I know I started this blog with so much promise, but for a long time I've been unable to log in. Now, for some reason, I'm allowed back in.
I'm just here to say I won't be adding to it for a long while. I've not suddenly gone all religious. I'm still a deist with no time for theists. And I still enjoying noting my thoughts down. It's just that real life has suddenly become more time-consuming than I ever expected leaving me with very little Internet time.
(Same with my other blog, ALL THE BEST!)
One day, I'll be back. . .
Bye for now. . .
Wednesday, 22 December 2010
Saturday, 19 June 2010
A TRUTH ABOUT CHRISTIANITY
Did you know that Adolf Hitler was born and brought up a Roman Catholic?
Did you know that Adolf Hitler was never excommunicated by the Roman Catholic church?
Did you know that Adolf Hitler was never excommunicated by the Roman Catholic church?
Saturday, 12 June 2010
UNTRUE TRUTH
A lot of freethinkers have no problem with attacking Christianity and showing it up for the foolishness it is. A lot of those freethinkers aren't so happy at the idea of Islam being given the same treatment. They claim that while Christians are fair game, attacking Muslims for their beliefs is racism.
Now, there are Muslims in every continent on earth. African Muslims, European Muslims, Muslims in the Americas, Middle Eastern Muslims, Oceanic Muslims. You can find mosques and small Islamic cells from Syndey to the Sudan. Muslims don't consist of a single race, Islam is a world-round religion. Attacking Islam, with words, with reasoned debate, to underline it's insanity is no more racist that attacking Christianity for the same reason.
The funny thing is,those who shout loudest; Disagreeing with Muslims=racist, have no problem with condemning Israel, which is the only Jewish state on earth.
Now that is racism.
Now, there are Muslims in every continent on earth. African Muslims, European Muslims, Muslims in the Americas, Middle Eastern Muslims, Oceanic Muslims. You can find mosques and small Islamic cells from Syndey to the Sudan. Muslims don't consist of a single race, Islam is a world-round religion. Attacking Islam, with words, with reasoned debate, to underline it's insanity is no more racist that attacking Christianity for the same reason.
The funny thing is,those who shout loudest; Disagreeing with Muslims=racist, have no problem with condemning Israel, which is the only Jewish state on earth.
Now that is racism.
Thursday, 10 June 2010
HISTORICAL FACTS
Sometimes, the Christian proves the existence of Jesus by mentioning the number of historical events that happened and real life people that lived during his life and ministry. From King Herod being on the throne at his birth to Pontius Pilate being governor of Israel at his death, both of who existed and were in their positions during the correct time period. He walked the streets of Nazareth and Jerusalem, both real places. During Jesus' ministry, Israel was occupied by foreign power, namely Rome, something independently verified. He got involved with various groups of freedom fighters, who really did wage back-street warfare on the enemy invaders.
Right. . .
Serial killer Bryan Clarke was born in Collyhurst just over a year after the end of World War Two. George VI was on the throne and the Labour Party was in power with Clement Atlee as Prime Minister. I'll go a bit further. Bryan killed his first victim in early 1974, when Queen Elizabeth II was monarch and the Conservatives were in with Edward Heath as Prime Minister. He picked her out and followed her home in a rainstorm along Ashton New Road to her terraced home. He waited until she'd gone in then knocked and when she answered he knocked her out and strangled her.
Before you go searching elsewhere on the net to find out anything else about him, I'll save you the trouble; Serial killer Bryan Clarke doesn't exist. He's a character I've invented and if all goes to plan he'll be starring in my next crime fiction story.
Collyhurst, East Manchester, exists. World War Two happened. In 1946, when Bryan was born George VI was King and the Labour Party with Clement Atlee as Prime Minister were in power. In 1974, Queen Elizabeth II was Queen, and up to February 1974, Edward Heath was Prime Minister and the Conservatives were in power. In February they were beaten by Harold Wilson's Labour Party. Ashton New Road exists. There were terraced houses along it in 1974. All these are demonstrably actual events, people who existed, doing what was written at that time, and real places. But Bryan Clarke didn't exist until I invented him.
All real places and real events, but I put a pretend character in amongst them. The fact that Jesus walked down real streets and interacted with real characters proves nothing other than the writer(s)/inventor(s) put him against a real-life background.
Or unless Christians are willing to concede Zeus existed because Mount Olympus is a real place?
Right. . .
Serial killer Bryan Clarke was born in Collyhurst just over a year after the end of World War Two. George VI was on the throne and the Labour Party was in power with Clement Atlee as Prime Minister. I'll go a bit further. Bryan killed his first victim in early 1974, when Queen Elizabeth II was monarch and the Conservatives were in with Edward Heath as Prime Minister. He picked her out and followed her home in a rainstorm along Ashton New Road to her terraced home. He waited until she'd gone in then knocked and when she answered he knocked her out and strangled her.
