse to make them cakes.
  • kill all prostitutes.
  • kill all unwed mothers.
  • kill all witches.
  • kill anyone of a different religion and all their Christian friends.
  • kill anyone who cuts his hair or beard. Elsewhere it condemns you for not trimming your beard. Elsewhere it demands rounded and square shapes. You can’t win.
  • kill anyone who eats a shrimp, lobster, owl, rabbit, rare roast, snail, hare, clam, shrimp, oyster, camel, pork, swan, owl, eagle, osprey, bat, dog, locust, beetle or dozens of other animals.
  • kill anyone who grows more than one species of plant in a field.
  • kill anyone who owns a painting.
  • kill anyone who rakes leaves on Sunday.
  • kill anyone who says the word god.
  • kill anyone who wears more than one type of fibre in his clothing.
  • kill anyone with a statue in their yard.
  • kill anyone with a tattoo.
  • kill females who speak in public.
  • kill sassy teens.
  • obey rules involving ritual uncleanliness of menstruation.
  • you must sacrifice animals.
  • you must use separate cookware and dishes for milk and meat.
  • you must love your enemies.
  • you must sell all you have and give the proceeds to the poor. Take no thought for the morrow. Become a homeless person.
  • you must abandon your family.
  • being horny is equivalent to adultery, but only for heterosexual males. This encourages real adultery on the grounds of being hanged as a sheep as a lamb. The purpose of this law is to keep males perpetually guilty and hence easy to manipulate. This is just the fantasy of a paedophile priest, who inspired Islam’s 72 virgins.
  • It is ok to beat your slaves so long as they do not die immediately.
  • Raping a child is ok. Adultery with an unmarried female is ok. Owning a slave is ok.
  • JWs claim the bible commands no blood transfusions, even if it means death. There is no such commandment. Transfusions were not invented until 1818. There are commandments about eating blood, but JWs ignore the other dietary commandments.

  That’s not morality. That is obsessive-compulsive disorder. None of those commandments make any sense except avoiding shellfish in a world without refrigeration, but there is no need to kill anyone.

• They claim the bible is 100% true, even though it gets not even one scientific fact correct.
• They claim the bible is word for word 100% utterances of Yahweh, even though they admit the authors were all human who simply wrote what they imagined Yahweh would say with a little help from divine telepathy. None of the authors even claim to have seen or heard Yahweh.
• They completely reject science without learning what it has to say or examining the evidence it used to reach its conclusions. Instead, they prefer wild speculation from people of profound ignorance.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christians are Legally Insane

Kristianity causes insanity, in the legal sense of being unable to distinguish right from wrong. Most Kristians consider it more wicked to get a blowjob, masturbate, abort a fertilised egg or smoke a joint than to torture and kill a child in Iraq.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christians Are Mentally Ill

There is little difference between a Christian and a mentally ill person suffering from delusions. A Christian suffers less stigma because there are so many sharing the affliction. Christians are far more dangerous because they act in concert cross-stimulating a common delusion.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christians Are Not Serious About An Afterlife

If Christians truly believed in an afterlife, they would be eager to die, like Muslim terrorists. But they are more cautious and they cling to life even more than people who openly deny an afterlife.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christians are Soulless

Christians like to loudly proclaim they are 120% sure they have a soul or that someone they despise lacks one. I don’t know how you tell given that souls are weightless, invisible and completely undetectable. Proclaiming you have soul as is as silly as proclaiming you have a 38.10 cm (1¼ ft) undetectable penis superimposed on your usual one.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christians Are Such Utter Nitwits

Christians are such utter nitwits because they believe they can, purely through faith, live forever. Why don’t they try something a little easier to start, such as using faith, wishful thinking and prayer to fly up onto the roof?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christians At NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

If a Christian fundamentalist were put in charge of NASA, he would fire all the scientists and hire a farmer who said, All ya have ta do is fill a big pipe with dynamite, point it at where ya wants ta go, light the fuse, an’ pray.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christians Behave Worse

A university study discovered that Christianity caused 1/3 of its practitioners to behave better and 2/3 to behave worse. Would you prescribe a drug that made two thirds of the patients sicker and had the side effect of causing delusions?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christians Behaving Badly

During the dark ages, Christians had everything 100% their way. Yet people behaved worse that at any other time in history. Murder rates were 30 times higher than now. How can Christians possibly claim their religious dogmas are necessary for public morality? As the tide of Christianity has ebbed, war, murder and rape have all subsided.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70) The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

Christians Cause Sexual Dysfunction

Christians love terrifying and bullying children. No wonder so many adults have sexual dysfunction problems.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christians as Cowering Children

Christians are like children frightened of the dark, clutching their teddy bears, trusting them to protect them from all harm.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christians Dedicate Their Lives to Creating Misery

The Christian propaganda machine pumps out the notion that Christians are the good people and everyone else is not. Just think, are Christians truly just the same, more likely or less likely that average to make life miserable for others?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christians Don’t Believe Their Own Lies

There was a newspaper article about a 12 year old girl who missed her dead father so much she hanged herself to be with him in heaven. Even Christians recognise this as a tragic story. Even they see what she did as foolish. Even Christians know in their hearts this afterlife story is bullshit, or else they would find the story endearing and the little girl brave and loving. So isn’t it time to stop teaching this crap to impressionable children? Isn’t it time to stop teaching it to soldiers too?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christians Imagine They Are Qualified to Control Others

One of the most serious consequences of a Christianity infection is the subject believes they are more qualified than other people to run their lives and attempts using means legal and illegal to control others.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christians in Nature

If you ever go into the wilds with a Christian they will not talk about what they see. They will instead distract themselves with fantasies about an imaginary man in the sky or their coming afterlife. They behave like a teenager with a an MP3 player glued to her ear as she canoes the pristine wilderness. They want to be cocooned from experiencing the here and now.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christians Know They Are Frauds

It is pathetic that Christianity is wrong on so many points of fact. It is infuriating that the leaders of Christianity are well aware they are perpetuating a fraud. It is alarming that evangelical Christians want to terminate freedom of religion and impose their beliefs on everyone through force of law.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christians Love Inconsistency

Atheists go apoplectic debating with Christians. They prove to the Christian that he must be wrong, beyond a shadow of a doubt, by pointing out how his beliefs are not consistent. The Christian is not in the least impressed. He has been trained since birth to embrace inconsistency. He feels no shame in believing mutually incompatible things or the logically absurd. The Christian decides if something is true only by how it feels in his gut, which has nothing whatsoever to do with logic. An atheist debating a Christian is the similar to a parent reasoning with a daughter about her choice of boyfriend. The daughter’s attraction has nothing to do with reason. It is similar to why it is so difficult to reason a child out of fear of monsters under the bed. The attachment to Christianity is emotional not rational.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christians Making Things Worse, Yet Again

During the black plague in Europe, Christians tortured and killed randomly chosen innocent people hoping to convince their god to call off the plague. Christianity made the problem much worse than it need have been.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christians Misunderstanding Atheists

Christians talking to atheists erroneously presume they are actually Christians, just pretending to be atheists. They assume atheists believe Yahweh, Jesus, the devil and the angels are all real. In reality, atheists have absolutely no fear of them. They have absolutely no interest in placating them. Christians have absolutely no fear of the Greek god Poseidon. They are quite sure he does not exist, even if they don’t know the first thing about him. That is how atheists feel about Jesus and Yahweh. They are just another pair of fictitious gods out of 60,000 gods, nothing special.

Christians love to tell each other than atheists have no morals. By any objective measure, they have vastly superior morals. There are several reasons for this.

• Biblical morals are barbaric and obsolete.
• Christians believe ecclesiastical magic undoes the result of any sin. This is nonsense. Such ceremonies do nothing to help the victim.
• Christians believe if you murder someone, you don’t really kill them, just send them to heaven prematurely.

Atheists reject the primitive morals of Christians. They wish to live to a higher standard. Christians often accuse atheists of pretending not to believe in Yahweh to avoid hellfire, so they can sin with impunity, but that would not work. Pretending god does not exist when he did would not protect you from his sadism. That is nutty Christian thinking. Atheist disbelief has nothing to do with fear of or disgust with the cartoonish Yahweh. It has everything to do with the overwhelming evidence he does not exist.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christians more Malicious Than Criminals

Christians since the beginning have repeatedly endlessly that they are far more moral than non-believers. They have everyone cowed, afraid to point out how evil they truly are, as if it would be impolite to notice or call them on it. It is not as though they are exceptionally virtuous people with a few flaws; they hurt more people than the criminal classes.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christians On Evil

Christians will be the first to tell you that man, not god is responsible for all the evil on earth, even though god is allegedly omnipotent and beneficent. Oddly though, Christians are first to block any government attempt to alleviate that misery.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christians on TV

Think about a Christian you have seen on TV. Ostensibly, they were trying to sell you some crackpot idea, e.g. that you could pray away your cancer, or that you could use a green handkerchief to triple your income, or that a book that was wrong on every point of science or archaeology was perfectly reliable. But always, appeared at the bottom of the screen, an appeal for money for God. You have seen their mansions, so you know where that money really goes. However, when a scientist comes on TV and starts telling you mind-blowing things about the universe, there is never such an appeal for money. Christianity is really about conning people out of money. The whacko ideas are just the bait. Science is about sharing discoveries.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christians Still Primitive

Christians talked of civilising the heathens. In particular they looked down on those who did human or animal sacrifice or who committed cannibalism. Oddly, they failed to recognise the central feature of Christianity was a human sacrifice and that communion is symbolic (though claimed actual) cannibalism.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christians As Stupid Sports Fans

Christians are extremely boring to debate with. All they do is tell you their feelings, as if that any relevance whatsoever to truth. They never offer any reasons to support their assertions. They are like rabid sports teams who cannot quote a single fact to support their claim their team is the best. They imagine their own enthusiasm should be totally convincing.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christians Torment the Dying

There is nothing so pathetic as someone faking a smiling face, or telling stories of preposterous optimism in the face of certain doom. It makes the doom seem even worse. It implies the doom is so awful, you cannot even acknowledge it. What a cruel stunt Christians pull on someone who is dying!

