Sunday, June 30, 2019

Some good news and some bad news. It's about Fucktard Trump.

"Donald Trump has become the first sitting US president to set foot in North Korea, after meeting Kim Jong-un in the area dividing the two Koreas."

Trump and the little fat dictator of North Korea have become good friends. This is good news (I think). The bad news is if all problems are solved, it will be much more difficult to get rid of Trump in 2020, especially since his Democratic opponent will probably be an anti-business liberal idiot.

This would mean no end to Trump's ridiculous trade wars and his war against the environment.


I answered a good question about the disgusting Jeebus cult.

"What will destroy Christianity?"

That's easy. Every Christian fantasy is obviously bullshit. Bullshit eventually gets thrown out when old people drop dead and young people don't replace them. This is already going on now and it won't end until every Christian moron is dead. Good riddance when that happens.

Apparently there is at least one know-nothing anti-science Christian moron in New Zealand. This is from the Whanganui Chronicle.

It's already July in New Zealand. It's still June here in Idiot America.

Letters: Let's get creationism facts

1 July 2019 5:00am

Re Mandy Donne-Lee's claim (Letters, June 28) that Christians are among the most conservation-minded in the world, where she cites her supernatural nonentity in the sky that Christians invented thousands of years ago in their own image.

She goes on to claim evolution is a fact-free "fairy tale of epic proportions".

It's time for Mandy to provide evidential proof ie statistics/percentages comparing the "conservation-mindedness" of her fellow 21st century god-believers with other sects and atheists. While she's at it, let's hear which reputable peer-reviewed scientific journals have run papers debunking Darwinian evolution.

CAROL WEBB
Whanganui

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I like to look things up. I found this:

The Whanganui Chronicle is New Zealand's oldest newspaper. Based in Whanganui, it celebrated 160 years of publishing in September 2016. Local resident Henry Stokes first proposed the paper for Petre, as the town was then called, but initial publication was held back by lack of equipment. Wikipedia

Light pollution: brightening of the night sky caused by street lights and other man-made sources, which has a disruptive effect on natural cycles and inhibits the observation of stars and planets. This is what our ancient ancestors could see every night. Look at what's out there. And this is just one of billions of galaxies. "The observable universe is estimated to contain 200 billion to 2 trillion galaxies."

Handel in Rome (Psalms). Latin church works by George Frideric Handel - composed in the Rome period 1707-1708.

I asked this question: Is the childish belief in the magical creation of humans a mental illness?

"Slavish obedience to cult handlers and mindless robotic acceptance of their prescribed dogma is indeed a well-known mental aberration fully demonstrated by the Milgram experiments."
-- Internet name: *&*

Wikipedia - Milgram experiment

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"It's a sign of pride and hubris. There's nothing but ego behind the belief that humans must be the result of special creation and can't possibly be related to other animal species."
-- sup

The National Academy of Sciences

There is no scientific doubt about the close evolutionary relationships between humans and all other primates. Using the same scientific methods and tools that have been employed to study the evolution of other species, researchers have compiled a large and increasing number of fossil discoveries and compelling new molecular evidence that clearly indicate that the same forces responsible for the evolution of all other life forms on Earth account for the biological evolution of human characteristics.

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Based on the strength of evidence from DNA comparisons, the common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees lived approximately 6 to 7 million years ago in Africa. The evolutionary tree leading from this ancestral species to modern humans contains a number of side branches, representing populations and species that eventually went extinct. At various times in the past, the planet appears to have been populated by several human-like species.

Something I wrote for some Christian fucktards. It's about the religious implications of evolution.

"We are just an upright-walking big-brained super-intelligent ape." -- Louise Leakey. What are the religious implications?

Wikipedia: The family Hominidae (hominids), the great apes, includes three extant species of orangutans and their subspecies, two extant species of gorillas and their subspecies, two extant species of chimpanzees and their subspecies, and one extant species of humans in a single extant subspecies.

Traditionally, humans were considered neither apes nor great apes, but today they are recognized as having emerged deep in the phylogenetic tree of apes.

Scientific fact: We are one of the Great Ape species. Humans are apes. This fact is supported by thousands of evidences from DNA sequencing and other branches of science. There is no debate about this scientific fact. Only uneducated Christians and Muslim terrorists deny it.

Our species was not magically created by a magical creator. What are the religious implications?

Saturday, June 29, 2019

What separates us from chimpanzees? | Jane Goodall. The primatologist says the only real difference between humans and chimps is our sophisticated language. She urges us to start using it to change the world.

"We are just an upright-walking big-brained super-intelligent ape." -- Louise Leakey

My wonderful house in northwestern Illinois is next to a cemetery. Fortunately, zombies have not been a problem.

This blog has 75 posts about zombies at zombies.

This blog has 30 posts about Illinois at Illinois.

This blog has 3 posts about Luxembourg at Luxembourg.

This blog has 13 posts about Ireland at Ireland.

An interesting fact: My ancestors are from Luxembourg and Ireland.

This is a typical Christian asshole in Idiot America. According to this batshit crazy fucktard, anyone who doesn't suck to the dead Jeebus is going to be tortured forever by the moron's loving god, as if it's possible to torture a corpse. I never met a Christian who wasn't a stupid fucking asshole.

Know that God is Love for those who seek Him, through His prayers to God!

The believer, unlike the atheist, has a possibility of salvation, while the atheist is guilty of eternal condemnation!

Today's society, more than ever, boasts of exercising an atheistic culture, free from those conditioning imposed by "religion". Atheism means for the man of today: freedom. But for the Bible it means: foolishness. In man's rebellion against God and not against religion since it continues to exist despite the fact that man declares himself an atheist, one thing more than any other strikes us: the fact that man does not want to reason, that he almost hides behind the screen of his own declaration, as Adam sought refuge behind the trees. But there is no place I can hide from the presence of God, I do not think it can escape His attention. Today, as in the beginning, God seeks man not to punish him, but to bring him back to himself, to make him reason. He decided to change the sentiment of foolish man by changing his heart, that heart that said: "there is no God".

It is the "heart" the seat of human feelings, there lies our rebellion and our weakness, so we must look at that in our heart these feelings do not dwell, and that is that, while saying that we belong to the Lord, our directives are addressed elsewhere, hiding us behind some screen.

