“Atheists Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Marry”

Why not? Same reason why gay people aren’t allowed to marry? To me, it seems one is more serious than the other. I don’t see rallies for people against atheists getting married. What’s the big deal? It’s not marriage is sacred or anything. Some believe that atheism contradicts marriage but I don’t see how that’s possible, either. I was married and those close to me knew I was an atheist so, either they didn’t care or they didn’t want to have their asses handed back to them if they mentioned the sanctity of marriage. The bible may this and you can say that – which is cute, by the way:

Y’all can believe anything you want, but marriage is a spiritual union which man has, over time caused to become a legal contract.
Genesis 2:24
Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and they were not ashamed.

That was the first marriage ceremony.

But, the bible also says this:

Colossians 3:18-19

Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.  Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.

-Scratches head- Now, I don’t see too many women submitting to their husbands; I mean only if they’re in to that kind of thing but the point is there’s a lot of shit in that damn book that most Christians do not follow. Why? Because they don’t know it’s there. Why? Because they don’t read the damned thing! Funny, that those who’s only rebuttal is citing Adam and Eve as the first wedding.That would mean that the first wedding was about 4,000 years after the Sumerians invented glue. Oh, here’s another one:

Hebrews 13:4-7

Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.  Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”  So we say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?”  Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.

The excuse? “The government took away the sanctity of marriage!” To me, the moment that happened, marriage was no longer sacred or should have been for one group-set.

There are so many bible verses that aren’t followed and yet when someone steps outside of what they consider normal, THEN they want to thump their bibles. Why bother? When marriage, of any kind, causes physical harm to you or anyone else, then that’s when you should open your mouth and say something. Not a moment before.

1 Corinthians 6:9-10

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

Guess what? You’re going to Hell!

Ha.

This looks like a bunch of he-said, she-said and someone just so happened to be there to write it down. Maybe.

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‘Black Atheists’ is Considered Segregation: O’RLY?!

I am the owner of this blog and it’s been 3 years since I started it, and when starting a blog like this brings along a lot of attention. It’s nothing that I cannot handle but there’s one thing that I must address. I am not segregating my race. I’ve been asked: “Why are you segregating a race and atheism?” 3 or so times on the Facebook page and once on here and it’s quite interesting. I have addressed this question before but it’s not doing any justice if it’s being drowned by the many posts on the Facebook page.

No way am I being racists or dividing atheism. Those who’ve asked this should try to understand what I mean by Black Atheists. Black Atheists means that there are not that many of us; if it is, they’re not coming out about it. It’s so rare to find another Black atheist that some people feel alone; I know I did. Even though as a whole, atheists are minority, it’s even more so clear among the African American community.

Being a Christian in a Black family of Baptists may not be any more different from a white family but I believe that Blacks have more to lose. I’ve lost friends to coming out about their atheism. They came out to their family, their family went to church and told the congregation, the congregation then told everyone else, and then that person end up being killed, banished, or they could no longer associate themselves with me.

My brother came out to our family about his atheism and they gasped in terror and then told him that he needs to read the bible more. Told him, that if he doesn’t change his mind, that he’ll be doomed to a life of anguish and misfortunes. My brother has since then contemplated suicide, and alienated himself from the few friends he had. They didn’t understand, either. Black Atheists means that those who are able to, those who are strong enough to be, to accept themselves who they are, will know that they are not alone. There are more of us than first realized. Every so often I come across someone saying, “I thought I was the only one, I’ve felt so alone and none of my friends of family understand! They just tell me to go read the bible”. Black Atheists is around for that reason.

This page may say Black Atheists, but I’m not discriminatory towards anyone who wants to join or take part. This blog, the Facebook page exists to help those who need empowerment. To see it as anything other than that just tells me how small-minded a person can be.

We’ll never get past segregating one another if this continues!

All I have to say is it’s been here for a long time and as long as there are humans on this earth, history books in the schools, or someone who only see things in black and white, there will be segregation.

