Michele Bachmann prays to god to stop healthcare reform...
There’s this thing I notice when rich white people pray and it really bothers me. Click through and tell me I’m wrong. These people talk to god in this faux-humble tone, like they were talking to a child. They try to speak authoritatively while demanding humbly ridiculous things. They pray to god and consistently remind god of what the bible says, “oh god in your word you said that, and you promised us, and you,” and so… to me, when you’re speaking slowly, like the person you’re talking to is fucking moron and you’re reminding them of what they previously said (as if GOD doesn’t remember what’s in the bible), and you’re also being kind of bossy about it it just seems, sounds, and is really arrogant, condescending, and kind of embarrassing.
In my mind, if god and prayer were real (they’re not, but.), it would make sense to pray in plain english, in simple terms, just telling god your problems like you would tell a friend. You wouldn’t ask a friend for help and then before you asked reminded him that you two were friends. So why do christians talk down to god?
This Is Always What I Think Of In Times Like These
“Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.” — Carl Sagan
“question and answer”
he sat naked and drunk in a room of summer
night, running the blade of the knife
under his fingernails, smiling, thinking
of all the letters he had received
telling him that
the way he lived and wrote about
that—
it had kept them going when
all seemed
truly
hopeless.
putting the blade on the table, he
flicked it with a finger
and it whirled
in a flashing circle
under the light.
who the hell is going to save
me? he
thought.
as the knife stopped spinning
the answer came:
you’re going to have to
save yourself.
still smiling,
a: he lit a
cigarette
b: he poured
another
drink
c: gave the blade
another
spin.
Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don’t be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.
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Consider Again, That Pale Blue Dot — Carl Sagan
Nine wonderful minutes.
That’s pretty much true of everyone though.
not all christians are alike
I was going to write a really long thing about this but didn’t. Instead, I’ll just say this:
I am not religious. I am agnostic. Still, it pains me to see so much Christian bashing on my dashboard, mainly because the bashing tends to lump all Christians together, making it seem like they are all ignorant, bible thumping, creationists. They are not. In the same way that not all atheists are pretentious or high and mighty about their non belief.
It’s insulting. And it makes you look more ignorant than the people you are making fun of.
That is all.
Actually, all christians are alike in that they all believe the same silly made-up storys, and on principle believe things(creation, virgin births, talking bushes, etc) that can clearly be dis-proven by science, and verifiable history. So I mean there’s that similarity, no matter what the level of sincerity of the individual.
And I say this as a guy who went to seminary who’s now an atheist.
The Story of Marjoe
Marjoe was a precocious child preacher with extraordinary talents, who was immensely popular in the American South. His parents earned large sums of money off him up until the point he outgrew his novelty. Marjoe rejoined the ministry as a young adult solely as a means of earning a living, and not as a believer; he spent the next several years using his fame and status as an evangelist to defraud a small fortune out of individuals both through tent revivals and televangelism.
Eventually, Gortner suffered a crisis of conscience and decided to renounce his ways, offering the documentary film crew unrestricted access to him during his final revival tour, repeatedly admitting on camera that he was a con-artist and revealing the tactics used by himself and other evangelists to swindle money from people.
If you haven’t been creeped out by religion today, watch this Academy Award winning documentary from 1972.
This sign should read, “txt if u want 2 meet him lol”
There’s so much more I want to say, but won’t.
THESE ARE MY BIBLES (bear with me here)
So yeah, these are 3 of my 4 bibles. There’s 2 King James versions, one New King James (not pictured), and a New America Standard. You guys know I went to seminary and dropped out right?
Yeah, I did. It’s a long story, mostly involving a lack of tuition money. But anyways, so I struggled thinking about if I should make an easter post or not, because I haven’t been religious in a long time. I am an atheist or on a bad day an agnostic (joke), but I didn’t want to offend any friends I might have on here by really openly being a dick about a religious holiday so here I am posing in pictures with bibles…
I digress. I don’t hate religion. I have a religious upbringing, and educational background, I’ve read the bible at least 6 times cover to cover and I don’t think it’s a ‘bad’ book, I just think it’s Wrong. Though I do think the bible has some good stuff in it, and you know, it’s basically the primary text for all of western civilization, so it can’t be thrown out, yet…
But some weird and wild shit happened to me and then eventually I’ll say that I grew up, and really started doing some reading, really starting trying to think and I just started moving away from religion. Things stopped making sense. Why were my gay friends going to hell? Why can’t a woman make her own choice about her own body? Aren’t these morality demands no longer applicable today? If the basic message of The Gospel is LOVE then why is it love, or else? Stuff like that.
I don’t hate christianity, or christians, though I hate what it does to people and its predatory leaders. I hate that it divides otherwise civil people and turns them on each other. I hate the level of control that it forces upon the follower. Because I think people should be free to make their own decisions in life. Having faith isn’t a bad thing, it just needs to be kept in check is all I think.
When I see something beautiful in the world, natural or otherwise, I praise nature and it nature alone, because I believe that it’s the randomness, the chaos, that makes it all beautiful. It a WONDER we’re all here, so let’s enjoy ourselves.
this is really jumbled and i’m really sleepy and sorry, tl;dr guys.
What god doesn’t give to you,
you’ve got to go and get for yourself.
Tom Gabel from the new Against Me! album “White Crosses” full lyrics here.
Pretty stoked on theses lyrics.
