May 2011
April 2011
Religious (and non-religious) people who believe that the definition of "religious tolerance" is "no one is allowed to criticize religion because it hurts my feelings, you must all be silent."
Religious (and non-religious) people who break down into cursing fits over the mildest criticisms of religion.
Is your faith really so weak that it can’t even withstand the words I type on my pathetic blog?
Catholics and non-catholics who get violently offended when I refer to transubstantiation as cannibalism and then proceed to discuss the intricate details of the concept thereby demonstrating exactly how laughably ridiculous the whole thing is.
Cover Girl
RuPaul
RuPaul - Cover Girl
PUT THE BASS IN YOUR WALK! HEAD TO TOE! LET YOUR WHOLE BODY TALK!
For sixtyforty & nakedrussians
ILU
You worship a zombie that advocates cannibalism.
somebody wished me happy easter today, and as i channeled your unholy rage into a good old fashioned glower in their direction, i purposefully replied "yeah, you have a nice weekend too."
Hahaha. A lady at work told me to “HAVE A BLESSED EASTER.” No thanks, lady.
Celebrating Good Friday is like having a holiday for the electric chair.
There is nothing "good" about the needless and torturous execution of a scapegoat.
Merry...Christmas?
- Me: I wish Easter was on a weekday so we could have the day off.
- Boss: But Christ wasn't born on a weekday.
- Me: ...
I saw a billboard for "May 21st: Judgement Day!" adjacent to a Coca-Cola sign and I think I'm ready for the world to die.
I’m not ready for the world to die just yet, but I’m ready to laugh hysterically on the 22nd of May at the thought of how much money must have been wasted on this absurd campaign and all the other, more “Christianly” things the money could have been used for. If the world dies now, think of all the cults I won’t get to witness embarrassing themselves over and over again. I live for this.
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I mean, first of all you can say that Jesus suffered, but he didn’t really suffer any more than a lot of other people have suffered. I could think of examples in my own family. My brother Mike, who had cancer, suffered unspeakably for a very long time. Eye lids freezing open and his eyes drying up, canker sores all over his throat and he couldn’t swallow, weeks and weeks and then months of gut wrenching vomiting and nausea, before he then died.
So, okay, Jesus suffered. He apparently suffered terribly. For one, maybe even two days. I heard someone say once, “Jesus had a really bad weekend for our sins.”
I thought, “Why would a God create people so imperfect, then blame them for their own imperfections, then send his son to be tortured and executed by those imperfect people, to make up for how imperfect people were and how imperfect they inevitably were going to be?” What a crazy idea.
I looked at the Crucifix, and for the first time instead of seeing a symbol of transcendence and compassion, I saw a horrible execution device. What kind of God sends his son to be tortured and killed like that? Oh, I guess it is the God of the Old Testament, that’s exactly who would do something like that.
But when I looked at Jesus as just a guy, just a human, just this impassioned young idealist who lost his temper a lot, but who could also wax on teary eyed about loving your neighbor and helping the poor, and because his ideas were so outspoken it threatened those in power, who ordered him to be tortured and killed…. And then reading how Jesus died, astonished and heartbroken that his own God abandoned him, his story became so tragic.
Jesus’ life and death made me want to go out and campaign for free speech, not sit in a church and worship him!
” —Julia Sweeney, Letting Go of God.I got all these followers who seem to be huge Lady Gaga fans after criticizing her lyrics the other day. It makes me feel like I’m about to be ambushed in the dark or something.
“Religion is one lie after another: the lie of original sin, the lie of eternal life, the lie of hell, the lie of answered prayer, the lie that life can have no meaning without religion, the lie that religion is the source of morality, the lie of creationism, the lie of a spy-in-the-sky who hears your every word and reads your every thought.”
