Friday, November 21, 2008

Trying to explain economics to the Faithful

RELIGION - You know how right wing Christians in America get so upset about evolution being taught in schools? Well let me explain what happens when you try to explain something like economics...

In a recent email I tried to explain to an American why China has a bigger economy than the United States.

It was like talking to someone who was brain dead. He just kept repeating the same thing about the GDP.

No matter how many facts or statistics I gave him, like how the Chinese Yuan is pegged to the US dollar and is deliberately undervalued, that China's GDP is inaccurate because the Yuan is worth half of what its really worth in buying power, how China has 15 times more manufacturing power and a labor force of 800.7 million compared to America's 153.1 million, etc... he still remained convinced that the USA is the largest economy in the world just because the USA has a GDP of $14 trillion to China's $9 trillion.

I tried to explain to him REPEATEDLY that the Chinese Yuan is deliberately undervalued and worth 2 to 3 times that, which would make China's GDP effectively $18 to 27 trillion.

But that doesn't matter. To his arrogant Amerocentric mindset the United States was the biggest, the best and was "God's gift to the world".

At which point I realized I wasn't arguing against his statistics or his GDP figures, I was arguing against his FAITH in the American economy.

You see people can have Faith in anything. It doesn't have to be a god. People have faith in their lucky rabbit's foot, have faith that their spouse won't cheat on them, have faith that their kid will win the science fair, the beauty pageant or the soccer match. Faith is about believing in something even when there's little or no facts to support it.

And you can't argue against faith. It defies logic or reason. It doesn't care about facts or statistics. Faith is self sustaining and people can only lose faith when their spouse cheats on them, their lucky rabbit's foot stops working and their kid becomes a big time loser.

So some Americans will never lose faith in the American economy unless we have a recession and they lose their jobs. Oh wait, we're already in a recession... and the unemployment rate is going up...

And likewise people will never lose faith in god unless something happens that destroys that faith. Talking to them won't make them see reason, only disasters can shake and break someone's faith.

"Religion is to Faith what Science Fiction is to Science: Fairy Tales and Wishful Thinking." - Charles Moffat.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Christian Mother Vs Atheist Son

Dear God

I have a few questions I'd like answered:

1. Leviticus 25:44 states that I may possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Can you clarify? Why can't I own Canadians?

2. I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her? (I'm pretty sure she's a virgin).

3. When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord - Lev.1:9. The problem is, my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them?

4. I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2. clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself, or should I ask the police to do it?

5. A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination - Lev. 11:10, it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this? Aren't there 'degrees' of abomination?

6. Lev.21:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle-room here?

7. Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair around their temples, even though this is expressly forbidden by Lev. 19:27. How should they die?

8. I know from Lev. 11:6-8 that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves?

9. My uncle has a farm. He violates Lev.19:19 by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend). He also tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to all the trouble of getting the whole town together to stone them? Lev.24:10-16. Couldn't we just burn them to death at a private family affair, like we do with people who sleep with their in-laws? (Lev. 20:14)

Sincerely,
Yours Truly

Gods You Don’t Believe In

“I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” -Stephen Roberts

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Atheist Bumper Stickers

* Darwin loves you

* Blasphemy is a victimless crime.

* Abstinence Makes the Church Grow Fondlers

* Honk If Your Religious Beliefs Make You An Asshole

* Don’t pray in my school, and I won’t think in your church.

* Intelligent Design Makes My Monkey Cry

* Thank God I'm an Atheist.

* Too Stupid to Understand Science? Try Religion.

* There's A REASON Why Atheists Don't Fly Planes Into Buildings

* If you think god is your co-pilot, try letting him land the plane.

* "Worship Me or I Will Torture You Forever. Have a Nice Day."­ God.

* If Jesus is inside me, I hope he likes fajitas ’cause that’s what he’s getting!

* Gods Don't Kill People. People Who Believe in God Kill People.

* If There is No God, Then What Makes the Next Kleenex Pop Up?

* He's Dead. It's Been 2,000 years. He's Not Coming Back. Get OVER It Already!

* All religion is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry - Edgar Allan Poe.

* Viva La Evolución!

* Praying is begging

* Actually, If You Look It Up, The Winter Solstice Is The Reason For The Season

* I Wouldn't Trust Your God Even If He Did Exist

* Cheeses Is Lard. Argue With THAT If You Can.

* Cheeses Dried Foyer Shins. Praise the Lard.

