The Quiverfull movement
3/31/2009 | 12:59 PM | Evolved Rationalist
Here is the early version of slides from a presentation on the Quiverfull movement that will be done at an atheist group meeting later today. Enjoy!
Time to laugh hysterically
| 6:20 PM | Evolved Rationalist
1. Look at this profile.
2. Look at this poster's forum signature.
3. Get the CAD comic reference, laugh at the poser mentioned earlier.
4. ???
5. PROFIT!
*snicker*
*giggle*
Fuck YouTube
| 5:59 PM | Evolved Rationalist
The spineless appeasers folks over at Youtube have again bowed down to pressure from superstitious kooks (or decided to supposedly prevent BAWWW from kooks), this time by suspending the account of the James Randi Educational Foundation.
Just...wow.
This is what happens when 'political correctness' runs amok; and this is what happens when superstition is given a special place in DO-NOT-CRITICIZE land for no reason other than BAWWW and butthurt.
To make sure those dumbfucks are aware of the fact that this idiocy has not gone without notice, follow this link, scroll to the bottom, click on 'new issue, select 'suspended account', and tell them what you think about this fucktarded decision.
GOGOGOGO!
Religion kills innocent child. Rinse and repeat.
| 12:48 AM | Evolved Rationalist
Religious delusion and brainwashing has led to the death of yet another innocent child:
Answering to a leader called Queen Antoinette, they denied a 16-month-old boy food and water because he did not say "Amen" at mealtimes. After he died, they prayed over his body for days, expecting a resurrection, then packed it into a suitcase with mothballs. They left it in a shed in Philadelphia, where it remained for a year before detectives found it last spring.Tomorrow, five of the group's alleged members -- including the boy's mother, Ria Ramkissoon -- are scheduled to be tried in Baltimore on murder charges. Sources and Ramkissoon's mother said Ramkissoon, 22, has agreed to plead guilty to a lesser charge on one condition: The charges against her must be dropped if her son, Javon Thompson, is resurrected.
Now for the part where you feel like slamming your head through a wall:
Psychiatrists who evaluated Ramkissoon at the request of a judge concluded that she was not criminally insane. Her attorney, Steven Silverman, said the doctors found that her beliefs were indistinguishable from religious beliefs, in part because they were shared by those around her.
"She wasn't delusional, because she was following a religion," Silverman said, describing the findings of the doctors' psychiatric evaluation.
Translation: It's AWWRIGHT and totally NOT delusional if she was doing it for religion. FUCK YEAH RELIGIONNNNN!
Religion apparently is a nice ready-made excuse for murderers and various criminal whackaloons.
However, some people do seem to get it:
Silverman said he and prosecutors think Ramkissoon was brainwashed and should have been found not criminally responsible; prosecutors declined to comment. Although an inability to think critically can be a sign of brainwashing, experts said, the line between that and some religious beliefs can be difficult to discern.Sadly, such people are few and far between. That is why it is important not to be fucktarded appeasers; and take the effort, grow a spine and speak out. When lives matter, being an appeaser simply shouldn't be morally AWWRIGHT anymore.
"At times there can be an overlap between extreme religious conviction and delusion," said Robert Jay Lifton, a cult expert and psychiatrist who lectures at Harvard Medical School. "It's a difficult area for psychiatry and the legal system."
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I need a poster of this in my room
| 12:08 AM | Evolved Rationalist
Found on an image/b/oard far, far away...
Epic Pope-smackdown
3/27/2009 | 8:08 PM | Evolved Rationalist
Don't you just love it when the pro-science side stops worrying about 'offending anyone' and finally decides to speak out? The resulting smackdown of superstitious fucktards is sure to be epic win:
The Pope said "the traditional teaching of the Church has proven to be the only failsafe way to prevent the spread of HIV/Aids".Awww...it looks like the
The BBC's David Willey in Rome says the Church's view is that encouraging people to use condoms only minimises the effects of behaviour that in itself damages lives.
But the London-based Lancet said the Pope had "publicly distorted scientific evidence to promote Catholic doctrine on this issue".
It said the male latex condom was the single most efficient way to reduce the sexual transmission of HIV/Aids.
"Whether the Pope's error was due to ignorance or a deliberate attempt to manipulate science to support Catholic ideology is unclear," said the journal.
But it said the comment still stood and urged the Vatican to issue a retraction.
"When any influential person, be it a religious or political figure, makes a false scientific statement that could be devastating to the health of millions of people, they should retract or correct the public record," it said.
"Anything less from Pope Benedict would be an immense disservice to the public and health advocates, including many thousands of Catholics, who work tirelessly to try and prevent the spread of HIV/Aids worldwide.
