Archive for the ‘Religion’ Category

It’s Draw Muhammad Day

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Stylized icon of Muhammed using crescent moons and starsRejoice in the western world’s glory, oh unenlightened ones.  As the west has embraced (led by the British Empire and the United States) the ideal of Freedom of Speech! This is an uncompromising view, that the human species should be able to say anything, to express themselves in any way, whether that offends someone or not.  It is the cornerstone of the very concept of liberty.

It is unfortunate that Molly Norris, a Seattle cartoonist, has felt the need to distance herself from her own viral creation, but when a good idea catches hold of the imagination, personal comfort often flies off with it.

In this case, it came in the form of a cartoon she drew, proclaiming May 20th as “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day”.  It took off like wildfire.

South Park's depiction of  Muhammad

And why wouldn’t it?  The very idea that the “religion of peace”, as Islam claims it is, would even threaten to kill people for creating images of their prophet, spits in the face of liberty!  As we in the west hold freedom of speech as dear to our hearts as the Muslim people hold their prophet – you’re asking for a fight.

Search engines will certainly lead you to many depictions of the Islamic prophet, but zombietime.com has the most extensive collection I could find.  Check them out.

Islamic Insanity and Lars Vilks

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
Lars Vilks Illustration of Muhammad

One of Vilks' drawings of Muhammed

Lars Vilks is no stranger to controversy involving Islamic imagery.  His images portraying the prophet Muhammad as a “roundabout dog” earned everything from international condemnation (read as Islamic nations whining like little girls) to the Islamic State of Iraq (a terrorist organization) issuing a $150,000 reward for his assassination. (One of Vilks’ original drawings is shown at left.  If there was any doubt that religion is insanity, realize that this image alone is motivation for the faithful to kill!)

Mr. Vilks was giving a lecture at Uppsala University in Sweden, when images in his lecture display set off the Islamic nut cases in the audience to attack him.  He was head-butted in the chest and punched in the face, but did not suffer serious injury.

I have to applaud the Swedish police in this incident, for showing a remarkable level of restraint when dealing with these delusional, violent nuts. Even the one individual who had to be taken to the floor, was not abused in the process.  Once he was down and immobile, there were no further actions taken against him.  I wish our police could hold the same level of professionalism, but that breed of officer seems few and far between in the US these days.

I also feel that this video shows that at least a portion of the Islamic faithful simply cannot be reasoned with and when even slightly offended, they behave worse than animals in thrashing out at the ones they feel have “attacked their dignity”.

I have news for these people, you have no dignity.  You are hollow and worthless and your actions demonstrate it.

Blasphemy is insanity at its worst.  The very thought that a god or even a prophet cannot stand up for himself, but that he requires his followers to commit violent acts to defend his honor, is the epitome of delusional thinking.  If such a god or saint does exist, he doesn’t need you to defend him.

Just to keep the record clear, there are Christians and Jews who will behave the same way, “protecting” their faith.  This isn’t just a Muslim expression.  The Muslims simply have the lion’s share of public violent lunacy, as the advent of science has tamed the monster that the Christian movement once was in the west and Jewish lunacy has mutated into Zionist lunacy, with Israel promoting their ire in military focus against Islamic nations, rather than mob violence to scattered events.

However, no matter how you look at it, the equation is pretty obvious: Middle Eastern religions are religions of violence.  Read the Koran.  Read the Bible.  The gods portrayed there are selfish, petty, tyrannical, murderous monsters – and they command, right within the pages of their holy books, that their followers behave the same way.

Religion is insanity and it is very difficult to negotiate or reason with the insane.

The Science is Settled, the Debate is Over

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

The Church of Anthropogenic Global Warming is still trying their damnedest to keep the global warming hype running, but Europe especially (where the press coverage isn’t stifled on the subject) and now the US isn’t buying their bullshit anymore.

Congress shot down the cap and trade legislation that Obama so dearly wanted, postponing the bill indefinitely in the Senate and until 2017 in the House.

Further issues being dug up in the Climategate emails have shown the “science” behind the entire global warming industry to be utterly false.  In fact, it is fair at this point, with all the evidence at hand, to state that those involved at the core of the movement purposely lied about all of the proposed crisis and that most of the actual data and their models used for climate prediction are completely wrong. Furthermore, there is direct evidence of a corruption of the peer review process, black-balling any study or paper which conflicted with the desired global warming hype.

The most telling of the hard data released so far, is what is referred to as the “Readme Harry” document, which describes the painstaking attempt by a programmer to make sense of nonsensical data.  There is so much in this 247 page document that it’s hard to take it all in at one sitting, but many have done just that and broke down the results.

Flopping Aces covers the Readme Harry document specifically, and Small Dead Animals has a slew of useful links on the document and related material.

