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Best Rick Roll Ever

[ Matt ] — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:51:00 +0000

i loved this

Pastor Drake Prays For Obama’s Death

[ Matt ] — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:34:00 +0000

I love how this vile low-life falls back on the common "hey, don't blame me, it's what my god wants", Which is generally the excuse the religious use to defend their abhorrent views.

Religious Bus Ads

[ Matt ] — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 21:53:00 +0000

The friendly atheist blog has a nice post where readers are encouraged to come up with ads the religious could use on their bus ads.

My suggestions were.

“we have no way of knowing if there is a god, but if there is, we are certain we have picked the right one out of the thousands invented”.

“religion; you better believe it because it’s the easiest way we have of making you do as we say”

“hate gays? Religion gives you a socially acceptable excuse for being a bigot”

what are your suggestions?

Loophole Allows Gays To Marry

[ Matt ] — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:44:00 +0000

Those pesky gays and their agenda to devalue heterosexual marriage!

Bill Donohue Calls Child Rape Victims "Gold Diggers"

[ Matt ] — Sun, 31 May 2009 05:04:00 +0000

In an outrageous radio interview the sweaty, bloated face leader of the catholic league, Bill Donohue, denies that child abuse occurred in Ireland, called the victims "gold diggers" and then tried to trivialise the scandal by bitching about how protestants weren't investigated and how we always pick on the poor little catholics.

This man is a seriously nasty piece of work and I'm frankly disgusted that catholics allow this fat shit to speak for them.

Catholics; Grow some balls, develop some integrity and exercise this morality you keep telling us about and publicly oppose everything this man says. Or would you rather, as you normally do, tow the party line and try to cover it up?

Muslims

[ Matt ] — Wed, 27 May 2009 03:22:00 +0000

This pretty much sums it up.

Richard Dawkins – The Greatest Show On Earth

[ Matt ] — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:26:00 +0000

Richard Dawkins new book The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution is available to pre-order from amazon now and is due to be released Sept 29th.

The book was initially going to be titled "just a theory?", which is a good title. But i think "the greatest show on earth" is better and really does sum up how fascinating evolution is.

So go and pre-order your copy of The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution now!

Galactic Centre Of Milky Way Rises Over Texas Horizon

[ Matt ] — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:06:00 +0000

This is a nice video showing the centre of the milky way rise up over the horizon as seen from Texas.

U.S Military Burn Bibles

[ Matt ] — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:48:00 +0000

Military personnel threw away, and ultimately burned, confiscated Bibles that were printed in the two most common Afghan languages amid concern they would be used to try to convert Afghans, a Defense Department spokesman said Tuesday.

The unsolicited Bibles sent by a church in the United States were confiscated about a year ago at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan because military rules forbid troops of any religion from proselytizing while deployed there, Lt. Col. Mark Wright said.

Such religious outreach can endanger American troops and civilians in the devoutly Muslim nation, Wright said.

"The decision was made that it was a 'force protection' measure to throw them away, because, if they did get out, it could be perceived by Afghans that the U.S. government or the U.S. military was trying to convert Muslims," Wright told CNN on Tuesday.

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I smiled knowing how outraged the christian right will be.

Top 10 Craziest Child Preachers

[ Matt ] — Sun, 17 May 2009 17:15:00 +0000

Even grown ups with invisible friends must admit this shit is not normal and these kids parents are absolute filth.

Scientists Create Life – God Not Required

[ Matt ] — Fri, 15 May 2009 22:38:00 +0000

An elegant experiment has quashed a major objection to the theory that life on Earth originated with molecules of RNA.

John Sutherland and his colleagues from the University of Manchester, UK, created a ribonucleotide, a building block of RNA, from simple chemicals under conditions that might have existed on the early Earth.

The feat, never performed before, bolsters the 'RNA world' hypothesis, which suggests that life began when RNA, a polymer related to DNA that can duplicate itself and catalyse reactions, emerged from a prebiotic soup of chemicals.

"This is extremely strong evidence for the RNA world. We don't know if these chemical steps reflect what actually happened, but before this work there were large doubts that it could happen at all," says Donna Blackmond, a chemist at Imperial College London.

Now of course this doesn't necessarily mean this is exactly how it happened, but it does prove one thing; It proves that for a self replicating molecule - life - to form a magical man in the sky is not required. You just need the right chemicals, the right conditions and they can do it all by themselves.