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Here's /i/nternet justice for you, bastard!
| 7:53 PM | Evolved Rationalist
I laughed so hard when I read this. Somebody just got terrifically PWNED for being a greedy, corrupted, anti-freedom, internet-n00b, fucktarded-sounding dick.
Torrent, LOL.
Nothing is better in this case compared to internet justice well served, amirite?
Superstition kills again
3/26/2009 | 11:59 PM | Evolved Rationalist
Remember that gruesome witch-burning video? I don't know what's worse, the burnings, the fact that 'which-hunting' is approved by a president of a country, or that all this is happening in the 21st century.
While all this despicable lunacy is going on around the world, the postmodernists still claim that we must leave them alone; and rant about how it is AWWRIGHT because their culture is different...or something fucktarded like that.Eye-witneses and victims told the rights group that those involved in rounding up victims were "accompanied by police army and national intelligence agents''.
"They are also accompanied by 'green boys' - Gambian President Yahya Jammeh's personal protection guard.''
The group said up to 1000 people had been kidnapped and that the hallucinogenic drinks had caused many to suffer serious kidney problems.
At least two people were know to have died.
"I was picked up by these so-called witch-doctors on Thursday and detained for three days and later released,'' one of the victims told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"We were forced to drink concoctions after which most of us hallucinated, urinated and defecated on ourselves."
Cultural differences != Murder is ethically AWWRIGHT in another culture
Get it, postmodernists?
Amnesty called on the government to take immediate action and bring those responsible to justice.Um...how exactly is the government supposed to take action when these activities are approved by the country's president?
Before turning his ire on alleged witches, the President last year vowed to kill any gays who remained in Gambia.And so it goes...
Anyone surprised?
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Cute animal of the now
| 7:28 PM | Evolved Rationalist
[18:19] evoatheist: it's sad that when i first saw that pic
[18:19] evoatheist: i thought about firefox
[18:19] qwerty017: So did i.
[18:19] evoatheist: HAHA
[18:19] qwerty017: HAHAHAHAHA
[18:19] evoatheist: WIN
You are likely to be eaten by a grue
3/24/2009 | 4:31 PM | Evolved Rationalist
Zork references and MC Frontalot? Epic nerdgasm is epic.
Take that, fundies!
| 4:07 PM | Evolved Rationalist
Remember those parents who let their children die because they'd rather pray to an imaginary god and trust in faith rather than science?
New Scientist rips them a new asshole (or rips them an asshole as wide as a mainstream science magazine can) here.
They saved the best for last:
Nearly 150 years after Darwin unveiled his theory of evolution, we have yet to grasp one of its most unsettling implications: having diseased children is as natural as having healthy ones. Every new life is a gamble, an experiment with novel gene combinations that could be a brilliant success or a tragic failure.
Thanks to technology, we are no longer entirely at the mercy of this callous process. Rather than regarding this ability with suspicion, we should be celebrating it and encouraging its use. Instead, we continue to allow children be born with terrible diseases because of our collective ignorance and superstition.
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Another source of lulz
| 3:01 PM | Evolved Rationalist
Read this first or you'll be left wondering WTF is going on.
This time, it is Kenny Glenn's brother aka the camera guy in the cat abuse video.
He was b& from a forum. That alone is no big deal, but take a look at this.
OH, EXPLOITABLE.
If you don't like typing out shit by hand, etc., this add-on saves a shitton of time. If anyone wants to man the harpoons...
I'm just saying. We all know that doing stuff like that if not done for the lulz is bad, amirite?
*snicker*
If you have not yet seen the above links on ED and acted accordingly (cf. closing the page), it is not too late...
*double snicker*
Disclaimer: I do not support/condone/encourage illegal activity. Posts on this blog should be taken with a grain of salt and a generous serving of lulz.
Potential source of lulz found
3/22/2009 | 4:51 PM | Evolved Rationalist
Remember the lolcow Kenny Glenn who was stupid enough to underestimate the power of the /i/nternet? Now that the lulz has practically died from the case and the prosecution is doing practically nothing, some of you might be interested in sending some love to his family, particularly his dad (owner of Glenn Oil).
It must be tough on him - having all the $$$ and connections and all - to have such a retarded fuckwit as a son, amirite?
This has been already posted on ED (not by me, I swear), but the more people involved in sending love...the more love he would get, and the better the lulz will be.
Steps to send love to glennco@sirinet.net
1. Oh look, it's a login page.
2. Uh oh, a vulnerability...
3. Tasty script
4. ???
5. PROFIT!!!
There is nothing better than internet insecurity, amirite?
