Do Your Knees Hurt?

It's also hard to prevent your cell mate from shagging you when in such a position. There are too many perverse comments I could offer to the message being given here, but will not give them. Instead, I will offer my usual snarky logic on what dark truths this message is trying to give us.

I am -very- well aware of what this sign is intended to mean. The intended meaning behind this is that when one stoops to his knees to humble himself and pray before god, he is given the strength to overcome the trials and obstacles that lay upon his path. This is the christian meaning behind this.

The dark truth? It is extremely difficult for one to defend himself when down on his knees. The christian dogma for centuries has put the idea into many a person's head that they are unworthy subjects of god's love and compassion, and that only by asking for his forgiveness and acknowledging his only son will they be given clemency. Just what is it that we're supposed to be forgiven for? The sin of being human? If so, I guess I'm a glutton for punishment. Religion has always been and always will be the greatest stumbling block for human beings and it is the -one thing- that holds us back as a species.

So, while it is hard to stumble when you're on your knees, it is also difficult to make forward progression of any sort. Ever tried walking on your knees? It sucks. But by standing up [for yourself], opening your eyes, and taking careful steps to avoid obstacles, you can overcome your own trials without requiring much help. Sure, you may need help eventually when you don't know what to do, but turning to the bible isn't going to help you. Try asking your neighbor, or one of your friends.

Think about it.

The Problem I Have With Homosexuals

In recent events, I've been busy writing other things, so apologies ahead of time for not writing anything in this arena. One of my interesting finds as of late is all of the hate against homosexuals and anything to do with gay people. I'm aware that this hate has been going on for awhile, after all, homophobia is old news. What's the problem I have with homosexuals, you may ask? It's simple. I don't have a problem with them; what I do have a problem with is all the flak they get for being who they are. Humanity is so quick to judge someone based off of what they claim to be, the color of their skin, how they speak, etc. I treat everyone the same way until they give me reason to do otherwise.

In other words, I regard homosexuals with the same disposition as I regard anyone else; we're all human beings. You have 1 chance with my trust, and if you mess that up, I treat you like an outsider. Gays, blacks, indians, whites, heterosexuals, etc. are all the same. We're all human beings, but you want to know what else is astonishing? Animals are also known to naturally engage in homosexual activity, yet most animals base their actions purely off of instinct. What does that tell you?

On top of what has already been said, scientific research has proven that homosexuality is in fact a natural occurrence in animals, insects, and human beings. All that has to happen is before birth, a single hormone gets switched around and viola! You've got yourself a genuine homosexual. So why do we hate them so much if they're natural? I'm betting for two reasons; because they're different and most people don't understand them (humanity fears and despises what it does not understand), but mostly due to the plague known as religion. Religion has always been and always will be the one thing that holds human beings back as a species. Even more ironic is the horrid truth that only human beings seem to need religion; everything else doesn't. They get along just fine without it. Why? That's for another post.

I've been away...

But the world hasn't. My weekend has been fairly bland with the exception of a church-goer that decided it would be a good idea to knock on my door not once, but THREE separate occasions in order to get my attention. While the person in question was clever to think that someone was home because a vehicle was in the driveway, he apparently didn't prepare his brain for the atheistic onslaught that undeniably rushed from my mouth into the atmosphere surrounding his ears (okay, so that may be an exaggeration; he obviously wasn't prepared for resistance of any sort or a debate). I think it would be wise to say that if he had virgin ears before meeting me, he doesn't anymore.

This gentleman, who shall remain nameless, is a member of the Rutherford County Baptist Church, "The Friendliest Church Around". In a twist of irony, a week prior to this one, a woman and her twelve year old knocked on my door while a friend was over, leaving behind a pamphlet after receiving no answer. This man was not so lucky to get away spiritually unscathed. He asked me many probing questions, such as, "What is your relationship with Jesus Christ?" and the classic, "Do you realize that we're all sinners?" He asked me 4 questions and left me with a statement, each of which I clearly remember my answer to, and for your reading enjoyment, I shall post them here. Do enjoy, and God Bless Atheism!


Him - "What's your relationship with Jesus Christ?"
Me - "Who?"

Him - "Do you realize that we're all sinners?"
Me - "Yes, to the extent that we're all guilty of the sin of being human, at which point I draw the line between myself and your fallible, intellectually bankrupt god."

Him - "I can assure you that your heavenly father loves you, how can you not see that?"
Me - "How can you not see the terrible condition that this world is in today? Religions of 'peace' are at each others' throats and you're on my doorstep trying to proclaim god's love for me. If he's so powerless that he has to send people like you to speak his mind, he obviously has little love for anyone, least of all me.

