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Oh those religious wackos and their crazy reality denying ways. Always bending *Insert noun, verb, adj, event, news, opinion, color, lack of color, race, etc* to their will in order to better control preach their oppressive lovely world views. Pat Robertson is a recent example blaming the hati earthquake on their deal with the devil or whatever nonsense he was spewing out of that claptrap mouth of his.  Now Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi is no exception either. Here is his goddamn stupid quote that’s going around the internet.

“Many women who do not dress modestly … lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes,”

Yeah right. Women wear less clothes and BAM more earthquakes. No. You sir are a dumbass. Unfortunately he’s not a big enough dumbass cause he can obviously still figure out how to exploit his dumbass followers into doing what he wants. “Oh noes you sheepeople have been BAAAAAD with your western clothes and boobies and free will and *gasp* enjoying yourselves. It’s the end of the world and boobies are the cause. Cover yourselves before it’s too late.” Look at this jerk demeaning woman and blaming any and all bad actions of men on the women. Finishing it up with a touch of world disaster. His fellow church buddies and him were probably giving high fives and slapping each other on the ass all day after that one.

Problem though is that pesky internet and the ablity of people like me and many many others who can make fun of him and point out that he’s wrong. Also, bless it the internet, the chance to organize a whole day devoted to showing as much of those earthquake causing boobies as possible. April 26th will be boobquake day where any and everyone blessed with such “lethal weapons of mass destruction” are encouraged to show what they’ve got in the name of science. That’s right everyone the idea is to shake and show those boobies to see if we can indeed cause an earthquake simply by wearing less clothes. So please girls do your thing in the name of science and let’s put this to the test.

Boobquake

I am sometimes asked why I dislike religion. I am asked why I feel the world would be a better place without it and I’m given all sorts of stupid arguments that say why it is a force for good and that the world would be hell if there wasn’t religion. All of that is easily dismissed. It’s not a good or strong argument. I don’t believe that religion makes a person who they are. I don’t believe for a second that it is the reason why they do good or evil. I think it’s nothing more than an excuse in both cases. Those people out there that were raised to care about others and help others out would do so without the teachings of dogma and old superstitions. They use religion to help justify their actions and give them more meaning. I personally think that gives it less meaning, that it takes away from a selfless action/good deed done by someone and reduces it to a “I’m only doing this because someone (God) told me to and I don’t want to go to hell” instead of the remarkable kindness that is really is.

Also I don’t think that it causes people to evil things. Those that use religion to justify killing is nothing new. Everyone has been doing it since the beginning of religion. Hell, I am willing to bet that it was one of the founding principals. “There’s a tribe over there, we worship this, they worship that, they deserve to die.” I do believe that people will happily use it to justify the things they do so they might have a clear conscious, making whatever repugnant thing they did even worse.

This vile article speaks massive volumes of the person that wrote it. To quickly sum it up it says that you shouldn’t lie, EVER, even if the Nazis were asking you were some jews were it would be best to just tell them the truth because a lie is a lie and god hates that.

It shows that they have compassion and no love. That their strict adherence to their old bull shit dogma has sucked out the life from their bodies. That they have driven their archaic rules into their heads for so long that there is no free thought or reason or even any emotion anymore. Nothing but their unwavering rules. What disgusts me the most is the fact that they will sit back and smugly claim that without god you have no morals and that I am a horrible person who should be avoided because (picks random atheist hating evil out of the hat) I’ll probably eat your babies. Yet with jaw dropping statements like

“But consider for a moment that we are all already sentenced to die because we are sinners (Romans 5:12). It is going to happen regardless. If a lie helps keep someone alive for a matter of moments compared to eternity, was the lie, which is high treason against the Creator, worth it?”

Yes, they are basically saying so what those Jews are going to die anyways so what if I tell the Nazis were they are. god will judge me favorably because I didn’t lie. I’m surprised the article didn’t just state well they’re only Jews you know who cares what happens to them. So what that by my actions human beings will be round up and tortured and beaten and most likely have a miserable, horrific, slow death. But you know maybe it will just be the gas chambers those aren’t that bad.

I really have no words to describe how this makes me feel. My jaw just dropped when I read that. Religious nuts will never cease to surprise me and that honestly scares the shit out of me. Here they are happily removing all personal responsibility from themselves. A common trait and function of religion I’ve found. Probably why it caught on so well and has stayed around as long as it has. You don’t have be a good person or do anything good in order to be sure of your eternal soul just have to follow these rules and we’ll use magic away guilt to remove all the pesky moral problems and paint them the way we want them to be painted.

Bah. Sickening.

HELLo I would like to take a moment to drop a bombsHELL on you. There happens to be a town in Texas that is HELLbent to do away with the HELLacious term of HELLo that is bringing on the HELLfire and unleasing the HELLhounds who chase down and drive everyone into the deepest HELLholes. And you might ask what on earth is  wrong with HELLo? Well it’s because it has embedded within its’ cheerful greeting and innocent outlook is a HELLuva horrible evil word, HELL. That’s right for years we have been innocently greeting each other but little did we know that we are actually doing the DEVIL’s work. Sowing the seeds of evil in our brothers, sisters, coworkers, and even total strangers. In a nutsHELL, this has to stop. We must fight against the evil, force back the demons, send holy sHELLs of divine light and goodness to drive the HELLhounds back to unsHELL the evil that has been right in front of our very faces for so long. We must be HELLbent on destroying and removing this problem before it spreads even further. To replace tainted term we must use a word that is just as just as HELLo is evil, to this end the term HEAVEN-o has been coined. This new and good term is already being used the Courthouse, which we know is just an extension of the church. Where the divine word of God is processed into the Justice of Man. This my friends is just a small victory, we must proceed posthaste in order to get this to catch on in the rest of the country, and then THE WORLD!

Found Via Pharyngula. The main article can be found here.

Bah, everyday I see things that make me sick of religion more and more. While I am a strong atheist there are areas where I can see it does good. Mostly, in my opinion, on a personal level and only if it stays at that level. With the right direction the larger charities and help programs sponsored by religious organizations can do good. Unfortunately a lot of their donations come from stuck up people who don’t really care about what those programs stand for or the people that benefit. They are just trying to buy themselves into their heaven. As shown here they will rather take money from those who care only for making themselves look better than anyone they are only too eager to slap an unsavory label on. In this case it’s Dungeons and dragons. They turned down 17,000 dollars raised at GenCon because it was sullied by the sales of D&D material. This charity only happens to be the founder of D&D Gary Gygax’s favorite charity. What an insult. Now I can understand charities turning down money for any number of reasons, strings attached, accepting money from the sale of blood diamonds for charities helping people in the many conflicts in Africa, you know things that are crazy for them to accept or present a conflict of interest. The sale of “evil” D&D material isn’t one of them especially when you’ve accepted money from the creator many times before. As far as I’m concerned they’re just being shallow. Please keep in mind that I do not support any laws regulating them to force them to accept money in cases like this. They should be free to deny whoever they want, just as I should be free to call them self-righteous bastards who are out of touch with the world.

So the christian fundie answer to the failing market is to pray to a golden bull. This just strikes me as completely odd as I thought praying to false idols was strictly forbidden. Something about a second commandment or something like that. Here’s a rather interesting post about it. I especially love the quote about socialism from space. On a side note that blog seems pretty interesting I may just have to follow it more often.