The psalmist used to say: "He said in his heart", and it is in our hearts that we often allow feelings and attitudes to grow that are not pleasing to God, which distance us from Him, leading us gradually to the same condition as the man who is defined as foolish.

Revelation 20.
20 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit[a] and a great chain. 2 And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, 3 and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while.

4 Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.

The Defeat of Satan.
7 And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison 8 and will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea. 9 And they marched up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, but fire came down from heaven[b] and consumed them, 10 and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

Judgment Before the Great White Throne.
11 Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. 12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. 13 And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. 14 Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. 15 And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

So, as said above, is it the atheist, the sinner, who rejects the love of God, to go freely to hell?

In any case, and choose hell you will live forever, I assure you, but you will suffer, and you will weep forever, and from there, there will be no possibility of forgiveness!

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), England. Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.

The Magic Jeebus Man was a know-nothing fucktard.

If Jeebus is the son of an all-knowing God then why was Jeebus a know-nothing creationist?

Evolution is the strongest fact of science and Jeebus didn't know anything about it.

The evidence: Tons of it at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_of_common_descent.

Antonín Dvořák, 9. Sinfonie e-Moll op. 95, Aus der Neuen Welt, Largo

Friday, June 28, 2019

One of my favorite quotes from the scientist who killed the god fantasy.

"When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as something wholly beyond his comprehension; when we regard every production of nature as one which has had a long history; when we contemplate every complex structure and instinct as the summing up of many contrivances, each useful to the possessor, in the same way as any great mechanical invention is the summing up of the labour, the experience, the reason, and even the blunders of numerous workmen; when we thus view each organic being, how far more interesting - I speak from experience - does the study of natural history become!"
— Charles Darwin

This blog has 83 posts about natural selection at Natural Selection.

Thursday, June 27, 2019

What somebody else wrote about religious bullshit.

Is there anything more dishonest than religion?

Have you noticed religious texts are just a long list of fabricated nonsense? Nothing but errors, contradictions and lies. Fables and fairy tales. Talking animals and bushes. Magical miracles like walking on water which is ridiculous. Muhammed cut the moon in two with his sword which is laughable and the bible calls the moon a light source. Just about what we should expect from bronze age authors who thought the earth was flat and the sun revolved around it. Still, as ignorant as those people were they had the excuse of living in primitive times when they couldn't know any better. Largely because their religion suppressed scientific investigation. What excuse do modern religious people have for believing such childish rubbish?

-- Atheist Republic

I wrote this in August 2012, 7 years ago. It's about the differences between science and religious bullshit.

The difference between science and religion.

Science requires evidence.
Religion requires wishful thinking.

Scientific progress requires curiosity.
Religion requires cowards.

Science advances human progress.
Religion gets in the way of progress.

Science requires brilliant people who can think.
Religion requires gullible morons who are willing to believe any bullshit if it makes them feel good.

Science is reality.
Religion is fantasy.

Science is a search for truth.
Religion is a dishonest business for assholes who are too lazy to get a real job.

Without science, we would still be living in the Dark Ages.
Religion is for people who never left the Dark Ages.

Without science, we would have never learned who we are or how we got here.
Without religion, biology teachers could do their jobs without being harassed and threatened.

Science makes progress possible.
Religion makes violence possible.

Science ignores religion.
Religion must accommodate science.

Science will last forever because human progress depends on it.
Religion will go extinct because it's bullshit.

"There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works."
-- Stephen Hawking

According to the ridiculous myth, the Magic Jeebus Man who has been dead for 2,000 years, is going to magically fly from his magical paradise to this planet. Millions of American fucktards believe this bullshit.

I found this at Jerry Coyne's website.

Wednesday, June 26, 2019

The liberals are having their 1st debate. Here it is. One of them is speaking Spanish. Lots of bullshit. Tax and spend. Destroy the economy. Attack corporations. Not one of these idiots talks about free trade. The audience applauds every idiotic idea. It would be so nice to get rid of President Fucktard Trump but the Democrats are going to lose again.


Jerry Coyne's website: "The first Democratic debate: your take."

I wrote a comment here about Elizabeth Warren. If she wins the nomination, then fucktard Trump will win the election. I couldn't vote for this anti-business idiot who wants to, for example, attack Amazon which is where I buy all my stuff. She is a liberal extremist fucktard.

"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
-- Ronald Reagan

Wall Street Journal: "Elizabeth Warren wants to forcibly dismantle Amazon, Google and Facebook."

I don't use Facebook so I don't care what happens to them.

Everything I buy is from Amazon because they are competent and their prices are fair. The customers love Amazon and this fucking moron wants to break it up.

I use Google for something every 5 minutes of every day. Everything is free and it's easy to block every ad. And this liberal fucktard wants to break it up.

Liberals are morons, not much better than Fucktard Trump.

If these Democrats had a brain they would promise to throw out Trump's ridiculous trade wars, but they say nothing about it.

Politicians are politicians because they're too lazy to get a real job.

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New York Times - Democrats, Please Don’t Drive Me Away

The dynamic pulling the party leftward.

By David Brooks

Opinion Columnist

June 27, 2019

I could never in a million years vote for Donald Trump. So my question to Democrats is: Will there be a candidate I can vote for?

According to a recent Gallup poll, 35 percent of Americans call themselves conservative, 35 percent call themselves moderate and 26 percent call themselves liberal. The candidates at the debates this week fall mostly within the 26 percent. The party seems to think it can win without any of the 35 percent of us in the moderate camp, the ones who actually delivered the 2018 midterm win.

The progressive narrative is dominating in part because progressives these days have a direct and forceful story to tell and no interest in compromising it. It’s dominating because no moderate wants to bear the brunt of progressive fury by opposing it.

It’s also dominating because the driving dynamic in this campaign right now is not who can knock off Joe Biden, the more moderate front-runner. It’s who can survive the intense struggle between Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and others to be the surviving left-wing alternative. All the energy and competition is on the progressive side. Biden tries to bob and weave above it all while the whole debate pulls sharply leftward.

The party is moving toward all sorts of positions that drive away moderates and make it more likely the nominee will be unelectable. And it’s doing it without too much dissent.