*snicker*
*giggle*
Disclaimer: I do not support/condone/encourage illegal activity. Posts on this blog should be taken with a grain of salt and a generous serving of lulz.
Footbullet strikes again!
3/20/2009 | 4:15 PM | Evolved Rationalist
"These are the kinds of people who put images together intended to cause epileptic seizures and then hacking into epileptic websites to put that imagery up." --Scilon lolcow Tommy Davis aka Footbullet
Despite being shown copies of documents in Hubbard's own handwriting, leaked dox, audio lectures delivered by Hubbard where he talks about Xenu, etc., Mary the Scilon still claims that the Xenu story is a lie 'told to make Scientologists look bad in the media'.
I wonder what she has to say now that a Scilon spokesman has admitted (read: footbullet) that the Xenu story is part of Scilontrollogy's teachings.
Uh oh...the secret's out!
The most telling part of the article? This:
However, when the KESQ reporter read from a book written by Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard which refers to the Xenu story, Davis admitted that the story is authentic, albeit confidential and restricted. He then laid into KESQ reporter Nathan Baca, accusing him of "forwarding an agenda of hate".Ah, typical Scientrollogy.
The ED version of this lulzy self-pwnage:
Tommy yet again delivered powerful lulz; perhaps even greater than his CNN dipshittery. In an investigation done by KESQ-TV's Nathan Baca, Tommy was presented with a laundry list of LRH insanity that Scilons are programmed to read as null until they pay for software upgrades. Confronted by Hubbards' space madness, the freewheel pneumonia killswitch and razor-spiked U-R-MY-NIGGER fences Tommy kept his cool, and then he fucked the duck. Starting off he admitted scifags pedal propaganda. He shortly thereafter expressed his love for the RPF by Confirming the existence of Xenu he then pointed out that spikes face toward the compound just because they were installed that way. Finally he fell back on the NO_U argument and proceeded to empty an AK-47 clip into his L.A. gears.What do you have to say for yourself now, Scilon?
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Tor would have been so easy...
| 3:37 PM | Evolved Rationalist
Over at Unreasonable Faith, a fundie pastor was caught lying for Jesus. He left vile and disgusting comments while claiming to be an atheist, such as:
What’s wrong with killing babies? I see no problem with it. I have enough mouths to feed. I don’t get the argument and I am an atheist. Since I don’t believe in God, I don’t believe in anything characterized as good, bad / right, wrong. So, what’s the big deal?Being that comments such as the above promotes the atheist stereotype widely BAWWWW-ed about by fundies, suspicions were raised.
Things got lulzy because the theistarded pastor failed at using proxies, and got pwnt and had his dox dropped by the blog author. Praise Google!
Read the whole story here.
The pastor's e-mail address is on his church's website. In my humble opinion, I think he needs to be sent some love...
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Confused theistards are confused
3/18/2009 | 9:11 PM | Evolved Rationalist
Aww...more hypocrisy (or is it just typical theistarded confusion?).
It seems like even theistards think that heaven isn't all that it is cracked up to be.
WTF penguins
| 3:11 PM | Evolved Rationalist
Here is some lulz to make up for all the depressing religious news:
Well, Ubuntu has its uses. Something has to be the Vistaids of the Linux world, amirite?
The only thing that could make Ubuntu worse is if you install Gnome or Xfce on top of the existing FAIL.
Gentoo and KDE for life!
TROLLANNNNNNNNNN!
/me runs away to avoid being thrown into /dev/null/
A quick note to some retards
3/17/2009 | 4:44 PM | Evolved Rationalist
(I saved the best for last…keep reading.)
Mary the Scilon
Okay, Mary. We all already know what your paranoid ramblings are going to be about. You think that I’m a ‘criminal hacker’, that I can read minds by looking at IP addresses (I wish!), that I’m sending the ‘criminal hacker gang Anonymous’ after you (No, Anonymous is not my personal army), you rant that this blog is ‘going to be shut down by the FBI soon, and you keep sending photos and posts of mine to the FBI hoping that ‘I am going to be arrested at once’ (no, they are probably fapping to my pics).
Since every comment you make is nothing but a slight variation of the above (or BAWWWWing about how Xenu has nothing to do with ScilontoLOLgy, oh you poor brainwashed tard…), maybe it is time to STFU until you have something more intelligent and constructive to say? Nobody with half a brain gives a shit about me supporting hackers, Mary. You fail at gauging your audience, you fail at life, you fail at basic internet security (I hope more of your e-mail accounts get zomgwtfhaxed), and more importantly…
…you fail the Turing test, Mary.