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christians Trains Anders Breivik

Christians won’t want to embrace Anders Breivik, the Norwegian summer camp shooter, but they are the ones who trained him to have absolute confidence without evidence. This is the heart of terrorist thinking. He may be motivated by politics, but his insane conviction is rooted in religious training.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christians vs Satanists

The main difference between Satanists and Christians is Satanists don’t claim to be morally superior to everyone else. The second difference is Christians imagine they have a right to meddle in the private lives of others, based on their misappropriated moral authority.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christians vs. Scientologists

Since neither Scientology nor Christianity can present any evidence for their beliefs, I conclude that the odds either is true is vanishingly small. Since there is no truth in either religion, it makes sense to judge the religions by how well their adherents behave. In that department, the Christians have a long history of killing and torturing non-believers, supporting slavery, exploiting people in the third world and enabling paedophilic rape, something the Scientologists have not done on a mass scale.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Christians, Get Stuffed

Hey Christian! I have a bone to pick with you. First you tried to con me out of my money. Then you tried to get me hand over my kid for you to boink. Then you insulted me with gibberish and silly promises and idle threats, laughing at me, expecting me to fall for your holier and wiser than thou routine. You are playing one of the oldest, most polished cons. Get stuffed!

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Church and HIV

Let us say that an virgin girl is pushed into a marriage with a much older man with HIV. In that case, the Catholic Church says, this is an indissoluble sacrament. They must not use birth control to prevent the birth of HIV-infected children or to prevent infecting the wife. The church had the same attitudes toward syphilis when it could not be cured. This sounds like something Nazis would cook up. How dare they get on their moral high horse when they are deliberately infecting children.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Church Business

From the point of view of capitalists, churches are the perfect business:

• They don’t pay taxes.
• Customers keep on paying until they die.
• Customers automatically up their payments if their income rises.
• Customers have no expectations.
• The product sold, a promise of a eternal bliss after death, costs nothing to produce and does not have to be delivered.
• Almost no costs, just a meeting hall to collect the cash.

More accurately they are the world’s oldest con.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Church Control Of Marriage

The church has incredible cheek to demand that it has the right to decide who can partner up and who cannot and further to demand tribute for an expensive ceremony for anyone pairing up. For centuries the church has claimed anyone who ignores their impudence is living in sin

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Church Crime

Perhaps one of the less obvious, but most serious, crime of the church is tricking people into being submissive to oppression. Slavemasters forced Christianity on slaves to make them meek. Modern day American blacks submit to inequality and financial oppression because the church teaches them too. The pattern is repeated throughout the third world. Part of the lie is convincing the marks that life does not matter. It is short, just a test for eternal life after death.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Church Evil

In order to control people, the church frightens them about perfectly ordinary things like puberty and death. This is so out-in-the-open and so traditional we don’t usually notice what a cruel, evil thing this is.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Church Gets Away with paedophilia Scandals

If any other institution but the church had been caught in mass paedophilic rapes, sexual and physical child abuse, all those responsible would have been driven out of society and all the institutions involved, disbanded.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Church Greed

Averaged over all churches, only 29% of contributions go to real world helping. Televangelists such as Joyce Meyer are lower, about 10%. By comparison 91% of Red Cross contributions do.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Church Meddling in Sex Education

The churches have no more business meddling in the sex education needed to contain the global AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) epidemic than epidemiologists have censoring the sermons of pastors.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Church Perks

Have you ever looked into what it takes to found a church or new denomination? Have you ever wondered why people keep founding new churches, pretty much the same as the existing ones? Have you ever considered what the official church designation gets you legally?

• You don’t pay taxes.
• You get to legally beg money from people and legally accept the donations. You don’t pay taxes on that.
• The Church designation gives you remarkable legal immunity. You can tell the flock any silly thing you please, including things that would harm their health. You can rape children. You can swindle the elderly out of their life savings.
• You can con people into giving you money using any lies you could conceive of, including, of course, false promises. You will not be prosecuted.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Church Proved Impotent

In the dark ages everyone found out the church was completely impotent when it came to the plague. It had no power at all to influence god. Today we have forgotten that lesson.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Church Segregation

93% of churches in the USA are still segregated.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Church Supports An Evil Dictatorship

Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe is the most psychotic, sadistic dictator alive today. Guess who are his main supporters? All of the 130 Christian churches!

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Church Urges Genocide

Rwanda is the most Catholic country in Africa. During the genocide, priests and nuns broadcast from their church radio stations urgings to murder fellow citizens.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Churches Want To Control Who Pairs With Who

For centuries, the churches convinced the population that no relationship was legitimate without church blessing. They convinced everyone, believer and atheist alike, that forming a relationship without this blessing was an unforgivable sin and that any children born were illegitimate bastards The notion is so universal that not even atheists noticed how high-handed and patriarchal it was. To this day churches strive to retain the power to decide who can pair up with who, blocking same sex couples for instance or interfaith marriages. They want to control everyone, not just their own flocks.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Circumcision

How did the insanity of infant circumcision get started? Circumcision was used as a tribal badge, a way of telling if someone was in or out. That seems odd. You’d think a tattoo more easily visible would work better. Given that Yahweh demanded anyone who put an adult penis in his mouth put to death, it seems odd he would demand rabbis put bloody infant penes in their mouths. Jewish parents, for religious reasons, put their sons through the pain and health risks (herpes) of circumcision. If they did it for any strong reason, we would likely lock them up. It is bizarre that, in the law, irrational motivation trumps rational. Further, if anybody but a mohel sucked on an infant’s penis, he would be locked up. We make a special religious exception to the law.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Circumcision

Why would parents hand over their newborn son to an unsanitary and painful procedure such as circumcision? They do it to prove they are dedicated members of the religious community. It is like a tribal tattoo or scaring.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Circumcision is Assault

In my view, male or female circumcision without the informed consent of the circumcised should be considered an assault. The courts are beginning to agree with me. They convicted a man of assault who tried to remove his son’s foreskin with a carpet knife. The Supreme Court of BC refused to hear his conviction. Mohels still are getting away with it, even when they are infected with herpes and suck the blood out of the penis wound with their mouths causing infection.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70) source source)

Circumcision Without Consent

Eventually, it will be a crime to circumcise a male or female without their consent, even an infant. Claiming religious tradition as an excuse will be as irrelevant as using it as an excuse for burning someone at the stake.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Claiming to Know

Christians like to pretend they know all manner of details about god, and his thoughts, yet they cannot even produce evidence of his existence. How can they know anything about an invisible, undetectable being? This is all just made up. They are just as silly as if they claimed to know whether fairies like sugar or honey on their cornflakes.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Claiming to Know the Mind of God

The job of someone who studies moral philosophy is to tell you about the history of what people believed on such questions as the morality of war. They are BSing if they pretend to know the mind of god on such matters.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Claiming the Moral High Ground

When Christians protest the presence of a female atheist student by pouring a bucket of urine over her and burying her washroom in feces, how can they claim the high ground that Christianity is necessary for anyone to behave morally.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70) The March of Reason 2 of 5 

Claims and Evidence

The more grandiose the claims a religion makes, the less evidence it can muster to support them.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cleansing the Earth of Christians

If Christianity were such a great religion why does everyone fantasise about god cleaning the earth of them by hoovering them off into the sky?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Clear Water ⇒ God

A woman once told me that the fact water was colourless was proof of the existence of god. I retorted What colour would water be if there were no god?. In the Christian view, god assigns colours to objects purely on artistic grounds. It is completely arbitrary.

Science has a much more complex view. Quantum mechanics says that a material can only absorb or emit energy in discrete packets called quanta. These may correspond to visible light, invisible ultraviolet or invisible infrared. You have probably been to a mineral museum lit by black (ultraviolet) light. The minerals glow in the dark. They are absorbing quanta of UV (ultraviolet) and emitting quanta of visible light. Which wavelengths (colours of the spectrum) they absorb and emit depends on the states of the electrons in clouds around the atoms. The precise colours can be predicted mathematically as part of the science of spectroscopy. Water could not be other than colourless given its chemical composition. It neither emits nor absorbs. It will never change. I learned this in grade 11 chemistry in Canada.

So ironically, if water had been anything other than colourless, it would have sent the scientists reeling. If water turned pink every Easter, I think that would convince almost everyone of the validity of at least some Christian claims, but it does not and nothing remotely like it happens either.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Clergyman = Con Man

Asking could a physicist also be a clergyman is roughly the same as asking could a physicist also be a con man.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Clerical Magicians

Since the clergy claim to be able to convert wine into blood and wafers into the flesh of a dead man, we should call them by their proper names: magicians, shamans, con men…

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Clinging to an Imposed Religion

When the Europeans colonised North America and Africa they imposed Christianity on the people living there. Oddly, now the pressure is off, indigenous people still cling to the imposed religion. It is disgusting.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Clinging To Delusion

Deluded people maintain their delusion by fastidiously ignoring any evidence that counters the delusion. They treat those trying to prick the bubble of delusion as enemies. The delusion gives them a sense of great importance and power. It is always to some extent, a delusion of grandeur, even paranoia (that the universe would single them out for attack). Delusions are much simpler than reality. They are a way of filtering out an overload of information.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Clinging To Delusion

If a con man spiritualist reveals the tricks of cold reading that he uses to simulate talking to dead relatives, his audience will be furious. They desperately want their delusion. They imagine they gain comfort from the deception. Christians are much the same about clinging to their delusions even when they are pretty sure they are empty.

Richard Dawkins interviews Derren Brown on Cold Reading 
~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Clinging To Error

When you confront a religious believer with errors and inconsistencies in their beliefs, how do they typically react? Irritation and anger. They don’t want to hear what you have to say. It is not like a belief in which grocery store has the cheapest cheese, or why Cro Magnons displaced Neanderthals in Europe where people are happy to learn corrected information. People strongly want to hold onto religious beliefs whether they are true or not.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Clinging To God

Why would an elite scientist cling to god? Because his child brain was traumatised with threats of eternal roasting. That child brain is still in there. It is still terrified. The adult brain operates independently. Logic has no effect on the child brain. It needs reassurance.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Clones are Just Twins

Because of their notions of invisible souls, Christians imagine that issues such as the civil rights of clones are necessarily complicated. Yet nature produces clones naturally, every time it creates identical twins. We need treat artificial clones no differently.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Clueless Christians

When I was a teen, my mom warned me to stay away from Christians, whom she considered dangerous and insane. Of course, I rebelled by sneaking off to go to various churches to interview the people there to find out why they went to church, why they believed in a god and what they thought this god was like. I discovered that people could not answer my questions. They had only the vaguest notions about their religion. Essentially, they went to church because their parents had started taking them there as very young children and they got into the habit.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Clueless Yahweh

Imagine going to San Francisco and visiting the Golden Gate Bridge. There you meet a scruffy fellow sleeping on a park bench who introduces himself as Yahweh Jones, chief architect of the bridge. You take this golden opportunity to learn more about its construction back in 1930.

You ask How did you compute the ice and wind loads back then without computers? He replies What’s a load? You ask How did you arrange the order of construction so that it would hold up before all the suspension cables were in place? He replies What did you have in mind? You ask How did you manage to set those huge pillars partly under water? He replies We just dropped ’em from heliocopeters if I recall rightly. It begins to dawn on you this man is a fraud. He knows absolutely nothing about bridge construction.

