gargus
Banned
Personally Im of the mind that if religion and faith in it make someone happy then by all means, have at it. Im not going to personally dump on someones faith, because its their own choice and that makes freedom of the mind so great is you like or dislike what you chose. I would never single anyone out and Ive known quite a few people who were christian of varying degrees and I never said a word about it because their business. Only time I dont like it is when its forced on me or shoe horned into a conversation. So this isnt about a certain person or individual, its just a blanket rant over religion as a whole.
I guess the simplest format for this is to just go through a small list of major points or topics Id like to discuss because Im going to do alot of bouncing around and in the end it will sound convoluted trying to read it as if it had some sort of flow. So with that out of the way lets just dive right in.
Well to approach a topic such as this we have look back at humanitys past and see how its behaved. Basically humans as individuals are smart but as humanity as a whole they are very stupid, scared, superstitious, self centered, pretentious and mindless cattle needing to be led. All those things birthed religion.
1- I wont go back to far, but Im sure were all familliar with the fact that thousands of years ago we were afraid of everything because we believed a god or demon lived just over a hillside or in a cave. But a thousand years ago we believed that illness was due to posession, or that we had tiny frogs living in our stomachs. Just a couple hundred years ago good, honest, faithfull, god fearing christians would burn their own family members alive because they thought they were witches, or simply throw them off a cliff and say "If your a witch youll fly off if not then youll die a good and pure christian". So obviously were not the brightest species around and certainly scared of anything we dont understand because humans are very superstitious. I mean if we accused someone of being a witch they would be tortured, with the churches consent, until they confessed to being a witch and then were burned alive, if they didnt confess then they just died from the torture, yeah love they neighbor I dont think was intended like that. About 300 years ago we knew the earth was flat and you would fall off it if you sailed to far out. We knew it was impossible to get to the moon. We knew that earth was the center of all exsistence. When you were sick you could be cured of letting of the "bad blood" to get the sickness out. Crazy people had holes drilled in their head to let out the spirits that haunted them. Those are very minor examples but you can see how intelligent we are and it just goes to show that humans only know what they want to know or are told. Who is to say we are any smarter now? Or are we just smarter now because we have a pill that makes your dick hard, cinnamon flavored dental floss or lights in our sneakers? Honestly we havent come that far.
2- Now religion was born long before those times, so does that it mean its as dependable as all those other things we believed? Religion during its inception was a form of control in a rather lawless world. Because how do you control a bunch of wild and superstitious creatures? You tell them that a god is vengeful and will send them to a firey pit of hell ruled by satan for all eternity, does that honestly sound the least bit sane to you? Because honestly if you took say 1,000 people right now that are good and law abiding christians who go to church every week, pay their taxes, dont drink, gamble, have sex other than for to have more children, obey every commandment and never do anything wrong and put them in the exact same life with nothing changed except the lack of christianity do you honestly believe all those people would still be as good, caring, kind, timid as they are now? Hell no they wouldnt, a portion of them may be but the control of religion missing would make them different people. Its still evident today and still used as a means of control by the controlling powers, why else do you think churches are about the only people in the nation that dont pay taxes? Hell its obvious a man wrote the bible, just look at it, its all about men because in those days men were dominant over women virtually everywhere, it wasnt till last 100 years ago that women have started to get out from underneath men where men put them. How many women besides Mary were mentioned in good light at depth in the bible? Hardly any. Bible says woman should be submissive to her husband, a daughter sleeps around her dad should burn her for her indescrestions, man did this, man does that, Eve
ed up the garden of eden and all this other nonsense. Hell the old school catholic church deemed divorce a sin but it was perfectly acceptable by the church for a man to kill his wife instead. 100 years ago in this country it was a sin for a woman to wear less than a bonet on her head, gloves and a dress that went from her neck to her feet as to not show any skin, give me a ing break. If she did she was a whore, thats just ing stupid and just men trying to control women because they were afraid if they had their own way they would leave the dickheaded, controlling, asshole men.