Christislord12
Hey fucktard, bragging about how you are a ‘Bible-believing Southern Baptist’ on an atheist blog does not do you any good. All it does is to produce incredible amounts of epic lulz, and this is compounded with the fact that you refer to your imaginary sky-daddy as ‘G-d’. Are you aware that this practice is one practiced by Orthodox Jews to prevent from saying the name of god (because they are afraid of god’s smiting mad skillz)? Doesn’t Southern Baptist theistardation teach that Jews are hell-bound and eternally damned or something like that?
You clueless bunch of theistarded morons make me LOL.
Someone (retarded nick, LOL)
Okay, we get it. You’re a sexist pig who thinks that all girls should be in the kitchen making you sandwiches. The thing is – I am totally fine with you having your opinions. You do have freedom of speech, and it is your right to say whatever you want no matter how repulsive it may seem to some.
The thing that is not OK with me, however, is running FAIL SPAMBOTS to spam ‘Anonymous are a bunch of retards’ and ‘women should learn their place’ at 3am EST. No, really. Those suck cocks, and contrary to what people think, I am not at my computer 24/7 to deal with your shit. <3 my spam filter, but the fact remains that you’re an incredible fucktarded moron who gets into the internet equivalent of a bar fight with Bubba for no reason at all.
Check your e-mail, asshole. Your full dox has been sent for your orgasmic pleasure (Now do you think I’m serious, loser?). One more spambot and your dox will be published on this blog for the whole internet to see, and based on past experiences with dox on this site…something tells me that it won’t be pretty.
You can stop being a fucking lamer, or you can watch your dox being shared with my beloved readers (of whom a large population may or may not want to teach you a thing or two about who you are calling a 'bunch of retards').
The choice is yours, so choose wisely.
To my sane blog readers, I <3 you all.
STFU, Pope!
| 4:34 PM | Evolved Rationalist
Seriously, Benedict: SHUT THE FUCK UP!
The spread of HIV and Aids in Africa should be tackled through fidelity and abstinence and not by condoms, Pope Benedict XVI has said.Look, people are dying of a preventable disease because of your disgusting, vile, stone-age, patriarchal beliefs. The fact that AIDS deaths in Africa have not decreased after years of having missionaries shove theistarded beliefs down their throats is saying something, isn't it?
Speaking to African bishops at the Vatican, the Pope described HIV/Aids in Africa as a "cruel epidemic".
But he told them: "The traditional teaching of the church has proven to be the only failsafe way to prevent the spread of HIV/Aids."
Fucktard.
The Pope warned that contraception was one of a host of trends contributing to a "breakdown in sexual morality", and church teachings should not be ignored.Aaaahhh...so it's not that condoms are not effective in tackling the AIDS problem. It is because contraception is against your theistarded women-hating 'morality'. Thanks for pointing that out, old fool. Perhaps next time you would learn not to insert your foot in your mouth?
"It is of great concern that the fabric of African life, its very source of hope and stability, is threatened by divorce, abortion, prostitution, human trafficking and a contraception mentality," he added.
Methinks it is time for the Pope to STFU.
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Hypocritical theistard likes the loli
3/16/2009 | 2:36 PM | Evolved Rationalist
Remember this fucktarded pastor who couldn't keep it in his pants (even with the help of his 'imaginary' sky-daddy) and got V& for raping a 14-year-old girl? He has now been rearrested on 19 additional sex crime charges.
Still think that a belief in an imaginary god automatically makes you a good person? DIAF.
Oh, New Anons...
| 1:07 PM | Evolved Rationalist
...I love the way you protestfags are the laughing-stock of the internet.
Has Anonymous engaged in any criminal activities in the past? Unfortunately, at one point in the past, they did. When Anonymous first launched its campaign against the Church of Scientology, certain members undertook a successful denial-of-service attack against the Church's main website. In addition, various Church locations received harassing phone calls and faxes. However, wiser voices prevailed (Mark Bunker being a prime influence) and Anonymous no longer engages in these sorts of activities. Again, don't take my word on this; do some research and find out for yourself.*snort*
Of course they don't! The evil hackers are all on Ebaumsworld.
*chokes on coffee*
How can I join Anonymous? There is no membership list, no application, no initiation ritual. If you want to be part of Anonymous, then you already are. Having said that, the best place to get in tune with the rest of Anonymous is the forums on WhyWeProtest.net. You can also get involved in a protest or one of our other projects.HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
There are no words to describe this. Really.
Before another flame-fest starts in the comments, I think this Anon hits the nail on the head. Enough said.