Let’s just put it this way, BET (Black Entertainment Television), NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), TheRoot.com, and the like; why do you think they exist? Just think about it and when you come up with an answer, leave a comment.

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Blame The Atheists for the Connecticut Massacre

We all know how some religious people claim they are all for god, but they constantly create lies; and this massacre is no exception. Ignorance use the “No True Christian loophole. “No True Christian™ would have done that, so he must have been a Satan worshiping atheist.” If this isn’t a prime example of Christians pointing fingers for anything bad that happens, regardless of reality, then I don’t know what is.

Since Adam seems to have been a fairly regular churchgoer, Jesus’ hands were tied. Well, nailed down actually; that automatically makes him an atheist because god didn’t stop him.

Apparently, Jesus calls people home when it is their time – and, he doesn’t care who gets hurt in the process. To say, “this was all a part of god’s plan.” or, “it was their time to leave this planet” is a pile of bullshit! To say that taking god out of the schools is the reason a psycho killed his mother at home and then went to the school to kill innocent children is absurd! This is not the time to be keeping score, whether you’re theist or atheist. To say that atheists can kill whomever they want, whenever they want because they lack a moral compass is idiotic. It’s that we don’t need a moral compass from a book of fairy-tales to be good in this world.

Whether Adam Lanza was Christian or atheist is irrelevant. I don’t see how it matters unless he had a manifesto related to either Christianity or atheism. For example, Anders Brevic was a Christian killer. My hunch is this guy was just your run-of-the-mill psycho who went hard off the deep end. He killed 20 kids, his mom and then himself! I only see the guns blazing and I don’t think they’re either Christian or Atheist. It doesn’t matter what the man was, it happened. Why do people have to put denominations onto things that happen? Was Hurricane Katrina Christian or Atheist? It doesn’t matter, it happened!
We should be thinking of the kids, not the murderer. Their parents are going through hell now, and we hear nothing about them. Imagine, just for a minute, how you would feel if you lost a loved one, suddenly. Went off to school in the morning, dead by that night. Empty bedrooms, toys around the house, no laughter, no one chasing the dog around.

Nothing can really be said that we haven’t all said before.  It’s heart wrenching that we have to keep repeating these events; like a surreal bad nightmare. Whatever the cause, whether mental or ideological, it’s the human condition and it seems that we have no way to control it.  If it hadn’t happened with this person at this time, it would just happen with someone else on a different day.  I wish I had reasons to be more optimistic.

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Undercover Atheist

Being a undercover atheist can sometimes be the most annoying thing ever, but it is a annoyance that I must deal with if I plan to have any piece of mind. Now when I say undercover atheist, I am not referring to a nonbeliever who pretends to be a christian just to see what goes on inside the church, I have more of a life than that (hopefully I didn’t offend anyone if that is something that you partake in). I am referring to the fact that I hide my true beliefs in order to keep drama down with friends and issues with my family at bay.

My family is very religious. I have always wanted to tell them of my disbelief in our supreme, righteous, all knowing daddy (AKA god) but I fear what the consequences of that might be. I NEED MY FAMILY! I need to be able to talk to them constantly. I need to be able to attend family dinners and not have everyone treat me as if I am a step child. So I hide how I truly feel about religion in order to protect myself from losing any love from my family. I go to church with them sometimes, listen to them pray, and I will even give them a dollar or two for the “building fund that never seems to add anything to building.” Thats about as far as I will go though.

Now I know most of you are probably saying that, “I should not have to hide my true self from my family. They should love me know matter what I believe in.” Well that is true but you must also remember that this is religion that we are talking about. Religion has a way of making parents kill their children, preachers butt fucking little boys, countries going to war and killing millions, etc, etc!! My family might be understanding and love me anyway, but that is a risk that I am not willing to take. I would much rather sacrifice being a open atheist rather than be without my family. That might change one day in the future but at this current point in time, that is how I am.