In a similar way, Yahweh the god demonstrates no understanding of science, quantum mechanics, astronomy, geology or biology though he claims to have created them all. God is allegedly omniscient so he is supposed to have complete knowledge of all science. He too is a fraud.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Coffins

Coffins are irrational.

• You make a fine piece of furniture, then destroy it. It would make much more sense to recycle coffins.
• The body rests on a pillowy cushion of satin, as if it were a newborn with exquisitely sensitive skin.
• The coffin is often lined in lead or concrete to delay the body’s decomposition. To what end?
• The body is filled with various poisonous fluids to delay the body’s decomposition. To what end?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cognitive Dissonance

Christians claim to extremely value absolute truth, yet they blatantly lie and cheat to support this truth. Surely they know they are doing this. What stops them exploding from the cognitive dissonance? Are they just simple con men who don’t believe a word they say? Or do some of them believe some of their own lies?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Collapse of the Churches

People are leaving the churches in ever accelerating numbers. Why?

• People feel uncomfortable with the church’s traditional teachings, e.g. hating homosexuals, suppressing women, demonic possession, encouragement of child abuse, opposition to birth control…
• Through the Internet, people are exposed to thinking outside their church, including science, atheists and non-Christian religions. They come to realise the foundations of the church are fictions.
• Once the church acted as a community centre. It was the community theatre, gym, meeting hall, food bank, centre for activities for the elderly… Now, it is an expensive building used only an hour a week. The church is shirking its traditional responsibilities.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Collecting For the Benefit of the Non-Existent

If I were to start collecting money on behalf of fictitious endangered Patagonian fire-eating fish, I could expect to cool my heels in jail, but if I did the same thing on behalf of a non-existent god, I will be applauded as a virtuous person, no matter how I spent the money.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Collecting Money For God

This collecting money for god is such a scam. Allegedly, god created the universe. Surely he could create unlimited wealth if he wanted to. Further, not a penny of the money goes to god. Further, only a minute fraction of that money goes to good works. The rest goes to pampering the sellers of god, god’s con men. Even Mother Theresa collected money for the poor, then spent most of it on convents and gold altar decorations. Just look at the mansions, jets and limos of the TV evangelists and the megachurch pastors. That is what the boobs are buying with their tithes. They are lured with false promises of riches and pie in the sky after they die. My Christian landlady assured me she was completely certain she would have easy-to-clean solid gold countertops in her house in heaven, based on wishful thinking?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Comatose God

God is utterly undetectable. He never tweaks the universe. For all practical purposes, he does not exist. Everything just hums along perfectly obeying physical laws without his input.

If god exists, he is comatose.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Combating Christianity

I look on combating Christianity as an endless chore, like doing the dishes.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Comfort

It is so common to hear people to say something like, It is more comforting to me when I think of things as… That horrifies me. You don’t get to choose what you would like to be true. Religion has conned people into thinking the universe is a like a restaurant where you determine how it works by choosing from a menu or you just make it up.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Comfort Not Truth

Religion is a virtual thumb to suck. Comfort is all that matters, not truth.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Comfort or Truth

Atheists sacrifice comfort to find truth; Christians sacrifice truth to find comfort.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Comfort over Truth

In religion, comfort is all that matters, not truth.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Comforting Lies

If all you want is are comforting lies to help you deal with aging, losing your sex appeal, death etc. Why not make up your own? They can be ever so much more pleasant than the sour heavens religious people invent. And you don’t have to kowtow to anyone or pay them money for lying to you.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Comic Book Christians

Christianity is the comic book version for those who had trouble with second grade science.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Coming Backpeddling

I can hardly wait until science discovers the life is common in the cosmos and gains a foothold even on planets very different from earth. The Christian scoundrels will be scrambling to claim their scriptures never did claim earth was unique in the entire universe.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Coming Out

Back in 1970, people started telling their parents they were gay, pretty much for the first time. Attitudes changed so fast it took my breath away. It seemed on one day parents were killing and disowning their kids and the next where were marching for gay rights. Ditto for coming out as atheist. Nothing is going to change if you stay in the closet. Just be firm with your parents. Even if they disown you, you will no longer be cowering in the closet. You will have self-respect.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Commanded By God

Religious fanatics behave worse than anyone else when they are given power because they are delusional imagining every crazy notion that pops into their head is a command direct from their god. That belief compels them to commit unspeakable atrocities they might even consciously find repellent.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Commandment Exclusions

The ten commandments included some pretty minor sins and left out some major crimes like: rape, forced marriage, incest, polygamy and allowing someone to die when you could have helped them.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Common to All Religions

Here are some features you will find common to almost all religions:

• Hatred of homosexuals. Religionists believe that mistreating gays will convince them to marry and breed new members of the religion.
• False promises of what will happen after you die to extort money.
• Treating women as second class.
• Traditionalists. Distrust social or scientific change.
• Emphasis on faith. Distrusting reason. Obey, do not think for yourself.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Common Christian Lies

Christians like to repeat lies they have heard. If they did even the most cursory research, the would discover how absurdly false they are.

• Science has proven Yahweh exists.
• Evolution is just a theory. The truth is, in science, theory does not mean hunch. Theory means solid explanation, like germ theory or the theory of gravity.
• The bible is inerrant (without error or contradiction).
• Scientists believe in evolution, not because of the evidence, but because they hate Yahweh for behaving so badly.
• There is plenty of history and archaeology to corroborate the bible especially the details of the life of Jesus.
• Yahweh has assigned you a purpose and you can know what it is.
• Yahweh grants all prayers.
• Science has proved there is an afterlife.
• If you give money to televangelists, Yahweh will give you back that amount many times multiplied.
• You can heal people by praying for them.
• A Jesus figurine in your car will help you find parking spaces.
• Atheists rape, steal and kill without restraint. The truth is, the stats show that atheists behave much better than Christians.
• If you treat GLBTQ (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered or Queer) people fairly, Yahweh will destroy your city with tornadoes or earthquakes.
• Jesus was absolutely certainly going to destroy the world in 2011…
• The official religion of the USA has always been Christianity. The constitution was founded on the Ten Commandments.
• God/Jesus/Yahweh told me that… Yet even the bible says in John 5:37 that Yahweh never speaks to people. They are trying to con you into thinking they are very important in the cosmic scheme of things. They are trying to trick you into believing that whatever idea they are selling has divine authority.
• Atheists are motivated by a desire to rape and murder. This is absurd. Assume Yahweh exists. If an atheist pretends Yahweh does not exist, Yahweh will still torture him. Assume Yahweh does not exist as most atheists assert, then threats of torture are irrelevant. There is no way being an atheist increases the odds of avoiding torture. This is sort of thinking is utterly mad. It is like cartoon thinking where Wile E. Coyote can run off a cliff, and not fall so long as he pretends not to notice. The reason atheists reject Yahweh is because everything Christians say about him is absurd, just as everything said about Zeus is absurd. There is no difference.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Common Cold of Mental Illnesses

Christianity is the common cold of mental illnesses. It is a persistent set of delusions remarkably impermeable to contrary evidence.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Common Cold of Mental Illnesses

Christianity is the common cold of mental illnesses.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Common Intelligent Life

What is going to happen when we discover that life and intelligent life, are common both in our galaxy and in the universe?

• We might re-evaluate how precious we consider life. It is super abundant, so perhaps not so sacred.
• The Christian notions of the universe being created solely for their delectation will look pretty silly.
• The notion that Christianity is some privileged religion will look preposterous.
• The notion that humans are the most important animals on the planet may be shaken.
• We may change our attitude to preserving the planet and protecting endangered species as we pick up on the galactic ethic.
• We may have to get used being treated like children by a galactic bureaucracy.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Communion

Catholics claim when they take communion, the wafer turns in the flesh of Jesus, and the wine turns into his blood. This is a lie. It if were true, people would taste the raw putrid flesh and blood. People would choke to death frequently on the uncooked meat.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Communion

Out of curiosity, I once took communion. The wafer tasted nothing like putrid meat. The wine tasted nothing like rotting blood. The miracle of transubstantiation is a crock.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Comparing Four Religions

The three big problems to face in life are aging, sickness and death. Unless you can deal with them with equanimity, you are going to have a miserable time of it. The Buddhists tackle these problems as the central activities of their religion. The Jews, Christians and Muslims sweep them under the rug. They ignore aging and disease. All four religions try to pretend death does not exist.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Compassionate Christian

Every once in a while, I encounter a Christian such as Nancy Ford, Deacon to the city of Victoria who expresses enlightened attitudes. But she is like a stopped clock that is correct twice a day. Christians attitudes are based on tradition and faith (i.e. just made up without evidence). It is just a fluke when they are sensible, rational or compassionate.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Completely Bullshit

Christianity is completely bullshit. Even discussing it with Christians is like playing with their poo in public.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Complicit In Child Rape

Pope Ratzinger has been caught in coverup after coverup of priests molesting and raping hundreds of children of both sexes. If you tithe to the Catholic church, the world’s biggest paedophile ring, you are complicit in these crimes.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70) Deliver Us from Evil

Complicit In A Lie

If a reporter permits a lie to pass without so much as an eyebrow twitch, he is complicit in that lie and should be held responsible for lying too.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Compromise With Christians

When I was eight, I wanted to attend the YMCA (Young Men’s Christian Association) summer fun program. I watched my Dad fill in the form putting a dash in for religion, then modifying it by turning the dash for none into the bar of a G and spelling out ANGLICAN. I had never heard the word before and I asked what that meant. Dad said they might not let me in if we did not pretend to have a religion and Anglican was a historical family religion. I was quite horrified that my Dad would lie that way.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Con

To me, it is obvious the people running the churches, especially the TV ministries, are running a con. Just look how they spend the money on luxuries. Why would you believe a word they say? Why would the existence of gods, heavens and hells even be a consideration, considering the source?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Con Man Strategy

Con men convince their marks that believing in the improbable without evidence is a virtue. It makes their marks easier to gull.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Con Man Tricks

Imagine all the excuses a famous con man like Bernie Madoff may have given for why his marks could not see the books. Christians have a classic dodge to sell the god con. God will punish anyone who tests him. That must be one of the most brilliant works of con artistry in all history.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Con Men

Every Christian should study up on con men, by reading a book like Maria Konnikova’s The Confidence Game: The Psychology of the Con and Why We Fall for it ... Every Time They will learn about the psychology of con men, their tricks for deception and why they are successful at conning almost everyone. This will inoculate them against con men both secular and religious. They will be surprised to learn how organised religion uses the same techniques as traditional con men.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Con vs Violence

Intelligent criminals prefer to con their victims rather than bludgeon them. The church uses cons to extract money, to persuade people to hand over their power and to cover up sex crimes against children.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Con without Verification

Christian con men chose to honour their vacuous promises and empty threats in a way that nobody could ever check up on them.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Conceit Gland

Christianity causes the conceit gland to swell to twenty times normal size. It presses on the pleasure centres in the brain stimulating them creating an addiction similar to cocaine. This explains why Christians are so bloody obnoxious and so irrational.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Conceited Religious Half-Wits

Religions are galling because silly ninnies imagine they are vastly superior to me because they believe idiotic dogma. It is annoying having half-wits look down their nose at me.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Conceited Survivors

Among the most contemptible Christians are those like Pastor David Webster of Prince Albert Saskatchewan. He survived a plane crash and leapt to the conclusion the god Yahweh had rescued him and deliberately smote everyone else who died in plane crashes. He is so conceited that he decided that not only did the creator of the universe take time out of his busy schedule alter the natural unfolding of the universe for his benefit and that god Yahweh decided that he was the only person worth saving.

