McCain/Palin brings Christianity front and center, and it is disgusting
When McCain picked Palin as a running mate, he linked his campaign to Christianity. With Christianity comes a truckload of racism, homophobia, anger, hatred, perversion, delusion and craziness which America would be much better off without. How crazy does it get? This article contains a recent invocation from a campaign event:
“I would also pray, Lord, that your reputation is involved in all that happens between now and November, because there are millions of people around this world praying to their god — whether it’s Hindu, Buddha, Allah — that his opponent wins, for a variety of reasons,” Conrad said.
“And Lord, I pray that you would guard your own reputation, because they’re going to think that their god is bigger than you, if that happens. So I pray that you will step forward and honor your own name with all that happens between now and Election Day,” he said.
He’s begging a being who Christians believe to be the “all-powerful creator of the universe” to “step forward” to protect His “reputation”??? It doesn’t get any more insane than that.
At McCain-Palin rallies, the raucous and insistent cries of “Treason!” and “Terrorist!” and “Kill him!” and “Off with his head!” as well as the uninhibited slinging of racial epithets, are actually something new in a campaign that has seen almost every conceivable twist. They are alarms. Doing nothing is not an option.
Why has McCain stooped to such a disgusting level? Christianity.
If you are an intelligent Christian, consider this moment in history as an opportunity to turn on your brain. Look at the insanity that Palin has brought to the campaign. The deep root of it all is her Christianity. By proclaiming yourself to be a Christian, you align yourself with millions of Palins. Do you want to be a part of such insanity? Or is it time to consider the rational path?
The double slit experiment is very simple and easy to understand, but the results are amazing because the allow entry to the quantum world. This video provides and easy-to-understand explanation of the experiment:
O God, we are in a battle that is raging for the soul of this nation. You, O God, have raised up Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin for such a time as this. Help them, O God, to strengthen our economy, to keep our taxes and spending low. . . and grant them the privilege of being elected the next president and vice president.
If God has raised them up, then why aren’t they loving their enemy as Jesus teaches? Why are they spreading lies and racism at all their rallies?
“Help them to strengthen our economy“? Jesus had a very simple economic prescription described in this article:
Matthew 6:19
Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Luke 14:33
Any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple.
Matthew 6:24
No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and Money.
Matthew 19:21-24
Jesus answered, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.” When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he had great wealth. Then Jesus said to his disciples, “I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
Matthew 19:28-29
Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, at the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.
Luke 9:23-25
Then he said to them all: “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self?
Matt 13: 22
The one who received the seed that fell among the thorns is the man who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke it, making it unfruitful.
Hebrews 13:5
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”
Phil 2:3
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.
Acts 2:44-45
All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need.
This seems pretty clear. If you want to follow Jesus you need to “sell your possessions and give to the poor.” You should “Sell your possessions and goods, and give to anyone as he had need.” You should note the “deceitfulness of wealth”. You should, “give up everything”, stop “laying up for yourselves treasures on earth” and stop trying to “serve God and Money”.
In other words, a True Christian has no need for the economy.
If you are praying to God, wouldn’t it make sense to do what God says in the Bible first?
This hypocrisy demonstrates the absurdity of Christianity in America today.
If you are a Christian reading and typing on your computer right now, it would be fascinating to know why you still own a computer. Why haven’t you sold it, as Jesus prescribes?
Contrary to what Christians and Muslims believe, life did not come from a supernatural event. A “god” did not create life. Life arose spontaneously through a series of chemical reactions. The process is called abiogenesis.
If you are religious, and if you would like to understand abiogenesis from a scientific perspective, this video series will introduce you to the reality of life’s origin:
The video puts it this way:
Roughly 4 Billion years ago on a big wet rock a strange and mysterious phenomenon occurs. Non-living materials becomes life. Ever since nothing has been the same on Earth. How could something as complex and astonishing as life just happen? Does life emerge from a tide pool of chemical soup? Is it born in rocks deep below Earth surface. And what is this first living thing? What awesome force creates this miraculous chain of life. Man continues to seek answers to this extraordinary mystery. The mystery of How Life Began…
Karl Merk, a German dairy farmer whose arms had been amputated after an accident, said he felt like a “whole man” again as he spoke for the first time since the operation in July.
“The feeling is indescribable. Every day I gain more mobility,” said Mr Merk as he showed off the arms, which are being supported by a special “corset” while the healing continues.
Obviously God is imaginary. Any rational person can see that. But Christians cling to the notion that their God exists, and that he answers all sorts of prayers every day.