3- Holidays, oh shit this is a big one folks. Every single christian holiday is stolen from someone else. Along time ago the christians would stomp on the pagans and do their best to get them out of the picture (Pagans being around alot longer than christians) to make way for themselves and cover up anything pagan related. Even today pagan when used is a negative way of describing someone or something. 1- In the spring the pagan's had their spring festival for the birth of new life and during their festivals eggs and bunnies were used as signs of fertility for the new life. So the christians turned it into Easter which is in the spring, easter uses colored eggs and has a tale of a bunny to keep children interested, is meant for the new life of jesus and incase you didnt notice, easter day changes every year according to the posistion of theing moon, if thats not pagan then I dont know what is. Honestly what does coloring eggs, a bunny hiding them in grass for kids to find, and chocalate candy have to do with the birth of jesus? Nothing thats what, its just distorted pagan rituals used for christian means. 2- Halloween was basically a celtic pagan festival called Samhain on March 13 and pope gregory III changed it to October 31st and instead of burning their offerings christians made it so you got treats (yeah another thing to lure kids in and make it seem "less evil" in the eyes of the lord) by going door to door. 3- Christmas Im sorry was something else stolen from the pagans. Every wonder where Yule comes from in christmas and christian songs? Its a pagan word, it was a tree they would decorate outside during the winter equinox, so christians called it a christmas tree and chopped it down to bring inside to put presents under (yet again hooking the children). During the winter equinox pagans would offer gifts to show their thankfullness and hope for a easy winter, now christians made it so kids offer cookies and milk to santa in hopes for presents. I could go on and on but basically all holidays religion based today were stolen and transformed by christians to further their spread of their religion. Thou shalt not steal indeed. Even April Fools day is just the christians making fun of pagans. The pagans new year was April 1st, so when the christians changed their calendar new year to Janurary 1st and the pagans didnt they called it April Fools day because they didnt go along with them. So next time you pull a April Fools day joke on someone remember your partaking in a christian holiday invented to persecute a entire peoples ideals, isnt that like racism kinda? Yeah but christians dont care, they get to dislike anyone they want, more on this shortly.
4- Now we have something that always pissed me off, a bible story. So, we have Abraham a truly devoted, loving, caring man of god who loved his lord more than anything. So satan tells god that if he were stricken that he would denounce gods name. So according to the story god basically gives him boils and sores, kills his family, kills his livestock and knocks down his home and does terrible things to Abraham just to win a bet with satan. Hold the on here, I thought god cherrished us and loved us above all else, why would he hurt people and ruin a faithfull mans good life just to prove a point? Alot of bible stories are like this, if you actually sit and look at them you'll find they arent exactly nice and usually just examples of someone being punished for something or something bad happening because of god or in the name of god.
5- Then you have all the contradictions like "thou shalt not kill", ok so its a commandment and its never ok to ever kill anyone for any reason. Excuse me didnt god just kill Abrahams family? What about all the armies in the name of god that killed thousands in the bible? What about this
"(Levtiticus 21:9 NAB) A priest's daughter who loses her honor by committing fornication and thereby dishonors her father also, shall be burned to death" what happened to thou shalt not kill?. Or here is a realing beauty, "(GE50:13) Jacob was buried in a cave at Machpelah bought from Ephron the Hittite. "(AC 7:15-16) He was buried in the sepulchre at Shechem, bought from the sons of Hamor." Or how about all the times god describes him and is described as loving, gentle, forgiving, caring, fatherfly but at the same time is vengeful, a warrior, jealous and a consumming fire. Thats the tip of iceberg, I could go and on about blatant contradictions.
6- How come the dinosaurs werent mentioned anyway? I mean if he created man in his own image what did he create dinosaurs in since they predate us? His cousin ted? And why is there a 65 billion year gap? Did he create the earth and then sit around playing checkers for 65 billion years before creating us? Bible talks in days. Ill tell you why dinosaurs werent mentioned, because they were here first and died before us, then 65 billion years went by and man came out of the swamps, evolved some and had no idea about dinosaurs because they were buried under the ground to far for us to reach or know about. So man wrote the bible with no understanding of them or the fact the earth was billions of years old already.