So i wonder what dark corner the peddlers of the god of the gaps fallacy will relegate their god to now?

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God Is Not Great – The Movie

[ Matt ] — Fri, 15 May 2009 02:02:00 +0000

I have just finished watching an interview Christopher Hitchens done on CBC's The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos in which Hitchens mentioned that he is planning to do a full length documentary film called "God is not great", based on his book of the same name, in which he will "go to the counties where the parties of god are throwing their weight around" and "go through the holy books showing that they are full of contradictions".

When Stroumboulopoulos asked if it was going to be an angrier version of the Bill Maher documentary "religulous" Hitches responded with "No, funnier..."

I think this film will be a welcomed addition to the atheist movies. First we had Dawkins' "root of all evil" which looked at the politics of religion, then we had Maher's "Religulous" which pointed out how wacky this religious stuff is and now we need to Hitchens to pitch up, tear religion a new arse hole and leave it rotting in the curb.

Prayer Explained By "Scientists" Using Made Up Bollocks

[ Matt ] — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:24:00 +0000

If you, like me, have wondered exactly how prayer is supposed to work you are in luck. Some stupid morons over at Spiritual Science Research Foundation (SSRF) have it all figured out. Now i know their numbers may appear to have been pulled out of thin air, but rest assured, their name has "science" in it, so I'm sure it's all above board, carefully researched and i expect them to release their data for peer-review any time soon, so look out for that in your favorite science journal.

Another Child To Die Because Of His Parents Primitive Superstitions

[ Matt ] — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:15:00 +0000

Daniel Hauser has what doctors consider one of the most curable types of cancer, Hodgkin's lymphoma.

But the 13-year-old and his parents don't want him to have chemotherapy and radiation, the standard treatments. For the past three months, they have ignored the advice of his cancer specialists and turned to natural therapies, such as herbs and vitamins, instead.

Daniel, one of eight children, has asserted that treatment would violate his religious beliefs. The teenager filed an affidavit saying that he is a medicine man and church elder (at 13) in the Nemenhah, an American Indian religious organization that his parents joined 18 years ago.

James Olson, the Brown County attorney, has filed a petition accusing Daniel's parents, Colleen and Anthony Hauser, of child neglect and endangerment, and he has asked a judge in New Ulm to order the boy into treatment.

I wouldn't let these irresponsible parents look after a wooden spoon, let alone a sick child. I wish James Olsen the best of luck in his attempt to prevent them letting their son needlessly die.

There Is An Evangelical Cancer In The Military

[ Matt ] — Sat, 09 May 2009 19:22:00 +0000

Bill Maher talks on his show about the religious right infiltrating the US army to create "military missionaries". These assholes are turning an unjust war into a religious crusade by passing out bibles, comics showing Mohammad burning in hell and wearing t-shirts which read "this is a crusade".

VenomFangX Gets Owned Again… This Time By His Parents

[ Matt ] — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:38:00 +0000

The epic crash and burn cycle continues for venomfangx, the poster boy for creationist stupidity. we have already had him defeated by countless supporters of evolution, he was then forced to make a humiliating apology online to thunderf00t after committing the crime of filing false DMCA claims and now this; His mum and dad have made him take his site offline LOL

Cheesy Jesus Appears To Dumb Christian

[ Matt ] — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:12:00 +0000

Ok this settles it, Christians are morons.

Pastor Has Disabled Man Murdered For Insurance Money

[ Matt ] — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:42:00 +0000

A Baltimore pastor who worked with developmentally disabled people was charged Friday with befriending a blind and disabled man in his care, then paying a hit man $50,000 in church funds for an execution so he could collect life insurance money.

Police say Kevin Jerome Pushia, 32, who worked for four months as an operations manager for the Arc of Baltimore before abruptly quitting in January, confessed to plotting to kill Lemuel Wallace.

Pushia told police he persuaded Wallace and "numerous" other mentally challenged individuals to list him as a beneficiary on insurance policies.

A terse notation in Pushia's planning calendar for Feb. 5, the day after Wallace was found dead in a Leakin Park bathroom stall from multiple gunshot wounds to the head and back, reads: "L.W. project completed," police said.

Feel free to link to this the next time a xian claims our morality is derived from religion.

