“Why people have been so drawn to the irrational is something that has always puzzled me”
James Randi. At the 7:59 mark he explains in the clearest terms the benefits of sober living.
Religion (Slave Morality)
Truth
“The truth is that the Abrahamic religions fear women and therefore go to extraordinary and sometimes brutal lengths to control them, constrain them, and repress them in every way. Show me a non-religious society that feels so threatened by the thought of female sexuality that it will slice off the clitoris of a young girl to ensure she can never experience sexual pleasure. Show me a non-religious society that feels the need to cloak women from head to toe and force them to experience the outside world through a slit of a few square inches. All three Abrahamic religions share the myth of Adam and Eve, the myth that it was through woman that evil was let loose in the world. They share the heritage of Leviticus, which declared a menstruating woman unclean, to be set aside, untouched, a revulsion that remains even today among some orthodox Jews, who will refuse to shake a woman’s hand for fear she may be menstruating. What kind of lunacy is this? It is the lunacy of a Bronze Age mindset fossilized by the reactionary forces of religion.”
– Read the rest over at the Washington Post
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‘It’s hard enough being born in the first place,
Who would ever want to be born again?
It’s taken this long just to get to this place,
So what’s the point in ever being born again?’
– Son Of The Father, Fucked Up
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“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government”
– Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Alexander von Humboldt regarding religion in Mexico, December 6, 1813
“In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.”
– Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Horatio G. Spafford, March 17, 1814
New Hate: The Drunken Glory Movement
The Drunken Glory movement, mixing intoxication and the gospel…
Crowder, who claims he met Jesus while on an acid trip, suggests that ‘intimacy with God’ is expressed by living in a trance-like, spiritually drunken state of ecstacy. This is then presented as ‘the presence of God’ and the advancement of the Kingdom of God.
I mean look at this fucking herb…
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“The adoption of some evolutionarily novel ideas makes some sense in terms of moving the species forward…It also makes perfect sense that more intelligent people — people with, sort of, more intellectual firepower — are likely to be the ones to do that.”
Quoting a story from CNN on a recent study that found “on average, people who identified as liberal and atheist had higher IQs. This applied also to sexual exclusivity in men, but not in women.”
“For men, on the other hand, sexual exclusivity goes against the grain evolutionarily. With a goal of spreading genes, early men had multiple mates. Since women had to spend nine months being pregnant, and additional years caring for very young children, it made sense for them to want a steady mate to provide them resources.
Religion, the current theory goes, did not help people survive or reproduce necessarily, but goes along the lines of helping people to be paranoid, Kanazawa said. Assuming that, for example, a noise in the distance is a signal of a threat helped early humans to prepare in case of danger.
“It helps life to be paranoid, and because humans are paranoid, they become more religious, and they see the hands of God everywhere,” Kanazawa said.
Participants who said they were atheists had an average IQ of 103 in adolescence, while adults who said they were religious averaged 97, the study found. Atheism “allows someone to move forward and speculate on life without any concern for the dogmatic structure of a religion,” Bailey said.”
“Vegetarianism, while not strongly associated with IQ in this study, has been shown to be related to intelligence in previous research, Kanazawa said. This also fits into Bailey’s idea that unconventional preferences appeal to people with higher intelligence, and can also be a means of showing superiority.”
Read the full article here.
True Origins of Christmas (Sol Ivictus)
Who invented “Christmas”? Pagans! Let’s celebrate the rebirth of the sun!
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“The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved – Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal – God is the Omnipotent Father – hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates”
– Gore Vidal