7- I have a personal distaste for religion as its sort of a convience that you can make it anything you want and a crutch for the weak minded. Honestly if christianity and the bible are the final word then how come we have dozens of versions of it? I tell you why, its so people who want to believe can pick their own desired level of commitment. On one hand if you want to be a diehard and really taking it to extremes you can be like a snake handler moron or if you just want to be religious enough to get by and have a get out of free jail card when you die you can be a lutheran, or if you want some crazy ideas and more than one wife? Be a mormon. So pick whatever religion you like. But who is really the right one? They all seem to think they are right but they cant all be. And crutches, oh the crutches are just a easy answer for anything for a christian. If a boy dies in a car wreck his mother can say "It was gods will", if the boy is in a car wreck and lives his mom can say "God saved you". You never hear a athlete loosing the big game and saying "Well, god must not have wanted us to win" you only hear god when they win. You can say it was or wasnt gods will to any scenario and it will sound just fine. A woman can have a mutated, cancer ridden baby that takes months to die of agonizing pain while the mother dies delivering it and the husband commits suicide over his grief and some small minded idiot will say "Well it was gods will". Its kind of like how idiots can make anything, no matter how stupid sound plausible if they add at the end "I read it in a article".
8- Humans are anything if vain, we all know it and we all see it everyday in our own lives and the lives of others. We love to feel so important, unique, special, gifted and the center of everything in this world that we invented god so we could say how important we are. Really its no surprise, were at the top of the food chain, created nuclear weapons, gone to the moon and all this other stuff that makes us (atleast in our minds) the most important thing on this planet ever in exsistence. So if were on top how do we feel better about ourselves? We create a imaginary god that lives in heaven and has specially created us just so he can watch us and love us from afar. How much fuller can we get of ourselves than to believe some omnipotent creator of the universe would create all of exsistence just for us to live in? Its the ultimate form of conceitement.
9- I guess god is just a aligator. He must be because if we were created in his own image then why do we share so many indisputeable anatomical and physiological and biological traits with many species of animals on the planet in a ever declining evolutionary scale? Surely if god created us in his own image we would physically be a little further up the scale than we currently are. An octopus has a far more complex anatomy than a human does, roaches are probablly the peak of evolution as we know it as they can survive far more than anyother creature on the planet. Everyone knows we share a great many traits with monkeys and vice versa, we also have organs that have ceased to be functional through evolution like the gal bladder and appendix. We have hair like animals, we have nails on our hands and feet like animals, we have sharp teeth for tearing meat, we have our eyes placed on the front of our heads to be able to see our prey and attack them since were predatory animals, we have fight or flight tendencies like animals, we even have basest sexual desires like animals (and yes even jerry faldwell has them, everyone does even if they dont admit it) because we are animals that happen to be able to build things well. Men have the sex drive of animals, thats why men want to everything that moves is because they are compelled by animal instincts to spread the seed around, thats why women love creature comforts like bath towels, lots of pillows, a comfortable surrounding in their home and such is because they are just doing a form of nesting like animals do. So called "human behavior" can be drawn directly to the same things animals do also we just call it different things so we can be more civilized.
10- "I felt the touch of god", "God called out to me personally and blessed me with his light" or someother comment a person makes when they actually think they have felt god in their lives as a reality and not a metaphor is what is called, the placebo effect. Time and time again you hear about people who have been personally and literally felt god, well, its bullshit because its a placebo. A placebo has been used in medicine for a very long time, its basically where you take a ill person and give them like a little pill thats just colored sugar and tell them it will make them feel better. Simply because in their mind they think it will make them feel better and the mind is a powerfull thing, so they will feel better physically and mentally even though the pill has done nothing at all. Dr's in the 50's would do this alot today. Same thing applies here if a person believes hard enough jesus will reach out to them then they will actually believe its happening and the excitement of will just cement it as even more of a reality to them.
