Author Archive for Francois Tremblay
I'm convinced...
The Onion asks a question that is on all our minds: what idiot wrote these ten commandments?
Take the first commandment, for example. It says you shouldn't believe in any gods besides God. No gods besides the one, eh? Okay, I can agree with that. Frankly, I got no idea how foreigners keep track of all their different gods. But as an opener? As number one on a list of 10? Seems pretty weak to me. You want to lead off with a batter who can hit.
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Altogether, I believe these commandments are pretty thin on law and order and the needs of the common citizen, and a little thick on the religious mumbo jumbo.
J-Walk posts about an interesting quote and issue: is praying for the sick a sanction of the unfairness of life?
And more interestingly, what does that say about believing in a god that brings this state of affairs about?
Having recently finished Professor Ehrman's "God's Problem," I was struck by his decision to never say grace over food. His logic was that if there were people in the world dying every five seconds from starvation, it was tantamount to thanking God for giving this food to him, at their expense. He felt he couldn't be thankful that he had been singled out for reasons that had only to do with his birthplace, which made quite a bit of sense to me.
Thus I began to consider analogous behaviors and the first one that I thought of was praying for the sick to recover. If Ehrman's original proposition, that praying to thank the Lord for food that you have, while others are starving is valid, is it not equally valid when it comes to praying for the sick to recover?
And more interestingly, what does that say about believing in a god that brings this state of affairs about?
Ricky Gervais: My Argument With God
... my big brother Bob asked, "Why do you believe in God?" Just a simple question. But my mum panicked. "Bob," she said, in a tone that I knew meant "shut up." Why was that a bad thing to ask? If there was a God and my faith was strong, it didn't matter what people said.
Oh... hang on. There is no God. He knows it, and she knows it deep down. It was as simple as that. I started thinking about it and asking more questions, and within an hour, I was an atheist.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=513855
Direct hit! Christ takes 23 points of damage. Roll against unconsciousness.
This was the dramatic scene as the world's largest statue of Jesus was hit by lightning.
The bolt parted the thunderclouds over Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to strike Christ the Redeemer.
The statue is 130ft tall, is made of 700 tons of reinforced concrete and stands atop the 2,296ft Corcovado mountain overlooking the city.
Direct hit! Christ takes 23 points of damage. Roll against unconsciousness.
Possibly one of the funniest and most inept game demos ever, and the fact that it has to do with Noah's Ark and Christianity just gives the cherry on the sundae:
You think Tom Cruise is creepy now, wait until you see The Cruise Indoctrination Video Scientology Tried To Suppress. Unfortunately the video has been suppressed from YouTube, but it is made available by The Gawker web site.
"When you're a Scientologist, and you drive by an accident, you know you have to do something about it, because you know you're the only one who can really help."
I thought that Cruise's "you're either for us or against us" was especially creepy.
"When you're a Scientologist, and you drive by an accident, you know you have to do something about it, because you know you're the only one who can really help."
I thought that Cruise's "you're either for us or against us" was especially creepy.
Jesus is the ultimate urban legend.
George H. Smith, author of the famous introductory book on atheism "Atheism: The Case Against God," endorses Ron Paul for president in 2008.
http://blameitonthevoices.blogspot.com/2007/12/altar-boy-defense-tips.html
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Yea ok, besides the dig at the Confederacy it's still a funny cartoon.
http://www.nobeliefs.com/comments11.htm?
Incredible as it may seem, many Christians today believe that a god created the universe approximately 6000 years ago. That means that everything in it, planets, stars, moons, comets, and even light itself, must have originated at the time (or after) the Great Creation. Consider that no energy or matter in the universe can travel faster than the speed of light. If you take the speed-of-light back in time 6000 years to the point of the alleged Creation, you get a spherical radius of only around 6000 light-years. This means that a 12,000 diameter light-year bubble represents everything that could possibly happen or exist within the time range of Christian chronology. Consider that the entire Christian universe cannot measure larger than a single average galaxy in the known universe! The miniscule Christian universe would sit as a tiny dwarf within single galaxy such as the Andromeda galaxy...
Funny and witty: "The Philosophical Revelations of Sinistar."
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