So, if you are a Christian, ask yourself: Why won’t God heal amputees? Why does God hate amputees? Why would your God deny the happiness that this man is experiencing by completely ignoring the prayers of amputees and spontaneously restoring their limbs through prayer? You believe that your God heals cancer… why not amputated limbs as well?
In this video, James Randi explains the fraudulent practice known as homeopathy:
The basic idea behind homeopathy is that you can take a very dilute mixture of a poison and use it to heal. How dilute? Like one part in a trillion billion, or less. The video goes into detail about how ridiculous this claim is.
Here is an analogy. Imagine taking a bucket of water, and putting one molecule of a poison in that water, and then giving a teaspoon of water from the bucket to a patient. According to the principles of homeopathy, that teaspoon of water would have a healing effect. You can see, if you are rational, that the teaspoon of water would contain nothing but water, or possibly nothing but water and a single molecule. According to homeopathy, that teaspoon of water would provide a beneficial effect. But every rational person knows that this claim is fraudulent.
If you were to confront a homeopath and claim that he is a fraud, what would he say? He would probably use a defense like this: “You can’t prove a negative. Just because science can’t explain why homeopathy works, that doesn’t mean that it doesn’t work.”
To any rational person standing outside the bubble of delusion known as homeopathy, that is a ridiculous defense. All that we have to do is perform a series of double-blind tests comparing the effects of a homeopathic solution with plain water. We will find that homeopathic solutions are identical to water in their effects. In that way, homeopathy can be completely debunked. Any rational person would agree with this approach.
Where else have we heard that “you can’t prove a negative” defense? Yes, with Christianity! This is how Christians explain “the power of prayer”. It is also how they explain God’s existence. A typical Christian statement: “Just because there is no evidence for God, that does not mean that he doesn’t exist! You can’t prove a negative!”
Of course you can prove that God is imaginary. You take the Bible, which, supposedly, is the God-produced book and the only source of knowledge about God and Christ. You read the book looking for claims made by God/Jesus. You note all the claims that Jesus makes about prayer, as summarized on this page. Then you test to see if prayer works as described in the Bible. Of course it does not.
Faced with reality, a true Christian will ignore the scientific evidence. He/she will branch out into a thousand rationalizations to explain why God won’t heal amputees, and why all other prayers show no effects.
It is obvious to any rational person that “god” and “prayer” are just as imaginary as homeopathy.
Here is something else to try. Watch the video. In the video, Randi talks about the four principles of homeopathy. By the end of the video you are laughing out loud at the silliness of homeopathy. Now, with that laughing-out-loud mindset, look at this page and its four principles that “explain how you can personally begin a relationship with God, right now, through Jesus Christ”:
The attacks on Christian families, the vandalism of their places of worship, the destruction of homes and livelihoods, and the horrific rapes, mutilations and burning alive that have been reported, have nothing to do with religious beliefs - neither those of the victims nor of their attackers. They are instead part of a contemptible political project whose closest equivalent can in fact be found in the “Indian Mujahideen” bomb blasts in Delhi, Jaipur, and Ahmedabad, which were set to go off in hospitals, marketplaces and playgrounds. Both actions are anti-national; both aim to divide the country by polarising people along their religious identities; and both hope to profit politically from such polarisation.
This paragraph contains a contradiction. On the one hand, the attacks “have nothing to do with religious beliefs.” On the other, the attacks are “polarising people along their religious identities.” Since God is imaginary and all religion is nonsense, you have millions of people fighting each other to the death over nonsense.
People do kill each other for a variety of reasons, including nationality and ethnicity. But religion is a gigantic, artificial cause of discord. Religious differences by their nature cause animosity, because religions are so absurd and so ridiculous, and because each religion has hatred of outsiders at its core.
If you would like to abandon religion and align your life on rationality and non-violence instead, this web site can help:
In Raleigh, North Carolina, the local paper is called The News and Observer. Every Thursday the paper panders to Christians by publishing the “Faith” section. It is a collection of feature articles focused on religion along with religious advertising. This half-page ad, entitled, “The following businesses encourage you to visit your house of worship this week”, is a regular feature:
These businesses believe that by aligning with a followers of religion, they will get more religious customers. Since the definition of Pandering is “a person who caters to or profits from the weaknesses or vices of others”, you can see that both the paper and these businesses are pandering.
The center panel of the ad this week is also interesting:
It is entitled “What If?”. It promises that “God can take away our worries!” It also promises that God can help us make decisions: “Talk with Him and trust Him with your daily concerns. Why not let go of your ‘What Ifs’?” Examples of What Ifs include:
- “What if I accept this position and Find I can’t handle the responsibility?”
- “What if I marry and choose the wrong partner?”
- “What if I fly to Paris and my plane crashes over the Atlantic ocean?”