Famous Youtube Christian, Tony48219, Murders 20 Year Old Girl

[ Matt ] — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:18:00 +0000

For anyone who has seen Anthony Powell's (aka Tony48219) videos on youtube it's apparent that the man was suffering from a serious mental illness. He would often rant incoherently about the virtues of his christian life, evolution and the immorality, anger and stupidity of atheists, and rarely got through a sentence without uttering numerous expletives. His hatred for women was also apparent in one video entitled "black women don't deserve respect" where he tells women to be obedient and submissive to their "kings".

Nobody, apart from "liz" on FSTDT, thought that his mental instability and hatred for women would lead to the events which unfolded on Friday, April 10 2009, when Anthony Powell, 28, took a gun to Henry Ford Community College and murdered 20 year old student Asia McGowan before killing himself.

I don't think Anthony Powell's religion caused him to become a murderer, instead i think his delusions lead him to be a christian, and his hatred and mental illness caused him to be a murderer. Despite the fact that the christians on youtube are frantically trying to distance themselves from this as if the only important thing here is the reputation of their silly little cult.

Good job for Anthony Powell his god was imaginary, otherwise he would be in a lot of trouble right now.

Bishop Of Aston Demands We Abide By His Religions Rules

[ Matt ] — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:17:00 +0000

"waa waa, stop playing football on our special zombie man day" was the demand coming from numerous religious fanatics intent on forcing everyone else to abide by their rules this easter.

In a letter sent to Richard Scudamore, CE of the premiership, the Bishop of aston said

In rearranging this fixture in this manner you show disdain for the religious traditions of this country, and the sensitivities of many employees and football supporters.

Well, bish, listen up and listen carefully. shove your traditions and shove your sensitivities. If you don't want to watch football on easter then don't, but don't you dare try to prevent me, or anyone else, from doing something based on your primitive cults rules and your imagined laws. YOUR RULES APPLY ONLY TO YOU.

the bish tried to veil his demands in the guise of a soggy "won't somebody please think of the elderly!" plea by claiming

Often the elderly or infirm, who make a special effort to attend church on Easter Sunday, are placed at risk due to the crowds.

well which is it? Should we not have football because of "religious sensitivities" or should we not have football because the elderly don't like crowds? Or is it, as i suspect, that you think we should just do as your religion demands and are now looking for a reason to make us?

Obama: The Next Best Thing To An Atheist President

[ Matt ] — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:01:00 +0000

There is no denying that Obama is a "man of faith", but as a responsible president intent on upholding the constitution - something which the religious right always claim to be in favour of - He is the next best thing to an atheist president regarding his position on the separation of church and state and his unwillingness to introduce public policy forcing people to abide by a particular religions rules.

America, despite being continuously and wrongly called a christian nation, is still the only nation on the planet to have it's secular status written into it's constitution, and Obama, thankfully, understands the implications of this and understands that a president, regardless of his personal beliefs, is responsible for an entire nation and their well being, not just the majority and their imagined rules.

In his short time in office i have been impressed with Obama regarding his attitude to those who don't ascribe to his beliefs.

I was impressed with his talk about why government needs to be secular, calling the sermon on the mount "a passage so radical, it's doubtful our own defence department would survive it's application".

I am impressed with his plans to rescind Bush's conscience clause, a law permitting medical practitioners to refuse treatment to people on religious grounds.

I'm impressed with him sending invitations to the white house Easter egg roll to families lead by homosexual couples.

I'm impressed that every time he talks about religious groups he acknowledges the fact that atheists exist and that he has to accommodate them too.

I'm impressed by his reversal of legislation prohibiting federal funding being used on stem cell research, legislation introduced because a bunch of radicals assume that every cell has a soul.

Do i agree with everything Obama has done? No. But as long as his motivation is not a religious one i can't help but respect the method he uses to make his decisions.

Muslim Woman Confessed To Beating Baby To Death, Guess What Offended Islam

[ Matt ] — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:10:00 +0000

You'd think that if someone confessed to beating a two year old child to death over four days leaving her with 55 separate injuries from head to toe there would be anger over the death and anger towards the person responsible. Not in Islam there isn't. In Islam, like usual, they have ignored the heinous crime of infanticide, ignored the fact that a child was systematically abused to death and instead focused their feigned outrage, like the perpetual cry baby victims that they are, towards the fact that this poor baby murderer had to take her rags off when having her mugshot taken.