When it comes to my friends, I tend to be a little more vocal about my beliefs but I hardly just tell people that I’m a atheist. Friends are easy to replace and I tend to surround myself with people who are not judgmental. I’m a geek and I love science so the people I hang with are usually the same way. I do have a few however, that are stupidly religious (Is stupidly a word? Like someone please tell me as I’m to lazy to google it). If you say one bad thing about the bible, they get all offended. Yesterday, I said “fuck you preacher, talking about come to church on time and your ass be late for every church event there is,”on twitter. My ex girlfriend (notice I said ex) got so offended, that she went on a big rant about how I was going to hell. My reply to her of course was that “I love the heat” LOL.

So that is my “Undercover Atheist” life in a nutshell. Now for all of you who are going to call me weak and a hypocrite, take this into consideration. Imagine you are a young man who just graduated from college. You are going to the Air Force in April but you have little money on hand and a ton of bills to pay. You are the victim of a crapy economy so finding steady work is hard to come by until you leave in April. The last thing you need is to be fighting with family and friends when you seriously need their help. Well if that alters your opinion of the situation, know that that is my current state. I really need all of my bridges intact.

If you are going through something similar, please share.

Rodney

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Realizing I Don’t Believe In God (New Arthor: Rodney)

I’m not really big on introductions but let me give you a very brief summary of who I am. My name is Rodney and I’m a geek. I graduated from Louisiana Tech University with a Bachelors of Science in Computer information Systems. I’m currently 23 years old and will be joining the USAF in the upcoming months. I love technology, politics, and recently have grown to love blogging (Ironic seeing that I have always hated English). But that’s enough of that; lets get to the point of this rant.

I was born and raised in a Christian environment. When I was 8, I became a member of a church and attended worship services and bible class every week. I said my prayers at night, read my bible, and tried to follow the bible as closely as possible and without blemish. I was what they call “a good Christian child.” Now after reading that, you might wonder how is it that I stopped believing in god?

Retracing over my childhood, I was always the skeptical type. I loved math, science, and history. I wanted evidence for everything. If I were told something that did not make sense, I would question it and demand proof. This eventually started interfering with my teachings in church. There were far to many logical fallacies contained in the bible for my liking. That’s when I started questioning everything I was being told.

It first started with small questions like where did god come from and how did a virgin have a baby. Of course I would get the typical “he was always here” and “it was the power of god” answers. These answers were not satisfactory to me but they were the best answers I would receive. As I became older, I urged for more precise answers. How was it possible to flood the entire planet and where did all the water go? Why would the devil leave heaven if it were so great? What makes Christianity right and other religions wrong? Why does the bible contradict itself? As you can see, there were a lot questions that I needed answered.

I started praying and searching for answers to all of my questions. I had counseling sessions with preachers, went to every church event possible, and even took a course in religion (huge waste of time). I wanted to believe that god was real. I wanted to believe in heaven and the hope of eternal life. Heck, I wanted to believe that if I paid my tithe to the church, I would be financially blessed. After reasoning with myself, it became obvious. I did not believe in “god.”

I had allowed myself to follow a religion without making sanity of it first. All the wasted time spent in church when I could have been getting production out of my life. All the money I had given to the church when I could have put it to much better use. I had been hoodwinked! Oh how disappointed was I in my inability to match religion with fairy tales.

But yea, that’s my short story. Notice that I like to keep my rants short and simply worded. I have since become an undercover atheist, which I will tell you guys about at a later time. Please share your experiences, if any, with me in the comment section. Also feel free to criticize the living hell (if there is one) out of me if you want, doesn’t matter.