—Paula Kirby, “Woman, Know Thy Place” (via incaseyouwantorneedtoknow)
“Some will read “queer” as synonymous with “gay and lesbian” or “LGBT.” This reading falls short. While those who would fit within the constructions of “L”, “G”, “B”, or “T” could fall within the discursive limits of queer, queer is not a stable area to inhabit. Queer is not merely another identity that can be tacked onto a list of neat social categories, nor the quantitative sum of our identities. Rather, it is the qualitative position of opposition to presentations of stability—an identity that problematizes the manageable limits of identity. Queer is a territory of tension, defined against the dominant narrative of white-hetero-monogamous-patriarchy, but also by an affinity with all who are marginalized, otherized, and oppressed. Queer is the abnormal, the strange, the dangerous. Queer involves our sexuality and our gender, but so much more. It is our desire and fantasies and more still. Queer is the cohesion of everything in conflict with the heterosexual capitalist world. Queer is a total rejection of the regime of the Normal.”
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toward the queerest insurrection (via eastofethan)
(via dreamhunters)
“The truth has absolutely nothing to fear from investigation.”
—Matt Dillahunty
"Jesus is my virtue, Judas is the demon I cling to."
This post is brought to you by the continued use of intellectually flimsy religious themes in the music of Lady Gaga (of whom I consider myself a fan, but not an uncritical sycophant.)
I think Judas gets a bad rap. Why is Judas in hell? Isn’t it true that if Judas had not betrayed Jesus as prophesied, Jesus would never have become the scapegoat onto which humanity could cast its sins? What would God have done to Judas if he had not fulfilled the prophesy? Was Judas damned if he did, damned if he didn’t? If it was predetermined by God that Judas would perform this act, what does this say about free will? If it was predetermined by God that Judas would perform this act, then isn’t he essentially being punished by God for acting in accordance with the will of God? Is God such a capricious bastard that he would pull all the strings and then punish his puppets? While Jesus had a really bad weekend in hell and was resurrected without even a hangover, Judas will supposedly suffer in the jaws of Satan for all eternity. Which of these two men truly sacrificed themselves so that humanity could be “redeemed”?
“Blessed are Christians, who criticize others’ faith, for we call this love. Cursed are those who return the favor, for we call that persecution.”
—Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian.
“Blessed is prayer for it is a wonderfully passive aggressive way of letting the Lord know you think He is just a little lazy.”
—Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian.
“The level of intensity fluctuates according to time and place, but it can be stated as a truth that religion is not - and, in the long run, cannot be - content with its own marvelous claims and sublime assurances. It must seek to interfere with the lives of nonbelievers, or heretics, or adherents of other faiths. It may speak about the bliss of the next world, but it wants power in this one. This is only to be expected; it is, after all, wholly man-made and it does not have the confidence in its own various preachings even to allow coexistence between different faiths.”
—Christopher Hitchens, god Is Not Great, Chapter 2: Religion Kills.
Life After Sundown
Glass Candy
Glass Candy - Life After Sundown (2004)
fucking hell man stop posting that same photo of you with the neon shit on your face what is up with that shit anyway it seems you post it every couple of months it's not even that great
“I LIKE TO GO TO PEOPLE’S BLOGS AND WHINE ANONYMOUSLY ABOUT THE, IN MY OPINION, MEDIOCRE CONTENT OF THOSE BLOGS INSTEAD OF SIMPLY NOT VISITING THOSE BLOGS ANYMORE. I THINK MY UNSOLICITED OPINION MATTERS.”
“The contradictions and illiteracies of the New Testament have filled up many books by eminent scholars, and have never been explained by any Christian authority except in the feeblest terms of ‘metaphor’ and ‘a Christ of faith.’ This feebleness derives from the fact that until recently, Christians could simply burn or silence anybody who asked any inconvenient questions.”
—Christopher Hitchens, god is Not Great (via doubtingmarcus)
CREATED SICK, COMMANDED TO BE SOUND.
“Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.”
—Christopher Hitchens (via cocknbull)
PABLO Y ROBBIE, WHAT TIME ARE Y'ALL GONNA BE HERE ON FRIDAY???
ALWAYS
Meet outback in 10 minutes if you want to see me beat human-activities to death with an autoharp.
- Stephen Colbert: Are there any myths you'd like to test, but can't?
- Adam Savage from Mythbusters: Well, we did a whole episode on busting the conspiracy theory that the moon landing was faked and there are some people who are still unconvinced, so we would love to, if time and money were no object, build a spaceship, go to the moon and come back with a piece of Apollo hardware all in one take.