Him - "What do you mean 'people like me'?"
Me - "I mean the brainwashed, bible-thumping crazies that are incapable of critical thinking and see fit to place themselves on my doorstep and preach scripture at me."

Him - "I'll keep you in my prayers, sir. I hope you find God."
Me - "I hope you're wrong."

I Give YOU A New Commandment... STFU!

So that's what now, 614 commandments? Who the hell do you think you are? God? Well, could have fooled me. Of course you're God, or some ignorant fool pretending to speak for God. Bad attitude aside, this sign's message comes from John 13:34, in which Jesus is telling the listeners (and readers in this unfortunate case) to love their fellow man as he has loved them. Implications from Christians point out that Jesus (God), in his benevolence, loves his children dearly and wants us to love each other in the same fashion. In case anyone is completely unaware, this guy had to take his Prozac in order to prevent himself from engaging in any further religious mass-murder, which is one of the furthest things from tender loving of any sort.

Yes, that last part was a bit of sarcastic analogizing. What's serious is that God, in his complete holiness and benevolence thought that in order to purge evil from this world, he would have to set his people on fire, drown them in a great flood, rain hailstones upon them, strike them dead, disease them with plagues, and even send an angel of death to strike down the firstborn children of guilty people. The irony? God actually created this evil, and actually repented of it several times. Reality check: a perfect god would NEVER have to repent of anything that he's done, and to go even further, would not have had to engage in these hideous acts of religious slaughter to prove any point that he may have had. Some individuals that were killed in the bible didn't have a violent streak in them, but were still put to death just so that God could have a pissing contest with himself. See the story of Job for more details.

Yep, God is perfect. So perfect in fact, that he constantly treated the symptom and not the actual problem: himself.



Edit: Some people have tried to point out that the word 'repent' does not carry with it the modern meaning within the bible. Repent defined is:


As an intransitive verb:

a: to feel regret or contrition b: to change one's mind

As a transitive verb:

1 : to cause to feel regret or contrition
2 : to feel sorrow, regret, or contrition for

With that being said, I'd like to point out that the definition for 'repent' has not changed at all significantly since its first use. It had the same meaning then as it does now. Several apologists have also tried to use this tactic with other words in the bible, such as 'hate', with the same results; words that reputedly don't mean what they mean do in fact mean what they mean. It just goes to show that people will make any excuse for their crippled religion.

Don't Tell Me What To Do!

You know, I would, except Facebook doesn't tell me to dash my little ones against rocks, and doesn't tell me to stone my child to death when he rebels against me. In fact, Facebook is where I get most of my sanity and is a place that I can go to communicate with REAL friends and REAL people, unlike your fictitious clusterfuck of violence, bigotry, and promises of an impossible afterlife.

- Demarlos

Prayer, Praise, and Worship Equal EPIC FAIL

The rotten core from which this stank bullshit stems from is in its mentality. The very idea that anyone would think that any of these three things would lead to victory is laughable. The sign is trying to tell us that by engaging in these three practices, one can overcome the devil and his temptations and bring themselves even closer to a victorious relationship with the Lord. But let's talk about this so-called relationship.

I wouldn't call these three acts prayer, or praise, or even worship so much as I would begging, groveling, and mindless garble. When one takes the time to look back on god's history, they can see a bloodstained past and acts that would baffle even the most degenerate of minds. Just the idea that this being would engage in mass murder as he did is sickening, but to praise him for it leads me to believe that this world contains a lot of mentally ill people. One of the main excuses is that this god had people butchered due to their evil and wicked nature. Many of the individuals in the bible who were slain by the zealous, murdering tribes of god wanted nothing to do with violence and were a relatively peaceful group of people. Many were killed on the grounds that they worshiped different gods, despite the fact that they weren't hurting anything. Who would worship such a being that would authorize and condone such behavior? Oh, wait... yeah.

Christians want to strengthen their relationship with god through the 3 practices mentioned above, but I would hardly begin to call this a relationship. When christians pray to their god and get satisfying results, they are happy as can be, but when the results are not quite to their satisfaction, they immediately fire off with, 'Oh, it's just god's will.' Really? What do you call it when a man is seconds away from proposing to his future wife, when suddenly a bolt of lightning tears out of the sky and strikes the woman dead and leaves the man all alone? Is that god's will? It's honestly no different than what he would have done in the bible. People rarely ever stop to think about sorrowful consequences and what they would do if they were suddenly put in a position that left them feeling great loss, and if it happens that they do, they continue to stoop even lower for a god that has them on strings by thinking that he has a plan for their life. If his plan involves toying with my emotions, then I want nothing to do with him.

