Tag Archives: Religion and Spirituality

Pat Condell: Why do Muslims always blame the Jews?

I believe it’s safe to say that Pat Condell doesn’t like Muslims, and with good reason. TGO Video: YouTube

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Are Muslims Barbarians, or am I Imagining Things?

Just check out the photograph below… Here you have an example of one of the many rituals practiced by Muslims, members of the religion of “peace.” These people are engaging in a ritual just prior to the Ashura holiday, which … Continue reading

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Pat Condell: The Curse of “progressive” Feminism

All the world continues to put up with the barbaric treatment of women by Muslims, just as they put up with all the other Bronze Age behavior that members of Islam exhibit throughout the globe. And all this because we … Continue reading

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Religious symbols

It’s interesting how different religions throughout the world have adopted symbols which represent them. Below are just a few of these symbols; some which are obviously easily recognizable while others not so much. Source: Wikipedia Symbols representing some world religions, … Continue reading

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Atheists say they get kudos for church billboard

Now this is one “cool” pastor; and yes, I wholeheartedly agree with the statement on the road sigh: There is no God. TGO Refer to brief story below. Source: Associated Press AP MANSFIELD, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio atheist group … Continue reading

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Prevailing religions

I thought it would be interesting to view a world map showing the prevailing religions for each region… One of the facts I’ve found fascinating is that there are approximately 1.1 billion atheists/agnostics in the world as compared to roughly … Continue reading

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In Jerusalem, scholars trace Bible’s evolution

Talk about a complete waste of time… This silly book called the Bible continues to be dissected as if it was a work of art. Yet it is just a collection of fairy tales written by ignorant nomads wandering about … Continue reading

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Do you speak Christian?

Whenever i speak about religion, particularly Christianity, I do so in order to criticize everything about it. In my opinion religions have no redeeming qualities; quite the contrary, they are based on falsehoods and superstitions. In terms of Christianity, more … Continue reading

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Richard Dawkins: “Good and Bad Reasons for Believing”

Dear Juliet, Now that you are ten, I want to write to you about something that is important to me. Have you ever wondered how we know the things that we know? How do we know, for instance, that the … Continue reading

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James A Haught: “A Freethinker’s Testimony”

Just because you grow up in the Bible Belt (I was born in a West Virginia hamlet with no electricity) doesn’t mean automatically that you’re a fundamentalist. My family never went to church. Most people I knew laughed at “holy … Continue reading

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Richard Dawkins: “The Likelihood of God”

I suspect that most people have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn’t quite big enough to explain everything about life. All I can say as a biologist is that the feeling disappears progressively the more you read about … Continue reading

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James A. Haught: “Does God Exist?”

Does God Exist? Well, it depends on what you mean by God. The universe is a maze of mysteries. How can gravity – an invisible, unexplainable force – pull the Milky Way into a spiral? How can atoms contain such … Continue reading

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Tom Gleason: “Who Needs Reason in the Face of Truth?”

The Union; Grass Valley, California – August 6, 2004 Have you ever seen the movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers? In it, a struggling Donald Sutherland deals with colleagues who disappear one by one into mysterious, cult-like beings. They steal … Continue reading

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Lemuel K. Washburn: “A Cruel God”

There may be some other religion in the world that sings of a God more cruel than the God of Christianity, but we do not know of any. At any rate, we believe it is safe to say that no … Continue reading

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Despite objections, SW Missouri county will display `In God We Trust’ in county chambers

God-freaks continue to push their agenda, while basically pissing on the principles upon which our Founding Fathers built this great nation. To them there is no such thing as the separation between Church and State, and sadly, many of these … Continue reading

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Evangelicals split on faith’s influence: survey

The reason that evangelicalism is waning in Europe, North America, Japan, Australia and New Zealand is that by and large the people living in these areas are well-educated, whereas those living in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and most … Continue reading

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Lemuel K. Washburn: “Bible-Backing”

There is less backing one’s thoughts with the Bible than formerly. The world is getting weaned from this book. The idea is gaining ground that, if anything is true, it can support itself. When a man leans on God he … Continue reading

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Indonesia Muslim youth conservative, non-practising

I often wonder what our world would be like today had ignorant men a few thousand years ago never written fairy tales which would later come to be accepted as facts in our so-called holy books. Just imagine how much … Continue reading

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Lemuel K. Washburn: “Singing Lies”

Go into any Christian church and you will hear the choir and the congregation singing lies. Is it not time to stop it? Is music married irrevocably to falsehood? Take up an ordinary hymn-book and you will hardly find a … Continue reading

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May 21, 2011 – Heaven’s Angel

I wouldn’t want all of you fundamentalist Christians, who I mercilessly criticize, to think for one moment that I don’t want you to be happy in your everlasting life. With this in mind, I am hoping the angels you are … Continue reading

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Religious/Political Poll: Would you vote for a Presidential candidate who admitted to being an Atheist?

