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Existential Stew For The Soulless

The Out Campaign.

Greta Christina on "Not Religious, But Spiritual".

Beware any Shepherds, lest ye become sheep.

Unplug your television.
There is nothing on it that cannot be gotten better elsewhere - most of it with friends in life.
Better laughs, more excitement, real tragedy.

When I sneeze, please do not say "bless you."
Being soulless, blessings pass through me quicker than a cheap burrito.

Instead of cleric's beards their fat faces are clean shaven, but the leaders of the religious right in this country are not much different than the Taliban. It's all just matters of degrees - they may not keep women away from education (though they would if they could - this is the same mentality that made women struggle and fight for almost a century to be even able to vote) - but they do what they can to keep their power, and women in a controlled place, through their "family values" scam.

There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer. - Gertrude Stein

Is there more to religion than pleasing your imaginary friend?

God would like to thank you for your belief and patronage.
In order to better serve your needs, He asks that you take a few moments to answer these questions. . .

"All this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes, has been brought about because a set of official gentlemen, living luxurious lives, mostly stupid, and all without imagination or heart, have chosen that it should occur rather than that any one of them should suffer some infinitesimal rebuff to his country's pride." - Bertrand Russell

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. - George Bernard Shaw

"When you're born, you get a ticket to the freak show.
When you're born in America, you get a front-row seat."
- George Carlin
who reminds us to Question Everything - click HERE.

"Faith is believing something you know ain't true."
- Mark Twain

Sharing a little Godlessness and Joy - from Jilette, Harris, and Dawkins

There Is No God by Penn Jillette on NPR radio

So, I'm saying, "This I believe: I believe there is no God.

Having taken that step, it informs every moment of my life. I'm not greedy. I have love, blue skies, rainbows and Hallmark cards, and that has to be enough. It has to be enough, but it's everything in the world and everything in the world is plenty for me. It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more. Just the love of my family that raised me and the family I'm raising now is enough that I don't need heaven. I won the huge genetic lottery and I get joy every day.

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."

To read or listen to the entire piece, click here.

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Sam Harris

To see him on The Colbert Report, click here.

To see him at the Idea City Conference, Toronto, 2005

To read "An Atheist Manifesto"

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Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins website

Bedtime Fears

"Religion appeases a child's bedtime fears, but, ironically, it is the cause of most of those fears in the first place."

The above quote is from one among an endless stream of response/comments to a robust anti-religion rant by Cenk Uygur called "If You're a Christian, Muslim or Jew - You are Wrong"...

I think that the rant - and many of the pro and con responses - are worth reading...
Read it all here!

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bible study time, folks

All about the Ten Commandments and why they should be posted in every Government building.


They didn't teach me about her well-endowed lovers in Sunday School.