For those who want to read the document themselves, find it here or here

I have long doubted the stupidity regurgitated ad nauseum from the Church of Anthropogenic Global Warming, as I’ve called them – but this finalizes my stance.  Those pushing the global warming agenda are religionists, with the same asinine mentality of anyone following a faith.  No logic, evidence or examination is allowed in their belief system and so I will discard it like any other superstitious nonsense.

My fear at this point, is that the damage is going to be so overwhelming to the scientific community in general, that it will undermine all branches of science – creating an unhealthy, over-reactive public rejection of science itself. Science as a discipline ends up crucified by the actions of a global warming cult.

As if we didn’t have enough religious stupidity trying to drag us back into the Dark Ages as it was.

On a humorous side note, Micheal Mann, creator of the infamously flawed and utterly debunked “hockey stick” graph, has threatened to sue Minnesotans for Global Warming (M4GW), over a parody video they made, called “Hide the Decline”, aired on Youtube.com.  (I won’t post a link here, because it comes and goes.  Just search for it on Youtube.)

No Cap and Trade, which came to M4GW’s defense, actually desires the lawsuit to come, because it would force Mann to release his data under full disclosure to the court.

More Utah Mixed Nuts

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

Looks like Dell “SuperDell” Schanze isn’t the only loose religious nutcase in Utah.  Paul Drockton also appears to have fallen off the deep end of righteous insanity.

Apparently, he’s been raving on about the Illuminati in Utah for some time.  He had been mentioned to me by an acquaintance once before, but it wasn’t until I stumbled upon his recent two articles on his web site, that I learned how deep the delusion runs.

First he predicts, through a vision he personally received from God nonetheless, that there will be a massive spiritual calamity coupled with a giant earthquake in Utah.  Pedophiles running amok, rampant crime in the streets, dogs and cats living together – you know the drill.

Then he claims that Utah’s “Earthquake Awareness” week is a direct reaction to his predictions.  Certainly the fact that Utah is deep in American earthquake territory, with a major fault running through the Salt Lake valley (where 90% of Utah’s population resides) has absolutely nothing to do with it…

If you want a couple minutes of hysterical laughter, have a look.  I warn you, however, the crazy burns your mind just a little.

Brainless

Monday, December 21st, 2009

He’s being called “a living miracle” and “a true Christmas miracle” that has “changed so many lives”.

Nickolas Coke, born without a brain (a condition called Anencephaly,) has managed to survive for a year without heavy medical intervention.

His mother, Sheena Coke, claims that the child shows signs of emotion, “He’s smiling. He’s laughed for the first time. It was wonderful to hear him laugh.” Though she is being honest with herself, knowing that Nicholas’ continued survival is unlikely. The longest any baby born in Anencephalic condition has lived, was two and half years.

I can understand her futile hopefulness, as he is her child after all and the emotional toil must be horrific.  However, I find the situation itself to be extremely unsettling.

Let’s start with the basics: Nicholas was born without a brain, nothing more than a brain stem is in his skull.  He is completely unable to perceive anything, in any of the five senses and never will be able to.  He will never be able to feel anything emotionally. He will never be able to have a thought of any kind. The nerve tissue needed for all these things, does not exist in his skull. In blunt terms, Nicholas is a slab of meat, kept alive by the most basic, less-than-reptilian portion of the brain – a section that can do no more than control digestion, respiration and heart beat. He cannot even determine at the most rudimentary level if he is being fed, or expelling waste, or even breathing. Plants have an infinitely more sophisticated sensory experience than his!

How is this a miracle?

Nicholas is a freak occurrence of nature, which gave him enough nerve tissue at the end of a spinal cord to keep rudimentary autonomic functions working.  That he has survived this long is disturbing, not miraculous and that he is being coddled and propped up as a miracle of any kind, is far more disturbing yet.

It is understandable that his mother would anthropomorphize Nicholas’ random nerve firings as emotional reaction, but basic biology tells us that this is a pipe dream with absolutely no possibility of being real reactions of any kind from Nicholas.  He simply does not have the brain tissue necessary to be able to generate emotional responses to anything. A random firing of nerve signals is not an emotional response. Since he cannot perceive anything through any physical sense, he likewise cannot possibly react to anything in any fashion at all.

Though this writeup of the story at News First 5 is particularly rife with absurd emotionalism, the comments are cloying. Post after post of infantile, ludicrous claims of miraculous nature, centered around the “gifts from God” simply prove to me all the more, how utterly delusional religious people are! Furthermore, these comments prove another point I had suspected, but hadn’t seen such a complete display of: most religious minded people are utterly clueless about the very basic facts of biology and science in general. Their delusional mindset allows them to discount empirical evidence at a whim.

Nickolas Coke may be brainless, but at least it took an act of nature to do that to him.

Holy Shit!

Saturday, November 7th, 2009

Too stupid for words!