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'Witch'-burning in the 21st century
3/15/2009 | 7:55 PM | Evolved Rationalist
Post related.
h/t: weev
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This barbarism is beyond words
3/14/2009 | 2:09 PM | Evolved Rationalist
Want to see the real dangers and effects of primitive superstition combined with a hatred of women? Want to see what the same themes behind Abrahamic religions lead to in some parts of the world?
This article speaks for itself.
Across Africa, a war is being waged on women – but we are refusing to hear the screams. Over the past fortnight, I have travelled into the secretive shadow world that mutilates millions of African women at the beginning of their lives, and at the end. As girls, they face having their genitalia sliced out with razors, to destroy their "filthy" sexuality and keep them "pure". As old women, they face being hacked to death as "witches", blamed for every virus and sickness blowing across the savannah.It is rare for a journalist to confront the root of the problem, but this explains part of what is going on perfectly:
As I speak to the witch-believers, it becomes clear what is happening. In this bitterly poor, bone-dry land, death is constantly swooping above their heads, ready to strike at any moment. But to accept that their lives are precarious and arbitrary – that something as small as a thorn prick, or diarrhoea, can end their story, and soon – would be excruciating. So it is, perversely, easier to imagine they are in a celestial war against evil, represented by the old women all around them. Suddenly, the grief has a meaning – and can be killed. A witch is death made flesh – and who has not dreamed of slaying death?The same thought pattern is found in religion, of course.
The killings are not all. Female genital mutilation is also seen as AWWRIGHT, and many women go along with it and make a living by mutilating other females:
First, Margaret puts her finger under the hood of the clitoris, "and then I cut it completely off." Then "I cut out all the meat. I know when to stop when I feel the bone and there's nothing left to cut away." Then "we take her to bed and cover her with a cloth. In the evening, the women come back to check I have done a good job. If I have left anything by mistake, because the girl kicked and screamed too much, we cut her again."The real reason soon becomes apparent:
Outside a tin shack in the emptiness, Margaret explains why they do it. "It is to please the men," she says. "They will not marry a woman who is uncut. They think that a woman with an uncut vagina will be sexually insatiable, and have sex with anyone. But if she is cut, she will not enjoy sex, so you know she will be a virgin on her wedding night, and she will not cheat on you after you are married." There are strange myths to reinforce this practice. Some men believe an uncut woman will kill the crops if she touches them. Others think an uncut clitoris will grow like a snake and strangle them in their sleep.Think that this obsession over female virginity (Yes, it's only female virginity that is important, you know?) is dead and gone in so-called 'modernized' parts of the world? Think again.
However, the EPIC WIN in the article was this paragraph:
Why do we refuse to hear Juliana or Agnes and their pleas for solidarity? Any discussion of these issues – the persecution of "witches", and vaginal mutilation – is silenced in a pincer movement of racism and relativism. Racists say that black Africans are inherently primitive. Their "culture" will always and ineradicably contain such cruelties, so why bother tampering with it? Relativists say that African culture must be "respected", and it is "imperialist" to interfere, on a par with the vilest parts of our own history.Ah, someone plainly stating what is apparent to a lot of people but rarely stated due to fears of being politically incorrent. I couldn't have put it better myself.
PS. To postmodernists: Fuck you.
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Knee-jerk reaction FAIL
3/12/2009 | 8:59 PM | Evolved Rationalist
Awww...look at what this shitplie n00b wants to do and feel the RRRAAAGGGEEE.
To the fuckwit: Look, I know that you're all upset and BAWWWWing over the fact that your son got a knife stuck in him. I know you simply have to pin the blame on something, no matter how ridiculous and how devoid of evidence it is. However, that does not give you the right to act like a complete and utter moron when advicing a national leader on public policy. If you can't prevent your emotions and bias from getting in the way of your job, just shut the fuck up and resign.
Apparently that moron has not realized that raising taxes on violent video games will only cause a huge spike in 'ZOMG TORRENT PL0X!' and cause people who previously forked out money for original copies to pirate instead.
Thanks for being a dickhead, Taylor. Thanks for being yet another n00b who simply doesn't get it.
BTW, I JUST PLAYED KILLZONE 2 OHSHI-- NOW I'M GONNA GO OUT ON THE STREETS AND SHOOT AND MURDER AND GO ON A RAMPAGE OHSHI--
...not.
Idiot.
More fucktardery by the Vatican
| 8:37 PM | Evolved Rationalist
The Vatican never fails to amaze me. After doing disgusting, vile, psychopathic things in the name of their god (protecting pedophile shotafuckers, claiming that a pregnant 9-year-old rape victim should rather die than abort her child, etc.), this seems to pale in comparison:
The Vatican newspaper says that perhaps the washing machine did more to liberate women in the 20th century than the pill or the right to work.The real shocker is this:The submission was made in a lengthy article titled "The Washing Machine and the Liberation of Women - Put in the Detergent, Close the Lid and Relax."