First, there is health care. When Warren and Kamala Harris raised their hands and said that they would eliminate employer-based health insurance, they made the most important gesture of the campaign so far. Over 70 percent of Americans with insurance through their employers are satisfied with their health plan. Warren, Harris and Sanders would take that away.

According to a Hill-HarrisX survey, only 13 percent of Americans say they would prefer a health insurance system with no private plans. Warren and Sanders pin themselves, and perhaps the Democratic Party, to a 13 percent policy idea. Trump is smiling.

Second, there is the economy. All of the Democrats seem to have decided to run a Trump-style American carnage campaign. The economy is completely broken. It only benefits a tiny sliver. Yet in a CNN poll, 71 percent of Americans say that the economy is very or somewhat good. We’re in the longest recovery in American history and the benefits are finally beginning to flow to those who need them most. Overall wages are rising by 3.5 percent, and wages for those in the lowest pay quartile are rising by well over 4 percent, the highest of all groups.

Democrats have caught the catastrophizing virus that inflicts the Trumpian right. They take a good point — that capitalism needs to be reformed to reduce inequality — and they radicalize it so one gets the impression they want to undermine capitalism altogether.

Third, Democrats are wandering into dangerous territory on immigration. They properly trumpet the glories immigrants bring to this country. But the candidates can’t let anybody get to the left of them on this issue. So now you’ve got a lot of candidates who sound operationally open borders. Progressive parties all over the world are getting decimated because they have fallen into this pattern.

Fourth, Democrats are trying to start a populist v. populist campaign against Trump, which is a fight they cannot win. Democratic populists talk as if the only elite in America is big business, big pharma — the top 1 percent. This allows them to sound populist without actually going after their donor bases — the highly educated affluent people along the coasts.

But the big divide in America is not between the top 1 percent and the bottom 99. It’s between the top 20 percent and the rest. These are the highly educated Americans who are pulling away from everybody else and who have built zoning restrictions and meritocratic barriers to make sure outsiders can’t catch up.

If Democrats run a populist campaign against the business elite, Trump will run a broader populist campaign against the entire educated elite. His populism is more compelling to people who respond to such things. After all, he is actually despised by the American elite, unlike the Democrats.

Finally, Democrats aren’t making the most compelling moral case against Donald Trump. They are good at pointing to Trump’s cruelties, especially toward immigrants. They are good at describing the ways he is homophobic and racist. But the rest of the moral case against Trump means hitting him from the right as well as the left.

A decent society rests on a bed of manners, habits, traditions and institutions. Trump is a disrupter. He rips to shreds the codes of politeness, decency, honesty and fidelity, and so renders society a savage world of dog eat dog. Democrats spend very little time making this case because defending tradition, manners and civility sometimes cuts against the modern progressive temper.

The debates illustrate the dilemma for moderate Democrats. If they take on progressives they get squashed by the passionate intensity of the left. If they don’t, the party moves so far left that it can’t win in the fall.

Right now we’ve got two parties trying to make moderates homeless.

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Idiot America and the Magic Jeebus Man. The stupid, it burns.

The god fairy thing.

The god thing has zero evidence.

There has been more than enough scientific progress to be certain the god thing was never necessary for anything.

The god thing is impossible for the same reason the Easter Bunny is impossible.

Normal people have thrown the thing out.

Billions of insane people don't want to throw it out.

Who cares?

The overwhelming stupidity has been causing a lot of problems, including a war against science education, brainwashing of children (aka child abuse), a war against women's rights, and many centuries of religious violence. Millions of people have been killed because they sucked up to the wrong god thing.

Another problem is the censorship being used to defend the insanity. For example today I wrote a comment at the Wall Street Journal about why brainwashing children is wrong, and some Christian asshole complained about it. My comment was vaporized.

Their brain damage is incurable. I just have to wait for these stupid fucking assholes to drop dead. Good riddance when that happens.

Derek Jeter used to be the shortstop for the New York Yankees.


Wikipedia has tons of stuff about Derek Jeter. This is the 1st 4 paragraphs.

Derek Sanderson Jeter (/ˈdʒiːtər/ JEE-tər; born June 26, 1974) is an American former professional baseball shortstop, businessman, and baseball executive. He has been the chief executive officer (CEO) and part owner of the Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball (MLB) since September 2017.

As a shortstop, Jeter spent his entire 20-year MLB playing career with the New York Yankees. A five-time World Series champion, Jeter is regarded as one of the primary contributors to the Yankees' success of the late 1990s and early 2000s for his hitting, baserunning, fielding, and leadership. He is the Yankees' all-time career leader in hits (3,465), doubles (544), games played (2,747), stolen bases (358), times on base (4,716), plate appearances (12,602) and at bats (11,195).[1] His accolades include 14 All-Star selections, five Gold Glove Awards, five Silver Slugger Awards, two Hank Aaron Awards, and a Roberto Clemente Award. Jeter was the 28th player to reach 3,000 hits and finished his career ranked sixth in MLB history in career hits and first among shortstops. In 2017, the Yankees retired his uniform number 2.

The Yankees drafted Jeter out of high school in 1992, and he debuted in the major leagues at age 21 in 1995. The following year, he became the Yankees' starting shortstop, won the Rookie of the Year Award, and helped push the team to win the 1996 World Series. Jeter continued to play during the team's championship seasons of 1998–2000; he finished third in voting for the American League (AL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award in 1998, recorded multiple career-high numbers in 1999, and won both the All-Star Game MVP and World Series MVP Awards in 2000. He consistently placed among the AL leaders in hits and runs scored for most of his career, and served as the Yankees' team captain from 2003 until his retirement in 2014. Throughout his career, Jeter contributed reliably to the Yankees' franchise successes. He holds many postseason records, and has a .321 batting average in the World Series. Jeter earned the nicknames of "Captain Clutch" and "Mr. November" due to his outstanding play in the postseason.

Jeter was one of the most heavily marketed athletes of his generation and is involved in numerous product endorsements. As a celebrity, his personal life and relationships with other celebrities has drawn the attention of the media.[2]

Religious assholes defend their stupidity with censorship.

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

What I wrote for a god-soaked science-denier at the Wall Street Journal.

"As I look out this morning at the trees, birds and small animals I wonder in awe about how all this came to be."

Evolution by natural selection. A god fairy had nothing to do with it.

