Disregard for evolution - the greatest evil ever perpetrated under the pretense of doing good for the world. I hate Jack Chick and his filthy pornographic little booklets.
Once I was helping an elderly couple to get fitted with needed medical equipment - the husband was off chatting up the pretty girls in the sales area.
Meanwhile the wife quietly slipped an anti-gay Jack Chick leaflet onto my desk. I'm not sure why, I am gay but it wasn't anything I was discussing with her or even had brought up. SO I took the leaflet and handed it back and said, "Please don't give me this. I deserve much better after all the help I've been giving you."
She seemed offended but I found her husband's lechery to be even more offensive, but I assume she didn't hand him a booklet about it.
What's amazing is that evolution is such a beautiful process. If anyone is of a religious bent, it should really only strengthen their beliefs, not threaten them in any way.
Well it may not always produce what we call perfection, certainly there are things about our bodies that could be better. But that doesn't mean it isn't an elegant and beautiful process.
If I remember right, Darwin wasn't anti-religion and was in fact a constant church goer. So when I recently saw a bumper sticker showing Darwin's gravestone and stating "Guess Darwin found out he was WRONG," it left me utterly scratching my head.
Darwin didn't say anything about god not existing or that evolution meant that god didn't exist. For him, I'm sure, evolution was the process god himself designed to propogate life forms and diversity on earth. I don't think religion and evolution have to be in competition with each other.
Well Darwin never said we came from monkeys, but that homo sapiens are related to a relative that branched off from monkeys. And I don't get why people are "insulted" to believe we may be related to monkeys and primates or other animals.
Humans are animals. We're on the same spectrum, we're as much a part of the animal kingdom as monkeys, giraffes, and lions and zebras. And that, to me, is pretty damn beautiful. We're not some special Saintly concoction of unicorn farts and sunshine - we're animals and we're related to other animals. What's so difficult to accept about that????
This is the best thing I've experienced since I was born into the world 65 years ago. Seeing church attendance going down as people slowly emerge from the dark ages of capitalistic imperialism to the progressive light of the 21st century.
In my hallway are two very important and sacred paintings; one showing the Basilica of St. Peters burning to the ground, and the other showing the pope being set afire with straw stuffed in his mouth and naked asshole.
Religion has and always will be the bane of human society. Worse that any disease, worse than AIDS, worse that the crawling filth that calls itself trump, religion is the true enemy of humanity in every possible way.
Don't lump me in with them. I'm a boomer and I hate religion and always have, and I am very glad to see attendance dropping as people wake up to the true horrors of such filth.
I think that's mostly the case, I know most of the quorums of religious institutions (like here in utah with mormons) are doddering old men in their 80s - I think the're more from the generation that came before boomers. I know a lot of boomers, and not many of them have any religious leanings.
The Brussels City Council unanimously passed a motion on Monday evening to block public procurement of products from Israeli settlements in the West Bank, with the MR and N-VA parties abstaining....
All of our countries should be imposing bans on ANTYHING being imported from Israel ever again, and from anything they produce being brought overseas. Israel is a cesspool of murderous hate, and we cannot and should not support hem in any way, in any form, at any time.
I went to the neurologist this morning and after all of his tests, he said he couldn’t find anything neurological that could be wrong with me. He thought it might be behavioral, but that wouldn’t explain the morning heaving. He sent all of my records back to the gastro doctor and we’ll see what they say when they get back...
With a mother like that, no wonder you have such neurological problems. Also, there's an article on Kbin today about how morning heaving can come from heavy cannabis usage. So that could be part of the problem.
I have severe gastric pain throughout my GI tract right now that comes and goes in waves, and it's un-diagnosable, but it feels like I swallowed razor blades while also sitting on an unsheathed knife blade - it really does make me crazy with pain.
So I know how frustrating it is when there's nothing they can do or diagnose to help. I don't use cannabis for pain because I can't stand the smell or taste of it and nothing works for pain relief when you're dealing with such horrible symptoms.
Anyway = / as a fellow sufferer, hang in there and tell your mom to go worry about her own life problems. You don't need that additional stress!!!!
People in the U.S. are leaving and switching faith traditions in large numbers. The idea of “religious churning” is very common in America, according to a new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI)....