It would seem to me, that if Yahweh truly favoured Mr. Webster he would have spared him the trauma entirely. Surviving an air crash is a daily event. So is dying in an air crash. Neither is in the least miraculous, though it might feel that way to someone enjoying a narrow escape. Who dies has to do with the physics of the crash, not the preposterously high esteem Christians survivors hold themselves.

Mr. Webster so inflated his ego by this event, that he fancied himself favoured like some prophet of old and presumed the god Yahweh had personally called him to start a ministry and that Yahweh had delivered him a wife who believed his crap too.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Condoms

Pope Francis bans condoms on the grounds they block the creation on new Catholic contributors. However, they also stop AIDS which kills the unborn, children, mothers and fathers. Even if Pope Francis has no interest but crassly engorging his coffers, he should promote condoms.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Confession

Confession is a highly immoral sacrament. The sinner confesses to a crime such as child molesting. The priest is bound to secrecy no matter how much damage the sinner is doing. The priest assigns a token secret penance, typically saying three Hail Marys for molesting. The sinner makes a donation. The priest does some magic and presto, supposedly it is as if the sin never happened. The sinner is washed clean, eager to sin again. But of course the effects of the sin are unchanged. Confession does nothing to make amends to the victim or to discourage the sinner from repeating.

This just shows you what a con the church was all along. They fool the congregation into believing they can magically undo sins in return for cash. It is just a trick to pull in the rubes. It is a doubly wicked con because they not only rip off the congregation promising and not delivering, they lead them into moral degradation. Finally, the priests learn secrets on everyone that they can hold over them.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70) The Dark Box: A Secret History of Confession

Confession

There are many reasons why Catholic confession should be discontinued. Some of them have to do with child molesting:

• Priests are left alone and unsupervised with seven year old children where they cannot be disturbed.
• Priests intimidate children by demanding they divulge sins.
• When priests give each other confessions, they became honour bound not to report the child molesting confessed. The entire priesthood becomes complicit in the coverup.
• The typical penance for child molesting is saying three Hail Marys. All priests come to see child molesting as an ordinary and minor sin.
• Any sexual details divulged can stimulate a new sexually-starved priest to join in.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70) The Dark Box: A Secret History of Confession

Confirmation Bias

If you start from the conclusion, that everything had a divine creator, you will only see evidence to confirm that, namely confirmation bias. You will let slide logical fallacies arguing for a creator. You won’t check claims of scientific evidence supporting that position. You will refuse to properly understand the other explanation for apparent intelligent design, namely evolution. You will expose yourself only to straw men caricatures created by dishonest creationists. Evolution is one of the easiest scientific theories to understand. Once you understand it, it becomes all but impossible to conceive of how something so obvious could possibly be false. The problem with understanding it comes only from crooked people disseminating confusing nonsense about it. If you have a problem with the theory, the reason is you misunderstand it. You have been massively lied to. The theory itself is perhaps the best-tested theory in science.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Conflicts Between Scientists and Christians

In computer programming, things get most interesting and fun just after you discover you have made a mistake and you get to use your wits to track down the bug. The odds of getting a Nobel prize in physics are greatly improved if your experiment shows the exact opposite of what you expected. Scientists thus have not nearly the fear or embarrassment at being found wrong that Christians do. If you tell a Christian his argument is unconvincing because it contains a logical fallacy, he feels insulted, even wounded. If you tell a scientist the same thing, it is more like pointing out a calculator error, no big sweat. He is happy for the correction. The famous computer scientist Dr. Donald Knuth offered an escalating monetary reward for any time anyone ever found an error in his programming. He wanted to find his errors and correct them.

A Christian has essentially placed a bet on which religious framework is true. If he is wrong, he will roast for eternity. If anyone suggests that he bet on the wrong horse, he panics. He takes this accusation of incompetence very personally because this error is so grave, that it deserves eternal torment. The error says something very important about him — what the true god thinks of him, the ultimate report card.

If you reject an argument a scientist makes, the game goes like this. You state why you think his assertion is false. He gives additional reasons why the assertion is true, and he explains the flaw in your reasoning. You go back and forth pointing out the flaws in each other’s logic. If the evidence is overwhelming either way, one of you is obligated change his mind. If the evidence is not overwhelming, you talk about what sort of experiment or evidence-gathering could settle the matter. It is cheating to refuse to concede when the evidence overwhelmingly goes against you. It is cheating to counterfeit, doctor, lie about or use lawyerly tricks to mislead about evidence. Failure to observe these rules can result in the other party exploding in rage.

If you reject an argument a Christian makes, from their point of view, you are disrespecting them. If you held them in sufficiently high esteem you would trust what they told you, just on their say so. You are being impertinent. You are accusing them of lying. Christian arguments are basically assertions that show that something is at least remotely plausible. The beauty of an idea is much more important than how well it conforms with observations of the physical world. It is a Platonic way of thinking.

Further, there is no need to check accuracy if the feeling of truth is sufficiently intense (to know it in your heart). Your beliefs are things you choose, like your diet. You don’t change your beliefs just because somebody advocates something different, no matter how glib they were. You don’t pick your beliefs because some so-called expert told you some colour change in a test tube proved they were true; you pick them because they fit you because they are comfortable because they feel right. You certainly do not publicly disown your own beliefs cherished and nourished over a lifetime, maybe even handed down through the generations. That would be irresponsible flouting of tradition and a disrespect for your own integrity. You don’t just change beliefs like a leaf in the wind no matter what the so-called evidence (that you may not even understand). You must have faith in your convictions.

This attitude, the complete lack of interest in what is actually true, only what you wish were true, drives scientists to apoplexy.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Conformity and the Holocaust

Psychologists now think the driving force behind the Holocaust, was not hated, sadism or fear — merely conformity — the desire to fit it.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Confucianism

Confucianism is a much more dignified religion than Christianity. No tall tales, no miracles, no crazy threats, no off-his-rocker deity, no nonsense you have to pretend to believe. It simply explains how to behave well.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Confusing the Imaginary With The Real

When I was six, I liked drawing creatures I imagined lived in other parts of the galaxy. One, that I dubbed the Meadle, had a mantis-like head, giant dragonfly wings, and three legs. My mother forbade me drawing any more three-legged space creatures since they could be easily confused with creatures with giant penes. I thought my mother had a sex-obsessed mind. Christian too make up imaginary beings, angels, devils, gods… Even at six, I was fully aware my creatures were pure speculation. Christians, even as adults, claim theirs are absolute truth, even though they can present no evidence of any kind that they exist.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Conjecture Fraud

There is an unhealthy dichotomy in world views. The scientific view sometimes overreaches and claims anything it does not yet understand must be fraud or insanity. On the religious side, people pretend to fully understand the most fantastic woo when they have nothing but imaginative conjecture. It would be more mature to presume their are many things we do not understand and have not even conceived, that we have no business on pontificating until we do know what we are doing. Nearly always when the religious present us with unsubstantiated woo, it is nonsense or fraud. However, we must not let that numb us to the possibility of discovering something radically new.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Conned With Consent

When a televangelist tells you that if you send him $100 or more he will send you a free gift of a bar of olive oil soap made by a genuine Palestinian in the Holy Land, what is really happening is the is trying co con you into buying a bar of soap for the outrageous price of $100. By definition, if you have to pay for something, it is not a gift. If you bite, you have been had. He will not wire the money to god as vaguely promised. He will spend it on himself and his ego. If you want to do what is sometimes called god’s work, give it to a group with a proven track record of spending money efficiently to help the poor or preserve the earth. Televangelists are parasites who con the well-intentioned, indirectly stealing from the poor.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Conning the Aged

At a certain age, it dawns on you the odds of ever having sex with a being remotely close to your fantasies is, for all practical purposes, zero. You are then susceptible to religious con men who promise the desired experience and more, in an after life or a do-over reincarnation.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Conning Free Labour

The churches are among the most efficient and lucrative cons ever devised by man. One of the features that make such cons so efficient is they also con the workers into working almost for free and expect none of the spoils, unlike a traditional secular con where everyone involved gets a cut.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Conquering Fear Is All It Takes

If we are to convert Christians into atheists, we don’t have to convince them their gods are imaginary, but rather that they do not need to fear death. Their fear makes them cling to the nutty and quite undesirable idea of eternal life.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cons

Cons work in a standard pattern. The mark gives money to a con man. It return the con man promises something very valuable in the future, e.g. cash, eternal life, a perfect body. The con man disappears before it is time to pay off. The church is one of the cleverest cons. Nobody finds out that it did not pay off since was not even supposed to pay off until you died. This allows it to keep conning people generation after generation. The marks never wise up. The con men like to pretend the marks are giving money to god. Of course they keep every penny.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cons

Like all con men, religions get huffy when you expose how they deceive and exploit their marks.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cons

No matter how much evidence to the contrary they see, marks of confidence schemes, secular or religious, insist they have not been had. They can’t bear the humiliation of admitting they were wrong, even if it costs them still more money.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Conscientious Objector

Consider two people applying for conscientious objector status. One is a Christian who belongs to one of the conscientious objector sects. The other is an atheist.

The Christian is essentially saying I suffer from a mental delusion that there is an invisible man hiding under my bed. I am afraid of him. Others have told me, without evidence, that he will torture me if I enlist. Further, members of my church will shun me if I enlist.

The atheist is saying he believes is wrong to kill people, especially children and civilians and he would simply freeze if forced to do so.

