Don't question my faith, don't say mean things about religion.

You must respect me for my belief. You'll never get me to stop believing in God. The people who don't ask Christ to be in their hearts don't get it. (They are immoral, sinners, they are lost. Oops, I won't say this to anyone but just think this.) I don't want to hear about you saying my religion is mythology. I don't want to hear it. Don't tell me to think about my faith! La la la la la, I can't hear you.

I want you to shut up. How about burning you at the stake? That will make you shut up. Oops! I'd go to jail for murder. Oh hell, what a bitch. I can't burn you at the stake.

Why bring up past horrors of Christianity? There is nothing similiar about today's (21st Century) Christians and those Christians in the 1500s. In the 1500s Christians wanted nonbelievers to shut the hell up. (Hee hee, they definately got them to shut up by burning them at the stake.)

We, the Christians of today, are not like the Christians of the past in any way, shape or form. Well hell, we don't burn nonbelievers at the stake! We don't do this! We are not like them. (Whispering. We don't want to go to jail.)

What are we like today? We'll vote against them. We'll tell them they are immoral. We'll tell them they must respect our beliefs. We'll try to Christianize them by making Christianity into US Law. Nope. We are not like the Christians in the 1500s.

This time we are going to do it right. We've learned from our past Christian brothers. We will change the law so that we can get them when they are young and indoctrinate them. If you still resist our mythology, we'll change the law and make you believe.

Oh... we Christians don't do that to people today (2010), what are you talking about?? Why would anyone accuse Christians of being mean to other people and trying to force people believe in our mythology?

You need a list?

"In God We Trust", "...one nation under God..." (Both of these phrases were added recently in the 1950's by Christians), trying to teach pseudoscience in school, voting against gays, parents holding financial aid from children who are gay, kicking gays out their house when they are young, making life so unbearable for young gays that they commit suicide, refusing to treat gay relatives the same as they treat their straight relatives, parents ignoring their gay son's or daughter's partners, relatives refusing to talk about their gay son's or daughter's partners, relatives not inviting their son's or daughter's gay partners to family functions, etc.

Do I need to list more? I could write for week after week about the way Christians mistreat others in the name of their religion. The list is endless.

I do declare, we the Christians of today (2010) are NOTHING like the Christians of the 1500s.

Gay is unnatural, not moral, it's a choice. If you believe this, this video is for you.

If you are sure of yourself, that the headline is true, then this short video is for you. Youtube video.

(If you are straight and bigoted against gays (against gay marriage, gays should not have equal rights, you think there is something is a little off-kilter about gays, being gay is a sin, being gay is immoral, etc.) and refuse to watch this video, the please keep your bigoted, intolerant comments about gays to yourself and then you can expect that your bigoted thoughts about gays will keep you comforted when you are planted six feet under.

I hope those religious who say being gay is morally wrong are happy.

“In a news release, the group noted that the American Psychological Association and the American Psychiatric Association dispute the efficacy of reparative therapies that attempt to alter a person's sexual orientation and said a 2009 study in the medical journal Pediatrics found that telling teens they can change their orientation often increases the likelihood of suicide.”

See entire article “Utah gay activists protest Mormon church remarks” which I just took this above quote from.

Christians and believers of all faiths who believe they know the mind of their god (Damn, I'm impressed, you know what a god thinks! Wow.) and claim it's their duty to belittle and demoralize gays—I hope you are happy at all the people you have helped commit suicide.

This is morality of Christianity and Islam, help young people commit suicide. Yeah, Christians, Muslims and people of other faiths love to believe—without thinking—that hatred towards others is perfectly moral. Hey, I'm offended when you tell me that my religion is immoral. I can be as immoral, errr... “moral” as my god tells me to be.

Damn, Iron Age thinking is the best! Never use your brain, just believe that hurting other members of the human race is as moral as it gets. Hey, love the sinner but not the sin is their code for, “love to influence people that you hate to commit suicide.”

The moral blindness of Christianity, Islam and other religions is transparent to everyone except the believers. I hope all of you who are Christians, Muslims and the like are happy with your “moral” teachings and dogmas. How do you sleep at night?

A quote from Sam Harris' new book.

Harris states: "And the fact that millions of people use the term “morality” as a synonym for religious dogmatism, racism, sexism, or other failures of insight and compassion should not oblige us to merely accept their terminology until the end of time."

—Harris, Sam, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values, New York, Free Press, 2010, page 53.

Find the book, “The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values” on Amazon.com.

The epitome of stupidity.

Moral blindness in the name of religion.

