Scamming in the Name of God

Perhaps you have received the same email that I was blessed to receive. Jesus said that his disciples would be “fishers of men.” I call this one “Phishing for Men.” Read more

AskMeHelpDesk.com

Yippee! This is yet another forum where we can let our voices be heard. There are many other cool things on there as well, but I joined a couple of days ago and if nothing else it’s driving traffic to our site, just like some of the people on that site say. A lot of the talk about Luci’s issue is whether or not it’s legit, and I can understand their concern. However, I, as well as Luce and Rival, are trying to impress upon the readers there that this isn’t a ploy for Luci to get money nor is it something that we are using to get people to our site. Let’s get over there and give all the information that we have. The more the merrier!!

Atheist Christmas - PART 3

                                                  Lets go back in time to December of 2002, and we will return to the Part 3 of my original blog entry for December 25, 2006.

The story of a Catholic Teenager turned Atheist - finale

Silence, Reverence, & Peace…

The hallmarks of a Church. I just wish that the new age understood this before they had decided to take their previously unexpressed teenage angst and inflict it upon the Church and Christianity. I lived and still live amongst Christians. I understand Christianity much better than most of the true believers out there. After spending 12 years in bible classes, many years of church every single day (when I lived in Bahrain) & rest of the years, I visited church only on Sundays (after coming back to India). My knowledge about what I am and what I wanted to become was at a turning point. I had my path chosen already. The path of god. No, I wasn’t going to be a priest. I wanted to be out there helping people. The poor, those who are hungry, those who lack spirit. To give them strength, hopes for a better tomorrow. But my faith was to be put to an ultimate test. Read more

Atheism in Principal’s Office.

This is just one of my many “OUT-ing” in my college;

So, its November 2007 & my first semester in college. I had eyes on me for over a week after this incident. What is he playing at? Is he out of his mind? How can he talk to teachers like that? Ruben Babu, the atheist–someone who doesn’t believe in God. An anticleric. A disrespecter of religion. A mocker of Christianity, became popular by a matter of minutes.

An Atheist, being stared at like something vile. Someone like, oh, Diderot (”Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest“). Or Voltaire (”The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning“). Or Bertrand Russell (”The Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world“)….

Unfortunately, I’m no Bertrand Russell…. For one thing, Russell was an energetic anti-religious propagandist, while I have a low opinion of God and my fans are confined to my blog entries. With that day, I achieved what I wanted. The after effects of the day are still something I’d have to wait for.

As I walk into a room full of people, I want everyone to know that my mind is not in sync with their belief system. Once you come OUT, you’ll feel liberated, and your example will encourage others to COME OUT too. I’m not like your average blogger, who blogs his fantasies and lives a totally different life. I write what I did and what I will do. I put my words into motion in real life because the last few years taught me that Action is indeed louder that words.

This is what happened; Read more

A White Christian lashes out

This is en excerpt from a blog:

The white Afrikaner Christian: a complete and utter train wreck, fully on the road, nay HighWay, to Hell!

Rapport (A South African Sunday paper) has decided to kneel at the feet of the idol of WHITE AFRIKANER CHRISTENDOM. The very same sacks of filthy white shit who supported APARTHEID. We must bow the knee to these racist scum!?

Fuck white Afrikaner Christians! White Afrikaner Christians suck the shit out of a dead man’s colon!

They clearly don’t know me and my absolute antipathy for white Afrikaans Christians.

I am a white English Christian. A confirmed Anglican. I attend Church regularly.

I am not so insecure in my beliefs, my faith, and my religion that I feel the need to squelch all those whose opinions differ from mine. I don’t require the people I do business with to align their religious and political views with mine. Clearly these cocksuckers do.

I would feel sorry for the poor little insecure white Afrikaans (fuckers) Christians, who feel that they have to organise boycotts over a religio political issue, but WHERE the fuck were you cunts when Apartheid was devastating our country?

Where the FUCK were you cunts THEN?

I’ll tell you WHERE! You were in your little kerkies (churches) praying to dear Jesus to save your white arses from the SWART GEVAAR (Black Danger).

Guess what? He didn’t listen.

Why not?

Because, you insane little bastards, you were praying to SATAN! As you still are, because you have NOT repented your Apartheid sins. Only when you get down on your knees and beg forgiveness for the heresy that Apartheid was, and properly kiss black arse, can you arise forgiven. Until then, you are damned to Hell!

Jesus will say to such people, “Begone from me, you evildoer! I never knew you!”

Those mamparas (dumbasses) will soon discover that the only poephols (assholes) that they are hurting are their own ones. The moment anyone caves to religious morons, is the moment they start their slide into The Abyss.

No surrender to racists.