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Bible Verses You Won’t Read in Church

Jesus kills children

“Behold,I will cast her into a bed,and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation,except they repent of their deeds. And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.” (Revelation 2:22-23)

Kill enemies while others watch

“But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them—bring them here and kill them in front of me.” (Luke 19:27)

Hate people

“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be my disciple.” (Luke 14:26)

Divide and conquer

“I have come to set the world on fire, and I wish it were already burning! 50 I have a terrible baptism of suffering ahead of me, and I am under a heavy burden until it is accomplished. 51 Do you think I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I have come to divide people against each other! 52 From now on families will be split apart, three in favor of me, and two against—or two in favor and three against.53‘Father will be divided against son and son against father; mother against daughter and daughter against mother; and mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”

Kill all who don’t believe/heaven for people who die for the sky god

“Then a third angel followed them, shouting, “Anyone who worships the beast and his statue or who accepts his mark on the forehead or on the hand 10 must drink the wine of God’s anger. It has been poured full strength into God’s cup of wrath. And they will be tormented with fire and burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and the Lamb. 11 The smoke of their torment will rise forever and ever, and they will have no relief day or night, for they have worshiped the beast and his statue and have accepted the mark of his name.” 12 This means that God’s holy people must endure persecution patiently, obeying his commands and maintaining their faith in Jesus. 13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this down: Blessed are those who die in the Lord from now on. Yes, says the Spirit, they are blessed indeed, for they will rest from their hard work; for their good deeds follow them!” (Revelation 14:9-13)

Die for him from war and not peace

“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36 And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household. 37 Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38 And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39 Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.” (Matthew 10:34-39)

Mutilate yourself

“You have heard that it was said, ‘you shall not commit adultery’; 28 but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 “If your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. 30 “If your right hand makes you stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to go into hell. (Matthew 5:27-29)

Burn non-believers

“I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.  If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away an withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. (John 15:5-6)

Judgmentally bitch and moan at non believers

“Then Jesus began to denounce the towns where he had done so many of his miracles, because they hadn’t repented of their sins and turned to God. 21 “What sorrow awaits you, Korazin and Bethsaida! For if the miracles I did in you had been done in wicked Tyre and Sidon, their people would have repented of their sins long ago, clothing themselves in burlap and throwing ashes on their heads to show their remorse. 22 I tell you, Tyre and Sidon will be better off on judgment day than you. 23 “And you people of Capernaum, will you be honored in heaven? No, you will go down to the place of the dead. For if the miracles I did for you had been done in wicked Sodom, it would still be here today. 24 I tell you, even Sodom will be better off on judgment day than you.” ~jesus (Matthew 11:20-24)

If you’re a Christian, you can do no wrong-doing

Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. (Romans 8:33)

Leaders of god? Go ahead, judge away!

“The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man’s judgment.”  (1 Corinthians 2:15)

Cry-baby jesus hates all green life

“Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs. 14 Then he said to the tree, ’May no one ever eat fruit from you again.’ And his disciples heard him say it.” (Mark 11:13-14)

Racism is okay as long as it’s in the bible

These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: ‘Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans. Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel.’ (Matthew 10:5-6)

Jesus: “I didn’t come down here to free slaves, screw them!”

“That servant who knows his master’s will and does not get ready or does not do what his master wants will be beaten with many blows.  But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.”  (Luke 12:47-48)

Hate the world

“Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. 17 And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever. (1 John 2:15-17)

Irrational jesus is irrational

“If you do something wrong with your eye or hand, cut/pluck it off.” (Matthew 5:29-30).