"What in the 20th century did more to liberate Western women?," asks the article, which was written by a woman.Yes, the article was written by a woman. That's what religious brainwashing does to your minds, folks!
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Finally, some good news
3/10/2009 | 6:11 PM | Evolved Rationalist
A fraud just got IRL permab&:
A San Mateo woman who advertised herself as a psychic was sentenced today to six years in prison for bilking an 85-year-old woman of more than $80,000 by claiming that both their husbands would die if the woman didn't hand over money.She should be given a harsher punishment for being heartless and fucked-up enough to prey on the vulnerable, but it is a start.
When it comes to the war against irrationality, every little inroad is a big deal and every piece of good news counts. While waiting for religious frauds of all sorts to someday be brought to justice, rejoice in this small but awesome victory!
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Oh, sweet Christard irony
3/09/2009 | 5:44 PM | Evolved Rationalist
Here is a tl;dr article about how churches should have plans in place for their safety.
What is not mentioned is the maddeningly obvious question: WHY DOESN'T THEIR SKY DADDY PROTECT THEIR PLACE OF WORSHIP IF HE REALLY EXISTS?
Didn't their imaginary god supposedly protect 'his dwelling place' or whatever the fuck they called it in the Holy Babble?
Didn't the Holy Babble say something about being protected against vipers and poison if theistards trust in god (leading some theistarded morons to remove themselves from the gene pool and being candidates for a Darwin Award)?
Didn't the Holy Babble say something about trusting god first and man second? What does the Holy Babble say happened when Asa trusted the physicians instead of god? HE DIED, YOU THEISTARDED FUCKERS! HE FUCKING DIED! So, why don't you trust god? Huh? Huh?
Now for some lulzy quotes from the article:
In one incident, congregants noticed a person dressed inappropriately for the weather and acting odd. The man was taken outside and questioned. Under his coat, he had two machetes strapped to his back.He was removed?! Why didn't the pastor...exorcise him or something? Isn't that what the Babble tells you to do?
"He said that he had been hearing the devil speaking to him, telling him to cut the pastor's head off," Hawkins said. "There was no struggle, and everything was calm. The man was removed."
You theistards secretly don't really believe in your own holy book at all, do you?
Dale Annis, founder of Church Security Services, a consulting company that advises houses of worship on security strategies, told CNN in November that his business has been growing for five years.Translation: I subconsciously know that prayer and god doesn't do anything, but I am simply too theistarded, cowardly, and brainwashed to admit it to myself. Praise Jesus!"You have to take some of the incentive yourself. I don't think you walk down dark alleys in bad parts of town and say 'God will protect me,' " said Annis, who is also in charge of security at his parish, the Olive Drive Church in Bakersfield, California.
(Also, note that prayer isn't a good enough 'security strategy' for a church.)
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The OS wars are over
| 4:11 PM | Evolved Rationalist
[click to enlarge]Everyone can go home now.
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Thank Xenu I'm not in the UK
3/08/2009 | 5:01 PM | Evolved Rationalist
Scientology is a dangerous cult.
Now, saying this in the UK could result in an IRL V&:
The Crown Prosecution Service has decided that anyone who attacks Scientology can be prosecuted under faith hate laws.The move will for the first time provide the controversial Church of Scientology – described by some as a cult – the same protection as other mainstream religions.Apparently the sensibilities of a dangerous cult (with the big $$$) is more important than freedom of speech. Big surprise there.
It means that any alleged offenders who ‘abuse’ or ‘threaten’ the Church of Scientology can be charged under the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006.Just...RRRAAAGGGEEEE!!!It is understood the decision was made this month after the Police Diversity Directorate asked the CPS to clarify its position on the organisation.
It follows the arrest last summer of a 15-year-old boy for calling Scientology a ‘dangerous cult’ during a demonstration outside the Church’s £23million headquarters in London.
I don't like protestfags, but I would never want them arrested for protesting against a dangerous cult. Freedom of speech is a fucking human right, and it speaks volumes for the lunacy and misguided political correctness of a society when criticism of a mere belief is made illegal.
What is so different about faith/religion/adacadabra that makes it so different from anything else that is open to criticism? How have people been made to unquestioningly accept that religious faith should be immune to criticism is open to debate, but if this trend is left unchecked, we are headed into dangerous waters.