"Even atheists have to admit that there is a 50/50 chance of me being right. "

Sir, atheists are 100% certain you are wrong about everything.

Republican politicians in Idiot America are god-soaked know-nothing evolution-deniers. A large percentage of Republican voters are anti-science assholes.

12 years ago in 2007 for some strange reason the New York Times published an article written by a Republican politician about why he thinks evolution is wrong. It's like having an article about why a moron thinks leprechauns are real. Why did the New York Times publish bullshit? What's the point?

This is just the 1st paragraph. If people are interested in extreme stupidity they can click the link to read the whole thing. Here it is:

What I Think About Evolution

By SAM BROWNBACK

MAY 31, 2007

Washington

IN our sound-bite political culture, it is unrealistic to expect that every complicated issue will be addressed with the nuance or subtlety it deserves. So I suppose I should not have been surprised earlier this month when, during the first Republican presidential debate, the candidates on stage were asked to raise their hands if they did not “believe” in evolution. As one of those who raised his hand, I think it would be helpful to discuss the issue in a bit more detail and with the seriousness it demands.

A few years ago somebody wrote this comment at the New York Times. It's about religious bullshit and evolution.

"Religion is a cruel hoax sustained by miracles, fear, superstition, and ignorance. Evolution is a science sustained by proven facts. Take your pick."
-- Dean Carson

What someone else wrote about the Christian cowards who believe they will have a magical 2nd life in magical paradise for gullible morons.

"Their fear of nonexistence is such that the fantasy of an 'after-life' sounds real and extremely likely - they're unable to see how infantile and ludicrous the whole idea is."
-- Everard

What I wrote for a Christian fucktard who is looking for a hiding place for the god of the gaps.


 

How did the universe begin? Did the Magic Man do it?

It was a natural process. Scientists have some ideas about it but this will always be a research opportunity.

We know there is a natural reason for everything. There is nothing supernatural (including magic god fairies) because it's not possible. Magic is not real.

The god-soaked are constantly looking for a hiding place for their god of the gaps. It's pointless because science always wins.

What I wrote for a know-nothing bible-thumping evolution-denier. This time I was nice even though the question was ridiculous. There are a lot of Christian fucktards in Idiot America.

"If evolution is true why do we only see animals give birth to the same kind?"

The transition from land animals to whales took about 10 million years.

The transition from ancient apes to today's human apes took about 6 or 7 million years.

Natural selection for what works in a changing environment is a very gradual process.

The best book about how evolution works and the overwhelming evidence for it: "Why Evolution Is True" by Jerry Coyne.

Also, Google and Wikipedia are your friends.

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Another fucktard for Jeebus wrote this moronic question which I answered.

"Why do atheists lie and say that if you don’t believe in evolution, then you don’t believe in gravity? I believe in gravity without believing in evolution."

The point is anyone who denies the established truth of evolution which is supported by thousands of evidences from DNA sequencing and many other branches of science, is an uneducated moron.

Now do you understand?

One more thing: Nobody "believes" in evolution. Evolution is the strongest fact of science. Facts do not require belief. Normal people say they accept the overwhelming evidence for evolution.

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Somebody else wrote this and I wrote a comment about it:

"Atheism is the disbelief in gods and has nothing to do with science. Evolution and gravity are science. Neither is a matter of belief, both are supported by overwhelming evidence which is why they are both accepted by theists and atheists alike including all the mainstream Christian churches."

Well done but I would like to point out something. Many of the morons who belong to mainstream Christian churches here in Idiot America are evolution deniers.

The Christians who accept evolution, always, 100% of the time, invoke their magic god fairy to invent or use or guide evolution, and that's bullshit. The fairy had absolutely nothing to do with the development of new species. There is nothing theistic about science.

Anyone who sticks a Magic Man into evolution is a creationist fucktard. There is no excuse for it, and there is no reason to suck up to these anti-reality assholes. They are part of the religious stupidity problem and they disgrace America.

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"When will Christians understand that there is no life after death and that you will rot in the ground as worm food?"

Christians would have to grow up and stop being cowardly morons, but that's not going to happen. Cowards will always be cowards. Morons will always be morons. There is no cure for extreme stupidity.

What I wrote about the Magic Jeebus Man.

"Why is Jesus called the son of God?"

According to the ridiculous myth, the Magic Jeebus Man said he was the son of the Magic Man.

There are morons who still believe this bullshit in the 21st century.

Monday, June 24, 2019

What I wrote about the magic god fairy and the stupid fucking assholes who suck up to it.

"If a person demanded to be worshipped and if those who didn’t get sent to be tortured forever, wouldn’t everyone hate him/her? Isn’t that exactly what God does? He is a full on psychopath."

The imaginary bible god is an asshole.

I noticed Christian assholes like to threaten normal people (aka atheists) with this bullshit: "My loving god will torture you forever" as if we should fear their idiotic childish fantasies.

I never met a Christian who wasn't a stupid fucking asshole.

I recommend the book "GOD, The Most Unpleasant Character In All Fiction" by Dan Barker.

30 minute Loop from Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, transposed via software to the 432Hz tunning. Performed by The New York Philharmonic, conducted by Leonard Bernstein.

This anti-science anti-reality god-soaked bullshit is totally ridiculous but millions of American fucktards agree with this moron for Jeebus.

I didn't 'weave' my theories into the facts: I went to God and He gave me everything I needed to clearly understand (I was 42 at the time... there were no creationist websites... He only used secular science to teach me the truth):

The word 'dinosaur' came from two Greek words that mean 'terrible lizard'... a word made up in the 1800s to describe reptile fossils.

Under the forces of EXTREME PRESSURE everything that was engulfed in mud during the world-wide flood turned into stone.

For about a year and a half silica (mostly) permiated plant and animal tissue. The mud also became stone as it compressed under the weight of billions of tons of water. Stone cannot be dated.

When a fish or an animal dies it rots, turns to dust or gets eaten... it does not turn into a fossil. Every fossil in the world is the result of the flood. Period.

Before the flood everything lived ten times longer - that's why tusks, antlers, fangs, trees and reptiles grew huge. I used to work with reptiles; among many things I learned about them was that they NEVER stop growing as long as they live.

