Calling To Say I'm In Trump's Cult - Before Asking For Money - Is Not A Good Plan

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The Racist And The Religious - Too Much Overlap There

"What prevents you to believe in God?" 

Dumbshits bugging me to believe in God,...

 

I Thought It Looked Familiar

How Slavery Made the Modern World

Slavery was the flywheel on which America’s market revolution turned—not just in the United States, but in all of the Americas.

Many in the United States were outraged by the remarks of conservative evangelical preacher Pat Robertson, who,...went on TV and gave his viewing audience a little history lesson: the Haitians had been “under the heel of the French” but they “got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, ‘We will serve you if you will get us free from the French.’ True story. And so, the devil said, ‘OK, it’s a deal.’”

A supremely callous example of right-wing idiocy? Absolutely. Yet in his own kooky way, Robertson was also onto something,..

I Could Become A Hugging Saint

As I've told you, my main take-away from Tea Party gatherings was, they wanted to bring us "Heaven On Earth":

   It’s become apparent that the religious right is an electoral albatross for Republicans. The invention of the “Tea Party” reflected this desire to bamboozle the press into forgetting that the Republican Party is controlled by a bunch of right-wing Christians, by floating this narrative that this new insurgence of conservative energy was somehow more about economic conservatism than social conservatism.

That narrative has basically collapsed in the face of overwhelming evidence that the Tea Party’s main impact is encouraging Republican primary voters to back even more embarrassingly Bible-thumping candidates than usual, from Ted Cruz to Christine O’Donnell,...Turns out the “Tea Party” was the same old religious right people know and loathe.

You know, as this information keeps getting out, hugging people with the words "I loathe you" - it could really become a thing,…

 

And They All Do Yoga

I'd Like To Thank "The X Files" For All Their Help As Well

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Culturally, you mean, America's forcing me to listen to feminist NewAge crap (while she screamed "Believe me!") wasn't the most effective way to make our marriage last? Wow: 

 I never would've imagined that,…

 

First Harsh Life Problem: Having To Reason With Others

It's damned near impossible, considering what we've got to work with,...

Fear Can Be A Great Motivator (On Tea Partiers Not Me)

Go on - get your guns - prove Obama wrong:

"How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. The question is, how many bites will we allow to be taken before the elephant is gone?"

I don't know, but pray before you eat it,…

 

NewAge Is A "Spiritual Practice" (And They Do Practice)

She said:

"Why must an atheist bother with the subject of religion at all?"

As though atheists can ignore the religious' evangelical tendencies.

And, since we know this, who is actually deigning to "bother" whom?

And who - as usual - is "blaming the victim" here?

("Blaming the victim" - I am enjoying these Flaws In A Perfect System - our popular catchphrases for the casual cruelties Americans needlessly inflict.)

She said:

"If you think you're so rational, be rational about the reasons why people are religious, including many reasons that you could be empathetic about."

Oh my dear, you are aware the divorced are listening, aren't you?

Why aren't they - or, even better, their religious spouses - more emphatic?

Do you seriously think a fanatic is being rational, or even helping, when they're all "you think you're so rational" towards the subject?

Mocking the very endeavor society builds on - while insisting we must be empathetic towards the irrational - what does that reveal?

Didn't I just mention evangelism?

She said:

"By the way, even in that little quoted squib, the guy is still being a jerk, likening religious people to a brick wall and being a bit of a brick wall himself about the possibility that religious people are seekers of knowledge and truth."

"Seekers of knowledge and truth" - yeah, sure.

Having been there before, we know there is no "possibility that religious people are seekers of knowledge and truth" when they've always insisted - as you are right here - that batting away knowledge is the way to truth.

You are, once again, arguing for insanity and nothing more.

And doing so insanely.

And I even understand why - which is why it's my job to tell you:

Avoiding "being a jerk" is NOT what this is all about,...