tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35894395407188530842024-03-13T16:04:22.641+00:00Antitheist Atheists Opposing Religious Harm.The rights of an individual or group to practice their faith, ends where the rights of another to not be encroached upon begin.Antitheists.CO.UKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08928991880692004641noreply@blogger.comBlogger349125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589439540718853084.post-63962330313144054072016-09-15T21:41:00.001+01:002016-09-15T22:28:47.469+01:00Religion is a Mental Illness Dr Sapolsky (antitheist atheist videos)<br />
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Religion is a Mental Illness </h2>
Dr Sapolsky explores schizophrenia to see if there is any hidden adaptive advantage in the condition as there are with so many other genetic disorders. Disorders where the full maladapted trait is extremely harmful to the individual but where a lower partial level of the same trait clearly has adaptive benefits.<br />
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Harvard psychiatrists undertook an extensive study of over 10 000 families in Denmark, speaking with the largest number of schizophrenics and their families ever, and over the period of a decade they noticed something quite remarkable. The family members, the biological relatives of the schizophrenics displayed a very high incidence of schizotypal characteristic behaviour, differing from the full schizophrenia where life is at times impossible, these characters instead were withdrawn and had a strong tendency towards metamagical thinking.<br />
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They were the type of characters to be obsessed with science fiction fantasy or new age beliefs that were so extreme they took things to another level, taking things to be very literal. Typically the religiously leaning schizotypal accepts the seven day creation story, not as metaphorical, but as fact. The same with the resurrection, not symbolic of continued life or anything, it actually happened. Schizotypal personality traits as a mild form of schizophrenia is a recognised diagnosis.<br />
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Robert Raven an anthropologist first highlighted this schizotypalism with the shamans and witch doctors, medicine men and women of so called primitive civilizations and religious beliefs. Extreme behaviour, speaking to the dead, talking in tongues and all the other strange and not so wonderful behaviours attached to religion. The characters with the full blown schizophrenia, provided the balance was right, were and are highly regarded members of society.<br />
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I think you can see where this is leading, from the pages of the National Geographic magazine to our own societies and those who invented theology were schizotypal/schizophrenic personalities. The main tenets of religion are very closely related to obsessive compulsive disorders, rituals, cleanliness. It's a superb lecture and very interesting.<br />
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Richard Dawkins has authored several books, the most recent being "Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science."<br />
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The establishment clause prohibits government from passing legislation to establish an official religion or preferring one religion over another. It enforces the "separation of church and state.</span>"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."</span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">When asked if they supported or opposed seeing Christianity established as the national religion of the USA, 57 percent of Republicans told </span><i><a href="http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2015/PPP_Release_National_22415.pdf" target="_blank">Public Policy Polling</a></i><span style="font-weight: normal;"> they were in favour. 30 percent of Republicans were opposed to seeing the USA become a Christian theocracy, and 13 percent didn't have a clue, or didn't understand the question. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />Frank Zappa warned about the USA becoming a theocracy more than 25 years ago.</span> <a href="http://www.antitheist-atheist.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/frank-zappa-on-crossfire-antitheist.html" target="_blank"><i>See Frank Zappa on Crossfire here</i></a></span></span><br />
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- </span><b>66</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> percent of Republicans surveyed do not believe in global warming.</span><b> 13 </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">percent didn't know.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
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- </span><b>49</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> percent of Republicans surveyed said they did not believe in evolution, </span><b>10</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> percent were unsure.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><br />
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Attack of the Theocrats: How the Religious Right Harms Us All —and What We Can Do about It<br />
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<br />Antitheists.CO.UKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08928991880692004641noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589439540718853084.post-144075921901168362014-11-14T01:07:00.001+00:002014-11-14T01:11:04.770+00:00Tim Booth on Religion.<h2>
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Thanks to Susan for bringing this to our attention. Susan is also a big Tim Booth fan. Among many things, he's the front man of the fantastic group "James".<br />
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The dominant religions of Islam, Christianity and Judaism believe that man must transcend his sexual nature; that our sinful bodies need controlling, preferably by the church. I believe these ancient patriarchal beliefs still have far too strong and subtle control over our society.<br />
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Adultery and homosexuality are still punished by stoning in parts of the world. Circumcision is routinely performed on newborns without thought for psychological consequences.<br />
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Women are labelled whores for <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="50b1a24b-900b-4b6c-9c2c-1cf622f29f62" id="8d055337-c142-4b18-b361-97507cf8fe9f">the merest</span> expression of their sexuality. It is estimated that one-hundred-and-twenty-million girls have had their clitorises removed. If boys were being castrated like this, wouldn't we have stopped it by now?<br />