So is it true? Can God help Christians make decisions? Let’s focus on the second What If: “What if I marry and choose the wrong partner?” It is a fact that Christians divorce at the same rate (or even a slightly higher rate) as everyone else. So one of two things is happening:
1) Christians forget to ask God for his help in choosing a marriage partner, and, being a jerk, God only provides help when asked.
2) God is deliberately sabotaging Christian marriages by providing the wrong answer when asked for help.
A rational person understands the real problem: God is imaginary. Therefore, when Christians “trust Him with their daily concerns,” there is no “god” to provide an answer. While Christians believe that an all-knowing “god” is speaking to them, all they are really hearing are random hallucinated voices in their heads. The data proves that this is the case.
If you are a Christian and you would like to better understand the fact that God is imaginary, these two web sites can help:
PS - the recommended Bible verses at the bottom of the panel are also interesting, since all but one come from two of the most insane Old Testament books in the Bible. When confronted with the many absurdities in the Old Testament, many Christians will claim that the Old Testament is not really part of the Bible. But apparently mainstream Christians, and all of these businesses, do believe that the Old Testament is valid. So when the Old Testament says that we need to kill homosexuals, adulterers and everyone who works on the Sabbath, these businesses must believe those verses to be true.
60% or more of the adults in American reject the evolution of species. And yet, despite their voluntary ignorance, evolution is occurring all around us. If you would like to chip away at that ignorance and see how scientists look at evolution, this article can help:
Evolutionary science typically holds that new species are born when populations become isolated from one another, forcing them to adapt differently. The new work is the strongest evidence yet that differences in sensory input — in this case, vision — can give rise to new species.
There are millions of people in the United States who believe that the earth is only 6,000 years old. If you are one of those people and you would like to see how the world looks through the eyes of a scientist, this set of videos can help:
Two examples of EXTREME contradiction in the Christian faith
Theoretically, if you are a Christian, you are supposed to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ. But that rarely happens. Instead what we see on a daily basis are examples of Christians doing the opposite of what Jesus teaches. Simple example: Christians go to giant church buildings every Sunday, while Jesus teaches his followers to sell everything and give the money to the poor.
To rational people, these contradictions are startling. How could anyone profess to follow Jesus and then ignore what Jesus says? But to Christians who live inside the Christian Bubble, the contradictions are invisible. It is only in the most extreme and astounding cases that Christians can see the problem. Here are two recent examples:
If you claim to hear God’s voice, you belong in Bellevue
This video clip is only 50 seconds long (starting at 6:08), yet it clearly reveals in two points the utter delusion of Christianity:
Transcript:
SS: “Because I know that in believing in God, you have to suspend a lot of logic in believing in God. But when you did this movie, you talked to a lot of people about God. Have you ever just talked to God and asked God what does he think?”
[Audience applause]
SS: “Because when you think about it, God will talk to you Bill. It will be deep.”
BM: “But the question is, did he answer you?”
SS: “He answered me. He absolutely answered me.”
BM: “Then we should call Bellevue.”
SS: “No, we don’t need to call Bellevue.”
BM: “That’s just a voice in your…”
SS: “No, it’s not just a voice.”
The first point of delusion is this: “you have to suspend a lot of logic in believing in God.” Any rational person looks at that statement and says, “that is not faith, that is delusion.” If God were real, you would not have to suspend logic. If God were real, evidence and logic would tell you that God is real. The only time you have to “suspend logic” is when you are trying to force yourself to believe in something that is false, ridiculous or imaginary.
The second point of delusion, and Maher makes this obvious with his Bellevue reference, is the part about “asking God.” The idea that you can “talk to God” and that “God will answer you” is pure, concentrated delusion. How do we know that it is delusion? Here are the two simplest indicators:
1) There is no consistency amongst people who claim to hear God’s voice. Some hear God tell them start planting bombs, others hear God tell them to light themselves on fire, and some hear God tell them to kill their own children. Whenever a person hears voices in his/her head, that is an unmitigated sign of insanity, not the “voice of God”.
2) People who hear “God’s voice” never know any more than anyone else. If an all-powerful, all-knowing creator of the universe were speaking to you, you would be able to say things that are achingly wise and omniscient. That never happens. The people “closest” to God have no more wisdom or knowledge than those “farthest” from God. In most cases, the people “farthest” from God are the wisest and most intelligent amongst us.
It is time for us to follow Maher’s example and start to explicitly call these people out. If you claim to hear “God’s voice”, you belong in Bellevue.
Finally the answer - Why do Christians believe in prayer?