* The difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate controlled.

* People Who Don't Want Their Beliefs Laughed at Shouldn't Have Such Funny Beliefs

* Jesus is Coming? Don't Swallow That.

* Threatening Children With Hell Is FUN!

* GOD - APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD!

* Jesus Told Me Republicans SUCK

* God + Whacky Tobacky = Platypus

* God Doesn't Exist. So, I Guess That Means No One Loves You.

* When the Rapture Comes, We'll Get Our Country Back!

* Q. How Do We Know the Holy Ghost Was Catholic? A. He Used the Rhythm Method Instead of a Condom.

* You Say "Heretic" Like It Was a BAD Thing

* And God said unto His followers, ‘Get on your knees and prey.’

* Creationism: Holy Shit!

* I Love Christians. They Taste Like Chicken.

* How many prophets does does it take to make a profit?

* Science: It Works, Bitches.

* "Intelligent Design" Helping Stupid People Feel Smart Since 1987

* I Found God Between The Sheets

* I Gave Up Superstitious Mumbo Jumbo For Lent

* My Flying Monkey Can Beat Up Your Guardian Angel

* Every Time You Play With Yourself, God Kills a Kitten

* If God Wanted People to Believe in Him, Then Why Did He Invent Logic?

* Praying Is Politically Correct Schizophrenia

* ALL Americans Are African Americans

* I Forget - Which Day Did God Make All The Fossils?

* I Was An Atheist Until The Hindus Convinced Me That I Was God

* The Spanish Inquisition: The Original Faith-based Initiative

* If we were made in his image, then why aren't humans invisible too?

* JESUS SAVES....You From Thinking For Yourself

* How Can You Disbelieve Evolution If You Can't Even Define It?

* Q. How Can You Tell That Your God is Man-made? A. If He Hates All the Same People You Do.

* Every Time You See a Rainbow, God is Having Gay Sex

* I Went to Public School in Kansas and All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt and a Poor Understanding of the Scientific Method.

* WWJD = We Won. Jesus Died.

* Religion: the original pyramid scheme.

* The Family That Prays Together is Brainwashing the Children

* Oh, Look, Honey Another Pro-lifer For War

* Another Godless Atheist for Peace and World Harmony

* God is Unavailable Right Now. Can I Help You?

* When Lip Service to Some Mysterious Deity Permits Bestiality on Wednesday and Absolution on Sundays, Cash Me Out. Frank Sinatra.

* No Gods. No Mullets.

* When you kill one man you’re a murderer, a bunch you’re a psycho, thousand and you’re a hero, millions you’re a conqueror and if you kill them all… you are God!

* Transubstantiation: Just say no to cannibalism.

* Anything God can’t do we can do better.

* Atheist: a man who sells his soul to get money to give to the needy; theist; one who takes from the needy to protect his soul.

* Jesus may love you but everyone else thinks you're an asshole.

* Evangelical Agnostic: God? I don’t know and neither do you. God? I don’t care and neither should you.

* The clergy build castles in the sky; the religious live in them and the rest of us have to pay their rent.

* As an atheist, I condemn your religion, not you; now, do you condemn me?

* As an atheist, I am more compassionate than your God.

* Relax. We did not suffer before our births and we can't suffer when we're gone.

* I wouldn't send God to hell, if i could, but I would commit Him.

* If evil exists there is nothing that can be done about it, but if suffering is only caused by ignorance, then there is true hope.

* We think, therefore there is hope.

* Good does not require religion, but it is threatened by it.

* All religious extremism begins as religious moderation.

* Most religions preach tolerance until one of them gets the upper hand.

* A fool is guided by religion; the wise question it, and politicians abuse it.

* Faith is the refusal to see reality. Sanity is the insistence on reality.

* Believers made God in their image: violent and irrational.

* Jesus, save me from your followers.

* God was more than capable of judging people, without help, before you were born.

God is dead.

"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?"

--Nietzsche


"God is dead" is one of the best known but least understood quotes in modern culture. What Nietzsche was lamenting was not the physical death of an imaginary being called God, but the death of an external, absolute basis for morality. This leaves us with the responsibility of coming up with our own morality, and the burden may be too great for ordinary mortals; only an übermensch has the strength to live in a godless world without falling into nihilism.

