Evolution

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer gods than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen Henry Roberts, Historian (1901-71)

" Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100,000 years, maybe more. Francis Collins says maybe 100,000. Richard Dawkins thinks maybe a quarter-of-a-million. I'll take 100,000. In order to be a Christian, you have to believe that for 98,000 years, our species suffered and died, most of its children dying in childbirth, most other people having a life expectancy of about 25 years, dying of their teeth. Famine, struggle, bitterness, war, suffering, misery, all of that for 98,000 years. Heaven watches this with complete indifference. And then 2000 years ago, thinks "That's enough of that. It's time to intervene," and the best way to do this would be by condemning someone to a human sacrifice somewhere in the less literate parts of the Middle East. Don't lets appeal to the Chinese, for example, where people can read and study evidence and have a civilization. Let's go to the desert and have another revelation there. This is nonsense. It can't be believed by a thinking person. " - Christopher Hitchens

We are here to unlearn . . .

“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”  --  Charles Bukowski

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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