“Marrying a divorced woman is adultery.” (Matthew 5:32)

“Don’t plan for the future.” (Matthew 6:34)

“Don’t save money.” (Matthew 6:19-20)

“Don’t become wealthy.” (Mark 10:21-25)

“Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will never fail, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.” (Luke 12:33)

“Don’t work to obtain food.” (John 6:27)

“Don’t have sexual urges.” (Matthew 5:28)

“Make people want to persecute you.” (Matthew 5:11)

“If someone steals from you, don’t try to get it back.” (Luke 6:30)

“If someone hits you, invite them to do it again.” (Matthew 5:39)

“If you lose a lawsuit, give more than the judgment.” (Matthew 5:40)

“If someone forces you to walk a mile, walk two miles.” (Matthew 5:41)

“If anyone asks you for anything, give it to them without question.” (Matthew 5:42)

You’re a fool regardless

“Whoever calls somebody a “fool” shall be in danger of hell fire.” (Matthew 5:22),

& Yet jesus called people fools himself

 “You fools and blind men! Which is more important, the gold or the temple that sanctified the gold?” (Matthew 23:17)

God is going to hell as well:

“But God said unto him, [Thou] fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee.” In other words, Jesus says that he who says “thou fool” shall be in danger of hell fire, and then God says “Thou fool”. So, God is in danger of hell fire!” (Luke 12:20)

Steal our free-will? What free-will? You’re considered a sinner for just about every. little. thing.

‘‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord, ‘every knee will bow before me; every tongue will confess to God.” (Romans 14:11)

“By myself I have sworn, my mouth has uttered in all integrity a word that will not be revoked: Before me every knee will bow; by me every tongue will swear.” (Isaiah 45:23)

“That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth” (Philippians 2:10)

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How Do We Know We’re Not in Hell Now?

It has been said that Hell is not a place you go if you’re not a Christian; it’s what happens when you fail your life’s greatest ambitions. I have always enjoyed this explanation of hell. Not because it’s different than the traditional depictions of hell. I think of the traditional hell with fire and brimstone being flung everywhere and flames surrounding you, with silhouetted demons mocking you at every turn. For some people like myself, I can imagine getting used to an eternity of annoying demons and balls of fire falling from the sky. At least I would never need to put on a shirt again. No, the traditional description of hell isn’t all that hellish if you ask me. However, I can imagine much deeper darker sets of anguish and torment. I am sure everyone can. Or at least people who have a modern understanding of the Universe and how cosmologically small we all are.

“Atheists Are Just Spiritually Lazy” ….O’RLY?!

Only those with a book of ‘cop outs’ would say such a foolish thing. We have to sit and read a book Christians refuse to read thoroughly and abide by but we’re spiritually lazy? Yea ok and I’m the pope.

We’ve researched, we’ve asked questions; hell some of us were even saved. What actually classifies us as being spiritually lazy? Wouldn’t we have had to have some type of spiritual awareness to even become Atheists? We didn’t just sit up one day and say, “Well since reading the bible is just so much work and going to church is something I rather not do, I’m going to just sit on my ass and act like god doesn’t exist”. In other words since religious folk believe that we’re stubborn bastards and refuse to understand and listen to this god, that makes up spiritually lazy. That’s poor logic because how in the hell do you know what I am? Did god tell you?

While I’m on that, to be spiritually lazy means you are apart of a religion but you’re lazy as hell. There are various definitions but being an Atheist is not someone who is ‘spiritually lazy’. That’s B.S.. It takes a jackass to decide that Atheists are spiritually lazy when we know the bible better than Christians do. That has been scientifically proven as well. People have prayed and tried to seek out this god but guess what? You guess it, nothing happened. They took it a step further and opened up their ears, eyes and brains and realized that they’re living a fairytale. A magical sky being is up there with the rest of the dead people looking down on us with its never-ending pad with an ink pen writing down every damn thing we do. So when ‘judgment day’ comes he moisten his thumb and look through the pages and look for your name to read off your list of sins. Remind you, he does this to every last person on earth.

If questioning the bible makes me spiritually lazy, then so be it. I’ll be that. I’ll join the rest of the spiritually lazy sheep that got their eyes open and asking questions. I bet I’ll fit right in.

 

Whoa there! Putting Christ Back in Christmas? Ha!

