There is this big shot, Blaise Pascal, who was supposed to be the créme de la créme in French intellectual circles in the mid-1600s. He had this argument, this "wager", which is not about whether god exists, but whether it might be profitable to believe she does.

So it went like this: even if there was one chance in a million god exists, but you ( Read more... )

I have been following the goings-on and happenings of a thriving community of atheists on reddit.com (one of the less disreputable social news websites). It is really comical to see this aggregate of supposedly free thinkers evolve along the lines of a gathering cult. They strike me as extremely arrogant, unpleasant with anyone who does not follow ( Read more... )

I dislike football, just as I dislike any other team sport for that matter, especially spectator sports involving hairy men making fools of themselves, but I suspect that, were I in Iran, I would develop a sudden antagonistic fondness for that sport. I really wonder why. Maybe a bit of the same way so many Polish people went Catholic in the ( Read more... )

EASTER: the pinnacle of the patriarchal culture of death. Celebrating death, masochism, and all its rituals. I heard some men got themselves crucified for real, so as to better commune in the death of their hero (son, father, holy spirit). Oh how I hate the Christians and their necrophile disease of the mind. Unable to renew themselves, they never ( Read more... )

I think I am scared about whom the Christians will choose as their replacement leader after John Paul II dies ( Read more... )

Jesus thought his mother was a virgin.

Mwah ah ah. The fucking arrogant dickhead. "All women are whores, save for my mother". He justly deserved a good stoning. Too bad I wasn't there.

SocietyGuardian.co.uk | Society Guardian | A rude awakening: "Lots of gang girls were eager to brag to a TV documentary team about the fights they'd started, the cars they'd stolen. But only when director Morgan Matthews asked two silent girls in a group of mouthy interviewees what they got up did he uncover something truly shocking'Oh, we don't ( Read more... )

Essays - Hitler's Religion: "The only way to deny Hitler's Christianity is to define 'Christian' in a bigoted manner, ie- 'to be Christian is to be moral', which is the refrain of those who would believe that you can determine someone's morality (or lack thereof) by simply asking what religious beliefs he holds ( Read more... )

“Two persons, a Muslim and a Jew, quarrelled. The Muslim said, "By Him Who gave Muhammad superiority over all the people! The Jew said, "By Him Who gave Moses superiority over all the people!" At that the Muslim raised his hand and slapped the Jew on the face. The Jew went to the Prophet and informed him of what had happened between him and the ( Read more... )

Bring me my bow of burning gold - Historical Debt...?: "A few interesting facts. The number of Jews originally claimed to have died during the 'holocaust' was actually more than the number who lived in the whole of Europe at that time - and has been gradually reduced over the years as more and more people who were supposed to have been murdered ( Read more... )