It sometimes seems to me that Christian apologists like their atheists to be like Nietzsche, Sartre or Camus - tortured souls wracked by existential angst. They can point to this intellectual suffering, contrasting with their own smug certitude, as validation of their fairy tale. What affronts them about the "new atheists" is the latter's scientific objectivity and matter-of-fact rejection of posthumous aerial pie. So what if this life is all that exists, let's make the most of it instead of cowering on our knees, say Dawkins and Hitchens. To which the apologists can only respond with incoherent outraged spluttering.

Anyway, Nietzsche was wrong, and the basis for a morality without God already existed as he wrote his words. Actually, morality is the wrong word - we need to distinguish it from ethics. Morality is something you impose on children because they aren't old enough to work out right and wrong themselves. Morality is external, imposed from above in a power relationship.

On the other hand, why do so many professions have a code of ethics, not a code of morality? Why do we have bioethics, for example, instead of biomorality? Because ethics is something you come up with by yourself or with your peers, and then commit to live up to. As adults we have a responsibility to live ethically, and that includes the onus of sorting out right from wrong depending on the situation. This is especially important as technology exposes us to new problems - stem cell research for example - which no ancient, dusty scroll has anything to say about.

To insist on absolute morality is to attempt to keep the human race infantilized and push the genie of technology back in the bottle. Moreover, absolute faith-based morality is always arbitrary and irrational, and actually stultifies rather than develops the human moral sense. Switch off your brain and blindly swallow a package deal of someone else's ideas of right and wrong, and you inevitably succumb to group-think which dehumanizes everyone outside the group. They are the spawn of Satan, they are doomed to eternal infinite torture in the Lake of Fire, so their suffering in this life is of no account.

Furthermore, adhering blindly to an ancient list of thou-shalt-nots leads to injustice more often than not. A perfect example is the condemnation of the vaccine for human papilloma virus by conservatives. Apparently it's better that women should suffer from cervical cancer than that someone should get the idea that sex is a natural and healthy part of life!

In any case, the idea of God as the one and only arbiter of what is moral leads inevitably to the Euthyphro dilemma. If God commands you to murder or rape a young girl, as he frequently did in the Old Testament, does that make it a moral act? Some Christians say yes. It seems to me that they are the ultimate moral relativists - and very scary people.

So, what is the alternative to absolute morality? How do we avoid arbitrariness? As I hinted at above, while Nietzsche was penning his anguished thoughts on the death of God, Darwin's Origin of Species had already hit the bookstores - and solved an analogous problem in biology. How can the complexity of life arise without an external designer? Who designed the designer, and how do we avoid infinite regress? Darwin swept away these problems by showing that complexity need not be imposed top-down; it can develop from the bottom up.

The same applies to the morality/ethics problem. If there were early human societies where murder was no big deal, they would surely have died out. Ethics evolved, and the ethical system that worked best is the one on which there is general consensus today - the Golden Rule, or various minor variations thereof. Basically it requires us to empathize with our fellow beings and avoid causing them unnecessary suffering. This in turn requires us to use our reason to know what causes suffering and what can alleviate it. Reason and empathy are the twin pillars of a good, solid, working system of ethics that does not depend on any gods or sacred parchments interpreted by priests and shamans.

As technology continues to develop, revealed religious morality will become increasingly irrelevant while reason and empathy become ever more important in deciding how to act ethically. For any intelligent and decent person, this should be an exciting and challenging prospect, not a cause for despair.

God is dead. Rejoice, rejoice!

Not believing isn't sad, its life affirming.

“So, you don’t believe in God?”

“To which one would you be referring to?”

“You know, God. Like the God who is in the Bible?”

“Oh, you mean the Judeo-Christian God? No, I do not.”

“Which God do you believe in?”

“I do not believe in ANY gods.”

“What about when you die? What happens then?”

“I will be dead. That’s pretty much all there is to it. Hopefully, I have done some good with my life.”

“That seems like a sad way to look at it.”

"No, it isn't sad at all. I believe in living life to the fullest and treating other people with kindness and respect in the hope that they also live life to the fullest. Its life affirming and encourages you to value your life and the lives of others."

101 Atheist Quotes

The following 101 quotes are found in books / popular culture. Each quote was either written by an atheist, or is about Atheism / religion in general. Please feel free to comment on these quotes and any mistakes.