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Darwin caused a storm by saying we're descended from apes. This doesn't go far enough, We are apes; apes in denial with some pretentious aspirations.<br />
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We have some basic, beautiful, natural needs that we're often fearful to express. Finger pointing shame is toxic.<br />
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It's time for <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="dfd2a5aa-7636-4faa-88f6-881d66379556" id="da2b5bf3-ecb6-462b-815c-30db726df446">we</span> individuals to choose what we do with our own bodies - the bodies that we've been given in this lifetime. And to heal the wounds that have been created by thousands of years of violence, exile and shame.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The fast and prayer marathon organizers, despite claiming Ebola will be transformed by today [Friday], aren't as confident as they sound. Prayers and communion will mark an end to the fast and prayer extravaganza, but due to Ebola being highly infectious, communion will not be delivered; Christians are expected instead to provide their own bread and wine.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">You don't need to be a doctor or medical professional to know Liberians fasting and compromising their body's immune system is the height of irresponsibility.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="9122cafc-6906-4a1e-9e9d-a681d3770a62" id="3ce5a6ce-3eed-4987-ae87-c2648077e196">fast</span> was spurred on by Reverend G. Bonito, a representative of the National Christian Ebola Task Force. They believe Ebola is a punishment from God via Satan. He told a news conference, "We have traded the worship of God with the worship of demons and witchcraft, and evil stuff is now happening in this country.” </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Liberia’s deputy chief medical officer, Tolbert Nyenswah, the Liberian health ministry is combatting the lack of education and people's reliance on religious beliefs by publishing images of Ebola patients on TV and newspapers. “They are very graphic but it is working; people are starting to see that Ebola is not just a spiritual thing that you can cure through going to church,” Nyenswah said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Atheists Are Unwelcome In Most American Families.</span></h2>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">According to a Pew Research Center report, <a href="http://www.people-press.org/2014/06/12/political-polarization-in-the-american-public/">Political Polarization in the American Public</a>, nearly two thirds of Americans would be unhappy with an atheist joining their family.<br />
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</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Those identifying as conservative, white, non-Hispanic, evangelical Protestant, Republican and Roman Catholic, were more likely to be unhappy with an atheist in-law.</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><br />
</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">When asked: "How would you react if an immediate family member were to marry an atheist?"</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />41% of democrats would be unhappy, compared with 73% of republicans.<br /><br /><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fortunately, it's not all bad news. The report shows the majority of Americans to be increasingly tolerant and accepting towards many different groups.</span><br />
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Source: <a href="http://www.people-press.org/2014/06/12/political-polarization-in-the-american-public/">Political Polarization in The American Public.</a>UKantitheist1http://www.blogger.com/profile/08648898943137567717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589439540718853084.post-78083874675007295232014-06-07T04:11:00.000+01:002014-06-07T22:59:04.219+01:00Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends - "Born Again Christians" - Antitheist Blog<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br />Antitheists.CO.UKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08928991880692004641noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589439540718853084.post-75980577824783167352014-02-14T07:43:00.000+00:002014-02-14T07:50:29.644+00:00EXCEPTIONAL AMERICANS. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuqRJ1nmX8EfK82kngsXB1Pht9sky3Ga4Q6PDyXGXJdX2Z_Ky2g3yBHUsjgr8UPva_BIN6EDDlcl6VnR1qbnX5yNVc538hnmoBMrp2ygQL9JFhgYtzE61eeLIX0CHqofHbSRszq_nU8dsz/s1600/USA+FLAG+antitheists.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuqRJ1nmX8EfK82kngsXB1Pht9sky3Ga4Q6PDyXGXJdX2Z_Ky2g3yBHUsjgr8UPva_BIN6EDDlcl6VnR1qbnX5yNVc538hnmoBMrp2ygQL9JFhgYtzE61eeLIX0CHqofHbSRszq_nU8dsz/s1600/USA+FLAG+antitheists.jpg" height="160" width="320" /></a>EXCEPTIONAL AMERICANS.<br />
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I admin <a href="http://www.facebook.com/antitheists" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/antitheists </a>and one of the most exciting aspects, is knowing we attract a high proportion of exceptional Americans. John Pilger and Martha Gellhorn explain this better than I ever could. Whether a member is American or not, this is a quote that strikes the heart of our membership. Who could want for better people? <br />
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My guess is that a populism will emerge in the next few years, igniting a powerful force that lies beneath America’s surface and which has a proud past. It cannot be predicted which way it will go. However, from such an authentic grass-roots Americanism came women’s suffrage, the eight-hour day, graduated income tax and public ownership. In the late 19th century, the populists were betrayed by leaders who urged them to compromise and merge with the Democratic Party. In the Obama era, the familiarity of this resonates.<br />
