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The Bible is a fantastic story about the rise of a fictional Hebrew storm god named Yahweh, and his wife, Asherah. Through a series of well-planned maneuvers, and a little coaxing from the wife, Yahweh manages to usurp control of mankind from the Elohim, a consortium of gods that created the universe. So cunning and [...]
Archive for October, 2011
To Serve Man
October 25th, 2011 
Al Stefanelli Humanism is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity, of application of new ideas of scientific progress for the benefit of all – Linus Pauling I’ve receive a lot of mail. Most of it positive, but there is a significant amount that is not. I often get accused of being [...]
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31 Comments »The “War On Pot” And The Religious Right
October 22nd, 2011 Al Stefanelli Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality. – Frank Zappa One of the many aspects of marijuana that separates it from other drugs and narcotics is that it’s a naturally growing plant, requiring no outside intervention or manufacturing processes to [...]
Honor Killings: Islamic And Christian Misogyny At It’s Worst
October 19th, 2011 Al Stefanelli “Man enjoys the great advantage of having a god endorse the code he writes; and since man exercises a sovereign authority over women it is especially fortunate that this authority has been vested in him by the Supreme Being. For the Jews, Mohammedans and Christians among others, man is master by divine right; the fear [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Tags: Abuse, Bible, Child Abuse, Christianity, Honor Killings, Islam, Koran, Misogyny, Quran, Scripture, Wife Beating 20 Comments »Abortion Is Not Murder
October 17th, 2011 Al Stefanelli The moral truth here is obvious: anyone who feels that the interests of a blastocyst just might supersede the interests of a child with a spinal cord injury has had his moral sense blinded by religious metaphysics -Sam Harris One would be hard-pressed to find a subject that brings out the worst in Christians than [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Tags: Abortion, Atheism, Extremists, Fundamentalists, Pro-Choice, Pro-Life, Roe v. Wade 42 Comments »Historical Revisionism, Politics And The Religious Right
October 15th, 2011 Al Stefanelli “As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion…” – The Treaty of Tripoli , ratified by the Senate, June 7, 1797 It’s not just startling, but frightening. The sheer number of people who are ignorant about the precepts, concepts and motivation behind the founding of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Tags: Atheism, Christian Nation, Christianity, Founding Fathers, Humanism, Secularism, Theocracy 11 Comments »The Goodness Of God – A Perplexing Paradox
October 13th, 2011 Al Stefanelli With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. – Steven Weinberg If something is good simply because a god has commanded it, then anything that a god commands could be considered good. Of course, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Tags: Atheists, Delusion, God, Mental Illness, Morality, Religion 6 Comments »Science, Religion And The Cognitive Distortion Of The Believing Mind
October 12th, 2011 Al Stefanelli “Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church’s opposition to every advance in every field of science” – Upton Sinclair With all that we have come to understand about the cosmos, there is much we do not know. Richard Feynman, one of the greatest minds in the field of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Tags: Atheism, Christianity, Cognitive Dissonance, Cognitive Distortion, Islam, Religion, Science 6 Comments »We’re Just Like Them, Only Different…
October 10th, 2011 Al Stefanelli “non se·qui·tur [non sek-wi-ter-toor; Lat. nohn se-kwi-toor] noun. (1) Logic. An inference or a conclusion that does not follow from the premise. (2) A statement containing an illogical conclusion” – The English Language I often wonder why there are so many Atheists (yes, I am one of those people who capitalize “Atheists” – get over it) try so hard [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Tags: Atheism, Logical Fallacy, Non-Sequitur, Spiritual Atheism, Spirituality 18 Comments »Why Don’t You Just “Believe?”
October 9th, 2011 Al Stefanelli I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because notice it always coincides with their own desires - Susan B Anthony I get many different reactions from people who discover that I’m not a religious man, which is an understatement. These words are uttered in a gamut of emotion from surprise [...]
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