11- Religion breeds the most judgemental and unaccepting people I have ever met, I truly mean that. Religious people on whole will not accept anyone that doesnt agree with them (Ive already shown that above multiple times). If you talk to a atheist and you say your a christian unless they are just an asshole they wont care, but almost everytime that chritisian will start having to talk about jesus and try to convince the other person to agree with them instead of just letting them be without a single word otherwise. Ive gotten into a dozen arguments with relgious douche bags that come to my door and want to talk to me about god and I would say "I dont believe in god please dont bother me again, good day" and they stand there and counter point argue everything I say till I close the door in their face or get really nasty. I recently tried a online dating site and I had one woman message me saying how cute I was, how much she liked my profile and so on but after a couple messages she said she noticed my religion was listed as atheist and asked if it was right, course I said yes because its the truth and she replied "I cant be interested in anyone who doesnt love jesus"........really. And that didnt happen once, it happened 3 times in one month. None of them were willing to even find out my first name or even find out if I was a nice person and obviously didnt really care about who I was as a person, all they knew was that I didnt agree with their religion and thus labeled me unworthy to even send emails to anymore. Personally I wouldnt have cared, if I liked them for who they were as a person inside I wouldnt have cared what their faith was because I liked them. Far as judgemental, no one judges others more than christians. Christian (especially conservative ones) are constantly protesting something and condemming people because of something they believe. I have never seen a aethist or a satan worshipper or a pagan protest a catholic church, or even heard of such a thing because they dont like what they believe. But Ill tell you what I have seen many times, and thats a person dying in a hospital from lung, throat, brain, bone marrow, liver, kidney cancer just pissing and shitting themselves, not able to get out of bed and in constant pain and misery and wanting assisted suicide and some christian getting on the news or calling them to say "You cant do that because god says its a sin and youll go to hell" that, mind your own ing business. You can also see how much of a bully christians are to how they will walk up to strangers houses to annoy them about jesus with no warning, hell how many times am I going to see christians going to poor countries to convert them to christian? The only reason those people put up with it is because they dont know what the they are talking about but if your starving to death and someone offers you food in exchange for hearing about the lord, youll listen all they want if you get a hamburger out of the deal. Christians are the only people who barge into other countries and have the balls to tell them what to think and believe. Ive never had a budhist confront me at the store or a ing satanist show up at my door.
After some reflection I am starting to think that christianity was started by pagans. Even the part "Drink this wine for it is my blood" sounds alot like vampirism and "eat this bread for it is my body" sounds pretty close to cannibalism. The two biggest holidays for christians are christmas and easter, meaning jesus was born and died on two of the biggest pagan holidays.
Really I could sit and write a novel on this stuff but thats not the point here and my point isnt to shit on anyones beliefs either, everyone has to make up their own mind in the end whether I agree with it or not its their own choice and Id never look down at someone for deciding what they want or dont want as a principal.
If were ever going to move forward as a species and mentally evolve we need to get rid of this old world, superstitious nonsense, all it does is hamper our minds and hold us back. Yes you can do whatever you like but try thinking for yourself for once, try using your mind and considering all the paths instead of just one set before you from a book of fairy tales. It takes a strong person to make their own choices, live up to their own convictions and be truly open minded about everything. Any simple minded sheep can just go through life believing what they are told to by others.
I guess the simplest format for this is to just go through a small list of major points or topics Id like to discuss because Im going to do alot of bouncing around and in the end it will sound convoluted trying to read it as if it had some sort of flow. So with that out of the way lets just dive right in.
Well to approach a topic such as this we have look back at humanitys past and see how its behaved. Basically humans as individuals are smart but as humanity as a whole they are very stupid, scared, superstitious, self centered, pretentious and mindless cattle needing to be led. All those things birthed religion.
1- I wont go back to far, but Im sure were all familliar with the fact that thousands of years ago we were afraid of everything because we believed a god or demon lived just over a hillside or in a cave. But a thousand years ago we believed that illness was due to posession, or that we had tiny frogs living in our stomachs. Just a couple hundred years ago good, honest, faithfull, god fearing christians would burn their own family members alive because they thought they were witches, or simply throw them off a cliff and say "If your a witch youll fly off if not then youll die a good and pure christian". So obviously were not the brightest species around and certainly scared of anything we dont understand because humans are very superstitious. I mean if we accused someone of being a witch they would be tortured, with the churches consent, until they confessed to being a witch and then were burned alive, if they didnt confess then they just died from the torture, yeah love they neighbor I dont think was intended like that. About 300 years ago we knew the earth was flat and you would fall off it if you sailed to far out. We knew it was impossible to get to the moon. We knew that earth was the center of all exsistence. When you were sick you could be cured of letting of the "bad blood" to get the sickness out. Crazy people had holes drilled in their head to let out the spirits that haunted them. Those are very minor examples but you can see how intelligent we are and it just goes to show that humans only know what they want to know or are told. Who is to say we are any smarter now? Or are we just smarter now because we have a pill that makes your dick hard, cinnamon flavored dental floss or lights in our sneakers? Honestly we havent come that far.
