Europe sees creationism as threat to human rights

Europe sees creationism as threat to human rights

Europe's primary human rights body will vote on a proposal this week to defend the teaching of Darwinian evolution and keep creationist and intelligent design views out of science classes in state schools in its 47 member countries.

This has always been a problem with the liberal idea of "cultural diversity." Far too many cultures still treat women as chattel, glorify religious violence, and battle science because its provable tenets contradict their fairy tales from the ancient past. This is where liberalism breaks down. We have get shitty with people: religious indoctrination is child abuse, stupid lies and made-up fantasies about the origin and evolution of life on earth form the basis of the belief systems that permit ignorance and abuse everywhere there is fundamentalist religion, whether christian or muslim or hindu.

You know what will be really hilarious? If the vote goes through to prevent the teaching of fantasies as science, creationsit cacklers everywhere are going to slapping their lips together in the form of rapidfire hate speech like never before. Fox News will become the comedy channel.

God Hates the World

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I wish I could say this is a parody. Phelps & fucktards are at it again.

I think I'm going to be sick...

Found via Pharyngula.

Salman Rushdie is not the problem. Muslims are.

Salman Rushdie is not the problem. Muslims are. An interesting read from a muslim unwilling to let others steal his religion out from under him.

Above all, I am offended that so many other Muslims are not offended enough to demonstrate widely against God’s self-appointed ambassadors. We complain to the world that Islam is being exploited by fundamentalists, yet when reckoning with the opportunity to resist their clamour en masse, we fall curiously silent. In a battle between flaming fundamentalists and mute moderates, who do you think is going to win?

Of course, you know my take on this: Muslims are not the problem, either. Religion is.

Militant Atheism?

From the Midwest Populist Party blog comes a brilliantly written post: "Militant Atheism"? An excerpt:

Just remember, atheists did not launch the Crusades. Atheists have not burnt people alive on the stakes. Atheists do not instruct the meager to turn the other cheek in hopes of rewards that consist entirely of invisible conditions in some posit called the afterlife.

Atheists are, in fact, the living embodiments of the temperaments that the religious claim to possess but fail to embody.

Readers Raise over $5K for Americans United for Separation of Church and State

Science Fiction writer John Scalzi asked his readers to donate money in order to prompt him to go to the ridiculously ignorant creationist museum. Only $250 was needed to get him to go, with anything beyond the price of admission being donated to Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. Scalzi's readers donated $5,118.36!

See, we don't need no imaginary god to tell us what's right! Can't you just feel the rightness of this coming off your screen? I know I do.

Fight Song

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Something to help keep your spirits up!

Top 10 Signs You're a Fundamentalist Christian

10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours.

9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other 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 Triune 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 loopholes in the scientifically established age of Earth (few billion years), but you find nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by Bronze Age tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that Earth is a few generations old.

Read the rest at Evil Bible, a great site I just found.

Pharmacists honor legal requests despite primitive belief in superstitious nonsense

Bill would require pharmacies to fill orders no matter beliefs

The bill, approved 56-18 by the Assembly, establishes a pharmacy's duty to fill lawful prescriptions without undue delay and without consideration for a pharmacist's moral, philosophical or religious beliefs.

Holy War! Rise of the Atheists

From The Phoenix:

The events that have since overtaken Haggard do indeed bear the distinct imprint of what creationists call the argument from design. What more perfectly appointed doom could there be for an evangelical preacher than that he be revealed as a drug-snorting patron of male whores? Haggard, his ministry in ruins, was last seen emerging from three weeks of faith-based counseling with the declaration that he was now “completely heterosexual.” The infidel Dawkins has meanwhile sailed into riches and best-sellerdom. Even Mike Jones, the escort with whom Haggard shared his meth-romps, looks set to have a hit this summer with his upcoming kiss-and-tell I Had to Say Something: The Art of Ted Haggard’s Fall (Seven Stories). “My muscles seemed to be my biggest attraction,” writes Jones. “Until I took off my pants.” Truly, the Lord works in mysterious fucking ways.

That just might be the best quote I've ever pasted into a blog form.

T. Rex ate coconuts! Who knew?

So... T Rex ate coconuts, eh? Frolicked with humans? Retrofitting myth (Genesis/Creationism) to junk science (Intelligent Design) is so cute! Like watching toddlers when they first really believe in Santa Claus! Here's a quote:

It seems Noah solved the problem of fitting dinosaurs into his vessel by only taking baby dinosaurs. Indeed, the ark has a detailed display of many animals happily boarding the boat: dinosaurs cavort with giraffes, penguins, hippos, and bears.

But here's the best part:

In Genesis 1:30 God gives ‘green herb’ to every creature to eat and so there were no predators. When a curious museum visitor asks, why exactly T. rex had six-inch long serrated teeth, the guides go on to explain that T. rex used his big teeth to open coconuts.

Um... yeah. Maybe it's not so cute after all. Maybe this kind of willful ignorance, while certainly childish isn't the least bit cute. The more I think about it, the more dangerous it seems. Propaganda is always dangerous.

Design Change

Because of the Blogger template upgrades, I'll have to redesign the blog. For now, it's back to good ol' Minima. Changes coming soon. You could call it "punctuated equilibrium evolution." Intelligent Design might be a bit of a stretch. ;)

I am Resurrected!

I guess I just can't leave this issue alone. You can find this here. I may not post as much, but I'm back and ready for the hate mail.