Ready for another poll? I thought that this would be an interesting one as in my opinion there are fairly large numbers of individuals in the United States who are not really religious as such and probably do not believe … Continue reading

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Scientologists say Russia lifts publications ban

How funny is this? Russia lifted a ban on books and lectures by Scientology’s L. Ron Hubbard after deeming that they weren’t extreme. I agree, they’re not extreme, they’re too absurd to be considered extreme. What they are is fictional. … Continue reading

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Philippine priest in ancient battle with ‘demons’

Religious people, those who truly believe or claim to believe, can be classified into almost as many different categories as there are religions, and there are quite a large number of religions out there – and the list continues to … Continue reading

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McDonald’s pulls Philippine ad amid church anger

The Catholic Church, that bastion of morality (and if you believe that you’re quite simply a moron) complained about a McDonald’s commercial in the Philippines because it was sending the wrong message to children. I wonder if a priest fondling … Continue reading

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List of founders of religious traditions

My goodness, that’s an awfully large number of religious traditions. I wonder which of these is the one true faith? TGO Refer to information below. Source: Wikipedia Ancient (before AD 500) Name Religious tradition founded Date Naram-Sin of Akkad first … Continue reading

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New Bible draws critics of gender-neutral language

Oh my goodness!!! Why don’t these mental retards just grab a stick from their back yard, sit on a stump, and begin to dig a hole (with the little stick). Then, once the hole is fairly large, they can take … Continue reading

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Ex-Jehovah’s Witness minister pleads guilty to charge of molesting teenage Phoenix boy

What is it with homosexuals and religion? We know the Catholic Church is full of gay priests and lesbian nuns, but the thinking (which I’ve never bought into) is that the reason why the Catholic Church is full of homosexuals … Continue reading

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George Carlin – The Ten Commandments

George Carlin once again makes a mockery of religion, and rightfully so, this time targeting the Ten Commandments. He had a talent for using his intelligence, wit and common sense to demonstrate just how silly some of our religious beliefs … Continue reading

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Lemuel K. Washburn: “Ideas of Jesus”

There is a vast difference between knowledge of the Bible and knowledge. A person may know all there is in the Bible, and not know but little. In fact, so much of the Bible is either pure fiction or doubtful … Continue reading

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Lemuel K. Washburn: “Sunday Schools”

Of all the stupid things we meet with, Sunday school lessons are the stupidest. There seems to be only one way to account for this, and that is that stupid persons are connected with Sunday schools and can comprehend only … Continue reading

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Lemuel K. Washburn: “Going to Church”

Every little while some minister wakes up to the fact that a large proportion of the people of our cities do not go to church, and he blames the people for this state of affairs. Nobody blames men and women … Continue reading

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Lemuel K. Washburn: “Give Us the Truth”

If there is one tree that man needs to eat of, it is the forbidden tree of the knowledge of good and evil; and if any knowledge will keep him alive and make him happy and perfect, it is just … Continue reading

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Dozens of police break up brawl at NC church

What kind of example are these “good” Christians providing for their children; having fist fights like a bunch of degenerates, and in a place of worship no less? As I’ve stated many times before, there’s nothing like religion to get … Continue reading

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Russian women ‘dress like strippers’: church spokesman

The last paragraph of this article basically says all that one needs to know about the mindset of senior members of the Russian Orthodox Church. Why is it that regardless of the faith, all religious fanatics are obsessed with sex? … Continue reading

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A man walks into a bar in Minnesota … to preach

I’ll never understand this obsession with the invisible man in the sky, especially when it comes to grown men. I can understand women and children believing in God and praying, but men??? Weak, very weak… TGO Refer to story below. … Continue reading

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God was behind Big Bang, universe no accident: Pope

The head man from the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI, not only claims to know for a fact that God exists, he also “knows” that the mind of God conceived the universe. Imagine that, a little-old German dude in the 21st … Continue reading

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Religions or Beliefs with over 5 Million Adherents

I found this to be informative for those who may want a quick reference as to the major religions and/or religious beliefs throughout the world. As a point of reference, I belong to the third category on the list. Whenever … Continue reading

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Chapman Cohen: “The Meaning and Value of Free Thought”

I will commence with a definition. Free thought may be defined as the rejection of authority in matters of opinion. It sets the persuasion of fact against the coercion of force. A Freethinker is one who forms his own opinions … Continue reading

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Religion News in Brief

I wonder how many of the people who voted to approve the resolution for encouraging pastors to preach against homosexuality are closet-gays. In fact, I wonder how many of the pastors themselves are gay? TGO Refer to story below. Source: … Continue reading

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Religion News in Brief

I’ve always thought (and stated) that to be a “believer” one has to be deficient in brain cells. Then of course, there are the truly devout… These are the absolute morons; the ones who would get zero benefits from an … Continue reading

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Religious demands rise in French state schools: study

If I live to be as old as the mythological Noah of the Bible, who presumably died at the age of 900 years, I’ll never understand why the population at large, and even entire governments,  allow religious morons to impose … Continue reading

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Religion News in Brief

More temples means more money for the church as no doubt there are more than enough stupid people in the world to fill every church, temple, mosque and synagogue that can possibly be built. And yet it is said that … Continue reading

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Southern Baptist leader on yoga: Not Christianity

Southern Baptists; is there a collectively more ignorant and gullible group of people in the United States than this bunch? Only two other groups of morons come to mind; Scientologists and Mormons. Either way, Southern Baptists are definitely in the … Continue reading

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Druids recognized as religion for first time in UK

Haven’t we had enough of this sort of stupidity already? Druids are right up there with Scientologists in terms of quackery, and now they too are recognized as a religion and afforded tax breaks? What is this world coming to? … Continue reading

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Muslim summit planned over NYC Islamic center

I believe it’s a foregone conclusion that this Islamic Center will end up being built at its presently proposed location, and I also believe that this is wrong. It is basically Muslims poking their finger in the eyes of non-Muslim … Continue reading

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Robert G. Ingersoll: “Jesus Christ”

For many centuries and by many millions of people, Christ has been worshiped as God. Millions and millions of eulogies on his character have been pronounced by priest and layman, in all of which his praises were measured only by … Continue reading

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