2- Now religion was born long before those times, so does that it mean its as dependable as all those other things we believed? Religion during its inception was a form of control in a rather lawless world. Because how do you control a bunch of wild and superstitious creatures? You tell them that a god is vengeful and will send them to a firey pit of hell ruled by satan for all eternity, does that honestly sound the least bit sane to you? Because honestly if you took say 1,000 people right now that are good and law abiding christians who go to church every week, pay their taxes, dont drink, gamble, have sex other than for to have more children, obey every commandment and never do anything wrong and put them in the exact same life with nothing changed except the lack of christianity do you honestly believe all those people would still be as good, caring, kind, timid as they are now? Hell no they wouldnt, a portion of them may be but the control of religion missing would make them different people. Its still evident today and still used as a means of control by the controlling powers, why else do you think churches are about the only people in the nation that dont pay taxes? Hell its obvious a man wrote the bible, just look at it, its all about men because in those days men were dominant over women virtually everywhere, it wasnt till last 100 years ago that women have started to get out from underneath men where men put them. How many women besides Mary were mentioned in good light at depth in the bible? Hardly any. Bible says woman should be submissive to her husband, a daughter sleeps around her dad should burn her for her indescrestions, man did this, man does that, Eve
ed up the garden of eden and all this other nonsense. Hell the old school catholic church deemed divorce a sin but it was perfectly acceptable by the church for a man to kill his wife instead. 100 years ago in this country it was a sin for a woman to wear less than a bonet on her head, gloves and a dress that went from her neck to her feet as to not show any skin, give me a ing break. If she did she was a whore, thats just ing stupid and just men trying to control women because they were afraid if they had their own way they would leave the dickheaded, controlling, asshole men.3- Holidays, oh shit this is a big one folks. Every single christian holiday is stolen from someone else. Along time ago the christians would stomp on the pagans and do their best to get them out of the picture (Pagans being around alot longer than christians) to make way for themselves and cover up anything pagan related. Even today pagan when used is a negative way of describing someone or something. 1- In the spring the pagan's had their spring festival for the birth of new life and during their festivals eggs and bunnies were used as signs of fertility for the new life. So the christians turned it into Easter which is in the spring, easter uses colored eggs and has a tale of a bunny to keep children interested, is meant for the new life of jesus and incase you didnt notice, easter day changes every year according to the posistion of the
ing moon, if thats not pagan then I dont know what is. Honestly what does coloring eggs, a bunny hiding them in grass for kids to find, and chocalate candy have to do with the birth of jesus? Nothing thats what, its just distorted pagan rituals used for christian means. 2- Halloween was basically a celtic pagan festival called Samhain on March 13 and pope gregory III changed it to October 31st and instead of burning their offerings christians made it so you got treats (yeah another thing to lure kids in and make it seem "less evil" in the eyes of the lord) by going door to door. 3- Christmas Im sorry was something else stolen from the pagans. Every wonder where Yule comes from in christmas and christian songs? Its a pagan word, it was a tree they would decorate outside during the winter equinox, so christians called it a christmas tree and chopped it down to bring inside to put presents under (yet again hooking the children). During the winter equinox pagans would offer gifts to show their thankfullness and hope for a easy winter, now christians made it so kids offer cookies and milk to santa in hopes for presents. I could go on and on but basically all holidays religion based today were stolen and transformed by christians to further their spread of their religion. Thou shalt not steal indeed. Even April Fools day is just the christians making fun of pagans. The pagans new year was April 1st, so when the christians changed their calendar new year to Janurary 1st and the pagans didnt they called it April Fools day because they didnt go along with them. So next time you pull a April Fools day joke on someone remember your partaking in a christian holiday invented to persecute a entire peoples ideals, isnt that like racism kinda? Yeah but christians dont care, they get to dislike anyone they want, more on this shortly.4- Now we have something that always pissed me off, a bible story. So, we have Abraham a truly devoted, loving, caring man of god who loved his lord more than anything. So satan tells god that if he were stricken that he would denounce gods name. So according to the story god basically gives him boils and sores, kills his family, kills his livestock and knocks down his home and does terrible things to Abraham just to win a bet with satan. Hold the
on here, I thought god cherrished us and loved us above all else, why would he hurt people and ruin a faithfull mans good life just to prove a point? Alot of bible stories are like this, if you actually sit and look at them you'll find they arent exactly nice and usually just examples of someone being punished for something or something bad happening because of god or in the name of god.5- Then you have all the contradictions like "thou shalt not kill", ok so its a commandment and its never ok to ever kill anyone for any reason. Excuse me didnt god just kill Abrahams family? What about all the armies in the name of god that killed thousands in the bible? What about this
"(Levtiticus 21:9 NAB) A priest's daughter who loses her honor by committing fornication and thereby dishonors her father also, shall be burned to death" what happened to thou shalt not kill?. Or here is a real
ing beauty, "(GE50:13) Jacob was buried in a cave at Machpelah bought from Ephron the Hittite. "(AC 7:15-16) He was buried in the sepulchre at Shechem, bought from the sons of Hamor." Or how about all the times god describes him and is described as loving, gentle, forgiving, caring, fatherfly but at the same time is vengeful, a warrior, jealous and a consumming fire. Thats the tip of iceberg, I could go and on about blatant contradictions.6- How come the dinosaurs werent mentioned anyway? I mean if he created man in his own image what did he create dinosaurs in since they predate us? His cousin ted? And why is there a 65 billion year gap? Did he create the earth and then sit around playing checkers for 65 billion years before creating us? Bible talks in days. Ill tell you why dinosaurs werent mentioned, because they were here first and died before us, then 65 billion years went by and man came out of the swamps, evolved some and had no idea about dinosaurs because they were buried under the ground to far for us to reach or know about. So man wrote the bible with no understanding of them or the fact the earth was billions of years old already.
