So...I kind of up and moved on to a different blog location 'cause it's prettier and I'm a sucker for that kind of thing. If you're still interested in what I have to say about things then you can still find me here: CLICK ME

I've restricted myself to much shorter posts in an attempt to keep me from going on long rants about how everyone is dumb and to keep my interest up.

I was reading this cute little article on the ten reasons why women convert to Islam, and almost made it through the tenth without breaking out into laughter...almost...

10. Islam has unconfined Women and has given them the human right to reach for the sky. There have been Muslim Women Presidents through out the centuries, but to this date, the oppressive mentality of the men in the Western U.S.A. has stopped any Women from becoming Presidents in predominately Christian countries, while the Muslim countries have voted for and elected Female Presidents.

Chron.commons | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle


Apologists have to begin to realize that regardless of what these millenia(s) old books say in relation to one another, the modern day practices and interpretations differ greatly from the actual, literal readings. If everyone read and believed these books to be 100% literal in every sense of the word, the world be a radically different place.

Leviticus 21:17-36 outlines how the church cannot allow a deformed person to worship yahweh with the others. is that practiced nowadays? No! Even the most literal, fundamentalist nutjobs don't kick people out who cannot walk, or need classes, or are infertile, etc.

Religions everywhere have evolved into ugly retarded fish-frog versions of themselves, and to compare what one said 1500 years ago to what the other said 1500 years ago is NOT a comparision of the religion at all.

Oh ya: Islam totally disrespects bitches, yo. Oh sorry, I didn't mean to drive-by shoot the thesis' premise.

- Zennalathas
Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum.

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This is an outrage! How dare the military not let the troops read this brilliant blog!

Air Force Blocks Access to Many Blogs | Danger Room from Wired.com


What if one of my two readers volunteers?! US Military: think about what you're doing to my reading base!

Okay, on a more serious note: What's the reasoning behind this? Are troops going to hit up the internet, read a blog, and suddenly regret their decision to be in Iraq? We can only hope so! That's half the point of "freedom of expression"! You have to have other people's expressed opinions and pieces available so that other people can see it, read it and evaluate the content, thus opening them up to an opportunity to changes their preexisting opinions/notions.

Censorship isn't appropriate in any situation. What are they afraid is going to happen: a huge morale loss?

Regardless of how necessary the soldiers are to the war, removing any ridiculously improbable means through which they might lose faith in the war is unnacceptable. They have to want to be there, and they have to be able to decide that for themselves.

They are not conscripts being forced into a conflict. The military hierarchy has to respect that their decision to join the war effort is sincere, and (I hope) informed. More information shouldn't change the opinion of someone with such a resolve, and the military shouldn't be so scared that more information would change their position.

Of course, this is all a little rant about the little word: should.

Now, another reason, which I admit is a lot more reasonable, is that if they allowed the troops to access blogs, comment, or even post their own blog threads, they'll leak out secrets. But, seriously, the Air Force fucks up enough at their own official site to really warrant much concern from troops who are less-in-the-know, and the military protocols require each outward transmission to be approved before it can be sent. So...seriously...what's the problem?

- Zennalathas
Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum.

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OMFG LOOK OUT! IT'S A FREAKING--Oh...sorry Mr. Next-President of the United States...you just looked so...well...where's your suit?

BBC NEWS | Africa | The meaning of Obama's robes

- Zennalathas
Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum.

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Here's a neat little test that claims to show you who you subconsciously want to vote for:

Implicit Association Test

I can't say how accurate it actually is, but my results showed that I like Obama better than everyone else by a good half-a-page, so it seems good to me. It's a fun, and kind of interesting way to spend an empty ten minutes.

- Zennalathas
Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum.

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The U.N. finds that nearly two thirds of Britons are not religious, but:

Ms Jahangir, 55, twice chair of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and who was herself only released from house arrest in Lahore during November, says in her conclusions “there exists no hierarchy of discrimination grounds.”

She argues that religion should not have a lower ranking when competing rights are being balanced.

Over half of Britons claim no religion -Times Online

She's right, though. Religion should not have a lower ranking when competing rights are being balanced. It should not have a ranking at all.