Which of the two is more sincerely a conscientious objector? Which is of the two is more likely to get the exemption? The Christian does not even have a reason. He has a voluntary mental illness, that he is promoting as a disability.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Conscious Cheetahs

In a forum on optimism broadcast on CBC radio Ideas, featuring Giuseppe Iaria, I believe I heard him say that cheetahs were not conscious. Yet they respond to all manner of stimuli. They react alertly. Perhaps he meant that they don’t have an internal experience. They are like computers — doing computations but not actually feeling anything. By what possible means could he know that? That assertion used to be stated in explicit religious terms as cheetahs have no souls. I think he is just repeating the old anthropocentric Christian assumptions that god loves us best, therefore we must be fundamentally better than other creatures.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Consciousness

Man has been trying to make sense of consciousness for thousands of years. The Christians came up with the idea of a homunculus in the sperm and in the brain and the soul which exists independent of the body. That is probably the closest model of what the average man has of consciousness.

I think the way to attack the problem is this: We need to subjectively assign a number 1 to 10 for how conscious we think we are. We then would measure the brain with NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) and other scanning techniques to see if there is anything physical happening that correlates. Then we can look for those patterns in fish and turtles to determine how conscious they are.

Pain and suffering are the practical aspects of consciousness. You treat a conscious chicken compassionately, but there is no need to treat an unconscious mechanical chicken that way because it cannot feel pain.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Consequences of Dismissing Science

Most Americans believe religion over science. This is bad news for Americans. This belief will erode their military and financial power. The biblical level of science is capable of generating only the standard of living enjoyed 3000 years ago. Of course, the rest of the world is relieved. The Americans have abused their rôle as #1 superpower. It was unexpected of them to abdicate without apparent pressure from the outside. Like the British, it will take them quite a while to acknowledge their loss of status.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Consequences of Prayer Working

If prayer were effective, every soldier on earth would be tortured to death.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Consider Buddhism

If you want a religion, try Buddhism. It makes way more sense that Christianity. You still get to pretend you will not die and you don’t have to be an asshole.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Consistency

When people concoct a religious worldview, or other complex lie, they can never fill in sufficient detail to explain everything or to ensure everything remains consistent. In contrast, reality has no such problem.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Consoling with Lies

Christians tell me they believe because it is consoling. However, Christianity consoles with lies. God will not rescue you. Trusting in supernatural aid will just get you in trouble. The truth will always be better for you in the long run than even the most beautiful lies.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Constantine The Idiot Christian

Emperor Constantine was a Christian and an idiot because he actually believed the false promises of Christianity. To defend Constantinople, he held up Christian relics, believing they had magic power to frighten off enemies. These little bits of bone and wood, of course, had no effect whatsoever and the city fell.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Constitution Says All Religions Must Be Treated Equally

Christians who tell Muslims they should keep their mosques away from ground zero are saying that Muslims are inferior, wicked, guilty, unclean… — in some way second class. It boils down to Christians are OK; Muslims are not. The constitution is clear. Religions must be treated equally. It is the only way to keep the peace.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Constitutional Rights

It is odd that Americans make reference almost daily to their second amendment rights. Yet for some reason, they completely ignore their constitutional first amendment rights. This is because Americans want to violate the first amendment rights of others and don’t want others to violate their second amendment rights. In both cases, Americans are trying to enforce conformity, for the sake of conformity, namely gun ownership and Christianity.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Constraints

We have three sorts of constraint on behaviour:

1. Crimes for serious tortes.
2. Manners for consideration.
3. Sin to enforce religious superstitions.

Sin a game played by members of a given sect. It is irrelevant to everyone else. They like to pretend that cutting your lawn on Sunday is terribly wicked, worthy of death. Non-believers would say cutting your lawn before noon is inconsiderate because of the noise.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Constraints on the Universe

The universe does not care if you like the way it works. The math describing how it works may well be elegant, but there is no reason it has to be. It well may be comprehensible by physicists, but there is no necessity for it to be.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Contempt

I would feel some contempt for an old woman, standing on a stool, screaming her lungs out at a non-existent mouse, but I feel a great deal more contempt for a Christian cowering in terror at a non-existent, sadistic and all-benevolent god.

What makes it worse, these old bats deflect their rudimentary charitable urges to con men faith healers and televangelists harbouring dreams of unearned riches. They lobby to ensure bullies experience no interference beating up young presumed GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual or Transgendered). They do their best to make the lives of unwed mothers as miserable as possible. And they feel so profoundly virtuous for spreading misery.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Contempt for Conmen

I feel the same contempt for clergy, televangelists and faith healers that I do for any other con men who earn their living selling lies.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Contempt for Worshipers of Evil

The old testament describes the creator of the universe as unspeakably evil. I have nothing but contempt for anyone who worships such an evil god. Cowardice is the only conceivable motive. It partly explains why Yahweh’s followers are so badly behaved themselves.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Contemptible Christians

One reason I find Christians contemptible is they say I don’t care about the truth. I want to believe the bible. I have a right to believe whatever I please. They are like little children who believe if they wish hard enough they can fly. They care only about what they wish were so, not what is actually so. They are a cult of deliberate self-deception and lying to others.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Continual Fear of Death

As far as we know, humans are the only animals aware that they will inevitably die. Humans react to this realisation with a similar sense of panic that an animal feels just before it is killed. To deal with the continual stress, humans put up a valiant defence — fantasies of eternal life after death and gods to manage the transition.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Controlling Others

Family values have nothing to do with what you do. They are about stopping other people from doing things your church disapproves of. So when a Republican beats his wife, or forces his wife to have an illegal abortion, or blows a policemen in a toilet stall, there is no violation of family values from his point of view.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Converging on the Truth

If people value truth, they will eventually converge and agree. If people worship stuff they just make up, then they will be at each others’ throats.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Conversations with God

If you were in a bus, and a man assured you he was chatting with god, would you want to sit closer or further away? Why then do you want to cosy up to similar schizophrenics, reputed to have killed thousands in ancient times, and take moral instruction from them.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Conversion Rates

There are far more people who deconvert from Christianity to atheism than convert from atheism to Christianity. The suggests when people get a good look at both, they choose atheism. The only people who stick with Christianity are those who have been conditioned never to question and never to examine anything else.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Convert Me

Christians tell me I should convert to Christianity, because as an atheist, I cannot possibly behave morally. The problem with this pitch, is nearly every Christian I have encountered behaves worse than I do.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Converting Fundamentalists

Most religionists cause no trouble to others. They just hurt themselves by harbouring delusions. The troublesome ones are the fundamentalists. They believe they have the right to control and bully others, forcing their crazy beliefs on others. This means two things:

1. We need focus on converting only the fundamentalists.
2. We don’t have to convert them to atheists, just to mild religionists.

We atheists think mainly about arguments to debunk the notion of god. We need something less drastic, that merely debunks fundamentalism.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Conviction ⇏ Truth

It is just as easy to feel certain about something that is not true as something that is true. Your conviction is not evidence for its truth. Further, there is the problem that conviction is easy to feign. It is the persuasive tool of con artists. Anyone who attempts to use it in place of evidence is suspect.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Convincers

Listen to Christians selling Christianity. They are not interested in the literal truth of the claims. They are interested in how it makes them feel. Listen to atheists selling atheism. They are not interested in how believing in a deity makes you feel. They are interested in the literal truth and consistency of the claims. Atheists feel extreme contempt for Christians for valuing feeling over truth. Christians see atheists as cold and heartless for valuing truth over feeling.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Convincing

If a Christian wants to convince me of his beliefs, it is not enough that he convince me has beliefs are possible. It is not enough to convince me they are plausible. Like a scientist, he must convince me his beliefs are nearly certainly true. To do that, he must have some solid reasons why his beliefs are true and why competing beliefs are not true.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Convincing An Atheist

I have watched Christians try vainly to convince atheists to believe. But they end up convincing atheists that all Christians are dishonest, stupid, morally bankrupt and gullible.

Truth is more important to atheists than anything else. Whether that truth is pleasant, convenient or comforting is completely irrelevant. When Christian argue that they choose what to believe based on how consoling the belief is, atheists retch in contempt that Christians could be so pig-like.

Atheists want to be sure they are not kidding themselves. They want mountains of solid evidence to back up what they decide to believe. When Christians dismiss evidence as irrelevant, atheists dismiss Christians as flibbertigibbets, even worse, delusional.

Christians commonly argue that if people did not believe the Christian dogma, they would run wild and murder and rape. This is clearly not so. This is not an argument for the existence of god. Christians implicitly admit their dogma is untrue. Christians admit they condone lying about it. So they are probably lying to the atheist about everything else too. Even if you condone lying, the argument is invalid. Non-Christians in Sweden behave much better than Christians in the USA. Atheists in the USA behave much better than Christians, as measured by the proportion in jail.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Convincing Arguments

Different people find different arguments convincing. For example, atheists like evidence and plausibility, whereas Republicans are susceptible to appeals to the herd instinct and Christians as susceptible to appeals to authority and are convinced something is true mainly if that is what they would most wish to be so.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

This may explain why the Christian conception of heaven is so kitsch. Christians prefer it that way.

