Just one man's opinion...

I have asked on several occasions that if anyone had something that they wanted to say, then feel free to email me and I would post it on here. Well I have my first guest poster. A good friend of mine that I used to work with at Shaw. He actually trained me... molded me if you will (LOL) over three years ago. We have similar views on religion in that if bemuses us, almost comical in some ways how people still in this day and age still believe in religion. Here is his view:

In no way do I feel that I have to apologize or justify being an atheist.

I fail to see the difference between the stories of Gilgamesh, the Odyssey, the Iliad and the Torah or Old Testament (Bible), However the parallels are hard to miss.

What I mean is this: How are the fantastical, mythical and outrageous stories in the Bible (Old or New Testament) different than that of Gilgamesh or the Iliad – What makes the Bibles tall tales

true

but makes Gilgamesh bull?

How is Yahweh so much more GOD than Ra or Zeus or Thor or Anat or The Great Spirit or Baal or Dagon or Gaia or Ishtar or Jesus or Juno or Krishna or Loki or Mars or Venus or Santa Clause for that matter.

What’s that you say: time tested and true! A couple of thousand years people have held strong to this belief how could it be wrong? Tell that to the Egyptians who had very strong religious beliefs (superstitions) worshiping Ra god of the sun for at least three thousand years. Or the Ancient Greeks who believed in their

mythology

for at least two thousand years, etc. etc. etc.

But they were just blind, probably just believed that stuff because their parents raised them on it, most of them were probably just ignorant, too scared by superstition and social pressure to really explorer the truth, the world, their feelings – to trust their own good senses and logic. Right?

And JESUS CHRIST let this guy die already. I really need people to know that best case scenario nothing was even written down about him until

at least

50 years after he died by people who likely didn’t even know him. Most eye-witnesses to events can’t even be trusted to recount an event close to accurately who

were right freakin’ there!!

Who cares, even if it’s not true there are so many good things that the church does for people and the world. Thank you very much but it’s not “the church” doing these good things it’s people and just to let you know – people who don’t go to church or believe in fairy tales also do good things – and are generally more pragmatic about it too.

What do you have to lose? Well, religion BREEDS intolerance and stunts progress, do yourself a favor before you get on the bandwagon for or against stem cell research and know what the fuck you are even talking about, read a little on both sides please. What do you have to lose – your own goddamn opinion for one thing.

Next time some well dressed young gentleman who lacks any worldly experience and probably never even played with a nice set of breasts in his life comes to your door in his black gloves and leather bound “good news” ask him why he carries the torch for an ancient religion dreamt up by people who still lived in caves, who sent their women away from the rest of the “tribe” while they menstruated because they were un-pure, who thought that the world was flat, who later thought that the sun revolved around the earth and actually fucking killed people who respectfully disagreed, who (out of duty or something) would marry their brothers wife if he died (yyeeccchhhtttthhhh), who cut the end of their penis off because they though that’s what god wanted – really? the guy who created the whole universe is concerned with your foreskin, the most sensitive part, who would stone women to death for the slightest suspicion of improper behavior.


No wonder the Romans fed Christians to the lions.




Have a happy day without the fear of god... or bullshit.

A.J.