Religion, regardless of the brain-washing aspect and the devotion to it, is a choice. No matter how you look at it, even the evangelicals view their faith as a concious decision. The law, and one's rights, protects one's right to that decision or opinion. What does not have to happen is to harbour any sort of respect for that choice. Britain can respect that people have made a religious commitment, but that doesn't mean it has to pander to that religious commitment--the majority of Britain, according to an official international study, is without religion, and therefore law, and politics should be practiced accordingly.


- Zennalathas
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This message was left on a Facebook group by a Derek Madson who runs a group named Carpe Diem that I was once, sadly, a member in. It has to be addressed because this is the kind of bullshit that gives anti-theists a bad wrap.

If there was any doubt about the fascist nature of Scientology here is a useful juxtaposition of videos.

Adolf Hitler speaking to the NAZI party:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80lLU5-yji8&feature=related

Compare that to a speech by David Miscavige of Scientology:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibgWmZHP8F4&NR=1

Notice the common themes - an emphasis on iconography and symbolism, emotionally charged rhetoric, antisocial incitement, rigid hierarchy, authoritarianism, and a theatrical flare. Charismatic. Insane. Domineering. Highly Dangerous.

If you can't see the similarities between this guy and Adolf Hitler you need to pull your head out of your ass. Only difference here is that instead of Jews as the target of hatred it is... wait for it.... yes that's right the origin of all evil in the deluded cult of Scientology is PSYCHIATRY. Hmmm, if this cult didn't kill people it would be enough to make you pee yourself laughing. As it is it's just fucking frightening how much power and control these fuckheads actually have!EXPOSE AND OPPOSE THE CULT OF SCIENTOLOGY!!

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Firstly, let's be clear on one thing: I do not, never have, nor will, support Scientology, but I might want to keep it around because, wow, it's hilarious.

Now, let's also be clear on another thing. It's one thing to say that there are common themes, and quite another to state there is only one difference between the two speeches, and thus, implied, men. Miscavige is not like Adolf Hitler. Miscavige does not harbour a hatred for a race of people so great that it inspires an era of war unprecedented. The analogy is incredibly poor. Psychiatrists are paid professionals who have laboured in school for many years to earn a degree that would allow them to practice a school of medicine. Believing them to be effective at what they do, or believing them to be ultimately harmful instead, is a valid opinion -- the reasons for holding that opinion are to be questioned, but the opinion can very well come from a wholly secular, and unmotivated observer. Jews are born as they are, unable to make a choice as to their racial qualities, and unable to change them. Believing them to be a scourge on the earth is not a valid opinion -- what evidence is there for superstition and claims made by pure prejudice? None.

Comparing a man with Hitler is simply a poor choice to make (especially when the analogy is a weakly put together as it is here). There is little chance to come back from that remark, and why should the conversation go on further? You've just compared the man to one of the most evil people in human history according to popular culture and belief. How is that helpful? How will that change minds?

Sample dialogue:

"You're like Hitler!"

"Fuck you!"

Yeah, that totally changed that Scientologist's mind...

You use a Hitler reference to wake up a reader or viewer to a character who is actually committing an unspeakable evil towards a victim that is unable to act upon this injustice. Mao was like Hitler. Stalin was like Hitler. Bush is like--oops, bias.

Don't drag spurious analogies into debates that might actually lead somewhere. A conversation stopper is only useful when you might make someone think after they've stopped talking.

Now, I've spoken at some length about the link between Nazism and religion, but I have to point out where my comparison is distinct to avoid some form of hypocrisy. I displayed how Nazism is a religion, not how one is like the other. It is impossible to say someone is Hitler if their name isn't Adolf Hitler. Don't do it.

It's now very plain that bigots do exist under the flag of "Free thinkers" and that's just sad. Derek Madson, sir, take UVic's English 215 course; it'll teach you how to write a proper, expository piece.

Sorry for the length of time between posts again...I came down with pneumonia and found my time was better spent in bed.

- Zennalathas
Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum.

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House MD is officially the most ballsy show on television! (Sorry Boston Legal)

Any writer willing to have a character who is a donkey show prostitute play Mary in a nativity act is good in my books. If you haven't seen the latest episode, (oddly, this season's Xmas tribute) grab it!

- Zennalathas
Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum.

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