Latter Day Saint's my asshole. People, human beings, are not meant to be "saints" I can't even think of a more vile concept than people being that conceited about themselves.
My great great grandfather, Parley P. Pratt, has a canyon named after him and yet I disavow him as nothing but a quack and a cultist. We gave his personal diaries to the University of Utah back in 1991 just to spite BYU.
The mormon church is a slavish trump-loving cult and nothing more, and it deserves to perish in infamy from the earth like all the dimwits who are members of its sick belief system.
And yet if the teachers or principal were to raise even the mildest hand to strike these kids it would be a global outcry of screaming outrage over corporal punishment. When we were kids in the 50s, we did something wrong, we paid for it with a rod to the backside. We learned to behave, and not be disrespectful.
Today's kids are raised in a culture that lets them run rampant. I don't how many times I've walked into Target to see kids running wild like they were at a playground, throwing balls around and making a mess.
Spare the rod, spoil the child. And you'll end up with kids who bring machetes and spears and knives to school; weakling sad little runts who cant learn to be responsible human beings and who have such low self esteem they need weaponry to threaten others with. Sick.
Religion is a losing influence, it's a losing believe system no matter what. I say it's time we wake up, grow up, and admit that God was always just a fabricated concept from primitive minds that needed to believe in something bigger to simply explain away the forces of nature.
I don't buy into the "in God we trust" concept. I don't have to place my faith in a supernatural force. I trust in humans, every piece of advancement that's come into being is because humans put their shoulders to the grindstone and made it happen.
I trust in humanity. I trust in our abilities to produce, manage, and help (even if we often screw it up). No god can solve our problems for us, numerous though they may be.
“The Palestinian Authority is waging a war against us, and only action with the same force as we’re applying in Gaza will eliminate all threats throughout the West Bank,” he says in a statement cited by Hebrew media.
Settler leader should be stoned and beheaded for licking Nazi buttholes and savoring the taste. Israel has become worse than Nazi germany at its most utterly grotesque.
I only wish they could be raptured so we could be rid of these ignorant fools once and for all. Can you imagine having to be "raptured" along with them, and having to spend eternity with such self-righteous self serving egotistical assholes? I can't think of anything more like hell and less like heaven.
Left behind? Thank you I'll gladly stay here and enjoy the peace and quiet of an earth cleansed of ignorance and stupidity and dark-age beliefs in supernatural dieities.
I'm sorry for her and for you and your ignorance in believing that humans need to go around proselyting to each other about a fictional horrid deity who cares less about human life than causing men to murder each other in the name of religious nut-jobbery.
I hope your family member never succeeds in this horrible exercise of human vanity and terror. Missionaries are equivalent to walking dog excrement and that's exactly how I perceive them. I hope this person gets very ill and never gets to complete their so-called mission - a mission of perversion if ever there was one.
Why does every photo of trump make him appear to be harfing up a hairball. What an ugly countenance!
This blasphemous misgogynist freak hawking bibles is like Jeffrey Dahmer going around giving parents tips on childcare. And the aim is the same in both cases - raise your kids to be overstuffed bigot freaks so we can kill them and dine on them and make our names off their dead bloated corpses.
After a morning lesson on multiplying fractions, about half of the students in a fifth-grade class at Etna Road Elementary School packed up their work and headed to the campus library....
That's extremely sad and worse than almost any form of child abuse I've ever read about. Forcing these dumb gullible kids to believe in christ-y nonsense which not only will never help them deal with real life, but will poison their minds against other people and polarize their viewpoints into arthritic rigidity and disgusting bigotry. It's sick.
I've always considered Ohio a worthless bastion of assholery but I never thought they would stoop to such horrible brainwashing of youngsters. Any parent worth being called a parent would and should pull their kids out of that school and that horrible abusive situation as fast as humanly possible.
I'd much rather have my kid sing songs about Satan and give fealty to Satan than ever think that there is any truth to christ, or god, or any of the other insane institutions of christian nut-jobbery.
Just as long as it happens is all I care about. It's a process, like anything else it just takes successive generations of breeding the ignorance out of our genes. I think there will always be some kind of religious insitutions around, people seem to need to believe in things that are fantastic and supernatural.
