by Noah
Sunday Thoughts:
Look at that big round table in tonight's meme! So much room and it appears that 4 out of 5 of us just don't wanna share. Oh well, "Fuck 'em all," I always say. Is anyone offended? Tough shit if they are. There's no point in even talking to religious fanatics. You're just asking them to give up their reason to kill the other guys. Religion is an addiction for which there are no intervention programs. I'm with the atheist guy. He's barely even listening. He's got things to do and a life to live.
I do want to make one thing perfectly clear though: I'm not totally opposed to the question of there being a god or not. It's just that, if there is, she, he, or it is clearly a total psychopath. Just for example, read the bible. It's all in there! Bombs cities with hellfire and brimstone. Drowns everyone who doesn't kiss his ass. Plays a sick game where he asks a guy named Abe to slaughter his kid. Whirlwinds of locusts. Sends even his own son down to a bunch of Romans who nail people to crosses for fun. Inquisitions. I could go on. Nearly every religious text is a roadmap to Hateville. At best, god is the psychopathic Galactic Emperor Of Sick Practical Jokes.
Gotta admire religion. It's the ultimate marketing scam.
So... does just saying it mean god is on your side?
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german WWII era military belt buckle saying "gott mit uns" (god is with us).
Yes. one of your very best. If there is an overarching power, it certainly and quite obviously is NOT one that men have conjured up over the millenia. And it has no interest in whether or not humankind thrives or destroys itself or our planet.
"god" being a total psychopath is because he was created by humankind -- total psychopaths.
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Yes Noah, religion is group psychosis. It's very hard, even impossible, for me to understand how religious Jews continue to pray so much when god did not save us from Hitler. What kind of god is that? A god who watches and does nothing.
I love Alan Arkin's response in The Kaminsky Method when he is asked by the rabbi, "What kind of Jew are you?"when the rabbi observed that the mirrors weren't covered his house while sitting shiva for his wife. Arkin shrugs and responds,"The atheist kind." It's become my line.