7- I have a personal distaste for religion as its sort of a convience that you can make it anything you want and a crutch for the weak minded. Honestly if christianity and the bible are the final word then how come we have dozens of versions of it? I tell you why, its so people who want to believe can pick their own desired level of commitment. On one hand if you want to be a diehard and really taking it to extremes you can be like a snake handler moron or if you just want to be religious enough to get by and have a get out of free jail card when you die you can be a lutheran, or if you want some crazy ideas and more than one wife? Be a mormon. So pick whatever religion you like. But who is really the right one? They all seem to think they are right but they cant all be. And crutches, oh the crutches are just a easy answer for anything for a christian. If a boy dies in a car wreck his mother can say "It was gods will", if the boy is in a car wreck and lives his mom can say "God saved you". You never hear a athlete loosing the big game and saying "Well, god must not have wanted us to win" you only hear god when they win. You can say it was or wasnt gods will to any scenario and it will sound just fine. A woman can have a mutated, cancer ridden baby that takes months to die of agonizing pain while the mother dies delivering it and the husband commits suicide over his grief and some small minded idiot will say "Well it was gods will". Its kind of like how idiots can make anything, no matter how stupid sound plausible if they add at the end "I read it in a article".
8- Humans are anything if vain, we all know it and we all see it everyday in our own lives and the lives of others. We love to feel so important, unique, special, gifted and the center of everything in this world that we invented god so we could say how important we are. Really its no surprise, were at the top of the food chain, created nuclear weapons, gone to the moon and all this other stuff that makes us (atleast in our minds) the most important thing on this planet ever in exsistence. So if were on top how do we feel better about ourselves? We create a imaginary god that lives in heaven and has specially created us just so he can watch us and love us from afar. How much fuller can we get of ourselves than to believe some omnipotent creator of the universe would create all of exsistence just for us to live in? Its the ultimate form of conceitement.
9- I guess god is just a aligator. He must be because if we were created in his own image then why do we share so many indisputeable anatomical and physiological and biological traits with many species of animals on the planet in a ever declining evolutionary scale? Surely if god created us in his own image we would physically be a little further up the scale than we currently are. An octopus has a far more complex anatomy than a human does, roaches are probablly the peak of evolution as we know it as they can survive far more than anyother creature on the planet. Everyone knows we share a great many traits with monkeys and vice versa, we also have organs that have ceased to be functional through evolution like the gal bladder and appendix. We have hair like animals, we have nails on our hands and feet like animals, we have sharp teeth for tearing meat, we have our eyes placed on the front of our heads to be able to see our prey and attack them since were predatory animals, we have fight or flight tendencies like animals, we even have basest sexual desires like animals (and yes even jerry faldwell has them, everyone does even if they dont admit it) because we are animals that happen to be able to build things well. Men have the sex drive of animals, thats why men want to
everything that moves is because they are compelled by animal instincts to spread the seed around, thats why women love creature comforts like bath towels, lots of pillows, a comfortable surrounding in their home and such is because they are just doing a form of nesting like animals do. So called "human behavior" can be drawn directly to the same things animals do also we just call it different things so we can be more civilized.10- "I felt the touch of god", "God called out to me personally and blessed me with his light" or someother comment a person makes when they actually think they have felt god in their lives as a reality and not a metaphor is what is called, the placebo effect. Time and time again you hear about people who have been personally and literally felt god, well, its bullshit because its a placebo. A placebo has been used in medicine for a very long time, its basically where you take a ill person and give them like a little pill thats just colored sugar and tell them it will make them feel better. Simply because in their mind they think it will make them feel better and the mind is a powerfull thing, so they will feel better physically and mentally even though the pill has done nothing at all. Dr's in the 50's would do this alot today. Same thing applies here if a person believes hard enough jesus will reach out to them then they will actually believe its happening and the excitement of will just cement it as even more of a reality to them.