Ian Harris, founder of the Cult Information Centre, said last night: ‘Scientology has always wanted to be recognised as a religion but it doesn’t even have a God. This decision is news to me and it is frankly quite upsetting and shocking.No, stupid! The reason the cult of $cientology should not be offered the benefits of religion is not because they don't have a god (by certain definitions, Xenu could be considered a god, but let's not get into semantics here). The real reason should be because they are - as over 9000 people have pointed out - a dangerous cult. They actively endanger their own members. They separate families, destroy lives, abandon their sheep when they have sucked every drop of $$$ they can out of them, and the worst thing is that they have been complicit in the deaths of their own followers. They should be classified as a criminal organization, but as in various other cases, the $$$ and blatant corruption makes a huge difference.
Graeme Wilson, public affairs director for The Church of Scientology in the UK, said last night: ‘Scientology is the chosen religion of millions of people around the world, a point which has been recognised by numerous governmental bodies.’Lying about your numbers again? Awww...just what I expected from a Scilon.
Yes, Scilons have every right to believe in Xenu and thetans as Christards have to believe in their zombie god. However, when a so-called 'religion' actively endangers (and kills) its own followers, this does not call for legitimization. It calls for a fucking investigation.
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Oh internets, what have you done?
3/05/2009 | 5:47 PM | Evolved Rationalist
Rick Astley, famed for his hit single 'Never Gonna Give You Up', is about to go on tour after quitting the music industry over 20 years ago.Enough said.
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THINK ABOUT THE GRANDMAS!!
| 5:01 PM | Evolved Rationalist
You probably know about the fundies and their "Think about the children! BAWWWW!" theistard battle cry. However, a troll calling him/herself 'humanist' (yes, I suspect that it is a theistarded moron in disguise) has come up with a new strategy: "THINK ABOUT THE GRANDMAS!!"
This comment made me crack up:
What would your grandmother say if she knew that you go to hacker conventions?See, I really don't know. My grandmother has never used a computer before so she probably wouldn't give a fuck. However, I am going to call her and ask - after she reads the Jargon File. I also am probably going to show her the imageboard I am an admin of (yes, it is one of the *chans) for good measure.
THE CORRUPTION OF THE GRANDMAS OF THE WORLD HAS NOW BEGUN!
Satisfied now, 'humanist'?
*snicker*
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Closing statements and the end of the trial
3/03/2009 | 8:54 PM | Evolved Rationalist
Guest post by plot regarding The Pirate Bay spectrial.
Today in court the defense made their closing statements.
Jonas Nilsson, representing TiAMO
Points:
- The technology behind TPB is legal
- No evidence that most of the material on TPB is copyrighted
- No evidence that any of the material has been used commercially, asks for the indictment to be dismissed.
- The prosecution is unaware of most of the technical aspects of the case and that the investigation against the defendants was not carried out properly.
- TPB's content is regulated by its users and not the defendants.
- No evidence that TiAMO made money from the site, and that the ad revenue went towards covering TPB's operational costs.
- TPB provides a "passive search function".
- No evidence that TiAMO made any copyrighted works available.
- No evidence about who did the actual uploading and how the defendants are related to the uploaders.
- No objective calculation of the damages, and that the damages claim against TiAMO should be dismissed as there is no evidence connecting him to the copyrighted works.
Points:
- No evidence that TPB mostly holds copyrighted content, and that the prosecution never did any investigation into his claim.
- No evidence that TPB's tracker was used in the cases presented in court.
- Prosecutor claimed that there are 64 ads on TPB, but there are only 4.
- The ad deal shown to the court fell though, so it should not be evidence.
- Wallis' testimony refutes the damages claim.
Points:
- The establishment often reacts against development in technology.
- Damages claims are false as there is no evidence that points to the amounts claimed.
- Questions why the prosecution attacked Wallis with personal attacks instead of refuting his points.
- States that brokep is just the site's spokesperson.
- In the advertising agreement, no reference was made to brokep.
- Called for the case to be dismissed.
Points:
- The prosecution missed the point of the trial that questions if TPB is legal
- All charges should be dismissed as the prosecution has never issued charges against each individual. (required for a criminal case under Swedish law)
- Any alleged illegal activity is carried out by TPB's users and not the defendants.
- Compares the case to prosecuting car manufacturers for the problems experienced on the roads.
- Asks the court to ignore the politics of the trial.
- Nobody knows if and when the alleged crimes were committed, and if there were recorded crimes in the first place.
- Prosecution was pressured to take action by the industry lobby.
- His client is a businessman not connected to the actual workings of the site
kopimi love,
plot
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With religion, women lose
| 7:58 PM | Evolved Rationalist
A common thread uniting the Abrahamic religions is the utter hatred of women (or more likely the desire to control women and use them solely as reproductive fuckholes).