In conclusion, prayer, praise, and worship soaks up more time in a person's life when they could be out in the world doing what they -really- want to do. Whether people want to acknowledge it or not, we are all born into atheism, and indoctrination is what eats up peoples' lives. When we promote the idea of a god whose pastime used to be genocide, we are destroying mentality that could otherwise be used for something more productive, such as looking out for each other.

Eternity Has Only Two Choices!

I'm quite sure that any levelheaded human being realizes that this life is full of choices to make (or not to make), but when it comes to eternity, we're supposed to believe that we have only two options to pick from. This is not a choice, obviously, and for those of you who disagree, keep reading. The basic idea that this message is attempting to deliver to us is that eternity is a choice, as there are only two possible outcomes for your eternal existence, and while some people may argue that 'yes' and 'no' are choices, this type of decision making goes beyond that, to the point where it threatens humanity almost to a satirical level.

Heaven is our 'yes' choice and Hell is our 'no' choice, with the latter being eternal damnation and torture within the lake of fire known as Hell. Now, I'm very well aware that all choices have consequences, but the decision of where to spend your eternity in this case is not a choice; it's an ultimatum. Unfortunately for many people, this is not obvious and still isn't even after you've explained the situation to them. A choice implies an end or purpose which requires the exercise of judgement. Obviously in this situation to many narrow-minded individuals, not very much judgement is required in this decision. Predictably, you're going to say 'yes' to Heaven.

Or are you? Those who are no stranger to god's atrocities are very likely going to reject his idea of salvation and refuse to worship such a monster. A being that would commit genocide over and over again, then have the nerve to provide us with the ultimate slap to the face is worthy of no reverence whatsoever and should be treated like a disease. Terrorizing the human race and then providing it with an offer it supposedly cannot refuse is extremely similar to some tactics that we as human beings still employ to this day. Most religions use this tactic to intimidate intellectual insects into believing that their eternal life is going to be complete with agony and torment if they reject this tyrant's salvation, when in reality, if this god was as benevolent as his followers make him out to be, he would neither employ this method, nor would he have resorted to the religious mass murder of so many people in his blood-stained history. Unfortunately, many people lack common sense and any moral fiber associated with it, so they're just as likely to believe that the boogieman exists in addition to this murderous swine.

An ultimatum is defined as a final proposition, condition, or demand, especially one whose rejection will end all negotiations and cause a resort to force or other direct action. How more obvious does this have to be for people to realize that their god is a tyrannical, murderous, intellectually and morally bankrupt individual with no more love for us than the dirt he supposedly made us with? It's time for us to wake up and realize that god did not create us; we created him, and we conceived him with the idea of using such foolishness to intimidate, bully, and coerce our way to the top. Well, I have news; bullshit might get you to the top, but it won't keep you there.

We Must Really Hate God!

Oh really? All 10 of them, or all 613? Well, if we kept all 613, this world really would be in deep shit up to its upper lip, now wouldn't it? So let's take a look at the traditional Ten Commandments, taken from orthodox standards.

1. I am the lord your god, you shall have no other gods before me.
2. You shall not make for yourself an idol.
3. You shall not make wrongful use of the name of your god.
4. You shall remember the sabbath and keep it holy.
5. Honor your father and mother.
6. You shall not murder.
7. You shall not commit adultery.
8. You shall not steal.
9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
10. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or anything that is your neighbor's.

Now that we have the commandments listed, let's take another look at the message: "Whoever loves god keeps his commandments."

This message basically states that if one loves god, then that one keeps -all- of the commandments, meaning he never breaks them. So who in this world truly loves god? Hardly a soul, seeing as how nearly every last one of these commandments is broken in one way or another. Hell, even god himself has taken the liberty of breaking a couple of his own commandments. Imagine that. But let's talk about us.

Commandment #1 is broken in many ways. Many different religions exist in this world, all with their own respective deities (with the exception of Buddhism), all of which have their own members and worshipers. Some of these religions have former christians in their ranks, which indicates that either god didn't try hard enough to win these peoples' affections, or just doesn't care. I'm voting the latter. At least this justifies him being wrathful.

Commandment #2 is broken constantly, even by christians. How? Well, the basic form of the commandment is 'Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.' How many christians do you see wearing images of Jesus hanging on the cross or something similar to 'any thing that is in heaven above', such as an angel? Yeah, go figure. While I'm not trying to point fingers at christians specifically, nearly every religion has this problem, not just christianity. You're not alone, guys.

Commandment #3 is broken constantly, even by me. Yes, I take pride in it. Almost anyone will say, 'Oh my god' when they are surprised, and to most christians, this is misusing the lord's name. Expressing Jesus' name in anger or surprise is also taking the lord's name in vain. Everyone has done it at one point. Go figure.