Is Jesus the Reason for the Season?:
Many conservative evangelical Christians at this time of year want to “put Christ back in Christmas” and insist that “Jesus is the Reason for the Season.” With these slogans, they hope to remind people that Christmas is a Christian holiday and that without Christ, there would be no Christmas in the first place. Such Christians are offended that so many people enjoy the holidays without any reference to Jesus or Christianity and want it to stop. Unfortunately, they don’t have much of a case.

 

Christmas Wars:
Not having a case doesn’t seem to matter, though, and conservative Christians have been pursuing their so-called Christmas Wars with great vigor. A few influential conservatives are using Christmas as a political weapon against liberals, secularists, and non-Christians by claiming that a secular, anti-Christian conspiracy has removed Christ from Christmas.

 

Pre-Christian Reasons for the Season:
If Jesus is the Reason for the Season, why are so many aspects of the season pre-Christian and pagan? Christians took over the Decemer 25th Roman holiday of Natalis Solis Invicti, festival of the birth of the invincible sun, as well as Saturnalia. Christians took over German mid-winter festival celebrations which used evergreen trees and holly as symbols of eternal life. Where is Christ in all of this? How is Jesus the reason for the season of mid-winter festivals that pre-date Christianity?

Pagan Christmas Trees:
The most central and recognizable symbol of Christmas today is the Christmas tree — and it has nothing to do with Christianity, Christ, or Jesus. It’s a purely pagan symbol taken from ancient German mid-winter festivals. Even if people hang religious ornaments on the tree, the hanging of ornaments is originally pagan, not Christian. The practice of cutting down trees and taking them home to decorate them with gold and silver is even condemned by God in the book of Jeremiah.

Christian Aspects of American Christmas:
Christmas as it is celebrated in America has just two Christian elements: nativity scenes and Santa Claus. Nativity scenes are unquestionably Christian, but their role is smaller than symbols such as pagan trees. Only Christmas carols which reference the nativity continue to be very important. Santa Claus is central to Christmas, but while his roots are Christian, he has become completely secularized – there is nothing recognizably Christian about him anymore.

Secularization of American Christmas:
Christmas as we know it today is not at all like how Christians used to treat the holiday — for most of Christian history it was a minor holiday, if celebrated at all. Contemporary Christmas has become so secularized that it’s difficult to find the Christian elements sometimes, and this means that for most people Jesus just isn’t the reason for the season today — if he ever was. Christmas is more about a secular Santa than Jesus the Christ and Savior.

Commercialization of American Christmas:
Christmas is more a commercial enterprise than a religious observance – Jesus isn’t the reason for the season, buying consumer goods is. Heavy commercialization of Christmas took off in WWII when people had to buy early to get gifts to troops, but the early shopping season didn’t end with the war. This was when campaigns to “put Christ back into Christmas” started, and look at how successful they’ve been: the buying season is not only longer, but more central both to Christmas and the economy.

Christmas Doesn’t Need Christ or God:
It’s true that for many Christians, Christmas is so religious that there would be little point to the holidays without their religious perspective. At the same time, however, there are millions of non-Christians and godless people who celebrate and enjoy the holidays without much problem. It’s possible to go through the whole Christmas season while encountering few, if any, significantly Christian elements. There is nothing odd or difficult about having a Christmas without Christ or God.

Atheists Celebrating Christmas:
The fact that Jesus is not the Reason for the Season and that there is no particular place for Christ in Christmas doesn’t mean, however, that all atheists are comfortable with celebrating Christmas. Some argue that it would be better to ignore the holiday. Some continue to celebrate it because they aren’t out as atheists or don’t want to rock the boat among religious family members. Should atheists celebrate or ignore Christmas?

Jesus is not the Reason for the Season:
What is most mistaken, and even offensive, about the slogan “Jesus is the Reason for the Season” is that Christians are attempting to claim ownership of and priority over the entire holiday season, not just Christmas. There is, however, no reason to imagine that there would be no mid-winter holidays in the absence of Christ or Christianity.