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I once asked a friend, the great American war correspondent and humanitarian Martha Gellhorn, to explain the term to me. “I’ll tell you what ‘anti-American’ is,” she said. “It’s what governments and their vested interests call those who honour America by objecting to war and the theft of resources and believing in all of humanity. There are millions of these anti-Americans in the United States. They are ordinary people who belong to no elite and who judge their government in moral terms, though they would call it common decency. They are not vain. They are the people with a wakeful conscience, the best of America’s citizens. They can be counted on. They were in the South with the civil rights movement, ending slavery. They were in the streets, demanding an end to the wars in Asia. Sure, they disappear from view now and then, but they are like seeds beneath the snow. I would say they are truly exceptional.”<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Islam</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">prohibits body embalming and cremation, and despite no reference in the Qu'ran, tradition dictates the burial of the body within 24 hours, with the head facing Mecca.</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Similarly </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>Judaism</b></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> prohibits cremation and burial must be within 24/48 hours.A biodegradable casket is used and no embalming.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Protestant Christian</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">burials have few requirements dictated.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Catholicism</b></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">prefers that the body be present for the funeral and if the person is to be cremated, that is done after the funeral, the ashes are to be buried in an urn, not scattered or kept on your bedside dresser.</span><br /><b>Hinduism </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">has no burial, all bodies are burned, with ritual differing from region to region.<br />________________________________________</span><br />Without any religious dictates what are your options. Weighing up the advantages and disadvantages.</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />With decreasing land available for burial and an ever greater need to produce food, Cremation was/is seen as a modern cleaner alternative to burial with less of an environmental impact, but is it a cleaner method?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Burial grounds provide communities with green areas providing habitat for much wildlife. Burial grounds will often be home to the oldest trees in an urban area and the aesthetic advantages are obvious. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Cremation is seen as the cleaner and more modern method, but has been found to release harmful greenhouse gases.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">As well as water vapor, emissions include carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide, sulphur dioxide, hydrogen chloride gas, hydrogen fluoride, mercury vapour. Compounds such as benzenes, furans, acetone are also emitted, these react with the hydrogen chloride and hydrogen fluoride under combustion conditions to form polychlorinated dibenzodioxins (PCDDs) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) both of which are carcinogens. A study by the Cremation Association of North America has found that filtering crematorium fumes has little effect on the toxins released. However the harmful emissions only makeup a very small fraction of harmful global emissions.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Benefits with cremation often overlooked, include the recovery of hip and joint operation implements for return to the NHS in the UK and or recycling of said implement.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">With both methods having advantages and disadvantages, I personally would elect for a woodland burial with no embalming and using only biodegradable materials. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">In a world where woodland is being razed to the ground or damaged in the pursuit of profit, if burial grounds require woodland preservation and save such woodland from destruction, that can only be a good thing. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">A Swedish company </span><a href="http://www.promessa.se/en/" style="font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">see here</a><span style="font-weight: normal;"> is trying to overcome both problems by turning the body to compost within just a few months. The body is freeze dried, by being frozen to minus eighteen degrees centigrade before being placed into liquid nitrogen. Then with the use of sound wave vibration the body is turned to an organic powder. The dust then has further water removed by being passed through a vacuum chamber where the mass is greatly reduced. At this point the dust can be disinfected and either cremated of buried. </span><br /><a href="http://www.promessa.se/en/" style="font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">Promessa</a><span style="font-weight: normal;"> has won awards from the Green Organisation as well as received recognition from UNESCO for the environmental benefits of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promession" target="_blank">Promession process.</a></span></span><br />
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I’m sorry for the way that I come across<br />
So fair and fake friendly and full of myself so judging your spiritual health by the words that you say and the way that you dress and the things that you do<br />
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I’m sorry for the way I live my life.<br />
So confident of my own beliefs that I would never think to think about thinking about yours<br />
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I’m sorry for the wars<br />
Iron clad crusaders are mounting studs and drawing swords with such spirit but the spirit…<br />
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Singing and praying<br />
And killing and slaying.<br />
And preaching and healing<br />
And raping and stealing.<br />
It’s ironic that they lined their pockets in the name of God<br />
Just like the priests who lined their pockets in the name of God.<br />
Just like the people you can’t stand because they always raise their hand and spread their faith and hate and judgment in the name of God.<br />
I’m sorry that I take the name of God in vain – or rather I’m sorry that I stain the name of God. Defending my selfish actions and selfless actions pertaining to the will of God.<br />
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I’m sorry for being intolerant.<br />
For trying to talk down to you, for trying to talk over you, for not letting you talk.<br />
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I’m sorry for not walking the walk. For being a hypocritical critical Christian. Criticizing your lifestyle while my own lifestyle styles itself like the televangelist’s hair. All slick and sly and slippery… (something about a syllable sliding into your ear)… but that’s my greatest fear.<br />
That the steps I take won’t match the words I speak so when I speak all you hear of me is a weak hypocritical critical Christian. Doing one thing and saying another. Loving my friend, but hating my brother – it’s a show.<br />