I've never understood why more women are religious compared to men, but things like this simply make me RRRAAAGGGEEE:
The president of Chechnya emerged from afternoon prayers at the mosque and explained why seven young women who had been shot in the head deserved to die.Translation: Killing your female relatives in the name of religion is AWWRIGHT!
Ramzan Kadyrov said the women, whose bodies were found dumped by the roadside, had "loose morals" and were rightfully shot by male relatives in honor killings.
Kadyrov describes women as the property of their husbands and says their main role is to bear children. He encourages men to take more than one wife, even though polygamy is illegal in Russia. Women and girls must wear headscarves in all schools, universities and government offices.Translation: Treating more than half of the our species in the name of religion is AWWRIGHT! Breaking the law in the name of religion is AWWRIGHT! Doing vile, immoral things in the name of religion is AWWRIGHT! With religion, it is always AWWRIGHT!
Speaking of the purpose of life, I'm going to kill some zombies tonight.
boomer!
green liquid!
the witches don't kill me anymore!
^lolwut
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The stupid prosecution and the hilarious anakata
3/02/2009 | 6:44 PM | Evolved Rationalist
Guest post by plot regarding The Pirate Bay spectrial.
Today's witnesses are:
Peter Danowsky (IFPI)
Henrik Pontén (Antipiratbyrån)
Monique Wadsted (Movie companies)
Roswall the foolish prosecutor
He began by saying that TPB is against Swedish law because its' servers were located in Sweden at the time, and that its' users were also breaking Swedish law. He disagreed with the defense who wanted to classify TPB as a 'service provider' (so that the case could be sent to the European Court of Justice). He next claims that the court already ruled that someone running a BBS could be found guilty of assisting copyright infringement and that TPB would be guilty under that precedent.
He states that anakata and TiAMO are involved in the technical details of the site, and disagrees that brokep is merely the spokesman for TPB. He sais that brokep helped design the site and contact advertisers. According to him, Lundström financed the site based on emails showing that he discussed the legality of RPB with the others, while the defence disagreed, pointing out that this was evidence that TPB wanted to remain within the law.
Damages pulled out of his ass
Roswall made the claim (without evidence), that TPB made 10 million. Anakata then responded "Where is my ten million, please, I want it, where is it?"
He next mentioned that tracking down the actual users of TPB was illegal under Swedish law (har har) and suggested that TBP servers should be confiscated, and demanded jail time for all the defendants. Anakata: "I expected he would require two years in prison but he asked for only one!"
Hats off to anakata!
Peter Danowsky, the IFPI liar and technologically incompetent bungler
Whines that TPB cannot be compared to Google because Google sucks the IFPI's ass and works "with copyright owners to prevent piracy". (What he is saying is basically: "Suck the IFPI's cock or you're screwed.") He next throws a tantrum and whines that the record labels have to be compensated for the losses in sales and in goodwill caused by TPB.
Stupid and downright nasty
He then has the gall to attempt to discredit Professor Roger Wallis' testimony that the record labels do not suffer any losses from piracy by saying: "Wallis' 30 percent guest professorship at KTH provides about as much credibility as something on par with a newspaper editorial." Not understanding how TPB works, he repeats that TPB is a "commercial operation".
Henrik Pontén, Antipiratbyrån parrot
Pontén says the defendants knew that TPB was illegal, and demanded prison sentences. He again stupidly claims that TPB "operates like a business." He says that the defenders should be kept in jail to keep TPB from operating.
(Hey lamer, do you really think that locking four people up would shut TPB down? The internet does not function that way, you silly media cow!)
Monique Wadsted the wasted movie company retard
Yada yada about how the defendants made money (making the same stupid claim with no evidence). She claimed that all the defendents were guilty because they knew that there was copyrighted material on their site (Hey Wasted, there is no copyrighted materials on TPB! Torrent files do not contain the copyrighted file itself. Learn to understand technology, you dmwitted fuck!)
Whined that the defendants need to be locked up to prevent more copyright infringements (it won't work, Wasted) and that they made millions from their site (Where is your evidence?); and that they made fun of the rights holders (Being mean to someone is not illegal in Sweden, silly cow!). She next said that the movie company representatives were asking for a "fair" compensation. Haha, very funny, Wasted.
ER and I love this song:
Enjoy!
kopimi love,
plot
Religious agendas exposed
| 5:45 PM | Evolved Rationalist
Most of you probably know this already, but here is an article on how to spot a hidden religious agenda (as cretinshits and pseudoscientific kooks of all flavors are so fond of having).
GOGOGOGO read it!
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