Why do people believe things for which there is no evidence? For example, why do Christians believe in prayer? This video answers the question:
The answer:
In science, you have to keep track of the misses as well as the hits. And that is probably the key lesson in my short talk here. This is how psychics works, astrologers, tarot card readers and so on. People remember the hits and forget the misses. In science we have to keep track of the whole database and look to see if the number of hits stands out from the total number that you would expect by chance.
This is why Christians believe in prayer. If Christians would track the misses as well as the hits, they would immediately see that prayer is a superstition.
Or Christians can try this simple test: Pray to heal an amputee.
If you are an intellectually honest Christian and you would like to learn more about the superstition of prayer, please visit this web site:
The reader who posed the question offers the first definition.
Definition of Evangelical Christian #1
- believes and accepts the death, burial and resurrection of the Lord Jesus as the Gospel.
- knows that we are not our own, we were bought with a price to glorify God in our body and spirit, and cannot be the servants of men (First Corinthians 6 19-20; 7: 23).
- lives for Christ. I am nothing; realize that we are 6 zeros with Christ before us making us a million, and are willing to die for Him.
- knows that Christ is the Creator (Colossians 1:16; Isaiah 44: 24).
- believes in a triune God — salvation planned by the Father, Implanted by the Son, Empowered by the Holy Ghost.
- speaks in another tongue after we are sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise (Ephesians 1:13)
- looks forward to walk on the Street of Gold and enter in through the Gates into the City of Heaven (Revelation 21:21; 22:14).
Barna Research Ltd offers an alternative definition:
Definition of Evangelical Christian #2
- Someone who has experienced a personal “born again” feeling of being saved by their Lord Jesus Christ
- somebody who feels that their faith is very important in their life
- somebody who is eager to proselytize others, Jews and other Christians included
- somebody who believes that Satan is a living danger to the life of faith
- somebody who believes the Bible is the literal and inerrant word of God
- somebody who believes that salvation is only possible through faith and not through works
- somebody who believes that Jesus lived a sinless life here on earth
- somebody who believes that God created the world
The God Squad offers its own definition (sort of):
Definition of Evangelical Christian #3
- all Evangelicals are Protestants, but not all Protestants are Evangelicals.
- speaking in tongues is characteristic of Pentecostals only.
- Evangelicals are the most conservative and fundamentalist of Protestant Christians.
- Evangelicals have the most difficulty with interfaith dialogue and are definitely not going to embrace my definition that all religions are like different paths up the same mountain.
The most interesting part of the “God Squad” article is the last sentence: “I know The Boss will sort it all out when the Messiah comes (or comes again). In the meantime, I keep telling them that if being Jewish was good enough for Jesus, it’s definitely good enough for me!” Of course if you believe in “The Boss”, you also believe that he will cast anyone who is incorrect into the eternal torture of Hell after he “sorts it all out”.
Then there is the famous Internet definition of a Christian:
Definition of Evangelical Christian #4
10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of your god.
9 - You feel insulted and “dehumanized” when scientists say that people evolved from lesser life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.
8 - You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Trinity god.
7 - Your face turns purple when you hear of the “atrocities” attributed to Allah, but you don’t even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in “Exodus” and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in “Joshua” — including women, children, and trees!
6 - You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to life and then ascended into the sky.
5 - You are willing to spend your life looking for little loop-holes in the scientifically established age of the Earth (4.55 billion years), but you find nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by pre-historic tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that the Earth is a couple of generations old.
4 - You believe that the entire population of this planet with the exception of those who share your beliefs — though excluding those in all rival sects — will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet you consider your religion the most “tolerant” and “loving”.
3 - While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the floor speaking in “tongues” may be all the evidence you need to prove Christianity.
2 - You define 0.01% as a “high success rate” when it comes to answered prayers. You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will of God.
1 - You actually know a lot less than many Atheists and Agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and church history — but still call yourself a Christian.
Finally, here is the WWGHA definition of a Christian:
Definition of Evangelical Christian #5
1) A Christian believes in prayer even though it is obvious that prayer is a superstition:
2) A Christian believes in the Bible even though it is obvious that the Bible is repulsive:
3) A Christian believes in Jesus even though it is obvious that Jesus is imaginary:
4) A Christian believes in Heaven even though it is obvious that heaven is a fairy tale:
5) A Christian believes in “God’s Plan” even though it is obvious that it is impossible:
6) A Christian believes in God even though it is obvious that God is as mythological as Zeus or Ra:
7) Most importantly, a Christian will look at all of this obvious evidence showing that God/Jesus/Heaven/Prayer is imaginary, then put his/her fingers in his/her ears and shout, “I will not listen to obvious facts! I believe in God because of faith!”
