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I still see posts from people who never knew this woman and they put sad emojis with stories about her that are most likely made up and they aspire to be like her? I just don’t get it. She’s dead. You didn’t know the media made Diana or the one she wanted you to believe she was or the real one. It’s sickening. Just aspire to be the best or at least most likeable you. She’s just a corps now ffs 😂 what’s with mourning people you never knew years after they have died?? 😂😂😂😂
CATHOLICISM ONCE AGAIN CREATES AN ARTIFICIAL HUMANITARIAN CRISES
As I write this people are losing their minds over how the US is enforcing its border policies. As someone who believes in the rule of secular law, I have no problem with the way we are handling it. Though the news remains a dubious source of reliable information for any of this, one thing is clear to me: illegal hispanics lacking basic morality, stripped from them by Catholicism, are using their children once again as emotional leverage to cut in line and justify breaking federal laws to come here illegally.
How many of those using their children in this manner do you suppose had any real consideration for their kids in the first place? Lets say you are Lupe and Jose. You are Catholic. You revere Mother Theresa and believe in Heaven, Hell, and destinations supernatural in between. Your church frowns on couples that do not have children. You will be asked directly, “Why do you displease God by having no children?” To be clear, I have heard this exact question asked in such a damming form.
No answer you provide will suffice. If you cannot afford Children you are admonished for your lack of faith. “Did Christ not say God will provide and to have no worry for tomorrow? Why do you let your lack of faith make decisions?” And when said in earshot of other parishioners that can be humiliating for the young and insecure.
Then there is safety. There are reports of women claiming they are fleeing sexual persecution and fear for their safety. We know that in many hispanic countries, the cartels rape children, sell them into sex slavery, use them as mules to run drugs, and kill them when finished to leave no witnesses. Into this maelstrom of horror Lupe and Jose decide to have a child because God wants them to, indeed insists, with zero regard for the unborn child in question. Again, God will provide so don’t let your lack of faith decide for you. That is succumbing to the devil and is a sin. Use a condom, even worse. Believe that a bag of cells is a human soul, that it is not to be aborted because it has as much right to life as you do, and you have completed the delusion. You now believe you are not aborting a chemical reaction, but the unprovable soul, making you a murderer, and all moral choices are removed from you. In fact, morality is not available to you at all because if you are this person you are too weak minded and brainwashed to push back saying, “Up yours. YOU pay for the kid, protect the kid from the unchecked violence my govt is too cruel to do anything about, and then I will think about it. Assuming of course, Mr Priest, you are not going to sexually or physically harm my child yourself if left alone with him or her.”
But if you have been told what and how to think, lest serious physical or psychological consequences befall you by your own family and church, and you have no sense of individuality and inherent self-worth, you will not see the option to walk away from this insanity. You will, instead, embrace and perpetuate it. The choice not to have kids you cannot afford and cannot keep safe is now not an option. Indeed if you engage such mundane reason and compassion for the unborn, you are faulted by God. If you are barely literate, have no formal education in science and critical thinking, and prone to believing Mary shows up on toast at random, this becomes a terrifying problem resolvable by having sex and popping one out.
In case I am not clear: It is amoral to have children, voluntarily, if you cannot provide for them financially or bring them up in an environment free of violent rapist gangs. Mexico itself uses cartels to manage some of their prisons. That pretty much says it all.
As an atheist I do not want people that think this way coming to my country for any reason, much less illegally. Nor will I be emotionally blackmailed by people who are leveraging their children to get here and playing bleeding heart Americans like a violin.
I’m sorry these parents lack the morality to not have kids they cannot afford or keep safe. I am sorry they are paying some of the same people to bring them here that kidnap, rape, and kill children; funding the very operations that make their crummy countries terrible places to live in to begin with. I am sorry for these children, that they are born into violent, superstitious societies that use them both religiously and, as we are seeing now on the US Border, politically. I do not see any care by Hispanic Catholics for the actual well being of children in this regard. Not at all.
I do see a serious lack of morality, that originates from religion, causing people to assume it is suddenly my ethical responsibility as an American to fix their bad decisions. Under no circumstances is the bad morality of one person to become my ethical responsibility to correct, much less allow them to violate my country’s sovereignty in the process.