Convincing Arguments

Evidence for the existence of a god or evidence for the non-existence of a god, first and foremost must convince the target audience to be converted. It could, in theory, even contain a logical flaw. A common flaw is creating an argument for a generic god, then doing a bait and switch to suggest that god had to be Yahweh.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Convincing the Stupid

The big problem with religion is it convinces stupid people they are absolutely right about something that is demonstrably false.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Copeland’s Crime

When Kenneth Copeland told his flock not to get vaccinated for measles, he hurt not only his own flock, but spread measles to the entire community. I think Copeland should be prosecuted for practicing medicine without a licence. And those harmed should sue him for every penny he has conned.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Corpse Worship

Desecrating a corpse is petty vandalism, like throwing rocks at a rusting car in a junkyard, or shooting tin cans discarded at a dump. A corpse is already in the process of putrefaction. Yet Christians are so superstitious, they consider desecration even more offensive than murder.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Corpse Worship

I think it highly improper of Christians to demand that rescue workers risk their lives to retrieve corpses from remote, dangerous places then send the bill to the taxpayer. It is a violation of church and state to force the general taxpayer to pay for a Christian religious burial rite. If Christians are worried that some believers will not be able to pay to retrieve corpses, they should set up a fund to cover the indigent. To me all this ritual magic with bodies is medieval superstition, akin to a childhood fascination with bodily secretions, especially when there are massive searches to find badly decomposed, buried bodies that are dug up and then reburied elsewhere, not even viewed.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Corpse Worship

The most peculiar thing about Americans is that they show far more respect and concern for corpses than living people.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Correlation

Listen to interviews on the radio. Some people have bad grammar. They use the wrong words. They mispronounce words. They clearly were poorly educated. Chances are, somewhere in the interview they will claim god intervened in their life.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Correlation of Christianity and Stupidity

Christians usually have sub-normal IQ (Intelligence Quotient) I am not sure if subnormal people are attracted to Christianity to attain a sense of importance or if Christianity destroys the intellect.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cosmic Caulk

When the milk went sour, my distant ancestors in Scotland had no idea that bacteria caused it, so with complete conviction, they blamed fairies and witchcraft. That is no more ignorant than the way today’s Christians insist on using the god Yahweh as a sort of cosmic caulk to fill in any gap in our current knowledge.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cosmic Purpose

Asking if the universe has a cosmic purpose is an incomplete question. Does the Tadpole Galaxy (aka Arp 188) have a purpose? To mankind it does not. It is one of billions of galaxies. If there is life there, it has a purpose to that life of supporting life. So when you ask if the universe has a cosmic purpose, you must specify to whom. When Christians ask this question they imply to Yahweh. Since there is no deity to have a purpose, there is no such cosmic purpose. What Christians are trying to do is ask Yahweh Why did you construct this universe?. If there is no Yahweh, you can’t do that, even in principle.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cosmic Significance

Given the vast size of the universe, lusting for cosmic significance is a vain goal. Politicians go for big-frog-in-a-small pond significance. They fight wars to claim temporary dominance over chunks of the surface of our blue marble — spaceship earth. Their single-minded desire makes them trample others, including their own wives and children.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cosmic Swell-Headedness

The idea that the creator of the universe would be more fascinated with you and your behaviour than even you are is the ultimate conceit.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cosmically Conceited Christians

Christians hang on to the primitive conceit that mankind is the center of the universe, that everything was expressly created purely for their enjoyment. We now know this is utter nonsense, but the Christians still refuse to give up petty, conceited picture of the universe. The Centre of All Things .

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Counteracting Christianity

In earlier times, people dealt with Christians trying to impose their brand of religion by killing them. Today we are roughly equally effective by pointing out the flaws in what they are selling.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Country Song

There is a country song where the singer crows that she is a good Christian woman complaining she is better than everyone else and should be treated better than ordinary people. This exaggerated opinion of themselves is one of the reasons I find Christians so nauseating.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Counts Count

There is no difference between a bat shit crazy person and someone who joined a religion with only one adherent.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cowardice and the Afterlife

Humans are such cowards that they willingly allow themselves to be conned by those claiming death is not real and claiming to know the precise details of how the afterlife works.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cowardice Over Mortality

Humans are such cowards when it comes to facing their own mortality that they willingly allow themselves to be conned by those claiming death is not real and claiming to know the precise details of how an afterlife works.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cowardly Christians

I have such contempt for Christians. They are such cowards when it comes to death. They make up preposterous stories to reassure themselves. They get together once a week to do nothing but repeat these stories frantically chattering and chanting trying to convince each other that they are actually true. When will they grow up? They are behaving like three year olds.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cowardly Worshipers

Even if you do believe in the ogre Yahweh, how dare you worship a god who stands by when infants are raped.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cowering Christians

Christians are utterly disgusting. They are afraid of a bronze age bogeyman. They cower in fear at an imaginary monster, like 3 year olds afraid of dragons under the bed. They know perfectly well it does not exist, but they are too afraid to take the chance. So they keep paying extortion money to con men who tell them it is real. Pathetic!

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Crank Diets

Think how many crank food fads there are. I remember one, Adele Davis, who believed you should your cook meat overnight at barely warm temperatures. One of these obsessive cranks got to the Jews a long time ago to create the silly Kosher rules for them. Everyone should be free to eat crank diets, but not to impose them on others, or inconvenience others for them. They are just traditions. They don’t deserve to be taken nearly so seriously.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Crazies Treated As Sane

If someone went to a psychiatrist and announced that they had joined a cult that practised cannibalism and blood-drinking, how might he be treated? If that cult were Christianity, (which believes in a lame miracle that a cracker becomes the literal corpse of Christ, even though it still looks like a cracker), he would be sent out into the world as a perfectly sane man.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Craziest Claims

The crazier the church, the more likely it is to claim it has sole claim to truth, and that they have all the answers. The moderate churches don’t make such wild claims. Atheists say We don’t have the answers. You will have to think this through yourself. If these were brands of toothpaste, you would understand why the gullible boobs always buy the fundamentalist brand.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Crazy = Religious

If a visiting psychiatrist from another planet, who had never heard of earth religions, were presented with summaries of various earthling beliefs, he would not be able to tell the lunatics and the adherents of religion apart.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Crazy Christianity

Christianity is so crazy, so in violation of logic and common sense, talking to Christians is a bit like trying to convince a serial killer that murder is wrong. They are off in their own dream world with their own definitions of true, false, right, wrong, consistent, know, proof… They have no shame whatsoever about having inconsistent beliefs. It is as if they have a very specific delusional mental illness. They can appear perfectly normal when Christianity is not involved. Perhaps the best way to understand the existence of Christianity is as childhood trauma. Their parents conditioned them to be utterly terrified of Yahweh and hell. It is like a mega-phobia of spiders and snakes. The fact that Christians bring up Pascal’s wager as their prime argument for the existence of god, (which is actually a argument for trying to fool god into thinking you believe to avoid being tortured) indicates this fear is their prime motivation for belief.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Crazy Christians

Christians are crazy and dangerous because they have no common sense. They believe utterly horrible things are god’s will. They fight desperately for evil. They believe in an unspeakably cruel god.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Crazy Christians

Christians are just as delusional as most people incarcerated in mental institutions. The differences are:

• Christians do not realise they are suffering from delusions.
• Christians don’t receive any treatment.
• Christians are numerous. They organise to resist treatment for their delusions.
• Christians have their full energy and they are free to go about in the world acting on their delusions. Therefore Christians are much more dangerous.
• Christians are not usually stigmatised as delusional. People dealing with them are not properly on their guard. Christians get taken far too seriously.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Crazy Like a Jew

An eruv is a string that encircles a home or town. Jews believe it enables them to carry objects out of doors on the Sabbath that would otherwise be forbidden by Torah. Not only Christians are insane. Why would the creator of the universe care if you carried your keys? What possible harm does it do to anyone? Why would a string be sufficient to persuade the creator of the universe to overlook this transgression? What possible difference could it make? Eruv-believing Jews are as nutty as mental institution inmates snapping their fingers to keep the tigers at bay.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Crazy Salesmen

Christians and other sellers of ideas that are not true resort to two desperate techniques:

• They try to convince you there is some slim chance that what they claim is true, then if you admit that, claim that they have just proved it must be true, absolutely and for sure.
• Since they don’t have any logical arguments, they resort to ones that are bat-shit incoherent. They try irrational arguments.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Creating a Child

Creating yet another child, where there are still abandoned children without parents, especially when that child is created through artificial means to stimulate fertility such as in-vitro fertilisation is cruel, hard-hearted, vain, selfish and anti-environment.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Creating Life

Science has already created life. Using off the shelf chemicals geneticists1 constructed the DNA for a bacterium and planted it in a bacterial shell. It took off living and reproducing — a new species of bacterium. In principle we could do the same thing with any other life form. This is not quite the same as creating life completely from scratch, but it does give us the god-like ability to create new species of plants and animals. We are already tinkering with the DNA of the next generation of children in a small way to correct defects.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Creating Life is not Magic

Even though humans have created new forms of life with a DNA sequencer, Christians continue to insist only Yahweh can do that.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Creating Morality

If you are for any reason having trouble determining right from wrong, here are some rules of thumb:

• The Golden Rule: Just think about what it would be like if someone else did to you what you are doing to them.
• The Kant rule: Think about what the world be like if everyone in the world behaved as you did.
• The Death Bed: On my deathbed would I be proud of having done this? Would I want everyone to know about it?
• Inaction: Most of morality is about failing to act when you should. Does this need doing? If I don’t do it, will it very likely get done, anyway? What is my reasonable share of the work?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Creating a New Religion

All religions are similar. Most are created by making a few modifications to an existing religion. To succeed, you must be a good liar, able to spout nonsense with convincing confidence. Here are some of the components you will need:

• You need a story about what happens to you after you die. You need both carrot and stick. You need a heaven for those who give you money and compliance and a hell for those who reject you. The Christian heaven promised food and relaxation. To modern man, this is just ordinary life, not especially appealing. The Muslims promised multiple sex partners and an unbelievably sadistic hell. Christianity+.
• You need some dietary restrictions, generally just one crucial animal.
• You need a list of taboo activities. Ideally there should be no practical reason to avoid these activities, e.g. raking leaves on a particular day of the week.
• You need to make up stories about some hero who performs magic that can’t be duplicated by ordinary magicians. The easiest way to get these stories is to borrow them from existing religions.
• You need to make up stories about terrible things that happened to people while they were still alive who were not sufficiently reverent to your deity.
• You need to make up some stories about wonderful things that happened to people while they were still alive who were enthusiastic about your deity.
• You need a story about why/how the deity loves all believers and is itching to torment all non-believers.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Creation Conceit

Every North American Indian tribe has its own creation myth. But they have a feature in common with Christian myth, that the creator created everything purely for the enjoyment and convenience of humans. What a conceited notion!