1. The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. - George Bernard Shaw
2. Faith means not wanting to know what is true. - Friedrich Nietzsche
3. I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. - Frank Lloyd Wright
4. We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes. - Gene Roddenberry
5. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. - Isaac Asimov
6. A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows. - Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
7. Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. - Seneca the Younger
8. Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. - Anonymous
9. Not only is there no god, but try getting a plumber on weekends. - Woody Allen
10. If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul. - Isaac Asimov
11. Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. - Edward Abbey
12. With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. - Steven Weinberg
13. I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. - Doug McLeod
14. The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence. - Abu’l‐Ala al Ma’arri
15. Since the Bible and the church are obviously mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust them to tell us where we are going? - Anonymous
16. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. - Susan B. Anthony
17. The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike. - Delos B. McKown
18. Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer. - Anonymous
19. Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. - Francis Bacon
20. The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. - Richard Dawkins
21. A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was tyrant. If God is seen as a self in a world of his own, an ego that relates to a thought, a cause separate from its effect. he becomes a being, not Being itself. An omnipotent, all‐knowing tyrant is not so different from earthly dictators who make everything and everybody mere cogs in the machine which they controlled. An atheism that rejects such a God is amply justified. - Karen Armstrong
22. It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image. - Ludwig Feuerbach
23. People ask me what I think about that woman priest thing. What, a woman priest? Women priests. Great, great. Now there’s priests of both sexes I don’t listen to. - Bill Hicks
24. All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science. - Matthew Arnold
25. Blind faith is an ironic gift to return to the Creator of human intelligence. - Anonymous
26. Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. - Richard Dawkins
27. What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. - Christopher Hitchens
28. In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. - Friedrich Nietzsche
29. It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible. - George W. Foote
30. On the first day, man created God. - Anonymous
31. I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. - Stephen Roberts
32. You do not need the Bible to justify love, but no better tool has been invented to justify hate. - Richard A. Weatherwax
33. What’s “God”? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God’s the guy that ignores you. - Steve Buscemi (From the movie “The Island”)
34. As far as I can tell from studying the scriptures, all you do in heaven is pretty much just sit around all day and praise the Lord. I don’t know about you, but I think that after the first, oh, I don’t know, 50,000,000 years of that I’d start to get a little bored. - Rick Reynolds
35. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish. - Anonymous
36. Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color. - Don Hirschberg
37. God should be executed for crimes against humanity. - Bryan Emmanuel Gutierrez
38. To say that atheism requires faith is as dim-witted as saying that disbelief in pixies or leprechauns takes faith. Even if Einstein himself told me there was an elf on my shoulder, I would still ask for proof and I wouldn’t be wrong to ask. - Geoff Mather
39. I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. - Mark Twain
40. Of all religions the Christian is without doubt the one which should inspire tolerance most, although up to now the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men. - Voltaire
41. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence. - Bertrand Russell
42. Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? - Epicurus
43. I’m a polyatheist - there are many gods I don’t believe in. - Dan Fouts
44. If it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever. - Woody Allen
45. A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it. - David Stevens
46. Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a God superior to themselves. Most Gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. - Robert A Heinlein
47. I refuse to prove that I exist,” says God, “for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing. - Douglas Adams
48. It ain’t the parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain
49. He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave. - William Drummond
50. Remember, Jesus would rather constantly shame gays than let orphans have a family. - Steven Colbert
51. Which is it, is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s? - Friedrich Nietzsche
52. Religion does three things quite effectively: Divides people, Controls people, Deludes people. - Carlespie Mary Alice McKinney
53. Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea. - Anonymous
54. When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life. - Sigmund Freud
55. They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it’s a good thing. - Steven Weinberg
56. Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains. - Robert G. Ingersoll
57. History teaches us that no other cause has brought more death than the word of god. - Giulian Buzila
58. Atheism is a non-prophet organization. - George Carlin
59. We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. - Richard Dawkins
60. A believer states everything must have a creator but fail to say how he was created. - Anonymous
61. “There are no atheists in foxholes” isn’t an argument against atheism, it’s an argument against foxholes. - James Morrow
62. People will then often say, ‘But surely it’s better to remain an Agnostic just in case?’ This, to me, suggests such a level of silliness and muddle that I usually edge out of the conversation rather than get sucked into it. (If it turns out that I’ve been wrong all along, and there is in fact a god, and if it further turned out that this kind of legalistic, cross-your-fingers-behind-your-back, Clintonian hair-splitting impressed him, then I think I would choose not to worship him anyway.) - Douglas Adams
63. Properly read, the bible is the most potent force for Atheism ever conceived. - Isaac Asimov
64. If all the Christians who have called other Christians “not really a Christian” were to vanish, there’d be no Christians left. - Anonymous
65. An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. - John Buchan
66. Gods dont kill people. People with Gods kill people. - David Viaene
67. If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself. - Alexandre Dumas
68. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma. - Sam Harris
69. I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose - Clarence Darrow
70. No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. - Annie Wood Besant
71. I refuse to believe in a god who is the primary cause of conflict in the world, preaches racism, sexism, homophobia, and ignorance, and then sends me to hell if I’m ‘bad’. - Mike Fuhrman
72. Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions. - Frater Ravus
73. Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-o, and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have. - Penn Jillette
74. Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power but absolute power is corrupt only in the hands of the absolutely faithful. - Anonymous
75. Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. - Chapman Cohen
76. The inspiration of the bible depends on the ignorance of the person who reads it. - Robert G. Ingersoll
77. When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. - Robert Pirsig
78. I wonder who got the shit job of scouring the planet for the 15000 species of butterfly or the 8800 species of ant they eventually took on board Noah’s Ark. But at least we got that magical rainbow for all their trouble. - Azura Skye
79. I have no need for religion, I have a conscience. - Anonymous
80. Man has always required an explanation for all of those things in the world he did not understand. If an explanation was not available, he created one. - Jim Crawford
81. I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. - Richard Dawkins
82. What has been Christianity’s fruits? Superstition, Bigotry and Persecution. - James Madison
83. The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. - Penn and Teller
84. If god is the alpha and the omega. The begining and the end, knows what has passed and what is to come, like it states in the bible, why do people pray and think it will make any difference. - Mark Fairclough
85. The finality of death is the coldest truth one must face. Religion makes the perfect distraction. - Anonymous
86. Religion is the opiate of the masses. - Karl Marx
87. If God created the world, then who created god? and who created whoever created god? So somewhere along the line something had to just be there. So why can’t we just skip the idea of god and go straight to earth? - Ryan Hanson
88. If we expect God to subscribe to one religion at the exclusion of all the others, then we should expect damnation as a matter of chance. This should give Christians pause when expounding their religious beliefs, but it does not. - Sam Harris
89. Atheists will celebrate life, while you’re in church celebrating death. - Anonymous
90. Animals do not have gods, they are smarter than that. - Ronnie Snow
91. I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever. - Daniel Boorstin
92. I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God. So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake… Religion is all bunk. - Thomas Edison
93. Fundamentalism, of any type, due to its prerequisite lack of intelligent thought, could prove to be the worst weapon of mass destruction, of all. - David J. Constable
94. To really be free, You need to be free in the mind. - Alexander Loutsis
95. Most religions prophecy the end of the world and then consistently work together to ensure that these prophecies come true. - Anonymous
96. Jesus hardly made the greatest sacrifice. He knew he would be resurrected anyway. - Anonymous
97. Religion is like a virus that affects the behaviour of its host in such a way as to propagate itself further. - Jack Pritchard
98. Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing. - Anonymous
99. Today’s religion will be the future’s mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever. - Steven Crocker
100. The Bible - A Fairytale book of rules brainwashing millions. Obliviously used to help create war, kill, hate, judge and discriminate. - Anonymous
101. Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? - Douglas Adams