Before you go searching elsewhere on the net to find out anything else about him, I'll save you the trouble; Serial killer Bryan Clarke doesn't exist. He's a character I've invented and if all goes to plan he'll be starring in my next crime fiction story.
Collyhurst, East Manchester, exists. World War Two happened. In 1946, when Bryan was born George VI was King and the Labour Party with Clement Atlee as Prime Minister were in power. In 1974, Queen Elizabeth II was Queen, and up to February 1974, Edward Heath was Prime Minister and the Conservatives were in power. In February they were beaten by Harold Wilson's Labour Party. Ashton New Road exists. There were terraced houses along it in 1974. All these are demonstrably actual events, people who existed, doing what was written at that time, and real places. But Bryan Clarke didn't exist until I invented him.
All real places and real events, but I put a pretend character in amongst them. The fact that Jesus walked down real streets and interacted with real characters proves nothing other than the writer(s)/inventor(s) put him against a real-life background.
Or unless Christians are willing to concede Zeus existed because Mount Olympus is a real place?
Sunday, 23 May 2010
A TRUTH
I gave my Christian faith up five years ago this month, after almost twenty-five years as a believer.
Even now, the idea 'you can think whatever you like' is challenging, exciting and frightening.
Even now, the idea 'you can think whatever you like' is challenging, exciting and frightening.
Thursday, 20 May 2010
BUT I CAN'T DRAW!
It's the first 'draw Mohammed' day, which is meant to be a free speech rebellion against the beliefs of the cowards and bullies of Islam and their enablers.
I'd love to join in the fun, but I can't draw.
I'll just say Mohammed was an epileptic and Islam exists because of a fit he had in a cave one day.
When he was an adult, he married a seven-year old girl, but that's all right because he didn't consummate his marriage until she was nine.
As far as I know, the Koran is the only holy book that actively encourages beating wives for disobedience.
Any Muslims reading this, and getting into the whole alien idea of free speech, remember don't think about cutting my head off or suicide bombing me, just write an article or a posting insulting deism. Go on. Mock the hell out of of it. See? That's how it works. Not so hard is it? You get a warm, childlike satisfaction from extracting the urine from a middle aged Brit's beliefs, and I get to keep living. Thinking for yourself isn't so hard once you try, and nobody dies.
At least the Pakistanis haven't rioted on being challenged by a rush of free thought. No, they've just, officially, legally, banned YouTube and Facebook, where the draw Mohammed Day idea was born and caught on, from their country.
And any Christians reading this can no longer, in all reason, accuse me of picking on Christians and not daring to challenge Muslims.
I'd love to join in the fun, but I can't draw.
I'll just say Mohammed was an epileptic and Islam exists because of a fit he had in a cave one day.
When he was an adult, he married a seven-year old girl, but that's all right because he didn't consummate his marriage until she was nine.
As far as I know, the Koran is the only holy book that actively encourages beating wives for disobedience.
Any Muslims reading this, and getting into the whole alien idea of free speech, remember don't think about cutting my head off or suicide bombing me, just write an article or a posting insulting deism. Go on. Mock the hell out of of it. See? That's how it works. Not so hard is it? You get a warm, childlike satisfaction from extracting the urine from a middle aged Brit's beliefs, and I get to keep living. Thinking for yourself isn't so hard once you try, and nobody dies.
At least the Pakistanis haven't rioted on being challenged by a rush of free thought. No, they've just, officially, legally, banned YouTube and Facebook, where the draw Mohammed Day idea was born and caught on, from their country.
And any Christians reading this can no longer, in all reason, accuse me of picking on Christians and not daring to challenge Muslims.
Sunday, 18 April 2010
WHY INDEED?
Biblegod loved us enough to save us from our sins by sending his son/coming down himself to die for us to save us from sin, a sort of divine inoculation because of our ancestors infecting us with the sin virus with it's default burn in hell position because they ate from the tree of knowledge and therefore condemned every human being.
OK.
If he loved us so much, knowing the choice Adam and Eve would make to eat of the fruit, condemning millions to hell, did he create the tree in the first place?
Because it's a fairytale, a myth written by Bronze Age tent dwellers to explain why things go wrong more than they go right, and to make people behave and do what Biblegod/the males who wrote the words, tell them on pain of eternal torture.
OK.
If he loved us so much, knowing the choice Adam and Eve would make to eat of the fruit, condemning millions to hell, did he create the tree in the first place?
Because it's a fairytale, a myth written by Bronze Age tent dwellers to explain why things go wrong more than they go right, and to make people behave and do what Biblegod/the males who wrote the words, tell them on pain of eternal torture.