Pre-flood the air had 50% more oxygen in it. Like a hyperbaric chamber, everything lived longer because of the air quality. We know this because we have air samples from before the flood; extracted from bubbles trapped in fossilized sap (amber). Adam lived until he was 930. Noah was 600 when he built the Ark (Google Noah's Ark Turkey - a tourist attraction since the 1970's A.D.).

Believing in lies about evolution makes you guilty of making God out to be a liar. This is spiritual treason.

You've heard of bacteria 'evolving'? No such thing: simply, the hardier bacteria were never killed off by the antibiotic in the first place. The weaker bacteria were. All that's left is 'resistant' bacteria. They were never subject to antibiotics to begin with. They never 'evolved'.

PS. If God wants to raise children for Abraham from the stones He can do it. He doesn't need any of us. He can change what is in the blink of an eye.... He doesn't need millenia.

Some more Idiot America bullshit. Evolution makes Christian fucktards cry.

"Creationists always get accused of making the evidence fit the Bible, but evolutionists also force their evidence to fit their evolution? I honestly don't see any difference between the two theories. When geology, archaeology or another field discover something scientists always start with, "ok this has to be very old, let's find a way to make it fit."

Biologists are called "biologists". Only know-nothing anti-science fucktards call them "evolutionists".

And your idea that biologists "force their evidence" is bullshit.

You don't even know what a scientific theory is. And your magical creationism fantasy is ridiculous and impossible. It's not science. It is not a theory. It's religious bullshit.

Grow up and educated yourself FFS.

One more thing: Evolution is the strongest fact of science, supported by thousands of evidences you know nothing about. You morons disgrace the human race.

George Frideric Handel - The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba from the oratorio Solomon (1749)

I found some more Idiot-America batshit-crazy Jehovah's-Witnesses bullshit. These fucktards are real. I have met some of them. They are totally brainwashed. Evolution makes them cry. Reality makes them cry. The planet Earth will become a magical paradise that will survive after our Sun blows up 5 billion years from now. I'm not making this stuff up. The insanity and the stupidity is overwhelming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses_and_salvation#The_'anointed

Jehovah's Witnesses

Main article: The 'anointed' (Jehovah's Witnesses and salvation)

Jehovah's Witnesses believe that exactly 144,000 faithful Christians from Pentecost of 33 AD until the present day will be resurrected to heaven as immortal spirit beings to spend eternity with God and Christ. They believe that these people are "anointed" by God to become part of the spiritual "Israel of God". They believe the 144,000 (which they consider to be synonymous with the "little flock" of Luke 12:32) will serve with Christ as king-priests for a thousand years, while all other people accepted by God (the "other sheep" of John 10:16, composed of "the great crowd" of Revelation 7:9,14 and the resurrected "righteous and the unrighteous" ones of Acts 24:15), will be given an opportunity to live forever in a restored paradise on earth.

Individual Witnesses indicate their claim of being "anointed" by partaking of the bread and wine at the annual Memorial of Christ's death. More than 19,500 Witnesses worldwide—an increase of about 11,000 since 1995—claim to be of the anointed "remnant" of the 144,000. The members of the Governing Body who exercise teaching authority over Jehovah's Witnesses worldwide claim to be among the anointed 144,000, and also consider themselves as a group to be the faithful and discreet slave of Matthew 24:45 and Luke 12:42.

Some stuff I found about "Atheist Ireland".

Atheist Ireland is an Irish advocacy group. We promote atheism and reason over superstition and supernaturalism, and we promote an ethical, secular society where the State does not support or finance or give special treatment to any religion.

Why I am an atheist – Gavin McBride, Ireland:

I am an atheist more as a result of an application of another rule in my life more than any other reason.

I live my life by a simple rule as follows:

“The world is full of claims being made, 1000s a day, and it is impossible to consider them all. When a claim comes before me therefore that is entirely unsubstantiated in any way I dismiss it instantly”.

GIVEN therefore that the idea there is a god entity is entirely devoid of evidence, arguments, data or reasons to lend it even a modicum of credence I am therefore forced to reject that claim. There simply is no evidence, argument, data or reasons on offer to me to suggest there is a non-human intelligence responsible for the creation and/or subsequent maintenance of our universe.

As soon as some are offered I will consider them. That is after all the very definition of being open-minded. Alas in 18+ years of requesting them I have never been given a single iota.

I am not looking for anything as lofty as “proof”. I merely want to hear evidence and arguments to even lend the idea credence. Alas even setting the bar this low has resulted in nothing of note from the “other side” so to speak.

"Donald Trump is running concentration camps at the border. The question remains: what are we going to do about it?"

New York Times - Trump’s ‘Concentration Camps’

The cruelty of immigrant family separations must not be tolerated.

By Charles M. Blow

Opinion Columnist

June 23, 2019

I have often wondered why good people of good conscience don’t respond to things like slavery or the Holocaust or human rights abuse.

Maybe they simply became numb to the horrific way we now rarely think about or discuss the men still being held at Guantánamo Bay without charge or trial, and who may as well die there.

Maybe people grow weary of wrestling with their anger and helplessness, and shunt the thought to the back of their minds and try to simply go on with life, dealing with spouses and children, making dinner and making beds.

Maybe there is simply this giant, silent, cold thing drifting through the culture like an iceberg that barely pierces the surface.

I believe that we will one day reflect on this period in American history where migrant children are being separated from their parents, some having been kept in cages, and think to ourselves: How did this happen?

Why were we not in the streets every day demanding an end to this atrocity? How did we just go on with our lives, disgusted but not distracted?

Thousands of migrant children have now been separated from their parents.

As NBC News reported in May:

“At least seven children are known to have died in immigration custody since last year, after almost a decade in which no child reportedly died while in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.”

Homeland Security’s own inspector general has described egregious conditions at detention facilities.

And, last week, an attorney for the Trump administration argued before an incredulous panel of judges on the Ninth Circuit that toothbrushes, soap and appropriate sleeping arrangements were not necessary for the government to meet its requirement to keep migrant children in “safe and sanitary” conditions.

As one of the judges asked the attorney:

“Are you arguing seriously that you do not read the agreement as requiring you do something other than what I described: Cold all night long. Lights on all night long. Sleep on the concrete floor and you get an aluminum blanket?”

