A Bunch of Randoms

Just a bunch of pics I ran across recently that I suppose loosely fit into the concept of atheism, or at least being as disrespectful as possible toward religion. Which I find a very loverly activity.

All Hail Snoopthulu. 

Seriously, you guys...not funny. 

And then finally, Paul Gaugin. With his 'Yellow Christ.' Which I can't help but translate to 'Piss Christ.' Ha ha, because I'm...like that. 

Hate the Stupidity, Not the Stupid

To borrow a phrase from the homophobic, fundamentalist religious right, a la "We don't hate the sinner, just the sin:"

I don't think religious people are necessarily stupid. It's just the things they believe that are stupid.

To wit:

Former Arkansas governor and GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee attributed today’s deadly massacre in an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut to the lack of God and religion in public schools.

Addressing the tragedy on Fox News, Huckabee dismissed calls for stricter gun control and claimed that future violence can be prevented by solving matters of “the heart” and turning to God.

Putting aside for a moment the particularly annoying phenomenon that occurs anytime there is a disaster, wherein the religious are suddenly privy to the inner workings of their god (skipped Corinthians, did we? "For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him?"

The fact that he would simultaneously comment on a lack of god in the schools (how is he everywhere, then, Mike?) and dismiss the notion of man improving the world in which he lives is bad enough.

But then he goes on to say:

We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we’ve systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so surprised that schools would become a place of carnage because we’ve made it a place where we don’t want to talk about eternity, life, what responsibility means, accountability?

First of all, that's pretty sweet, that you think your god is so evil he would punish little children for the sins of the fathers--who presumably are the ones who "took god out of the schools."

Second, um, accountability?? Responsibility?? From RELIGION? The place where you go to have your sins absolved? Eat a cracker, swig some wine, say some words, and boom, you're all set to go a'sinnin' again. That is the opposite of accountability.

And secondly, the place where you can blame or thank a magic man in the sky for everything that happens in the world is not the right place to seek personal responsibility. These dickheads would better serve the world--not to mention themselves--by just shutting up when these events occur, and letting their god deal with them. He's doing some fine work, by the way.

And I'm thinking that if people like Mike Huckabee and Rush Limbaugh and Pat Robertson can freely interpret the mind of god, so can I.

He says you should fuck off.

Victimology, Christian-Style

Yes, we should definitely investigate Hollywood filmmakers, the creators of "South Park," and anyone else who "denigrates religious beliefs." Good idea, Values Voters Summit-guy. (Full article here, via crooks and liars.)



In a little one-minute clip, this guy snappily demonstrates a couple of the huge, glaring hypocrisies of the red-meat, nutbar wing of the GOP. The party of freedom, the party of "get your government hands off my Medicare," is also home to many, many people who believe there would be nothing wrong with having government intervene in the religious lives of its citizens--as long as that religion is Christianity.

Which of course illustrates the other hypocrisy, that these people are always the first to cry "persecution" anytime anyone says or does anything remotely in opposition to their beliefs. As if to have a set of beliefs means that everyone else in the world must believe them too. Or if not believe, at least not challenge or question them, because to question someone's beliefs is to "disrespect" them.

So it is that the religion of 76 to 80 percent of Americans--around 240 million people--is the victim here, being "denigrated," warranting investigation.

It must really suck to be a persecuted majority. Methinks perhaps you guys are doing something wrong here if you're being persecuted by the rest of us.

Pat Robertson Is (Still) A Deslusional Douche

Ah. Well, thanks for explaining that, Pat. Via rawstory.

Televangelist Pat Robertson on Monday reviewed the case of a shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin that left at least seven dead and came to the conclusion that places of worship were being attacked because “people who are atheists, they hate God.”

Of course. The fact that the shooter seems to have been a white supremacist who had a tattoo of an obscure Christian-appropriated symbol notwithstanding.

Reports also indicated that Page had a number of tattoos, including one that said “9/11″ and a Celtic knot, which is commonly used a symbol of the Christian Holy Trinity. There is no evidence that Page was an atheist.

Here's something for poor demented old Pat from the King James Bible: "For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him?"

But here's something I found elsewhere for him.

overdue

Just felt I was overdue for a spasm of logic.

religion

Yep.

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jesus dyed

Of course, the bible isn't in color, so it's entirely possible this was Jesus' actual hair color.

His fabulous, fabulous hair color.

religulous

Here's several religious posts I've been hoarding.

I love the New Testament/Old Testament beef this brings up. The original East Coast/West Coast battle.

Plus Jesus has awesome bedroom eyes. I'll eat that chick's cracker any day.

She just has to shave the beard first.

Yes. When engineers and their flow charts apply themselves to the illogic of religion.

But this might be the favorite of the batch. I love (loathe) the smug, first-world, top-of-the-food-chain dumbness of religious posts like this.

I think all of these came from my god, reddit.com.

sin and its cure

Ha.

creepy jesus monkey

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Random weirdness.

But somehow still very reminiscent of what bible thumpers look like to me.

how to stop your kids from being atheists

via via

O, my goodness yes.

choice quotes:

'Lie to them constantly about how the world works. Feed them a steady diet of mumbo jumbo dressed up as real knowledge...'

'Make them loathe their own natural bodies and functions.'

'Instruct them...to never question for themselves...'

he has a point

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Can I get an amen?

Well, shit, pastor, if I'd known those were the kind of worship services you offered, I'd have been in church a long time ago!

Now: I've been sinning a lot lately--and I mean A LOT--so where's the lady with the four-inch tongue?

god's power

Then there's this handy-dandy chart.

religion

via. 

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well that settles that

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god is a troll

Here's a couple of religion posts, in the wake of Glenn Beck saying from on high that the earthquake and tsunami in Japan could be the result of angry god. That god guy--what a prick.

Oh and Glenn Beck too. Maybe that's why they're so close.

religion v the internet

Ha.

via reddit.

house on religion

Of course, the advisability of learning life lessons from fictional characters is not recommended.

For fans of House--nor for fans of Jesus!!

Haha! See what I did there? :D

fiction

hee hee.