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Creation Myth

Every culture on earth has its own creation myth. What are the odds the only accurate one would come from a desert tribe living in the bronze age?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Creation Science

Creation science was created from the imagination back in the bronze age and was never updated no matter what we learned. Scientific knowledge doubles every two years, based on experiments to discover what is really true. Creation science won’t let you do anything, not even make a round wheel. Science makes our whole technological world possible. You would likely not even be alive without it. I find it baffling that anyone would prefer the completely erroneous, completely useless, creation science.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Creative Anachronism

Imagine a group of creative anachronisms who wanted to relive the times of 1000 BC. They went into it whole heartedly. They used 1000 BC medicine, sanitation, food, clothing, customs, religion, lack of electricity, lack of fuels, no metals but bronze, child beating, wife beating, slave keeping, law, religion… total immersion. Then they decided weekends were not enough, they wanted to do this full time and force everyone to join in. These loons, who have not yet even tried the experiment themselves, are called religious fundamentalists.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Creative Anachronism

Members of the Society For Creative Anachronism make believe it is 1000 AD. Christians make believe it is 1000 BC.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Creator of Lions

Watch a video like Wild Lion Ganglands  about lion behaviour. From a human morality point of view they are utterly degenerate. It is hard not to hate them they are so alien, so pointlessly cruel. But Christians assure us this behaviour is the handiwork of a loving god. No it is not. If a god created them, the god is a twisted sadistic fuck.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Creator of the Universe

Claiming the universe has a creator means just that. It does not have to be an invisible man with a beard, named Yahweh, who likes boinking married virgins. It need not be conscious. It could be a computer, a fundamental principle of physics, a function of quantum mechanics, Ganesh the elephant… An argument for a creator is not an argument for Christianity.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Credentials

If there were a god who wanted to be believed, he would have to show evidence to everyone, not just a few selected people who could well have lied or been mistaken. A demonstration for each generation should be adequate or a single impossible object for all time. But nothing. Apparently god does not care if anyone but some illiterate desert dwellers believed him.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Credibility of Psychics

Given that every famous psychic who claims to communicate with the dead has been exposed as a fraud, it is odd the lesser known psychics have any presumed credibility. Believers are like children who insist that magicians really do saw women in half, no matter how many times they see how the trick is done.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Criminal Behaviour

What would you call an institution that told lies to frighten or trick people into giving it massive sums of money providing nothing of value in return? What would you call an institution that pretended to offer care for children, but actually physically abused, terrified, molested and raped them? I’d call it criminal. You’d call it the holy church.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70) Deliver Us from Evil

Criminal Christians

Would we be better off if Christians or atheists ran the earth? We know what it was like when Christians had free reign — in the middle ages. I don’t think anyone would like to return to those days.

Christians assert that only they are truly moral. Yet when you look at the statistics, it is the very opposite.

• 430 × disproportionately more Christians are in jail.
• Christians commit disproportionately more murders. Louisiana, the most religious state, has double the murder rate of other states. Presumably, part of the problem is Christians don’t take murder seriously, since they believe nobody actually dies.
• Christians have disproportionately more divorces.
• Christians have disproportionately more teen pregnancies and more repeat teen pregnancies.
• Christians have disproportionately more abortions.
• Christians have disproportionately more sexual offences involving children.
• The atheist Scandinavian countries have just a small fraction of the crime and social disorder of Christian countries.
• As the universe expands, energy appears out of nothing.

This represents a complete failure of Christian morality.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70) Religion reverses everything by Aron Ra 

Criminal Conspiracy

Christianity is a criminal conspiracy. Once you understand that, most of their bizarre behaviour begins to make sense.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

A Criminal Enterprise

It all makes sense when you realise the Catholic Church is a criminal enterprise, just like any other cult.

• It extorts money from people with threats and false promises.
• It uses threats and false promises to persuade parents to look the other way when priests abuse, molest and rape their children.

It such an old con game and such a slick one, with such excellent public relations, that people forget what its primary activities are.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70) Deliver Us from Evil

Criminally Delusional Christians

The average Christian is just as delusional as anyone incarcerated in an institution for the criminally insane.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Criminally Insane Christians

Imagine that someone went to a psychiatrist and announced that they had joined a cult that followed the religious beliefs of an obscure primitive iron age desert tribe. The cult’s holy book required members to murder those who made even minor violations of the social or dress code, even those outside the cult, attacking in groups to bash the victim to death with rocks and possibly to bury him or her alive in stones or by burning the transgressor alive. How might he be treated? With a stint in an institution for the criminally insane? If that cult were the Christians, he would be sent out into the world as a perfectly sane man.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Criminally Insane Christians

Imagine there were a pill that instantly cut your IQ in half when you took it. It allowed your pusher to control you, by making you susceptible to his every suggestion. It also made you mindlessly cruel by eliminating all doubt about your what you were told. That is what religion is.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Criteria For Heaven

Surely Christians can’t be serious that entry to heaven is based on which branch of which religion you subscribed to. Given that nearly everyone takes up the religion of one’s parents and given that religions work hard to prevent their adherents from learning about any other, that choice means almost nothing about the person. Surely such a winnowing would have to be based on something far more substantial.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Crocodile Worship

The Egyptians had it right when they worshiped crocodiles. The crocodile is one of the few large creatures with a chance of surviving man’s environmental destruction if we don’t hunt them to extinction first.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Crocodile Worship

In Madagascar the people worship crocodiles. The feed them great chunks of meat hoping the crocodiles will bring a big harvest. These people are not nearly as crazy as Christians. Christians worship a god they cannot see or detect in any way.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Crooked Corporation

What would you think of a corporation that:

• persuaded its customers to invest 10% of their income, but never gave them anything in return.
• traumatised children, abusing them physically, sexually and mentally.
• encouraged lynchings, beatings, murders and burning alive of those who refused to act as agents for the corporation.

If you would not approve of such a corporation, why would you excuse the same behaviours in the world’s churches?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Crooks

• If you catch a guy telling you BS stories to talk you into giving him money…
• If you catch a guy raping a child…
• If you catch a guy blatantly lying to you…

Can you decide he is a crook and decide not to trust him, or are you obligated to study his life to find every good thing he did to see if it compensates? People tend to treat professional Christians the second way.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cross

Whoever designed English noticed that Christians, whose symbol is the cross, are often cross scolds.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cross Checking

One way to decide what is true, is to make a presumption, then check if it jibes with the observed facts. Does the presumption fit with the facts? Are there any inconvenient facts that conflict? Does the presumption neatly explain or predict the facts? Check for yourself what happens if you presume Christianity is nothing but con whose purpose is to extract money from the gullible and to hand over their kids for sexual and physical abuse. This could be true both if there is or is not a god.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Crucifixion as Entertainment

In ancient times, people thought no more of going to a crucifixion for entertainment than modern day movie goers would of watching Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Crucifixion Obsession

Why are Christians so obsessed with the crucifixion? That is their favourite art subject. That is the symbol of the entire religion. You would think the resurrection would be more important. The Christian con artists are milking your empathy to create guilt and obligation. That can then easily be used to convince you hand over money.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cruel God

If there were a loving god, he would never take your daughter from you with cancer.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cruel God

Think how many millions of times have Christians prayed to their god to save them. Can you think of even once when he did? Think of all the people burned alive, consumed by disease, raped and murdered. If this god exists, he has a heart of stone.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cruel God

What god would design a world where baby sea turtles, as soon as they are hatched must run a gauntlet of shrieking gulls and amassed ghost crabs where most are torn to pieces? If there were such a god, it would deserve contempt and pity, not worship.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cruel God

What sort of compassionate intelligent designer of the universe would have set hordes of mosquitos to torment the caribou, blood sucking leaches to invade the rectums of hippopotamuses, spiders to paralyse and slowly dine on their living victims, or pancreatic cancer to torture old ladies?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cruel Gods

Both Allah and Yahweh are reputed to be infinitely kind and merciful. But that cannot be true. According to the religious traditions, the creator of universe created everything including the bubonic plague, Ebola, pancreas cancer, Guinea worms, mosquitoes and black flies.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cruel Lies

What a vicious lie to tell a child that her mother abandoned her to go on a permanent luxury vacation in heaven.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cruel Parents

Anyone who teaches children that there is an invisible bogeyman under the bed is as either a mentally deficient ninny or a sadistic bastard. This includes most Christians.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Cruelest Con

Convincing believers that being horny is a mortal sin was the cruelest and cleverest trick the church has yet invented for dragging their marks about like pigs with nose rings. Extreme guilt make the imaginary punishment seem all the more terrible, real, deserved and probable. In that blubbering state believers are putty in the hands of the church ready to hand over any a lifetime of protection money to forestall the threatened torture. I find it odd that only a tiny minority of the general population seem to notice that churches are blatantly criminal enterprises — the world’s oldest con. It natural for criminals to deny their wrongdoing with all manner of lies, affect offended innocence and to falsely attack their prosecutors.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cruelty of I’ll Pray For You

I’ll pray for you is a socially acceptable way of saying no when someone asks for help.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cryogenics

So long as the cryogenics company does not make false claims, it is nobody else’s business. So often the government enforces religious superstitions and traditions on others involving the handling of corpses. There is no need, any more than regulation on rituals for the disposal of decomposed ape meat.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cult Leaders Have Confidence

It is odd how people with truly crazy ideas like Savaranola, Hitler or Ayn Rand can collect cult followers around them. It appears the main thing they need is absolute confidence in the correctness and completeness of their simplified view of the world.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cult Power

It is quite frightening when someone joints a cult, how their personality changes, how they become illogical, how they give up their friends, how they give a large amount of money to the cult. It is just as distressing when someone joins a Christian cult. It is so common, it easy to miss just how damaging to sanity it is. It is like they have had a lobotomy.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Cults to Avoid

You would probably want everyone to steer well clear of a cult that practised sexual abuse of children, ritual cannibalism and whose main rite consisted of consisted of contemplating torture. Yet you accept it as perfectly natural when it comes wrapped as a respected religion — the Catholic Church.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Curing Christianity

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~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Daft

Christianity is utterly daft, but that fact escapes most people because it is so pervasive and familiar.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Daft

Christianity is utterly daft. The Aztecs used to cut out a sacrificial victim’s heart to slate the lusts of the deity. The ancient Hawaiians would throw a virgin into a volcano. Christians put on a elaborately embroidered dress. They get some boy attendants to dress in frocks. They flounce about waving incense. They think this will propitiate Yahweh. Seriously! Why because the performance made him laugh?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Daft

Christianity is utterly daft. You would think it would be folly to elect politicians suffering from delusions, but because the Christians have such power, only people without delusions are excluded from office.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Damn You Christians

Damn you all to hell, you meddling Christians! You twits who fear an invisible man in the closet spying on you when you masturbate! How dare arrogant, delusional idiots like you presume to dictate to me how I must handle my end-of-life decisions!