Stop and think about that. Not only do these children in question not have beds, they are not even turning off the lights so that they can go to sleep. Sleep deprivation is a form of torture, plain and simple.

How is this happening? Why is this happening?

An Associated Press report last week discussed the descriptions by lawyers of “inadequate food, water and sanitation for the 250 infants, children and teens” at a Texas border patrol station.

According to the report:

“A 2-year-old boy locked in detention wants to be held all the time. A few girls, ages 10 to 15, say they’ve been doing their best to feed and soothe the clingy toddler who was handed to them by a guard days ago.”

The report explained at another point:

“Three girls told attorneys they were trying to take care of the 2-year-old boy, who had wet his pants and had no diaper and was wearing a mucus-smeared shirt when the legal team encountered him.”

The report described at another point:

“A 14-year-old girl from Guatemala said she had been holding two little girls in her lap. ‘I need comfort, too. I am bigger than they are, but I am a child, too,’ she said.”

Anyone whose heart doesn’t break upon reading that is a monster. And yet, too many Americans seem perfectly O.K. with these conditions. Last year, Fox News’s Laura Ingraham compared child detention centers to “summer camps.” These are not summer camps. They are closer to what Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called them: concentration camps.

She received quite a bit of blowback for that description, her critics complaining that the term was too closely tied to the ghastly horrors of the Holocaust.

No one wants to be accused of invoking Godwin’s law: “As an online discussion continues, the probability of a reference or comparison to Hitler or the Nazis approaches 1.” In other words, 100 percent.

However, last week MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes wrote on Twitter:

“Last comment on this: ‘concentration camp’ is an extremely charged term and I get why many people are, in good faith, uncomfortable with its application for Godwin’s Law purposes among others. So let’s just call them “detention camps” and focus on what’s happening in them.”

The creator of the law himself, Mike Godwin, responded:

“Chris, I think they’re concentration camps. Keep in mind that one of their functions by design is to punish those individuals and families who are detained. So even the “charged” term is appropriate.”

Folks, we can use any form of fuzzy language we want, but the United States under Donald Trump is currently engaged in an unconscionable act. He promised to crack down on immigrants and yet under him immigrants seeking asylum have surged. And he is meeting the surge with indescribable cruelty.

Donald Trump is running concentration camps at the border. The question remains: what are we going to do about it?

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I already wrote about this before but the question was asked again so I answered it.

"How would you know if there was a God or not?"

There is something called "common sense".

How would I know the Easter Bunny is not real? Common sense tells me the magic rabbit is impossible.

It's exactly the same for the magic god fairy fantasy. The thing is impossible. There is no magic in the universe.

This is not rocket science. Any unbrainwashed child could figure it out.

Sunday, June 23, 2019

"a saved Christian" The stupid, it burns.

What is a saved Christian?

There is a magic god fairy hiding somewhere in the universe. It is a loving god. This loving god loves the Christians who suck up to it. Those Christians are saved. Saved from what? Saved from being tortured by their loving god.

Of course the whole thing is bullshit but here in Idiot America most of the population believes this "saved" fantasy is real. These fucktards for Jeebus are cowardly, gullible, and insane. They live in a everything-is-magic fantasy world. Reality makes them cry.

Wikipedia: Salvation in Christianity

Salvation in Christianity, or deliverance, redemption is the "saving of human beings from death and separation from God" by Christ's death and resurrection and the justification following this salvation. Christians partake in this redemption by baptism, repentance, and participating in Jesus' death and resurrection.

While the idea of Jesus' death as an atonement for human sin was derived from the Hebrew writings, and was elaborated in Paul's epistles and in the Gospels, Paul saw the faithful redeemed by participation in Jesus' death and rising. Early Christians regarded themselves as partaking in a new covenant with God, open to both Jews and gentiles, due to the sacrificial death and subsequent exaltation of Jesus Christ.

Early Christian notions of the person and sacrificial role of Jesus in human salvation were further elaborated by the Church Fathers, medieval writers and modern scholars in various atonement theories, such as the ransom theory, Christus Victor theory, the recapitulation theory, the satisfaction theory, the penal substitution theory, and the moral influence theory.

Variant views on salvation are among the main fault lines dividing the various Christian denominations, including conflicting definitions of sin and depravity (the sinful nature of humankind), justification (God's means of removing the consequences of sin), and atonement (the forgiving or pardoning of sin through the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus).

If you don't like classical music you should watch this video. If you love classical music you definitely want to watch this video. I was lucky to find it. "The transformative power of classical music | Benjamin Zander" "Benjamin Zander has two infectious passions: classical music, and helping us all realize our untapped love for it -- and by extension, our untapped love for all new possibilities, new experiences, new connections."

Illinois where I live is a fucked up state but there is an upside. They are so desperate for more revenue they have made the special substance legal starting in 2020.

I will probably be buying some marijuana edibles in 2020. I hope I will be able to order the stuff on the internet. I don't think Amazon will be selling it but that would be so nice.

An interesting fact: I have been an Amazon customer since 2003, 16 years ago.

Another interesting fact: If I bought a lot of Amazon shares in 2003 I would be a millionaire today.

This is too boring for most people to read. I'm putting it here for myself.

Wall Street Journal - Illinois Budget Woes: Still Smoking

The state’s decision to legalize gambling and marijuana helps immediate problems but delays the state’s inevitable financial collapse.

By Lauren Silva Laughlin

June 11, 2019

Illinois is trying to pull off a circus act to improve its financial position. Ratings firms aren’t amused.

State lawmakers have legalized gambling and marijuana in an effort to patch the state’s fiscal mess. Meanwhile, changes have been made to the state’s tax structure to put it in a more viable short-term financial position. But Illinois’s pension deficits are too far gone and its leaders are quickly running out of tricks.

Over the past couple of weeks the state has ushered in plans that would add casinos, including in Chicago, and legalize sports betting, as well as allowing cannabis sales starting in 2020. It is part of the Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s “think big” plan that has won bipartisan support. It includes other measures to raise more revenue such as changing the state’s flat tax to a graduated income-tax system.

Bickering among politicians kept lawmakers from passing a budget for two years. As a result, the state piled up unpaid bills. Such irresponsibility has earned Illinois the lowest ratings of all 50 states from Moody’s Investors Service, though it remains barely investment grade.

