The problem with the US…

In my humble opinion, the biggest problem in the US currently– and I’m sure a great deal of you will undoubtedly agree with me– is the level of extreme religiosity in the ranks of its government. The only thing that could probably hold a candle to it would be the countries economic issues surrounding the corruption and greed of the 1% and their corporations that have been ‘too big to fail’ (lol mmmm…).

Today we have people like this idiot John Hagee asking that atheists leave the USA if they’re not happy with the country. “They’re not wanted and won’t be missed”.

He also recites the mantra that ‘the US was built by Christians and is a Christian nation’, blah blah blah… Complete and utter bullshit. The founding fathers, some of whom I believe were Christian and some of whom were most assuredly atheists, were irrefutably secular–but clearly you’d have to have read the constitution to know that– and wanted in no way, shape or form for a religion, any religion (yeah that includes Christianity) to be able to muscle its way into government and gain advantage or power over any other religion or lack there of.

I hate these kinds of complete and utter morons who blatantly lie, to themselves as well as their unlucky ignorant followers, about reality in order to control others and gain power and wealth.

Imagine if all atheists did leave the US? You think it would be in better shape than it is currently? HA!

By the way, what a Christian message right? “If you don’t agree with us leave our country!” Then they’ll tear up in the following breath about Christians being persecuted in predominantly Islamic countries…

For any atheists in the US who intent to head John Hagee’s advice and decides to leave the country, please come to Australia! The more atheists we get here the better.

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Music for atheists: Cosmo Jarvis – Love This

Massive fan of this song now. I heard it a few days ago on Triple J (alternative music Australian radio station) as they were featuring Cosmo Jarvis’s latest album ‘Bigger Thinker‘.

There’re some beautiful lyrics in this song, my favourite of which are:

If I believe in heaven I deny myself a death. Dying keeps me conscious of the way I waste my breath.

So have a listen and let me know what you think!

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Indonesian atheist faces jail after comment on Facebook

A 30-year-old civil servant named Alexander An may face prison time simply for coming out on Facebook as an atheist and stating, “God doesn’t exist.”

He was apparently have an argument with other locals from his town on Facebook about religion, and later dozens of locals stormed into his place of work and bashed him. What’s even worse is that the police showed up and arrested him!?

He now faces trial for “suspicion of blasphemy against Islam,” and faces a jail term of up to 5-years.

I find it abysmal and disgusting that any country have anti-blasphemy laws. To me it seems completely contradictory. To put laws in place in order to protect your God from mere words, as if he can’t protect himself, should surely be seen as blasphemous in and of itself!? Moreover, the fact that you think you have to protect your religion by law from blasphemy kind of discredits the validity of your religion, not to mention suggests you have some serious insecurities about your faith as well.

Meanwhile, the religious in Indonesia will hold demonstrations asking for their religious freedom to be respected. I think if you want to have freedom of religion, you should also be able to have freedom from religion.

The Western World needs to start offering asylum to people who are persecuted for being atheists, such as Alexander An. If these countries don’t want rational, clear thinking individuals, then we’ll bloody take them! Maybe we should start a campaign for ‘Adopting Atheist Blasphemers‘?

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Music for atheists: Korn – Evolution

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Music for atheists: Chris Smither – Origin of Species

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Offended?

Anytime a theists is offended by your comments if you’re an atheist, you should show them this!

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Music for Atheists: Karnivool – All I know

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American Muslims See No Justification for Violence

Here‘s a really interesting write up on a study carried out by the Abu Dhabi Gallup Center, Muslim Americans: Faith, Freedom, and the Future.

Muslim Americans: Faith, Freedom, and the Future is based on a nationally representative study of Muslim American perceptions and the views of other major religious groups in the U.S. The report compares trends on Americans’ life evaluations over the past three years as well as probes Muslim and non-Muslim perceptions on issues of national identity, terrorism, foreign policy, religious discrimination, and political participation.

Its findings included that as a group Muslim Americans are the most opposed to military attacks on civilians, as well as individuals or small groups of people targeting and killing civilians. For both questions, Muslim Americans were the group who had the highest % saying that in both cases it was never justified.

I’m also impressed to see that the group comprising the areligious come second with regards to saying military attacks on civilians are never justified.

Perplexing enough here is the amount of Mormon swing voters, the majority of which voted that the military attacking and killing civilians was sometimes justified in the previous question. Whereas, when they were asked whether individuals or small groups were ever justified in targeting civilians they were the second highest group to vote that it was never justified. So it’s the majority of them believe it’s only ok to kill civilians if you’re doing it via the military….? Not to that the areligious group was again among the highest voting that such action was never justified.

I wonder though whether American Muslims, who are assumably relatively recent immigrants, are an appropriate sample of your average Muslim in the world. It would be interesting to see this same study repeated for different countries, as well as averaged over all countries surveyed. I have a feeling the results would be somewhat different, at least with regards to the religious groups involved. I don’t think I’d be drawing a long bow when believing that the areligious, no matter what their nationality or race, would overwhelmingly vote never justified for both these questions.

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Music for atheists

I’ll leave the meaning for you guys to discern for yourselves at first, but if you want more information on what Maynard Keenan wrote the song about see these links.

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