@GovernorKayIvey
And you've just exposed what happens to human rights in a state ranked 50th in education, basing policy decisions on a Bible filled with talking animals, blood magic, 900-year-old humans, a second-class female gender, and an Earth with a "firmament" and four corners.
@MCITLFrAphorism
TRANSLATED: Men in church require only a glimpse of bare female shoulder before the frontal lobes shut down, the frontal pants fire up, the Purple Homewrecker insults the Blessed Virgin, and standing up becomes impossible without a pipe bender.
#HotMass
@realDonaldTrump
Make sure they include the pro-slave torture verses. Balaam's talking donkey. Jephthah roasting his daughter as human sacrifice. The evils of eating shrimp and lobster. Rules about inter-mingling fabrics. And (per 1 Timothy 2:12) don't let a WOMAN teach the class!!!
#Bible
Received a call. My father was rushed to the hospital last night. Fever. Signs of pneumonia on the chest x-ray. Low oxygen levels. He has been tested for COVID-19. Now, we wait for the results as he remains quarantined from the family members who wish to visit him.
He is 85.
A beautiful piece of music has a final note. Is it not still beautiful? A delicious meal has a last bite. Is it not still delicious? A classic movie has a final frame. Is it not still a classic? A precious and wonderful life has a final breath. Is it not still precious?
Right. From the atheist view, our lives are a short little random blip filled with suffering and chaos, followed by an eternity of nothingness. Absolutely nothing you do or say will have any lasting impact whatsoever. Same for everyone you have ever loved.
#Christianity
is a man-made myth, and at its core, remains a high-control cult.
Blamed for corruption at birth, humans are commanded to love and worship an enslaver disguised as liberator.
The
#Bible
is debunked. The dogma is unreasonable. And we’re better off without it.
It’s weird on Dad’s Day when you’re estranged from your father.
I rejected his religion. He called me an embarrassment and threatened hellfire. He’s 84, and we’re strangers.
I can’t bring myself to contact him. And I think I’m OK with that.
Sorry. Just thinking out loud.
Dad’s funeral was more emotional than I anticipated.
As expected, LOTS of Jesus (including the Plan of Salvation presented), but I was given the opportunity to say a few words, and it felt like a proper goodbye.
After what appears to have been a stroke yesterday, this morning at 7:10, our little Tootsie (Rat Dog) went to sleep for the last time.
We were with her, and she felt our love through the final moment.
I won't be on social media for a few days, but Nat and I appreciate you.
Update on the I-Hope-It's-Not-An-Ambush visit with my religious parents: After years of strife, I visited their new home (they moved), we looked at photos, we swapped stories, and I gave them my homemade pumpkin bread.
We left smiling. There was much left unsaid, but it's a step
Does anyone else read cooking directions on a box, throw the box away, and then 20 seconds later have to retrieve the box from the trash because you forgot the directions?
I criticize and often lampoon my former faith of Christianity. I'm not a Christianophobe.
When we criticize and often lampoon Islam as an idea and Truth claim, it's not irrational fear that drives us, nor is it anti-Muslim bigotry.
Islamophobia is a bullshit term.
@CapturingChrist
Of course, you're correct. There's no doubting the story of a ghost impregnating an unwed teenager so the offspring could die horribly long decades before unidentified Bible authors chronicled it in wildly contradictory texts for which we have no original manuscripts. Thx.
I love
@AmericanAtheist
, but they blew this one. As
@ArminNavabi
,
@ConfessionsExMu
,
@aliamjadrizvi
, & others can attest, "Islamophobe" is a term used strategically to insulate Islam from criticism. Most oppressed by Islam are themselves Muslim, whom we advocate & fight for.
"New Atheists such as Bill Maher and Sam Harris, both championed as progressives, have been accused of perpetuating anti-Muslim sentiments under the guise of intellectual debate," writes
@HuffPost
.
Again, this is bullshit.
@BenAffleck
made the common (and often western) mistake of confusing criticism or ridicule of
#Islam
with anti-Muslim bigotry.
Islam is an idea. Ideas are fair game.
Muslims are people who deserve safety and human rights.
There's a difference.
"It's gross. It's racist."
Today is a good day to remember that time when legend
@BenAffleck
brilliantly and passionately called out Bill Maher's lazy and pernicious Islamophobia and anti-Arab bigotry on Maher's own show:
No, Columbus wasn't the first European to cross the Atlantic. He never actually set foot on the North American continent. He "discovered" a place where millions already lived. And he horribly enslaved, tortured and murdered countless indigenous people.
#ColumbusDay2022
Update on Dad. He's home from the hospital. On portable oxygen. No virus, likely pneumonia. He's a work in progress, but progressing. Thanks for asking, everyone.
@JoeBiden
I understand the sentiment, but the Bible also tells us that gays deserve execution, women should shut up and submit to men, and slavery is OK. So "the Bible tells us" is problematic.
Also, 26% of Americans are non-religious. Let's leave church to the churches.
No, atheism doesn't require liberalism, but it often informs Humanism...which leans HEAVILY into liberal values: alleviation of suffering, reproductive rights, rejection of Christian Dominionism, understanding of societal responsibility, science advocacy, empathy, humanity.
@mikethewatchman
This is Mike.
Mike has troubled pants.
Mike worries about an easily-engaged dong donkey.
Mike blames others for male lack of control.
Mike wants to control the minds and behaviors of women.
Mike says a ghost told him.
Don't be like Mike.
My most recent post prompted an amusing question:
If The Ark Encounter went bankrupt and you bought the building, how would you repurpose it?
I'm thinking a site for the 2025
@AmericanAtheist
National Convention.