Last Post

I don't have the time to work on something that is so inherently depressing as pointing out the avalanche of idiocy, malice, and ignorance of the religious. If I had the wherewithal, I might set up an automated RSS feed that spits out news site search results, but I don't. I would rather spend my precious spare time working on my art and posting on my personal blog.

Thanks for hanging out with me. 

Extremist Christian "Evolution Debunker" Jailed for Tax Fraud. YES!

From the Pensacola News Journal:

Kent Hovind, founder of Creation Science Evangelism and Dinosaur Adventure Land in Pensacola, was found guilty of 58 counts, including failure to pay $845,000 in employee-related taxes. He faces a maximum of 288 years in prison.

Jo Hovind was charged and convicted in 44 of the counts involving evading bank-reporting requirements. She faces up to 225 years in prison but was allowed to remain free pending the couple's sentencing on Jan. 9.

Kent Hovind briefly held onto her arm as the verdict was read. Neither reacted at first. But minutes later, she held her face in her hands.

"Nobody likes to pay taxes," Assistant U.S. Attorney Michelle Heldmyer said in her closing argument. "But we do because it's the law, and he is not above the law."

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Kent Hovind, whose life's mission is to debunk evolution, says he and his employees are workers of God and therefore exempt from paying taxes. He pays his employees in cash and does not withhold their taxes or pay his share as an employer.

Christies are going to spin this as religious persecution, forgetting they get no special treatment under the law compared to any other religion or any group of any kind. It's bad enough that churches are already tax exempt.

Pastor Ted Haggard Scandal Grows: voicemails confirmed for drug use and sex with male escort. YES AGAIN!

From Boing Boing:

Richard Sanders, a voice expert who worked on the Oklahoma bombing, JonBenet Ramsey murder, and Kobe Bryant cases, says voicemails left on a gay escort's answering machine belong to megachurch pastor and Bush ally Ted Haggard.

Haggard is the smartass who argued with Richard Dawkins in his Root of all Evil documentary.

DeGod-ify your money

Mitchell Kahle explains why and how at Spending Godless Money:

For more than 10 years, I have spent only Godless dollars. Using a red pen or stamp, I mark a circle and slash over the word "God" (as pictured above) on every bill that passes my way. When I make a withdrawal from the bank ATM, I immediately "de-God" each of the crisp new $20s. When I spend the $20s, and receive $1s, $5s, or $10s in change, I "de-God" each bill before passing it along. No merchant or business has ever refused to accept this "godless" money.

Proof that God Hates Republicans

Original is here.

Hmmm... Surely there must be some misunderstanding? After all these conservative fundamentalists said the hurricanes were the wrath of God?

Bush is not a Christian

Scathing and insightful article at The American Prospect: As God Is His Witness. Quote:

...when judged by his deeds, an entirely different picture emerges: Bush does not demonstrate a life of faith by his actions, and neither Methodists, evangelicals, nor fundamentalists can rightly call him brother. In fact, the available evidence raises serious questions about whether Bush is really a Christian at all.

Christian Terrorists - How Far Will They Go?

A while back I wrote a post about how hilariously stupid Islam's afterlife mythology is. Its title contains the words: Eating fruit and shagging virgins. This morning I check my visitor stats and I see someone came upon that post via a search for women shagging fruit, which I thought was pretty funny. But then also in the search results was a link to the forums of the Christian Party, which isn't funny.

I've never seen such amazing anti-semitic white separatist bullshit in my life. If these people were Arab, they'd be classified as a terrorist organization. I don't see what ethnicity has to do with it: these people are terrorists. Christian Terrorists. Never mind they haven't done anything, yet. That wouldn't mean anything if they were Arabs. Nobody would say, "Oh well, they haven't done anything yet."

Jesus would be ashamed of you

Found this great site, jesuswouldbeashamedofyou.com. A theist shows pictures collected from around the web of Christians being anything but, like this:


And the author makes this point:

Does the bible need to be literally true in every word in order to be a testament to the life and death of a remarkable man who changed the world? No! It doesn't.

So why do you hang your hat on that? Of all the really important things that need fixing on Earth, why do you fixate on whether gays can marry, or waste your time saving a woman who really was, it turned out, completely brain-dead? Why do you spend so much time arguing about how God created the universe, when the exact details don't matter? You can pray in school any time you want-- why force it on others? The justice system generally holds the same values as the ten commandments... why do you need it actually spelled out?

Do you think your rabid devotion to insignificant minutia really makes Jesus happy? I think he's probably more interested in you spending that kind of time and energy on helping your fellow man, don't you?

Do you really think God suffers from the same frailties as human beings, and would condemn vast numbers of people to Hell over such tiny details? I think he's much bigger and greater than you give Him credit for. I think He's infinitely more loving than the vengeful monster you hope he is.

It's time to take back Christianity from such insanity.

Now, my conclusion is quite different: it's time to abandon all religions to history and superstition where they belong. But at least this is one person who has done something to combat Christian extremism, and who, unlike most Christians, is not just sitting idly by.

The rise of religious violence in the form of terrorism and the war on terror has driven some further into their insulated caves of exclusivity (all religions are exclusive, which is why calls for peace and cooperation, such as what this site's author is doing, are futile). But it has also sparked the realization in many that religion is the problem. Everything else is merely ineffectual treatment of surface symptoms. If humanity is ever to truly get along peacably with itself, it must abandon religion. All religions.

Of course, that's not likely to happen.