Faith defense.

God works in mysterious ways.
The bible says it's so.
I'll pray for you.
Who are we to understand God?
Jesus loves you.
God's in control.

The most obvious one:
I have faith.

and my favorite -
Some day I'm going to come down their and punch your fat face in for Jesus!


Any other obvious ones I have missed?

Faithfully burning threats.

Come on, grab an armful, we have to destroy everything that's harmful to God!

Tonight's episode of family guy does religion.

Personal fudge factor.

Dan Ariely talks about our buggy moral code.

The Beautiful Truth Review

The Beautiful Truth takes you on a creepy mellow journey with a 15 year old boy as he discovers the cure for cancer.

The cure for cancer?? That's right, THE cure for cancer.

Turns out, after decades and billions of dollars in research done by pharmaceutical companies, Max Gerson had already discovered the cure back in the 1920's. Oops. Apparently, lots of organic fresh juice, and SPOILER ALERT: Coffee Enemas is all it takes!

Avoiding alot of modern things also helps:
Pharmaceutical drugs, MSG, aspartame, vaccines, food irradiation, genetically modified foods, dental amalgams, water fluoridation, and radioactive kitchen sinks, are SHOCK, all bad for you! It does seem the filmmaker took every controversial potentially carcinogenic but "proven safe" thing he could find; but I can't disagree, staying away from some of those things is probably not going to hurt.

Just remember, asbestos was proven safe too!

Apparently cancer researchers have been conspiring to bury the cure in order to make money; because you can't patent sticking coffee up your arse! If it really cured cancer, then wouldn't the active ingredients in coffee be extracted, properly dosed, added to and tweaked, and then sold at pharmacies as cancer cure douches by said conspirators? You'd make billions! Especially if marketed as a daily thing, or would it just be too kinky for your average Joe to stomach?

The segment about Kirlian Photography showing the aura difference between processed food and organic sent my suspicion levels off the chart. "All living things have a distinctive energy field around them that can be measured and even photographed". The film immediately lumped itself in with these air heads.

The problem is that the film is so dotted with fiction that the facts might get a little lost during its 92 minute droning time. The facts can essentially be boiled down to just one sentence: To lower your risk of cancer, eat healthy food and avoid potential carcinogens. Here's one way of doing both at the same time.

So don't bother with The Beautiful Truth, that is, unless you're looking for a bullshit enema. The far more beautiful truth it seems, is that science and reason have almost doubled life expectancy and far improved quality of life in just the last 100 years. Sure there will be a few side effects, but can anyone argue it hasn't been worth it?

How to cook babies in delicious sauce.

How to cook babies in delicious sauce is a great book, filled with many great sauces, each one more delicious than the last. With this as your guide, your food is sure to be deliciously saucy. Sure, there's the whole matter of cooking babies, but that's not important when there are so many great sauce recipes to be gained.

When Christians point to the Bible with admiration and awe, sighting how wonderful a guide to life it is, you can't expect differently, because they think its written by the Almighty G himself!

Whats just plain silly though, is when atheists (including myself..) say there are so many life lessons to be learned from the bible, there's lots of good in it they say, in an effort to sound enlightened and accepting. Yes, there's some advice in the Bible that's probably worth taking if your gunning for happiness, but you certainly don't need the bible to get it.

Looking for good advice in the bible is like looking for edible food in a dumpster. You'll rummage through plenty of rotting garbage before finding anything half palatable.

Garbage like God slaughtering innocent babies:

"And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.” (Exod. 12:29)

Well at least he didn't eat them!

What if you're wrong?

I have heard a lot of theists bring up Pascal's Wager, or at least pose the question "what if you're wrong?" Perhaps trying to instill in others the same fear of the afterlife they possess?

"Why not believe, what have you got to lose?" they say..

I find the question rather distasteful, as it heavily devalues the life we have now. We have EVERYTHING to lose, our very freedom of thought; through which we experience what is likely to be the only existence we will ever get.

Historically, there have been thousands of possible faiths to pick from. Even if one of the religions is the "correct" one, your odds are still astronomically low that you both pick correctly and qualify for the happy ending.

We can guarantee what we have today. Life is astounding, we have a magnificent opportunity right here, right now, and to limit our experience with dogma is a tragic waste.

Pat Condell

Pat Condell is my hero. Also he's very very funny.

America; less a nation under God.

Survey shows America is becoming less Religious, about time it started catching up with other developed nations. It would be interesting to see this graphed over time. How many generations until the religious are a minority?