Apparently not concerned about this child's death and the fact that his wife had confessed to killing her niece, Alaeddin Hadid, husband of the baby murderer Nour Hadid, said Orland Park police are "really going to be in big trouble" for releasing the photo of the confessed murderer to the press. Not as much trouble as your wife is in, pal.

Alaeddin added "It is against our religion; we do not do this in our culture". Obviously talking about removing the hijab, not about killing babies.

Metzitzah – Sucking A Childs Mutilated Penis For God

[ Matt ] — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:54:00 +0000

We all know about the systematic sexual abuse of children within the Abraham faiths. It's so widespread one could be forgiven for thinking they were invented specifically as sadistic paedophile rings in which filthy old men can rape children. We have mohammad, the illiterate bronze scumbag who married and raped a child of 9, we have catholicism which has paid out literally billions of dollars to victims of rape by these so called "men of god" and in judaism we have the little known practice of Metzitzah.

For those who don't know, Metzitzah is the practice of sucking a freshly circumcised penis of a child to, allegedly, "clean the wound". That's right. They take a razor blade to a 8 day old child's penis, slice off the bits god, in his wisdom, doesn't like and then proceed to suck it.

Now it's easy to right this off as just another one of them wacky religious rituals, but the gravity of this procedure can't really be understand unless we think about what is being done. Something which, if done for any reason besides religion, would mean you get sent to a mental institution indefinitely.

If someone can think of anything, other than religion, which could justify mutilating a week old babies penis and then sucking it id love to hear it.

related: penis sucking rabbi gives child herpes

Another Lying "Christian" Exposes Himself – It’s Rick Warren, Again.

[ Matt ] — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:33:00 +0000

If you are going to be a liar you should 1) have the brains to not get caught by exposing yourself on national TV and 2) not claim you believe in an invisible man who dislikes liars.

Rick Warren apparently doesn't understand this concept. He is one of those liars who is both incompetent and a hypocrite.

Whilst on Larry King Rick "liar" Warren made the following statement;

During the whole Proposition 8 thing, I never once went to a meeting, never once issued a statement, never--never once even gave an endorsement in the two years Prop 8 was going.

Apparently completely oblivious to the fact that he had previously issued a statement instructing his flock how to vote on prop 8. In this video you can see him, contrary to what he claimed on Larry King, Saying "let me say this very clearly. we support proposition 8, and if you believe what the bible say about marriage you need to support proposition 8"

Christian Integrity – Lying for jesus

[ Matt ] — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:08:00 +0000

Someones pants are on fire! They are Chris Fox's!

After a long day of preaching about the virtues of faith based morality and the immorality of the godless how could a christian pastor relax? Well, for one such baptist pastor, Chris Fox, he decided his time would be best spent going to an atheist blog, unreasonable faith, and pretending to be an atheist while spouting some of the most vile opinions i have ever heard.

See, when the mentally defective are unable to defend their own position what they like to do is misrepresent the position of their opponent, it's called a strawman argument. and when the intellectually dishonest are unable to defend their own position they like to lie, pretend they are their opponent and misrepresent their views just so later they can point to their own fabricated post and shriek "look, i told you they were immoral!".

On this one occasion this so called "christian" decided that all atheists must be in favour of killing babies and decided he would pretend to be an atheist and make the following post;

What’s wrong with killing babies? I see no problem with it. I have enough mouths to feed. I don’t get the argument and I am an atheist. Since I don’t believe in God, I don’t believe in anything characterized as good, bad / right, wrong. So, what’s the big deal?

Despite being a low-life, deceitful, sinister, lying hypocrite Chris fox has also admitted to the more heinous crime of being a potential baby killer, should his faith ever fade.

what the religious don't understand is that by admitting that right and wrong can only be identified in line with their particular god they are essentially admitting that the only reason they don't "kill babies" is because they believe an invisible man is watching them. Which is probably the most immoral reason for doing good ever conceived.

Since the post was made Chris Fox had made an apology, well, they usually do after they are caught. I wonder if the apology would have been so forthcoming had the lie remained between him and his invisible friend? probably not... You aren't sorry for being a deceitful liar Chris, you are sorry that you got caught.

It makes one wonder if they actually believe in this shit any more than i do, Because hardly any of them abide by the standards they routinely demand for the rest of us.