Religions by Population

Some people LOVE statisitcs. If there's a topic we're writing about we like to go a good decent reliable source... like say the CIA World Factbook... or National Geographic or Statistics Canada, depending on what the topic is.

We're certainly not going to go to say... the Catholic Church, and use their statistics for how many followers they have because we know the numbers they claim will be inflated. The Catholic Church has a tendency to include people of competing religions like Protestanism, Lutheranism and even Judaism... so you really can't trust the numbers they give. Wikipedia isn't very accurate either, because we all know those numbers can be easily modified by any kid with a keyboard.

Religion is always a hot topic... so when we looked around for a reliable source on what was the populations of different religions we ended up picking the National Geographic's "Geography of Religion" to come up with the following statistics (dated 2000):

1. Judeo-Christianity 33.0%
2. Islam 19.6%
3. Non-Religious/Atheist 15.1%
4. Hinduism 13.4%
5. Other 6.7%
6. Chinese-Traditional* 6.3%
7. Buddhism 5.9%


The CIA World Factbook has similar stats (dated 2007), but doesn't track Chinese-Traditional:

1. Judeo-Christianity 33.55%
2. Islam 21.01%
3. Non-Religious/Atheist 14.09%
4. Hinduism 13.26%
5. Other 12.25%
6. Buddhism 5.84%


Note: That doesn't mean Christianity grew 0.55% in 7 years, its just from a different statistical source.