Commandment #4 is no longer kept by anyone, to my knowledge. Then again, I haven't done my research on this one, and I honestly don't care enough to. Too many people work on Sunday now, so it's not like it really matters. Oh well.

Commandment #5 is, in my opinion, the most important commandment. Your mother and father, assuming they care for and love you, are the main reason you exist today, and eventually, you will become part of that equation. But there are some mothers and fathers who are completely ignoramus and unworthy of any manner of honor. These are the people that let their children grow up and act like complete fools, leading them to break this commandment as well. These are also the same people that manage to get a few heads shaking or a few calls made to the nearest Child Services center. For me, it's a source of entertainment.

Commandment #6 is quite possibly the one that a majority of people in this world are most familiar with. I'm surprised it's still in the bible, seeing as how so much leniency is given for its function. The definition of murder is too complex to post here when involved with human law, but in its basic form, it is the taking of a human life in a malicious fashion, which helps define the word 'killing' or 'kill', plain and simple; and wouldn't you know it, more people have been killed in the name of god than for any other reason. This is also the commandment most broken by god himself. How's that for a reality check?

Commandment #7 is broken constantly. Adultery defined is literally the act of sexual intercourse between a married individual and another whom they are not married to. Many christians state that adultery can be committed in the mind, but what manner of sense does that make? What fun is there in being married for 50 years and not being able to imagine doing the horizontal monster mash with a woman 40 years younger (or man, for the female readers)? Adultery is committed by many people, even during the act of legal separation, which is how so many people get away with it. Yep, even we find reasons to get away with breaking the commandments. Who does that sound like?

Commandment #8 is broken every single day. Stealing occurs frequently, but to be fair, some people do it because they have no other alternative. I could easily forgive someone who broke into my home to steal a loaf of bread or a can of soda from my fridge just so he could live another day. But there are people who try to make a living out of it, and it's the one broken commandment that can lead frequently to the breaking of commandment #6. However, the ultimate question is; would you condemn a man to death for stealing to feed his family, even if he had to shoot and kill someone to succeed? This is a moral question, but I am willing to bet god would condemn this man in a heartbeat.

Commandment #9 is broken daily, every second of the day and I'm highly convinced that this commandment is the most broken. This commandment in its basic form means 'you shall not tell lies'. Lying in this day and age is mostly destructive, but there are temporary benefits, such as lying to someone to protect someone else's life, for example. In its basic form, a lie is a blatant 'fuck you' to someone who has placed their trust in you, and should not be done. Period.

Commandment #10 is broken every day, by everyone. Why shouldn't we be allowed to break #10? It's what creates competition, our economy, and money flow. To cease the breaking of this commandment would destroy many a country's economy and place us close to primitive times. But what I'm describing highlights only the items that belong to your neighbor, not his wife, though in some translations the wife is included. Even so, why not covet your neighbor's wife? If that were strictly forbidden, what else would a single guy think about on a saturday night when he's waxing his dolphin?

In a nutshell, all I can really say is that nobody in this world loves god, as nobody can truly keep all of the 10 commandments. Where does that leave us, dear reader?

Getting Started

Once again, I've changed my profile into something of a project, but this time it was due to some words of encouragement from a person who is so dear to me, it's frightening. You know, it's a very odd thing that a person who is very real and tangible can mean a lot to another person, especially an atheist, yet a god that I have yet to lay eyes on can mean so little. Especially after he created this earth with all of his intelligent design. How arrogant of me to place another human life over the worship of such a holy being.

I'm prepared to say, however, that this being is in no way worthy of my respect. I would like to point out that not only did we not ask for or make any request or inquiry on our own creation, we are supposedly demanded to worship a being that has so little respect for us, he's willing to allow anything to happen to us, with the excuse that it brings us closer to him. Unfortunately for this omniscient being, that's not how most intelligent humans operate. Last I checked, most human beings (and animals in this respect) tend to put as much distance between themselves and the person or thing that is bringing harm to them and refuse to give reverence to such a monstrosity. Wow... who'd have thought it?

Though it pains me to admit it, many human beings find it necessary to revere the god of the Christian bible, and they do so in a fanatical way sometimes, even to the point of putting their own interpretations into words on signs outside their big, luxurious buildings where they and their friends can go once a week to compare clothing. While I'm prohibited from going into these buildings to ask probing questions about their fictitious god or any of the war stories in their unholy book, I can at the very least post some of these interpretations within this blog for all to laugh at. Well, maybe not all, but at least the levelheaded people. Now, of course, these are my own interpretations of these signs, which means that I could possibly be incorrect in the long run, just like the bible and all the thumpers that are associated with it, but I'll at least try to go out with a bang for your entertainment. Please enjoy, and try to refrain from sending me hate mail or scripture, I could really do without it.