Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Fowl play!
We ought to do as Thomas Jefferson suggests, mock vigorously woo. Spinoza just wants us to understand others, without mocking them. We do need to understand purveyors of any kind of woo, religious, paranormal or political.
Non-fundamentalism-errancy- invites us to mock it with its trying to find good metaphors for the egregious passages in its texts. None exist for the Deluge and the commands for genocide as they reflects barbarism or is the metaphor one of might makes right? Bishop John Shelby Spong clings to Yeshua, even though he finds much of the Testament wrong-headed.He is wrong to be infatuated with that perverse fool,because Yeshua was just another cult leader, with an ethic no better than any other.
Ti's fowl play to engage in treating that Testament and Yeshua as having any kind of moral demand; it's to gloss over Yeshu'a love of Hell and his silly and dangerous advice.
Faitheists declaim that we rationalists should honor both, but no, duty demands that we mock and instantiate that both exhume travesty of humanity!
All the good derived from theism cannot overcome its fatuity and egregious failings; we can derive the good elsewhere.
B. and I. would be gnu atheists: they rightly perceived the deletorious effects of theism= reduced animism!
They would deride the evil in the name of that superfluity called God!
Love would not hide itself when Holocausts and priest-molesters abound! John Hick's hiddeness argument derives from a sincere rationalization to hold onto that superstition in the name of humanity, but that superfluity keeps people enthralled to woo and sometimes pain.
Just as Bradlaugh and Ingersoll rail against the lack of evidence for that superfluity and its evil effects, we gnu atheists have the duty and the right to do so today to do the same/
Why would a rational person fight against theism,any animism? We do as educators arguing against any woo and just as law enforcement acts against criminals.
We participate in the public square just as liberals did in fighting segregation when segregationists blasted us for going against just public policy.
And Jefferson is right in calling upon us to fight the eternal viglilance!
So, errantists, faitheists and others, call off your irresponsible attacks upon us! You are the ones harmng public discourse with your blandishments against our justified criticisms!
Non-fundamentalism-errancy- invites us to mock it with its trying to find good metaphors for the egregious passages in its texts. None exist for the Deluge and the commands for genocide as they reflects barbarism or is the metaphor one of might makes right? Bishop John Shelby Spong clings to Yeshua, even though he finds much of the Testament wrong-headed.He is wrong to be infatuated with that perverse fool,because Yeshua was just another cult leader, with an ethic no better than any other.
Ti's fowl play to engage in treating that Testament and Yeshua as having any kind of moral demand; it's to gloss over Yeshu'a love of Hell and his silly and dangerous advice.
Faitheists declaim that we rationalists should honor both, but no, duty demands that we mock and instantiate that both exhume travesty of humanity!
All the good derived from theism cannot overcome its fatuity and egregious failings; we can derive the good elsewhere.
B. and I. would be gnu atheists: they rightly perceived the deletorious effects of theism= reduced animism!
They would deride the evil in the name of that superfluity called God!
Love would not hide itself when Holocausts and priest-molesters abound! John Hick's hiddeness argument derives from a sincere rationalization to hold onto that superstition in the name of humanity, but that superfluity keeps people enthralled to woo and sometimes pain.
Just as Bradlaugh and Ingersoll rail against the lack of evidence for that superfluity and its evil effects, we gnu atheists have the duty and the right to do so today to do the same/
Why would a rational person fight against theism,any animism? We do as educators arguing against any woo and just as law enforcement acts against criminals.
We participate in the public square just as liberals did in fighting segregation when segregationists blasted us for going against just public policy.
And Jefferson is right in calling upon us to fight the eternal viglilance!
So, errantists, faitheists and others, call off your irresponsible attacks upon us! You are the ones harmng public discourse with your blandishments against our justified criticisms!
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Bradlaugh & Ingersoll
Both men fought for human liberty and freedom of conscience and against the superstition of the supernatural. Charles Bradlaugh fought in England, finally becoming an M.P. Col. Robert Green Ingersoll was a great Republican,fighting for human rights and for agnosticism, unlike the theo-con-jobservatives of today.
The irony now is that Bradlaugh's nation has less ecclesiastical influence than than we have here. The the established church is losing members, few attend services. Here, more people are becoming nones, whether of no denomination or non-theists. Yet, the theocrats still intrude way to much.
This blog is to gainsay the theocrats and their apologetics and any theological nonsense.
Shine here with posts to my or to others' articles reblogged herE, please.
The irony now is that Bradlaugh's nation has less ecclesiastical influence than than we have here. The the established church is losing members, few attend services. Here, more people are becoming nones, whether of no denomination or non-theists. Yet, the theocrats still intrude way to much.
This blog is to gainsay the theocrats and their apologetics and any theological nonsense.
Shine here with posts to my or to others' articles reblogged herE, please.
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