11- Religion breeds the most judgemental and unaccepting people I have ever met, I truly mean that. Religious people on whole will not accept anyone that doesnt agree with them (Ive already shown that above multiple times). If you talk to a atheist and you say your a christian unless they are just an asshole they wont care, but almost everytime that chritisian will start having to talk about jesus and try to convince the other person to agree with them instead of just letting them be without a single word otherwise. Ive gotten into a dozen arguments with relgious douche bags that come to my door and want to talk to me about god and I would say "I dont believe in god please dont bother me again, good day" and they stand there and counter point argue everything I say till I close the door in their face or get really nasty. I recently tried a online dating site and I had one woman message me saying how cute I was, how much she liked my profile and so on but after a couple messages she said she noticed my religion was listed as atheist and asked if it was right, course I said yes because its the truth and she replied "I cant be interested in anyone who doesnt love jesus"........really. And that didnt happen once, it happened 3 times in one month. None of them were willing to even find out my first name or even find out if I was a nice person and obviously didnt really care about who I was as a person, all they knew was that I didnt agree with their religion and thus labeled me unworthy to even send emails to anymore. Personally I wouldnt have cared, if I liked them for who they were as a person inside I wouldnt have cared what their faith was because I liked them. Far as judgemental, no one judges others more than christians. Christian (especially conservative ones) are constantly protesting something and condemming people because of something they believe. I have never seen a aethist or a satan worshipper or a pagan protest a catholic church, or even heard of such a thing because they dont like what they believe. But Ill tell you what I have seen many times, and thats a person dying in a hospital from lung, throat, brain, bone marrow, liver, kidney cancer just pissing and shitting themselves, not able to get out of bed and in constant pain and misery and wanting assisted suicide and some christian
getting on the news or calling them to say "You cant do that because god says its a sin and youll go to hell" that, mind your own ing business. You can also see how much of a bully christians are to how they will walk up to strangers houses to annoy them about jesus with no warning, hell how many times am I going to see christians going to poor countries to convert them to christian? The only reason those people put up with it is because they dont know what the they are talking about but if your starving to death and someone offers you food in exchange for hearing about the lord, youll listen all they want if you get a hamburger out of the deal. Christians are the only people who barge into other countries and have the balls to tell them what to think and believe. Ive never had a budhist confront me at the store or a ing satanist show up at my door.After some reflection I am starting to think that christianity was started by pagans. Even the part "Drink this wine for it is my blood" sounds alot like vampirism and "eat this bread for it is my body" sounds pretty close to cannibalism. The two biggest holidays for christians are christmas and easter, meaning jesus was born and died on two of the biggest pagan holidays.
Really I could sit and write a novel on this stuff but thats not the point here and my point isnt to shit on anyones beliefs either, everyone has to make up their own mind in the end whether I agree with it or not its their own choice and Id never look down at someone for deciding what they want or dont want as a principal.
If were ever going to move forward as a species and mentally evolve we need to get rid of this old world, superstitious nonsense, all it does is hamper our minds and hold us back. Yes you can do whatever you like but try thinking for yourself for once, try using your mind and considering all the paths instead of just one set before you from a book of fairy tales. It takes a strong person to make their own choices, live up to their own convictions and be truly open minded about everything. Any simple minded sheep can just go through life believing what they are told to by others.
He only allowed the boy to be traumatized for life by letting the father raise a knife over his heart..how merciful. Too bad God didn't intervene in the story of Jephthah. He was obviously looking forward to the burnt human sacrifice of a young girl and did not intervene in that case. 
