Tag: Yahweh
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Sometimes I Think It Would Serve Christians Right If Jews Took Back Jesus
Stone cold atheist that I am, I consider myself a huge “fan o’ Jesus”. Even a humble atheist can see that having others do unto him as he does unto them is preferable to having to murder everyone they meet in cold blood every day. I also appreciate Jesus as a cultural Jew. Jesus (Joshua…
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Maybe Monotheism’s The Problem…
I have always been grateful to Hebrew School for making me the atheist I am today. I mean that in the nicest way possible. I’m pretty sure I dropped from the womb a total non-believer, but whatever lingering doubts I had about atheism being “the truth faith” were swept aside by eight years of religious…
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Are There More Atheists Out There Than We Think?
Step One: define “atheist”. Step Two: since, one way or another, everyone can be seen by someone else as an atheist, “yes”. There are way more atheists in the world than we acknowledge. In fact, some of the most theistic people we all know, are, in their way, the most a-theistic, too. But there are…
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Bad Things Happen When Messengers Screw Up The Message — “Do Unto Others”, For Instance…
Here’s the question I can’t get out of my head: why are Christians so bad at practicing Christianity? Why do they seem so utterly incapable of “doing unto others” — a teaching so exquisitely simple, graceful and flat out do-able that even a humble atheist can pull it off with ease? Why can’t they? Here’s…
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The Problem With Thinking YOU Are Created In A Perfect God’s Image Is — NEITHER OF YOU Is Perfect
First things first: perfection is a myth (unless we’re talking about a perfect baseball game or Leonard Cohen’s song “Hallelujah”). “Perfection” is as pulled from our asses as most every other human idea or invention. We’re making it all up — some of us even as we go along. The innovation of monotheism took the…
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The WORST Thing About Anti-Semitism Is How IRRATIONAL It Is…
A Thought Experiment: You walk into a room. Another person enters and punches you – hard. You ask — “What was that for?” And the other person responds “Because you killed my god”. Being a RATIONAL person who doesn’t want to get punched again — and who doesn’t want to resort to violence yourself —…
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American Culture Has A White-Christian-Male Bias & It Needs To Go
How many guilty Catholic priests does it take to screw in a light bulb? Better question — How many guilty Catholic priests (guilty of SCREWING children) does it take before a Culture opens its damned eyes? That blind spot isn’t the Catholic Church’s alone. The man who sexually assaulted me worked for a synagogue. Jews…