They couldn't even escape the pull of it in "Dune," there was plenty of religion even in a place where it seems to have no great purpose. People are just that way - they are willing to put their belief in crazy stuff.
Hmmm Jesus is probably more well behaved, but hello kitty is fluffier and wears nice bows. It's a tough one. How about Jesus H. Kitty. Combine the best of both into one super-overstuffed fluffy architype.
It's worse than blasphemous, it's like Jeff Dahmer going around peddling books about child care. While all along we know he really wants you to raise your kids all nice and plump so he can have sex with, and then devour them. Just like trump does.
If anything ever proved to me that the bible was complete drivel, it's seeing this misogynist horror show holding one in its filthy paw and screeching about its own self-righteousness. God has damned trump and all who follow him and will always damn his filthy vermin to the deepest recesses of the darkest and most miserable pit of all - total ignorance.
All alcohol destroys some part of the liver and the brain. It's not something our bodies were ever meant to ingest, despite how popular it is to do so. One drop of pure alcohol (about the amount in a glass of wine) permanently kills some 10,000 or so brain cells.
But hey if it feels good temporarily, that's all that matters. Drink up!
I was having a bad stressful dream like I often do. But then I realized I was just dreaming and that I don’t want to dream this shite. So then I dreamed something else....
It's a real gift to be able to change what you're dreaming from a nightmare into something pleasant. I wish I had that ability, I have nightmares most nights and have had ever since I was a kid (and am now 65).
On the one hand my nightmares are of such ghastly horrors and grotesque and disgusting - but on the other hand they've given me some great plots to some of my most horrifying stories.
I can't believe these things are still being published (lemmy.world)
There’s this whole Jack Chick knockoff world that has been around for decades despite having the worst arguments.
Church attendance is dropping all across America. It's long overdue. (www.friendlyatheist.com)
Brussels passes bill to prevent purchase of products from Israeli West Bank settlements (www.brusselstimes.com)
The Brussels City Council unanimously passed a motion on Monday evening to block public procurement of products from Israeli settlements in the West Bank, with the MR and N-VA parties abstaining....
Since you asked for updates- I had a big setback.
I went to the neurologist this morning and after all of his tests, he said he couldn’t find anything neurological that could be wrong with me. He thought it might be behavioral, but that wouldn’t explain the morning heaving. He sent all of my records back to the gastro doctor and we’ll see what they say when they get back...
People say they're leaving religion due to anti-LGBTQ teachings and sexual abuse (www.npr.org)
People in the U.S. are leaving and switching faith traditions in large numbers. The idea of “religious churning” is very common in America, according to a new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI)....
School principals faced with machetes, spears and knives as report reveals soaring classroom violence (www.abc.net.au)
Despite Christian Nationalism, 80% of Americans say religion is "losing influence" (Livestream) - YouTube (www.youtube.com)
Settler leader calls for military action in West Bank 'with the same force as we're using in Gaza' (www.timesofisrael.com)
“The Palestinian Authority is waging a war against us, and only action with the same force as we’re applying in Gaza will eliminate all threats throughout the West Bank,” he says in a statement cited by Hebrew media.
I think about the people who believe this stuff and feel sad when it doesn't happen for them | Crosspost from midwest.social (midwest.social)
A young family member is going on a mission (lemmings.world)
So for the rest of this day, I’ll be getting texts from 17 other people responding to this prayer request....
'Insane levels of sacrilege': Trump shocks by hawking $60 MAGA Bibles (www.rawstory.com)
How an Ohio group is bringing God back to public school (www.nbcnews.com)
After a morning lesson on multiplying fractions, about half of the students in a fifth-grade class at Etna Road Elementary School packed up their work and headed to the campus library....
If religion were to finally disappear how do you think it would happen?
I know my choice. (lemmy.world)
Although both is another option....
View Hosts Taken Aback By Trump Selling Bibles: ‘It’s Blasphemous!’ (www.mediaite.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.one/post/12464019...
Think twice before adding ice (lemmy.world)
Dreamy
I was having a bad stressful dream like I often do. But then I realized I was just dreaming and that I don’t want to dream this shite. So then I dreamed something else....