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I’m sorry I get drunk on Saturday’s and go to church on Sunday’s to pray for my friends who get drunk on Saturday’s.<br />
And on that note, I’m sorry for making the church about the pews and the cross and the steeple, because the building is not the church; the church is the people.<br />
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I’m sorry that I hate you because you are gay.<br />
I’m sorry I condemn you to hell because you’re gay instead of loving I jump to hatred. Mouth open and tongue preaching, eyes open but not seeing that you are the same as me just a fucking human being.<br />
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I’m sorry that I only hang out with Christian friends and we only do nice Christian things like pot luck dinners and board game nights. While in the night a man beat his girlfriend again. Another homeless man dies again. Is this the that my own pride has been but here I am with my same friends again, but see what I always forget is that Jesus didn’t come to hang out with the priests and the lords, no. He hung out with cripples and beggars and whores.<br />
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Love.<br />
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I’m sorry for history. For native tribes wiped out in the name of the church. Lodges burning. Stomachs churning and yearning for justice as mothers, screaming and bleeding, pleading for their young ones are dragged away to church schools where they were abused.<br />
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I’m sorry for the way that I refuse to learn your culture, instead I just came to spread the gospel - and the plague.<br />
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I’m sorry that I stand at the front doors of abortion clinics screaming at fifteen-year-old girls as they enter instead of waiting at the back door to hug them as they leave.<br />
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I’m sorry for taking my <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="e56b4b41-c6b3-42b0-930c-642fe064761d" id="88bbcc8b-2c7b-424a-b6f2-ca47c417dba9">wars</span> and my faith to your lands when historically your lands <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="e56b4b41-c6b3-42b0-930c-642fe064761d" id="969dcb11-7396-489a-8a10-74deff31487e">is</span> where my faith was born. And in the face of the storm I realize that if God is Allah and Allah is God, then why are we shooting instead of sharing? Why are we launching instead of learning? Why are we warring instead of walking together? Why are we taking instead of talking together? Why are we bombing instead of breaking bread together? You see I think looks down and He’s sad. And from His right hand throne above, Jesus asks “where is the love?” And if it takes Wil<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="96c3ffb5-a526-4512-818d-10ef77157336" id="fc3fb01d-e067-4cf8-9784-c006e55339e8">.</span>I<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="96c3ffb5-a526-4512-818d-10ef77157336" id="e5799f14-277b-44b6-b9aa-4edd84ab7820">.</span>Am and Justin Timberlake <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="96c3ffb5-a526-4512-818d-10ef77157336" id="0c7cb8ed-f93c-41cd-86d5-08a08f687ee1">asking</span> the same question for us to start asking the same question then where the fuck are we headed?<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the UK, the number of Christians in England and Wales fell by 4 million over the last ten years. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One in four atheists hold executive positions or have a job in one of the professions, compared with less than a fifth of Christians holding any such position.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The breakdown of employment and religious belief, produced by the Office for National Statistics from the 2011 census, confirms campaigner's claims Christians find it harder to get to the top.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The report showed high levels of senior and professional employment among the Jewish and Hindu communities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Barrister Andrea Minichiello Williams, a member of the Church of England’s General Synod, said: <i><b>‘If you hold views that are contrary to the prevailing orthodoxy you are seen as potential trouble. </b></i></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><b>This is a real phenomenon. Christianity is now a bar to appointment or promotion.’</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Economist Ruth Lea, of Arbuthnot Banking Group, said: ‘Jews and Hindus are proportionately so much more successful than Christians. Ambitious people tend to come from minorities.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'Christians are the majority group, and they do not seem so ambitious and hard working.’</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Miss Lea, who is an Anglican, added: ‘There doesn’t seem to be any discrimination here. What these figures say is that if you are determined you can make it.’<br /><br />Source: <a href="http://bbb-news.com/blog/2013/08/02/christians-lose-out-to-atheists-for-senior-jobs-as-religious-people-are-held-back-from-top-positions/" target="_blank">BBC</a></span>Antitheists.CO.UKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08928991880692004641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589439540718853084.post-45827604336592166622013-06-18T01:42:00.000+01:002013-09-06T12:18:02.156+01:00Bart Ehrman on Mythicists - From - "Did Jesus Exist"<br />
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<br />After a relative hiatus, the mythicist view has resurfaced in recent years. In chapters 6 and 7 I review the major arguments for this position, but here I want to say something about the authors themselves, a doughty and colorful ensemble. I have already mentioned Earl Doherty, seen by many as the leading representative of the view in the modern period. By his own admission, Doherty does not have any advanced degrees in biblical studies or any related field. But he does have an undergraduate degree in classics, and his books show that he has read widely and has a good deal of knowledge at his disposal, quite admirable for someone who is, in his own view, an amateur in the field. His now-classic statement is The Jesus Puzzle: Did Christianity Begin with a Mythical Christ? This has recently been expanded in a second edition, published not as a revision (which it is) but rather as its own book, Jesus: Neither God nor Man: The Case for a Mythical Christ. The overarching theses are for the most part the same between the two books.
