Atheists Be Like...

Religious people be like...

Atheists be like...

What Is Life?

I was watching TV and came across a show about the possibility of finding "life" on other planets.

It got me thinking about the controversy over defining when a human baby becomes alive. For some reason this seems to be a big issue for people in determining the ethics of abortion.

At the 2 extremes, those on the anti abortion "Pro Life" side argue that life begins at conception. On the far "Pro Choice" extreme, they argue that a child is not actually "alive" until it takes it's first breath outside the mother's body and therefore, believe it or not, they think it is acceptable to abort a pregnancy up until the moment of birth- for ANY reason.

I for one believe that life begins at conception and going back to my opening sentence in this post, I offer this scientific justification. If we were to send a probe, rover, whatever, to another planet (Mars for example) and it was to dig up even one lone single celled organism, the headlines in every news program and paper in the world would read "Life Found On Mars!". It wouldn't say "Random mass of cells that's definitely not alive found on Mars!" it would just say Life.

Personally I'm staunchly Pro Life. I'm also Agnostic, so the Judeo-Christian arguments in the Pro Life / Pro Abortion debate don't factor in for me. I do however believe in science, and from a scientific viewpoint I think the definition of Life is pretty clear in my mind.

God Works In Mysterious Ways

Have you ever noticed that when someone has a close call and comes close to death either they or someone around them will usually say something like "I should have died that day, but God had other plans for me." , "God must have saved you for a reason.", " It's all in God's plan." or some similar bullshit.

But when someone is unfortunate enough not to step out of the way of that bus in time and gets splattered all over the pavement like a possum on the highway, nobody ever says "Damn, God must have been pissed off at that dude." 

“Noah” Latest Salvo In The “War On Christianity”

The Christian dominated conservative press is having a field day with the release of “Noah”. With a little hyperbole and creative molding of the truth they have made the release of this rework of the Old Testament tale into the latest attack by us sly Atheists on their faith.

Breitbart has dedicated 5 stories (basically the same thing repeated 5 times by different authors) to Noah, 4 of them in the very top headline section! I’ve also seen numerous reports on virtually all the shows on the Fox news lineup for the past week now.

Apparently it’s simply not acceptable to use a Bible story as the basis for a movie designed to ENTERTAIN and not preach. You see the writers and director of Noah chose not to follow the exact Biblical story of Noah and made a few modifications to appeal to a wider audience rather than take the Mel Gibson route and make a gritty gore porn version of how God got pissed off and decided to drown everyone on Earth except Noah and his family- and the animals of course. Blasphemy!!!!

So, it’s obviously just another salvo launched against the good God fearin’ folk by us evil Godless heathens. I’ve seen “Noah” described in various articles as “a sinister plot” and a “genius piece of (atheist) propagandizing”. Damn they’re on to us. Call a secret meeting of the Vast World Atheist Conspiracy (or VWAC for short) ruling committee immediately!

It always amazes me how much Christians seem to get torqued about stuff like this. They must not have as much faith as they think they do if they find “Noah” a threat worthy of a response like this.

Fox News’ “War On Atheists”

I’m watching Fox News right now and the continuation of their War On Atheists.

Tonight Megyn Kelly (The Kelly File) has a guy from American Atheists on regarding the stupid ruling today that a Christian Cross (a section of steel I beams that resembles a cross) pulled from the wreckage of the World Trade Center and later installed in the memorial there is allowed and does not violate the separation of Church and State.

Despite the stunningly obvious fact that this “cross” is clearly a religious shrine in a public memorial, Ms. Kelly apparently refuses to see this as a problem even when the Atheist rep points out that Jews, Muslims, and yes even Atheists also died there on 9/11, the only religion represented at the memorial is Christianity with this cross.

No surprise there. But what really gets me going is the way she’s speaking to the Atheist she has on the program. She’s treating him with such contempt and condescension it’s infuriating. She speaks down to him like he’s a child even though he’s the only one offering any common sense reasoning in the matter.

The hubris of Christians when they speak to atheists on any matter like this is maddening. Even the way these Fox anchors say the word atheist - dripping with contempt like they are saying “pedophile” or “rapist”. It’s simply disgusting.

Fox News keeps beating this drum of the media waging a “War On Christianity” while they wage this “War On Atheists”.