Protestants have their own stake of ownership in this as well, especially as it relates to the idea that a bunch of cells possess a sacred soul. Thinking like this is the genesis of all kinds of unethical behavior that only atheists see clearly. The crises on the border is squarely the fault of religion, and this atheist will not be emotionally or financially leveraged into allowing more people to come here that think my country’s sovereignty and supporting secular laws are irrelevant because God is in control. I would just say, if God is in control, what is he saying about the value of human life? Clearly, not much.
Keep the families together. Send them all back, reducing the trade deficit with the originating countries or billing them outright for the service. Legal immigrants are not having this problem. The difference is plain to see. There is no excuse for illegal immigration...ever. And I share a zero tolerance policy for the matter, regardless of race. It is not about race. Make getting caught in the attempt so traumatic and awful nobody will attempt it in the future. Make coming here legally so rewarding people will wait their turn. But the last thing I will agree with is to accept thousands of religious people illegally that have already demonstrated the lack of morality they embrace, regardless of how hard they use the tears of their children.
As I write this people are losing their minds over how the US is enforcing its border policies. As someone who believes in the rule of secular law, I have no problem with the way we are handling it. Though the news remains a dubious source of reliable information for any of this, one thing is clear to me: illegal hispanics lacking basic morality, stripped from them by Catholicism, are using their children once again as emotional leverage to cut in line and justify breaking federal laws to come here illegally.
How many of those using their children in this manner do you suppose had any real consideration for their kids in the first place? Lets say you are Lupe and Jose. You are Catholic. You revere Mother Theresa and believe in Heaven, Hell, and destinations supernatural in between. Your church frowns on couples that do not have children. You will be asked directly, “Why do you displease God by having no children?” To be clear, I have heard this exact question asked in such a damming form.
No answer you provide will suffice. If you cannot afford Children you are admonished for your lack of faith. “Did Christ not say God will provide and to have no worry for tomorrow? Why do you let your lack of faith make decisions?” And when said in earshot of other parishioners that can be humiliating for the young and insecure.
Then there is safety. There are reports of women claiming they are fleeing sexual persecution and fear for their safety. We know that in many hispanic countries, the cartels rape children, sell them into sex slavery, use them as mules to run drugs, and kill them when finished to leave no witnesses. Into this maelstrom of horror Lupe and Jose decide to have a child because God wants them to, indeed insists, with zero regard for the unborn child in question. Again, God will provide so don’t let your lack of faith decide for you. That is succumbing to the devil and is a sin. Use a condom, even worse. Believe that a bag of cells is a human soul, that it is not to be aborted because it has as much right to life as you do, and you have completed the delusion. You now believe you are not aborting a chemical reaction, but the unprovable soul, making you a murderer, and all moral choices are removed from you. In fact, morality is not available to you at all because if you are this person you are too weak minded and brainwashed to push back saying, “Up yours. YOU pay for the kid, protect the kid from the unchecked violence my govt is too cruel to do anything about, and then I will think about it. Assuming of course, Mr Priest, you are not going to sexually or physically harm my child yourself if left alone with him or her.”
But if you have been told what and how to think, lest serious physical or psychological consequences befall you by your own family and church, and you have no sense of individuality and inherent self-worth, you will not see the option to walk away from this insanity. You will, instead, embrace and perpetuate it. The choice not to have kids you cannot afford and cannot keep safe is now not an option. Indeed if you engage such mundane reason and compassion for the unborn, you are faulted by God. If you are barely literate, have no formal education in science and critical thinking, and prone to believing Mary shows up on toast at random, this becomes a terrifying problem resolvable by having sex and popping one out.
In case I am not clear: It is amoral to have children, voluntarily, if you cannot provide for them financially or bring them up in an environment free of violent rapist gangs. Mexico itself uses cartels to manage some of their prisons. That pretty much says it all.
As an atheist I do not want people that think this way coming to my country for any reason, much less illegally. Nor will I be emotionally blackmailed by people who are leveraging their children to get here and playing bleeding heart Americans like a violin.
I’m sorry these parents lack the morality to not have kids they cannot afford or keep safe. I am sorry they are paying some of the same people to bring them here that kidnap, rape, and kill children; funding the very operations that make their crummy countries terrible places to live in to begin with. I am sorry for these children, that they are born into violent, superstitious societies that use them both religiously and, as we are seeing now on the US Border, politically. I do not see any care by Hispanic Catholics for the actual well being of children in this regard. Not at all.