What we do find interesting however is how these numbers change over time. National Geographic has been tracking world religions since before 1900:

In 1900, Believers by Percentage:
1. Judeo-Christianity 34.5%
2. Chinese-Traditional* 23.5%
3. Hinduism 12.5%
4. Islam 12.3%
5. Buddhism 7.8%
6. Other 9.2%
7. Non-Religious/Atheist 0.2%


And what you realize is two things: Islam has almost doubled in size in 100 years and nonbelievers/atheists, while technically not a religion, is the fastest growing belief structure.

If we were to use these statistics and growth rates to guess what the future holds, it suggests there will be 3 major sets of believers by 2100: Judeo-Christians, Muslims and Nonbelievers.

If you also take into account there was 115 different wars (including civil wars) between 1900 and 1999, that doesn't bode well for a peaceful 21st century. We've already had 9 wars between 2000 and 2008, and two of them could best be described as confrontations between Western Christianity and Middle Eastern Islam.

So while having accurate statistics is important the thing to remember is that they're really just a guideline and comparing those current statistics to more historical stats helps to put things in context.

That lends to the idea that the two major religions will be fighting between themselves for years to come while atheists/nonbelievers and other religions stand by the sidelines aghast at the horror of it all.

Afterall, what will the world come to when Christians and Muslims start going to war, arguing over something as silly as numbers, oil prices, the minor differences between the Bible and Quran and whether Jesus was the messiah or just a prophet?

"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." - Steven Weinberg, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

The Atheists' 10 Step Program to Life

The following list was compiled by Charles Moffat:

1. Admit that we are all going to die and cease to exist, leaving behind only a memory and hopefully a lasting influence on those around us.

2. Admit that the universe either created itself or has always existed and that such things are often beyond our understanding.

3. Make a decision to use our lives to better the lives of others around us.

4. Admit that it is natural for human beings and society to have a moral code.

5. Admit that morality cannot be forced on others, but learned through experience and interaction with others.

6. Make a moral code that you feel everyone can live by (ie. Don't kill, lie, steal or cheat) and follow it.

7. Admit your faults and shortcomings without excuses.

8. Make amends to people when you wrong them, not out of fear of punishment, but because it is the right thing to do.

9. Do not seek out and force your ideas on others but allow them to come to their own decision.

10. When asked about your beliefs answer honestly and without prejudice.

Monday, November 17, 2008

Religulous

CNN Discusses Persecution of Atheists in America

Who Needs Faith?

God Bless Atheism

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Jesus Christ the Musical

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RELIGION - Christians have warned of a backlash of art world vandalism, following a decision to halt a private prosecution of a Gateshead gallery which exhibited a statue of Jesus with an erection.

Warning signs at the doors to the gallery warned of the exhibition's contents - which included dozens of plaster figures including ET and Mickey Mouse, all with erections.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) ruled that there was "no case to answer" for the Baltic Art Gallery which displayed the foot-high plaster statue as part of an exhibition by controversial Chinese artist Terence Koh.

Devout Christian Emily Mapfuwa, 40, of Brentwood, Essex, said the show, entitled Gone, Yet Still - was offensive to her faith and instructed her lawyers to seek a private prosecution against the gallery. She argued the Baltic would not have dared depict Mohammed in such a way.

Lawyers for the Baltic Flour Mills Visual Arts Trust had been bracing themselves for a trial by jury over the case until the CPS decision.

Ms Mapfuwa's supporters warned it could lead some people to destroy similar art works.

Christian Voice national director Stephen Green said: "This decision urges Christians to create public disorder if we want a similar case to proceed in future. We are naturally reluctant to do that and it puts us in new territory. On the other hand, there were those at the Baltic Centre who wanted to take matters into their own hands and I have warned Anita Zabludowicz that her statue will not survive being put on public display again."

Ms Mapfuwa's private prosecution started at Gateshead Magistrates` Court in July. It alleged that an offence of outraging public decency had been committed by exhibiting a statue of Jesus Christ with an oversized erect phallus at the Baltic during its September 2007 - January 2008 show.

One would hope Christians would learn to respect other people's opinions instead of just trying to sue whenever they are displeased with what they see.

Imagine if they had seen Victoria Van Dyke's "Guns, Sex and Jesus" series...

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