By contrast, Robert Price is highly trained in the relevant fields of scholarship. Price started out as a hard-core conservative evangelical Christian, with a master’s degree from the conservative evangelical Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He went on to do a Ph.D. in systematic theology at Drew University and then a second Ph.D. in New Testament studies, also at Drew. He is the one trained and certified scholar of New Testament that I know of who holds to a mythicist position. As with other conservative evangelicals who have fallen from the faith, Price fell hard. His first significant book, The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable Is the Gospel Tradition?, answers the question of the subtitle with no shade of ambiguity.<br />
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The Gospel tradition about Jesus is not at all reliable. Price makes his case through a detailed exploration of all the Gospel traditions, arguing forcefully and intelligently. Price has written other works, the most significant for my present purposes being The Christ-Myth Theory and Its Problems, which is due to be published (as I write) within a few weeks. I am grateful to Robert and the publisher of Atheist Press for making it available to me.
That publisher is Frank Zindler, another outspoken representative of the mythicist view.<br />
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Zindler is also an academic, but he does not have credentials in biblical studies or in any field of antiquity. He is a scientist, trained in biology and geology. He taught in the community college system of the State University of New York for twenty years before—by his own account—being driven out for supporting Madalyn Murray O’Hair and her attempt to remove “In God We Trust” from American currency. Extremely prolific, Zindler writes in a number of fields. Many of his publications have been brought together in a massive four-volume work called Through Atheist Eyes: Scenes from a World That Won’t Reason. The first volume of this magnum opus is called Religions and Scriptures and contains a number of essays both directly and tangentially related to mythicist views of Jesus, written at a popular level.
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A different sort of support for a mythicist position comes in the work of Thomas L. Thompson, The Messiah Myth: The Near Eastern Roots of Jesus and David. Thompson is trained in biblical studies, but he does not have degrees in New Testament or early Christianity. He is, instead, a Hebrew Bible scholar who teaches at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. In his own field of expertise he is convinced that figures from the Hebrew Bible such as Abraham, Moses, and David never existed. He transfers these views to the New Testament and argues that Jesus too did not exist but was invented by Christians who wanted to create a savior figure out of stories found in the Jewish scriptures.9
Some of the other mythicists I will mention throughout the study include Richard Carrier, who along with Price is the only mythicist to my knowledge with graduate training in a relevant field (Ph.D. in classics from Columbia University)
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Tom Harpur, a well-known religious journalist in Canada, who did teach New Testament studies at Toronto before moving into journalism and trade-book publishing; and a slew of sensationalist popularizers who are not, and who do not bill themselves as, scholars in any recognizable sense of the word.
Other writers who are often placed in the mythicist camp present a slightly different view, namely, that there was indeed a historical Jesus but that he was not the founder of Christianity, a religion rooted in the mythical Christ-figure invented by its original adherents. This view was represented in midcentury by Archibald Robinson, who thought that even though there was a Jesus, “we know next to nothing about this Jesus.”
I will indicate more fully later, I think Wells—and Price, and several other mythicists—do deserve to be taken seriously, even if their claims are in the end dismissed.15 A number of other mythicists, however, do not offer anything resembling scholarship in support of their view and instead present the unsuspecting reading public with sensationalist claims that are so extravagant, so wrongheaded, and so poorly substantiated that it is no wonder that scholars do not take them seriously. These sensationalist books may have a reading public. They are, after all, written to be read. But if scholars take note of them at all, it is simply out of amazement that such inaccurate and poorly researched publications could ever see the published light of day<br />
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IN 1999, UNDER THE nom de plume Acharya S, D. M. Murdock published the breathless conspirator’s dream: The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold.16 This book was meant to set the record straight by showing that Christianity is rooted in a myth about the sun-god Jesus, who was invented by a group of Jews in the second century CE.