Thursday, 15 April 2010
BECAUSE IT SAYS
You get Christians saying that atheists/freethinkers are immoral because they don't believe in a god that lays down morals.
I say; so if it wasn't for your belief that Biblegod is watching over you you'd go on a kill rampage or rape small animals or eat babies? That without the invisible man in the sky you'd be a more misanthropic killer than Carl Panzram?
Thanks, but I'll keep my morals evolved to make society exist. ie, if everyone went around stealing and raping and hitting people on the head, there would be no cooperation and therefore no society.
I say; so if it wasn't for your belief that Biblegod is watching over you you'd go on a kill rampage or rape small animals or eat babies? That without the invisible man in the sky you'd be a more misanthropic killer than Carl Panzram?
Thanks, but I'll keep my morals evolved to make society exist. ie, if everyone went around stealing and raping and hitting people on the head, there would be no cooperation and therefore no society.
Sunday, 11 April 2010
A THEOLOGICAL QUERY
If Biblegod is the only way to heaven, and he loved us enough to die painfully for us to see we joined him in paradise if only we believe in him and confess this belief, why on earth didn't he form enough evidence that can be studied by science that contradicts the Bible? Why did he make it so any more-than-casual observer of the way the world is run can see, be the way the world is, that the Bible's way of describing events can't be true.
Anyone would think he was having fun with us. Or he only chooses those who slavishly follow his word despite all the evidence to the contrary, to share heaven with him, that he doesn't want those who use logic and reason and are led away from him. He does call his followers sheep after all.
Or maybe he doesn't exist.
If the true god, creator of all, wrote a book, it would perfectly line with what we know about the way the world is run, it certainly wouldn't talk about unicorns or the earth having a dome over it or insects having four legs or two (or is it seven) of every animal on the planet being fitted comfortably into a boat smaller than a modern-day aircraft carrier. The Bible does. Therefore Biblegod is from the imagination of Bronze Age men who believed such things, given their world-view, were true.
Live with it.
Anyone would think he was having fun with us. Or he only chooses those who slavishly follow his word despite all the evidence to the contrary, to share heaven with him, that he doesn't want those who use logic and reason and are led away from him. He does call his followers sheep after all.
Or maybe he doesn't exist.
If the true god, creator of all, wrote a book, it would perfectly line with what we know about the way the world is run, it certainly wouldn't talk about unicorns or the earth having a dome over it or insects having four legs or two (or is it seven) of every animal on the planet being fitted comfortably into a boat smaller than a modern-day aircraft carrier. The Bible does. Therefore Biblegod is from the imagination of Bronze Age men who believed such things, given their world-view, were true.
Live with it.
Monday, 5 April 2010
QUICK DEFINITION
You know was Christianity* is?
Christianity is like every other faith that every existed, the gods of which now reside, forgotten, in the graveyard of dead gods. One day, just like the gods of the Aztecs and the Philistines, the Ancient Egyptians and the Armenians, the Hittites, the Chinese and Native Americans, the Intuits, the Phoneticians, the Romans, the Siberians, the god of Christianity will be forgotten. Because Biblegod is just as much an invention of men as the other gods were. All it's beliefs and rituals are just like the beliefs and rituals of ancient man. It's just caught on, it's hanging on.
Don't worry when a Christian fundie tells you if you don't believe with you heart and confess Jesus with your mouth you'll go to hell. You won't. Just like you won't go to Valhalla or the Happy Hunting Ground or cross the Rainbow Bridge to the Isle of Apples** or Omeyocan or Tian or one of the Lokis or anywhere. Like other gods had once, the Christian god has got a hold on the minds of men. Like the other gods, it won't last.
There is no Biblegod, so don't worry about it.
*Before you attack me for not having the guts to attack Islam, well Islam is a spin-off of Christianity, it's a lot younger and unlike Christianity and Judaism hasn't yet matured beyond the childish tantrum stage. Read your history. When Christianity was the same age as Islam, it was crusading and auto-de-fe-ing and killing in the name of belief, with more scope to do so, albeit with less powerful weapons.
**I like that belief. I like it.
Christianity is like every other faith that every existed, the gods of which now reside, forgotten, in the graveyard of dead gods. One day, just like the gods of the Aztecs and the Philistines, the Ancient Egyptians and the Armenians, the Hittites, the Chinese and Native Americans, the Intuits, the Phoneticians, the Romans, the Siberians, the god of Christianity will be forgotten. Because Biblegod is just as much an invention of men as the other gods were. All it's beliefs and rituals are just like the beliefs and rituals of ancient man. It's just caught on, it's hanging on.