Revenue provided by the new measures pales in comparison to stored-up problems. Illinois’s pension systems had a $162.5 billion funding hole, according to calculations in November by rating agency Fitch. Like nearly every state and municipality, those calculations rest on an ambitious rate of return, particularly in comparison to today’s bond yields. Unlike most, Illinois is mulling the issuance of tax-exempt bonds that would bolster pension funds in the hope of earning an excess return—a risky strategy it has tried in the past. Chicago, in an even worse position, mulled a $10 billion bond last summer. Independent analysts using more realistic rates of return reckon that the state’s pensions may only be about a fifth funded.

The good news is that the state’s show of political resolve and its Las Vegas-style solutions have assuaged ratings firms in the short run. They aren’t rushing to upgrade the state either, though. Atoning for its past sins will be far more difficult.

What I wrote 7 years ago for an anti-science Christian fucktard.

"I don't understand your anger and hostility to people with differing opinions than what you believe."

Nobody cares what uneducated people like you believe. What bugs me is your kind brainwashes their children (and everyone else's children if they can get away with it). Teaching children idiotic fantasies like magical creation out of nothing is child abuse, the worse kind of child abuse because it can permanently destroy a child's mind.

The other problem is the never ending Christian war against science education. You people know nothing about science and you have no right to tell biology teachers how to do their jobs.

I also would like to point out that terrorists believe in your magical creationism nonsense. You people are equal to terrorists, equally insane and equally terrified of reality.

One more thing mister. Evolution is not an opinion. Evolution is the strongest fact of science. Facts are not opinions. Also, your magical creationism is not just an idiotic fantasy, it's a disease, a mental illness that is usually incurable. And you want to infect innocent children with it. You have my contempt.

The worst thing that could happen to this planet: President Fucktard Trump wins the 2020 election. These are his fucktard fans.



Idiot America

Here in Idiot America we have something called the magic god fairy fantasy. Most Americans, aka idiots, think this fairy is real. These insane people call themselves "theists". Normal people know fairies are not real. They are called "atheists" which means "not a theist fucktard".

An American idiot (aka theist) asked this question and I answered it, as if I could convince an idiot to stop being an idiot.

"Atheists, what proof would prove GOD to you?"

Nothing could convince me to throw out all of reality and believe in your ridiculous Magic Man fantasy.

Same answer for the Easter Bunny.

There is no magic in the universe therefore magic god fairies and magic rabbits are impossible.

America's Christian assholes dishonestly say our Founding Fathers were Christians even though they said Christianity is bullshit.

"I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion? To make one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the earth."
-- Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States, author of the Declaration of Independence, and one of America's Founding Fathers.

There is a lot more information about America's Founding Fathers at darwinkilledgod.blogspot.com - Founding Fathers.

Everything you always wanted to know about theism, deism, agnosticism, and atheism.

Theism: bullshit

Deism: bullshit

Agnosticism: bullshit

Atheism: reality

The best place to buy stuff in the universe.

Wikipedia - Amazon

Amazon.com, Inc.[6] (/ˈæməzɒn/), is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle, Washington that focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming and artificial intelligence. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies along with Google, Apple and Facebook.[7][8][9]

Amazon is known for its disruption of well-established industries through technological innovation and mass scale.[10][11][12] It is the world's largest e-commerce marketplace, AI assistant provider, and cloud computingplatform[13] as measured by revenue and market capitalization.[14] Amazon is the largest Internet company by revenuein the world.[15] It is the second largest employer in the United States[16] and one of the world's most valuable companies. Amazon is the second largest technology company by revenue.

Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994 in Bellevue, Washington. The company initially started as an online marketplace for books but later expanded to sell electronics, software, video games, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry. In 2015, Amazon surpassed Walmart as the most valuable retailer in the United States by market capitalization.[17] In 2017, Amazon acquired Whole Foods Market for $13.4 billion, which vastly increased Amazon's presence as a brick-and-mortar retailer.[18] In 2018, Bezos announced that its two-day delivery service, Amazon Prime, had surpassed 100 million subscribers worldwide.[19][20]

The best chess website in the universe.

Lichess.org was created by Thibault Duplessis in Paris, France.

Lichess was founded by Thibault Duplessis, a French programmer, who describes himself as "Benevolent dictator of lichess.org, a hippie communist chess server for drug fueled atheists".

"Lichess is better, but it's free." -- Thibault Duplessis

https://lichess.org/

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Wikipedia - Lichess

Lichess

Type of site Internet chess server
Available in English. Portions of the website have been translated to over 80 languages, with about 30 languages marked as "complete," but the terms of service, privacy policy, blog posts, and coach biographies, are not yet fully translated.

Created by Thibault Duplessis

Website lichess.org

Alexa rank 1,268 (February 2019)[1]
Commercial Non-profit and donation-only
Registration Optional
Launched 20 June 2010[2]
Current status Active
Written in Scala, JavaScript, HTML and CSS[3]

Lichess (/'liː-tʃɛs/ (help·info)[4]) is an Internet chess server. Anyone can play anonymously, although players may register an account on the site to play rated games. All features are available for free, as the site is funded by donations.[5][6][7]

History

Lichess was founded by Thibault Duplessis, a French programmer, who describes himself as "Benevolent dictator of lichess.org, a hippie communist chess server for drug fueled atheists".[8] The software running Lichess and the design are open source under the AGPL license.[9]

On February 11, 2015, an official Lichess mobile app was released for Android devices.[10] An app for mobile devices running iOS was released on March 4, 2015.[11]

As of February 10, 2019, lichess.org had a global rank of 1,268 at Alexa, with most of its visitors coming from the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, and Canada.[12] According to the Alexa rank, Lichess is ranked second only to A SHIT WEBSITE CALLED CHESS.COM as one of the most popular online chess servers in the world.[13]

Being ad-free, Lichess relies on donated money to maintain over a dozen servers with over a hundred processor cores while paying programmers.[14]

Features

The website allows users to play games of live and correspondence chess against other players at different time controls. It has training features, including chess basics, tactics training, chess coordinates, chess video library, Chess insights, opener explorer, and studies.[15][16]It also has a section where chess coaches can advertise their services to users.[17]