 

Modern Christmas celebrations have little or nothing to do with Jesus, the Feast of the Nativity, or the Incarnation. Consider some popular Christmas traditions: erecting and decorating a tree, hanging wreaths, sending cards, drinking eggnog, giving presents, hanging mistletoe…where is Christ in all of this?

 

Thus we also have slogans about “putting Christ back into Christmas,” but it’s difficult to see how Christ was ever central to Christmas. When Christians celebrated it at all, it was about the nativity of Jesus, not the salvation from Christ. Today, even Jesus has receded into the background.

 

Our modern Christmas is a large number of ancient pagan practices, a few pieces of Christian traditions, and a large number of modern creations which are almost entirely secular in nature, no matter where they got their inspiration from. I see little room and little need for any “Christ” in all of this – but more importantly, I see little place where a “Christ” could be put back into the mix.

 

This is why Jesus is not the reason for the season for non-Christians. Whether non-Christians celebrate some form of Christmas or something else entirely, the reason for the season is whatever meaning they invest in their holiday — and that is up to them, not to Christians.

 

To put it simply, Christians who insist that Jesus is the reason for the season and that Christ needs to be “put back” into Christmas are seeking to assert their cultural superiority over everyone else. It’s yet one more example of attempts to reassert Christian privilege in an America that has moved on to religious pluralism.

Whydo atheists have better moral than a religious person?

You never hear in the news, ‘200 killed today when atheist rebels took heavy shelling from the agnostic stronghold in the north.

I don’t know if you’ve ever seen Doug Stanhope but he bashes religion quite a bit, so I imagine you would like him.

Crazy Christians

Do these people belong in a church or in a mental facility of some sort? What exactly are they doing? What can Christians possible prove jumping around like they’ve been possessed by the very thing they call the ‘holy ghost’? What’s the difference in that and someone being exorcised to release the ‘demons‘? Who REALLY needs to holy water here? Someone needs to compel the Christ out of these crazy Christians.

Ex-Hypocrite Huh?

Thanks to one of my readers for this hilarious video. Do you see the shirts? Do…you see…the shirts? They’re basically reneging from being human; imperfect.

I am an Ex- fornicator, masturbator, liar , racist..it was by God and only God that I’ve been delivered from these things!

I think I broke a blood vessel in my head from laughing so damn hard right after I finished reading the comments.  Oh but wait, go to their site for more Christian comical relief.

I would buy one of their shirts..if only they had one that says ‘Ex-Christian’.

You don’t smile in your pictures; you need JESUS!

Hi, my name is Asilee [Az-za-lee], by all means have fun pronouncing my name. Recently I decided to venture to a site most Christians believe will cause any Atheist who did to turn into a puff of smoke. Elev8 is a site powered by Black Planet, which is powered by incompetent idiots. I saw one article that stood out from the rest. It was this one. I posted one of my links and didn’t return to see the after effects. Someone decided to find me on Facebook and tell me that someone said that I’m angry all the time because I need Jesus and that’s why I don’t smile in my pictures. I find it comforting that I’m not the only Atheist that ventures to that site. I guess he was there looking for comic relief as well.

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My thing is this. Why when Christians don’t have anything better to say they either:

1. Take a stab at your looks.
2. Take a stab at [if there is any] grammatical errors.
3. Try and assume things based on what you say and be totally wrong.
4. Try to tell you that you need Jesus.
5. Feel the need to ‘pray for you’.

How can one assume because I have a mug on in my picture that I’m supposedly angry? How did a total stranger get that out of one little message? I’m not angry at all. I find his judgmental slandering hypocritical and absurd.  They’re supposedly Christian’s and here they are judging a very old picture of me. So because I’m an Atheist, and I posted a link, and the silly bastard put together that and what I look like; I need Jesus? I’ve never been so insulted. No, I kid. I’m not insulted, I’m actually flattered.