Mythicists of this ilk should not be surprised that their views are not taken seriously by real scholars, that their books are not reviewed in scholarly journals, mentioned by experts in the field, or even read by them. The book is filled with so many factual errors and outlandish assertions that it is hard to believe that the author is serious. If she is serious, it is hard to believe that she has ever encountered anything resembling historical scholarship. Her “research” appears to have involved reading a number of nonscholarly books that say the same thing she is about to say and then quoting them. One looks in vain for the citation of a primary ancient source, and quotations from real experts (Elaine Pagels, chiefly) are ripped from their context and misconstrued. Still, in opposition to scholars who take alternative positions, such as that Jesus existed (she calls them “historicizers”), Acharya states, “If we assume that the historicizers’ disregard of these scholars [that is, the mythicists] is deliberate, we can only conclude that it is because the mythicists’ arguments have been too intelligent and knifelike to do away with.”17 One cannot help wondering if this is all a spoof done in good humor.
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The basic argument of the book is that Jesus is the sun-god: “Thus the son of God is the sun of God” (get it—son, sun?). Stories about Jesus are “in actuality. ased on the movements of the sun through the heavens. In other words, Jesus Christ and the others upon whom he is predicated are personifications of the sun, and the gospel fable is merely a repeat of mythological formula revolving around the movements of the sun through the heavens.”18
Christianity, in Acharya’s view, started out as an astrotheological religion in which this sun-god Jesus was transformed into a historical Jew by a group of Jewish Syro-Samaritan Gnostic sons of Zadok, who were also Gnostics and Therapeutae (a sectarian group of Jews) in Alexandria, Egypt, after the failed revolt of the Jews against Rome in 135 CE. The Jews had failed to establish themselves as an independent state in the Promised Land and so naturally were deeply disappointed. They invented this Jesus in order to bring salvation to those who were shattered by the collapse of their nationalistic dreams. The Bible itself is an astrotheological text with hidden meanings that need to be unpacked by understanding their astrological symbolism.
Later we will see that all of Acharya’s major points are in fact wrong. Jesus was not invented in Alexandria, Egypt, in the middle of the second Christian century. He was known already in the 30s of the first century, in Jewish circles of Palestine. He was not originally a sun-god (as if that equals Son-God!); in fact, in the earliest traditions we have about him, he was not known as a divine being at all. He was understood to be a Jewish prophet and messiah. There are no astrological phenomena associated with Jesus in any of our earliest traditions. These traditions are attested in multiple sources that originated at least a century before Acharya’s alleged astrological creation at the hands of people who lived in a different part of the world from the historical Jesus and who did not even speak his language.
Just to give a sense of the level of scholarship in this sensationalist tome, I list a few of the howlers one encounters en route, in the order in which I found them. Acharya claims that:
The second-century church father Justin never quotes or mentions any of the Gospels. This simply isn’t true: he mentions the Gospels on numerous occasions; typically he calls them “Memoirs of the Apostles” and quotes from them, especially from Matthew, Mark, and Luke.
The Gospels were forged hundreds of years after the events they narrate. In fact, the Gospels were written at the end of the first century, about thirty-five to sixty-five years after Jesus’s death, and we have physical proof: one fragment of a Gospel manuscript dates to the early second century. How could it have been forged centuries after that?
We have no manuscript of the New Testament that dates prior to the fourth century. This is just plain wrong: we have numerous fragmentary manuscripts that date from the second and third centuries.
The autographs “were destroyed after the Council of Nicaea”. In point of fact, we have no knowledge of what happened to the original copies of the New Testament; they were probably simply used so much they wore out.
There is not a scintilla of evidence to suggest that they survived until Nicaea or that they were destroyed afterward; plenty of counter evidence indicates they did not survive until Nicaea.
“It took well over a thousand years to canonize the New Testament,” and “many councils” were needed to differentiate the inspired from the spurious books. Actually, the first author to list our canon of the New Testament was the church father Athanasius in the year 367; the comment about “many councils” is simply made up.
Paul never quotes a saying of Jesus.<br />
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Acharya has evidently never read the writings of Paul. As we will see, he does quote sayings of Jesus.
The Acts of Pilate, a legendary account of Jesus’s trial and execution, was once considered canonical. None of our sparse references to the Acts of Pilate indicates, or even suggests, any such thing.
The “true meaning of the word gospel is ‘God’s Spell,’ as in magic, hypnosis and delusion”. No, the word gospel comes to us from the Old English term god spel, which means “good news”—a fairly precise translation of the Greek word euaggelion. It has nothing to do with magic.
The church father “Irenaeus was a Gnostic” . In fact, he was one of the most virulent opponents of Gnostics in the early church.
Augustine was “originally a Mandaean, i.e., a Gnostic, until after the Council of Nicaea”. Augustine was not even born until nineteen years after the Council of Nicaea, and he certainly was no Gnostic.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Greed has poisoned men’s souls; has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge as made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in man; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.
Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.<br /><br /> To those who can hear me, I say “Do not despair.” The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Soldiers! Don’t give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you; who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder! Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men—machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have a love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.
Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it’s written “the kingdom of God is within man”, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you!<br /><br /> You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power.
Let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill their promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfill that promise! Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness." <br /><br /> Charles Chaplin.</span>
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Antitheists.CO.UKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08928991880692004641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589439540718853084.post-84140656092999278872013-04-15T21:03:00.002+01:002013-04-15T21:16:09.384+01:00Misogynist Pope Francis Cracks Down On US Feminist Nuns. <h2>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">POPE FRANCIS REAFFIRMS VATICAN MISOGYNY.</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pope Francis has reaffirmed a crack down on US nuns, as promised by his predecessor Pope Benedict. Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), a group that represents more than 80% of the 57,000 Catholic nuns in the US, must change its ways, in a ruling the Vatican said on Monday 15TH April still applied.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 2012 a Vatican report said the LCWR had serious doctrinal problems with promoting 'radical feminist ideas' not compatible with the Catholic faith, criticising its soft line on birth control and homosexuality.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> On Monday, the Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller head of the Vatican's doctrinal department and Archbishop Peter Sartain of Seattle; assigned to correct the group's failings met with the leaders of the LCWR.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> "Archbishop Müller informed the LCWR presidency that he had recently discussed the doctrinal assessment with Pope Francis, who reaffirmed the findings of the assessment and the programme of reform," the Vatican's statement said.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In April 2012, the doctrinal department criticised the LCWR for challenging bishops and for being "silent on the right to life," saying it had failed to make the "Biblical view of family life and human sexuality" a central plank of its agenda.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The nuns supported President Barack Obama's healthcare reform, part of which makes insurance coverage of birth control mandatory, while U.S. bishops opposed it.
Many nuns said the Vatican's report misunderstood their intentions and undervalued their work for social justice.
Supporters of the nuns said the women had helped the image of the Church in the United States at a time when it was engulfed in scandal over sexual abuse of minors by priests. They were praised by many fellow Catholics and the media for their work with the poor and sick.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> This reaffirming of the reforms smacks of the usual misogyny displayed by the Vatican, making the protests by many Catholics to our recent misogyny accusation, with the publishing of a yet to be verified quote by Cardinal Bergoglio, extremely vacuous.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The quote is yet to be verified, and in attempts to verify the quote it's apparent the state news agency of Argentina has large chunks of news missing from the archives covering the pertinent dates; omissions inconceivable considering Bergoglio was Archbishop of Buenos Aires.<br /><br />The accuracy of the quote is important, but far more interesting is the ongoing investigation to the missing news records and other stories the research is uncovering, we will document all findings in the very near future.<br /><br />RJ for Antitheists</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Church Taxation Could Not Increase Representation.</span></b></h2>
A common objection to church taxation is it having to afford religion greater representation in politics. Since church and state separation seems to work only one way, it's hard to see how this argument is valid.<br />
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Religion spends $390 000 000 lobbying government on issues such as abortion, contraception and bioethics, to name just a few. <a href="http://www.antitheist-atheist.blogspot.com/2011/12/lobbying-for-faithful.html" target="_blank">See the Pew Report here.</a><br />
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Religion involves itself in campaigning to overturn policies already passed by government, as with Obamacare and the recent aggressive Catholic opposition to contraception and other female reproductive services being offered to their employees.<br />
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Freedom from the pulpit campaign pastors have been endorsing political candidates since 2008, directly breaching the Johnson Amendment of 1954 prohibiting political candidate endorsement. The pastors have recorded their actions and provided the IRS with evidence of them breaching the amendment in the hope an action will be taken and the amendment struck off as unconstitutional. Sadly they are probably right and also why the IRS has failed to act for four years. The Johnson amendment was introduced to silence communist non profits at the time, it was never intended to silence religion. This rather odd out of place exception to religious involvement in government explains why lobbying to the extent religion does is constitutional, but candidate endorsement is not. We're unlikely to see a change in religious lobbying, far more likely is the Johnson amendment being deemed unconstitutional.<br />
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Religious bias in US law is prevalent and harms ordinary Americans, and in extreme cases results in the death of children. Religiously biased laws favor the practice of religion over the welfare of children, even if the religious parent's actions result in the child's death. Sean Faircloth writes brilliantly about this in his superb book "The Attack of the Theocrats", a link for which can be found at the foot of this page.<br />
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US soldiers proselytize Christian religion abroad in places like Afghanistan handing out bibles and other similar actions designed to expand Christian numbers, despite this being totally unconstitutional, not to mention against the US military's regulations.<br />