In addition to enabling blindfold chess,[18] the website supports the following chess variants:[19]
Antichess (Losing chess)
Atomic chess[20]
Chess960 (Fischer Random Chess)
Crazyhouse [21]
Horde (a variant of Dunsany's chess)
King of the Hill
Racing Kings
Three-check chess

Lichess was the first chess-site to have features to help visually impaired people play chess on a website.[22][23] It also has a chess puzzle-based CAPTCHA system.[24][25]

Users can also play games against the Stockfish chess engine at a number of difficulty levels.[26] They may also analyze specific positions from standard chess or any of the supported chess variants. The website implements a version of the Stockfish engine that runs on the user's local machine within the user's web browser for limited or infinite analysis,[27] which will calculate best lines of play or major opponent threats. An opening book based on games played on the site or a database of two million games played by FIDE titled players is available.[28] In Antichess variant, users can switch for Mark Watkins's antichess solution database.[29]

For registered players, Lichess employs a rating system, and grants the ability to compete in tournaments, post in the forums, and request a server-side full game analysis for any finalized game. The ratings for standard chess are categorized into Ultrabullet, Bullet, Blitz, Rapid, or Classical, depending on the game's total time or estimated total time (if using Fischer time control which increments time after each move).

Lichess runs live tournaments both in standard chess and in variant chess, and at different time controls, with the slowest not custom-made time control being 15 minutes per game with a 15 second increment per move. Where it differs from other online chess tournaments is they are run in an arena format where a member can join and leave at any time, and their score is retained if they rejoin during the tournament. In order to join a tournament, there is a requirement for the user to have played a sufficient number of games (in the same time control or the same variant).[30]

A Lichess mobile app is available for iOS and Android.[31]

Lichess Titled Arena

Since December 2017, Lichess organizes the "Lichess Titled Arena", a tournament reserved to titled chess players. Cash prizes are given to the top five places.

Saturday, June 22, 2019

A quote about the religious implications of evolution.

"Evolution poses a further threat to Christianity, though, a threat that goes to the very heart of Christian teaching. Evolution means that the creation accounts in the first two chapters of Genesis are wrong. That's not how humans came into being, nor the cattle, nor the creeping things, nor the beasts of the earth, nor the fowl of the air. Evolution could not have produced a single mother and father of all future humans, so there was no Adam and no Eve. No Adam and Eve: no fall. No fall: no need for redemption. No need for redemption: no need for a redeemer. No need for a redeemer: no need for the crucifixion or the resurrection, and no need to believe in that redeemer in order to gain eternal life. And not the slightest reason to believe in eternal life in the first place."

-- Paula Kirby

Everyone in the world needs to watch this. A Universe Not Made For Us (Carl Sagan on religion).

Richard Feynman

Islam is the world's largest terrorist organization.

Ten Obvious Reasons Why Islam is Not a Religion of Peace


#1


18,000
 deadly terror attacks committed explicitly in the name of Islam in just the last ten years.  (Other religions combined for perhaps a dozen or so).  

#2


Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, had people killed for insulting him or for criticizing his religion.  This included women.  

Muslims are told to emulate the example of Muhammad. 
 

#3


Muhammad said in many places that he has been "ordered by Allah to fight men until they testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is his messenger."  In the last nine years of his life, he ordered no less than 65 military campaigns to do exactly that.

Muhammad inspired his men to war with the basest of motives, using captured lootsex and a gluttonous paradise as incentives.  He beheaded captivesenslaved children and raped women captured in battle.  Again, Muslims are told to emulate the example of Muhammad. 

#4


After Muhammad died, the people who lived with him and knew his religion best immediately fell into war with each other.  

Fatima, Muhammad's favorite daughter, survived the early years among the unbelievers at Mecca safe and sound, yet died of stress from the persecution of fellow Muslims only six months after her father died.  She even miscarried Muhammad's grandchild after having her ribs broken by the man who became the second caliph.

It was this same caliph, Umar, who ordered the death of the first convert to Islam at Medina, an elderly leader who became a close companion to Muhammad and proved his worth in battle.  Sa'd ibn Ubadah was killed after a failed bid to be caliph.

Fatima's husband Ali, who was the second convert to Islam and was raised like a son to Muhammad, fought a civil war against an army raised by Aisha, Muhammad's favorite wife - and one whom he had said was a "perfect woman."  10,000 Muslims were killed in a single internal battle waged less than 25 years after Muhammad's death.

Three of the first four Muslim rulers (caliphs) were murdered.  All of them were among Muhammad's closest companions.  The third caliph was killed by allies of the son of the first (who was murdered by the fifth caliph a few years later, then wrapped in the skin of a dead donkey and burned).  The fourth caliph (Ali) was stabbed to death after a bitter dispute with the fifth.  The fifth caliph went on to poison one of Muhammad's two favorite grandsons.  The other grandson was later beheaded by the sixth caliph.

The infighting and power struggles between Muhammad's family members, closest companions and their children only intensified with time.  Within 50 short years of Muhammad's death, even the Kaaba, which had stood for centuries under pagan religion, lay in ruins from internal Muslim war...

And that's just the fate of those within the house of Islam! 

#5


Muhammad directed Muslims to wage war on other religions and bring them into submission to Islam.  Within the first few decades following his death, his Arabian companions invaded and conquered Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist and Zoroastrian lands. A mere 25 years after Muhammad's death, Muslim armies had captured land and people within the modern borders of over 28 countries outside of Saudi Arabia. 

#6


Muslims continued their Jihad against other religions for 1400 years, checked only by the ability of non-Muslims to defend themselves.  To this day, not a week goes by that Islamic fundamentalists do not attempt to kill Christians, Jews, Hindus and Buddhists explicitly in the name of Allah.  

None of these other religions are at war with each other.

#7


Islam is the only religion that has to retain its membership by formally threatening to kill anyone who leaves.  This is according to the example set by Muhammad.

#8


Islam teaches that non-Muslims are less than fully human.  Muhammad said that Muslims can be put to death for murder, but that a Muslim could never be put to death for killing a non-Muslim.

#9


The Quran never once speaks of Allah's love for non-Muslims, but there are hundreds of verses that speak of Allah's cruelty toward and hatred of non-Muslims.

#10


"Allahu Akbar!  Allahu Akbar!  Allahu Akbar!"
  
(The last words from the cockpit of Flight 93)