If anything, he should have just pretty much clicked on the link I posted and said what he had to say in the post. I’m sure a lot of them chimed in with him. Saying, I worship the devil; I’m Satan‘s offspring. I’m cracking up just thinking about it. I can’t help but wonder why did Dennis feel the need to tell me what the character said and that he defended me even after assuming that I don’t need help defending myself. Was he expecting me to go back there and argue with the poor S.O.B? Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad he came and told me and it’s great that Atheists stick together like that [Thanks Dennis]. I’m all for making new Atheists friends. But my mission was accomplished the moment they got offended.

You know what? I think the waste of oxygen was pretty much shocked that I’m Black and a atheist.  It must have threw him for a loop. He couldn’t think straight and all he could think of was me being ‘angry’ in my pictures.

A lot of people don’t smile in pictures. So does that make them angry and in the need of an imaginary friend? If they don’t have one already of course.

By the way, in the mind of a black person who goes to church every Sunday; what DON’T need Jesus these days? I hear black people say that all the time. “That poor child needs Jesus, she got a B on her spelling test”. If you’re doing good you need Jesus, if you’re doing bad you need Jesus and to be ‘saved’. & If you look angry, you need a smile.

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I Wake up on my own in the morning…

By opening my eyes and sitting up in bed is how I wake up in the morning. By making it home safe on my own is how I make it there. People are so quick to say, “I’m not trying to judge you or anything but…” but don’t realize you are judging me just in a tone that is in means of a question. They don’t know for sure if this God is waking them up in the morning or allowing them to make it home safely. Yet they feel they can ask me that, which is very disrespectful I may add. Knowing that I’m an Atheist and yet still ask me that stupid ass question like that is going to make me sit and go “hmmmm?” is disrespectful as hell.

I’m the one making sure I get to and fro safely, I wake my damn self up, half of the time its my bladder that wakes me up. People have been asking me that for the last two damn days and its getting very, very, very annoying. Why would people ask me that? If its already set in my mind that this “God” doesn’t exist, why do people bother? What are they getting out of asking me such stupid questions? How do they know for sure if this God is real or not? Oh, because they pray and then something miraculous happen. Its called timing and that’s it.

As much hatred is going on in the world you would think this God would do something about it but he/she/it is just allowing it to happen, for what…Judgment Day? BULL….SHIT! What is wrong with me being an Atheist? Especially amongst other black people? I guess they expect everyone who is black to be a Christian all for the sake of sticking together well why stick together with people who rather shoot someone over a pair of NIKES than go to school? Why would I want to stick together with individuals and more pinpoint females who want to pin some child on a man knowing damn well he’s not the father? Why? Call me a racist but blacks are a disgrace to a lot of people, its not all of them but its most of them with this hood-rat/thug mentality.

Their rebuttal to anyone who is an Atheist is their million dollar question, “How do you wake up in the morning?” I stretch, rub my eyes and make a beeline to the damn bathroom that’s how. Waking up thanking some THING that I don’t even know if it exist or not is not in my jurisdiction and never will be. So those who feel that they would prove a point asking me that dumb ass question, please save it, you really won’t get any where with that tired ass question. Oh, don’t take me wrong here, I’m grateful that I’m alive cause hell I’m not supposed to be…I mean who get in 7 car accidents and lives to talk about it? Who dodges Cancer over 3 times and is diagnosed for it every damn other year? Who dies over 4 times at birth cause of their high drunk ass mother and had to be revived numerous times? Me, that’s who so don’t even entertain the idea that I’m some unappreciative bastard cause I’m not, I’m just not believing this God is the reason to why I’m still here. Hell if that’s the case, I should of been dead long ago then if he exist. “It’s not your time to go/you are here for a reason.” my ass!

I’m sorry for the language, I am trying to cut back on all of that but this was the last straw and since I type better than I write I prefer typing it out but I can’t just ball this up and throw it away.