I do see a serious lack of morality, that originates from religion, causing people to assume it is suddenly my ethical responsibility as an American to fix their bad decisions. Under no circumstances is the bad morality of one person to become my ethical responsibility to correct, much less allow them to violate my country’s sovereignty in the process.
Protestants have their own stake of ownership in this as well, especially as it relates to the idea that a bunch of cells possess a sacred soul. Thinking like this is the genesis of all kinds of unethical behavior that only atheists see clearly. The crises on the border is squarely the fault of religion, and this atheist will not be emotionally or financially leveraged into allowing more people to come here that think my country’s sovereignty and supporting secular laws are irrelevant because God is in control. I would just say, if God is in control, what is he saying about the value of human life? Clearly, not much.
Keep the families together. Send them all back, reducing the trade deficit with the originating countries or billing them outright for the service. Legal immigrants are not having this problem. The difference is plain to see. There is no excuse for illegal immigration...ever. And I share a zero tolerance policy for the matter, regardless of race. It is not about race. Make getting caught in the attempt so traumatic and awful nobody will attempt it in the future. Make coming here legally so rewarding people will wait their turn. But the last thing I will agree with is to accept thousands of religious people illegally that have already demonstrated the lack of morality they embrace, regardless of how hard they use the tears of their children.
AUTISM AND RELIGIOUS INDOCTRINATION
In Chapter 16 of Chistopher Hitchen's book, "God is Not Great" he asks, "Is Religion Child Abuse?".
I have Asperger's Syndrome, and am considered a high functioning autistic. As a child growing up in the 70's and early 80's I was subjected to the religious indoctrination of the First Mennonite Church. While other kids in Sunday school seemed to treat stories of hell with awe and respect, it mentally paralyzed me with terror and a lot of conflicting questions almost immediately. By age 10 I could count my imagined sins by the hour (I kept very good mental track of my transgressions) and realized I was going to burn for an eternity in hell because I was built to perpetuate evil. Only religion could interrupt that unavoidable tendency, and even then it required repeated administration of holy magic to keep me out of the fiery pits of the after life. Life is a veil of tears after all.
I didn't want to do this, but my mind insisted the tally be accurate and it commanded all my attention every few moments as other things do now that I am 50 years old...the difference being I can control that attention much better now...but that is a different story.
I could not explain my terror to my parents, because that would be disrespectful...a sin. So I kept it to myself even when my parents would urgently ask what was wrong. This made things far worse. I could not tell them without sinning, I could not withold the information without being disrespectful (not obeying the command to tell what was wrong); also a sin. So I would simply cry, rock (or hit my head against a door repeatedly until forcibly stopped by my parents) and say nothing...while continuing to emotionally spiral toward greater despair and hopelessness because of it. To be honest, at that age, verbal communication was difficult for me anyway, and a source of ongoing frustration as well.
By the time I was 12 years old, I would ponder my fate obsessively in the days between Sunday school. I would wake up screaming in the night, coming into the real world confused when I found myself hiding in my closet crying, not remembering the journey from my bed to the dark, heavy comfort found under stored blankets on the floor. My parents were actually good people caught up in a lie that consumed them from childhood at the behest of their parents, as had their parents before, etc. People knew something was different with me. I was tested for this and that but nothing ever came of it. Decades later, we now know what it is. Those were some very lonely, frightening, and confusing years for me. Based on my direct experience there can be no doubt in my mind that religious indoctrination is child abuse, unintentional as it may be for religious parents.
At 13 I thought of killing myself for the fist time, but that was a sin. So, there was no escape. I would never be allowed relief from the torment that being alive brought with it. Waking, sleeping, and even dead I would be punished. Of course I said nothing of this to my parents. My mother, however, became extremely worried. "You are too young to be so serious," she would say. "These should be some of the happiest days for you." Eventually I was put on medication, and this had the predictable effect of making everything immediately worse. Why? Simple. When you administer psychotropic drugs to a child, without actually knowing with any scientific validity what it is your are treating, you are behaving no different than a jungle Shaman attempting to cure cancer with feathers, smoke, and chanting.