The above is a quote from the blog of Richard Catto:

http://capetownnews.co.za/2007/11/17/

So South Africa has it’s very own Fred Phelps, in the person of Richard Catto, who preaches hate in the name of Jesus. He is extremely proud of the fact that he is a WHITE ENGLISH CHRISTIAN who hates other white Christians and wants all white Christians out of South Africa.

Mr Catto is a racist who hates whites and is not ashamed to acknowledge it openly in his blog; he is even proud of the fact. He claims allegiance to a religion that has nothing to do with his ideologies. He is intolerant to the point of being a vile pig. He calls himself a liberal but his actions speak louder than his words.

He wrote this to me in a letter: My whole point is this: people must stop fucking with other people.

Mr Catto, isn’t that exactly what you are doing?

He has so much anger and hatred in him that I believe he is a danger to society. He clearly has a problem with color, as he specifically calls himself WHITE.

As far as I am concerned he is a throwback from evolution; a subhuman.

He is shooting himself in both feet. This is Christianity speaking.

I asked him where he was 20 years ago; when Nelson Mandela was still in jail? During that time I was a card carrying member of Nelson Mandela’s political party, the African National Congress. I risked my freedom for my own sanity and to live with my conscience. During that time the ANC was classified as a Terrorist Organization, today they are the ruling party in South Africa.

Where were you, Mr Catto? You have not answered me.

Lu

Religion and Atheism…

…can in fact co-exist, if I say so myself. My recent visit to Germany proved that it is actually possible. Even the most religious person I met did not bombard me with the usual questions that I’ve heard here en masse. None of the “How can you be moral without religion?” “You have to believe in something.” “Don’t you think we must be here for a reason?” I am not sure if it was simply a try to avoid conflict or discretion that forbid them to ask, to discuss who or what has turned me into an Atheist.

Either way, after being very active and passionate here (at home) about Atheism and Religion I found it pleasantly relaxing to just be… to sit back, relax, chat with all kinds of people (parents) of all kinds of faiths, realizing that we all had one thing in common… to raise our children, keep them safe, live happy and in peace and to have friends.

Arriving back in the States and leaving the airport the first thing I saw was a bumper sticker on the car in front of me saying “COEXIST”. How ironic.

Well, it’s good to be back. As much as I enjoyed the food and beer and delicious chocolate, it was about time for me to come home to my own home with not so much food and beer and chocolate. Who would have thought that Germany is the country where I gain weight and the US the one where I lose it.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu banned from campus in Minnesota

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has been disinvited to speak on the campus of the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. The reason: The head of the Catholic university said he was worried that the appearance of the Nobel Peace Prize-winner would be “hurtful” to the Jewish community, citing Tutu’s criticism of Israeli policies.

In addition, a tenured faculty member was removed from her position as director of the university’s Justice and Peace Studies program after she protested this decision.

The story, broken by the City Pages of Minneapolis, involves a partnership between St. Thomas and a group called PeaceJam International, based in Denver. That group arranges for Nobel Laureates to meet with at-risk and other youth in various places. For the past five years, the Justice and Peace Studies program at the University of St. Thomas has arranged with a local affiliate of PeaceJam to bring Nobel Laureates to campus to conduct the sessions. Under these auspices, Rigoberta Menchu, Betty Williams, Wangari Maathai, and Shirin Ebadi have all participated at St. Thomas.

The Justice and Peace Studies program was delighted that Archbishop Desmond Tutu had agreed to come in April 2008.

But when the program staff notified the university administrators this spring that Tutu was coming, the response was chilly. “We’re going to have to pass,” they said, according to Cris Toffolo, who was then the director of the Justice and Peace Studies program.

In telephone conversations with Toffolo and another staffer of the program, various members of the administration “cited three reasons: a concern that Tutu was anti-Semitic, that he’d engaged in hate speech, and that he’d acted erratically lately (and the evidence of that was his dancing on stage),” Toffolo says.

Toffolo wrote a memo to the university president, Father Dennis Dease, on April 24, objecting to the decision and defending Tutu, saying he wasn’t coming to talk about the Middle East or Israel/Palestine and as far as she could tell there was not a general impression of him being anti-Semitic.

She did some more research and found on the Internet that the Zionist Organization of America was making a big deal out of a speech that Tutu gave in Boston in 2002. The ZOA quoted Tutu as saying, “Israel is like Hitler and apartheid,” she says. But when she dug up Tutu’s speech, she saw that the quote was not there. (I discuss Tutu’s speech in the appendix to this article.)

More: http://www.progressive.org/mag_mc100807

Creationism: Europe says no

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has passed a resolution (48 votes to 25) slamming creationism as “a radical return to the past which could prove particularly harmful in the long term for all our societies.” Read more

Indian Independence from Religion.

Namaste Everyone!

I’m a proud Indian Atheist. Today, India is celebrating her 60th year of freedom. India was founded as a Secular nation. meaning, no religion is favored over another. BUT, this is not what we see everyday. Read more