(The sentence, "Moral blindness in the name of religion." is a variation of a sentence from Sam Harris' new book, "The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values.")

Find the new (October 2010) book, "The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values" on Amazon.com.

The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris. Excerpt from page 4.

‎"Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim algebra, we will see that there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality. Indeed, I will argue that morality should be considered an undeveloped branch of science."

—Harris, Sam, The Moral Landscape, New York, Free Press, 2010, page 4.

What human institution puts value on discarding our reason?

What human institution puts a value on discarding the one thing that separates us from the rest of the mammals on earth? Religion and pseudoscience. Religion and pseudoscience demands that humanity discards our ability to reason to accept it's teachings.

If anyone thinks that religion has advanced civilization, think again! The operative word, "Think"! Has the world of pseudoscience, psychics, astrology and religion advanced civilization? Nope.

What human institution makes cars, buildings, ships and airplanes? What human institution advances medicine and surgery? Science.

I submit, we need to use our brains. What do the religious, the believers say? Don't use your brain, all it's takes is faith and belief. Which is better? Use your brain? Or don't use your brain?

Who are the crazy ones? The people who say to discard reason and don't think about it, just believe in religion? Or the people who say, critical thinking and using your brain are important.

The answer is: Use your brain.

When will civilization, en mass, begin to really move forward? When the masses, seeking for answers, begin to look for the natural and not the supernatural.

Sam Harris on Morality.

Religion has the worst morals and ethics. We all agree that slavery, owning people like farm equipment, is morally wrong. However, the God of Abraham did get this wrong, in the Old Testament and the New Testament. Yet people claim that Christianity is of divine origin.

Why would anyone want to cling to the teachings of the Bible when these teachings are immoral? To do good things for bad reasons. You better be good or you'll go to hell. There are many good reasons to do good things. To love and fear your God. That's the very definition of sadomasochism. How revolting.

To love your neighbor. Compulsory love. Disgusting. And furthermore, most people can barely love themselves and/or their partners and/or their families. Show me a family where everyone gets along and I'll show you my unicorn. The commandment of loving your neighbor is not only an impossible commandment to follow but impractical.

How many feet or miles away, do you love your neighbors? The ones on your block, those in a two block radius, a 1 mile radius or more? How many Christians invite all their neighbors to their house every weekend to show their love to their neighbors?

To love your enemy. What? Sorry, Christ got it wrong. This is an absolutely bad moral. You defend yourself against your enemy. How many Christians want to dismantle the US Military?

I can reassure you that my Christian relatives love the military. They certainly liked Bush and the way he waged war. Where is the love there? Christians say their Bible is divine yet completely ignore the teaching of loving their enemy. Christians ignore any verse of the Bible when it's convenient for them to do so.

Sam Harris wants to begin talking about morality and human values in the context of our growing scientific understanding of the world.

Sam Harris is interviewed by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. See the interview here online.

Can there be a science of good and evil?

“I was one of those who had unthinkingly bought into the hectoring myth that science can say nothing about morals. The Moral Landscape has changed all that for me. Moral philosophers, too, will find their world exhilaratingly turned upside down, as they discover a need to learn some neuroscience. As for religion, and the preposterous idea that we need God to be good, nobody wields a sharper bayonet than Sam Harris.”

— Richard Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene, The God Delusion, and The Greatest Show On Earth

See Sam Harris' article about his new book here.

Another Sam Harris quote

“Ever religious person feels the same criticism of other people's faith that we do as atheists. They reject the pseudo miracles and the pseudo claims to certainty of others.

And they see the confidence tricks in other people’s faith and they see it rather readily. Every Christian knows the Koran can’t the perfect word of the creator of the universe and anyone who thinks it is, hasn’t read it closely enough.

And it’s just in this hermetically sealed discourse that isn’t really being self-critical—we make a very strong case when we point that out.

And point out also, that whatever people are experiencing in church or in prayer—no matter how positive—the fact that Buddhists and Hindus and Muslims and Christians are all experiencing it, proves that it can’t be a matter of the divinity of Jesus or the unique sanctity of the Koran.”

–Sam Harris, 30th of September 2007

Sam Harris quote.

“We are offending people (religious believers) but we are also telling them that it’s wrong to be offended.

Physicists aren’t offended when their view of physics is disproved or challenged, this is not the way rational minds operate when they are really trying to get at what’s true in the world.

Religions purport to be representing reality and yet there’s this peevish and tribal and ultimately dangerous reflective response to having these ideas challenged and I think we’re pointing to the total liability of that.”

–Sam Harris, 30 September 2007.