To this day, I cannot help but wonder how many of those with Asperger's, that experienced religious indoctrination in a similar manner, have killed themselves as children because of it.
In Chapter 16 of Chistopher Hitchen's book, "God is Not Great" he asks, "Is Religion Child Abuse?".
I have Asperger's Syndrome, and am considered a high functioning autistic. As a child growing up in the 70's and early 80's I was subjected to the religious indoctrination of the First Mennonite Church. While other kids in Sunday school seemed to treat stories of hell with awe and respect, it mentally paralyzed me with terror and a lot of conflicting questions almost immediately. By age 10 I could count my imagined sins by the hour (I kept very good mental track of my transgressions) and realized I was going to burn for an eternity in hell because I was built to perpetuate evil. Only religion could interrupt that unavoidable tendency, and even then it required repeated administration of holy magic to keep me out of the fiery pits of the after life. Life is a veil of tears after all.
I didn't want to do this, but my mind insisted the tally be accurate and it commanded all my attention every few moments as other things do now that I am 50 years old...the difference being I can control that attention much better now...but that is a different story.
I could not explain my terror to my parents, because that would be disrespectful...a sin. So I kept it to myself even when my parents would urgently ask what was wrong. This made things far worse. I could not tell them without sinning, I could not withold the information without being disrespectful (not obeying the command to tell what was wrong); also a sin. So I would simply cry, rock (or hit my head against a door repeatedly until forcibly stopped by my parents) and say nothing...while continuing to emotionally spiral toward greater despair and hopelessness because of it. To be honest, at that age, verbal communication was difficult for me anyway, and a source of ongoing frustration as well.
By the time I was 12 years old, I would ponder my fate obsessively in the days between Sunday school. I would wake up screaming in the night, coming into the real world confused when I found myself hiding in my closet crying, not remembering the journey from my bed to the dark, heavy comfort found under stored blankets on the floor. My parents were actually good people caught up in a lie that consumed them from childhood at the behest of their parents, as had their parents before, etc. People knew something was different with me. I was tested for this and that but nothing ever came of it. Decades later, we now know what it is. Those were some very lonely, frightening, and confusing years for me. Based on my direct experience there can be no doubt in my mind that religious indoctrination is child abuse, unintentional as it may be for religious parents.
At 13 I thought of killing myself for the fist time, but that was a sin. So, there was no escape. I would never be allowed relief from the torment that being alive brought with it. Waking, sleeping, and even dead I would be punished. Of course I said nothing of this to my parents. My mother, however, became extremely worried. "You are too young to be so serious," she would say. "These should be some of the happiest days for you." Eventually I was put on medication, and this had the predictable effect of making everything immediately worse. Why? Simple. When you administer psychotropic drugs to a child, without actually knowing with any scientific validity what it is your are treating, you are behaving no different than a jungle Shaman attempting to cure cancer with feathers, smoke, and chanting.
To this day, I cannot help but wonder how many of those with Asperger's, that experienced religious indoctrination in a similar manner, have killed themselves as children because of it.
Eric Bright
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Today is Hitchens' Birthday, and coincidentally mine too. Happy Birthday!
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Christopher Hitchens provided the critical clarity I needed to set aside my Christian beliefs for something better, something real, something more compassionate: atheism. His outrage at religion stemmed from his love of people and the truth. He changed my paradigm from one where a skygod was required to explain beauty, to one where beauty is a natural benefit of our sentience, creating a situation where life when appreciated can indeed feel like an “enchanted state” with no gods required. I created this meme today from a photo I took back in 2013.At the time it was only a few days after I realized I had truly lost my faith, and finally found myself, and my self-worth with no apology required. Atheism is a beautiful thing, and Hitchens one of its greatest artists. This meme is not a Hitchens quote, but it is what his work led me to understand in my own words, and for that I will always be grateful.
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i'm from Nederland i'm 73 and a proud third generation Atheist, admirer of our mutual hero
i'm from Nederland i'm 73 and a proud third generation Atheist, admirer of our mutual hero
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looks like a nice resource for god facts and arguments
I never had the pleasure of meeting Mr Hitchens, but I can honestly attest that his observations and insights, and perhaps as equally helpful, his form of communication has enriched my life so much. Thank you, Hitch. We all miss you.
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