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Damned Meddling Christians

Christians are so smug and arrogant that I want to smack them senseless with a shovel. How dare they interfere with the end-of-life decisions some poor woman like Gloria Taylor dying of ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) on a feeding tube, whose hands cannot move, who was not even be able to speak to curse her tormentors. How dare they claim to know more about her situation than she did. How dare they try to impose their barbarous iron age religion superstitions on her.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Danger of Science

Religion retards the advancement of knowledge by throwing up superstitions to confuse. Science advances knowledge. The problem with science is it often gives us too much knowledge too quickly before we are wise enough to use it. For example, we used the knowledge of engines to pollute the planet and bring on global warming. We used knowledge of logging to destroy the world’s forests. Einstein gave us the atomic bomb and we built a hair-trigger system to wipe out life on earth. Despite the many marvels, science is also giving us the tools to drive ourselves extinct.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Dark Age Christianity

In the dark ages, Christianity has no competition. God intervened no more than he does today, but people roasted others alive in god’s name far more frequently.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Dark Ages

There was a time when Christians ran the show. There was continuous war, plagues, witch burnings, superstition, no sanitation… We call it the Dark Ages.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70) The Dark Ages 

Dark Matter

Nitwit theists are trying to sell the idea that dark matter is the god Yahweh. Though dark matter is still not fully understood by science, we know it is part of the universe. It has a location in space and time. It is like ordinary matter except it does not emit light. It generates gravity and is attracted by gravity. Dark matter is not intelligent. IT was created in the big bang along with the rest of the universe. These fools are almost as idiotic as coal worshippers.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Darwin Awards

Everyone has seen the Darwin awards where people do really stupid things and kill themselves. Every Christian deserves one too. They trust preachers who know nothing at all about climate change and ignore the scientists who do.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

De-Delusioning

Delivering a Christian from his delusions is a bit like removing a tooth. You have to push it to one side as far it is will go, then push a tiny bit further, then pull it back to the other side. The trick is to get the tooth moving a little, in any direction.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Dead Feel Nothing

Anything you do to the dead is infinitely less important than what you do while they are still alive.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Deadbeat God = No God

How could you possibly tell the difference between a non-existent god and a god that did not do anything, did not answer prayer, did not intervene to override physical laws, did not appear physically…?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Deadbeat Gods

When disaster strikes, you would think religious people would notice their benevolent gods either abandoned them or did not exist. In either case you would expect them to abandoned their gods. But they do the exact opposite. It is as though they all suffer from Stockholm syndrome.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Dealing with Death

If you are a Christian and someone close to you dies, the myths are horrible. First, your loved one abandoned you or God took them from you like some jealous rival. If the deceased is a partner, you imagine them watching you. You can’t get on with your life without being disloyal to the ghost. You feel guilty about not thinking about them. You are required to force yourself to be miserable for the rest of your days.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Dealing with Death

If you are someone who has trouble with death, who finds the Christian siren song of endless harp playing appealing I suggest you set up a tropical fish tank. Many species of fish live at best only a couple of years. You will get used to your fish dying. You will get used to the idea we have only a limited lifespan. It will seem only natural the same will happen to you with no great ceremony. You will see that death is ordinary and not at all mysterious.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Dealing With Ghosts

If someone believed the ghost of their dead mother was watching and criticising their every act, you’d think they would seek professional help excising the painful belief, even if they thought it were probably true.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Dealing with Liars

My rule of thumb is to stop believing anything someone says, once I have caught them in even one lie, (not counting white lies told to spare feelings or for politeness). Ever after, they are going to have to present evidence. I will hereafter not take what they say on face value. This rule usually makes me discount any Christian within the first 15 minutes of the encounter.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Dealing With A Priest paedophile

Imagine you were working in the Catholic church and you discovered a priest forcing or threatening children into sexual acts. What would you do? Here are some the most likely things I would expect of you:

• Tell the police.
• Tell the child’s parents.
• Ensure that the priest is never left alone with kids.
• Talk to the kids and teach them how to defend themselves.
• Get to the bottom of what has been going on and collect evidence.
• If the priest were a personal friend, you conceivably might tell the priest if he does not cut this out right this minute you will go to the police.

Things I would not expect you to do:

• Tell absolutely no one.
• Make no effort of any kind to convince the priest to stop.
• Help the priest cover up his crimes.
• Bully the kids into silence.
• Conspire with others in the church to find the priest fresh pastures where he will have a fresh start where no one is aware of his proclivities.

However, how do staff at the Catholic church behave? Aid and abet the coverup. Why? I suggest it is because most of the staff are paedophiles or peeping-paedophiles too. What they did makes no sense from the point of view avoiding scandal. One rogue priest the church could easily survive, but not of the whole church aiding and abetting his crimes. They are each covering for each other. How else do you explain their behaviour? Even after the scandal breaks they keep making excuses for the culprit. That suggests the culprit has something on all of them too.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Death

The thing that bothers me most about death is that my todo list will remain undone. On the other hand, in the months preceding my death, likely I will not make any progress on it, so extra time would not help.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Death After Life

Christians believe in life after death. Atheists believe in death after life and life before death. Christians have no evidence; atheists do.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Death Bed Conversion

Christians claim that nearly all atheists have a death bed conversion to Christianity. This makes no sense. Why would absolute twaddle suddenly make sense on one’s deathbed? And why Christianity? Why not Islam, Mormonism, Hinduism, Buddhism? They all offer after-death goodies considerably more pleasant than Christianity promises.

This belief suggests that fear of Yahweh and his hell is by far the biggest selling point of Christianity. Christians are cowards motivated mostly by fear of an imaginary deity. What childish twits to be taken in by such a transparent con! They are as naïve as the cannibals worshiping a volcano god in a black and white B movie.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Death Before Life

Christians needlessly fret about how horrible it will be to cease existence. They forget they have already done it for billions of years without trauma prior to their births.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Is Death Certain?

I am an atheist and I am not certain that I will die and I think it unlikely that I will live indefinitely either. I would prefer the certainty of finite life, that most atheists share. The reason for my uncertainty is quite different from any I have ever heard.

Consider Wheeler’s many worlds hypothesis. Quantum uncertainty allows the universe to split in all possible (to be defined by quantum experts) directions from every point in space time.

You could classify branches by how quickly they lead to my almost certain demise. Though the probability densities get absurdly thin, even after centuries, there are likely some chains that would keep me alive. I am dead in nearly all universes, but in a few branches I live on, day after day.

I pity the mes in the ones where I linger indefinitely, though it might fun for the mes who get a rejuvenated body and mind, with some erasure of memories that haunt me like a sore tooth my tongue cannot stop probing.

The inspiration for strange ideas like this come from a class in theoretical probability (including Lebesgue measure) I took in fourth year university back in the 60s. It is also inspired by people often encountering me alive and being absolutely astounded. They are positive I had died. I speculated some sort of cross-pollination of many worlds, though obviously there are more mundane explanations. Further, I contracted HIV back in 1985. Every year the doctors would say I had at most one more year. I am still here, yet all my friends, who nearly all became HIV+, are dead. This is mildly spooky and is consistent my paranoid hypothesis. Again, there is no lack of mundane explanations.

Quantum Mechanics are so flipping weird, I don’t feel all that certain about anything a universe than contains them. The one thing I am sure of is that I am baffled. Without fully understanding quantum mechanics, I don’t think I can close the matter.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Death Of A Child

How could anyone who has been present at the death of child possibly believe in a benign loving deity?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Death is not Scary

Fear of death is irrational similar to fear of being trapped in a coffin underground. Your consciousness will not experience either, even if your body does.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Death Penalty

Oddly, Christians are very keen on the use of the death penalty as a deterrent. But for sincere Christians, it would have no effect. Execution just means early reunion with god. It would only work on atheists.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Death Stinks

Religion is a collection of lies for denying the unpleasant end-of-life. If people were braver, less inclined to fanciful imaginings or had some faith that artificial intelligence could postpone death indefinitely, there would be no more need for such lies.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Death Threats

If ever you get a telephoned death threat, consider. Why would someone about to murder you tip you off so you can prepare to defend yourself? Why would he leave his phone number in the phone company records traceable to a threatening call? The same applies to email death threats. I speak from experience. I have received about 3200 telephone death threats, nearly all from Christians and I am still here.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Death Wish

All religions are based on a death wish:

• Yearning for personal death and rebirth in some more pleasant realm.
• Yearning the end times, the end of all life on the planet.

No animal is so stupid as to long for death. The religious are suffering from extreme pathology. There is no evidence that death is anything but oblivion. It makes sense only for those in extreme suffering.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Death — the Black Hole

Death is like a black hole. The closer you get, the faster it pulls, the faster you move into it. Once you fall in, nobody can see what happened to you. Even if you managed to survive, there is no way you will ever manage to tell about it. Though no one can observe your demise, the math makes it certain.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Death? So What?

Death is no big deal. Billions of people have done it, along with untold trillions of animals and plants. It is only your own death that is a big deal.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Debate

In debate, usually the atheists challenge Christians by giving their reasons why they think there are no gods, in particular Yahweh. Then Christians threaten them with torture for disagreeing with them. Then they make baseless ad hominem attacks. Why do Christian, off the bat, resort to cheating? Don’t they have any evidence to support their view? How can they look in the mirror and claim to be supporting absolute truth, but only have lies and cheating to do it?

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Debate, the Saving Grace

Other than Zionists, Jews are so much more reasonable than Christians. The Old Testament is much crazier than the new, so how could this be? Christians are taught blind belief and obedience. Jews are taught to debate and think.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Debating Con Men

When you debate a con man, never forget the con man has no interest in discovering the truth. His job is to conceal it.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Debating is Futile

Watch a debate between an atheist and a Christian. No matter what either says, the atheists in the audience applaud when the atheist makes a point and the Christians in the audience applaud when the Christian makes a point. There is no change in the proportion of atheists and Christians over the course of the debate. The choice appears to be a matter of team loyalty rather than reasons. It almost seem that people do not have reasons for their choice. It is more like choosing their favourite flavour of ice cream, strawberry or chocolate. It is just a preference. They have no idea why they think the way they do.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Debating Mental Patients

When you debate fundamentalists it feels like you are debating mental patients. You are. These are people with borderline OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) and borderline schizophrenia, all untreated. You would not expect to cure OCD or schizophrenia using only logic.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Debating With Christians

Debating with Christians is like debating with small children. The difference is children are rarely under the delusion they know everything already.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70) Deliver Us from Evil

Debating with Criminals

It is difficult for Christians and atheists to debate civilly because each considers the other to be a brazen criminal.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Debunking Christianity

The Wizard of Oz was one of the best books ever written on the bogosity of Christianity.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Debunking Evolution

Christians don’t understand. If somebody came up with a legitimate criticism of evolution, scientists would be ecstatic with excitement. The story would be everywhere. Discovering something new is what scientists live for. Christians have quite a different approach to information that challenges their beliefs. They use censorship, scorn and threats to suppress the information.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Debunking Nutty Ideas

We must be braver. Nutty ideas deserve to be mocked and debunked whether their origin is secular or religious. Any nutty idea unopposed will grow and become more dangerous and harder to extinguish.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

The Deceased, Funeral Director

When someone dies, people fight over what the deceased would have wanted in terms of funeral arrangements. The deceased is the only person whose feelings do not matter. They will not be attending.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Deceptive Advertising

I have the same problem with god as with other products sold in late night TV infomercials — he does not perform as advertised, or more accurately, he does absolutely nothing.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)

Deciding to Be Straight

To those who claim sexual orientation is a choice, tell me about the day you decided to get turned on more by girls than by boys. Be honest! It just happened. A tsunami of sexual desire swept you away.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)