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<b>How exactly would taxation mean greater representation for religion compared to what it enjoys today</b>? The tax exemption afforded religion in the US is according to a Tampa Uni calculation, costing the USA $71 billion dollars annually. The ending of this exemption would affect religion's ability to lobby government to the extent it does and likely reduce the representation religion enjoys, not increase it. The removal of tax exemption has already been deemed by the supreme court to not affect the free practise of religion and therefore is not unconstitutional.<br />
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The worry in the USA must be the increasing way the constitution is read and interpreted with a biblical lens favorable to the Christian religion, Christians fill influential positions and as legislatures, judges and politicians, this trend is unlikely to change in the near future.<br />
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What is the answer to the Christian take over of the one document designed to protect the USA from such dominance by one religion?<br />
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Antitheists.CO.UKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08928991880692004641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589439540718853084.post-21362081592002917952013-04-08T17:06:00.005+01:002013-04-08T17:11:22.279+01:00Interview With Primo Levi - Antitheist Blog<h2>
Primo Levi Interview.</h2>
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(Excerpts from Ferdinando Camon, Conversations with Primo Levi, Marlboro,Vt : Marlboro Press, 1989)<br />
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LEVI: No, I never have been. I'd like to be, but I don't succeed.<br />
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CAMON: Then in what sense are you Jewish?<br />
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LEVI:
A simple matter of culture. If it hadn't been for the racial laws and
the concentration camp, I'd probably no longer be a Jew, except for my
last name. instead, this dual experience, the racial laws and the
concentration camp, stamped me the way you stamp a steel plate. At this
point I'm a few, they've sewn the star of David on me and not only on my
clothes.<br />
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CAMON: With whom did you have that argument?<br />
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LEVI:
If you remember The Periodic Table, he's the one mentioned as "the
assistant" in the "Potassium" story. He's a believer but not a Catholic;
he came to see me after my release to tell me I was clearly one of the
elect, since I'd been chosen to survive in order for me to write
Survival in Auschwitz. And this, I must confess, seemed to me a
blasphemy, that God should grant privileges, saving one person and
condemning someone else. I must say that for me the experience of
Auschwitz has been such as to sweep away any remnant of religious
education I may have had.<br />
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CAMON: Meaning that Auschwitz is proof of the nonexistence of God?<br />
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LEVI:
There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God. [On the typescript, he
added in pencil:] I don't find a solution to this dilemma. I keep
looking, but I don't find it.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />Radical extremist Christians reacted angrily to the erection of a twenty foot scarecrow for the benefit of local children in Billericay Essex, UK.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />The twenty foot scarecrow built to promote the farm's activities for children over the Easter holiday period was slammed by Christians for mocking their lord and savior Jesus Christ, obviously because the scarecrow was mounted in a messianic pose and clearly ridiculing Jesus.<br /><br />Note for Christians: Scarecrows are erected arms stretched, that's how scarecrows work. To take offense over scarecrows mocking Jesus shouts volumes about how you really view your Jesus Christ.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David Finkle the general manager at Barleylands said before the scarecrow was torched to the ground,<br /><br /><i>" the scarecrow doesn't have hands, feet or any nails, bailing twine only. </i></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>It took us ages to make his giant patchwork jacket and he is complete with raffia hair which changes in the wind. I want to bring children's learning to life and I made the scarecrow so people knew about the Books, Cooks and Scarecrow week we're holding. Kids can make scones from scratch and then go out and make their own scarecrows. I think it's a shame that children don't do as much outside and we want to change that and bring their learning alive. He's a brilliant example of a scarecrow stuffed with straw."</i><br /><br />Christians hating scarecrows and taking offense is far more important than any motivational and educational benefits offered to children.<br /><br />The majority of local people loved the scarecrow and thought it was a great addition to the community,, many quoted as saying how "fabulous" the scarecrow was and "what a great bit of fun it was."<br /><br /><br />Cyanide and Happiness come to mind with this cartoon of Scarecrow Jesus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tragedy struck twice on the night of Thursday 21st Feb 2013 at Barleylands. The fire service was called to a fire started at the base of the scarecrow 11.23pm, thanks to their rapid response, the scarecrow's destruction was halted, but arsonists returned again the same night to complete the job. Sadly at 00:10 Friday 22nd February the scarecrow was torched for the second time and destroyed.<br /><br />Unsurprisingly the extremist Christians top the list of suspects, the determined effort to destroy the scarecrow surprised local police. Offended Christians responding angrily to the scarecrow last week, leave locals suspecting the same Christians, but police say they are continuing with their investigation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Reactionary Offended Christians are on the increase in the UK:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">It wasn't so long ago extremist reactionary Christians in the UK closed down 'Jerry Springer The Opera'. Their protests prevented a children's hospice receiving a substantial donation from the planned benefit gig. The Christians threatened to picket the hospice and forced the organizers to ask, "the show not go on." They sadly bowed to threats made by Christians.<br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">To see more on this, Stewart Lee reports below. </span></span><br />
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