Don't worry when a Christian fundie tells you if you don't believe with you heart and confess Jesus with your mouth you'll go to hell. You won't. Just like you won't go to Valhalla or the Happy Hunting Ground or cross the Rainbow Bridge to the Isle of Apples** or Omeyocan or Tian or one of the Lokis or anywhere. Like other gods had once, the Christian god has got a hold on the minds of men. Like the other gods, it won't last.
There is no Biblegod, so don't worry about it.
*Before you attack me for not having the guts to attack Islam, well Islam is a spin-off of Christianity, it's a lot younger and unlike Christianity and Judaism hasn't yet matured beyond the childish tantrum stage. Read your history. When Christianity was the same age as Islam, it was crusading and auto-de-fe-ing and killing in the name of belief, with more scope to do so, albeit with less powerful weapons.
**I like that belief. I like it.
Sunday, 4 April 2010
ANOTHER PLACE
I'd better alert you to my other blog on the Interwebs. It's called 'ALL THE BEST' and there's a link to it.
This blog is going to be dedicated to my religious rants and my own ideas (that's why it's called 'Jessica's Idea'), while the other one is more generalised, everyday stuff.
This blog is going to be dedicated to my religious rants and my own ideas (that's why it's called 'Jessica's Idea'), while the other one is more generalised, everyday stuff.
OF B&B'S AND BELIEFS
According to Mr Chris Grayling the shadow home secretary, there is nothing wrong with the Christian owner of a bed and breakfast place refusing to allow gay couples to stay under their roof. Secret recordings of his true opinion were made public in the Observer newspaper.
That's right. The party who probably will get in next officially believe there is nothing wrong with blind, thoughtless prejudice so long as it's done by a Christian against gays.
I used to be a Christian, was one for almost a quarter of a century, and I am also an out bisexual.*
Five years ago this coming May, reason and logic helped me giving up on my belief and for the first time since being seventeen I found I could be true to myself. I'm still enjoying the luxury of trying on different ideas and philosophies, of being able to think for myself. But I'm going to try and speak from a true Christian point of view, and say what would Jesus do?
Jesus, probably an invention of men, was said to have said some very radical things. He openly mixed with sinners and scandalised the great and good of his day. Going off this, I'd say Jesus would have allowed a gay couple into his home and served them willingly. He would have gently helped them see their lifestyle was not acceptable, but he would not have refused them room.
So why the superior, holier-than-thou attitude of a certain (female, I'm ashamed to say) B&B owner who turned away a gay couple, Michael Black and John Morgan, in Berkshire? What is Christian about rejecting anyone?
Another point; suppose you get a Christian couple, B&B owners, turning away gays and using this example to preach on the evils of homosexuality. And suppose the beloved child of these owners has just started developing feelings for members of their own sex? Wouldn't that child grow up with a bitter self hatred or hatred of the family, turning away from their faith and going their own way, or ending up a Christian, married and crippled unable to express themselves with repressed feelings for fear of offending the almighty god their parents preached?
What is it with Christians that cause so much division in the name of love?
*This doesn't mean I am a wild swinger going from one sex to another, it means that I can (and have) fallen in love and had relationships with members of both genders.
That's right. The party who probably will get in next officially believe there is nothing wrong with blind, thoughtless prejudice so long as it's done by a Christian against gays.
I used to be a Christian, was one for almost a quarter of a century, and I am also an out bisexual.*
Five years ago this coming May, reason and logic helped me giving up on my belief and for the first time since being seventeen I found I could be true to myself. I'm still enjoying the luxury of trying on different ideas and philosophies, of being able to think for myself. But I'm going to try and speak from a true Christian point of view, and say what would Jesus do?
Jesus, probably an invention of men, was said to have said some very radical things. He openly mixed with sinners and scandalised the great and good of his day. Going off this, I'd say Jesus would have allowed a gay couple into his home and served them willingly. He would have gently helped them see their lifestyle was not acceptable, but he would not have refused them room.
So why the superior, holier-than-thou attitude of a certain (female, I'm ashamed to say) B&B owner who turned away a gay couple, Michael Black and John Morgan, in Berkshire? What is Christian about rejecting anyone?
Another point; suppose you get a Christian couple, B&B owners, turning away gays and using this example to preach on the evils of homosexuality. And suppose the beloved child of these owners has just started developing feelings for members of their own sex? Wouldn't that child grow up with a bitter self hatred or hatred of the family, turning away from their faith and going their own way, or ending up a Christian, married and crippled unable to express themselves with repressed feelings for fear of offending the almighty god their parents preached?
What is it with Christians that cause so much division in the name of love?
*This doesn't mean I am a wild swinger going from one sex to another, it means that I can (and have) fallen in love and had relationships with members of both genders.
NEWLY ARRIVED
Well, I'm here and I've dumped my stuff and am having a look around.
It's all right here so far.
It's all right here so far.
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