Wise Words

“When I think of the number of unpleasant people I know who claim to be going to a ‘better world’, I’m moved to lead a more sinful life. Remember, heaven for the climate, hell for the society.”

- Samuel Langhorn Clemens

“We are all atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”

— Stephen Roberts

“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”
–Seneca

"Let’s just do a quick review of bible-god.

Remember that he’s allegedly “omniscient.” This means that he knew before the beginning of time everything that would happen. Everything.

If we are to play along with this, he knew long before he created you whether you’d end up in heaven or hell.

This begs the question of why go ahead with the experiment if he knew how it would end? Does he enjoy watching suffering?

But he decided to proceed. Well the first experiment in the garden of Eden is a right disaster. So what does this “just” god do in response? I would have sent Adam & Eve to bed without supper that night and given them a second chance. Bible-god instead goes postal, evicts these two naive teens, and then to be extra sadistic, he places the Curse of Original Sin not just on them but on all of their descendants in perpetuity.

Nota bene: This deity metes out infinite punishment for finite transgressions. Moreover, he metes out collective punishment for individual acts.

The above goes against everything civilized society stands for.

Now we continue along to his next screw-up. Things continue to deteriorate in large part because of the burden of Original Sin. After all, Original Sin dooms humanity from the get-go. It doesn’t stand a chance of winning bible-god’s approval.

So what does bible-god do in response? Why he holds the very first holocaust: the Biblical Flood. Not only does he murder all people but puppies and kitties too!

Remind me again how he supposedly differs from Satan?

We continue. After re-starting with a blank canvass after the flood, things still go to pot in his creation.

This deity just can’t get it right, can he?

So what is this genius’s next idea for solving the problems in his creation? Why it’s to have an illegitimate child with a young teen whose sole purpose will be to be murdered in a gruesome blood ritual!

This is the best solution bible-god could come up with???? If I were him, I would have wiggled my nose like I Dream of Jeannie and stopped the unnecessary suffering once and for all.

Despite this alleged sacrifice of his own child, the world continued getting worse and worse. Last year a ten year old girl was raped and buried alive in Florida as bible-god watched silently from up above.

He has the power to stop these crimes. He is the only one with the power to eliminate childhood leukemia and Alzheimers and stop tsunamis and earthquakes. Yet he does nothing.

Meanwhile, believers who sound as if they were traumatized victims of Stockholm Syndrome continue to bleat on about his mercy and love!"

-Bible Dude (en kille som kan mycket om bibeln som jag stöter på lite här och där på nätet, ganska ofta faktiskt... han är min hero.)